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Finally, there is a judicial film that makes Mr. Tomato feel that he is not pretending, and really says the law into the hearts of the people.
"What is the law? It is the law of heaven! It is the law of the land! It is the law of the people! I do not believe in the law of the land without the law of heaven, nor do I believe in the law of heaven without human feelings!"
"The law, it costs more to make the bad guys commit crimes, than it costs more to get the good guys to do it. ”
"Where does the authority of the law come from? From the most simple emotional expectations of the common people!"
The above lines are all from the movie "Article 20", every sentence is deafening, and every sentence is the voice of the people.
After reading "Article 20", I want to say: Zhang Yimou is a bull!
But I want to say more: Lei Jiayin is a cow!
Because what sublimates the whole movie is a statement by Lei Jiayin at the end of the film, which is more than 2,000 words long, and it takes nearly 10 minutes just to read the lines.
In these 10 minutes, Lei Jiayin contributed his best performance since his career, and his emotions ranged from flat and straightforward to passionate and then to emotional, progressing little by little, telling the people's expectations and demands for the law in the way of questioning sentence by sentence.
At that moment, you don't feel that he is performing, but as a representative, he is stating, representing me, you, and every ordinary person who needs the protection of the law!
Tomato Jun believes that Lei Jiayin's statement can be called the best in recent years, and its moving index has equaled the line of the old lady interceding for the god of medicine in "I Am Not the God of Medicine", which is moving.
There is no need for too much interpretation, and there is no need for superfluous rendering, Mr. Tomato just wants to present this statement to you in its original flavor today, because this statement is really the heartfelt words of the people, so it has enough power.
But before paraphrasing this statement, Tomato Jun wants to take you to understand the three cases told in Article 20 - after reading these three cases and then looking at Lei Jiayin's final statement, you can know why Lei Jiayin's performance can be canonized, because it stepped on the real pain points of the Chinese.
1. Defending against homicide
Wang Yongqiang (played by Pan Binlong) and Li Maojuan (played by Zhao Liying) are both deaf and mute, and the daughter they gave birth to has not been able to speak since she was a child.
In order to treat the child, Wang Yongqiang borrowed money everywhere and was in debt. He didn't know that when he was called back the money, it was the beginning of the family's nightmare.
Wang Yongqiang's family has already been surrounded by walls, where can he afford to pay back the money? The creditor Liu Wenjing (played by Aruna) proposed another way to repay the money -- he violated Li Maojuan many times, saying that he would use it to pay off the debt.
And when he committed illegal acts against Li Maojuan, Wang Yongqiang was chained to the stump outside the house by him, and was overwhelmed by despair and shame again and again.
Finally once, Li Maojuan, who was covered with injuries, told Wang Yongqiang that she couldn't stand it anymore and that she couldn't live anymore.
Looking at his wife's scars, Wang Yongqiang was sad, blamed himself, and finally all his emotions turned into anger, turned around and caught up with Liu Wenjing, who had just gone out, and the two fought together.
Liu Wenjing was punched a few times and said that he would let Wang Yongqiang wait, and he would go to the car to kill him with a knife. Liu Wenjing's words were not simply to scare people, because he did always have a machete in his car.
At this time, Wang Yongqiang, under the domination of anger and fear, decided to strike first, took a knife from home and stabbed Liu Wenjing indiscriminately, causing serious injuries to the other party. Wang Yongqiang was convicted of intentional injury and sentenced to death.
But think about it from another perspective, if we were Wang Yongqiang, how would we deal with ourselves? I'm afraid that many people will be as impulsive as Wang Yongqiang, if they don't fight back, then does this person still have blood and humanity?
2. The case of a bus driver injuring someone
Zhang Guisheng (played by Yang Haoyu) is a bus driver, and during a travel mission, a female passenger on the bus was harassed by a male passenger's groping.
Another male passenger stood up to ask for an explanation on behalf of the female passenger, but ended up clashing with the groping man.
Zhang Guisheng saw someone fighting in the car, and immediately went to pull the fight, and helped the female passenger to condemn the behavior of the groping man.
