80 years? What a joke!

Anais 2022-04-22 07:01:05

80 years? What a joke!
Watching this movie, I, like everyone else, compare him to China.
What if this happened in China? Anyone who knows a little about China knows what the outcome will be. Don't say one child goes missing, what happens when hundreds of children go missing. If you don't know anything, go to Google "The Adventures of Beijing Petition of More than 40 Parents of Missing Children", "My Bitter and Helpless Diary of Finding a Child", "Parents of More than 1,000 Missing Boys Offer Ten Thousands of Rewards to Buy Back Their Children"
Yes , the United States 80 years ago has too many similarities with China today. There are the same ruthless, cunning and vicious police officers, insensitive hospital workers, crazy murderers, hypocritical and stupid psychiatrists, rough and simple legal procedures - and the same strong and brave mothers who keep running for faith and truth. Social activists, lawyers with a sense of justice, as well as kind and sympathetic strangers---
I want to say that people are all the same, no matter what race, but why is there such a big gap in the ending? Could it be that material civilization is not enough?
But 80 years ago, the technology and communication facilities in the United States were far inferior to those in China today. If material civilization and spiritual civilization have to go side by side, then it is a system problem. Of course, we can also get to the bottom of the system. The deep reason, stop here. In short, the 80 years did not make the two sides draw an equal sign, maybe this equal sign will have to wait for another 20 years, 40 years, 80 years---
the ending of the film, even if there are still various unsatisfactory , such as the hasty execution of the murderer, such as the child has not been found - but the immediate obstacle has been removed, the people are full of confidence, the belief is stronger - so the ending is very sunny, at least for me - a Chinese view.

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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...