Long Xi, the convict who imprisoned underage girls, was dismissed on September 28, 2021 after more than a year of second trial, upholding the original sentence and carrying out the death order.
After seeing this ruling, netizens lamented that Skynet had been restored and neglected; on the other hand, they condemned Long Xi's particularly cruel means to hitchhiking victims.
As a film and television drama lover, seeing this, I can't help but think back to the movie "Very Summer" with the same plot.
Released in 1999, "Very Summer" is also a film based on a real case, and if it were not for the fact that the age difference was too far, I would think that this film has something to do with the current ruling case.
The film was named the Shanghai Film Critics' Top Ten Films of the Year that year, and was directed by the sixth generation director Lu Xuechang, Lu Xuechang, and the original name of the film, "Broad Daylight", was particularly straightforward and sensitive.
In order to be screened nationwide, it was forced to change it to "Very Summer", if you don't look at the content, it is likely to classify it as a love literary film, but in fact it is a crime movie worth pondering.
In terms of character portrayal, Lei Haiyang, a car repairman played by Pan Yueming, has the ambivalence of ordinary citizens, he is different from the murdered girl who later hitchhiked together, he took a ride to a foreign country, in order to do business and let himself return in glory, but in fact, fate is quite unfriendly to him.
With this girl, I got into a large truck, and originally both of them were in the rear of the truck, but because it was too bumpy, the girl was motion sick and had to go to the cab to rest.
Unfortunately, when the truck started again, Lei Haiyang, who was alone, was asleep in the body, and in the cab, the girl who was naked pressed against the glass was being sexually assaulted, and all the crimes began.
If the girl who was violated in the cab is just a simple crime case, then the fact that Lei Haiyang, who wakes up in the car body, finds that the driver committed a crime is not only a simple rape crime at this time, but also a human topic of whether a bystander should save the girl.
The plot given in the movie is that the girl is not only violated in the cab, but after the truck stops, the two drivers also take her into the grass to commit another crime.
Lei Haiyang, who woke up in the car body, found that the situation was not right, ran to the grass to try to spy the truth, and found that the girl who hitched a ride together was being sexually assaulted by the driver.
At first, seeing this, as a young man with good feelings, he was very angry, turned around and wanted to go back to the truck, looking for weapons to stop them from committing crimes. But on the way back, considering that he was facing two strong men, he was not sure if he could save the girl, or even catch up with himself, so he flinched.
In order to portray the complexity of human nature, this movie has carried out emotional increase at this time, hiding from the two drivers of Lei Haiyang in the grass, being found by the murdered girl who passed by, the two people looked at each other in the grass, and the girl who had suffered the violation was surprised and desperate in the face of Lei Haiyang's cowardice, but she finally did not make a sound, was taken away by the driver, and let Lei Hai have a way to live.
This paragraph is the strongest export of human nature in the whole movie, and it is this paragraph that makes lei haiyang's conscience that has escaped a disaster always uneasy.
Especially after seeing the girl's body on TV, this uneasiness has reached its peak, and there are constant reversals in the follow-up plot, but the key point of the whole movie is here.
When you are in a vulnerable environment and encounter others committing crimes, whether you are desperate to save or save yourself is the topic of the movie.
And the answer to this topic is not absolutely conclusive, what to do when you are faced with such a situation? That's the core of what the film is about.