Then gradually I met more and more people and saw more and more things, so I began to discover that the power of suffering is greater than I thought. Because it is difficult to escape from one's own destiny, more precisely, to leave the world that one knows well.
The pregnant woman and her husband are representatives of the typical lower-class people, who are struggling on the bottom line of life, helpless and hopeless. I don't see how much choice society leaves them with or what they can do to change their destiny. When my husband went crazy again and again, I deeply felt his helplessness. Throughout the movie, he is a man who does nothing, and nothing he does will have any effect on the case, he feels useless. I believe his situation would have been completely different if he had been born into a wealthy middle-class family.
In the film, the gap between the middle class and the poor is huge, and I believe it is the same in China. Countless children born in middle-class families, students who received good education and training along the way, white-collar workers in suits and ties, looked at this husband and said, "Why are you so useless, you can only be brutal and violent." But in fact, how big is the gap between people, and I think the difference is only that suffering comes to different people.
If the poor man must have something to hate, then this hate also tells the suffering of the poor man. Many people are born in such an environment, and he does not know that there is such an angle to understand this world. So many times the most frightening thing is not to change oneself and escape from fate, but from birth, no one tells a suffering person that there is another way to live, there is another way to go.
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