Text: Eleven
Listening to Teacher Luo Xiang say that "Devil's Spokesperson" is good, I have brushed it several times. This film speaks human nature very thoroughly.
The devil inside has a triumphant saying, "Vanity is my favorite original sin." ”
Why would the devil say that? Because in life, everyone has a little bit of vanity. It's like someone who likes to pursue success, someone who likes to be sought after, someone who wants to have a high status, and so on.
But all vanity is caused by the desires of the heart.
It's like the male protagonist Kai Wenming in the movie is very hard and serious and hard to pursue his career, but in the end he ends up with a broken family, his wife and daughter are separated, and he regrets not being the beginning.
1
In the movie, the male protagonist Kevin is a very powerful lawyer, and he has never lost a lawsuit. In the industry, he can be said to be a constant victorious general.
But once, he faced an inner test.
It all started with the case he had received: a student accused her of sexually harassing her by a math teacher.
During the trial, the schoolgirl burst into tears about what the math teacher had left her behind and what had happened to her. The schoolgirl spoke in great detail, which moved all the audience. Everyone invariably sided with the student, hating this teacher, how could he do such a disgraceful thing to the student.
Kevin, a lawyer, was at first thinking that the schoolgirl might be telling a lie. But when he looked at the math teacher next to him, he found that the math teacher was quietly masturbating under the table when the female student was talking.
This small gesture made him feel sick and angry, and at the same time made him realize that the schoolgirl was most likely telling the truth.
But he is the lawyer representing the teacher. If he does not fight, his reputation as a victorious general in the legal profession will be ruined, and it will also affect his business, that is, fewer people will ask him to fight lawsuits. Because his trust went wrong.
If you win this lawsuit yourself, you may go further in your career. With a reputation, there are naturally a lot of businesses waiting for him to choose. Money and status followed.
What to do? Kevin asked for an adjournment. He went to the bathroom and washed his face with cold water while taking off the ring on his finger. There is a detail in the film where the camera hits the ring several times. This ring was very ordinary, a small gold ring, round.
I didn't understand it when I watched it, and it wasn't until the end of the film that I realized it. It turned out that in the process of adjourning, the ring took Kevin on a "successful" path.
It gives the protagonist the option to win the case. The reason is simple, everyone wants to succeed, and for the good Kevin, he is more eager to be able to succeed.
Kevin learned that female students like to draw cartoons, repeatedly drew cartoons and insulted the math teacher as a "disgusting big pig", and also knew that she and her classmates played "sexual fantasy" games, and even blackmailed their classmates to testify, and the math teacher also sexually harassed them.
He then concluded that the teacher had not sexually harassed the female students at all, and that all this was a fantasy of the female students themselves. Just revenge on the math teacher.
And is that the case? It doesn't matter, what matters is that many people admire him and think that he can win the case in this way, which is really remarkable.
Kevin kept his reputation as a victorious general, and at the same time, his reputation spread widely, and even the big companies in New York invited him to fight a lawsuit.
Smoothly, he won again. Large companies offer particularly privileged conditions, high salaries, houses, future development and so on.
He chose to stay in the company, and in his opinion, he was so good that he deserved it all. At this time, he was proud of the spring breeze and saw all the Chang'an flowers in one day.
But there is a saying that goes: the gift of fate has long been secretly marked at a price.
But people often only see what is in front of them, and they don't think about the ending behind. So, Kevin enjoyed his victory.
2
Kevin arrived at the new company, won several more lawsuits, and was appreciated by the boss. Slowly, he made a small change. And this change began with his treatment of his wife, who he once loved the most.
That day, he took his wife to the party. When he set off, his wife told him not to let go of her hand, and she was a little scared.
Kevin promised at the time, definitely.
But when he arrived at the venue, he saw another beautiful and successful lady in the company, so he quietly followed each other to the rooftop, where the two people chatted and watched the night view. Exhilaration.
Later, he received a notice from his boss to take on a big case.
From the moment he let go of his wife's hand, he completely forgot his promise, forgot that his wife Mary was still waiting for him downstairs, looking for him.
By the time he got home, it was already three o'clock in the morning. When his wife saw him return, she lost her temper, and the two quarreled over him. Kevin felt that his wife was making unreasonable trouble, that he was going to work, and that he was not doing anything else.
But he forgot that work is OK, and there should still be time to make a phone call. At least let your wife know that you have something to do now, you can't accompany her anymore, let her go home by herself, and so on.
But he did not feel that he was at fault at all, but blamed his wife for not understanding things. At this moment, because of his excellence, he is no longer looking down at his wife, but looking down at it, in his opinion, his wife is unreasonable.
After that, he rarely went home because of big cases. The wife stayed alone in the big house, no friends, even if the wife of a colleague told her to go shopping, but she was always difficult to integrate. Gradually, she became depressed.
Kevin was puzzled by his wife Mary's depression. Obviously this is the happiness that two people want, have a house, have money, buy what they want, their careers are so successful, the wife should feel happy, how can she be depressed? He didn't understand, and he didn't have time to understand.
Wang Changling said that he suddenly saw the strange head Yang Liushi, and repented of her husband and wife to find a marquis.
