There are two versions of the movie, the release version is called Memoir of Murderer, and the director's version is called Another Memory. I will tell you from the beginning that it is not a matter of time, it is basically two movies.
Unlike most films with double endings, the different endings of this film directly change the interpretation of all previous plots.
Before the finale, the two versions have the following major gaps.
1 The interrogation of the prosecutor in the director's version runs through the whole film, and the release version only appears at the end.
2 There are some scenes where Kim Byung-soo interacts with his daughter Eun-hee in the release version, such as eating noodles and cutting hair, but not in the director's version.
3 In the director's version, police officer Min beats a woman to death by violent law enforcement. He remarks: "If you commit a crime, you will always pay a price." It is not in the theatrical version.
4 In the director's version, the police officer Chung An brought several new police officers to interview Kim Byung-soo, but the release version did not.
If you don't look at the ending, the presence or absence of these differences has little effect on the plot. But the endings of the two versions are completely different, and in turn, we can find clues to arrange these subtle gaps.
The release version is a warm and touching R15 story. His father (Kim Byung-soo) had killed many people, and an accident made him suffer from Alzheimer's disease. He used a tape recorder and a diary to keep records. He bumped into a serial killer (Min Tae-soo), and his intuition told him that he was the culprit of the recent serial murders. The murderer was eyeing his daughter. his words. The murderer infiltrated his house and deleted his diary, blaming him for the murder. He could lose his memory at any time, and finally rescued his daughter (though it was not his own), killed the murderer with his own hands, and finally became completely insane.
The film is complete from the plot to the concept, but at the end, Jin Bingxiu suddenly began to monologue in his heart again. I think it is inappropriate to interpret it as multiple personalities, which will lead to the excessive collapse of the previous plot. In fact, why Jin Bingxiu appeared at the entrance of the tunnel is not mentioned elsewhere in the whole film, so you might as well see it as a preview of another version.
The director's version is R18. At first, the prosecutor came to Kim Byung-soo's ward, took out his diary and began to ask questions. From hitting the murderer to killing him to rescue his daughter, Kim Byung-su insisted on his own account. What made the prosecutor unclear is that Min Tae-soo's body disappeared in the end, the dead in the serial murder case were all exhumed, one of the suspects could not be found, the other was demented, and Kim Byung-soo's daughter did not want to say more, so the prosecutor had to give up and take Kim Byung-su let go. Kim Byung-soo walked out of the hospital carrying his bag and walked to the entrance of the tunnel (the opening scene was finally connected here). The cold wind blew, and he looked down at the shoes he was wearing backwards, took them off, and put them on. This was the first time he was wearing his shoes. In the hospital just now, the prosecutor saw that his slippers were all upside down. This means that he remembers it all.
It wasn't that he hit the murderer, but he was hit after killing people; it wasn't that he went to rescue the kidnapped daughter, but he killed the police officer who was protecting the daughter, and sank the man to the bottom of the lake; and The police officer he befriended was not killed by others, but by himself. All the previous plots were just made up by his remaining memory, so in the end he said: "Don't trust your memory."
Now go back and look at the meaning of the four different points just mentioned.
1 The interlude of the director's version of the prosecutor indicates that the entire film is narrated by Kim Byung-soo, not a narration from a zero perspective, which is an important premise for the final reversal.
2 The daily scenes with the daughter in the release version depict the daughter's feelings for her father, so that the daughter's recording of her father and the final rescue have full motives. The director's version does not have these, and the relationship between the daughter and the father is not harmonious in nature.
3 The police officer Min was talking about killing in front of him, but the lines that Officer Min recited were supposed to belong to Kim Byung-soo.
4. Because of the close relationship with Officer An, Officer An will finally want to persuade Kim Byung-soo to surrender himself and create his own motivation to discuss with Officer Min.
Where the plot is the same, there are different meanings due to the different endings.
① Kim Byung-soo's father was an alcoholic who loved to beat people. He killed his father and the family was more peaceful. He continued to exercise extrajudicial justice and killed all kinds of bad people.
② Min Tae-soo once rescued his mother under his father's hands, but was beaten with a flat iron by his mother and cut off half of his head. Since then, he felt that women were like this and grew into a cold-blooded killer.
In the release version, both points are real. Before the accident, Kim Byung-soo acted as a chivalrous man. After killing his cheating wife, he overturned the car. Since then, he lost his memory intermittently and could no longer kill. He didn't plan to resume his old business until he saw Min Tae-soo, who threatened his daughter's safety, and in the end he only killed him. left him alone.
In the director's version, two points are told by Kim Byung-soo, the first half of ① is true, while ② is completely fictional, Min Tae-soo is an innocent police officer who wants to protect his daughter, and Kim Byung-soo is the only killer. The last X-ray revealed that Kim Byung-soo was the one who lost a piece of his head. That is to say, after he killed his father, there was no peace in the family. He was beaten by his mother, so he lost his human feelings and made killing for fun. Relying on amnesia to obtain redemption, projecting evil onto others, imagining father's love for myself, and supporting myself to live upright and upright, until the day when I can't remember anything.
In the release version, the existence of ① and ② reveal the origin of the birth of the two killers, forming a contrast; in the director's version, the existence of ① and ② reveal how the killer separates his memory to construct another individual, both of which are true and The imagination is mixed. The same plot on screen, both interpretations are smooth and ingenious, and that's one of the interesting things about this movie.
Why do you want to make two versions? The director wants to tell you that you can remember which story you want to remember, anyway, memory is not credible.
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