I'm so sad.
On December 18, 1865, the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America came into effect, which means that slavery was abolished in the United States. In the same year, China was the fourth year of Tongzhi, and the Taiping Army was still fighting desperately against the Qing government and foreign forces.
Fortunately, at least there is still freedom to resist.
The biggest feeling the film gave me was not how inhuman life the slaves lived, nor was it at the end of the feudal system. In the early capitalism, the southern slave states of the United States still retained the plantation system. I don't want to discuss the inconsistency of system development in social development. This is not a problem that can be solved by individuals. If we look back at today's social system 20 years later, absurdities will inevitably abound.
What frightens me most is that a system can completely eat people up. The social attributes of a person are simply smeared by the system. The natural attributes are still that person, white, yellow or black, men, women, teenagers, youth, and old age. On the social attributes, it is just a change of documents and thrown into another system. You It's just another person. For individuals only, whether it is a chicken turning into a phoenix or a tiger falling into the Pingyang, the gap between the past and the current situation will more or less sever people’s perception of themselves. The pheasant that turns into a phoenix may be easier to accept identity and be deceived by dogs. After a long time, do you really remember that you are a tiger?
What's more frightening is that it is possible to wake up at any time and be forced to become a victim of another rule. The rules of the game have changed. This is still common today.
A friend who went to watch the movie shared his personal experience. Since he was 16 years old, he lived with a 23-year-old woman working in the court after falling in love. His girlfriend drove in and out. He stayed at home for two years. He was in peace until he had his own car, and the increased number of outings aroused his girlfriend’s suspicion and jealousy. After several quarrels, his girlfriend changed the door of the apartment. He was furious when he returned from visiting relatives. He kicked the door open with one kick and his girlfriend hid. The police have been called in the room.
He was subsequently detained by the police and released on bail of 10,000 U.S. dollars, which he could not afford. He explained to the police that he had been in love with his girlfriend for more than two years. This was just a quarrel between his girlfriend and his girlfriend. Because of his work in the court, his girlfriend would not admit that he had known him for so long in order to avoid being accused of having sex with a minor. He only talked about dating. After a few months, feelings were at odds.
He asked his mother to collect evidence for him, one of which was a tax refund form with her home address, a year ago. This also proves that the girlfriend is lying.
After going to court, the judge held his tax refund form, lowered his chin, stared at the young female colleague from the top of his glasses, and asked, "You said you only knew him for a few months?" His girlfriend said softly, "Yes." "Then his face flushed.
In the end, he was fined 500 yuan to compensate the other party for property damage.
Friends said that it was not only his girlfriend’s betrayal of him, but once you went to jail, you no longer believed in your innocence. They potentially think you are an attempted violent bastard, so they can despise and spurn you at will. Their rudeness can be one of the forms of justice. It's like having a face in Central Asia. Everyone will label you as a terrorist, whether you live in Dali, Urumqi or Kabul. My friend said that most people who have similar experiences with the male protagonist can’t get out. The vastness is not the southern region, but the supremacy system where any white person is the master. Wanting to hang a black man who has attempted to escape is just to throw away one thing. Valuable furniture.
The reason I feel sorry for the black man who called the other person Nigger is because you can't call the black man Nigger, but they do it by themselves. They made silly jokes about the historical pain that they didn't understand and had never really come to him, but they didn't realize that they might be careless, and they were in trouble because of it, and they couldn't argue with it.
The system can go wrong because people make mistakes. There is no need to completely restrict the system to judge human beings. In this world, the so-called freedom under the artificial system is not to do whatever you want, but to do whatever you want.
Some thoughts, not comments.
Thanks to those who are vigilant, and my relatively healthy times.
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