Medicine is not an urgent matter, and all the foolish citizens, no matter how sound and strong they are, can only do meaningless demonstration materials and spectators, and how many people die of illness do not have to be considered unfortunate. Therefore, my first important work is to change their spirit... Lu Xun's "Scream" self-prologue
Mr. Lu Xun's words vividly express the ignorance, indifference and insensitivity of the "spectators" to the fullest.
A short-film of less than 12 minutes, "Car Forty-Four", deeply reveals the indifference of Mr. Lu Xun's "spectators" and the brilliance and darkness of human nature.
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Chu Tingting is a female driver of the No. 44 long-distance bus, and on this day she drove as usual, driving on a remote country road.
A thin young man squatted on the ground bored and waited for the car, waiting for two hours, he finally waited for Chu Tingting's No. 44 bus.
After getting into the car, he talked to the female driver for a few words and then got into his seat. The car was very quiet, most of the people were napping and sleeping, but no one knew that a disaster was about to happen.
Not long after, the car "snorted" and stopped, and everyone woke up from the dream.
It turned out that there were two men in front of the car, a man in a dark shirt was waving in the middle of the road, and a man in white clothes was crouching on the ground on the side of the road, and covering his stomach, looking like he was sick.
The female driver, worried about whether the man in white was ill, immediately stopped the car and asked them what had happened.
Who knows, as soon as the two men got into the car, they showed their daggers and threatened all the passengers in the car to pull out valuable things, and it turned out that these two people were robbers.
Hindered by the knife in the hands of the robbers, everyone took out their belongings. One by one, the two robbers searched the money and valuable items of the passengers on the bus, and the female driver's ticket money was all robbed. One of the passengers, unwilling to pay the money, was beaten by the gangsters and finally obediently paid for it.
The key turning point came, the female driver saw the passengers being beaten, worried about the personal safety of the passengers, so she advised the passengers not to cause trouble. At this time, the white-clad gangster suddenly found that the female driver had a bit of a posture and had already moved evil thoughts.
This female driver, her nature is good, when the passengers are unwilling to hand over money, she is afraid that the passengers will be personally injured, so kindly turn back to remind a word, did not expect that her move brought herself bad luck.
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When the two gangsters were about to flee the scene after grabbing the money, one of the white-clad gangsters stared at the beautiful female driver for a long time and then directly dragged her off the car.
The car was packed with passengers, even prime-aged men, but not a single passenger stopped them.
The female driver struggled and cried out for help, but her strength as a weak woman was no match for the gangsters.
The white-clad gangsters beat her up and dragged her to a deserted meadow not far from the side of the road.
The people in the car all looked out the window and looked at what was happening outside, as if it had nothing to do with them. A middle-aged man in a hat hesitated, he was just about to get up, but he was held down by the woman next to him.
At this time, the thin man who had just gotten into the car began to ask everyone: "Is everyone looking at it like this?" "No one in the car paid any attention to him. Perhaps in the face of two gangsters with knives, although he was the only one, the man decided to get out of the car to save the female driver.
After getting out of the car, the thin man and the black-clad gangster wrestled together, but in the end, he was stabbed in the thigh by the gangster's dagger with his bare hands. Another white-clad gangster slapped the female driver while undressing.
The thin man could only listen to the cries and screams of the female driver not far away, and watched her being insulted by the robbers in white, but there was nothing he could do.
Seeing this in the film, I am reminded of the most representative and subtle sentence of Mr. Lu Xun's description of the image of "spectator": "So the people behind him must try their best to extend their necks, and there is a thin man who even opens his mouth very wide, like a dead fish." ”
The people in the wilderness and the quiet passengers in the car form a sharp contrast. Until the two robbers escaped, the other passengers in the car remained indifferent, and one by one they looked out the window indifferently, just like Mr. Lu Xun's "dead fish", and no one went down to help.
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >03, the indifference of passengers, resulting in a tragic ending</h1>
After a long time, the female driver got up and sorted out her clothes, completely ignoring the thin man lying on the ground and injured, she was alone in a disheveled, disheveled, and stumbling to the car.
The bruises on her face, the tear marks in the corners of her eyes, and the blood stains on the corners of her mouth were all silently indicting the indifference of a carload of people. The crowd avoided her gaze and looked away, as if they had never known all the misfortunes that had just happened to the female driver.
She slowly sat in the driver's seat, a person crying silently, and the silently nodding puppy ornament on the front of the car seemed to give her a firm "belief".
The injured, thin man limped to the front of the car to get into the car, but the female driver closed the door. The man was very angry and asked, "Why?" I was the only one who got out of the car to save you. ”
The female driver ignored him, threw his luggage out of the car, and drove away.
The thin man who was thrown out of the car limped alone on the deserted highway until he later stopped a private car on the road.
However, on the way, he found a police car parked on the side of the road, and the policeman said: "A bus fell into the ditch, the driver and passengers all died, and none of them survived." And this bus is the 44 bus that just abandoned him.
It turned out that the female driver pulled a car of people and accelerated forward. And this time, their terminal station is not their original home, but a cliff.
At the end of the film, the film gives the young man a close-up, which is a meaningful laugh.
Does this laugh represent the victory of one's own righteous deeds and the happiness of one's own survival? Or is it a cold and numb mockery of a carload of people?
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Based on true events, this short film is directed by Wu Shixian and starring Gong Beiyuan and Wu Chao, and the film has won many awards. Although the film is only less than 12 minutes, it makes people feel very depressed and shocking after watching it, and the indifferent heart of the crowd has become the last straw that overwhelms the psychological defense line of the female driver.
There is a scene in the film where when the robbers are robbing, there is a prominent sign on the car: "The old, the weak, the sick and the pregnant." But the irony is that the car is full of young and middle-aged men, and there is basically no old, weak, sick and disabled. I am afraid that the old is bloody, the weak is the thought, the disease is the social atmosphere, and the crippled is the human heart!
These passengers in the film are Mr. Lu Xun's viewers who "mourn their misfortunes and are angry with them", they bully the weak and fear the hard, they have lost the most basic sympathy for the weak, they do not care about themselves, hang high, like the walking dead. Their indifference and selfishness eventually killed themselves. When they watched indifferently, they perhaps did not expect that they would be the next to be watched.
And the thin man who was regarded as a "fool" by the other passengers in the same car and dared to fight against evil, he saved himself while saving others.
In real life, when we find that others encounter injustice, do we choose to be silent and turn a blind eye? Or do you choose to stand up and defend justice together?
This may be the realistic thinking that the film brings us.
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