A world that silences you cannot find the source of evil, nor can you see the end of evil.
Today I want to recommend an unpopular masterpiece to you - "Silent".
This is a Taiwanese film, also known as the Taiwanese version of "The Melting Pot".
Zhang Cheng, a hearing-impaired teenager, transferred to the School for the Deaf.
In this school, Zhang Cheng finally felt the equality of this world.
Here, everyone is the same person, teachers and classmates mingle, and the school environment is beautiful, which seems to be a desirable world.
On the school bus, he spotted his classmates "playing games" in the last row.
However, this is a "game that can't be said".
Zhang Chenggang's joy at transferring to another school instantly turned into fear.
In this game, several boys hold down Beibei, the girl Zhang Cheng likes, and a boy who takes off his pants is sexually assaulting her.
Zhang Cheng wanted to step forward to stop him, but the senior Xiaoguang looked at him coldly and made a gesture of "shhh".
The teacher in the car, wearing headphones, watched this scene coldly.
What is puzzling is that the next day, Zhang Cheng saw Bei Bei playing football with the group of boys who violated her, and had a good time, as if the scene on the school bus had never happened at all.
Zhang Cheng didn't understand, but Bei Bei said, "They're just playing!"
In order to allow Zhang Cheng to better integrate into the new school, Bei Bei actually persuaded Zhang Cheng to join those people, and it would be okay to bully her with them.
Zhang Cheng didn't want Bei Bei to be bullied like this again, so he told his trusted teacher Wang Dajun.
Wang Dajun is a very responsible teacher, and he was the one who went to pick up Zhang Cheng into the school.
Zhang Cheng was in a car and was stolen by an old man and injured the old man by mistake during the negotiation. The police thought Zhang Cheng was a bad guy and let go of the old man who stole the wallet.
Wang Dajun chose to trust Zhang Cheng, saying: "Teachers are more willing to trust students with disabilities than police officers. ”
Wang Dajun was shocked when he found out and asked Bei Bei why he didn't tell the teacher.
In fact, as early as when she was violated on the school bus, Bei Bei asked for help from a female teacher.
When Bei Bei told her that they hurt a lot, the female teacher said, "How can the teacher help you, they didn't bully you." ”
So, the upright and brave Wang Dajun launched an investigation into this matter.
Horrifyingly, he found that the victims were both male and female, distributed among all age groups.
Many of the victims were also perpetrators, and 127 cases of sexual assault were found at the school.
One of the children, Bao Di, had hatred in his eyes, and he had been sexually abused by his seniors since he was in the second grade of elementary school.
Everyone said that they were instigated by the senior Xiaoguang to do this.
Facing the teacher, Xiaoguang said very calmly that he did not participate, it was someone else who did it, and instigating others to do these things was just "fun!"
Zhang Cheng was also retaliated against by Xiaoguang, and was threatened by Xiaoguang to sexually assault Baodi. The dragon slayer boy eventually turned into an evil dragon.
However, the school has the attitude of turning big things into small things, and wants to calm things down.
As the incident investigated more deeply, Wang Dajun discovered that Xiaoguang was actually a victim.
When Xiaoguang was a primary school student, he was violated by a male teacher at school.
Surveillance video shows that Xiaoguang in 2006 came out of the room with a look of anger and pain.
In 2010, Xiaoguang came out of the room again, and turned his face up to the monitor and sneered pervertedly.
The principal has always known about this, but the teacher who sexually assaulted Xiaoguang has a strong background, and the principal can only let him retire early.
This incident completely affected Xiaoguang's three views, and he completely lost trust in adults.
He hated his teachers and felt inferior because he was violated, so he began to pass on the harm he had suffered to his classmates.
Why are the bullied children reluctant to leave the school?
Because they are more afraid of the outside world than they are bullied at school. In the outside world, they have no friends, just useless people.
In the end, Wang Dajun anonymously reported his school, but for the ending of the school for the deaf, the film only stayed in a newspaper report.
At the end of the film, in the laughing school bus, Bao Di is holding a school uniform and staring at a sleeping junior student next to him.
This ending, I think what the director wants to express is that the crime will not stop, and the truth of the sexual assault case in the school for the deaf is revealed, so what about other child sexual assault cases?
This movie is adapted from the "Tainan Deaf School Incident" exposed by the media in September 2011.
Between 2004 and 2012, there were 164 incidents of sexual assault and harassment at the school. The school's toilets, dormitories, classrooms, school buses, etc. have all been turned into places for sexual assault, and the students involved in the case account for a quarter of the school.
For the sake of the school's reputation, the school did not report it, and did not deal with the students involved in the case in a timely and serious manner, which led to the intensification of campus sexual assault incidents.
Even after being exposed by the media, such incidents continue to emerge in the course of police investigations.
A total of 16 school administrators and four officials of the education department were impeached by the "Supervisory Yuan", but they were all punished painlessly, demoted, and demerited, and those who should have retired were successfully retired, and their pensions were a lot of money.
What's even more desperate is that until 2018, the chaos in this school was still not well controlled.
The name of the movie, "Silent", I don't think it's just about deaf people.
Whether it is Xiaoguang, Bei Bei or other classmates, they have all called for help to the adults, but they have received indifferent responses, and these "indifference" are also classified as "silent".
Many victims of sexual assault dare not and are unwilling to speak out because they are afraid of telling the truth and attract strange eyes from them, which is also a kind of "silence".
It's just that there is no end to sin.