Upon starting the movie “We’re Nothing at All”, there appeared a precedential sensational scene brutally hung on the big screen – a double-decker bus was relentlessly turned into a sea of fire without a dose of warning – on a universal rejoicing Valentine’s Day.

The two young men, both of whom are in for different levels of hardships in their lives, manifest to the world that they have the right to kill themselves and others because the world has treated them unfairly and badly.

The truth is, these two men are normal, healthy, good-looking, strong, and free enough to do whatever they want to do, except that one was sexually assaulted by his father when he was a fledgling. The other was severely scolded and battered by his father when he told him he liked boys, plus facing some kinds of troubles anyone with low education will encounter when entering the real world to make a living, and being gay, occasionally confronting homophobes. However, what we could see from the movie is that they are pathetic and underdogs in society, and they have suffered from long-term oppression with no channels to gain release, rendering them no choice but to go to extremes, committing savage deeds, deliberately taking others’ lives with them.

The movie copies an event that happened in 1998 in Wuhan, China, to today’s Hong Kong, arbitrarily moving words across paper to make the accomplishment. I dare say it is a big mistake, rendering the movie lacking the essence of truth. I tell you the truth: Hong Kong is still a lot different from China. Hong Kong has social workers able to help, professionals competent to offer advice, a comprehensive community safety net providing the needy more than the basics, and there are not as many homophobes bearing hatred towards gays as there are in China, as the movie has included.

The movie intentionally takes sides with one dimension to call out the societal injustice without offering a possible character to convey a positive message to audiences. Say, this possible character can alert audiences that killing people is a sin, let alone doing so in a selfish and perverse way. Besides, this character can encourage people to seek help by letting professionals help them solve some problems that are entangling them mentally and psychologically. Telling people open doors are everywhere, only you dare knock on them. With this nourishment, the movie’s tone will become fairer and more balanced.

In the movie, the two bombers, before going to blast the bus with flesh and blood, had left some words on the wall in their partitioned room, saying: “When an avalanche occurs, no snowflake is innocent. On a beautiful day, we end our unbeautiful lives.” They look moving, gaining tears and sympathy; however, they are selfish, dark, evil, and cowardly, and can only gain severe condemnation and afterlife punishment.

Under no circumstances can anyone take others’ lives or harm others’ bodies; that must be clearly acknowledged in the movie, no matter what other messages it needs to convey to us, because no messages are more important than this one.

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