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Seeing this type of reasoning is a brain-burning story for me, but often the murderer's motivation is weak and even unrealistic. (For example, the classic "The Stars Kill the Demon", many people are full of praise. Although the mystery and tricks are wonderful, I think the author has laid such a big game and involved so many people. As a result, the motive for killing was so weak that I was speechless. Of course, I didn't mean to belittle this book and this reasoning. It's just a matter of personal preference. )
However, watching social reasoning makes me sad, because the stories in it always make me unconsciously compare with real life. Although mystery novels are popular literature, I feel that social reasoning is sometimes not so popular, and there is even a sense of serious literature in it. The reasoning of social school is based on reality and transcends reality. The starting point is murder, but the foothold is human nature. Every time I look at social reasoning, it always brings me thousands of thoughts. Thinking about human nature and society is the highlight of the social school (the above is purely personal). Up to now, social mystery novels have only written two books, one is Long Night, and the other is Sweeping Rat Ridge (of course, I don't read many mystery novels, so there are more than ten books).
Tell me about a book! This book review involves a lot of spoilers and character analysis. People who don't want to coquetry and are interested can read books first!
Ten years ago. A serial murder occurred in the western suburbs, killing four people. When Zhou Liping, who was under 18 years old, was arrested, everyone thought he was the real murderer. Only Lin Xiangming, a police academy student who assisted in the investigation by the task force, insisted that Zhou Liping was only responsible for the last case. Zhou Liping was only sentenced to ten years in prison. Ten years later. In the middle of the night, the tunnel pavilion of the abandoned subway station ignited a raging fire. Firefighters found many bodies at the bottom of the wind pavilion. Surveillance video and on-site physical evidence show that it was Zhou Liping who was released shortly after the tragedy. This time, who will clarify his mistake? ...
After reading the whole book, I think many characters in the book are not thin, they are all flesh and blood, they have their stories, their joys and sorrows, their helplessness and their confusion, just like you and me in reality.
Among many figures, my two favorite figures are Lin Xiangming and Zhou Liping. I don't know much about Lin Xiangming because I haven't read the series "Inferior People in Truth" by the author Hu. Tell me about him in this book.
The book introduces Lin Xiangming, a junior majoring in criminal psychology and behavioral science in China Police University. My impression of Lin Xiangming is true and persistent.
He insisted on it himself, even if everyone opposed it, he insisted on it until the end. It was because of his persistence that Zhou Liping was proved to be right. Through his investigation and reasoning, he firmly believed that Zhou Liping was not the real murderer of the first three murders, and found video evidence of his absence, but he respected Zhou Liping's decision and did not expose the lies.
He is obsessed with evidence and truth. After all, no matter how wonderful the reasoning is, it is no use without evidence. No matter how many suspects there are, Lin Xiangming said: "All the unjust, false and wrong cases through the ages are because the' suspects' are regarded as' facts'."
Without evidence, how to convict? Isn't there no doubt? In the novel, Zhou Liping was wronged for ten years, but in reality, Zhang Yuhuan was wronged for 27 years. Isn't it the same? Without evidence, there is no truth.
Lin Xiangming, although he hasn't appeared many times, is still charming. It can be said that there would be no Zhou Liping without Lin Xiangming. He saved Zhou Liping's life and brought hope to Zhou Liping, because he was the only one who believed in Zhou Liping.
Let's talk about Zhou Liping again. My impression of Zhou Liping is that although he looks a bit like a bad guy, he is a good guy in a sense, and he has a sense of justice and responsibility. There is also a feeling about his definition of homicide, that is, the law has deceived him, and he has no good opinion of the law and does not believe in it.
So when I read the whole book, I always feel that there are some contradictions in the description of the legal level in the book. I feel that the author always emphasizes that law can improve and solve problems through the mouth of characters, and rejects extrajudicial violence and lynching. (No matter Hu's persuasion or Director Xu's persuasion to Du Jianping, don't take revenge, believe in the organization and believe in the law) These views are correct, but they are often not so ideal in reality.
