So suffocating! Recently, a reality-themed movie was released in Taiwan, which is called the Chinese version of "The Crucible." Like "The Crucible", this film is adapted from a real social case and tells the story of a sexual assault that occurred in a school for the deaf. I was

is so suffocating!

Recently, a reality-themed movie was released in Taiwan, which is called the Chinese version of " The Melting Pot ". Like "The Crucible", this film is adapted from a real social case and tells the story of a sexual assault that occurred in a school for the deaf.

I was mentally prepared before watching this movie, but the 104-minute viewing process still made me feel suffocated and my scalp was numb.

"Silence"

There are many familiar faces in this movie.

The heroine Chen Yanfei has appeared in "Gu Wei" which was recommended a few days ago.

Although she is only 20 years old, the little girl has a unique aura and the charm of spring and summer. She is a natural talent when acting.

male protagonist Liu Ziquan , the male protagonist in the high-quality Taiwanese drama "Your Child is Not Your Child" in the past few years.

There is another actor, Liu Guanting .

He is included in "The Sun Shines", and he is included in the new work "My Classmate My Nas" directed by "Buddha Plus".

He is also featured in the high-scoring Taiwanese dramas "Tumi", "A Boy in Sixties Turns into an Adult" and "Your Child Is Not Your Child".

’s vision for selecting scripts is really good.

"Silence" is the first feature film of director Ke Zhennian.

's debut novel adapted such a topical real case, which is quite courageous.

Although it is not as powerful and influential as "The Crucible", the female perspective provides a more delicate thinking and a more restrained presentation of the entire case.

Overall, this movie is quite surprising.

The male protagonist of the story is named Zhang Cheng (played by Liu Ziquan).

He is a deaf-mute who just transferred from an ordinary school to a Qidi school for children with special needs.

The classmates here are deaf-mute just like him. No one will laugh at him. The teachers here teach in sign language, so there is no need to worry about not being able to follow the class.

The school has a beautiful environment and is full of green. Zhang Cheng has no doubt that he will spend a wonderful time as a student here.

At the school anniversary party, Zhang Cheng met Beibei (played by Chen Yanfei) .

At the drag party where the demons danced wildly, Beibei wore a swimsuit and swayed her body to her heart's content, immersed in her own world.

Zhang Cheng likes Beibei, and Beibei also makes friends with Zhang Cheng enthusiastically.

If it follows the normal direction of the story, it would be great if a boy and a girl fall in love and have a sour or bitter relationship.

Unfortunately, darkness entered their world prematurely.

On the school bus, Zhang Cheng peeked at Beibei as usual, but found that Beibei was not in his seat.

looked around and found that there were curtains drawn up by school uniforms in the back of the school bus.

Zhang Cheng stepped forward and suddenly opened the curtain, and saw Beibei being pinned down by several boys. The girl was struggling desperately, but the two boys were holding her tightly, and the other boy had already taken off his pants...

Zhang Chengmu canthus Although the situation was broken, the person involved did not panic at all when he was discovered. The senior Xiaoguang next to him even gave him a "shh" sign.

At this moment, all the students on the school bus were not surprised by this and were still playing and playing. Even the teacher on the school bus turned away after seeing Xiaoguang and the others.

What is even more incredible is that the next day, Zhang Cheng saw Beibei playing football with the boys who violated her, as if the scene on the school bus had never happened.

When Zhang Cheng questioned Beibei, Beibei said:

"They are just playing."

This is the most shocking line in the whole movie.

Beibei said this, the teacher said this, and all the students in the school also acquiesced in this sentence. Sexual assault happened openly on campus.

In fact, when she was assaulted on the school bus for the first time, Beibei asked her teacher for help.

The teacher said, "Aren't you guys playing?"

They are both women. When Beibei told her that she was in pain, the female teacher said, "How can the teacher help you? They didn't bully you."

The teacher didn't To help her, her classmates did not help her either.

Beibei knew that no one would help him. If he continued to ask for help, he would be hated by others.

Just like that, Beibei was silent. She told herself that those boys were usually very good and they were just playing with her.

What is suffocating is that there is not only one "Beibei" on this campus.

At Zhang Cheng's insistence, Beibei told Wang Dajun (played by Liu Guanting) the only righteous male teacher on campus.

Then, the investigation of sexual assault officially began on campus.

There is a little boy who was raped in the fourth grade of elementary school. When asked by the teacher, as a victim, he was still worried about whether he would be punished.

There was a boy who sexually assaulted Beibei, but he himself had also been sexually assaulted by others.

