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The film tells the story of a disabled female piano teacher, Li Jing (Kwai Lun Mei), who took Hong Kong famous doctor Zhou Wenxuan (Zhang zhen) to court after a routine physical examination, accusing her of sexual assault, causing an uproar in Hong Kong. As the plaintiff of Li Jing, her prosecutor Chen Zhitian (Aaron Kwok) vowed to get justice for her, but the defendant Zhou Wenxuan's defense lawyer (Yu Xia) thought that the case was not as simple as expected ... The duel between love and law began.
film review
In the opening credits, Chen Zhitian, played by Aaron Kwok, said, "I don't like being a defense lawyer who excuses people; Being a prosecutor can find out the truth, which is more suitable for me. "Cut in, flash back to the reason why he hates his father. As a defense lawyer, his father helped a local manufacturer get rid of the heavy punishment of rape at the cost of admitting indecent assault. Unexpectedly, the local manufacturer raped the victim again after he was released from prison, causing the victim to commit suicide. As a lawyer, Chen Zhitian has always despised his father's indifference to justice and resolutely refused to defend his guilty client. He didn't expect to get justice for Xiao Jing, but in the end he found that Xiao Jing was the villain in this case, and he indirectly hurt the innocent doctor Zhou. He was in a dilemma between morality and law, and it suddenly occurred to him whether his father had any difficulty in doing that in the past. As a lawyer, he wanted to hear the explanation of the person involved, but he didn't have a chance to explain it to his father. Facing the empty hospital bed, he is miserable, he regrets and he feels guilty. He realized that the justice he was pursuing was just self-righteous, and what was more important between the cold right and wrong was the living people behind the incident.
As the plaintiff of sexual assault, it is painful to repeat the process of being hurt. Xiao Jing insists that prosecution is courage. "If Dr. Zhou didn't sexually assault you, what motivation do you have to marry him?" This question came like a bolt from the blue, and the audience immediately wondered if Xiao Jing was not as innocent as she looked. As a result, the truth is that she failed in courtship and wronged Dr. Zhou because love turned into hate. This is an evil behavior, but the reason behind it is that she was deeply hurt by her mother's inaction when she was a child. She hated the injustice of fate in her heart and vented her hatred for the man who molested her on the nursing staff in the orphanage and Dr. Zhou who examined him. This also took care of her affirmation of her sexual assault at that time.
She is a victim, but not a victim of this case; She is a criminal, but she is a victim. In the end, she told the truth, vented her depression for many years, cleared Dr. Zhou's name and let go of her twisted hatred. She once asked Chen Zhitian, "What will happen if I win this case? Go back to your old life? But the original life is not the life I want. " Tell the pain in my heart, maybe Xiao Jing can live the life she wants and be reborn.
"The law is not only to decide who is right and who is wrong, but also to protect people. Protect the injured person's right to compensation and protect the rest of society from being hurt again. " But people who hate evil seem to pay more attention to the punishment of the law and the destruction of the wicked. Good and evil can't be separated, so it's not a kind of evil to waste rather than vertical. The original intention of law is for "Christmas" and rebirth. The law should have its stern side, but it should also have its gentle side, which is the inspiration brought by the film.
Ciredo is the directorial debut of Yang Caini, a former jade girl. Unlike female directors, she didn't choose other movies with relatively easy themes of love and youth, but directly adjusted the difficulty to the highest level. Under the escort of Tsui Hark and Zhang Zhiliang, a film about justice and humanity, with women's sensitivity and delicacy, combined with the wonderful confrontation of court dramas and the status and influence problems brought by humanity and society, exudes female directors's domineering in and out of the play, although its debut is still young.
After all, this movie is about Yang Caini's view of the whole case from the standpoint of women. She is very kind and full of care for the vulnerable groups, which is something that many male audiences disagree with. After all, Ciredo embodies the conflict of values. Can human feelings override the law? The slogan of this movie: "The case of sexual assault is up to you." The abrupt ending of the film left a lot of room, just like the final ending of the "Sang Lan case", it will definitely lead to relevant disputes.
The meaning of xiredo
There are generally two explanations for the meaning of cerrito.
First, the "rose" in the film refers to the paper rose that Xiao Jing gave to Dr. Zhou Wenxuan and lawyer Chen Zhitian, which is also the key evidence to reverse the case. From the beginning of the film, murals in the court appeared constantly, which enhanced the solemnity of the court and promoted the development of the plot step by step. I can vaguely see the blessed angel in the painting, and the content is the birth of Christ. The significance of "Christmas" in the film lies in solving the truth of this sexual assault case through legal rationality, and finally awakening what the characters have lost.
Secondly, "Xiruiduo" is a physical therapy herb, and the flower language symbolizes "hesitation" and "contradiction". This herb is very precious, but it is extremely toxic, which makes people less decisive. It represents people wandering between the dream world and the ideal world, full of ambivalence and unpredictable hesitation.