Reflections on a Film

I watched a Korean movie that makes me think deeply about crimes and pardon. We all know there must be a law to protect and punish people. Law is dead or not easily changed. It is also made by human. Is there any humanity in it? This film can stir up our concepts toward pardon and lawbreakers.

In the film, female prisoners establish a choir. The three main characters are in jail for the murder. A woman is in jail for killing her husband who has an affair and his mistress by the car crash on purpose. Another pregnant woman who has suffered the violence from her husband accidentally kills him by pushing him toward a big piece of glass while he is beating her again. The other younger woman has been abused from her stepfather. She kills him with a hit on his head while he is trying to rape her at the room.

Because of their voice, they are invited to perform at a concert. When they go to the restroom, a lady accidently drops her diamond ring on the floor. These prisoners of course are to be the first suspects in people’s eyes. The suffering that people view them as thieves or criminals is what lawbreakers have to experience and encounter after they leave the jail.

I believe there are many similar stories in the reality. The reasons of being in jail mentioned in the movie which makes me feel sorry for them. The woman who murders her husband and his mistress is a capital prisoner. Doesn’t she have another chance? Does she have to be put to death? What she has done is understandable. I hope the judges can consider the problems about general pardon. Habitual sex criminals are not supposed to be set free so quickly if they have not finished the psychological consulting.

I met a sister at church. Frankly, if I did not meet her there, she would not be my friend. She looks like a man with a bully’s looking which might scare people away. She used to be in jail. She did not tell me a lot why she was in jail. She said she trusted her friends too much. She is a woman who has strong sense of justice like men do, so she likes to defend the weak against the strong. After chatting with her for many times, I changed my ideas a little bit about the people who used to be jail. I am like most of people. I have bad impression about them. They might break the law again. I lose my trust in them due to their former mistakes.

“People make mistakes. Because of a mistake, we are not given any chance. It is unfair.” The lines from the film strike me deeply. No human being do not make any mistakes. We all want to be forgiven and given another opportunity. Why not the prisoners who have the same situation as the characters in the movie can be set free from death sentence?  (507)