Fiat justitia ruat caelum , which is a French proverb.
Meaning: what if the sky fell to achieve justice?
Then, let the sky fall.
But there are still problems: the moment the sky falls, those who realize justice will probably be killed by smashing... If all the jade is burnt, where will justice go?
Hugh Jackman's movie "Prisoner" in 2013 is a story of "the sky falling" like this.
(By the way, before watching this movie, I always thought that Hugh Jackman is an actor with better looks than acting, but after watching this movie, I really want to give his acting a big one. Zan: People, still can't be prejudiced, once a vase is not necessarily a vase forever, a beautiful man should be like Hugh Jackman when he gets old, star eyes.)
Let me spoil the movie: Mr. Dover (Hugh Jackman) is a small-town carpenter, a devout Catholic, and a loving and responsible husband and father with a loving, loving family. Friends, live a quiet life. On an ordinary Thanksgiving, disaster struck suddenly. Mr. Dover's family was celebrating the holiday with a friend's family. The two 6-year-old daughters of the two families ran back to Mr. Dover's own house not far from the same street. If he doesn't return, Jinger disappears mysteriously. The only clue is that an unfamiliar RV was parked on the street, and the girls expressed their curiosity to go up and take a look.
The police, the grief, the blanket search, the police's sleepless investigation, the emotional support of the neighbors... Everything that followed seemed, at first, not out of the ordinary.
But a few days later, the girls are still nowhere to be seen. Another actor in the film, Detective Loki, is bent on finding the gangster who robbed the girls, but he is a policeman, and he has to obey the rules: the suspect RV is very He was about to be found. The driver who drove the car was detained for 48 hours. He was severely questioned for more than 10 hours. However, the driver was actually mentally handicapped, with an IQ equivalent to that of a 10-year-old boy. If you asked him any questions, he would only say he didn't know. , there are no traces of the girls on the RV. Under the order of the bureaucratic boss (it can't be said that the boss is wrong), the driver can only be acquitted. What's more helpless is that the boss also used the lack of funds as an excuse. The driver conducts further surveillance investigations.
As the driver was released, Mr Dover rushed over and grabbed him and questioned him. The driver whispered to Mr Dover "they cried when I left", then Mr Dover heard him humming softly as he followed the driver. The funny lyrics made up by the girls before they disappeared. Unfortunately, only Mr. Dover heard such evidence. No one believed that the father, who was in mad pain, really heard it. Everyone sympathized and pitifully ignored his appeal. , that he was just paranoid wishful thinking. ( By the way, the Western system is really very cautious about victims. In this film, the Dover couple were the first to undergo a polygraph test after reporting the crime... This means that you must first prove that you are indeed a victim, and that your daughter is missing, right? You are lying. )
Mr Dover is left to seek justice on his own.
He kidnapped the mentally handicapped driver, imprisoned him secretly, lynched him brutally, and pressed him about the whereabouts of the girls. If you understand... On the other hand, Detective Loki is still following the clues step by step, very conscientious, but very slow, naturally, there is absolutely no reason to blame the police, he found many pieces, and even chased down a strange "crime" The imitators," however, who are not gods without a god's perspective, and the fragments of clues that were not pieced together in time, the "criminal imitators" who committed suicide by swallowing a gun in the holding cell after admitting to killing the girls.
Mr. Dover's sky fell. He knelt on the floor of the toilet where the mentally handicapped driver was tortured and prayed hopelessly. He had abandoned his beliefs. He was as ferocious as the devil. Prove him wrong.
He was still reluctant to give up.
The police are already searching for the bodies of the girls, and Mr Dover has become an unreasonable drunk in the eyes of everyone, even his family and friends have stayed away from him.
What should he do?
Mr Dover was the only one left in the search for justice, insisting that the truth had not been found.
What is the truth?
I thought: the truth is the backtracking of every detail, and the truth is the one-by-one response to reasonable doubts.
