Classic lines from Silent Witness (2004)
- 01. I was at the Hanzhou Aerospace Science and Technology Museum and saw photos and deeds of Baekwon when he was young. I was honestly blown away. I couldn't believe that a woman who looked like a movie star could be such an accomplished scientist. I suddenly gained the same feeling as that child seemed to have: such a mother should be immortalized.
-- Silent Witness (2004) - 02. Mr. Liu disappeared soon after that. Then I began to try to investigate, starting with the simple idea that I just wanted to find Mr. Liu.
-- Silent Witness (2004) - 03. You're welcome. I know you liked the book... I know you love this book, but the only reason you love it is because of this line on the title page, "Where my pain lies... "is to fight my inner demons to the death.
-- Silent Witness (2004) - 04. Speaking of primal triggers, I have to start with the second woman in my new material. That would be your mother - Bai Yuan.
-- Silent Witness (2004) - 05. That day was also the day of Baekchun's sacrifice. That's why there was the only one among the victims of Point Hill who didn't make a living by selling his body.
-- Silent Witness (2004) - 06. In the past, Mr. Liu and I did some reports on the analysis of the image of the perpetrators of the Dim Sum case. Some of them were also guided by you, and I myself feel that that period of time was the time when I made faster progress. Now that I look at these reports again, I feel ashamed. Because the ones that you instructed me on unknowingly matched the Ishigaki that we caught later. The initial reports, those that were not instructed by you, were very similar to yours. Mr. Liu may have begun to suspect you from this point on.
-- Silent Witness (2004) - 07. A month later, on the night of your sister Bai Chun's burial, your indignation reached such a pitch that you felt you had to do something to vent it. Perhaps by coincidence, the next morning a female corpse appeared under the East Pier Bridge. The deceased was both highly educated and made her living by depraved prostitution.
-- Silent Witness (2004) - 08. There are two women in the new material that impress me. One is Bai Chun, your sister. After you lost your parents, you and Bai Chun lived together. Whether as a brother or as a teacher, I can say that you have done your best. Bai Chun has never been to school, and was educated by you to go to college. Because you were afraid of her getting hurt. After all, your family's early misfortunes have built up inside you.
-- Silent Witness (2004) - 09. In fact, this killing was just an accident for you, but you gained a huge psychological release, a balanced pleasure, even beyond your own expectations. The hot air that had been building up in your chest since Bai Chun's death drained away at once. You gained a, a way of being happy. Your coworkers don't even understand that the day after your sister's burial, you were able to be refreshed and give a lecture in an auditorium of hundreds of people, laughing and talking in a colorful manner for three hours.
-- Silent Witness (2004) - 10. Her son's youthful success was undoubtedly due to the fact that he had inherited from his mother the excellent traits of intelligence and acumen and the pursuit of perfection. All the things he dreamed of as a teenager came to him easily: honor, praise, envy, and so on. But he valued reason and fame, and was never proud of it. Because he knew that all these things, are just passing clouds. In his heart there is only one dream: to become a person like his mother Bai Yuan. To build the world with his own ideals.
-- Silent Witness (2004) - 11. Unfortunately, who can change history? How can one mother and one sister have such similar fates? You are a scholar and a wise man, and you are always looking for answers, but I know that you can never have them. For you cling to a belief that puts the cart before the horse: that is, if the Fall had been eradicated earlier, the beauty and life of your mother and sister would never have been lost. Though they really shouldn't have disappeared, so early.
-- Silent Witness (2004) - 12. This was eleven summers ago. Her grave is now in Section IX, Cemetery 103, Point Hill Mausoleum. Few people can understand the pain this incident caused you. That night you sat by the moat all night, and Hu Rong, a classmate of Bai Chun's, believed that you must have been in pain.
-- Silent Witness (2004) - 13. You treasured this poem until 1999, when you donated it to the Hanju Space Memorial Museum. The donation was just an excuse because you wanted to go back and see your mom so badly.
-- Silent Witness (2004) - 14. The original cause of your disorganization was not your sister, Pai Chun. Because after all, you were already thirty years old at that time. You were already thirty years old, and your psychological structure was basically formed and stabilized.
