When a person has the "legal" ability to inflict harm, it is difficult for them to restrain themselves. . In another American movie "The Sins in the American Pastoral" adapted from real events, when Sylvia was imprisoned in the basement, the act of hurting Sylvia was recognized by the authority (an adult) and seemed to be "legal", so there is no need to worry about being punished. , Her usual classmates, friends, and even the teenagers who had a crush on her were competing to abuse her for pleasure, until the poor girl died of helplessness.
Let us think about the tragedies in human history, the labor camps of the Soviet Union, the concentration camps of the Nazis, the "Left disaster" after China's Mao era, how many people who usually seem "normal" are in the "legal" coat A hideous face was revealed below, and he bitterly hurt his own kind. In a sense, these tragedies are caused by the eruption of people's evil nature. The totalitarian system provides a legal external environment for "evil deeds". It complements people's evil nature and acts as cause and effect.
2. There is no other way to deal with evil, you must pay an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. This sentence has two meanings. The first is that when the wicked are doing evil, the good should resist. Isn't Grace's tragedy caused by her own kindness and weakness? After Grace was raped for the first time, she chose to remain silent, which has paved the way for her future encounters. In front of wicked people, don’t pretend to be angels, and don’t be afraid that disobedience will make things worse.
In "Gulag Islands", Solzhenitsyn is heartbroken for people's lack of resistance (in fact, including himself): "So why do you want to run?... How can you resist? Know that you only It will worsen your situation, and you will prevent you from making your mistakes clear. You follow your feet even when you go down the stairs, because you don’t want your neighbors to hear, wherever there is resistance to it. Later in the labor camp, he will feel bitterly if When each operative goes to perform the arrest at night, I don’t know if he can come back alive, and therefore say goodbye to his family. What will happen? When a quarter of the city’s residents were thrown into the prison, people weren’t sitting in their caves, and they were shocked to hear every time the door bangs and the footsteps on the stairs—but they knew they would never again. What was lost, so a group of a few people energized, holding an axe, hammer, and fire hook in their hands, and setting up an ambush in their doorways with everything they could easily get, what would happen? Since I already knew that, these It’s not wrong to hate visitors at night—then give the murderer a head-on, it’s never wrong. And the "crow car" parked on the street with only one driver—drive it away, or pierce the wheel Tires. The agency will not immediately calculate the vacancies for staff and vehicles. In this way, no matter how much Stalin desires, this cursable machine will definitely stop! If...if...for everything that happened later, we would simply take the blame. "
Kindness and compassion can only indulge the evil in human nature. In "Dog Town", the simple villagers are transformed into evil ones. Does Grace have no responsibility? When the evil deeds first appeared, they said no decisively, not only for the sake of their own human dignity, but also for the salvation of the evildoers.
The second level of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth means that people who have done bad things must never forgive. Bad people are punished for evil, and only God has the power to forgive them. At the end of the film, when Grace and his father talked about the theory of forgiveness, his father unceremoniously pointed out: "In fact, you are the most arrogant and ignorant." "Because they are dogs, according to instinct, we should teach them a lesson. Flog them.” At this point, the Jews have set the best example for us: The Israeli secret service Mossad and other Jewish revenge organizations have been tracking and killing the impunity culprits of the Jews for 50 years after the war. Among them, the prime culprit, Eichmann, was captured by Mossad in the slum of Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1960. He was transported back to Israel for trial. The Israeli Special Court sentenced him based on 15 crimes against humanity and anti-Semitics. He was sentenced to death. On May 31, 1962, he was sent to the gallows and his body was incinerated and thrown into the Mediterranean. "The Riga Butcher" Herbert Cooks was also killed by the Jewish Avenger in South America. On the other hand, looking at ourselves, how many crimes have been imposed on us that have not been liquidated? After World War II, easily abandoning claims against Japan, how many whistle-blowers during the Cultural Revolution were still proud of the vernal equinox in our time?
"Dog Town" is a good movie, fortunately to show you naked humanity. Of course, the cognition of human nature is not in line with the teachings of our ancestors and the idea of governing the country by virtue, but it is always helpful for people to recognize the facts. It makes people keep their eyes open and always wary of those who are capable of doing evil.
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