Broadcasting in Watching Movies Midnight Brain Burning column in a certain month in 2013, since the Hwaseong serial murder case was restored in the movie, these pieces have been put together The evidence of his death has been turning public opinion on and off the screen. People are keen to scrutinize the details, but they tend to ignore the things on the table, and the fatal clue buried by director Bong Joon-ho in my eyes is a surface that runs through the whole story - the night.
The Tragedy of the Times
Don't be in a hurry to say that I'm trying to deceive me, wait for me to add an attribute to "Night" - "man-made". In 1986, since the "Gwangju Incident" (in 1980, the Korean government's suppression of the pro-democracy movement caused a large number of casualties), the white terror that has permeated South Korea has not yet dissipated. The sound of the exercise announcement was heard on the radio), and towns were required to conduct light control at night (houses and other buildings were forced to turn off the lights to avoid being targeted by enemy planes) to cooperate. In name, it is to warn the air attack from the enemy in the north, but in fact it reminds the people of the importance of government protection, and takes the opportunity to spread a suppressed sense of fear and achieve control. Therefore, when the announcement is broadcast, most people choose to go home, close the door, and turn off the lights. The deserted world outside falls into darkness, and then becomes a killer's paradise. Every young woman who misses the announcement or needs to go out at night will naturally become prey. However, it would be too naive to take the darkness that is easy to walk into as the only help given to the murderer in that era. The serial stupor of the police is also an important factor leading to the unsolved serial murders.
As the only legally authorized unit to investigate cases, the police station should have the innate advantage of collecting evidence at the first time, but their "amateur" has ruined many clues. During the on-site investigation, since there were no protective measures in place, villagers in the countryside could “seek fun” at the scene of the incident as if they were visiting a park: children could stick the victim’s clothes on poles as flags, and large tractors would run over them with rumbles. The footprints left by a criminal suspect. In terms of interrogation and investigation, torture to extract confessions, worshiping gods and worshipping Buddha, and doing everything in the other side; even if he gets to the point, police officer Pu Duoman will take misleading the suspect into perjury as his top priority. ticket.
It is worth noting that during the interrogation of the man in red pants, a plumber entered the interrogation room under the watchful eyes of the public, and "overlooked" the prisoner's explanation and the police's interrogation. The thing is, in the two scenes where the plumber appeared, neither Park Doman, who has always been simple and rude, nor Xu Taiyun, who claimed to be rational, did not respond to the strangeness of outsiders entering the interrogation room, as if they were not surprised, and the explanation was similar. The situation has happened many times, and it is possible that any person in town who has delivered meals here has obtained the same information. In addition to this, another source of information on homicides is newspapers. (The man in red pants and the reclusive woman on the mountain both mentioned that they got the news of the murder from the newspaper) Officer Park Doman complained to the sheriff next to Li Xiangshu's body: "These reporters always arrive at the scene before me! "The media with supernatural powers can actually enter the scene before the police to shoot, that is to say, the photos in the newspapers show the most primitive state of the crime scene, and the death status, murder law, women's private parts, etc. are unreservedly displayed to the scene. In that era when desires were severely suppressed, such naked information would make people think of themselves as murderers and become lustful like murderers, so the man in red pants would say that he had a pleasure in reading the newspaper, and then use his body Dangerously entered the scene to masturbate. Unconsciously, the two groups who played their part in solving the case became the accomplices to increase the difficulty of solving the case, igniting the lust of the men in the town.
Desires in the whole city The appearance
of all beings is Feng Junhao's way of exaggerating lust and spreading the whole city. Not only the man in red pants and the plumber, but also the other supporting roles, large and small, in the film, no matter whether there are lines or not, and how many scenes are played, they all look like they are acting stupidly. Remember the guy in the police booth who was a vigilante who likes to make fun of girls? He was one of them. When Guiyu turned his back, the soldier peeked at Guiyu's lower body very obscenely, and kept his hands involuntarily in it. His crotch, you know, Police Officer Xu Taiyun was standing next to him, but he didn't stop until he was interrupted by questioning. This was not out of boldness, but out of habit. It can be seen that during the vigil, he should also have had sexual fantasies about the women who came and went. Otherwise, who was the hand of the pictures of women's genitals that were vaguely exposed on the wall before the children came in?
