The 2016 British film won several awards.
The plot is simple, historian Owen denies the Holocaust, and another historian Deborah calls him a "Holocaust denier." Owen therefore sued her in a British court for defamation. The entire film is the entire process of the trial. In the end, Deborah won.
There are no fancy skills or sensational plots in this film, but it is narrated in a leisurely manner, let us slowly taste and understand justice.
In the judicial system of the United Kingdom and the United States, the protection of freedom of speech is emphasized. But not rambling freedom. There are at least two preconditions: one is that speech cannot create imminent danger, and the other is that lies cannot be created and spread. In Germany these restrictions were even more severe, and all advocacy of Nazi ideas was illegal.
Owen describes himself as a historian who has studied Nazi history for more than three decades. As a historian, one should abandon ideological motives, dig out historical facts with a fair and rigorous attitude, and draw objective conclusions. Not so with Owen. Motivated to conjure up Hitler's soul, he took information that was beneficial to him and tampered with it to prove that the Holocaust did not exist. His theory just caters to the ideological trend of those neo-Nazis and skinheads in the current society.
The process of trial is actually the process of restoring history. Deborah's team of lawyers, with rigorous professionalism and a realistic attitude, went to Auschwitz to investigate and collected a large amount of information, and finally tore up the true scene of the Holocaust with irrefutable facts and revealed the Holocaust. Owen's hypocritical face.
Deborah said at the final press conference: "Now some people will say that the outcome of this trial threatens freedom of speech. I do not accept that. I am not attacking freedom of speech. On the contrary, I have been defending it. Freedom, fight those who abuse that freedom. Freedom of speech means you can say what you want, but you can't lie and then expect you won't be held accountable. Not all opinions are created equal , something did happen. Like we say, slavery existed, the Black Death happened, the earth was round, glaciers would melt, Elvis died."
Deborah concluded: "I have something to say to those who survived the Holocaust and those who were killed: You will be remembered."
After watching this movie, I think more about the strange things that have happened in our country in recent years.
I don't know since when, "reversing the text" and "reversing the news" became a fashion. Many of the long-established histories have been subverted by these people. What "Qiu Shaoyun can't stand the fire", "Huang Jiguang did not block eye-catching" Hey, what "the Eighth Route Army did not fight against Japan", what "resisting the U.S. aggression and aiding Korea was a failure", etc. etc. As long as the good things the Communist Party has done, they are all denied by these people.
Just wanted to give an example. I read a post on the Internet recently. There is a writer named Zhang Yingquan in Hubei. He was originally entrusted by Liu Wencai’s descendants to Liu Wencai to overturn the case. Later, the overturned article was criticized by the society. Writer Zhang refused to accept it. Writer Zhang completely overturned his original reversion article.
He said: Even according to the laws of the old society, it would not be too much to shoot Liu Wencai a thousand times! Killing husbands and wives, raping girls, dominating people's estates, selling drugs, and going to the door to force rents, can be described as all evils. If the land reform policy were used to characterize him, he would not be spared the crime of killing countless communists.
This is the truth. I admire Writer Zhang's truth-seeking attitude and spirit of correcting his mistakes. But there's another question, why didn't Writer Zhang investigate before writing that reversal article? How many people like this made a lot of noise in the media before they did not investigate and find out the truth?
Such people are generally divided into three types, one is those who are extremely hostile to society, such as Owen in the film. Use every opportunity and use every media to vent their hatred.
The second is to encounter setbacks in life, and then take anger on the society.
The third is ignorance. There is no belief, no opinion, and others say what they say. If you see a new post, repost it and give it a thumbs up. If you don’t get it right, you can become an internet celebrity.
As the saying goes: "Man is doing what the sky is watching". In life, we must be worthy of our conscience, respect history and facts, and have a clear conscience in every word and deed. This is a modern minimum standard.
To those ignorant people, I can only say, learn more, besides getting drunk in the Harry Potter King of Glory nightclub, there are more things you need to know, and it doesn't hurt to know more about history.
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