Even if the truth is revealed, it is an unacceptable or even appalling tragedy, the truth should be revealed.
The unquestioned truth, even if it makes people sad, angry, and mourned, should not be hopeless. Even if it is really desperate, it should only be temporary.
Only the truth can soothe the broken and frightened heart.
As long as it is the truth, it will surely appease the broken and frightened heart.
In other words, if the explanation given cannot be comforting, it must mean that the truth has not yet been revealed.
If the truth cannot be revealed, people who yearn for the truth will be like prisoners stuck in a labyrinth, unable to find a way out, see no hope, and the wounds in their hearts will be difficult to heal for a long time.
Looking back at the title of this film, prisoners is actually a plural English word, a more accurate literal translation should be "prisoners". After watching this film, you will find that in this film, everyone is a "prisoner" ".
Because the strange mystery is full of doubts, because the explanations given cannot clear the confusion in the bottom of the heart, because the broken and frightened heart cannot be comforted, so everyone who wants to know the truth seems to be trapped in a cage.
We are all prisoners until the truth is revealed.
Why does Mr. Dover seek justice at the cost of letting the sky fall? Because for him, justice is the truth, he can't find a way out of the labyrinth, and he has to choose to destroy the labyrinth (well, what should I say, Mr. Dover is just a carpenter after all...).
But Mr. Dover's justice is not the justice in the eyes of everyone, let alone the justice in the eyes of the police, or even the justice in the eyes of his friend who lost his daughter like him. Mr. Dover's justice is only in his own eyes. Justice: He did everything to find out the truth about the loss of his daughter, even if the police said that her daughter was dead, he still refused to accept it.
I remember that in a TV drama I watched before, there was a line in English: "justice is personal". The subtitles at that time were translated as "Justice is something that varies from person to person"... I suddenly felt that a more accurate translation It seems that it should be: justice, is a private matter.
Mr. Dover did not hesitate to abandon his principle of being a good person, to turn himself into a devil, and to find where his daughter is. This is actually telling us that the justice that Mr. Dover pursues is his own private matter.
But usually, "justice" is something that needs to be achieved through the system or public officials. Such "justice" seems to be interpreted as "public affairs", and public affairs must be done in public, pay attention to procedures, obey rules, and consider all aspects. The first factor that must be taken into consideration is: not "let the sky fall".
I guess, this can probably answer the question: why does "justice" always come too late when individuals seek the support of "justice"? Why is the mainstream propaganda always saying: justice will come even if it is late... Yes, you must be late. If you want to turn your "private affairs" into "public affairs", doesn't it always have to be a complicated process? Doesn't it have to take a long time? Shouldn't the needs of the "public" be respected? Isn't it necessary to take into account the "big picture" of the integration of the upper and lower?
If the "justice" of public affairs is equated with the "justice" of private affairs, then the misunderstanding is really big.
The embarrassment is, what if someone has to pursue the "justice" of their own private affairs?
Mr. Dover is such a stubborn person, but apparently he is not very smart in the process of pursuing: after torturing the mentally handicapped driver to no avail, he went to the house of the aunt who adopted the driver, and ended up imprisoning the girls. He found him, but he didn't notice it. After that, the friend's young daughter took the opportunity to escape first, and muttered to him "you have been there" on the hospital bed, which made him suddenly realize, but he did not inform the police ( I understand, after all, the police never I trusted his intuition ), and without adequate preparation, I went to the old lady who was the culprit alone, but was subdued by the old lady... Please, the old lady has been a murderer for more than 20 years, Mr. Dover , you're just a "bad guy" who temporarily joins the field, just breaking into the door so carelessly, isn't it a little too underestimated?
What is dramatic is the ending: the justice of "the sky is falling", and in the end, Mr. Dover was "smashed" to death.
