Text/Liu Shen Leilei
On the first day of the new year, I arranged for my family to go to the movies. In line with the principle of democratic decision-making, we let everyone choose what they wanted to see the most. As a result, no one in the family chose "Article 20" and they all felt that they did not know what to say. , so I listened to the whole family’s advice and bought tickets for other movies in the evening.
However, I really wanted to see it, so I happened to have free time in the afternoon, so I sneaked in to see it myself. The result of
is so bad that I want to write a manuscript. The film
is about "standing up". After reading it, I thought, adults, it’s so hard to stand up.
I didn’t remember anything from the Spring Festival Gala, but I remembered a few lyrics of Maomao: If you want to write about the year, you can’t just write about the year. You must use your eyes, ears, and heart to feel every moment of the year. After reading "Article 20", I also thought: If we want to talk about coming forward, we can't just talk about coming forward, but also talk about the cost. No one wants to be a hero, but why not? Do you not like it? After all, it’s still a question of cost.
The only bad thing about adults is that they understand the cost too well.
The story of the movie is not complicated, there are only three cases, one main case and two auxiliary cases. A synopsis that tells some mild spoilers but does not affect the viewing of the movie:
The main case: In order to treat his daughter's illness, the husband had no choice but to borrow a loan shark from a bully in the village. Later, he was bullied and humiliated by the bully for a long time. The husband couldn't bear the humiliation and accidentally killed the bully. Should he be classified as manslaughter or self-defense? Case investigators, public opinion, etc. are caught in many contradictions.
Auxiliary Case 1: A gangster sexually harassed a female passenger on the bus. The bus driver stepped forward to stop the gangster. During the struggle, the driver injured the gangster, but was deemed to be a "mutual assault" and was jailed. After the driver was released from prison, he petitioned repeatedly with the support of his daughter, just to seek justice.
Second case: A middle school student just transferred to another school. When he saw the school bully bullying his classmates, he stepped forward and injured the school bully. He never thought that the school bully's father had a background, but the villain complained first. Justice students face the risk of leaving a criminal record that will affect their lives. Is it just a matter of apologizing, or is it a matter of insisting on justice? The student's family is in trouble.
The prosecutor in charge of the main case and the first auxiliary case is played by Lei Jiayin, and he is also the father of the righteous student in the second auxiliary case. Although there are deliberate elements, the three cases are closely intertwined, and together they tell the story of "Article 20" of the Criminal Law about self-defense, and also about the four words "stand up".
To be honest, the word "stand up" is difficult to pronounce. It is different from the "acting chivalrously and righteously" in martial arts novels. In martial arts novels, you can do whatever you want, regardless of consequences, costs, or costs. Faced with the same gangster who insulted the girl, Hong Qigong beat Liang Ziwen so hard that his hair was ripped out one by one, and it was over.
But in reality, can you imagine a bus driver pinning a gangster in the bus and pulling out his hair? Maybe when Hong Qigong comes, they will only end up "fighting each other".
Besides, those who do bad things often have a lot of background. There are bullies who have been in the village for many years, and there are children of the school's dean. If you are Lei Jiayin, you may not even be as good as Lei Jiayin. Although the film downplays the energy of a prosecutor, if you put this aside, Lei Jiayin's situation is still quite worthy of lamentation. A temporary employee of an external unit, a grassroots officer who is accustomed to nodding to please his superiors, his life He is a mess, and he and his wife have endless arguments and misunderstandings all day long, not to mention that his waist is not strong enough to support his legs.
Your biggest wish is to make the temporary job official, so that your son can study better and the family can be more harmonious. If he is a complete lay-down person, then that's fine. The superiors can do whatever they want to do, and they can act according to the wind and suppress their conscience. But you still have a little kindness, a little compassion, and you still want to have some conscience in everything. When you see good people being bullied, you will feel heartbroken and sad. The empathy you shouldn't have will always conflict with your own shrewdness, making it inextricable. Faced with bullies, faced with ordinary people who are bullied and unable to fight, you are entangled and helpless. You find many reasons for yourself and persuade yourself and your colleagues not to be so arrogant: it is not that there is no precedent, and similar cases have been handled before. Why come?
