Internet surfing veterans know that the case of "justifiable defense" was once the most discussed and controversial legal topic on the Chinese Internet. Recently, with the hot release of Zhang Yimou's new work "Article 20" during the Spring Festival, "Article 20" is justified defense, and the "Criminal Law" regulation, which is most closely related to the general public, has once again become the focus of heated discussions among netizens, triggering a wave of "law learning". 
Before I went to the cinema, I had already got the director's intention, Zhang Yimou wanted to serve everyone a plate of hard dishes with flying perception and knowledge in the Spring Festival stall with the most people and the most joyful time. 
In fact, when I saw Director Zhang Yimou choosing the topic of "legitimate defense", I immediately thought of another master, Mr. Luo Xiang. 
In the past few years, it is Mr. Luo Xiang who has insisted on the output of legitimate defense issues in our first field and has received great attention in the form of comedy. Many netizens have also watched his issue of out of the circle**, which is about Article 20 of the Criminal Law: A woman encounters a gangster with bad intentions, and the other party tries to deal with it. In order to protect herself, the woman pushed the man into a dung pit. Then the man tried to climb out three times, but the woman could only stomp on his hand out of fear, and then climb and step on it, and repeat it many times, until finally the man could no longer get up and froze to death in the dung pit. So the question arises: Is this justified self-defense or excessive defense due to the woman's series of operations that led to the man's death? 
Don't hesitate, there is a law to support us, Mr. Luo Xiang's original words are: This is not legitimate defense, what is legitimate defense? If it were me, I'd have to add a few bricks to finish! What do you think? Is this feeling of entertaining and teaching and justice similar to the movie "Article 20"? In the past few years, Mr. Luo Xiang is definitely a phenomenal Internet celebrity, and it makes sense that he can become popular, professional accumulation + objective position + understanding of folk emotions, a set of combination punches, must be the favorite legal scholar of our people. Director Zhang Yimou's efforts on "Article 20" are not so well-intentioned? 
Director Zhang Yimou, who is well versed in the current public context, knows that if he wants to bring serious social topics to more people, the most feasible solution is high-quality comedy. So we saw countless jokes in this popular law movie with a serious core, and bursts of laughter erupted in the cinema from time to time, just because of this, "Article 20" has already set a precedent for popular law dramas. 
When the director chooses comedy as the medium, it is destined that "Article 20" can reach more people in terms of quantity, and can accommodate serious sociality in expression, which means that "legitimate defense", a topic of national concern, will definitely be fully explained. So we saw that "Article 20" gathered Lei Jiayin, Ma Li, Zhao Liying, Fan Wei, Zhang Yi, Gao Ye and other most popular actors, integrated endless comedy stalks, and told three cases of righteous courage & justifiable defense that occurred in different scenes. 
As these cases unfolded, I cried several more times. When the bus driver Zhang Guisheng was in a car accident because of petitioning, and his daughter played the voice he sent before his death, the urgency for fairness and justice made me cry silently; When Lu Lingling and Han Ming fiercely confronted each other and said the sentence "All the right things have a price, but you can't stop doing them because there is a price", I was full of excitement and tears. 
Han Ming's generous statement at the hearing to ask for the lives of the common people was also extremely shocking. He asked everyone present: Why would a father rather risk going to jail or even losing his life to lift a knife? Why would a mother leave her husband and disabled daughter to jump off a building? The answer is – despair. Despair of the law, desperation of fairness, desperation of prosecutors. God, to be able to hear these words of deep understanding and empathy for our ordinary people on the big screen and in the mouths of public officials, I really burst into tears, and I announced that I have been canonized in my personal movie-watching history. 
It's not that Han Ming doesn't know how past cases were sentenced, and how many people who acted bravely or defended themselves were finally convicted of "intentional injury". He knew that, following judicial practice, this case should have been judged that way. But it's always been that way, right? Right? Right? Director Zhang Yimou told us through "Article 20": Of course not! After some tears and laughter, we finally ushered in the end of Article 20 and the proclamation of Article 20 of the Criminal Law, where citizens' right to "legitimate self-defense" was protected by law, crimes were punished, and justice was served. 
At this point, I breathed a long sigh of relief, and my hanging heart was also relaxed. Although I was "deceived" into a lot of laughter and tears, I still want to thank "Article 20" and director Zhang Yimou for his realistic care, as an audience, I have no reason not to support it. If you haven't seen it yet, don't hesitate to rush!