This movie is really good, at least I can watch it twice in a short time without getting bored.
The setting of this film, in my opinion, goes beyond SAW's self-help mode. Is it the mode of saving yourself or saving your loved ones. You can see how powerful this model is.
The exploration and discussion of "love" occupies a large proportion in this film. Just looking at the relationships between the couples selected in the film (bad couple, twins, mother and son, grandchildren, police and criminals' GAY love), can see. Although the film only allows the police officer and the novice female police officer to discuss the topic of love a little bit, but for this little bit of discussion the film has made a lot of foreshadowing, and it can even be said that the entire film is to show or assist this discussion, Enrich the discussion with these bloody, dazzling examples to give the audience a better feel for the discussion.
This is also where this film is different from films that purely seek sensory stimulation or suspenseful logic. In addition to a good plot, good pacing, good suspense and thriller effects, it also tries to show how far "love" can go, and also tries to discuss whether "love" is worth relying on. (And it seems to be well-discussed.)
This is the question of criminals, police officers, new policewomen, and even all the main characters involved in the film.
In addition to hating the injustice of this society, the criminals have brutally attacked so many people. There is another reason: in order to verify the existence of people who are willing to sacrifice themselves and leave their lives to others, to soothe the guilt that he once killed his mother and collapse heart of. With little hope, the criminal yearns for her own redemption, hoping that someone will convince her that there is "true love" in this world.
The police officer committed a crime out of love: he fell in love with the criminal in that case and shielded him. So much so that the extremely tragic female victims could not claim their grievances - which led to the current serial murder case.
At the end of the film, the police officer said that the most regrettable thing in his life was falling in love with the person sitting opposite him. The death of the police officer was a relief to himself. And the female victim of the year, the current serial killer, finally got the redemption of her heart under the self-sacrifice of the police officer.
At the end of the film, there is no comment on what level of love is love.
But at the end, the police officer chose to die by himself. Perhaps the director wanted to say that this kind of unswerving love—existed.
Maybe we can look forward to this kind of love with hope. In life, there are various, various degrees of love in different depths, whether we should cherish them and how we should treat them - it depends on our own choices.
The director is just dissecting the different depths of this love, whether this love is selfish or not, this love is chaotic and mixed. pure.
An audience can have a clearer and wiser understanding of "love" because of a film, which can almost be said to have raised the understanding to a level - then, this film can already be said to be very good ,very good! enough!
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