A large number of films based on real events, the stories behind them are often more brutal and more touching. "Juvenile Murder on Muling Street" is based on a juvenile homicide case that occurred in Taipei in 1961. The film is almost four hours long, telling the story of the young boy XiaoSi from a typical obedient boy to the road of crime step by step. The real events of the film, as the first juvenile homicide that occurred after the Kuomintang authorities moved to Taiwan, received widespread attention and caused a sensation in Taiwan.
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On the evening of June 15, 1961, at the bottom of the seven alleys of Muling Street, the sixteen-year-old Mao Wu (the fourth child in the movie) suspected that his girlfriend Liu Min (Xiaoming in the movie) was empathetic, and even stabbed his fifteen-year-old girlfriend to death with a knife. What exactly prompted teenagers to do this? Let's take a look back at the story behind the case.
The victim, Liu Min, was a fifteen-year-old student from Shandong and a student of the Jianguo cram school. The murderer, Mao Wu, a sixteen-year-old native of Zhejiang, was originally a student of the Jianguo cram school, but was later expelled. Mao Wu met his classmate Liu Min during his school days, and the two talked about love, intimate feelings, two small guesses, often writing letters to and fro. Outside the school, Mao Wu is an old man of the "Biyu Gang" Taibao organization, who is specifically responsible for dealing with the fight with the other Taibao, who was punished for fighting outside the school, and soon after he brought a knife to the school, the school found out and ordered him to withdraw from school. After Mao Wu dropped out of school, the opportunity to meet Liu Min became less and less, and Liu Min gradually interacted with other classmates, especially with the "pirate gang" Taibao Ma Jishen. Mao Wu was furious when he found out, and repeatedly advised her not to associate with others, but Liu Min did not listen to him.
Mao Wu was very angry about his girlfriend's "betrayal", and on the eve of the crime, he asked Ma Jishen to negotiate at the Nanchang Street Ice Shop and warned Ma Jishen not to approach Liu Min. On the day of the crime, Mao Wu asked Ma Jishen to duel in front of the US Information Office. Kong Yu, a classmate who passed the message, said that Ma Jishen was going to take the samurai sword, and when Mao Wu knew, he turned back to Sun Dexiong's house to get the short knife, hid it around his waist, and waited in front of the US News Office. Kong Yu turned around and told Ma Jishen that Mao Wu had brought a knife to kill him, but Ma Ji shen did not dare to meet Mao Wu after he knew it, and ran home from the back of the school. At this time, Liu Min just happened to pass by here after school, met Mao Wu, and the two walked together to the back door of No. 10, Lane 5, Muling Street. Mao Wu asked his girlfriend to make an alliance with him and mentioned, "I don't like you to be with Ma Jishen. Liu Min did not obey him and refused, "You can't control it." The two had an argument, Mao Wu pulled out a knife in one breath, stabbed Liu Min multiple times, and left multiple wounds on Liu Min's chest, head, shoulder, etc., and Liu Min fell in a pool of blood on the spot. The Seventh Branch of the Taipei Municipal Police Bureau rushed to the scene after receiving the report, saw Mao Wu holding Liu Min and crying bitterly, the criminal police asked him about his relationship with Liu Min, and Mao Wu initially lied that he was Liu Min's brother. The criminal police saw that the situation was not quite right, and when pressed, Mao Wu cried and said, "I am her brother and fiancé!" "Did you kill her?" The police pressed again. "I killed it!" Mao Wu wept silently and admitted. The criminal police arrested Mao Wu on the spot and sent the victim Liu Min to the hospital for emergency treatment, but due to excessive blood loss, Liu Min eventually died.
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According to Mao Wu, in order to keep loving, he and Liu Min named thems "Zhong Bi" and "Xiao Yu" respectively, indicating that their feelings were as loyal as Bi Yu, and he also wrote to Xiao Yu to ask him not to associate with Ma Jishen. The letter reads as follows: "I'm sorry I hit you yesterday, I didn't sleep last night, I really wanted to kill Ma Jishen, but then I thought it wasn't worth it." If I kill him, you won't love me anymore, and killing him will make me feel useless, let alone pay for it. But I must stop you from associating with Ma Jishen, because he has two girlfriends at a certain school, one named Zeng ×× and the other named What, I can't remember exactly. I hope you can trust me, no matter what, I Mao Zhongbi will not deceive you, because I will always love you. Jade Sister, Jade Sister, my Jade Sister, I don't have to write, because I only talk to you less, our friendship of four hundred and eight days, is it over? I hope you can return to my arms, I don't write more. I know my heart, my love for you is also known to anyone, good jade sister, and finally wish you good health, work hard, don't make a boyfriend again! Forever on your broken intestines."
After the incident, Mao Wu's family deeply apologized for the unfortunate incident caused by Mao Wu and expressed their willingness to raise the mother of the deceased Liu Min for life. In fact, Mao Wu lived in a happy family. Mao Wu's mother is gentle and virtuous, his father works at the Academia Sinica, his family has three brothers, three sisters, the eldest brother and the second brother are studying at National Taiwan University, the eldest sister has become a teacher, the second sister is studying in the girls' middle school, and the sixth sister will also be admitted to the middle school next semester. According to the two masters guangyuan and Qingyue of the Maitreya Inner Courtyard in Nangang Town, Mao Wuping went to the temple every day to study his homework, looked polite and polite, and was a very cultured child, and he did not expect to become a murderer for love.
After the trial of the case by the local court, the sentence was originally 15 years' imprisonment, which was reduced to seven years after appealing to the Supreme Court, but the procurator did not accept the appeal and finally changed the sentence to 10 years' imprisonment. The two young teenagers, because of a momentary impulse, one has no life, one has no freedom. If parents and schools had paid more attention to their children at that time and given more correct guidance to their behavior, could they have avoided tragedies?
Juvenile delinquency incidents are related to the issue of education, which is worthy of attention not only in the society of the 60s, but also in today's society. In recent years, there have been more and more cases of juvenile delinquency, not only parents should reflect, schools and society should also reflect, is it because of the failure of education that this situation has occurred?
Psychologically speaking, adolescents are relatively immature and unstable, because of their low cultural quality, lack of ability to distinguish between right and wrong, and often blind imitation, making friends carelessly. From the perspective of family education, parents lack communication with their children, meet their children's material needs, but ignore the problem of mental health. The social environment also affects the growth of adolescents. As shown in the movie, taiwanese society in the 60s was plagued by traffic and supplies, and people from all over the country spoke their own dialects in chaos. In such an environment, the teenagers of their generation pretended to be cynical, participated in gangs, fought and fought, listened to Elvis Presley's album, and chased the girl everyone liked. They rebel and think they can change the world. However, as Bob's last words said: This world will not change for you, and I am like this world, it will not change for you.