It is often said that time can heal all wounds, but some pains cannot be buried by time. No matter how long it takes, the scar will still be bloody after being opened, as fresh and painful as it was just scratched. An old blue-collar who worked hard for decades in a Mercedes-Benz car factory, at the age of sixty-seven, turned into a murderer and could enjoy a leisurely retirement life. What made him go nowhere?
The opening of "Innocent Murder: The Corinne Case" is a repressive scene: the dark and long corridors, dimly lit and dark red carpets, are filled with an atmosphere of uncertainty. With the change of perspective of footsteps, the presidential suite inside the door suddenly opened up, and through the floor-to-ceiling windows you could have a bird's eye view of the entire city, but this brief brightness was only the last afterglow before the sunset, followed by gloomy darkness. An old man killed another older old man. On the magnificent carpet, blood and flesh were glued to the assailant's leather shoes, but he staggered blankly, looking like a young bird flapping its wings to return to the nest. . The bloody footprints on the beige floor tiles were shocking. He sat wearily on the black sofa and said, "He's dead, in the presidential suite..." He whispered, as if to order a refreshing cup of coffee, if you don't see the splash on his cheeks No one would have thought that he had just killed a person.
The film opens with suspense, the tone is suppressed and dull, after Colinni said this, he stopped speaking. The lens slides from the yellow-green courtroom to the black-toned interrogation room, from the beige court hall to the dark green autopsy room, to the yellow-green boxing gym with blue lights, and even the coffee shop is a bleak yellow-green. There is no bright warm color. When Leining and Martinger walked while discussing the end of the trial as soon as possible, the background was lush green trees, and this delicate green was also the green of cunning betrayal.
Corinne’s indifferent silence put a lot of pressure on Lenin. This was his first case to go to court. Even if he didn’t make a name for it, he would have a normal and happy ending, instead of jumping up and down to face it. The party who is as cold as a rock. A boy steals bread. This is of course stealing, but if he tells you that he hasn’t eaten for two days, then he will get your sympathy. Laining persuaded with all his heart. Among Corinne's people are stretched long, stern faces like sculptures. Lenin didn't understand why some people didn't care about the result of his judgment, life and death. Afterwards, he assumed a posture as if the soul was no longer there. Why did he kill Meyer? It wasn't until Lenin accidentally mentioned his father in his anxiety that Corinne spoke for the first time: You should go see your father. Lenin didn't understand what this meant, but with a ding in his mind, the lock of the tightly fitted box rang. Although he hadn't grasped the key yet, he knew that what he wanted was in this box.
The film uses a multi-line narrative, the reality line and the past line are intertwined, the Laining line and the Corinne line are mutually radiant, the jump is very meticulous and will not be incomprehensible, but the emotional connection is just right. When Laining is under pressure, he will go to the boxing gym to fight. As a Turk, his integration is not easy. Meyer took him in, gave him the missing fatherly love, and gave him the opportunity to advance. He and Meyer’s child grew up with a childhood sweetheart, and the gift he received after graduating from college was a classic Mercedes-Benz car. This is his benefactor and his family, and he is now defending his murderer. He insisted on the professional ethics of a lawyer, but couldn't live his own feelings. He ran to the mansion time and time again, time and the frequency of visits to the prison reconciled, he put in the arms of Joanna, it is the understanding and comfort he wanted to get. He was afraid of being regarded as an ungrateful person, but he happened to be the ungrateful person in Joanna's mouth. He enjoyed the gift of the Meyer family to become a lawyer and rank among the upper class. His good friend is the grandson of the Meyer family. His childhood sweetheart’s first love is the granddaughter of the Meyer family. In the first half of Lenin’s life, Meyer The existence of the family is so eye-catching and expansive, and its influence on him is even greater than that of his parents. However, for the sake of the truth, he walked step by step to the opposite of the Meyer family, and even did not hesitate to let the decency of the benefactor disappear. His struggle was as difficult as that of Corinne.