In reality, there are too many unjust, false and wrong cases, and too many laws are played with the applause of superiors. The law may be just, but the law enforcers are not. If we only rely on the conscience of law enforcers, it is difficult to achieve legal justice. I think the author's beautification of the law may be a compromise on the criticism of his works, or it may be the author's real and urgent hope. Anyway, I think the author really has good intentions!
Nonsense: Justice and fairness in a society can never be achieved by lynching. This is true, but justice and fairness are always missing. There are too many wrongs in the world. Isn't Zhou Liping an unjust case and a wrong case? Therefore, when Hu suggested that if you reported the case of their violation, the law would provide justice for the victims.
Zhou Liping's response was a silent stare. Why are you silent Because he didn't get justice himself ten years ago, without Lin Xiangming's defense, he might have died in prison in vain ten years ago, and the law brought him great harm instead of justice.
Therefore, I think it is precisely because of his own experience that Zhou Liping chose extrajudicial lynching to punish and kill the perpetrators and the bad guys behind them, instead of protecting his rights and interests through laws. Think about serial killings in the western suburbs. It has nothing to do with him, even he is a victim himself, but he is lucky not to die. But people are often blinded by what they see and hear. People saw Zhou Liping kill people, but they didn't know who he killed. Why he killed people, and his motives.
Zhou Liping killed the real murderer of serial murders in the western suburbs. He was killed out of desperation. He was just defending himself. But why did he become a murderer? The answer is that because of his classmate Mei Fang's pleading, he couldn't bear the second injury to Mei Fang, so he had to make a decision to take the rap.
What secondary injury? In other words, Mei Fang was raped by her father Fang Zhifeng for many years. If this murder case is thoroughly investigated, the truth will be spread, and her life may be ruined, even if she is a victim herself, but public opinion and people's colored glasses are enough to crush her. She must keep this secret.
So she begged Zhou Liping not to tell the truth. Zhou Liping is a good man, willing to keep his secret, but the price of keeping it is too high. Eight years in prison can only be considered as a secondary price. The real price is Zhou Liping's own reputation and his personality. Perhaps his life was completely ruined by the words "murderer" on his back, but he still said nothing and silently took the blame for Mei Fang.
It is too expensive to exchange one person's reputation for another's. If the stone god in The Dedication of Suspect X is because Amethyst saved his desperate life and finally devoted himself to love. So what does Zhou Liping do? Maybe it's also because of love! This is just a different kind of love. When he is dependent on others and unloved, when he is isolated by his classmates at school, only Mei Fang, who is in the same boat with her, is willing to play with him. Zhou Liping's statement that she doesn't like Mei Fang at all is false. In addition, knowing Mei Fang's miserable life later, Zhou Liping is not a heartless person. He sympathized with her and liked her.
A few years later, when Zhou Liping confided to another girl he liked, he said that the act of taking the rap in those years was not only out of his love and pity, but also out of his helplessness. He failed to enter the university and found it difficult to find a job. Menstruation will definitely kick him out, the future is gloomy and life is hopeless. He is disappointed in the world and wants to escape from reality. Therefore, when all this happened to him, he was kind and just, but he insisted on taking the blame for it.
Zhou Liping spent eight years in prison on trumped-up charges.
Ten years later, when the rat ridge was swept away, there was a terrible malicious murder. Only have the slightest doubt about Zhou Liping, was targeted by Interpol, and cling to bite.
To some extent, people's subjectivity and prejudice are terrible. Zhou Liping was labeled as a serial killer because of the serial murder in the western suburbs ten years ago, his apparent murder, and some evidence that was not evidence. Since then, his life has been ruined. When he was released, his work, housing and life became problems, because everyone was afraid of him and didn't believe him. No one wants to use him, no one wants to rent him a house, and watch him like a prisoner all day. Even when the case happened, he became the biggest suspect.
