The first half of the film is a little boring, the slow pace, and the case that cannot be advanced for a long time, consumes the patience of the audience, and also swallows the sanity of Detective Su. In the end, Detective Su sees himself putting a band-aid on her with his own hands. The tragic death of the girl in the field made the emotional foreshadowing, which made the final emotional outburst of Detective Su get a perfect explanation.
The whole film is quite depressing. Officer Park uses violent interrogation to obtain the "murder memories" of the "suspect", and even forges evidence in order to close the case. The police officer Su from Seoul seemed rational and thoughtful, and he denied the so-called suspect from the analysis of every detail. However, the destruction of the crime scene, the violent interrogation law of colleagues, the pressure of the outside media, the lack of cooperation from the masses, as well as the resentment and helplessness of knowing that a massacre was about to happen but inaction, eventually completely destroyed the police officer Su psychologically. Everything he believed in, factual evidence, and precise analysis were all put to the back of his mind. In his heart, he regarded the most suspicious but proved not to be the suspect as the perpetrator, and just wanted to seek inner comfort and liberation . "Kill him, he did it all," so he raised the gun in his hand.
The film does not explain the past of Officer Park, but when Officer Park sees Officer Su who has been completely crazy, it is very likely that he sees what he looked like when he was young: a desire for justice, punishment for crimes, and a sense of mission as a police officer. He suddenly realized that it was pointless to do so, and without evidence, he was innocent. This is the helplessness of the lack of effective investigative methods, and it is also the helplessness of that era.
At the end of the film, when Officer Park couldn't bear the inner pressure of being a police officer, he chose to be a businessman and revisited his old place, and found that fate was such a trick. "What does he look like" and "very ordinary", just like seventeen years ago, he always felt that he was about to catch the perpetrator, but when he was about to succeed, he slipped away quietly. This is the helplessness of the police life, and this is not the helplessness of our life. Sometimes, we become what we don’t want to be. It’s really not our own reason. The environment of the big era is far stronger than a person’s subjective thoughts. The unsolvable rape and murder case is the pain in the hearts of the Korean people, and it is the pain of each of us to watch ourselves degenerate.
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