In 1954, a black-and-white film produced by MGM, 12 jurors in the "18-year-old boy killed his father" case, through debate and discussion, finally reversed the suspenseful "guilt" reversal as "not guilty", completely subverting the public's perception of American law, this film is "Twelve Angry Men", which is still influencing audiences half a century later.
In France at the end of the 19th century, there was an officer called "Dreyfus", which also shocked the legal community of the whole country and the world. The key figure in making this world injustice known to the public was Emile Zola, a French critical realist writer.
The Biography of Zola tells the legendary story of his life.
His life is in turmoil, and Zola, who even hides when he hears that the homeowner has come to collect debts, lives in a broken house with his friend Cézanne. The horror of poverty is that it deprives a person of all his time thinking about how to fill his stomach and has no time to think about anything else, fortunately, although he has to face the problem of making a living every day, Zola is still awake alone in the chaotic society. He knows what the country is going through, and he can really feel whether the people are in pain or in the joy of being "promiscuous" by those in power.
By chance, Zola rescued a prostitute, Nana, and after learning about her tragic experience, Zola created "Nana" on this theme, it seems that overnight, the bookstore's prominent positions are all promotional posters about "Nana", which were sold out as soon as they were listed. The success of the book put an end to Zola's poor living conditions.
In 1871, the Franco-Prussian War broke out, the French Army was defeated, Sedan fell, Zola, after learning that it was due to the incompetence of the authorities in the war, led to the great rout, he wrote the book "Rout", a powerful attack on the French Army, which made the officers of the War Department quite dissatisfied, and under the pressure, Zola still did not flinch.
He did not forget his responsibilities, nor did he stop revealing the ugly behavior of society, and excellent works were constantly created, becoming well-known social critics at that time, and also allowing Zola to gain social prestige and wealth.
The comfort of life is grinding the edges and corners of Zola, and his friend Cézanne discovered this and kindly reminded him not to forget the original intention and not to give up the pursuit of truth and justice.
The Dreyfus incident happened at this very moment. Suspected of being a German spy, Dreyfus, an officer of Jewish descent, was arrested and imprisoned, but his wife, Lucy, always believed in her husband's innocence and ran around collecting evidence, but ran into walls everywhere. Disappointed, she found Zola with the materials she had gathered.
Zola sighed: "My time has passed, Enough of struggle, chaos, struggle. After some ideological struggle, Zola published a "I Accuse" in public, directly calling the French president to demand a retrial of dreyfus case. Under public pressure, the case entered the retrial procedure, but the War Department and the court guarded each other, covered up the truth, and finally closed the case with Zola losing the case.
Zola was persuaded by his friends to leave France and flee to England, during which he still revealed the incident in words, attracting the attention of the world, and it was Zola's righteous and sharp words that finally made the truth come to the surface.
Dreyfus was so wronged that he was acquitted, already full of white hair and emaciated, and as he passed through the cell door, he repeatedly went in and out three times, this hard-won freedom, and the innocent imprisonment, like a dream.
Knowing that Dreyfus was wronged, the War Department let a person inexplicably bear a heavy grievance for the sake of the army and the face of the country, and in their eyes it was "the pain of a nameless pawn, and it does not affect the great country!" "Don't they know that to let an ordinary person be wronged by justice is a satire on all those in power in this country? Will the credibility of the country be called into question? Isn't it the constitutional purpose of the state to protect the legitimate rights and interests of every citizen?
The dignity of the country is not at the expense of the freedom of the people! Justice, never absent!
"You have to challenge the mind of those who control the world... By emancipating ideas, humanity can become new human beings, and the poor and rich can recreate the world. Zola wrote this passage and died of gas poisoning.