Unexpectedly, the other party suddenly turned his hand at Zhang Guisheng and knocked him to the ground, and in the process of scuffling between the two, Zhang Guisheng picked up the fire extinguisher on the car and smashed it towards the other party's head, causing serious injuries to the other party.
It was an act of righteousness and courage, but in the end, Zhang Guisheng was sentenced to three years in prison and was dismissed by the bus company and became a difficult employment household.
Is it wrong to act courageously in the face of righteousness? Can't a good person be a good person? Is it only a good person who will be beaten? Does the law only protect the bad guys, but not the good guys?
These questions entangled Zhang Guisheng and his daughter Yaya, and the normal life of the father and daughter was completely ruined by this verdict, and since then they have embarked on the road of seeking an explanation.
3. Cases of school bullying
The above two cases are handled by prosecutor Han Ming (played by Lei Jiayin), and at the same time, his own backyard is also on fire.
's son Han Yuchen (played by Liu Yaowen) was found by his parents because he broke the nose bone of another classmate, Zhang Ke (played by Shi Pengyuan).
But in fact, there is something else behind the matter.
Han Yuchen witnessed the scene of Zhang Ke and others bullying other classmates in the school toilet, juvenile justice, he relieved his classmates, but he had a conflict with Zhang Ke and others, and Han Yuchen accidentally injured each other in the hands of the two sides.
However, after the school investigation, Zhang Ke flatly denied the bullying, and the bullied was forced by Zhang Ke and others to dare not admit the fact that he was being bullied.
As a result, Han Yuchen became the only perpetrator in the whole incident, facing the risk of being detained by the police and being expelled from school.
Some adults may have been indifferent by society and learned to hang up on their own business, but children are innocent, they believe that justice will prevail, and they are willing to act bravely.
If all the righteous and courageous people are like Han Yuchen who has suffered injustice, who would dare to educate their children to become an upright person?
Fourth, the heart-shaking lines of Chinese film history finally came out of Lei Jiayin's mouth
In the three cases, from a legal point of view, it seems that the three parties did have acts of excessive defense, which met the conditions for criminal prosecution. But when it comes to self-preservation, who doesn't go all out? Who can accurately control the force and stop at the right time? What should you do if the other party is ruthless? So these three things have become reasonable but illegal things, and law and morality are on opposite sides. People can't help but ask: Where is the principle of heaven and where is the principle of law?
After arousing the audience's resonance through these three things, the film finally made Lei Jiayin say the following shocking statement that justified the law:
"I've been thinking about a question, that is, Wang Yongqiang swung the knife 26 times, what is behind this? Wang Yongqiang's family has been running for several years to see a doctor for their child, raising the cost of surgery, and in desperation, they ask Liu Wenjing for a loan, and their family wants the child to be able to recover his health and live a normal life.
But Wang Yongqiang was wrong, what awaited their family was endless torture and abuse. Whether Liu Wenjing went to the car to pick up a knife is not important from a legal point of view, but what about it in Wang Yongqiang's eyes? In the eyes of a desperate person who is on the verge of family ruin? Then what do you ask a father, a husband, and an ordinary person to do at this moment?
In Wang Yongqiang's eyes, Liu Wenjing is an unpredictable beast, is he wrong for preventing this beast from framing his family?"
Then, Lei Jiayin, as the lead prosecutor in this case, believes that Wang Yongqiang's actions are in line with Article 20, Paragraph 1 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China - legitimate defense.
He concluded not guilty and was not charged.
Then, he went back to the fact that three years ago, he followed judicial practice to judge a case between righteous courage and intentional injury as the latter:
"I kept convincing my client to accept the verdict of the law, and I persuaded him to accept it all. Don't make trouble, endure it, but it was this sentence that followed the usual judicial practice that killed him.
His daughter was a minor, and he was crying while holding his father's helmet that had been flattened by a truck.
The child cried and asked me, "What is wrong with my father, is his sentence fair?"
What would you say to a child who has no mother and has just lost his father, looking at a pair of red eyes with red crying? What can you say? I think that one more word is pale.
