The first half of the movie is a little long, and the second half is getting better. It tells not only about the harm caused by war and history to individuals, but also a profound reflection on the law - what kind of law is responsible for people? ? ? Maybe the dead never wanted revenge, but the living never escaped from the nightmare. Who should pay for this long agony and torture? The scene at the end was really good. The father took his son's hand and walked into the evening glow, as if the injury had never happened. The film is adapted from the 2011 work "The Corigny Case" by German writer Ferdinand von Schirach. After the book was published, the German Ministry of Justice set up a historical investigation committee to re-examine the scandal that allowed war criminals to evade justice, and made some progress, largely fulfilling the hope of the protagonist Lehnen: "If today's judges No more rulings in favor of Meyer, then, it can only show that we have made progress." Schilacher also confessed that the purpose of his writing this novel is to express the reflection of the post-war generation on war. His grandfather, a Nazi and former general secretary of the Hitler Youth, was sentenced to twenty years in prison at the Nuremberg trials. He said: "We all know intellectually that in a society ruled by law, a descendant will not continue to be responsible for the guilt of his predecessors, so such guilt will not be inherited or passed on as an inheritance. This is not to say that as a descendant, you can live a very easy life as if you were okay, it is not like this, you have to have an unusual sense of responsibility to this country and to the current society." After that day, the meaning of his life was only left. Get revenge. Disappointed with the law, he thought he could only complete the revenge he had planned for a lifetime in secret, so after the crime he kept silent and dragged his weary steps out of the presidential suite. Unexpectedly, this fledgling lawyer would be able to find out the story behind the case and walk into the nightmare that tormented him all his life. The kind of relief and comfort that was understood and accepted, he had longed for all his life, but never had it. At this moment, he was finally able to let go. On the eve of the sentencing, Corini committed suicide in prison. Once the mission of revenge is completed, the meaning of life will also come to an end. Just like the words of Shanghai Mingwei on the title page of the book: "Perhaps, our whole life is to do the necessary thing". If you look at it from a crime movie perspective, Murder Not Guilty: The Coligny Case is far from gripping and ups and downs. But from the perspective of war and history, it is a great work that can't be ignored.
Part of the information in the article is excerpted from Wang Qi's "Crime and Punishment in the Corini Case"
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