Look at another master of lust, Qiao Yonggu. This bachelor police officer, who took four years to graduate from high school with difficulty, has a strong sexual need no less than his violent instinct for suspects. When he was looking at the nude pictures of the man in red pants, he licked his lips so deeply; when he saw Kyuyu's back, he had a physiological reaction; in the conversation with Park Doman, he mentioned that he was not in college. The only regret is that I missed the graduation group sex event; later, in front of the superior leaders in the karaoke hall, I openly attacked the dancers and made a mess on the floor. But he didn't have the sentiment of pity for fragrance and jade, and most of his feelings for women were lustful. In the process of suppressing the demonstrators, he only grabbed women and beat and kicked; Shaking as barbarically as weeds, the positioning of "If you don't possess it, you will destroy it" makes it easy for people to combine him with the image of a perverted murderer. Moreover, there is an obvious doubt that proves Qiao Yonggu's change: as a thug, he never provides Investigative suggestion, but when Pu Duoman put forward the clue of "Qinglong" and the old sheriff did not express his opinion on it, he abnormally made a remark that "Yongdu Temple is next door, do you start from there?", here There are suspicions of killing people by using a knife, but these are all motives speculation, and there is no evidence to rely on, but the contrasting behavioral trajectories on the characters are deliberately added by the director, and the same settings appear on the other two people. The two indulgent people looked light.
That's right, I'm finally going to talk about the father of the fool Bai Guanghao and the little white-faced Park Xinggui, the two most vocal suspects in the polls. Let’s talk about Guang Hao’s father first. He is a character that makes people watch the film, but they don’t even know there is such a character. He has very few appearances, and the composition of the picture is always in the corner of the cat, the lines are not painful or itchy, and the lack of The sense of existence, let alone the desire to tap into him. But [Memories of Murder] is known as a crime movie with no flaws, how can an old soy sauce be set up out of thin air? After careful study of my father's few scenes, I found that he is really a sneaky man. Before Guang Hao rolled down the stairs of the barbecue restaurant, he obviously saw his father eavesdropping behind the screen; when he went to the haystack to rescue Guang Hao, he stopped as soon as he encountered the police and stopped following Guang Hao, as if he suddenly did not care about his son. dead and alive. Reminiscent of Guanghao's mention of the inseparable relationship with his father (saying that he and his father watched "The Police" together), and the rumors that Park Duoman's girlfriend mentioned that the Bai family is a woman killer, this is the first time for me to have a combination of the two. From this perspective, looking at those suspicious phenomena, everything is easily solved: the father used a trick to move flowers and trees, and passed on his inner lust to his son. Guanghao is a physically disabled person (unsteady with a shovel, using an electric ruler, unable to hold chopsticks while eating), but he treats people with sincerity and has no heart. How police officer Park Duoman treats him, he always answers questions . (Guang Hao said "I want to kill all the women who looked down on him", but he was actually imitating his father's words, because whenever he recalled the past, he began to unconsciously cast his eyes into the distance, and later described the details of killing Li Xiangshu. .)