Under the first half of the film, the mystery is solved step by step. Corinne never spoke, unwilling to accept that the first trial ended in a passive to absurd manner, Lenin wanted to investigate Corinne. When he came to a small Italian town, everyone here knew Colinning, and everyone seemed to have a good relationship with him. This made him even more puzzled-what makes a good man suddenly a murderer? In the vast sea of files, Lenin pieced together Corinne’s past little by little. As he saw in the small town, Corinne was an ordinary person without any taint and criminal record, but he had a Unusual childhood. During World War II, Meyer served in the SS. This small Italian city was occupied by the German army. He was the commander of the army. Unwilling to be oppressed by the Nazis, the Italian underground party chose to resist and killed two German soldiers. In order to punish and deter the people, Meyer proposed to use the lives of ten Italian civilians to offset the death of a German with ten to one. In the square, young Corinne was caught by Meyer and watched as his father was shot. Among the twenty people who were shot, only his father was not selected at random, and his father was singled out only because of him. There is no evil more evil than this brutality. It destroys faith and destroys the life of a family and a child. In the long sixty years that followed, Corinne would resent himself every time he thought of his father.
Meyer can get away from the war, transform into a well-known entrepreneur, gain honor, and be baptized by the years into a kind-hearted'good person'. As for Corinne, he stayed in the war forever and could never come out again. He was bitten day by day in pain, but he could not get the cure. No one was responsible for it. It seemed that the end of the war put an end to the things in the war. No one wanted to revisit the old things and the law did not do it. After the death of his relatives, he chose to lynch in his sixtieth year. 'You have to learn to be brave. 'When he uttered this sentence in Meyer's ear that he said to him more than sixty years ago, Meyer recognized him, knelt and made a gesture of putting his hands together, it was a late confession. His father was shot three times and he returned three shots. The boots on his father's head were returned to Meyer as they were. On the second day after the truth came out, Corinne, who had completed his revenge, chose to commit suicide. He has fulfilled his responsibility as a son to his father. He has relieved his biggest heart disease, his obsession has gone, his goal has been gone, and he has no worries about him choosing to leave this painful world.
The hatred half a century ago occurred in an unconventional state of war. Is it worth a person's life? Corinne was not married, had no children, lived alone for decades, and died immediately after the revenge. Is his life worth it? Why can't it be forgotten? Managing his life well and having many children is also a way to repay his father. Why did he choose the most extreme one? If Corinne was asked to speak, he would definitely say it was worth it. The reason why people are different from animals is that our feelings will not be forgotten. Forgetting means giving up. Giving up is a kind of forgiveness. Since we are forgiven, then mistakes are no longer mistakes. If everyone is like this, the world will only return to chaos and disorder in retreat and compromise. That is by no means the world we want.
Repaying grievances by virtue, how can we repay virtue? In life, there should be a more lofty meaning. This meaning is the truth that Lenin's rebellion will also defend. It is the old Youtiao Martinge's confession in the witness stand. The dignity of a person’s living, the goal of life, the simple morality...These are things that are worth defending, living out of meaning, and what is the difference between the summer insects who don’t know the winter and the domestic animals with the sword on the side. If life only pursues chaotically living in the'this moment', living an extra day and earning one more day, then human beings will never go to this day, maybe today they are still squatting on the trees in Africa and eating fruits. Human intelligence makes us pursue all kinds of truths throughout our lives, and human emotions make us pursue justice and fairness, and this is precisely the most beautiful and precious thing in human society.
At the end of the film, Lenin sitting in a small town cafe threw the ball that rolled to his feet to the ramp. The camera zoomed in with the ball on the stone road. The young Corinne in the red sweater picked up the ball and stood shoulder to shoulder with his father. Slowly walked out of the camera. This scene is the most beautiful and warmest scene in the entire film, and the red sweater reminds me of the little girl in red in "Schindler's List". The director's unfinished words are contained in the tone of the lens.
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