the movie that i am introding today is about child molestation and the harm that are posed by the bystanders to the victims. The film Angles wear white revolves around Xiaowen and Xiaomi. Xiaowen is a 12-year-old student who lives with her mother after her parents divorced. One day, Xiaowen and her classmate Xiaoxin were taken to the hotel by high official President Liu and sexually assaulted. This apparently will become the shadow that accompanies Xiaowen and Xiaoxin throughout their lives. However, what is more terrible than sexual assault is that as a victim, Xiaowen was point finger to and even cast blame on her. The hospital inspected Xiaowen twice and got different results. The first time the doctor said that Xiaowen was sexually assaulted , and the second time the doctor was bought up, he said that Xiaowen’s body shows no sign of being sexually assulted. Disregarding Xiaowen’s feelings, the doctor publicly published the test results in front of the media, which means that Xiaowen will face people’s judgement at a very young age. In addition, the police forced Xiaowen to recall the night’s encounters on the grounds of investigating the case, constantly reminding Xiaowen of the most painful experience of her life, and constantly causing Xiaowen to suffer secondary damage. Instead of comforting Xiaowen, Xiaowen’s mother cut Xiaowen’s hair. She did n’t condemn the criminal, but instead condemned the victim and blame her for dressing inappropriate.
On the other side, the hotel’s waiter Xiaomi witnessed the incident through CCTV and recorded the whole thing with her phone. She had solid evidence of President Liu’s crime, but in order to keep the job with a monthly salary of less than 600 yuan, she said nothing.
The film did not focus on the victim’s painful response as usual , more in a calm but violent way to show the secondary damage caused by bystanders. The values, trends and prejudices of the current society, mobile phones and the Internet, and even the trend culture among children are familiar to us but we do not know anything about it. Both Xiaowen and Xiaomi, and even their parents and others around them, are victims of the dark side of this social distortion.
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