The victims were both male and female, distributed in all age groups. Many people were both victims and perpetrators. The final investigation results showed that there were a total of 127 sexual assault cases on this campus..

In the face of the shocking reality, there is another unbelievable fact that all these cases are inseparable from the senior senior Xiaoguang.

Everyone said that it was Xiaoguang who instigated them to play like that.

Facing the teacher, Xiaoguang said that the reason why he instigated everyone was: fun.

treats sexual assault as a game. Is this a natural devil or is there another hidden agenda?

In short, when I heard Xiao Guang say the word "fun", I was shocked and angry, and at the same time, my mind was filled with "why".

Compared with the presentation of the case trend and public opinion in "The Melting Pot", this "Silent" appears to be more restrained and gentle.

The focus of the film is not to pursue, but to explore.

to explore the causes of such a wide range of campus sexual assault cases.

Go to the silent victims, go to the schools that allow darkness to happen, and ask "why".

27 sexual assault cases occurred. Xiaoguang, as the instigator, made people hate him in the early stage and sympathized with him in the later stage.

Because Xiaoguang himself was once a victim.

When presenting Xiaoguang's unbearable past, the film uses a particularly shocking way.

Through surveillance, we saw that the small Xiaoguang was pulled into a room by the male teacher. When Xiaoguang came out of the room, his face was filled with pain and anger.

monitoring shows that this is 2006.

is still monitored, and we see Xiaoguang growing up.

The way he entered and exited the room changed from struggling at the beginning to walking side by side to walking into the room alone.

After he walked out of the room, he no longer cried, and even smiled at the monitor with his face raised.

monitoring shows that this is already 2010.

years of abuse completely changed a boy.

To a certain extent, like "Fang Siqi", he fell in love with his teacher. He used the word "like" to rationalize the other person's harm to him.

At the same time, the pain in his heart cannot be resolved. As a victim, he turns to hurt people weaker than him. It seems that the more people are hurt like him, the less his hurt will be.

Situations like his are not new among those 127 cases.

Victims turn into perpetrators. This is something that requires our attention and vigilance.

In addition, the situation of a boy who slays a dragon and turns into a dragon is also happening.

As the male protagonist of the film, Zhang Cheng is the messenger of justice who uncovered 127 cases, but this male protagonist is not perfect either.

He is determined to protect Beibei, but when faced with groups of male classmates, he appears too weak.

The other party brought in a weaker boy and told him that as long as you touch him, we will not touch Beibei.

The boy who slayed the dragon eventually became the evil dragon. This is one of the reasons why sexual assault cases happen again and again and there are more and more victims.

All these phenomena give us a wake-up call:

Psychological attention.

The acquiescence and connivance of the school teachers and principal were because the teacher who violated Xiaoguang had a powerful background.

The principal "invited" the teacher out of the campus, thinking that his merits had been fulfilled, but when the perpetrator left, what about the victim Xiaoguang left behind?

No one cared about what he was thinking, and no one was there to guide him on how to get out of the pain.

When Xiaoguang turned into a perpetrator and sexual assaults occurred frequently on campus, the principal and teachers, in order to protect themselves, did more than did less, allowing evil to happen under their noses.

If you think about it carefully, if someone had cared about Xiaoguang in the first place, the 127 subsequent cases might not have appeared.

But what is particularly angry and chilling is that, whether in the film or in real life, this incident ultimately went unsolved due to difficulties in obtaining evidence.

Due to the special identity of the victim as a deaf-mute, one of the topics in the film is the psychological condition of people with disabilities.

After Beibei was violated, she was still willing to play with the person who hurt her. Even after the truth came out, she was worried about whether her classmates would hate her, whether her grandparents would be sad, and whether the teacher would be kicked out. Walk.

Her own psychological feelings were put at the bottom of the list.

Because she is deaf-mute, she has had no friends since she was a child. Compared with the harm she has suffered, she is more afraid of not having friends. She would rather endure being violated again and again than being useless in the outside world.

The title of the film is "Silent". This is a group of silent people, but their roars are everywhere in the film.

"I'm afraid of being left out in the outside world."

"We are different from others. I often feel that I am redundant."

"We are not bad people."

In their hearts, the world of normal people makes them more painful. Those alienations, rejections, unconscious dislikes, and unintentional malice are all hurt to them, and they are all worthy of reflection for us.

The psychological reconstruction of sexual assault victims and the psychological care of people with disabilities are issues that the entire society should pay serious attention to.