Doctor Bruno Hamel's 8-year-old daughter Jasmine is smart and beautiful, but Jasmine was raped and killed on her way to school one afternoon. Self-blame has plunged the doctor into deep pain. The suspect was arrested four days later and is expected to be jailed for 15 to 25 years. But Hamel doesn't think this will ease his and his family's pain, so he embarks on a well-planned and daring plan of revenge. He rented a house, bought a computer, and went back to the hospital to get a lot of medical equipment. One day, he hijacked the rapist's prison van and imprisoned the inmate in a secluded cabin to begin his torture plan. He smashed the prisoner's knees, beat him with chains, scooped out his entrails and boiled him for the prisoner to eat, and castrated him; physically tortured as well as mental torture. As time passed, while the doctor tortured the prisoner, the doctor was also suffering inwardly, and he did not feel the joyful feeling of revenge. On the seventh day of kidnapping the prisoner, the doctor turned himself in as promised but he did not kill the prisoner as planned.
The film isn't bloodless, but it's not scary. In the overall tone of blue-gray, we see the pain of the male protagonist, without the interference of any background music, and hear the original sound without any modification. In fact, the doctor is not an evil person. He is a brain full of hatred. In the process of revenge, he did not get a smooth feeling, but became more and more painful, and his conscience was condemned more and more deeply. The rhythm of the whole film is very slow, making people feel that this is a bloody, thrilling violent film at all. What we see is that a kind heart is gradually twisted and mad, but what makes him mad is not so much power, but only the reality that the criminal suspect was bullied when he was young. How long does it take for a vengeful heart to heal, and what kind of punishment is needed for crimes to make our pain heal? During the more than two hours of watching the movie, I was constantly experiencing the creator's thinking and discussion on human nature: How can we take revenge for hatred? Is it a good choice to use violence to control violence? Who is responsible for the deterioration of human nature in the whole society?
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