The mousetrap sees indifference and loneliness from the death of a child

This movie tells the story of a child committing suicide. After watching it, I was shocked and helpless. In my mind, the eleven or twelve-year-old child was naive and romantic. Maybe he didn’t even have the concept of life and death. How could he kill himself? Is it the director too artistic? A certain film theorist once said that film is actually a life minus trivial pieces. I agree that film is a reflection of our lives. What kind of life will make what kind of film, then this seemingly extreme theme

Does this movie mean that our lives are indeed ill, or do we return to the film to analyze the cause of the child’s death? This film was filmed in the 1970s in the UK. If it were shown to the Chinese adult intellectuals living in that era, it would be weird and impossible. I understand that at that time, China was just enough to have enough food and clothing to live in. It was simple to supply anything by the ticket for a month. You could eat a meal of braised pork for the Chinese New Year. If it weren't for man-made criticism and starvation in natural disasters, who would commit suicide, let alone a stinky kid But how many of the intellectuals who have watched the film today will say it is incomprehensible because child suicide incidents like this often appear around us as news reports. Yes, society has changed and our lives have also been changed.

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