This article is written by Vicky Hedgehog
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On Mother's Day 2021, a mother in the capital of a province in the southwest lost her son. On this day, it will be a sharp thorn that will be pierced into the mother's chest and torment her to the end of her life. The photo of her sitting at the school gate holding the portrait of her son also became a loud slap, making Sheng Shi Taiping feel eclipsed. This photo stimulated me, and as soon as I thought of the helplessness, the pity that was revealed in the photo, I felt a stuffiness in my chest.
I can't imagine how I would survive if this happened to me. My daughter is 15 years old, about the same age as her son, the same age as Hua. If she leaves the house one day and never comes back, I think my life will henceforth be torn to pieces and never be able to bridge. So, I fully understand this mother's grief and doubts. The follow-up police report is not exactly the same as what she originally described on Weibo, and in fact, there is no reversal. No matter what reason the child died, this living life is lost forever. This tragedy can no longer be recovered. As long as there is this ending, any calculation of the details is the end of the matter.
The scariest thing is that you know this tragedy will continue. There will be many more young beings who, in this resolute way, declare despair of life.
Can you complain that your child is psychologically fragile? The causes of suicide are very complex, and there are too many factors behind them: personal psychology, family environment, social atmosphere, ethnic culture... According to the "Report on the Development of China's National Mental Health (2019-2020)", the detection rate of depression among Chinese adolescents in 2020 was 24.6%, of which 17.2% were mild depression and 7.4% were severe depression. One in every 10 high school students has reached major depression! This data is quite shocking.
Can you complain that parents are not aware of their children's psychological problems? One study looked at adolescents who were taken to the emergency room after a suicide attempt and found that 85 percent of children didn't tell anyone they had suicidal thoughts; 90 percent of suicide attempts were unknown to their parents; and nearly 70 percent had less than 30 minutes between considering suicide and starting to act. This means that after many teens die, parents are shocked. Children who usually feel sensible, the parent-child relationship is also good, how can it suddenly be like this? This kind of remorse and self-blame is a burden that parents can no longer bear in their lives, and most of them are so innocent.
Can you blame the school? As educational institutions, they are actually cautious as walking on thin ice. Under the pressure of the middle school entrance examination and the college entrance examination, in the evaluation system of the promotion rate, can not only the students who are evaluated by the grades survive? The so-called famous schools, the so-called school district housing, are not all soaring indicators of the promotion rate? To truly engage in quality education, parents with their children may only take a detour. That is the reality.
Can you complain about the education system? The college entrance examination is by far a limited and fair way to change the fate of students to the greatest extent. The state has been proposing new education policies to change a certain deformed educational trend, but with little success.
It's a vicious circle, an oppressive closed loop, but we can't get out of its stranglehold and be firmly suppressed in the whirlpool. In the whole cycle, everyone complains, every link is overwhelmed, no department is the winner, but this all-out loss of the inner volume result, you can only stand it, but there is nothing you can do.
The day I saw the news, my daughter and I were eating hot pot outside, and she sat across from me tiredly, saying that she was eating a good food, and she felt much more comfortable. At that moment, I had only one thought, as long as my child was healthy and safe, she could get any test score, and I could accept it. But at night, when I saw the information of my daughter's class group, anxiety was like a current that spread throughout my body in an instant. In the first three months of the first sprint, whether or not we can get into the best key high school in the city is still a level that we cannot avoid.
As the recent hit TV series "Little Shed" reveals: educational anxiety is a disease, but unfortunately we can never find a cure. On the track of education competition, everyone tried their best, but the format became more and more cruel, whether you were a bullfrog or a chicken baby, it was still most of the "rice peach" and "Tian Yulan" who were tired on the track.
Always think of the Spanish movie Hunger Station. It shook me like a sandstorm. The film is a social fable about the cruelty of the system and the greed of human nature. The platform is a top-down resource allocation system, the first layer is a feast, the middle layer is the residue cold burning, and the lowest layer is empty cups and plates. Food is far from enough, and people locked up in the platform grab food in order to survive, and even kill people and eat corpses. Human nature is so greedy and cold, should it survive like this? The ending of the film is very dark: in such a system, human beings have no chance of survival at all, and can only hope that the management still has humanity and can give the next generation hope to live.
The dark ending of the movie stung my heart, but it was also like a sharp blade that cut through the essence of the platform system. The management of the platform, on the surface, seems benevolent and elegant, carefully preparing a large table for the people on the platform, but they deliberately let the food shortage cause people to fight, use hunger to fool and control people, and thus have supreme power, this platform is essentially hypocritical and anti-human. Therefore, in this kind of platform, people harshly accuse each other of greed is meaningless, gentle improvement and moral restraint are also the end of the line, for such a platform, people can only break it, destroy it, in order to produce and get enough food in the vast land, so that everyone has the right to live, the right to choose, in order to have real freedom.
