Note: Rated as Korea's unblemished film
The trauma of the times, from top to bottom, repressed society breeds distorted groups.
The special political background of the film cannot be ignored. The real case happened in 1986, during the period of South Korean military and political rule. Historically, South Korea was undergoing transformation and was at a critical moment in the democratic movement.
There are continuous demonstrations on the streets; endless air defense sirens; ambulance drills in schools; military and police are pulled to suppress the demonstrations; the judicial system is chaotic, torture is abusive, and evidence is improperly protected.
Without democratic constitutional government, a sound legal environment cannot be established, and the entire society without guarantees is in a potentially unstable state. The pattering rain that runs through the whole film, the air defense alarm whizzing through the night sky, the turmoil in the overall situation, and the weak manpower make every time the truth is missed. If the perverted behavior of the murderer is a distorted human nature, then the murder in this case The people are not all victims of South Korea's political democratization process.
The suspects in the film range from mentally handicapped teenagers to sexually perverted workers to calm and weird veterans. They have become the epitome of special groups in society, and their personal destiny bears the shadow of the times.
Ups and downs, 17 years later, the police officer learned from a naive girl that the murderer came here not long ago, which whetted the police officer's appetite for unsolved cases that had been shelved for 17 years, and even whetted the appetite of every audience member. . Continuing to ask, the answer made everyone despair - the prisoner was just an ordinary person in appearance. The film ends with the complex eyes of middle-aged Detective Park with tears, surprise and blankness, leaving the audience with an unanswered ending.
The movie might not be this great without the last ten minutes.
The point of the director of this film is not to reveal the truth, but to give an open ending: the murderer is among the ordinary people who pass by us every day, and everyone has the possibility - in this world, there are always some people who hide Continue to walk on the other side of the unknown; and some truths are destined not to be revealed to the world, and they will be engulfed by darkness.
After watching the movie, I didn't feel as addicted to it, and the unsolved cases also made people feel uncomfortable. After reading a lot of movie reviews on other platforms, I feel that many of my understandings are still narrow. Of course, there are many movie lovers who make detailed inferences about the details and truth of the movie. They review and sort out the movie over and over again, and finally reason, to point out a direction to the audience who are a little confused after watching the movie.
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