A hundred years ago, Mr. Lu Xun mentioned the word "spectator" in the preface to his short story collection "Scream".
Spectators refer to people who are cold by nature and like to numb onlookers.
Whenever something big happens, they look on coldly, and there is little help to calm the situation.
The classic "Car Forty-Four" to be told today is such a story of critical viewers.
In the cold winter moon, the grass and trees are withering, here is a rural road in the north, and a bus passes through the desolate road.
Driving is a young and beautiful female driver, in a solemn and dreary winter landscape, a red dress she is like a warm burning fire, which makes people feel good at first sight.
The car slowly advanced on the road, who knew that halfway through, it encountered a young man with a sad face who stopped the car.
Because the area here is desolate and the neighborhood is a place where thieves are frequent, he waited on this road with his luggage for half a day, and no driver dared to pick him up halfway.
However, the female driver was a warm-hearted and good person, and she saw the man waving anxiously and stopped the car.
The man hurriedly carried his luggage to the car and thanked the female driver.
The female driver said boldly, what is this, who does not have a difficulty when going out, can help it.
After saying this, the female driver grunted and drank a large sip of water, and then immediately set off again.
When the passengers on the car got on the train, they were only momentarily frightened, and soon they were not interested again and fell asleep.
The man who got in the car halfway was a little embarrassed and embarrassed, and he looked around, but accidentally noticed the badge of the female driver hanging on the car.
I couldn't help but joke that this photo is not like you yourself.
Although the female driver laughed and said that she had lost weight. But the man could see at a glance that she was on duty for his colleague.
So I couldn't help but sigh in my heart, there are not many people like her in this year.
Thinking like this, the man quickly found a seat and sat down and began to take a nap.
I don't know how long later, the car stopped with a "bang".
The sudden inertia woke up the people napping in the car from their dreams, and fixed their eyes on the fact that there were two men in front of the car, one of whom was still crouching on the ground.
The female driver immediately stopped the car and anxiously asked them what had happened.
Seeing that the other party did not answer, she was worried about whether the man crouching on the ground was ill, so she hurriedly opened the car door to let the two come up.
Who knew that these two men were actually robbers who had lost their conscience, often camouflaged pedestrians on this road, in fact, blocking the road and robbing.
As soon as they got into the car, they showed a fierce look, and they forced all the people in the car to hand over their belongings with knives in their hands.
Suddenly encountered such a terrible thing, everyone panicked, the female driver was also frightened, and all the people took out their money in a hurry.
One of the robbers took a cloth bag and walked from the front of the car to the back of the car to collect money, who knew that one of the uncles stubbornly refused to give, and the other party rushed up with a punch and kick, which made him bleed from the nose.
The female driver was so anxious that she whispered to the man to hand over the money quickly, her brave voice was a good heart, but it made the two robbers notice her beautiful face.
After they had finished looting the money, they also grabbed the female driver's hair and dragged her from the car.
On the desolate flat ground, the female driver asked for help from the people around her in horror, and she was paralyzed with fright and screamed bitterly.
However, the robber was not a soft-hearted bodhisattva, and dragged the female driver straight to the distant field.
The latter kept struggling, but unfortunately the strength of the woman was comparable to that of the man.
She was dragged all the way to the grassy slope in the distance, where the robbers wanted to defile her.
Although the incident was sudden, but now, everyone has reacted.
But they all chose to ignore it indifferently, and everyone looked at their noses, noses, and hearts, and shrunk themselves into quails, but no one was willing to get out of the car to help.
The man who had gotten into the car earlier was so stunned that he asked the crowd loudly why they were watching like this.
There was an uncle in the front seat who tried to stand up, but who knew that he was pressed by his wife.
The man was at war with heaven and man, and it took a long time before he decided to get out of the car to help.
He rushed forward quickly, desperately clutching the leg of one of the robbers, trying to stop him from committing evil.
Who knew that the man had a knife on his body, and between the two of them fighting, the man was stabbed in the thigh, and the blood flowed.
Maybe he was already powerless to come forward, or maybe he didn't dare, so he watched the robbers insult the female driver.
The evil deeds continued in the barren mountains and wild mountains, and above the grassy slopes, the screams of the women continued to echo.
However, the people in the car just looked through the window and looked at it like a frog illuminated by the light, losing their reaction.
After a long time, the two robbers slowly left, and the female driver staggered back to the car, with blood on her mouth, and she scanned around in despair, but found that everyone in the car quickly avoided their eyes.
The female driver's heart was full of hatred and regret, and the belief in goodness collapsed, as if the cold of three winters soaked through the bone marrow, and it took a long time to recover from the numb pain.