I can't take the law and analyze it for her word by word!
I can't convince her, and I can't convince myself.
Wang Yongqiang's daughter, Juanjuan, who is also disabled, wrote me a piece of paper and said: My father is a good person.
But tell me: How am I going to explain all this to a 5-year-old girl with a disability? I said that this is our judicial practice, and there is a lot of resistance to me changing the characterization of the case! Although I sympathize with your father, I don't think he is wrong, but I still want to convict him of murder.
5-year-old Juanjuan and my client's daughter just now, they are all minors, they will grow up and will enter the society, so have we ever thought about what kind of world we have put into their hands?
After Wang Yongqiang's wife, Hao Xiuping, jumped off a building, someone said to me, why would a mother leave her husband in prison and her 5-year-old disabled daughter to jump off the building?
Because she's desperate, she's desperate for the law, she's desperate for fairness, she's desperate for us!
If we can't give her hope, then what qualifications do we have to wear it?
Have you ever thought about it: what we are doing is not a case, but a person's life!
Where does the authority of the law come from? Isn't it the most simple emotional expectation of the common people!"
Lei Jiayin, who was making a statement, talked about what happened to him again:
"Recently, something happened at home, and my son injured him in order to stop a school bullying. In order not to leave a stain and let him go to college, I repeatedly begged the other party to raise his noble hand and withdraw the case, so that my daughter-in-law was so angry that she injured the other party, violated the law, and is now detained.
On the way to the detention center, my son asked me, "Dad, am I wrong to stop bullying?"
I don't know how to answer, I don't know what he's wrong.
Is the law wrong? I don't know.
When this happened to me, I thought: how important fairness and justice are to the people, and how difficult it is to do it.
It is said that a crime pollutes a river, and a wrong verdict pollutes the entire water source.
What is fairness? What is justice? I believe that all of you here are very sympathetic to the plight of Wang Yongqiang's family, so should we bury this sympathy in our hearts?
In fact, what is the law? In the common people, it is very simple, that is, the public is unfair.
We all know that it is expensive to fight a lawsuit, and it is difficult to fight a lawsuit, so why do the people still have to fight? Isn't it just fairness and justice?
I know that it is very difficult to change some things, and there is a price to be paid for the pursuit of fairness and justice, but who will bear this price? Do the common people have to bear the price of fairness and justice with their own fate, with the fate of the whole family, or even the fate of several generations?
This "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China", a total of 452 articles, 56,681 words, from beginning to end is not written in four words: fairness and justice!
Isn't that what every ordinary person wants!
If we can't listen to them and get justice for them, what's the use of us prosecutors?
What is law? It is the principle of heaven, the law of the land, and the favor of the people.
I don't believe in the law of the land without heavenly principles, and I don't believe in heavenly principles without human feelings.
I hope that everyone will touch their hearts and speak, make decisions worthy of their conscience, and respond to the demands of every ordinary person, their emotions, and their most simple expectations with true fairness and justice.
Let everyone in the world understand this matter: The law is to make the cost of the bad guys commit crimes higher, not to let the good guys take action at a greater cost! And the law cannot give in to the lawless!"
Fifth, to popularize the law, it is necessary to let the people recognize the law first
After watching "Article 20", Mr. Tomato had the urge to consult this law for the first time, which he had never watched before in judicial film and television dramas.
The reason is very simple, I think this law is useful to me, it is to help me, and I am afraid that I will use it one day.
In recent years, the work of popularizing the law has been going on, and there are many film and television dramas with the theme of popular law every year, but in addition to letting the people treat those cases as after-dinner topics, they feel that these are other people's affairs, and they can be hung up high if they have nothing to do with themselves.
The reason is that before popularizing the law, the people did not first recognize this law, and did not let the people know: the law is out of the most simple emotional expectations of the people!
We need more propaganda like Lei Jiayin's statement, so that the people know from the bottom of their hearts that the law is for the people's livelihood and the law protects the people.
(Movie Rotten Tomatoes Editorial Department: Yang Jing)