Civilized society does not pursue violence, but violence is never absent in civilized society.
The ethnic composition of a certain city in South Korea is complex, and several gang forces have formed a decisive trend. The gang collects protection fees and operates their own business in the local area. The police regularly govern them. Ma Xidao has become a monster detective with his extraordinary skills and unequivocal temper, and he gets along with the gang leader.
Although there are occasional discord factors, the gang, the criminal police and the civilians have maintained a peaceful and peaceful appearance for a long time.
Until one day, a certain gang leader was dismembered, and a stranger sat on the first spot...
Korean action scenes are not as technical, traditional and cultural as Chinese action films, nor do they like to turn fighting scenes into shootouts based on high-end technology like European and American action films, nor do they like Japanese fight scenes. I like to use cold weapons. Taking "Criminal City" as an example, the film shows more bloody scenes of violence and violent fights. Judging from Ma Dongxi's slap in the face, "Criminal City" is an out-and-out "cool" film, with "two blooms" of action scenes and crime themes, but it's endearing. Much more than just the word "cool".
First, social issues and national sentiments are mixed into crime stories.
In his realist literary thought, Marx proposed that in addition to reproducing reality, creators should have insight into reality, that is, the ability to dig out the essence or deep relationship through phenomena. Korean realism movies do this very well.
Korean realist films will not put life to the test in extreme disaster environments, show the beauty of human nature with devastating blows, or take the audience to the commanding heights of morality like Chinese films to examine evil and worship goodness. It is to confuse good and evil and the boundaries, to adjust and think about human nature in real problems, the coexistence of beauty and ugliness, the coexistence of good and evil, the only thing that can be affirmed is "darkness".
However, Korean films will not use a story based on social reality to show human nature. It will use social reality as the "skin" and the specific and dynamic historical, political, economic and cultural background of the modern nation as the "filling". To interpret the story and respond to the situation of social change in a timely manner, the role of the audience is not the reader of the story, not the consumer of a certain cultural product, nor the recipient of certain ideas, but the "observer" of the event.
On the surface, "Criminal City" is a crime film in which gangsters and the police confront each other, but it is actually mapping deeper social problems, and complex national emotions are fermented in it. Many of the crime problems in the inner city of South Korea are caused by the Koreans. This social reality is also reflected in the movie "Yellow Sea". Some Koreans with both Chinese nationality and South Korean passports often commit crimes because of economic problems and integration problems.
The crime rate in ethnically integrated areas is relatively high. The reason for this is that we often say that "people gather in groups and things divide in groups". This word can explain this social problem. People of the same race often have a deeper identity with each other. Sense and trust, no one ethnic group is a natural devil, but the simple gathering of various ethnic groups, pay attention to gathering without achieving integration, such a model can easily reduce the sense of trust and social responsibility, because everyone is the master of this place. Consciousness is diminished.
In the film, the residents endured the bullying of the gangs for a long time without resisting. When more and more people died and Ma Xidao hoped to cooperate with the local people to wipe out the gangster forces, people were passive and would rather continue to swallow their voices than cooperate with the police. . The film reflects the impact of the complex ethnic composition on social security, not only the gangs are rampant and domineering, but also the residents turn a blind eye, have nothing to do with themselves, and have great distrust of the government. So the strong get stronger and the weak get weaker, polarizing.
The heterogeneity of Korean society is not strong, and the Chinese people's sense of identity with each other is not weak. It is such a large environment that ethnic sentiments are easily fermented in certain areas. When I saw the movie "Criminal City", I thought it was It's not that the creators don't like Chinese people? Is this a reflection of the Chinese people's disturbance of the Korean ethnic structure?
Looking back on the film later, maybe we should take a broader perspective to understand such a problem. If the Chinese can increase the crime rate in South Korea, then the black people can also increase the crime rate in the United States and Europe. It is not racial discrimination, but it should be It is regarded as a social phenomenon, an inevitable problem caused by changes in the composition of the country, and a problem that we need to face up to and solve instead of resentment and discrimination.
Secondly, violence is not undesirable, and crime control also pays attention to "teaching students according to their aptitude".
A civilized society does not pursue violence, but violence is never absent in a civilized society. The more important events are enough to affect the trend of human society, the less violence is lacking. However, because violence leads to bloodshed and affects political stability, those in power and literary and art workers often equate "violence" with "evil".
Chinese films, especially action films, attach great importance to distinguishing the boundary between good and evil. The righteous side can use force, but the level of legitimacy is so high that "punishing evil and promoting good" is written on the forehead, because since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period , thinkers put forward the concept of "benevolence" and "goodness", and promoted the concept of human ethics and morality. Over time, we have formed such a philosophy: whoever does it first will be at fault; whoever does it will be held responsible. Violence can only be the last choice, not even an upright choice.
In some Chinese news, uniformed police officers are even beaten, and those whose duty is to maintain social order choose not to act because of the principle of "kindness". Is this kindness right?
Such violent law enforcement is despised by urban management officers who beat traders; but some people are really unreasonable, such as medical troubles, such as disturbing law enforcement officers, such as scum who beat and abused staff during the new crown pneumonia epidemic, such as in "Criminal City" Harbin Zhang Qiandan and other gang leaders who are swearing, such characters need to be dealt with in the violent way of a monster detective like Ma Xidao, and they need to know that in this world, you are not the only one who can give others some color.
Between evil and good, there is nothing wrong with us choosing good. But if the antithesis of kindness is a thug with a knife and axe, we need to redefine how kindness is achieved.
Saying these words is not to encourage the police to hurt people, but to express that although we are in a civilized society, we need to be ruthless when dealing with certain enemies. To maximize the protection of the rights of the police, it can be to increase the punishment for assaulting the police, it can be the armed training of the police, and so on.
In short, it is crime, not violence, that is despised. There is an aesthetic in this world called "violence aesthetics".
There are a small group of people who stand at the forefront to fight the bad guys in order to protect more people, we can't take their place, but we can let them know that we are on their side, and we make armor for them in our own way. .
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