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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Changeling quotes

  • Christine Collins: Why would they do this?

    Rev. Gustav Briegleb: To avoid admitting they made a mistake when they brought back the wrong boy. Of course, anyone reading the newspaper with half a brain would see through it instantly. Sadly, that would exclude about half the readership of the Times. Mrs. Collins, I have made it my mission in life to bring to light all the things the LAPD wish none of us ever knew about. A department ruled by violence, abuse, murder, corruption and intimidation. When Chief Davis took over the force two years ago, he said...

    Chief James E. Davis: We will hold court against gunmen in the streets of Los Angeles. I want them brought in dead, not alive, and I will reprimand any officer who shows the least mercy to a criminal.

    Rev. Gustav Briegleb: He picked fifty of the most violent cops on the force, gave them machine guns and permission to shoot anyone who got in their way. He called them the Gun Squad. No lawyers, no trials, no questions, no suspensions, no investigations, just piles of bodies. Bodies in the morgues, bodies in the hospitals, bodies by the side of the road, and not because the LAPD wanted to wipe out crime. No. The LAPD wanted to wipe out the competition. Mayor Cryer and half the force are on the take: gambling, prostitution, bootlegging, you name it. Because once you give people the freedom to do whatever they want, as the Lord found in the Garden of Eden, they will do exactly that. This police department does not tolerate dissent or contradiction or even embarrassment. And you are in a position to embarrass them and they do not like it. They will do anything in their power to discredit you. I've seen it happen too many times to start going blind now. That's why I wanted to meet you, to let you know what you're getting yourself into and to help you fight it, if you choose to.

    Christine Collins: Reverend, I appreciate everything that you're doing and everything that you said, but I'm not on a mission. I just want my son home.

  • Dr. John Montgomery: He had two cavities that needed filling. He put up a fight, but I took care of it.

    Christine Collins: And?

    Dr. John Montgomery: Your son's upper front teeth were separated by a small tissue, a diastema. It made them sit about an eighth of an inch apart. The boy in that room has no such gap.

    Christine Collins: Can that change with age? Because that's what they're going to say.

    Dr. John Montgomery: In some cases, yes, it's possible. But the tissue between Walter's teeth prevents that from happening. You see, they can never come together without an operation to sever the tissue, and I can tell you right now that he has never had such an operation.

    Christine Collins: Would you be willing to put that officially in writing?

    Dr. John Montgomery: Pardon my language, but hell yes.