The entire film describes the killer's spiritual world through five representative murder stories of the killer. There is no doubt that the killer is mentally ill, but he also claims to be an artist, combining murder and art, and treating each murder as a to complete a work of art. The fascination with art fanaticism makes people crazy, and the male protagonist brings this kind of madness to the extreme. He doesn't care about various human emotions, but is madly immersed in the world of his own art, killing people only for art, so that even if Get caught and finish the final masterpiece. The final scene of the film is very reminiscent of Dante's Divine Comedy, traveling through hell, and finally being swallowed by the fire of hell, and at the same time creating a final piece of work with himself as the theme.
The film uses the dialogue between the author and the characters he imagined, and some famous paintings interspersed among the five murder stories as clues throughout the film. I feel that there should be a lot of metaphors in the film, as well as related content such as art, the Bible, the Divine Comedy, etc. If not It is still difficult to understand a person who has a deep understanding of European and American culture and art (such as me), but inexplicably seems to be very powerful.
The criminals’ methods of committing crimes are not very clever, and some places are even a bit low-level. It feels like this. Why hasn’t it been discovered by the police? In short, it’s not a cool film in the traditional sense of a serial killer’s crime, and the police finally solve the case. Maybe the director’s purpose is also It's not that I want to direct a crime film, but a literary film with a little artistic temperament. It is suitable for people who have a certain foundation in art and like literary and artistic films.
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