"I Am a Murderer" tells the story of the police who had been chasing the murderer using false and lifelike methods to bring the real murderer to the eve of the expiration of the prosecution period for the serial murderer, and finally captured the story of the murderer. ". If this film shows the process of chasing the murderer like other suspense films, it will be too clichéd in the end. The director will bring out the related criminals, policemen, families of victims, reporters, common people, etc. through a serial murder case. face.
Police:
As the most critical and contradictory character in the film, the police are like the old white in Breaking Bad. They seem ordinary, but in fact they are scheming. All tactics have already been planned. He is full-blooded and has a bad temper. He can't stand his superiors, colleagues and even his mother. At the same time, he has the tenderness of a boy. After learning that his mother has escaped accidentally, he took his mother into his arms and faced him. The video of his wife's last death also left Tiehan's tears. As one of the most contradictory characters in the film, on the one hand, as a policeman and a defender of justice, it is his job to punish rape and eliminate evil; on the other hand, he is the victim’s family, and he must want to bring the murderer to justice and bring justice to the dead. Under this double contradiction, he finally chose the rear, that is, he knew the law and committed suicide and lost the murderer. After fifteen years of chasing the murderer, and the grief of losing his wife, no one wants to catch the murderer personally more than him. Even if he is in prison for five years, it is a new life for him.
murderer:
As the saying goes, poor people must be hateful. When the murderer comes out in the endless calls, what we see is not the big five and three tough guys, but the transvestites wearing hairpins and light makeup. Be fashionable. In other words, it is called a pseudo-mother. Anyone who knows something about psychology knows that the more arrogant and high-profile people are, the more timid and uneasy they are. When he saw that the "achievements" he was proud of were being stolen by others, and the high-profile press conference was sought after to become a star, the extreme narcissism was definitely not acceptable to him, and he stepped into the police setting. In a good trap.
Family members of victims: If
there are murders, there will certainly be victims. As family members of victims, after enduring the pain of losing their loved ones, they have to watch the criminals go unpunished and justice is not done, so the resentment in their hearts will naturally deepen. . In addition to the police, the families of the victims in the film also formed a regiment. The whole family of men, women, children, and children went into battle, carefully planning a kidnapping case, which included the police's mother-in-law. From some fragmented memories of the police, it can be seen that at first the mother-in-law insisted on objecting, and even the police sent her girlfriend home for fear of being hit by her mother-in-law. Later, the murderer surfaced and appeared in a high-profile manner. Unable to restrain, the murderer was lynched and kidnapped to no avail. In the film, when we saw the two people rubbing shoulders many times, the mother-in-law's scarlet anger suppressed eyes. It is not difficult to guess that the mother-in-law sprinkled the anger of the pain of childbirth on the police. Until all the fog was resolved and the real murderer appeared, the mother-in-law wanted to kill the murderer herself with the poison that she had prepared long ago, but was blocked by the police. Just when we thought that everything would bring the real murderer to justice like a traditional suspense movie, the clinker police personally poisoned it in order to save the mother-in-law from prison. At that moment, the eyes of the two collided again. This time, the mother-in-law was not angry with resentment, but a kind of understanding and acknowledgment. At the end of the film, five years later, when the police walked out of the prison gate, we saw the mother-in-law standing in the first row who had been waiting for a long time.
reporter:
Reporters are the media, and they create public opinion through reports on news events. They can ruin celebrities overnight, they can also vindicate the people, and even indirectly affect the political situation. I don’t need to say much about its power. In the film, reporters can be said to be ubiquitous. On the one hand, they are the record of the whole event, and on the other hand, they are the participants. Among them, I have to talk about two key roles. One is the chief, a typical profit-only representative. In his eyes, he only has ratings. He will seize the news at all costs, even if the police and the prisoner draw their guns to meet each other. Tripartite talks. The other is the live director, who belongs to a stick. He strictly abides by his professional ethics and intentionally inserts advertisements when the police anger throws the water glass at the murderer. For this reason, he is scolded by the director and finally resigns. What is commendable is that the director used a lot of irony and ridiculed the Korean media with black humor. At the press conference of Li Douxi's new book, a large number of media reporters rushed to ask questions first. Because of their handsome faces, the female reporter even asked about skin care issues that had nothing to do with the incident. Not only that, the members of the TV station have also become fans of the murderer, guessing who is true and who is false.
Audience: In
"Beautiful Sicily", the residents who admire or jealous of her; in "Kong Yiji", the alcoholics who mock or ridicule him; in "I'm a Murderer", fans who like or are infatuated with him They are all "spectators" written by Mr. Lu Xun. In the film, the murderer becomes a best-selling author, writes his own murder experience as a novel and is sought after, enjoys the treatment of a celebrity, and has a large number of fans. What's even more dumbing is that the direct reason why the murderer became a star was because he was very handsome. This alone makes the Korean people's sarcasm incomplete. Not only that, when the real and fake murderers appeared at the same time, the fans fell into rebellion. One of the leaders also raised a loudspeaker to canvass for his idol, begging to believe that his brother was the real murderer. Their insensitivity made people embarrassed. Let's not talk about the minimum respect for the innocent victims who died unjustly, at least the righteousness and the evil are clearly distinguished. After the farce, it was a reflection on human nature and a disappointment in the country. This is exactly the director's clever irony spirit.
According to the general routine of the crime suspense film, most of them will end at the place where the criminal goes to jail and goes to jail. This also seems to be a "good" ending. But "I'm a Murderer" allowed the police to lynch and solve the criminals with their own hands. In fact, who is the true and false Monkey King is not the focus of the director’s investigation. It is precisely through a story that leads a snake out of a cat and catches a mouse to target South Korea’s current situation. The loopholes in justice, the ignorance of the people, the cunning of criminals, etc. are the roots of crime. . It is not difficult to see that whether it is a kidnapping or the police’s knowing and breaking the law, from the very beginning, the unanimous wish of the victim’s family was that the murderer would die. After all, there are still many things that cannot be solved by law.
A solid script, a wonderful performance, a human excavation... "I Am a Murderer" deserves to be the most exciting Korean movie of 2012. But there are also shortcomings. The action scenes are too rough, and the drag racing scenes are too exaggerated. Although the director has paid the blood, but when normal people see the front of the fast-moving car jumping around, do you think this is performing acrobatics, or is it performing speed and speed? Passion.
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