I have to say that many netizens now not only have a bad temper, but also have a bad memory. Whenever a controversial news is broken, no matter whether it is three or seven twenty-one, "condemnation" is the attitude that must be there at the first time, and as for the follow-up, it is not guaranteed.
Just like the "gene editing twins" incident that was boiling on the Internet at the beginning of the month, the whole network was hotly discussed at the time, but now there is no following.
To be honest, when the little sister heard this news, she didn't understand any genetic, enhancement, and other technical terms, but she understood one thing: the twins were taken as research objects.
For the next 18 years, they are likely to be monitored. What kind of situation this is, little sister can't imagine.
But the movie introduced by Xiaomei today shows how terrifying it is once a person's life is taken as an object of study.
"Robins Don't Sing"
Mockingbird Don’t Sing
At the beginning of the film, in a small room, a baby is tied to a stool.
It was dirty and dark, from the age of 1, and now she is almost fourteen years old, but she still hasn't left this room, she is Katie.
It was no one else who imprisoned her, it was her father.
He fixed Katie to a stool and took care of everything for her by himself. She was fed only liquid food, and Katie would be beaten and scolded if she didn't go along with him the slightest.
The long life of abuse made Betty look thin and weak, like a rag doll.
For her husband's behavior, Louise, who suffers from cataracts, has always chosen to obey him with patience.
However, in order to save her daughter's life, Louise decided to take Katie away with the help of her son and seek help from the police.
After the matter was revealed, Katie's father chose to commit suicide. For a time, Katie, a wild child in the city who had been imprisoned for more than ten years and had never been in contact with human civilization, became the focus of society.
She had thought that Katie would live a normal life by escaping from that room, but the numbness of the human raced her into another kind of misfortune.
Katie missed out on the best period of language learning because she had been imprisoned since she was a child, cut off from all contact with the outside world, and at the age of nearly fourteen, she could speak very few words, let alone complete sentences.
At this time, she happens to be the best object to test the hypothesis of the critical period of human learning.
Many researchers have tried to make their own academic breakthroughs by finding abnormalities in her.
Among them, judy, a female doctor, is the most typical.
Although she was extremely serious about Katie's teaching and her results were remarkable, in her heart of hearts she only regarded Katie as a tool to make her famous.
In order to achieve her goals, Judy does not hesitate to falsely accuse Dr. Stan, who was originally in charge of Katie, of sexually harassing Katie, forcing him to quit the project.
Judy succeeds in taking over Katie and leaving her to live under her control. Poor Katie was once again "imprisoned".
Luckily, Katie met Sandra.
Sandra had originally come here to document Katie's process of learning the language.
But the first time they met, when Katie gently touched Sandra like a small animal and expressed her affection for her, Sandra developed compassion for Katie from the bottom of her heart.
Rather than studying Katie's situation, Sandra wanted Katie to live a normal life.
After learning of Judy's attempts, Sandra asks researcher Norman for help, and Eventually Norman decides to adopt Betty. The days at norman's house were arguably the happiest time in Katie's life.
The original Katie was living more like an animal than a human.
She would spit on the ground, throw things around, behave indecently in public, and even express anger by hurting herself when she panicked.
But Norman and Sandra treated her as much as a normal child, taught her the right way to vent, the etiquette she should follow, and sent her to kindergarten.
Although Katie's progress is very slow, Sandra has been patiently teaching her to talk, play games with her, and let her feel the normal life as much as possible, which makes Katie's situation gradually improve.
It's just that all this effort didn't buy Katie's mother, Louise' gratitude. Perhaps infected by her husband, she ignores Katie's progress and thinks sandra is forcing Katie to do something she doesn't want to do.
When the Institute decided to withdraw Katie's case, Louise insisted on taking back Katie's custody.
But it wasn't long before she decided to send Katie to a foster home because she couldn't stand Katie's problems.
The foster family's harsh attitude towards Katie made Katie's problems appear again, even more serious than before. Not only did she refuse to eat, but she also began to hurt herself again.
The kind Sandra has never given up on Katie, and in order to be able to take better care of her, she even plans to adopt Katie after marriage.
Just then, she learns that Katie has once again been taken away by Louise. Not long after, Judy showed up at Louise's house.
It turns out that Judy has never given up on her lusts, and she has been seducing Katie's mother so that she can take over Katie's case again.
Sandra, on the other hand, was forbidden to see Katie again, and she couldn't even say goodbye to Katie.
In the end, Katie still failed to learn a language, and her situation became a strong proof of the "critical period of human learning".
When her mother went blind, Katie was once again fostered, and despite Sandra's proximity to her, she was never seen again.
Based on true events, the film is one of the most horrific child abuses in American history.
There are not many horror pictures in the whole film, and even without deliberate rendering, you can still feel the lingering sense of oppression.
In Katie's life, first her father selfishly regards her as his own private property, decides her life with a twisted love, and causes her irreparable harm;
When she left that room, she was taken on research by those who were eager to make a quick profit, and regardless of her life, she was torn between the research institute, the foster family, and her mother, just to confirm a statement.
Until the end, Katie's story still can't wait to be reversed. Maybe once she had a chance to be born again, but people's selfishness and desires eventually made her "imprisoned" again.
Little sister can't help but think of the pair of gene editing babies who are used as research objects, maybe what their future will be Little Sister can't predict, but sincerely feels -
No matter how great the results, they cannot be used as a reason to sacrifice the normal lives of others, for this is the most basic right to be born human.