Film Name: 彷徨之刃 / Hovering Blade
Hovering Blade tells the story of a desperate father who, in order to avenge his daughter’s death, kills the minor criminal who sexually abused her to death.
The film is like a sharp blade, pointing directly at the problem of juvenile delinquency.
As the old saying goes, ‘People are inherently good in the beginning’, but the evil children in the film are just the opposite. During the adolescent stage, which is the most important stage for the formation of a healthy outlook on the three aspects of life, they either lack parental discipline or are influenced by their parents’ deformed values, which makes them like a blank sheet of paper that has long been blacked out, displaying pure evil. They sexually assault the girls, forcibly inject them with drugs, and eventually torture them to death with no remorse.
Luo Zhicheng, played by Zhang Yuhao, lacks the love and care of his father, who only blames him, and such a family environment has created his sensitive and cowardly character.
Wang Qianyuan’s father Li Changfeng is forced to become the judge of good and evil, his daughter was abused to death, but the murderer of the devil can not be punished accordingly, for his vengeance, we sympathise with and understand, when he killed the evil child Wang Tianxiao, as the audience will feel ‘cool’, because the repressed emotions are finally cathartic, and the guilty also get their due punishment. When he kills the evil child Wang Tianxiao, the audience will feel ‘cool’, because the suppressed emotions are finally released, and the criminal is duly punished.
Wang Jingchun plays a policeman who faces Li Changfeng, who is in despair of revenge, and his inner feelings are very complicated. He understands what Li Changfeng has done, and as a policeman, he has seen minors committing crimes, but he does not think that his age is an umbrella for protection, and he deeply knows the consequences of indulging in these evil children. Because of his sympathy, so we see him towards the abyss of crime Li Changfeng more is the good advice, at the same time he also adhere to the bottom line as a police officer, to maintain the stability of social security, but in the face of the crime of minors, he is still firm in his position ‘these bad children, no matter how many years, can not withstand the evil of his’.
‘The law will sanction them and give them a chance, but what about my daughter? She will never have a chance again.’ This is the helpless cry of a father who has lost his daughter, and it is also a portrayal of the reality. Is it equal that these perpetrators will have a chance to get married in the future, to have children and to have a new life, while the victims who have already died will not have a chance anymore? The answer is obvious. In recent years, there has been more and more discussion on the issue of underage crime, and the film conveys what the audience wants – severe punishment for underage crime!
Going back to the question at the beginning, how can the family, society and the law guide and educate minors so as to avoid the problem of crime. After watching the film, the answer also surfaced, first of all, the family should go to the positive guidance, society and the legal system to do strict supervision and perfect legal protection system, so that minors can not commit crimes, guilty without escape.
The whole film in the revenge of the ‘cool’ and the reality of the ‘real’ in the conveyance of the attention to the problem of juvenile delinquency appeal, the case in the film is never an example, it happens in everyone’s side, we need more like this with the significance of reality of the film, so that social We need more realistic films like this one, so that the society can discuss and improve the corresponding system. We highly recommend you to watch this rare film in the cinema.
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