For you a thousand times.
- "The Kite Chaser"
I have always remembered this sentence, because there will always be such a person in the world, for him, no matter what you do, you are willing.
In the Name of a Daughter is a biopic directed by Vincent Jakhon, starring Daniel Otei and Sebastian Koch, based on a real-life case that was a hit in France. The film tells the story of a 14-year-old daughter who was raped and killed by her stepfather, and her father Andre spent thirty years pursuing justice, exhausting the rest of his family wealth, and finally having to find another way to illegally bring the murderer to justice.
Whenever I hear a film based on a true case, I shudder, because reality is often more brutal than film. In "In the Name of a Daughter", the vivid and bright girl who was only a teenager slept forever in the cold soil, tortured during her life, and never at peace after death.
The beastly stepfather, no, the animal-like stepfather is at large and unrepentant. The indifferent mother is even more indifferent to her daughter's death, and has always protected her stepfather. And the son's persistent pursuit of his father is not very understanding. In more than a decade of struggle, the transnational lawyers around André have seen the corrupt and cowardly judiciary in France, and have also lost confidence and withdrawn from the pursuit of the murderer. Later, even the girlfriend who had been accompanying Andrei left him. All kinds of institutions in France have regarded André as a difficult madman, who constantly reports appeals, runs around, and does everything in his power to overturn the case for his daughter.
Why did the case take a full thirty years, even when all the evidence pointed to the stepfather, the stepfather was still not sentenced. Except for the ostensible reason that the stepfather was German and there was no way to extradite to France, buried beneath the iceberg were social psychological factors that people could not see, or pretended not to have seen. Below, I will look at the contents of this film by the real French case from the perspective of social psychology.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the power of social intuition, powerful and dangerous</h1>
Herman Melville once said:
Our lives are strung together by countless invisible thin threads.
Human beings are social animals, and the influence exerted by society on human beings sometimes overwhelms the only remaining goodwill, and people have to obey this false judgment and submit to the words of others. Like the German forensic doctor, he checked that the girl Kalinka had tears, blood marks and white liquid in her private parts, but he did not examine them in detail, only stating in the report that the cause of death was suspicious. There is no doubt that he knew the matter well, and had even been bought off by his stepfather to cover up the truth.
And this forensic doctor's abusive behavior is not only his own personal attitude, but also lies in the environment in which he lives in the society in which he lives. The stepfather is a powerful presence in both political and business circles, and his social circle constitutes a specific social situation. In this powerful and malicious situation, the forensic doctor has only two choices, accepting a certain benefit, and refusing may be swallowed up together.
Social Psychology mentions:
Social psychology reveals an amazing unconscious mind– a social intuitive force that Freud never told us, it is hidden and invisible, powerful and dangerous.
The father did not believe the forensic doctor's statement, and he immediately approached the biology professor he knew, and after analyzing the autopsy report, the professor told him with great certainty that his daughter was most likely related to the sexual behavior at the time. At that time, the stepfather's sophistry prescription drugs injected to save his daughter included iron supplements, stimulants, cardiotonic agents and antihypertensive agents, which were completely unreasonable in the eyes of professionals.
The situation in which humans are located is very important, and even if the professor finds something wrong with the autopsy, he is unable to help Andrei due to the pressures of the world, but only tells him that this is an undocumented lawsuit. The best way to advise him is to burn the document and forget it. From the professor's point of view, this is the most appropriate approach, adapting to the social situation.
Social situations affect everyone in this society, who become friendly or ruthless, conformist or independent. How people look at each other and how they influence each other is hidden behind the so-called facts, like invisible and untouchable silk threads, entangling them together. Thirteen years of painful persistence of my father finally touched the silk of truth and justice in the underworld.
A lawyer suggested that the coffin be opened for an autopsy and the evidence taken again, only to find that her daughter Kalinka's reproductive organs had long since been hollowed out. Andrei communicated with the relevant Departments in Germany and obtained a sample from the first autopsy, confirming that Kalinka fell into a coma due to the injection, and as a result, she was stimulated by the shock and choked to death by her own foreign body. The French court thus sentenced Dr. Cobai to 15 years in prison, although this was already a halving of the punishment. However, his stepfather, Kobai, eventually failed to come to France to serve his sentence because of German pressure and france not wanting to cause trouble. The truth is near, but the truth can never come. If facts are only part of the truth, then the truth is still waiting for Andrei to pursue.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > belief is fixed, truth or fiction</h1>
Political scientist Robert Jervis once made this statement:
Once you form a certain belief, it affects your perception of all other relevant information.
In society, preconceived notions make people overlook the possibility of being indoctrinated with a piece of misinformation. And once people have laid the theoretical foundation for misinformation, it will be difficult for them to deny this misinformation. In The Name of a Daughter, the biological mother of the victim, Kalinka, is a typical example. In the film, Andre asks his daughter's mother to be investigated and provide as useful clues as possible. The mother scolded Andre for clutching his stepfather Kobai like crazy because he was jealous that Kobai had taken her.
Andrei tries to make Kalinka's mother understand that her stepfather Kobai is the murderer, but she says that Kobai is an attractive man, he doesn't have to force girls, and no girl doesn't like him. Even in the face of the most obvious facts, the believer will not change his mind. The mother unsurprisingly became a prisoner of her own way of thinking. She herself has her own set of explanations for the matter, and when an explanation is formed, even if the initial information proves to be false and false, she will still insist that her thoughts will not change, ignoring the existence of the truth.
Do you know? The human mind sometimes fabricates memories and even unconsciously beautifies memories that once were.
Jonathan Swift said:
A man may never be ashamed to admit that he was wrong, in other words, he is smarter than before.
At this point, Kalinka's mother and the murderer's stepfather are exactly the same. When Kalinka's mother cheated on her stepfather Kobai, she promised Andre that she would not commit another crime, but was soon caught in bed for a second time, and they divorced. Kalinka's mother later said that Andre had been framing Kobai as a murderer out of jealousy, but the truth was that Andre had never been jealous of Kobai, and after their divorce, Andrei soon found a girlfriend with him. People's feelings about the past will be firm in their own ideas. Apparently they had divorced many years ago, but when Kalinka's mother's memory began to blur, her current feelings dominated and glorified her memories. It was a reaction to the misleading information effect that Kalinka's mother had an extreme ego in which she altered the fictional part of herself in the past to bring it into line with the beliefs of the present.
And the stepfather, Kobai, took to court 15 years after Kalinka was raped and killed, for raping a 16-year-old female patient. Cobai, on the other hand, argued that the girl had sex with her voluntarily. When the ugly caterpillar turned into a butterfly, he thought he was a little butterfly when he was young, not a caterpillar, and maturity covered up his lies perfectly. His father, Andrei, came to see Cobai punished by law, but the German court eventually sentenced Kobai to two years in prison, and because of Kobai's remorse, he was sentenced to suspend his career for two years, and Kobai was released again.
Justice has never come, and the desperate and desperate father, seeing that thirty years of prosecution is about to pass, André has to find another way, hire two gangsters, and kidnap Kobai to France. After the kidnappers knocked Cobai unconscious, they immediately called the police to say that there was a rapist wanted by France. In 2009, Cobai was sentenced to 15 years in Prison in France, and the truth finally came. Along the way, Andre went from youth to twilight, with two pale sideburns, no career, relatives leaving, and money scattered. He only told him at his daughter's grave that he had kept his promise and never gave up, and he was willing to do it for her a thousand times.