But is that really the case? Let's take a look at the big case that the boss wants Kevin to take. And this big case is generally taken over by the company's internal high-level.
The case said it was a shooting at the home of a real estate owner, killing three people.
The police suspect that the owner of the real estate is the murderer. Because before the shooting, he and his wife had already begun to agree on a divorce. If the agreement is reached, his wife will most likely have to divide half of his property. If his wife dies, then his property can be preserved. (Adapted from true events in the United States)
At first, the real estate owner was negative, saying that he was with his secretary on the night of the incident. When Kevin asks the secretary, he discovers a small matter, and the secretary who sleeps with the boss every day does not know that the boss has a scar on his leg.
What does this mean? It is possible that the secretary is lying. Indicating that the police suspect that it may be correct, the murder is likely to be the real estate owner. It was he who, in order to preserve his property, killed his wife, Yoshiko, and his nanny.
Of course, the focus of this case is not whether Kevin can win the case, but whether he can respect the facts and give the victims justice.
Continue or let go? Continue, the position of general manager will immediately be Kevin's, do not continue, they may be hidden by the company?
At this time, his wife was seriously depressed and wanted to commit suicide, was found, saved in time, and sent to a mental hospital.
Do you want to take care of your wife and let go of the case, or do you continue the case and then take care of your wife?
When his boss saw him hesitate, he said, "You go take care of your wife, and I'll arrange for someone else to take over." ”
But man is like this, the more people want him to give up, even if his heart is shaken, he will be firm because others want him to give up. Kevin felt that he had done so much work in the early stages and was about to go to trial, and he was reluctant to let go of his wife now. He even felt that if he did this, he would hate his wife and hate her for blocking his future.
For him, the success of pursuing a career has far outweighed the love and concern for his wife.
He went to court and won the case. The real estate owner was acquitted due to insufficient evidence. He has also been highly affirmed and praised by bosses and industry insiders. The boss gave him the position of general manager. And made him a partner in the company.
In the company, he is under one person, above ten thousand people. His career can be said to have reached its peak.
He was satisfied and rushed to the mental hospital. But I heard my wife say, your boss sexually harassed me. Kevin didn't believe it, thinking that he hadn't been with his wife for too long, and her wife was hallucinating. So he went to the doctor to find out about his wife.
When he returned again, he saw her wife throwing a tantrum, pushing the people who were watching her away and unlocking the door. Picking up the shards of glass on the ground, he said to him outside the door, I love you. All are ill-gotten gains. Then stab yourself in the neck.
Blood flow is like a shot. Kevin at the time, completely collapsed.
His career reached its peak, but his family was in a mess. Kevin could not have imagined such an ending, and at this moment he was holding the body of his wife Mary and crying bitterly.
But in this world, there is any medicine, that is, there is no regret medicine. At this moment, he still does not understand, why is this the end?
3
But even greater absurdities lie ahead.
Kevin's mother told him that his boss was Kevin's biological father. And this father never fulfilled his responsibilities for a day, only because he heard that Kevin would fight a lawsuit, he paid attention to him and asked him to come to his side.
When Kevin finds the boss, he wants to confront him and whether he has done anything to his wife. The boss actually did not want to face to say that it was his fault that he let his wife stay alone in the empty room. He then tells him that he and Kevin will expand his kingdom even more. He wanted his children to succeed him and become the next king. Because the boss's business is not only a lawsuit, but also involves all aspects, including a lot of unsightly things.
And his only requirement for him was that, for the sake of the purity of his blood, he wanted him to have a child with a woman he also knew, the woman he was chatting with on the roof. The biological father did not want to face tell him that this woman, who was also his own child, was Kevin's half-sister.
When I saw this, I felt like I was going crazy. Such an unreasonable request, Kevin will also agree? But what I didn't expect was that Kevin agreed. He let go of his hatred and kissed his sister.
But it didn't take long for him to wake up, and he said it was all his fault. He wants success too much, he wants more money, he wants status too much. He treats lawyers like a job and just wants to win. Unexpectedly, he won the career and lost his wife.
He picked up his pistol and shot himself in the head.
The sound of the gunshot made people wake up and sigh. Man, as the most advanced animal, the most civilized messenger, indulged, only like a beast, and control, can return himself to humanity.
The film is here, and it doesn't end. Because this is only a road in life, a road to glory, a road to success. But life is not one way, there is another way.
The other way is simple, Kevin returns to the scene where the female student sues the teacher, and Kevin announces that he will not be the defense lawyer of the math teacher, so that the other party won the case.
At this moment, he is in a happy mood and has relaxed steps. He was insulted by teachers, banned by the industry, and he didn't care. Rather than having a conscience and winning success, he prefers to do things with a conscience now. At the very least, he didn't lose himself, he didn't lose his beloved lover and family.
The film Kevin went the wrong way, and you can go back and choose again. But in life, once a person chooses, he cannot turn back.
Everyone has their own desires, but the realization of any desire has principles and bottom lines. When principles and bottom lines are broken, desire is no longer its own desire, but a slave to desire.
Watching Kevin walk away with his wife, I suddenly thought, if you were Kevin, how would you choose? After all, that road has flowers, applause, fame, status, money, and wants, but there is no home and conscience.
And isn't all this what everyone pursues?