In recent years, juvenile delinquency incidents have received more and more attention from society, and in the face of these juveniles who are still naïve and cause harm to society, every parent and every member of society will have a tangled mentality. On the one hand, they are still young, and they may be able to become useful people to society in the future. On the other hand, some of them have committed heinous crimes that discourage hope in their future.
The question before more parents is, how to prevent juvenile delinquency? How do we reform and treat juvenile delinquency after they have occurred? Is juvenile delinquency a social or family problem? What is the social and family responsibility on this issue?
In fact, the answer was answered more than thirty years ago, and this is the movie "Juvenile Delinquent", which was released in 1985.
1. Film creator and creative background
The director and screenwriter of "Juvenile Delinquency" are two people, director Zhang Liang is most familiar with him in his early years, Dong Cunrui, and the source of creativity for this film is his wife Wang Jingzhu. Wang Jingzhu once visited the Beijing Municipal Juvenile Detention Center, and the scene of more than a thousand juvenile delinquents gathering stimulated her, so she had this movie.
In this film, the director and captain of the juvenile management institute are all old opera bones in Shanghai, and Zhu Manfang, who plays the heroine "Society and Family" magazine reporter, is a famous actor in Shanghai, and she also has a daughter who is also an actor named Wu Junmei.
In the film, there are a total of eighteen students from the Shanghai Juvenile Detention Institute, of which the main roles are Lu Bin, Jiang Jian and Wang Jie, who play the three juvenile offenders Fang Gang, Xiao Fo and Shen Jinming respectively.
In the 1980s, China's social environment was somewhat unstable, which led to the strike hard, some of which were juvenile offenders, including 14-18-year-old minors who stole and robbed, fought and killed people, and committed hooligan crimes. In the face of these juvenile crimes, if the policy is not careful, it may lead to the early loss of a large number of future talents, so the state has spent a lot of money and personnel and materials to establish a juvenile detention center.
Prevention is always greater than governance, and the film "Juvenile Delinquency" was made for this purpose of arousing people's attention and preventing juvenile delinquency.
2. Synopsis and highlights
"Juvenile Offenders" takes "Society and Family" reporter Xie Jiexin to the juvenile detention center to interview and investigate as a clue, and revolves around the three juvenile detention center students Fang Gang, Xiao Fo and Shen Jinming.
Fang Gang was sentenced to five years of discipline for injuring others, and as soon as he came in, he did not cooperate with the discipline of the juvenile detention center everywhere, and he often fought with other students to protect Xiao Fo. In order to help the others escape, he lied about swallowing scissors, and during the rescue he was touched by Captain Feng. After that, Fang Gang tried to reform, but because he did not see his parents desperately on the day of his parents' meeting, he really swallowed scissors and committed suicide, and after being rescued, he and his parents reconciled and accepted the transformation to become qualified workers.
Shawford has been caught many times for theft, and although he is young, he is clever. Motivated, he became unconfident due to being hurt and abandoned by his parents and adoptive parents several times, and he also grew into a qualified worker in the juvenile detention center.
Shen Jinming was sentenced to one and a half years of discipline for being influenced by pornographic novels. At the juvenile detention center, he actively studied to prepare for the college entrance examination, and at the parent meeting, he expressed his gratitude with a song "Voice of the Heart". Eventually, he was released early to take the college entrance examination and was admitted to the university.
Journalist Xie Jiexin wrote a series of reports through investigation and talk at the juvenile detention center, one of which specifically mentioned Shen Jinming, entitled "Saving Children and Cultivating Talents". Unexpectedly, because she and her lover were both engaged in work, her underage son also became a juvenile offender.
III. The Revelation of juvenile delinquency
Even today, the problems reflected in the "Juvenile Offenders" movie still have profound educational significance for today's parents, and it is more intuitive to list the family situations of the five representative juvenile offenders in the film.
Fang Gang: An intellectual family, his father is a teacher and he has a younger sister.
Perhaps because of having a younger sister, Fang Gang has a natural love to fight unevenly and protect the weak and weak, which is a good aspect.
From the language of the film, we can see that Fang Gang's family problem lies in the educational method. When Fang Gang first made a mistake, his father did not educate and indoctrinate him, but hated the simple scolding of iron and steel, which was difficult for Fang Gang in adolescence and rebellion to accept the formation of a greater rebellion, and finally after making a greater mistake, his father simply did not recognize him.
Fang Gang's heart developed a mentality of not being trusted by anyone and not wanting to be understood by anyone, and even if he was wronged in the juvenile detention center, he was unwilling to speak out, and was only willing to solve it with his fists. This is the typical lack of communication within the family caused by parents when they see their children have problems and mistakes, but simply reprimand and beat, so it is easy to push the child onto the reverse track, especially for adolescent boys.
