From three o’clock in the afternoon until twilight, I was really attracted to the computer screen. I was infected by the plot, and shared the sadness and joy with the people in the play. At the end, I sighed deeply and said I don't know what it's like in my heart.
The story is not complicated. In 1996, in Tennessee, USA (the film was taken in 1997), how a law graduate named Rudy Baylor worked hard to make a living after walking out of school, using the law as a weapon to protect his only two clients legally The matter of rights. What's exciting is that he filed a lawsuit against a young man with leukemia, Downey, and an insurance company. What is a bit humorous is that he made a will with an old lady who thought he was worth a million but only had $40,000. There is no lack of beauty in the sadness and the possible love between him and a weak woman who has suffered from domestic violence. It is worth mentioning that Dirk, Rudy’s stupid partner, is cynical, sharp, and jokes that often hit the nail on the head. He has been in the business of lawyers for a long time, but he has not yet obtained a lawyer’s qualification certificate. He used his experience and wit to help Rudy defeat his opponents in the dangerous court debates time and time again, but it was a pity that they couldn't get the $50 million in compensation from the insurance company, and he couldn't help feeling a little sad.
It should be said that in many countries in Europe and America, the image of lawyers is not glorious. There is no such thing as justice and fairness. Whoever pays speaks for him. The sacred aura of the law is trampled to the lowest point of the dust by their clever tongues. Getting the most profit from customers is the direction they have to work hard to search for. In this case, Rudy played by Matt Damon is simply an angel falling into the mortal world. He is self-respecting, self-reliant and self-improving. He has lost his father as a young man. He is completely dependent on his own efforts to fight the world. He is hardworking, hardworking, and self-motivated. He can hurry to study and pass the lawyer qualification exam in one fell swoop. He is clean, healthy and sunny. , Polite manner, slightly shy words and deeds, will make it easy for people to trust and favor him; he is kind, full of sense of justice and compassion, willing to give all his efforts to help those who are struggling in poverty and despair People; he is firm, persistent, and self-conscious. The first lawsuit after graduation made him famous, but he changed his career to become a teacher because he was afraid that his ideals would be shattered because of the frightening of the same trend. In his words: "I still love the law, and will continue to love it, but maybe I should teach the law instead of practicing it myself."
From the beginning to the end, as the plot develops, Rudy's heart will sound from time to time. Monologue, sincere, magnanimous, it is easy to move people. When the film was about to end and Rudy watched his friend Dirk step down the long stairs, his last monologue sounded: "Every lawyer, at least once, tries to cross the boundaries he never thought of. However, when When this kind of crossing keeps appearing, the boundary disappears, and you become a member of that group, which is no different from a shark in dirty water."
" Shark in dirty water " means something-- When Rudy had just graduated from school and found the first law firm willing to accept him, in the office of the notorious boss Biaohan, there was a few small sharks swimming behind the boss’s chair. In his big fish tank, two old tricky guys with sly smiles are singing together to teach Rudy the first lesson of stepping into society. This scene appears at the beginning of the film, and its symbolism and irony are ready to come out.
In fact, how applicable this passage is to countless young people who have just stepped into any kind of business.
Maybe he was as full of idealism as Rudy, pure, firm, fearless, and believes that justice will prevail, and reality is like a tank of dirty water, which unconsciously engulfed you and surrounded you. If you are unwilling to change your breathing style, you will find it difficult to see and hear, or you must have enough courage and ability to rush out of this tank of dirty water and plunge into the new river again; and when you are slow to the filthy reality Slowly adapt, gradually accept, and slowly change, you also unknowingly become the dirty water that engulfed a stream of clear water, reincarnation, repeated cycles, never peaceful.
How much sobriety and strong will a person have to remind oneself not to be stuck in the mud? How much courage and brutal self-control are necessary to refuse all the benefits that are readily available when you cross the boundaries lightly?
"Human beings are such an incredible masterpiece! What a noble reason! What a great power! What a beautiful appearance! What a graceful behavior! What an angel in behavior! What a god in wisdom! The essence of the universe The primate of all things!" In today's society, how many people still deserve the enthusiastic praise of Shakespeare?
I think of "Old Teacher Xu" that I read in "Teacher Tao", and think of the tin drum in "Essay Weekly" for students to "be a great person" proposal, I think, even if we are destined to be ordinary and insignificant in this life, at least We can strive to become a person who yearns for greatness. Because he said: "A person who aspires to be a phoenix is destined to not be obstructed by foreign objects, who always has the world in his heart, and is full of compassion. He is a person who can constantly think about himself and surpass himself."
To an ordinary teacher In other words, sticking to your original passionate ideals, sticking to the standpoint of being innocent in your heart, teaching good books and cultivating good people, you are also doing a career as a rainmaker, and it is tantamount to bringing coolness and sweetness to people in the dry land. .
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