"Everyone's childhood should be the most wonderful stage of life, when the child is a flower, but also a fruit, a piece of ignorance of intelligence, a never-ending activity, a strong desire." 」
Three major starring
All children should be a living flower, but not every child's childhood is the most wonderful time of their life. Some people's childhood is a nightmare that they don't want to mention, and some people's childhood has ended before it has begun well, just like Duo Bin and Min Jun in the movie "Little Client".
The heroine of the film, Duo Bin
I've always liked Korean real-life movies based on true events, like Suyuan and The Melting Pot many years ago. This time, "Little Client" is about a story about stepmothers abusing children. Duo Bin and Min Joon's sisters and brothers are dependent on each other, their mother has passed away, and their father and their good-looking stepmother have been raising them in order to get some money from them. But just because of a little thing, the stepmother always abused Duobin and his brother, and the younger brother made a mistake that the sister took on, even until the eardrum was ruptured, and she did not stop beating Duobin. In the end, her brother was beaten to death, and her stepmother asked Duo Bin to apologize for her, and in order to survive, Duo Bin could only tell the judge that her brother was beaten to death by her, and who would believe that a ten-year-old girl would beat her brother to death.
The film also reflects the society's disregard for child abuse through the perspective of others, neighbors and male protagonist Zheng Ye, this child welfare institution and legal person, in this film, Zheng Ye and neighbors and others should represent most of us, a person who has nothing to do with this family, even if they hear scolding, know that children are abused, but they are reluctant to help, perhaps they all think that this is someone else's family affair, no need to take care of it.
Just like the boss of Zheng Ye's dream law firm who said coldly, "Our company will not consider the situation of being born in a different environment" As a legal worker, you can't uphold justice and uphold justice?! After several contacts with the children and gaining the trust of the children, our male protagonist gradually changed his indifferent attitude. Later, when his brother died, Zheng Ye learned that it was caused by a 50,000 yuan he gave, and he blamed himself unusually, so he quit his long-awaited job to help Duo Bin expose the truth.
Because of the long-term abuse, Duo Bin was silent in court, and no one could communicate with her, until Zheng Ye took out the dead brother's favorite little King Kong doll, and she began to tell the truth. The child was justly protected, and the evil mother and the fierce father were duly punished.
But the social problems conveyed in the film are still there, just like Duo Bin himself said, "No matter how she is, the adults will not care and will not believe her", in fact, practical problems such as child abuse, young X girls and other practical problems have occurred not only in South Korea but also in China, last year we still remember the Chinese Suyuan case.......
Korean filmmakers are very good at creating this kind of role about human nature, whether from a social point of view, or from the perspective of human nature, this kind of film can be recognized by the public, and has a great response, including last year's Oscar for best film "Parasite" is a very realistic theme of the film.
《Suyuan》
《Parasite》
And our country just lacks this category, only "I am not a medicine god" has attracted attention, like these excellent movies in South Korea can not be released in China, it is a great pity...
In fact, the power of the film is to convey some energy and power through such interpretation! Tell the public that there are still many unfortunate children in this society, and they may be suffering from miserable lives. Child abuse is a serious social problem, I hope that when each of us should lend a helping hand when encountering this situation, we will not be the person who ignores the choice, and hope that more parents will be a competent parent, and hope that such tragedies will be less and less!