Therefore, for Fang Gang's discipline, the basic method is to maintain communication and exchange with him, and the profound cure is to untie the bell and tie the bell person, so that the understanding and tolerance of the family can influence him.
Shawford: Broken families, abandoned by their biological parents, abandoned and abused by their adoptive parents, assimilated into society at a young age and exposed to the dark forces.
Shawford is the most pitiful of all the juvenile offenders, and too much suffering makes him think that his life is not good, and he has learned the jianghu mentality of getting by at a very young age. The tragedy of Shawford was caused by irresponsible parents, who are still uncommon even now. For example, there have been news that young mothers have irresponsibly left their two children at home and starved to death, and there have been news of irresponsible parents fighting and falling to their children. Shocking cases tell us that sloppy marriages not only hurt adults, but children even more.
Sadly, this phenomenon of parental irresponsibility towards their children is currently on the rise, and abandoned baby islands across the country continue to accept abandoned children. There doesn't seem to be a better way to do this than publicity and rehabilitation.
Shen Jinming, an ordinary family, personally self-motivated, accidentally lost his footing.
From the language of the movie, we can see that Shen Jinming is actually a very self-motivated child, he is very polite to people and things, and he is also very sensible and even a little shy. It is such a child whose appearance makes parents and teachers particularly reassuring, commit the crime of hooliganism.
Shen Jinming's problem is actually more common, in the year of "Juvenile Delinquency", he was only exposed to yellow manuscripts, and now with the penetration and popularization of the Internet, many children can freely and autonomously access the Internet from an early age, which means that today's children may be exposed to the topic of gender relations earlier. In the face of such a common problem encountered by various families, the author's view is that it is advisable to be loose and not to block, and to give children a step-by-step sex education from an early age is conducive to children being able to rationally look at the relationship between the sexes.
Violent stars, high-ranking families, fathers doting and even indulgent
The juvenile offender who did not play a small role appeared twice, one was to bully the new trainees and Fang Gang to fight. The other time was to encourage Fang Gang to help him escape.
From the language of the movie, we can get the family situation of the violent star, his father is a high-ranking cadre, very doting and indulgent to the violent star, even if the child has entered the juvenile detention center, he still secretly stuffs the child with cigarettes when they meet. This kind of parent is the type of listening to the child, at present there is also a considerable universality, many parents from childhood suffering do not want their children to suffer losses, so they do everything to meet the child's various reasonable and unreasonable demands, some parents have a successful career and spoil the child. The result of this is the case of Li Tianyi and other pit daddies.
For such parents, it is only necessary to remember one sentence, children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, and they should not make horses and cattle for their children and grandchildren.
Chen Lin, a well-off family, dual-career parents, grew up with his grandmother
In the movie, Chen Lin is the son of the journalist Xie Jiexin, his father has been abroad for many years, and his mother often travels on business, so he lives with his grandmother, and he begins to indulge his pursuit of pleasure and eventually enters the quagmire of crime.
In the modern environment where more and more dual-time workers have even begun to advocate 996, more and more children will grow up with grandparents or grandparents, and these children can only be obedient to them due to serious generation gaps and communication problems, and over time they have formed a domineering and bold personality.
In this regard, the author's view is that it is best for children or parents to take care of and educate themselves, after all, even if there is a generation gap between parents and children, it will not be very far, and if it is a dual employee, they must also take time to ask about their children's life and learning.
Fifth, the ending of the movie
The three young actors in "Juvenile Delinquency" have been released early to return to society after the release of this film, and each of them has also embarked on a different path.
Lu Bin, who played Fang Gang, later entered the palace due to a fight, but later he suddenly woke up and returned to normal life, and it is said that he now opens a hotel in the Chaoyangmen area of Beijing.
Jiang Jian, who plays Shaw, is currently the owner of a hardware store.
Wang Jie, who played Shen Jinming, due to the high degree of singing of "Voice of the Heart", this Wang Jie, who looked a bit like Li Jinyu, once became a singer with the same name as Chi Zhiqiang, who later entered Chinese opera for further study, and is currently said to be the owner of an acting company.
These three children are lucky, they joined the Rejuvenation Art Troupe when they were in the Shanghai Juvenile Detention Center, through which they got the opportunity to participate in the film, and then their lives got back on track, and their experiences also confirmed the saying: save children to create talents.
In summary, although this film mentions society and the family many times, combined with the situation of the five minors in this film, and then linked to reality, the author believes that for the prevention of juvenile delinquency, the role of the family is far greater than that of society, as long as the family does not make a big mistake in educating the child, the child is a material that can be created. It is irresponsible to simply push the child's education to the society and the school, and the words and deeds of parents are the best way to educate.