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Film review of The Crucible

A man of good will

By pierre egidiusPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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Human nature is always the most terrible thing, any monster can not compare with him. Today's movie is called The Crucible, which is based on a true story. In fact, I was most afraid to see such a movie, because what happened in the movie actually happened in reality.

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In the film, Gong Yoo plays a down-and-out painter, Jiang Renhao, who is introduced to a deaf and mute school in Wujin by a friend to become an art teacher. Although this school is called a charity school, the teaching staff in the school are not half charitable and friendly. New teachers must pay a "school public welfare fund" to buy a position. In the office, the male teacher violently beat the students, and the people around him turned a blind eye; The dormitory administrator teacher held the female student's head down into the washing machine. The headmaster bribed the police officers with money.

What makes people more angry is that these teachers, who should be teaching and educating people, have sexually assaulted four disabled children for many times. In the silent world, it is the children who cannot speak despair and fear, and in the chaotic world, it is the devil who is compassionate but heartless.

The film's intense discomfort has prompted angry cries from South Koreans: Is South Korea ruled by law or not? Disabled people, minors, orphans, sexual abuse, corruption, these elements of strong sympathy and anger are interwoven in the film, pushing the audience to an emotional climax.

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You can't imagine, when the court finally heard, the judge read out the sentence first saying that the sexual assault was a terrible crime, but "the person had made a great contribution to the local community, had no previous record, and the victim's family had agreed to a deal".

While the pressure of public opinion and the media puts the perpetrator in a prison uniform, those with vested interests well versed in the ways of justice have plenty of means to escape. A former judge is given special treatment and upheld by the court for the first case he or she takes after retirement. Although the judge did not favor the defendant during the trial, everything was logical and even judicious, but the final result of the trial was shocking.

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On the other side of the children's families, most of them are poor people who worry about their livelihood all day long. When they see the good economic compensation offered by the defendant, they immediately agree to settle. Only as an orphan, Kim Yeon-dou fights to the end. In the end, they were handed a meagre sentence, with angry protests raised and muted, the volume of charges muted into the dust. The deaf-mute people who were already in a weak position were so broken, and the impulsive crowd rushed around. When the rule of law in this country fails to deliver justice to the vulnerable, what recourse do they have?

Min Xiu and Yu Li's family members in the monetary interests, agreed to settle. It is not human greed, just like the Minxiu family, the father lying on the ground, several of the children are mentally retarded, the grandmother is a person to support, in front of survival, this is what? Min-xiu heard that, crying with his hands, "he hurt his brother, who wants to forgive, I haven't chosen to forgive!" Min-xiu can not tolerate and forgive, he chose to find the beast revenge, and eventually he died together on the railroad tracks.

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When a group of deaf and mute people spontaneously gathered for a memorial show, the leader of the military police outside shouted the crowd out with loudspeakers. How arrogant is the government to not give the hearing impaired a little human care? When the police and the public were in a group, Kang In-ho, holding the portrait of Min-soo, kept Shouting to the indifferent passers-by in the street, "This child can neither hear nor speak, this child's name is Min-soo, a child who can neither hear nor speak..." Then he fell to the cold concrete under water cannon fire.

In the last part of the sad climax, it makes people feel that the previous part of the whole movie is all the preparation, because no amount of effort, no amount of evidence, no match for the depth of officialdom, judicial corruption. The film is quick, tight, and full of raw satire and Revelations that sting.

"Melting Pot" is the epitome of the disadvantaged in this era, you may be surprised, also very angry. But please remember: the place where you stand is your country. If you want to change, you have to become a person like Kang In-ho, listen to your conscience, and have your own commitment.

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Chai Jing once said in See: "Real humanity has endless possibilities. Of course there is good, but there may always be evil. Apologies don't necessarily make up, but hurt may be forgiven. Confession exists or does not exist, it cannot be enforced, and there is no point in enforcing it. Human life is a process of good and evil, human nature and animal desire."

No snowflake is innocent in the avalanche. Compared with the criminals themselves, what they have to fight against is always the silence and connivance of society. When the glory of human nature hesitates between justice and evil, the world may really end.

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