[Text/Observer Network Guo Xiao]
On March 28, 2016, a Taipei girl "little light bulb" rode her bicycle with her mother to the subway station to welcome her grandfather, a man slashed the girl's neck with a kitchen knife from behind, causing him to die on the spot, causing shock in Taiwan society.
Recently, the TV series " The Distance of Us and Evil" adapted from this case was released, which caused heated discussion on social media across the Taiwan Strait. On the 12th, a Weibo user intercepted the clip of the drama and posted it online and commented, "This kind of TV series that presents real conflicts and contradictions directly, and has not deliberately created neutrality to please the audience, which makes people feel very moved."
In the video clip released by the netizen, Song Qiaoan ( Alyssa Chia )'s son was brutally killed like a "little light bulb". Her husband hopes to have an in-depth understanding of the murderer's motive, but Song Qiaoan believes that the motive is not that important, because the so-called truth will ultimately only blame our social system for problems, but even a country like Norway, such as social welfare, there will be indiscriminate murderers.
She asked, if neither the murderer nor his family have to be responsible for his actions, then who should be responsible for the victim? Then he stared at the other party and shed tears. Netizens said that his acting skills were so good, and some people also said that the TV series was very meaningful to the discussions of victims' families in social issues.
In social cases, there are often some perpetrators with extremely cruel methods. How should the victims' families face them is a topic discussed in countless literary and artistic works.
In the Japanese movie "Confession", the female teacher chose to take revenge in person;
The female forensic doctor in "Unnatural Death" tells everyone: We don't understand your mood, and there is no need to understand you, these are meaningless.
"The Distance between Us and Evil" explores another possibility. This drama is written by Lv Shiyuan, a well-known Taiwanese female screenwriter who has written "Honey Who Falls in Love with Him " and "Out of the Office", and co-starred by Alyssa Chia, who has been away from the small screen for 15 years, and Kim Jong actor Wu Kang-in.
was sentenced to death for random murder with a gun in a cinema two years ago, causing 9 deaths and 21 injuries. Li Xiaoming was sentenced to death. Defense lawyer Wang She was thrown into feces by the victim's family for "talking for the murderer" and was also cursed by tens of thousands of curses on social networks. This is the beginning of "The Distance between Us and Evil".
focuses on both perpetrators and victims, and the social issues discussed in the play are brought out by the starring actors.
Two years ago, among the nine people killed by Li Xiaoming, including Song Qiaoan's son Tianyan. Song Qiaoan and Liu Zhaoguo ( Wen Shenghao ) are a couple. After their son's death, Song Qiaoan began to drink alcohol and neglected to take care of their daughter. The marriage with her husband was on the verge of breaking down.
Although the two decided to divorce for a while, the existence of the murderer temporarily maintained the two together. Working in the media with her husband, both sides have almost completely opposite views on the truth.
The TV station where Song Qiaoan is located is an institution that uses the title party to grab traffic. The boss even broadcasts fake news for the sake of ratings. Liu Zhaoguo hopes that readers can understand the essence of things through unrealized content.
Although Liu Zhaoguo was very angry with the murderer in response to the death of his son, he still hoped to prevent such incidents from happening again by understanding the causes behind it;
But Song Qiaoan believes that the so-called truth will always blame the social system for big problems, without welfare and insufficient education, but why do random murderers still appear in countries as good as Norway's welfare?
The whole society hopes to execute Li Xiaoming as soon as possible, except for Li Xiaoming's defense lawyer Wang She (played by Wu Kangren). Wang She understood the evil of the prisoner, but he firmly believed that he must investigate the motives of murder, because even if all murderers were locked up, he would never be able to prevent the next case from happening, and there were social causes behind social events.
"applying the template" when anger and curse cannot solve the problem. In order to prevent similar tragedies from happening again, we must investigate the motive behind the murder.
He compares different people. Some people are very lucky when they are born and have a happy family. However, some people may have a father who keeps drinking and even beat their families because they can't find a job, or they can't study because their family is poor and can only start working since childhood but are always blunt. In such an environment, many people's growth is almost always accompanied by negation, so they even believe that they are really useless in the end.
People like html often induce their strong self-esteem because of trivial matters, resulting in accidents.
He went to Liu Zhaoguo specifically, hoping to use the power of public opinion to make the government delay the death penalty for , thereby helping himself investigate the truth of the matter;
Li Dazhi (played by Chen Yu) is the sister of the murderer Li Xiaoming. After Li Xiaoming killed someone, the family also went to destruction.
My father chose to drink alcohol, and my mother was in panic all day long. Li Xiaowen was dragged into the bathroom by her mother when she took a bath.
Mother couldn't bear to see Li Xiaowen becoming a useless person, "I'm going to die at home, just die three people, I can't even bury you here." She helped her change her name to Li Dazhi, and cut off contact with her, so that Li Dazhi could live a new life after hiding her name.
Li Dazhi lives carefully. When walking on the road, she is also used to covering her face with her hair, for fear of being recognized suddenly. But he happened to become Song Qiaoan's subordinate.
On the day Li Xiaoming was executed, Song Qiaoan learned about Li Dazhi's true identity, so he went to a photographer to track and secretly photograph his family's address, and got the "big exclusive".
Li Dazhi asked angrily, "My brother killed someone, but do I and my family have no right to survive?" The exposure of the address of
means that the whole family may really have no peace from now on. Li Dazhi questioned that the media held the right to speak and arbitrarily determined people when social events occurred and labeled others, which was actually killing people, "You are not less people than my brother."
It should be pointed out here that, before, when Li Xiaoming's murder just happened, the Li family sold the house, hoping to compensate the victim. Li Dazhi's parents knelt in public and apologized to the victim, but the media was not interested in these contents.
An old man knelt down, and the media around him held the camera and asked whether they were sincere. This picture also sparked widespread discussion on social media, and some netizens said they were completely shocked.
When facing the perpetrator, should the victim choose to forgive or hate? Is it necessary to understand the story behind the perpetrator? How should the murderer's family start a new life? What role should the media play in social events? The issues discussed in these TV series finally settle on a human nature issue: How far is we from evil?
As a media person, Song Qiaoan is not concerned about content that the people really care about, such as the reduction in average salary, but about attracting attention, such as news such as who was thrown in a milk tea shop and who was beaten where they were beaten.Is it a bad thing to consider only click-through rate?
Is it another evil to send a photojournalist to secretly take pictures of Li Dazhi and expose his address just to get exclusive news?
Is there any evil to the person who throws feces on lawyer Wang She? Is it evil that Wang She ignored his family and insisted on defending the perpetrators, and even provoked the pain they did not want to mention?
When Li Dazhi cried and shouted, "Do we have no right to survive?", were the surrounding residents and netizens who were very close to harassing or humiliating them, and were they also unconscious accomplices?
The drama has only aired 6 episodes so far, and of course it also has more or less flaws, such as the stereotype of characters and the deliberate vague behavior of characters:
One of the protagonists Ying Sicong went to kindergarten in order to shoot a documentary of the children, but was misunderstood. His sister cried and said that he (Ying Sicong) had no malicious intentions. Why did the media deliberately demonize him? But without malice and without explanation in advance, should kindergarten children and their parents bear a few hours of panic?
also has too thin portrayal of lawyers. The actor himself said in an interview, "The lawyers also told me that when they actually look at the criminal evidence and the victim's photos, they will tremble at the first time. But they still need to defend the prisoner. How complicated should that state of mind be?" But this "complexity" is not shown in the play.
However, some netizens said that the flaws do not hide the merits, and the discussion on this topic itself is enough to give the audience a high score.
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