-- Silent Witness (2004) - 15. A seven year old boy, will he develop a father's love? This topic ............ Bai Chun's boyfriend Wen Yuguang when he was in college once said that whenever Bai Chun mentioned her mother, her eyes would always radiate with pride. His sister didn't know what kind of psychological distortion her brother had endured for her bit of pride. Who has ever seen the luo body of a mother hanging? A child who endures humiliation is both a brother and a father.
-- Silent Witness (2004) - 16. It was with this conviction that you began the so-called elimination of depravity by killing. In fact, from the first time you killed, you knew you were on a path of no return. But the flesh could not resist the control of the spirit. You have envisioned all kinds of endings of your own failure, and although each ending is different, you can be frank and calm in the end. You even hoped that you would be exposed and judged one day earlier. You have envisioned what you would look like in the court of judgment. You envisioned a lot of what you would say and you would love to give a speech in the courtroom. Because of the content of this speech, you find it powerful.
-- Silent Witness (2004) - 17. The next section is important and I want you to listen carefully. Because it deals with your childhood and a dangerous flaw. It determines the basic characteristics of your personality and psychology as an adult. What happened in your childhood, you keep forcing yourself to forget, but you will always remember.
-- Silent Witness (2004) - 18. But what I did not expect was that my line of investigation was exactly the same as Mr. Liu's. Oh, there was a slight error, but it was very small. Then I took the material I had newly investigated and added to it. Do you want to hear it?
-- Silent Witness (2004) - 19. For more than a decade, you've pored over every word of this speech, and now that it may be perfect, you're tempted to try it again. But there is no audience. I'm sure you've given speeches in front of victims at Point Hill, but you can't get enough.
-- Silent Witness (2004) - 20. Now you have me in front of you, and outside the glass are my leaders and colleagues. They've all been exhausted and sickened by you, and they have a hatred for you. But you've prepared a wonderful speech, and they're still interested in hearing it.
-- Silent Witness (2004) - 21. But the pain of losing a loved one quickly turned to anger. Because you still don't know, who is the man who got Bai Chun pregnant? At such a special time, he didn't even come to the hospital to see Bai Chun. No one told you who the man was, but then you found out anyway. This man, Wen Yuguang, was dismissed from the school and came to Yungang to do business, get married and start a family. He seems to have forgotten the dead Bai Chun. This doomed Wen Yuguang's sister, Wen Yuming, who died ten years later at the same age as Bai Chun.
-- Silent Witness (2004) - 22. You have always respected women because your mother, Bai Yuan, and your sister, Bai Chun, were both near-perfect women, but they were destroyed by the so-called Fall. That was why the victims at Point Hill had both lost their lives and been neatly arranged for burial. They all look very peaceful with their legs together and their arms over their chests. You even put stockings on some of the naked bodies. Because you can't bear to see a woman dead and naked. You would feel that putting stockings on her would be like covering your mother's shame.
-- Silent Witness (2004) - 23. Just as he was dimly comprehending this harsh reality, something even more disastrous happened. His beautiful mother, Bai Yuan, hanged herself with shame. And it was naked, watched by countless people. What was even more horrifying was that her son, who was only seven years old at the time, was also one of the onlookers, and was subjected to a humiliation that no adult could bear. But he also knew that he had to protect his younger sister, who was less than two years old, and wanted his younger sister, Bai Chun, to never be subjected to the humiliation that came with his mother's death.
-- Silent Witness (2004) - 24. But you made a mistake. Bai Chun walked into the university under your protection, she was so fresh and new to everything around her that she started a carefree life and soon forgot your advice and started a crazy relationship with her teacher. Unfortunately the outcome of this love affair was, well, unfortunate. Hakushun died of a pregnancy hemorrhage just before graduation. When you traveled thousands of miles to her side, her hands were already cold.
-- Silent Witness (2004) - 25. I don't want to complicate things, so I don't want to ask any questions. And you don't have to answer. Just listen, that's all.
-- Silent Witness (2004) - 26. Indeed, it should have been a remarkable childhood for a child. But it was at this time that a ferocious fire broke out in his spiritual temple, incinerating even his physical body. His mother's extramarital affairs and flesh were suddenly revealed in broad daylight. The thunderbolt came so suddenly that it struck the boy dumbfounded.
-- Silent Witness (2004)
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