Detective Park (Song Kang-ho) usually solves cases by asking suspects to recall murder scenes. Relying on his strong intuition that "my eyes can read others.", the suspect finally surrendered because he couldn't bear the various forced confessions from Detective Park and his assistant, Detective Cao.
Police officer Xu from Seoul is a highly educated person who is good at reasoning and analysis. He was calm and clear-headed when he was in trouble, and began to feel out of tune with Detective Park and the others, thinking that they were no-brainers and rough-hewn countrymen.
Two detectives with completely different acting styles have a strong enthusiasm for their work, and they both hate the murderer to the bottom of their minds under the two case-handling ideas, and they must catch the murderer. What they encountered was a perverted killer who was extremely ferocious, with clever techniques and no flaws. The women who were raped and murdered one after another in the village were oppressing the nerves of the two. The pressure of public opinion, the death of witnesses, the endless air defense drills, the clashes between the police and the civilians, the investigation was treated as a hoax. The suspect was caught several times, but was disappointed again and again. When the last girl was killed, the film reached its climax. Under the heavy rain and hazy sky, the police officer Xu, who was on the verge of collapse, could no longer restrain his inner despair, and shot the suspect who had just been cleared of the crime... I
checked it out specially. In the mid-1980s, South Korea was in the period of South Korean military and political rule, and a new wave of democratic reform began. Even at the cost of economic setbacks. The whole country is immersed in a tense atmosphere, with rallies, demonstrations, and violent conflicts being staged all the time. The duality of the times is reflected in this moment. Times of chaos and imbalance lead to complex and imbalanced human nature. The conflict between the police and the people seems to be irresolvable. At the beginning of the film, the police chief, like the two detectives, had great enthusiasm for the case, but in the face of increasing public pressure from the outside world, the police chief no longer cared about the development of the case, but cared about "face" The question is how to resolve the conflict.
With the case unsolved, Detective Park also left his post to become a salesman. When he returned to his homeland again, the picture returned to the drainage ditch where the film began to discover the female corpse. The dialogue with the little girl is meaningful. Even if you have surrendered to this era, the real danger has not been eliminated. "Ordinary people" are hidden in Around us, the seemingly calm is actually surging, and the murderer is still at large, ironically carrying out murderous memories.
The sound of gunshots echoing in the tunnel is a heavy inquiry to the extinct humanity and that era.
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