Looking at a puppy ornament in front of the car window that kept shaking its head, she suddenly threw herself on the steering wheel and cried loudly.
The man who had gotten out of the car to help before slowly dragged his injured leg over for half a day and apologized to her.
Who knew that the female driver suddenly raised her head, ordered him to get out of the car, and threw his luggage out of the window.
The man couldn't figure it out, although he couldn't do his best to prevent it from happening, but he was the only one who got out of the car to save her, why did he get himself out of the car.
Seeing the bus fly away, he could only pack his bags and continue walking on the road in frustration.
Fortunately, on the road, he also met a car willing to take him, and the car slowly traveled on the road, and soon a police car appeared.
The police also raised a cordon on the edge of a mountain stream somewhere, as if an accident had occurred.
The man inquired curiously, and the police told him that a passenger car had crashed, and all the passengers and female drivers in the car were spared.
The man couldn't help but be stunned when he listened, and only then did he return the taste, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but pull up a smile...
Although he knew that he should not be so schadenfreude, the joy of surviving by chance still occupied the atrium of his heart in an instant.
"Car Forty-Four" is a classic humane short film directed by director Wu Shixian, which is based on real events, and the film has won the Best Short Film Award and several awards at the Venice Film Festival.
In an 11-minute short space, it tells a chilling story. Suddenly, the viewer seems to have revisited Lu Xun's classic novel criticizing the stupidity of the people.
The female driver in the story is a warm-hearted good person, but when she encounters danger, all the people choose to turn a blind eye. It seems like an absurd scene, which is occasionally seen in the TV news in daily life.
The film's treatment of the details is also quite in place, such as in order to lay the groundwork for the warm and kind character of the female driver, the director first let her wear a big red dress alone, comparing with the surrounding environment, and then the camera gave the badge on the car, suggesting that she was working for her colleagues.
These details not only show her warmth and kindness, but also pave the way for her to let the ill robbers get into the car without any defense. Because she was running this road for the first time, she didn't know that there were bad people in this area pretending to be passers-by to rob.
In filming the scene where the female driver is insulted, the director uses a long-range shot. It was a very clever design, and from the situation at the time, it was speculated that this was the perspective of all the passengers in the car.
The director did not use a close-up shot to portray the tragic humiliation of the female driver, but instead used a very calm long-range shot, focusing on highlighting the angle of "spectators".
When the camera is given to the passengers, it is a close-up shot, because the main body of the scene is not the female driver, not the robber, but the passengers who act as spectators in the car.
Speaking of the male character who applied to save people, as to why he did not succeed in saving the female driver and the smile at the end of the film, it should be that the man originally wanted to save people, but after being scratched by the knife in the thigh, he did not have much strength. But he still didn't do his best, because he was afraid of the robber's knife, so he didn't come forward again.
There are two reasons for this speculation, because the man hesitated for a long time when the female driver was in danger, and the man's expression when he wanted to get on the car again was also very intriguing. As for the last man's smile, it is caused by human nature.
Even if he knew out of morality that he should not be schadenfreude, when he knew the rest of his life, the feeling of happiness in that moment was real.
After watching the film, it also makes people feel that the world is cold and people's hearts are not ancient, but if more people take the initiative to stop crimes instead of being paralyzed like wooden chickens, all these tragedies should not have happened.
This full of passengers is as cold as a ghost, the female driver is also blinded by hatred, and finally the whole car has no life except the man, which is really regrettable.
And this car full of indifferent passengers, like the egoism of modern people? Now to do good deeds must be weighed and weighed, if you are not careful, you will get into a lawsuit, you will not be able to help the elderly, friends will be salted by the hands of pigs, and so on.
Wu Zhipan, vice president of Peking University, once said: You are a Peking University person, and when you see the old man falling, you have to help, if he blackmails you, the law department of Peking University will provide you with legal aid; if you lose the case, Peking University will compensate you.
Is this passage burning? burn. But it is also inexplicably sad, most people in the world do not have such a backer as Peking University, the cost of doing good deeds is too high, cold-eyed and independent in morality and can not say, can young people not be lost?!
There is a lot of economic pressure and mental pressure, and no one dares to help in the face of misfortune. Seeing the misfortune, thinking that there are old and young, weighing and not daring to help.
There are too many cold things in the world, and it is not easy for anyone. But the world is always developing in a good direction, the progress of society, the growth of young people, the popularization of cultural literacy, human civilization and the law are always constantly improving.
The road ahead is long, with occasional fog storms, but the future can always be expected.