in the name of justice

Amanda 2022-10-01 19:22:02

After watching the film and looking back at the title "Hunting", I would have a picture of the story in my mind - a huge mouth with a huge open, nothing can be seen in the mouth, as if it was a bottomless person Black hole, there is a trigger mechanism in the mouth, once the mechanism is opened, the big mouth will play the function of chewing. This mouth has a name, it's called justice. In fact, justice is only a symbolic name.

The ideological meaning that "Hunting" wants to express is not new. It has long been exposed in Chinese literary works, such as the writer Ah Cheng.

There is such a story in Ah Cheng's "Influence". A boy fell in love with a girl. After the love, the boy wanted to marry the girl, so he asked his father for money to prepare for the marriage. The father said that he did not have that much money. In the marriage, he killed his father in anger, and then turned the house over, and found that his father did not lie to himself but really didn't have that much money. The boy regretted his actions and turned himself in at the police station. After his girlfriend found out, she cried very sad for him. After all, women are still inferior to men. The boy was sentenced to death. When the law enforcement officers came back from the execution ground for dinner, some people felt that the meal was not enough. The police who executed the execution said that we were killing the people. Because it is to eliminate harm for the people, everyone feels that this meal can be eaten without any worries. There is such a passage in the article, "This young bailiff left a deep impression on me. Everything he did was so reasonable, reasonable and legal."

If there are not many people who know Ah Cheng, his novel "Influence" It is even less known, so Hong Kong writer Mr. Jin Yong must be unfamiliar to few people. His Qiao Feng can be said to be more miserable than Lucas's experience.

Qiao Feng used to be the leader of the Beggar Gang. He was loyal and kind. He once made great contributions to the Beggar Gang and made great achievements. However, in Xingzilin, his own life experience was revealed, from Song people to Liao people, Song and Liao swore to disagree, and Qiao Feng suddenly changed from the leader of the beggar gang, the hero admired by everyone in Jianghu, to everyone. The spurned Liaogou was forced to leave the beggar gang, and everyone avoided it and executed him. In the series of bloody cases that happened later, everyone on the rivers and lakes unconfirmed but unanimously believed that it was Liao’s Qiao Feng, who blocked him in the name of justice. Immoral means to kill Qiao Feng, calling him a villain, Liao dog, brothers and friends who had been favored by Qiao Feng in the beggar gang also killed him. In the end, Qiao Feng had to leave his hometown and leave the Song Dynasty.

In "Hunting", Lucas is kind and helpful by nature, and has many close friends around him. He works in kindergarten. He is diligent and caring. From the dean to the children, everyone likes him very much. Just because a child lied and told the dean that he had seen Lucas's little brother, everything that followed was an artificial expansion of the situation, and the matter has not been conclusively confirmed, people are only willing to accept the information they are willing to accept and believe what they think In fact, the vast majority of people choose to believe the child's words and add vinegar to the unanimous agreement that Lucas has a tendency to sexually abuse children. People crowded to reject him, isolated him, threw stones at home, killed his pet dog, beaten and grounded by supermarket staff, and their own children were also affected by Chiyu, these people explicitly and secretly imposed on Lucas in the name of justice. In retaliation, many of them are his friends, and there are children in the kindergarten who lied and continued to frame him and said they were violated by him. Everyone has the fire of justice burning in their hearts, doing things that hurt others in the name of justice. Everything is so reasonable, reasonable and legal.

This movie also reminds me of a documentary I once watched. There are 12 people who have to be trained to join the international force. In the Western Sahara Desert, the temperature can reach as high as 40 degrees. 12 people wear long clothes, trousers and leather boots to train all day in the scorching sun. The amount of exercise is very large. Pour out two liters of sweat, then unlace your shoes, take off your shoes, and pour down, there is a lot of water pouring out of your shoes. Each of us probably shed at least 8 liters of sweat, he said. During the training process, people kept telling them that you are a team, you must have team spirit, everyone is a family member in this team, and you must protect your family. During training, the coach will try to make things difficult for these people, or even deliberately make things difficult. Those who can't bear it can choose to quit the training and leave here. In the army, only unconditional obedience is required, and there can be no personal thoughts and let go of the ego. After a month of training, only four people persisted to the end and passed the final physical fitness assessment. The remaining eight people left, some had to leave because of training injuries, and some left because they couldn't stand the hardship. I was impressed by the departure of one person.

This person has limited physical qualifications, and he is the last to complete every training session. The coach said to him, you can choose to leave here, and I think it may be better for you to leave here. He did not agree, and the coach instigated other players to reject him. The coach said, you should let him leave here, otherwise he will become a burden to you and drag you down in the future. However, everyone did not agree to do so. The team members said, give him another chance. It is not easy for him to persist until now. In the future training, as long as he finally completes the training task, the coach will let all the other players be punished with him. Later, the coach often talked to him and asked him when to quit. The team members' attitude towards him gradually became cold. Later, he slack off a lot in training. Perhaps he couldn't stand the mental pressure. He didn't listen to the coach's words and went his own way.

The so-called troops were selected according to conditions and became a community of destiny. This is the team.

I don't have any hatred for everyone in "Hunting", and I don't even want to stand up and talk without backache and pose to make irresponsible remarks to these people, including the little girl who lied. This town is a team, and each person is a hunting person. They can be hunters, or they can become hunted prey at any time. They are selecting members according to conditions to become a community of destiny. Those who are not eligible will naturally be treated accordingly. It's like 8 people who quit and left in training. The difference, of course, is that the key to all the hunting in "The Hunt" lies not in a little girl's lie, but in how stupid and cowardly everyone's self-righteousness is. In fact, are we not stupid?

Humans are the primates of all things. This saying has been passed down from ancient times to the present, and will continue to be passed down..

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The Hunt quotes

  • Marcus: Bunch of bastards! Bunch of fucking bastards!

  • Theo: The world is full of evil but if we hold on to each other, it goes away.