SINGAPORE: The World Between Us, a Taiwanese drama series, received overwhelmingly positive reviews in 2019 for its provocative depiction of a mass murder case and its aftermath.
The show analyzes complicated topics, including stigma around mental health, media ethics, and death sentence debates via the changing viewpoints of those affected by the tragedy and their family.
A netizen on the Chinese website Douban provides a scathing analysis of how society has handled the murderer and the event in the well-known drama: “The public pulls weeds, the government pulls them up, and the media waters them down, but only Wang She, the killer’s lawyer, looks at the soil.”
The witty comparison draws attention to the societal inclinations of judgment, execution, and sensationalism and contrasts these with the defense lawyer’s effort to delve into the tragedy’s root causes.
Three incidents of mass violence occurred in China in a brief period of nine days: On November 11, a man slammed into a crowd in Zhuhai, killing 35 people and wounding 43 others; on November 17, a knife assault at a Jiangsu vocational school killed eight people and injured 17 more; and on November 19, a car crashed outside a Hunan elementary school, hurting multiple pupils.
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