The building is about to collapse.
The maintenance workers looked up, and a crack in the outer wall of the apartment building cut through the darkness from the foundation to the roof.
After further investigation, combined with the architectural knowledge he had learned, he had a premonition that the building was in danger.
In the building, there are still 800 people living there, and they must race against the clock to rescue them.
Someone found that the building was about to collapse.
Someone reported it to the mayor.
Someone told everyone that the building was going to collapse.
Finally the building collapsed and no one came out.
Movies don't predict the future.
But people repeat stupid things that are not new.
Just say movies —
"The Fool of the Dangerous Building"
Fool
01
That building
A precarious building.
The building has been standing for decades.
The crack was the load-bearing wall, but no one noticed.
Why does the building crack?
Because the steward has never repaired the building.
They only paint the surface.
People in the building.
They never open their eyes to the outside world, even the building in which they live, and they are completely unaware.
In a phrase from the film: They live like pigs and die like pigs.
In hopelessness, avoidance, and arrogance.
How can the building not collapse?
02
That guy
Just as the building was about to fall.
The protagonist is uneasy and rushes to the municipal building to report to the leader.
As a result, the leaders are hosting a party.
The mayor's 50th birthday, can you celebrate it?
The crowd applauded, sang, and praised the female mayor for being as great as her mother.
Mom, Mom
Who knows, the convivial atmosphere was shattered by the bad news brought by a repairman.
The mayor was very solemn and gave him a reassuring pill: "Young man, rest assured to check, don't worry about the threat of accompanying officials." ”
There's only one thing --
Don't talk to poor people
The truth can be turned in.
But it must not be issued.
Because what they fear most is to cause panic.
Your truth, which the "grown-ups" can't confirm, takes time.
You can't say.
But for those in the dark, the most urgent thing now is time.
Of course, the adults are not without worries.
For example, what if it collapses?
The cost of overhaul has been embezzled by petty officials, and the security checks can be passed because of bribery.
Because if there is a big accident, the upper officials will definitely thoroughly investigate the corruption problem here, and no one can run.
For example, do you want to inform the masses?
If the apartments are emptied, the residents are resettled and the housing fund is used. However, this insurance money has long been used to bribe other officials.
Simply put —
If you don't save people, it may happen in the east window.
To save people, there is really no rescue for soldiers.
What to do?
They have their own set of skilled self-preservation techniques.
First, deceive the upper and lower levels to strive for a smooth transition, and wait until the disaster occurs, and lead the scapegoat to abandon the car to protect the marshal.
The most urgent thing now is not to save people.
Instead, let the repairman keep his mouth shut.
You're just a pipe fixer and don't have the authority to post any information.
Just take your wife and kids with you, and don't tell anyone.
In case it leaks out, don't blame us for being rude.
Do you understand?
Can it be done?
You really are a fool
03
That person
Some people say that "The Fool of the Dangerous Building" is a movie that all directors want to make.
It is like a magnifying glass, cutting from the lowest level of life, peering all the way up to the core of power, trying to see the crux of the whole society.
From ignorance, "life like a pig".
To the shrewd, "fearful emperor".
But right now, Sir wants to talk about "ordinary people."
Is the protagonist a hero?
Don't forget, he's just an ordinary engineer.
Because they did not know how to bribe and be flexible, they mixed up in soup and water, and lived in tatters.
So that's how you are, full of integrity
But your whole life lives in dust
He also lived the life of an ordinary person.
Have a wife and children to raise.
Everyone advised him not to say it - you are not an authoritative expert, this place is not under your control, and if you say it, you will offend the leadership...
After he tossed and turned, deciding to go to the report again, the film shot for two full minutes.
silent.
Keep walking, keep walking.
From the dirty and chaotic depression, through parks, streets, intersections, to the representative of the high-end residential area.
Under the rhythm of sad rock music, with his hands in his pockets and steady steps, Sir had a wonderful illusion.
It seems that each step can step on a little Mars, there is no momentum of fire, but it does not dare to extinguish.
He was too small.
Small enough, great enough.
The reality of "The Fool of the Dangerous Building" is that it is afraid of the protagonist before it calmly faces a huge responsibility.
He was also afraid.
But a building that is about to collapse, and the people living in it.
It made his heart more afraid.
Recall the title of the film "The Fool of the Dangerous Building", which is literally translated into Russian: idiot.
The protagonist has received higher cultural education, worked for public institutions, and with the sensitivity of professional knowledge, discovered the crisis and tried to warn everyone with his own strength.
Not much was done, just to shout out the "danger is coming" from the conscience.
Is this called an idiot?
Who turned conscience into an idiot?
Who turned the hero into a demagogue and a rumor-monger who should be admonished and silenced?
The story of the film, condensed in 12 hours, is how an avoidable tragedy is doomed to be inevitable after the crisis breaks out.
You can't understand the absurdity and magic in it.
Because you first realized that power and life are two different sets of logic.
You have your life greater than the sky.
He has his power over the heavens.
In the eyes of the leaders in the film, the role of the protagonist is constantly changing.
At first, he broke into the banquet and disturbed the mood of the officials and masters.
He was an uninvited guest.
Later, he reported his findings, but was questioned by officials about his professional qualifications.
He is not authoritative.
Then, the reality was witnessed by the officials, and the officials finally felt nervous.
He made a meritorious contribution.
In the end, because he heard too much evidence, he became a walking "witness".
He became a real prisoner.
But the mayor was struggling with whether to evacuate the residents.
The leader who promoted her "enlightened" her -
When did you care about the people? When 800 of them could be killed immediately?
But when they die one by one? Are you worried?
"When you misappropriate a Medicaid, there's a chance that one person will die of illness that can't be cured. When you take your share from every project on your budget, the road sucks like, one hole, one protrusion, and every day there are accidents. ”
It's just that none of them die in front of you.
And when 800 people's lives were threatened.
Do you really care about them?
No.
You care more about the political impact you will have if something happens to you.
"The Fool of the Dangerous Building" tells us what we keep secret.
They know the truth is there, they know so many people are there, and they still stop the news.
Lou, really will fall.
So, what about lies?
When a building is tilting.
When the truth is blocked layer by layer.
Conscience breaks through the barrenest places.
From avoidance, to face, to take responsibility.
An ordinary person, because he had to do a perfectly normal thing, became a hero in an abnormal building.
Like today, we are all mourning a hero.
But who made him a hero?
At this moment, we should re-read Kitajima's poem to another hero:
Maybe the last moment has arrived
I did not leave a will
Leave only the pen, for my mother
I'm not a hero
In an age without heroes
I just want to be one person
Perhaps, tomorrow the commendation will come, the tears will be summoned, and the touching deeds will be written into the composition materials of middle school students.
I think we never have a shortage of heroes.
But there is too little an environment for heroes to be ordinary people.
Who made him a hero?
It is also every one of us who cannot adhere to the most ordinary bottom line.
Every silence, every compromise, bears an unshirkable responsibility for this outcome.
Because you have allowed lies too many times.
There is no guarantee that you will not become the price of a lie at some point.
And for the heroes.
The best memorials are not praises and medals.
It is that you will never give up being an upright and kind person from now on.
Only in this way can we be worthy of what the hero has done for us.
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