Although the real murderer was indeed him in the end, the police only locked and suspected him because of prejudice and an indirect evidence. Without the investigation and Hu's reasoning, the police may still not know who committed the crime and why.
My view of Zhou Liping is contradictory, because his two killings and dedication are admirable and helpless.
Ten years ago, he killed Fang Zhifeng in self-defense, and then he took the initiative to take the blame for Mei Fang's reputation and spent eight years in prison.
10 years later, he chose to kill Xing Qisheng and Zhang Chunyang because of their downright evil deeds, and the real purpose of killing them was to punish the real bad guys behind them (the four main figures of the Foundation). He went to the funeral alone with a gun, shot them and died in it. In fact, Zhou Liping did it with the idea of dedication. It's just that he died for justice This may seem like a pleasure, but it will eventually lead to bad consequences.
In the story, Zhou Liping killed seven people, one in self-defense and six on purpose. Although his purpose is good, it may be to punish evil and promote good, but it is wrong for him to kill on purpose. The mistake is that he should not use this method of extrajudicial lynching. The mistake is that he is not a judge, but he goes beyond the position of a judge. He has no qualification or right to judge other people's crimes in this way.
Although I will be disappointed in justice and fairness, I will despair of the law, but at the same time I still have hope, because what goes around comes around comes around, I will escape the temporary trial, but I can't escape the final trial … ...
After talking about Lin Xiangming and Zhou Liping, let's talk about some bits and pieces.
Xing Qisheng, Dean of Tongyou Nursing Home. In the story, he is a total villain. He indulged his bad taste like an animal with the help of someone behind him. He doesn't know how many innocent children have been killed by pedophiles, from teenagers to five years old. The five-year-old child Mars is still cerebral palsy. These disabled children can't express their pain in words and words, so they can only endure it blindly in this dark nursery.
Day after day, no one can bear such a heavy pain in this life. Three of them finally died of despair. The older one strangled two younger ones and then hanged himself. Maybe death is a real relief for them. As the saying goes, hell is empty, demons are on earth, and some people are really like demons and have no moral bottom line.
Think about it. Without such a dean, how can there be injured children? How can a child commit suicide because he cannot bear to be humiliated?
In fact, when I watched this passage, the first thing that floated through my mind was the fragment of the movie "The Furnace". It is also a group of deaf-mute disabled children and a perverted principal and teacher who sexually assaulted this group of vulnerable children. Although I finally resorted to the law with the help of a justice lawyer, the result was desperate. The law does not really punish the offender, but lets him get away with it. ...
At the same time, the president of the perpetrator is hateful, but those indifferent and selfish accomplices are even more hateful. Not only the dean, but also other staff, nurses, doormen, drivers, cleaners, the secretary of the dean, the director of the office, the vice president, and the hotel bag master who cooperates with them. There are dozens of people, but what about these people? Don't you know the inside story? No news at all
These people are typical of the evil of mediocrity. They neither stopped nor reported the evil deeds of the dean, and even participated in concealment. He did no evil, but obeyed the perpetrator without conscience, and even became an accomplice to help him complete the crime and hide it.
Perhaps these people have their helplessness, they may have a family to support, perhaps for those meager incomes, maybe they are afraid that things will implicate them, or maybe they are afraid that getting angry will endanger their lives.
But can these be excuses for their inaction?
Alas! It's hard to say, conscience and morality tell us that they are wrong, but what choice will you and I make in their environment?
Criticism is easy, but choice is difficult!
There are too few brave people with a strong sense of justice in this era. Most of them are ordinary people, not seeking progress, but seeking nothing. I can only sigh, when is everyone's selfish self-love carved from the roots?
