A bad system makes good people do bad things, and a good system makes bad people do good things

Shyanne 2022-04-20 09:01:27

Absolute public power will inevitably lead to corruption, degeneration, violence, and inversion of black and white.
This is the most tearful movie I've ever seen, bar none. Watching this film was completely accidental, it was recommended by CCTV6 two days ago, so I was bored to find it and watch it. I thought this was just a suspense thriller, but I didn't expect it to be a bit political and ethical.
To put it bluntly, this is a very simple story. A single mother takes care of her son. Because of her busy work, she rarely has time to accompany him, but the child is very sensible. From the details, it can be seen that the mother gives him a lot of love. . Mothers teach their sons to "don't stir up troubles, but definitely stay with me to the end." Many people in life adhere to this formal standard, and I am no exception. But at the end we saw that sometimes if you don't look for things, things will find you.
The film is dull, depressing, and gray, but fortunately I have enough patience for the film. (Every time I write something, I can't help but feel a little didactic, I can't change it.)
Until the woman in the mental hospital was sent to room 18 to save Christy, my tears couldn't stop. All women want to resist, but not all of them can afford the price. I understand them, and I know most of us are like that in our lives.
The police department is an absolute power department, before Christie, they sent a lot of people into mental institutions just because their authority or dignity was hurt (that's funny), at first I thought the police department in this area had fallen into "Batman" "Like Gotham City, the dark forces are rampant, the police and gangs collude, no, the police station in this film is just an administrative department with unrestricted rights. They have absolute public power and can make everything disobedient to their own wishes. The people who removed it, they used coercion to weave a perfect fig leaf for themselves. But not everyone has been drowned out by this situation. Lester was not a good police detective in my opinion at first. He was affected by this situation to a certain extent, but he stood by his bottom line in the face of the facts. In fact, he can completely treat the child as if he has never heard of it. Yes, what else can the police station do? Think of those women who were innocently locked up in mental hospitals. They were not locked up because they offended the detective because of a trivial matter. Here we also see that there are a large number of media reporters, but they lack the ability to discriminate and only report facts. It is not wrong for the media to report the facts, but when the reports are led by the nose, the media's role in monitoring public opinion is completely zero.
There is a saying that goes like this: When the system is good, bad people can do good things, and when the system is bad, good people can do bad things. The head nurse in the mental hospital, she must be a good mother in life, if when her situation becomes the same as Christine, her choice will definitely be the same as Christine, the mother will do for the child Everything is beyond our imagination. But in the hospital, she became an executioner, knowing that they were not sick, but still treating them viciously, suppressing and despising them mentally, thinking that they deserved what they deserved. In fact, most of the time, we are just in different positions. If you change positions, you will understand what I do (of course, I don't understand why so many children are killed in the end)
I always thought it was going to end, at least until the hanging, but it wasn't. When the escaped child said that it took him so long to say it because he missed his mother, and tears fell unsatisfactorily, people are really fragile, and sometimes a sentence can hit your heart. I believe Walter is still alive and her mother is still looking for him, but Kristen should start a new life and she has the right. I have seen many parents who have lost their children. They have spent their entire lives traveling all over the country in order to find their children. Some of them can't even get out of the shadows for the rest of their lives, trapping themselves in a cage of guilt, trapped in their limbs. , The face is old, and the spirit is shrinking. I can't feel the same way, so I can't make any judgments, but this is really bad. When you find the child, maybe ten years later, you can recognize the child at a glance, but you, the child will say: Mom, why are you like this? old?
The film does not tell how the mother searches for the lost child, but reflects the current situation in the United States at that time through this incident. I am very pleased (this is the rhythm of looking for a rhythm) There was a time in the United States when their government departments and administrative departments were corrupt, violent and inaction, and abused their power. Although it took a long time for the United States to become an extremely democratic and free country, But like Christine said at the end, it teaches us hope. There is always hope in the world, but it requires our patience. But hope actually requires struggle. No matter what the reason is, only by continuous innovation and resistance can we get better and better. (I was moved for a long time and wrote for a long time, but I still can't express it completely)

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  • Larissa 2022-03-23 09:01:33

    Eastwood's narrative skills in the lens made me admire to the ground, and his emotions were played between his palms. Angy has really lost her star power this time around. If it weren't for the fact that the plot was too crafty and lost my cool... five stars subjectively, four stars objectively

  • Sonya 2022-04-23 07:01:32

    The reality is also real and terrifying, and the powerlessness of being oppressed but unable to resist is shocking

Changeling quotes

  • Detective Lester Ybarra: If that's how you want it, then I guess we're done here. Tell county jail we're remanding him for trial.

    Arthur Hutchins: Wait. I didn't do anything. I wasn't even here when it happened.

    Detective Lester Ybarra: By pretending to be Walter Collins, you're interfering in a police investigation of a kidnapping and murder. We can try you as accomplice to that murder after the fact. That's too bad. County jail is a lot worse than a juvenile hall or a foster home. It's a lot worse.

    Arthur Hutchins: You can't do that. I'm just a kid.

    Detective Lester Ybarra: Mm. Sanford Clark's a kid, too. Fifteen. He's going to jail. All murderers and their accomplices go to jail. Everybody knows that. Get him out of here. It's out of my hands now.

    Arthur Hutchins: Wait. I don't want to go to jail.

    Detective Lester Ybarra: [pause] Prove it.

    Arthur Hutchins: I... I knew Los Angeles is where they make the Tom Mix movies. I figured if I could meet Tom Mix, maybe he would let me ride on his horse. His horse is named Tony. Did you know that?

  • Dr. Jonathan Steele: According to your file, you believe that the police substituted a fake boy for your son.

    Christine Collins: No, I didn't say he was a fake boy. He's not *my* boy. They brought home the wrong boy. My son is still missing.

    Dr. Jonathan Steele: Well, that's strange, because I have here a newspaper article with a photo of you at the train station, welcoming home your son.

    [shows her the article]

    Dr. Jonathan Steele: That is you in the photo, isn't it?

    Christine Collins: Yes.

    Dr. Jonathan Steele: So, at first, he was your son and now he's not your son. Has this been going on for a long time? People changing, becoming something other than what they are?

    Christine Collins: People don't change.

    Dr. Jonathan Steele: You don't think people change?

    Christine Collins: No, that's not what I...

    Dr. Jonathan Steele: Shh! The police, they're not out to persecute you?

    Christine Collins: No, they're not.

    Dr. Jonathan Steele: No, they're not. The police are here to protect you.

    Christine Collins: Yes.

    Dr. Jonathan Steele: Really?

    Christine Collins: Yes.

    Dr. Jonathan Steele: Well, that's odd, because when you were admitted, you told the head nurse that the police were conspiring *deliberately* to punish you. So, either the head nurse and the interns are also conspiring to punish you or you're changing your story.

    [pause]

    Dr. Jonathan Steele: Do you often have trouble telling reality from fantasy, Mrs. Collins?

    Christine Collins: No...