Sin, Lies and Indifference

Bernhard 2022-03-25 09:01:22

If you've seen Hard Candy that makes you sick, it's best not to watch this one. The entire viewing process is very chest tightness, based on real events, it happened in Indiana in the 60s, it makes people feel that this is so terrible, oh, so terrible, so terrible, I can no longer look directly into the basement.



Sin
has always believed that violence is always a part of human beings, and that killing and plundering are the most primitive nature of human beings. It's our nature to forcefully hurt others, especially when you're hurt inside but you can't find comfort. In the play, the mother who raises five or six children by herself is actually such a person who is injured but cannot take care of herself. It was those men who hurt her, those who sowed the seeds but escaped. It is difficult for a person to maintain a family, let alone to have an abortion. Over time, he will become numb, give in, and no longer strong. When the mother abused poor Serbia in front of the children, the children had already learned this bullying instinct subconsciously. Therefore, don't underestimate the terrible group of children. Under the inducement, their crimes will be committed after the fact, and they themselves do not know why they do it. It's really outrageous that you don't even know why you committed the crime. There seems to be a proper term, what is collective consciousness crime, like another movie wave, like the Red Guards, like the Nazis, they are all crimes.



Lies
are so easy to say from the mouth compared to sins. In the play, the mother is a bit of a delicate personality. On the one hand, she vented her emotions to the innocent Serbian, but she used lies to deceive her children and priests. Even in the courtroom, she made a statement about her child's crimes. You can deceive yourself that they are lying, but they are not. On the other hand, to comfort Serbia, tell her that she is doing this to protect the whole family, and she is fooling herself. She sacrificed Serbia to protect her children, and she used her children to protect herself. In the final analysis, lies are as terrible as sins, one blinds her own heart, and the other plunders the hearts of others.



Indifference
finally, sin and lies mixed together and killed Serbia. Serbia, who believed in God, asked himself after his death, did God really have all the arrangements, in the face of brutality, and watching the atrocities happen not only indifferent, but happy about it, or knowing that the evil happened, but because of cowardice and hurt? There was nothing he could do to stop it.

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  • Trycia 2022-03-18 09:01:09

    You humans are horrible.

  • Cheyenne 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    God has an arrangement for everyone? If there is, it is to let human beings tear and bite each other in all kinds of ways forever. The corpses are everywhere. God has come to give peace and tranquility, justice and kindness? We know this story, and there are more that we don’t know, before, today, and in the future. SO, always pray, always sing, always praise....

An American Crime quotes

  • Gertrude Baniszewski: You know what it's like to be sick, Sylvia. I've been sick for so long, too. I can't... discipline my kids they was I should. I punish them I know, but... sometimes with my medicine I gets so I don't know what I'm doing.

    [begins to cry]

    Gertrude Baniszewski: And I care for them so much. Paula, the thing is... Paula's a lot like me. I had her when I was just about your age. Then Stephanie. Then all the others. Then John left... And here I am on medicine, doing whatever I can to keep my family together. I want something better for Paula... There has to be something better... And I need to protect my children...

    [cries]

    Gertrude Baniszewski: Do you understand that? You kids... you're all I've got... Thank you, Sylvia. Thank you for understanding, thank you.

  • Sylvia Likens: She sacrificed me to protect her children, and she sacrificed her children to protect herself.