Think about it, the love and malice of Aunt Zhang in the nursing home. As a cleaner in a nursing home, she is clean and hygienic. She was the first person to find the children committing suicide in the room. He reported it to the dean. But the dean wanted to keep a low profile, and she helped keep it a secret.
Why did she help keep it a secret? Because of her love, she is a mother and her children are in nursing homes. She is accompanying the child to treat the disease and protecting him before cleaning. So she kept it a secret because if the nursing home collapsed, her children would have nowhere to go.
As a mother, children are naturally the first factor she considers. This is love and great maternal love. But this love is also mixed with great malice, so when Sun Kang said loudly, "Your child is a child, isn't someone else's child a child?"
At that moment, Aunt Zhang burst into tears …
After reading this, I can't help but think of the scene in the movie "Sheep without Shepherd", which is exactly the same. When the girl's mother, Ayu, gnashed her teeth with anger and said that some children were children and some children were animals, Inspector La Ai was indifferent and still wanted to find out the mystery of her son's disappearance and death through violence.
She is selfish. She doesn't care what her son did wrong. It was her son. Even if her son raped someone else's daughter, how cruel her son is and how much harm he has caused others, it will still be her son, and she will defend it and retaliate. What hurt her daughter has nothing to do with her. As the poster says: A mother will do anything for her children! )
This is love and malice, and it is also the best embodiment of good and evil of human nature.
The selflessness of maternal love is aimed at one's own children,
The selfishness of maternal love is aimed at other people's children.
Such love is really helpless and ironic!
Think again, from the malice of the hotel package master, although he is not an employee of the nursery school, he cooperates with the nursery school to take care of the hospital meals. How can he not know the inside story when he cooks and delivers food? Of course, he may not know the inside story of the child's sexual assault, but the employees of the nursery school eat spicy food themselves, but they treat those disabled children badly. Master Bao doesn't know?
But for the benefit, he chose to cooperate with the nursery school and obey the arrangement of the nursery school. He gave the children swill-like leftovers (that is, the leftovers in the restaurant were mixed together and even mixed with cigarette butts), and even the "tableware" he gave the children was just dirty instant noodle boxes and noodle forks.
Even if Master Bao doesn't have the courage to report and help these children, he can at least choose not to accept this cooperation. Negative inaction is sometimes an act. Maybe Master Bao is just a chef, and there is a restaurant owner behind him. He is not qualified to make too many demands on this matter, but he still has the right to refuse to participate in this evil thing, otherwise he will pay a certain price for it. But in any case, the result of the story is that he has no conscience to participate in it, so when he was broken by the old horse, the director of the police station, he can only say that he deserved it.
Alas! Giving children these garbage swill can't help thinking about food safety in China, because there are too many "dirty" foods produced by "dirty" businesses, which have caused great harm to society and children. It can be said that these "black-hearted" merchants are not one person, but a group of people, from raw materials, to purchasing and processing, to sales ... There are many people involved in the whole industrial chain, and no snowflake is innocent during the avalanche.
We are all human beings, and we all have people who want to cherish and protect us desperately. Why not put yourself in someone else's shoes? If your children eat such dirty things, do those people dare to participate in such production and sales? Selfishness in human nature is really vivid.
There are just Lin Xiangming and those who are not bad people, and there are also out-and-out bad people Xing Qisheng and his supporters and protectors, as well as mediocre cleaning aunt Zhang and hotel bag master. Of course, there are many other attractive and righteous characters, and I only chose these.
The characters in the book are flesh and blood, good and bad. Although it is a novel, I think it is a microcosm of real life. There is a lot of darkness in reality, and there is darkness in novels.
I believe the author wrote this not only to expose the darkness, but also to solve the darkness and find the light.
How dark the reality is, how heavy the expectation for light is.
After all, who doesn't want to live in a bright and beautiful world?
In fact, the light is always there. When the sun is covered by dark clouds, it is not that the sun disappears, but that it is temporarily covered. So believe that the darkness will recede and the light will eventually return!