In the first month of the Year of the Dragon, the movie "Article 20" directed by Zhang Yimou was on the air. I haven't watched this movie yet, but I got the general content of the movie from **. Seeing the rave reviews of the movie, I remembered Director Zhang's other legal film more than 30 years ago, Qiu Ju's lawsuit. Qiu Ju's lawsuit was released in 1992. China's Administrative Litigation Law was promulgated in 1990, which means that only two years after the implementation of the Administrative Litigation Law, Director Zhang put a new legal concept of administrative litigation on the screen. Through the literary and artistic form of movies that are popular and have a huge audience, we ordinary people know for the first time that the original people can sue the officials, and the original bureau chief can also sit in the defendant's seat.
Because of works like "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit" and "Article 20", I don't think Director Zhang is a superficial director of entertainment commercial films. He has other very profound movies, you can find and watch. Through these films, we can see that he thinks deeply about some problems in the modernization process of our nation.
Article 20 pushes the so-called "sleeping law", that is, Article 20 of the Criminal Law, "legitimate defense", to the focus of public attention through the movie. Justifiable defense is a controversial topic, and from the perspectives of both parties, it must be that the public says that the public is justified and the mother says that the mother is reasonable. After all, law is not the mathematics of science and engineering, and it can be quantified to a few decimal places. How many years of popular legal education have not been able to reach a consensus among all the people that "the law does not need to bow to lawlessness" like a movie. I have to say that Director Zhang's movie, the effect of law popularization is really good.
Even, I think of Article 20 of the Criminal Law with Article 12 of the Criminal Procedure Law. Article 12 of the Criminal Procedure Law says that any person who has not been tried by a people's court must be found guilty, which is commonly referred to as the principle of presumption of innocence. The principle of presumption of innocence is a more important principle in criminal law theory and criminal justice practice. The criminal law is clear at the beginning, that is, the spirit of protecting the rights and interests of criminal suspects, such as the criminalization of crimes and the absence of doubtful crimes. A criminal law is, first and foremost, a law on the rights of citizens, and it is through various systems that the criminal law stipulates the scope and yardstick of public power in restricting and depriving citizens of their rights.
These concepts are undoubtedly very important for the protection of the rights of citizens, including criminal suspects, and they are too important to speak. Because anyone can theoretically be a suspect. Therefore, I very much look forward to the next excellent film work, using literary language and story to interpret the principle of presumption of innocence established by Article 12 of the Criminal Procedure Law. In the plot of the presumption of innocence, the confrontation should be more intense, and the inspiration to us may be more profound.
That's all I share here for my "Unwatched Impressions". Thank you.