Speaking of "The Major" (a.k.a. "The Undercover", I think the name is more appropriate and straightforward) this film is classified as a crime film, but I and many of the audience around me feel that this is more like a documentary film , of course, such a plot setting will never be released in our country, which I am sure of. This film is also a new film in Russia in 2013.
One morning, the wife of Police Major Sergey was in labor when he got a call from the hospital and drove to the maternity home.
But at a remote intersection, he accidentally killed a boy. Only the boy's mother was an eyewitness. At this time, there were only two options for him. Either go to jail or hide the facts and continue to live freely. At the beginning, thinking of his wife who was about to give birth, Sergey chose to ask his police colleagues to do perjury. But when he started atonement and wanted to fight against the whole system, he realized that it was too late, and the chain reaction of a series of time forced many people to face a bottom line of morality, responsibility and conscience, and crossed this bottom line After that, people will lose their lives and their relatives and friends, and Sergey is just an ordinary person.
After the car accident, because he was in the jurisdiction of his own police station, he called two of his best colleagues and told them not to use violence. I think this may be Sergey trying to make his conscience better, but The incident didn't go the way he expected, and his police colleagues were used to their own way of handling things, first, getting the boy's parents to sign the seriously inaccurate investigation records, and when they refused, they beat the boy's Father, forcing the boy's mother to sign. let them go back. The boy's father said angrily to the policeman who beat him, "I will not let you go even if I'm a ghost, but the policeman Basha just said coldly, you'd better solve me in this world."
The boy's father came to the police station again with a gun and hijacked the two policemen at the door, asking the police station to hand over Major Sergey.
The crash was on the brink of collapse when the boy's father was beaten and brought a gun to the police station for revenge. From the words of the panicked police officers, we know that this police station has wronged the victim many times in the past. For example, after the victim was beaten into a vegetative state, the record written was that the victim hit his head with his car, so he became a vegetative state. . We can imagine the consequences.
Another police officer went to negotiate with the boy's father, hoping he would calm down, but was shot and killed by the boy's father. The moment he fired, other policemen swarmed up and put him in the holding cell again, at which point the head of the police station intervened, he called Basha and Sergey to the office and asked them how things were going In this case, why didn't he get rid of the boy's mother at the scene? Sergey started to flinch at this time. He felt that too much innocent blood had been shed, and he begged his boss to stop here and send him to jail. Both the boss and his colleagues thought he was funny. How could the perjury that has been in prison be overturned and implicated all colleagues... So the boss asked Basha to make things more beautiful. Basha took the police officer's gun and killed the boy's father. Then yelled at everyone present, I have a plan against you, we all have a share in everything, again implying that all the police are on the same front.
At this time, there was an exception. Sergey grabbed a police car and a gun and went to rescue the boy's mother, because he knew that the next action of the police station was to kill the boy's mother, so he rescued the boy His mother, and then when he ran into a chasing police colleague, he designed to hold another police officer who was the first to help him give false testimony. Please forgive me, the most troublesome thing in Russian movies is that everyone's name is the same as the name of the various people on Mount Olympus. God's name is just as difficult to remember. In short, Sergey threatened the policeman with a gun and called his boss's boss to explain the whole story. It's not that he didn't know that such a report would not only put himself behind bars, but also bring the entire police station to injustice. land. If nothing else, Basha, who shot the boy's father, will be sentenced to a heavier crime than him.
While waiting for the arrival of the state police, the pursuit team led by Basha had caught up with them. Basha called Sergey to explain the current situation. This is not a system that he can resist alone. More and more people will die as the events go on, and in the end he threatens Sergey to go back and kill Sergey's wife and newborn if he is still obsessed with telling the truth and redeeming the boy's mother. child.
Painful Sergei chose to give in here, no more words, he said to the boy's mother, we are human too, no more explanation, Sergey ended up killing the boy's mother, and Basha killed The colleague who made the whistleblower call, even though he was forced by Sergey, then let Sergey go. Here's another thought-provoking remark from Basha, I should have killed her at the scene of the accident, I'm such an idiot. Yes, if the mother who was the only witness was killed at the scene of the accident, then neither the father of the boy nor the two police officers would have died. seems to be the best result.
We can predict that the final report of the incident will definitely say that the boy's mother resisted arrest while being held hostage, and then fought with the police who called the report, and both died. This case can finally be closed.
At the end of the film, Sergey beckons to pick up a van on the side of the road, the driver asks his destination, he says the name of the maternity home, yes, he has not seen his newborn child,,, The van galloped through the darkness, seemingly heading for unpredictable distances.
The movie is over, but my mood and thoughts can't be calm for a long time. I ask myself, what if it was me? Everyone is an ordinary person, and it is very difficult to choose in front of the bottom line of morality and conscience, not to mention that there will be many people at both ends of this line.
I don't have much choice but to be silent.
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