The film focuses on depicting the mad war and the great trauma of the madman's bestiality on the human mind, turning the originally innocent child into a psychologically distorted demon. The boy's handsome appearance and taciturn frailty contrasted enormously with the jaw-dropping evil thoughts lurking within him.
The film begins with a scene of a doctor abusing a child. Filled with disgust for his filthy soul, he staggered to the top of the building. Another kid rescued the child and took away a diary from the doctor. The doctor's jumping off the building did not appear directly on the screen, giving people more associations. I think it is more likely that the children followed and pushed the doctor downstairs.
The story then takes place in an isolated mansion in the woods by the sea. Only the doctor, his wife and daughter live there, and a maid who occasionally comes to clean and buy food. The doctor's wife couldn't bear the depression and burden of taking care of the doctor and asked the family to send a nurse. At this time, the boy came to the door and asked for a job as a nursing doctor. The wife has become extremely disgusted with the boy and has asked him to leave. But for some reason the doctor asked his wife to keep the boy, maybe the boy threatened him to expose his past misdeeds, or maybe he was attached to the boy.
Soon, the boy began a frantic revenge operation. In accordance with the cruel deeds that the doctor recorded in his diary during the war, he carried out these despicable acts on the doctor himself one by one. This kind of tit-for-tat originally did not relieve hatred, but now, the target is a dying person, an old man who relies on this machine to breathe, it seems to be extremely pitiful. However, once he thought of the heinous crimes he had committed, his bloody hands, and all the victims were unarmed and helpless children, he felt that this was the end of the devil's sin.
At first, the boy repaid the doctor who had been sexually humiliated with himself, and later strangled the doctor's wife and put the body in a glass cage to spend the night in front of the doctor. Then the boy's revenge became more and more unacceptable, and his own heart was constantly twisted and turned into a murderous demon. In order to make the doctor suffer even more guilt and endless pain, he followed the scenes of child abuse and murder carefully described in the doctor's diary, recruited innocent children from outside, and completely reproduced the doctor's past in front of the doctor. The evil deeds made the dirty deeds that had been gradually forgotten in the doctor's mind reappear again, and the once inhumane side of himself that he had tried to reject constantly flashed before his eyes, making him feel endless regret and self-blame. Tasting bitter pain. And this series of revenge is at the cost of the lives of children who were once like him. The sin has been inherited once again, like a weed that can't be burned by a wildfire, once again taking root in the darkness of human nature.
In the end, the boy also got into the glass cage and completely lost himself. Tragedy repeats forever.
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