The main line of the film is an intelligence officer determined to avenge his fiancee who was tortured and killed, and the story of a cat-and-mouse chase with a serial killer.
In my opinion, the question of "what is justice" is usually involved in revenge movies. From the police's point of view: it is justice to arrest the suspect and bring him to justice. From another point of view (mostly the victim's family): what has been hurt, it is justice to return as much as possible, life for life. The above two "justices" are very common, and the collision of the two "justices" often appears in revenge movies, but it does not apply in "Saw the Devil", because the male protagonist's revenge deviates from the above two "justices", go Going the wrong way and becoming a "similar" of perverted murderers, I will talk about it in detail later.
When I first watched this movie, I thought it was a "sweet article": Kim Soo-hyun would capture the serial killer and then kill and dismember his body to accomplish the justice he insisted on. I didn't expect that he would let him go after catching Zhang Qingzhe for the first time, and gave him a sum of money to escape. Of course, he also buried a GPS eavesdropping positioning capsule in Zhang's body at the same time, playing cat scratching. mouse game.
When he first let Zhang go, he strayed from the so-called revenge. If he wants to take revenge for Zhuyan, this time he can completely drag Zhang into the small black house to carry out a brutal 100 times brutal killing, and use his life for his life. But he chose to let go, which shows that he is not seeking revenge for Zhuyan at all, he is to get the pleasure from this process like a cat chasing a mouse to get rid of his guilt and regret, and also to avenge himself for being hurt. .
It can also be seen from the final ending that he is avenging the hurt he received. The final outcome: Kim Soo Hyun set up a clever mechanism and killed Zhang with the hands of Zhang Qingzhe's family. Zhang's head rolled to his family's feet, and Zhang's family collapsed and cried. The feeling of this scene is exactly the same as when Joo-yeon's head was found by the river and fell to the ground from the box in the hands of the police. Kim Soo-hyun and Joo-yeon's father collapsed after seeing it.
Therefore, Kim Soo Hyun is just paranoid to complete his road of revenge, not purely for Zhuyan. His approach to revenge changes when he discovers that Zhang has no fear of death and pain. Many people said that the final ending was unfinished and hurt the innocent Zhang Qingzhe's family, but recall the first scene, when Zhuyan's head fell out of the river beach, the scene of Jin Xiuxian and Zhuyan's father collapsed. The two scenes are strikingly similar, and it can be said that Kim has completed his own revenge.
Because he used the method of cat and mouse to get revenge at first, Zhang, the mouse, killed several lives on the way to "escape", and almost ruined two innocent young ladies.
When Zhang ate at Jin twice, his hands were cut off and his hamstrings were picked, Zhang chose to take refuge in a "like-minded" kind - the fat ogre. Unexpectedly, Zhang, Fat Ogre, and Fat Ogre's female companion were KO'd together. It was also here that there was a turning point. Zhang unexpectedly learned that there was a capsule locator in his intestines. When he was released from the hospital by Kim again, he successfully got rid of the locator and started the road of anti-kill. Zhang killed Zhu Yan's father, and by the way raped and killed Zhu Yan's sister who came across this scene.
After finishing this big vote, Zhang, the mouse, was equivalent to copying the cat's home, so the mouse wanted to escape the cat's pursuit, chose to obediently enter the cage, and surrendered to the police station. Unexpectedly, Jin took Zhang away in front of the police station with the mentality of breaking the bank, and began to kill him.
In fact, after watching the movie, I want to say that after going around in a circle, in the end, although Kim Soo Hyun killed serial killer Zhang Qingzhe and avenged his fiancée, he also lost his father-in-law and sister-in-law, and ruined his life. If Zhang was eliminated after he was caught for the first time at the beginning, there would be no such thing as the latter, and of course the movie would not come out.
The reason why Kim Soo Hyun didn't directly solve Zhang at the beginning is that as I said earlier, he actually has a demonic side in his heart, and in order to satisfy his tyrannical psychology, his "justice" has deviated from the direction, and the so-called "righteous" Revenge is just to take revenge for oneself, and eventually pushes oneself to perdition. It can be said that in this cat-and-mouse game, both sides are losers.
The plot of this movie is still surprising. The lighting and soundtrack are remarkable, but there are a lot of small logic bugs and better details that can be completed (of course, it is also possible that I watched the abridged version). It can be said that the main line of the movie is strong, but the branch lines are insufficient.
There are a lot of logic bugs, such as police scraps, which are basically useless, serial killer Zhang Qingzhe's physical recovery ability is comparable to that of an immortal, etc. I won't talk about it here.
The small details can be better: in the villa that the fat ogre robbed, the story of him and his girlfriend was not explained very clearly, so I always had doubts about the identity of the curly-haired girl. Was she the maid in the villa before? Or the girlfriend the ogre knew from the beginning.
Another student was dragged into the greenhouse by Zhang Qingzhe and raped. After Zhang was dealt with by Jin, she took the opportunity to run away. Before the police were still investigating her disappearance, the line was completely cut off.
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