His characteristics later became a natural shield to protect his father's criminal and vicious deeds. Whenever the case was found here, all clues would disappear due to his mental and physical defects. At the same time, the sincere Guanghao is easy to hide, so he unconsciously becomes his father's scout. This would explain the reason why Guanghao followed Li Xiangshu, because his father instructed him to lock on the target; also, in the tavern, Guanghao fell from the stairwell inexplicably because he was sent to eavesdrop on the conversation of the quartet, just accidentally Fell asleep. The insidiousness of his father was already hinted at in the film. Guanghao mentioned in the haystack that he was burnt by "that person" when he was thrown into the fire pit when he was a child. Finish talking about your experience. It is conceivable that his father was the maker of Guang Hao's scar. He was once disgusted by Guang Hao's intellectual problems, and after being widowed, he worked in the tavern every day, except at night, he had no chance to contact women, and was subject to lights. Under the control, he even lost the opportunity to find flowers and ask willows normally at night, and his repressed lust finally broke out, and three rapes and murders were inevitable. (Kwang Ho said he saw "that person" commit the crime three times)
Park Heung Kyu's death
Compared with the inconspicuousness of Guanghao's father, Park Heung-gyu has all the factors to become the target of public criticism as soon as he appears. The handsome appearance, the date of discharge that coincided with the time of the crime, the death songs on demand over and over again, and most importantly, the soft palm like a woman. It was at this time that the body of the sixth victim was found, and the four-member investigation team, who were at a loss, had lost their minds (even Xu Taiyun, who has always analyzed and judged cases rationally, was called by the sheriff "a man who is crazier than a criminal"). After the hands were very soft, everyone (including the audience) began to press the collected evidence on him, regardless of whether the evidence was valid or not. In fact, the evidence about the hands was a misleading signal from the beginning, starting with the short-haired girl in the school toilet. Her masculine makeup makes people daydream. He has the hands of a woman and the appearance of a man. Although he can't do the rape method of a man, theoretically it is possible to stuff peaches into his vagina (the sixth victim, An Mixuan's The timing of the death came right after the woman on the mountain was questioned). The most important thing is that she lied. She said that she heard the cry of the woman on the mountain, but she was actually trying to divert her attention, because from the camera of Officer Xu Taiyun going up the mountain, the woman's house on the mountain was two or three kilometers away from the campus. When I heard the cry, I had to stand on the top of the mountain with a big loudspeaker and shout piercingly, in order to achieve the effect. Later, the woman on the mountain was not a good bird (she lived alone, but a man's work uniform was hung outside the house, and she lacked an alibi), in the process of recalling her rape, she did not mention how she escaped the bondage in the end. She obviously concealed something. Her "hands are very soft" may be a distorted statement of her own crime, which is naturally not enough as evidence in court. Another piece of evidence that the police had high hopes for, the semen report, was eventually overturned for the same reason. The forensic doctor made it very clear that the sampling came from the victim's clothing, which was the result of masturbation, and the anxious old sheriff interrupted and decided that the DNA test would be able to convict Park Xinggui. This is still the verification logic for a single target, but Not the search logic that diverges to groups. The director had already laid a foreshadowing for the result. Before the sixth murder, he added a paragraph where the man in red pants went to the crime scene to masturbate, suggesting that the semen on the clothes may have originated from other men in the pants. At the end, Bong Joon-ho even pointed out the innocence of Park Xing-kyu. The murderer who kidnapped the schoolgirl in the woods crouched down, revealing brown pants (at least it was definitely not black), while Park Xing-kyu was drunk on the bus and wore black pants.
The doubts in Park Xing-kyu's body have been over-interpreted, which shows a truth: when people have no way to go, they often choose to panic; when despairing of a case, they can only hope that a criminal will resist all the hatred, and then look at him Die, whether or not the truth should be so. Looking back on this young man who is still innocent today, is his tragedy worthy of sympathy: a veteran who was tortured under the military and political system, soon after returning to society, he was dragged into an interrogation environment without evidence, tortured with cold eyes, and could only keep silent. A soldier survives with a stubborn attitude; the police officers on the opposite side are equally bleak, and Park Doman loses the ability to trust others in his later life (does not trust his son, does not trust the manager); Xu Taiyun is proud of the rationality of the case Burned by anger; the most painful is Qiao Yonggu, he paid the price of amputation for brutality, this is the whine of the times, anyone who is tormented by nightmares and loses his sense is a slave controlled by desire, they will not Lost their lives in this battle, but no one can escape.
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