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Prosecutor Han Ming has three cases in his hands:
In order to help his classmates who were bullied, Han Yuchen, a sunny and handsome big boy, was involved himself, and was about to get into a lawsuit and miss out on a good university.
The brave bus driver was charged with injury because he taught several hooligans, and was accidentally killed in a traffic accident on the way to appeal.
Hao Xiuping, a deaf and dumb woman, was attacked by the village bully**, her husband was imprisoned for murder, and the disappearance of her daughter became the last straw that broke the camel's back.
These three threads are together, intertwined in parallel. While the story is developing, the character characteristics of the protagonist Han Ming are presented to the audience like a cocoon: a middle-aged professional who acts cautiously and is good at observing words and feelings; A temporary prosecutor who is familiar with the way of officialdom and has left and right.
When people are past their youth and most energetic years, they may be like Han Ming, when facing physical aging and inevitable mid-life crisis, they still have to joke with themselves in front of their first love and say: I am no longer the same me when we watched the sunset together on the playground, I am now a sunset.
After smiling bitterly, I was a little sad.
At first glance at Han Ming, although he has the "big title" of a prosecutor, he is a proper "little person", he has some cleverness and sleekness, and when the film shows Han Ming's character characteristics in this regard, it also does two ways to deal with it in two ways: "close to reality" and slightly "dramatic exaggeration", such as:
Realistic version: The family involved in the case came, the boss was a little powerless to parry, he was in a hurry to solve the current trouble, but he lost no time in delivering the word and attributing the credit to the boss, saying that the leader also thought of it, but he was just giving him a chance to perform and give the boss enough face;
He will "strike while the iron is hot", on the grounds that it is inconvenient for the temporary staff to speak, so that the boss will take the initiative to throw out the promise of "it is not impossible to turn positive", and take advantage of the praise to praise the big leader for his "wisdom and discernment", and put gold on his face, which is really a bit embarrassing little humor.
Dramatization: When he met in a meeting that he didn't want to express his opinion but knew that he couldn't hide from it, Han Ming pretended to pick up **, but was caught red-handed;
and his first love really talked about his young memories inattentively when talking about work, and bumped into his wife who wanted to wear a blindfold to lie and get by, but he still couldn't avoid being vinegared;
He has a very high emotional intelligence and does things exquisitely, but he always shows a cowardly and timid "cowardice".
But we have to sigh that every "little person" has the possibility of doing great things.
He is a judicial officer, and he is also a commoner, but he also has to face various practical problems such as job promotion, children's schooling, etc.
Therefore, although he knew that the bus master was innocent and convicted of helping the harassed girl to hurt the hooligans, and he was emotionally sympathetic and respectful, he still acted according to the rules and regulations of the law and the historical case process: persuade Lao Han to stop petitioning, arrange a job for him, and follow the steps.
He wants to be promoted smoothly, and wants to get a better life for himself and his family.
Therefore, even if his son Han Yuchen injured the person because he wanted to protect the bullied person, he won morally, but only because it was the son of the director of the school's teaching office who was injured, so Han Ming really wanted to calm things down, and apologized to the other party's child.
People are under the eaves, people are soft-spoken...After experiencing too much "uncertainty" and the turmoil and harm brought to our lives, the whole person will become cautious and dare not make the slightest mistake.
We all have a little bit of Han Ming's shadow on us.
But do justice and goodness really have to be caught in the cracks of the law and held hostage by sin?
Han Ming will inevitably change.
This was actually quietly foreshadowed in the movie. Do you still remember the movie that he and Lu Lingling went to look for clues together and was playing in Qiao Shan's shop at the time? It is the bridge in the popular "Man Jianghong" that Lei Jiayin participated in before, and Qin Hui, played by Lei Zi on TV, is reciting impassionedly, it is the song "Man Jianghong".
Director Zhang Yimou will most likely not just play a "tribute stalk" and make everyone happy.
If you have watched "Man Jianghong", you must still remember that Qin Hui, who was held hostage by Sun Jun, the commander of the pro-military camp, was actually not the deity, he was trained by Qin Hui as a stand-in in appearance, he admired Yue Fei as a righteous hero, but had to bow under Qin Hui's authority; It wasn't until he died that he was finally able to express his chest memories through the song "Man Jianghong" and happily made himself "himself".
Isn't this a portrayal of Han Ming? Intimidated by power and unspoken rules, he has no way to exert his fists and kicks.
Until the incident of Hao Xiuping jumping off the building, and her colleague Lu Lingling took the responsibility for dereliction of duty alone, in order to ensure that Han Ming continued to stay in his post, the story was pushed to a new stage - the stage of revealing the deep reason why Han Ming bloomed at the last critical moment.
If a person can take steps in the right but difficult way, his courage must be traced.
Gao Ye, the actor who played the sister-in-law in "Hurricane" and also played by Lu Lingling, really contributed a passionate mobilization, she said that she thought that when she was in college, Han Ming rescued her from being ** from the hands of the gangsters because of love; Later, she learned that the reason that inspired him to do so was the conscience and sense of social responsibility in it, so she believed that Han Ming could rectify this decadent situation.
His son Han Yuchen is also proof that Han Ming will inevitably stand up and speak out for justice: Yuchen is neither humble nor arrogant in the face of school bullying. This boy completely ignores the pros and cons in the concept of adults, in this young world, wrong is wrong, right is right, and we can't see gray areas in matters of principle and justice.
His stubbornness, tenacity of not admitting defeat and not flattering power is very similar to his father when he was young. If there is a father, there must be a son, and conversely, from the child, we can often get a glimpse of the father's character.
These are all proofs that Han Ming was able to speak out bravely, and they are also the foreshadowing that the director did in the development of the plot.
As expected, he withstood the pressure at the hearing set up for Hao Xiuping, expressing the grievances of the party who acted bravely but was wrongfully convicted, and the misery of the victim who defended himself out of fear but was put in prison. It shows the helplessness and despair of the people who have the most simple emotional expectations but have not been able to achieve them. He skillfully quoted Article 20 of the Criminal Law, moved it with emotion, understood it with reason, and made the loudest voice for the parties.
"What is the law? It is the principle of heaven, the law of the country, and the favor of the people. ”He did it! A man who usually seems to be a little "cowardly" is a radiant righteous judicial man at this moment, a tough guy!I don't believe in human beings. ”
Where does the authority of the law come from? From the most simple emotional expectations of the common people. ”
The law is to make it more expensive for bad people to commit crimes, not to make good people do it more expensive. ”
We are not handling cases, we are dealing with other people's lives. ”
law, not to give in to lawlessness"....
Until here, Han Ming successfully completed his gorgeous transformation from a "little person" to a "big hero".
I have to say that Zhang Yimou is really a master of shaping characters.
Returning to the tone of the whole movie, Director Zhang did not adopt his usual "grand narrative" this time, in the qualitative realism theme, the film shows the protagonist's very down-to-earth daily life at a large scale, including husband and wife quarrels, colleagues quarrelling, seemingly trivial, but filled with a strong atmosphere of fireworks. It is precisely because these scenes are so close to our lives that it is easier to mobilize and inspire a sense of mission for every ordinary person.
When those around us are treated unfairly, can we also have the courage to stand up and speak up for justice? Can you also look directly at the dark corners of society, and do your best to pull a beam of light in and illuminate that darkness?
When all the sleeping consciences are awakened, I believe that our society can truly become a more and more harmonious and beautiful society.
No matter how bad it is, it can always mobilize our thirst for knowledge, just like Zhang Maojuan played by Ma Li said half-jokingly: This time, I also studied law hard.
Zhang exported his hand, and it really lived up to its name.