I think this movie has a revelatory effect on us. Changing the narrow track of education, broadening the range of employment options, so that everyone no longer involves each other, although the task is long, but it can only be so.
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For Zhang Yimou's "On the Cliff", many fans feel that the roles of Wang Yu and Xiaolan are too thin and dispensable in the film. In particular, Liu Haocun, with a pair of simple big eyes, did not have the ability and shrewdness of a female agent at all. What are your misconceptions about our agents? After watching "The Sound of the Wind", do you think they should all be a genre? Isn't Wang Jiazhi in "Color Ring" flashing a pair of pure big eyes, haunting the tiger and wolf's den? She is clumsy and immature, but she is also particularly suitable as bait.
"The Sound of the Wind" and "Color Ring" are both works of art, derived from reality, not necessarily really reality. But "Butterfly King" is completely adapted from a real historical event. The plot goes something like this: In 1964, when Gao Renni, an accountant at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, was watching the opera "Madame Butterfly", he was deeply attracted by Song Liling, who played Madame Butterfly, and he fell in love with this mysterious and elegant Chinese woman, thus falling into a confused love. Later, Gao Renni was arrested for leaking intelligence, and standing in the courtroom, he learned that Song Liling was actually a man, and their son was just a scam to obtain the information that China needed from him. It was only then that Gournin understood that he had fallen in love with a perfect lie and became the biggest joke in France and even in the world. Later, in prison, Rennie committed suicide in pain...
In the movie, Zun Long played Song Liling, who appeared as a "seductress". He is indistinguishable from male to female, and his style is unique. (Originally, Zun Long was the first choice for "Farewell to the Overlord", but as a result, he and Zhang Guorong each played a celebrity and took a different path.) At first, Song Liling's treatment of Gao Renni is nothing more than deception and conspiracy, and like Wang Jiazhi in "The Color Ring", he is just a pawn, completing his mission in the set ending. There are many such figures in history, and when they are used, they feel that they have a sacred mission, sacrificing their personal lives for the benefit of the country or a certain group. Therefore, they cannot have their own personal feelings, they can only be cold tools. But in the end, it is found that the so-called organizations that use them have no respect for this sacrifice, do not care about their fate at all, and they are the ones who are really deceived. In the film, the disdainful eyes of Goryeo's maid and the woman called "gay" remind me of a similar scene in "Ball of Mutton Fat". The costume props that were burned by fire in Wenge all show the "worthlessness" of the art he adheres to in this country. Gaureni's obsession with his drama, and the discussions between them on topics of East and West, really gave him a sense of belonging and acquaintance. Between the heavier and the lighter, Song Liling chose to use true love to change her destiny, but found that the butterfly was only a butterfly after all, and could not fly in the sea of tragedy.
Our spies can not only dress up as men and women, but also "seduce" the same sex to obtain intelligence. There is a picture and the truth, to show you the prototype of Song Liling in "Butterfly Jun", the photo of the Chinese agent whose original name was Shi Peipu.
The historical portrait of Shi Peipu is as follows: On December 21, 1938, Shi Peipu was born into an aristocratic family in Shandong, China. In 1964, at the age of 20, Bernard became an accountant and typist at the French Embassy in China. At a holiday party that Christmas that year, he first met Pep, a man dressed as a woman singing hua dan, an elegant "woman" who could speak fluent French. For the next 20 years, he was convinced that shi was a woman and loved her deeply. The French diplomat was then transferred to the embassy in Mongolia, but as soon as he had time, he returned to reunite with Shipep. The two began living together in 1965, and at the end of the same year, when they told him they were pregnant.
When Bernard returned to Beijing in 1973, he met his 7-year-old "son", Dudu, and Bernard felt that the child was very similar to himself, so he believed it. In 1982, Bernard returned to France and brought his mother and son Pepp to settle in Paris. The sudden return of a Chinese wife by a French diplomat immediately alarmed French intelligence. The following year, the case was revealed, and the two were arrested for espionage. Bernard did not know that his lover was a man by this time, and after learning the truth, Bernard attempted suicide in prison. In 1987, ShiPep was pardoned by French President Mitterrand and has since settled in Paris. Soon after, Bernard was also released, but after his release he did not live with Pep's "mother and son". Bernard was reportedly a bisexual person in his life, and Pep cleverly covered up his male organs.
Reality is always more magical than movies. This is really mixed feelings.
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