This film is a suspense film, the logic of solving the case is relatively thorough in my opinion, but the shooting method seems to be a bit obscure. I try to summarize it in personal language: The truth is that the mentally handicapped driver and the criminal imitator were both married to the old woman in their early years. The two kidnapped children, one became a humanoid pet whose mind was controlled by drugs, and the other became a pervert with mental imbalance due to torture and amnesia. Police Loki, in the process of tracking step by step, by chance When he came to the scene of the murder, he killed the murderer and rescued the girl at the moment when the old devil was about to kill Mr. Dover's young daughter.
Don't worry, this is still not the end, because the truth has not yet been revealed.
Mr. Dover, a strong carpenter, was taken over by a thin old woman who was accustomed to murder. He drank the drug and was shot. Even Dover's wife thought that her husband absconded because he killed a mentally handicapped driver. Please note that this is just an interpretation of the "truth", and without any details to prove, any interpretation may be the truth, It may also not be the truth.
As for the policeman Rocky, if Mr. Dover could not be found, the cage of this mysterious case has not been broken, and the unanswerable questions still exist, and because the old lady was beaten to death on the spot and did not make any confession, then For this extremely conscientious and responsible police officer, Mr. Dover's bizarre disappearance means that the truth of the whole case is still scattered.
At the end of the film, Loki stood alone in the yard of the old lady's house and heard a faint whistle after hearing a silent dark place. The sound reached Loki's ears, and he instantly grabbed a piece of debris and restored it into a complete picture.
Loki stared at the whistle, his eyes widened, and the film stopped abruptly.
Undoubtedly, the police officer Loki who solved the case and saved the life is a hero, but throughout the whole film, he seems to rely more on luck: tracking down the sex offender who cannot be beaten by eight poles, he finds the dead old lady husband and obtains the clues of the maze ; Tracked the melon-eating crowd to the scene to mourn the girl, and found the criminal imitator, obtained clues and fragments of poisonous snakes and drugs; tracked the victim, Mr. Dover, and found the detained mentally handicapped driver. The bureaucratic boss forced him to come to the door I went to report to the driver's aunt (again said that I couldn't say the boss was wrong), and as a result, I ran into the old lady who was committing the murder, and solved the case.
Uh... think about it again, these lucks are actually brought by Mr. Dover, who smashed the sky, right? If Mr. Dover hadn't insisted on his obsession, would the police have pursued him? If Mr Dover hadn't imprisoned the driver, the old lady who lost her pet wouldn't have released the two little girls locked in the cellar; if it wasn't for Mr Dover running to chat with the old lady, the friend's little girl wouldn't have had a chance Run out alone; if Mr. Dover hadn't gone straight into the devil's lair, it wouldn't have stimulated the old lady to rush to kill the little girl without even closing the door, and finally the police arrived silently and in time.
Bottom line: without Mr Dover's illegal lynching, the police wouldn't be able to go to that old lady's house again.
But of course, Mr. Dover, who has achieved justice, is definitely and definitely not a "hero": first of all, he is for his own personal affairs, secondly, he has seriously hurt innocent weaklings, and thirdly, even if he is finally rescued by Loki If he is alive, Mr. Dover will probably have to go to prison for a few years, not to mention that he also drank half a bottle of the drug given by the old lady, and has a gun hole in his thigh, I am afraid that he will not be able to recover in the rest of his life. It has become the powerful image of the wise and wise martial arts that brought infinite security to the family at the beginning.
If the sky falls and kills you, do you still want to realize the justice in your heart?
The answer to this question varies from person to person.
But after all, in the film "Prisoner", the truth is finally revealed.
(Additional note: This article only represents me personally, here is the mysterious case of "Xiaohuamei" in Fengxian County, Xuzhou, making a faint voice.
As an ordinary citizen who is concerned about this incident, the justice I hope for is that the truth will be revealed and finally revealed to the world.
Although justice does have its own standards for each individual, it is a private matter and cannot be generalized... But seeking the truth is still the only right way for the prisoners of the soul to be released. I wish you could be of one mind. )
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