【影片簡介】天上掉下來的禮物─小林滅村事件二部曲 A Gift from the Sky
【正義思辨】篇 Ways to Justice
天上掉下來的禮物─小林滅村事件二部曲
A Gift from The Sky - The Tragedy of Hsiaolin Village Part 2
台灣 Taiwan︱2012︱142 min︱羅興階、王秀齡 LO Shin-chieh, WANG Hsiu-ling
二○○九年八月八日一場風災，在一瞬間摧毀了一個世外桃源的村落，也讓其中四百一十位村民永遠沉睡在故鄉的土地之下。親人的哭聲劃破天際，小林滅村的悲難成為國際注目所在。馬英九總統九次造訪小林，每次都哀傷自責地向小林人道歉，重建小林家園是他的使命，但一分為三的永久屋卻撕裂了原本質樸的小林人。
兩年多來小林人無語問蒼天，至今仍無法為往生親人討回一個公道。對親人的思念，有人化作雲煙，有人藉觀落陰陰陽會合，有人寄託給未來的孩子，有人至今仍走不出心中的陰霾，小孩天真的童言童語與大人世界的家園重建，形成一種無奈的對比。
重建之路遙遠艱辛，生計重建與心靈重建遠比家園重建更艱難，繼《爸爸節的禮物──小林滅村事件首部曲》之後，羅興階與王秀齡導演繼續關注八八風災議題，以本片記錄六對夫婦災後生計重建的心路歷程及孩童對災難的記憶，展現小林滅村後倖存者的故事縮影。
A disastrous storm on August 8th, 2009, destroyed a utopia, as 410 lives were buried in a split second under the soil of their home. With the cries of the agonized families crossing the sky, the tragedy of Hsiaolin Village caught international attention. President MA visited Hsiaolin Village nine times, always apologizing to the villagers with grief and self-reproach. President MA took the reconstruction of Hsaiolin Village as his personal mission, and yet the tri-parted permanent housing split and divided the otherwise rustic and innocent villagers.
For more than two years, the Hsaiolin villagers have been wondering how things turned out this way, because, even now, they still can’t bring justice to their deceased family members. Some of them are finished with thinking about their loved ones, some people try to reunite with the deceased through psychics, some put their hope in the children they are about to have, while some are still haunted by the pains of losing the families. The children’s naïve talking and the adults’ home rebuilding constitute some kind of frustration and calculation.
Though the road to rebuild their home is long and difficult, the rebuilding of their livelihood and spirits is even more challenging. As a sequel to A Gift for Father's Day– The Tragedy of Hsiaolin Village Part 1, this documentary is a record of what six married couples felt about the reconstruction of their livelihood and what four children remembered about the moment when the disaster stroke. This story is a miniature of what happened after Hsiaolin Village was destroyed and an enduring pain for the Hsiaolin villagers.