Because you understand too well the cost of the four words "stand up".Unlike martial arts novels, real society has already taught you the word "price" too thoroughly and in place. What is the best food for adults to nourish their brains? The answer is to suffer. Let alone the price of justice, we cannot afford even a much smaller price. For example, the price of "reading and not being able to reply", the price of arguing with arrogant colleagues or customers, the price of being arrogantly scolded in the middle of the night in the group, "I got it, say yes!" after getting angry but trying to argue a few words, all have to be paid. Sorry. In fact, adults have to think about the cost before even posting on WeChat Moments. They are afraid of being thought of as a fisherman at work, afraid of being thought of showing off their high consumption, afraid of being thought to be inappropriate by leaders, and afraid of being misunderstood by villains. In a society, He couldn't even afford to post on his sister's WeChat Moments, let alone stand up and face the evildoers?
Put it on Lei Jiayin. He has dealt with too many real cases where good people are not rewarded. His own child bravely injured the bully of a small school. He figured out the pros and cons in a second. Yes, my son is right, but if you apologize, just apologize. Compared with your studies and future, face is nothing. What is there to be angry about? Just like he asked the brave driver to sign a pledge not to petition again. As long as he doesn't petition or look for trouble, he can have a job and continue a stable life. Compared with these, what is the value of "acting bravely for justice"? Look, mutual exchanges Damn it, the law is not on your side. I'm doing this for your own good! He told the driver this and also told his own conscience. In the 140-minute film, Lei Jiayin struggled for at least 120 minutes. It was not until the end that he made the ultimate choice and lived his own life.
Of course, this topic has been talked about too much, and you may feel it is a bit heavy. But in fact, the film itself is not that emo, it is quite funny, and its laughter is more everyday and life-like.
Lei Jiayin and Ma Li play a Northeastern couple with dense and interesting dialogue. Coincidentally, when I was watching the movie, I sat next to a mother and daughter from the Northeast. As the plot progressed, their dialogue became very funny. There is a plot in the movie
, where Lei Jiayin meets his first love by chance while taking a job, and then coincidentally handles the same case. In order to avoid Ma Li's random thoughts, Lei Jiayin saved his first love Gao Ye's mobile phone number as "Wang Tiejun". When the performance came to this point, my eldest sister next door laughed and said to her daughter: Your father also did this when he was young. He would also come to borrow money like "Wang Tiejun" in the middle of the night, which made me happy when I found out. The two girls covered their mouths and laughed. There is another plot in
. Lei Jiayin’s son was beaten by gangsters and was covered with injuries. He asked his son how many people beat him? The son said four people, Lei Jiayin said: How come four people beat you so lightly? Ma Li suddenly raised her head from wiping the wound and said: You beast. The whole audience was amused. The eldest sister from the Northeast next door said, look, look, men are girls who have a heart!
There is another scene that I also think is quite interesting. The prosecutor played by Lei Jiayin goes to a canteen to learn about the situation. The owner of the canteen is played by Qiao Shan. He is watching the scene in "Man Jiang Hong" where Lei Jiayin generously recited the lyrics... Zhang Yimou must be laughing at himself. A handful, but it’s fun. So don't worry, this is a heavy legal education film, there are still some laughs.
After watching the whole movie, how should I put it, I remembered something I said before: good people always die from meddling in other people's business, and bad people always die from uneven distribution of spoils. A better society should be one that makes resistance more justified and brave people safer.
When a person acts bravely for justice, the price he bears should not be heavier than his conscience, otherwise selfishness will defeat conscience and everyone will become a tangled Lei Jiayin. Whenever everyone thinks of Article 20 of the Criminal Law, the first thing that comes to mind should not be restraint, but more the confidence and confidence to be a good person.
A good society should be able to tell everyone again and again: being brave is not so scary; the law is not just harsh on good people. If this is the case, Lei Jiayin's time of struggle may be reduced to sixty minutes, forty minutes, or even shorter.
