Selfish Love--Comment on "The Devotion of Suspect X"

Greta 2022-03-02 08:01:47

Selfish love (selfish な love)

——Comment on "The Devotion of Suspect X" ("The Devotion of Suspect X")

The aftertaste of the past "Detective Galileo" is still in my heart, plus the magical collision phenomenon at the beginning, "The Devotion of Suspect X" Devotion strongly appealed to me. Unfortunately, after reading it, I have to say that under the almost perfect replacement and reasoning, the peak duel between the two geniuses only stemmed from a selfish love. Nothing should have happened...

Friends who watched it together said that this love is really great. If Yasuko Hanaoka doesn't admit it in the end, then this love is really perfect. Netizens who have watched the film said that in the end, Shishen Zhezai's cry of complete collapse made people depressed and lost for a long time. There are also many readers who have even read the original book, saying that this is a "perfect trick, pure love", "such a perfect genius, and finally found out by Tang, that is a failure." "Shishen carried all the crimes, thinking that the mother and daughter of Jingzi were completely preserved. Accept his death with a calm expression. Miss Jingzi suddenly appeared, and then told the truth that he had worked so hard to hide. Do After so much work, he made another murder for her, helped her plan everything. It was all ruined at once. Even his own death has a stone god who can calm down. Broken down, crying... What kind of heartbreak that is."

Yes, what a selfless love, selfless enough to set up a perfect replacement plan for the lover, the stone god who rarely speaks, only at the moment of buying breakfast, in that one Nodding and raising his hand, enjoying the love hidden in his heart, this is the only happiness in his frustrated life. So, in order to protect his lover, he sacrificed everything, and finally even found a good future person for his lover and calculated the probability of happiness.

But what a selfish love it is! Selfish enough to deprive a stranger who has no injustice, no hatred and no acquaintance, the condition of the choice is only that no one cares about his life and death. According to the original work, before killing him, Shishen also made a series of preparations meticulously to ensure that in the future, the police can be led by their noses to find criminals. Thus, the strange homeless were killed according to an elaborate plan, and the method of death was so cruel that it was beyond recognition, the fingerprints of the fingers were also wiped out, and even the clothes were completely destroyed. Or, he is a rootless straw in people's hearts, a person without an identity, as Shishen said, "They all just live mechanically"...

What should happen is happening according to the predetermined procedure, every step is calculated so accurately, not hurriedly...

In fact, why is the stone god not alive mechanically, not a walking dead?

In any case, please don't forget that Shishen only dedicates himself, including his own life, for an extremely selfish love. The moment he put his neck into the rope, he was already dead, and he had one life left, which he was prepared to sacrifice for the quiet love Jingzi. The word "sacrifice" is not properly used. More precisely, it means "returning one's life", returning one's life to a loved one! However, the life of a stranger in that city is really inferior to grass, can anyone take it if they need it? He is not human, and his life is not life? Should he sacrifice his life for the selfishness of the Stone God?

At the moment when many people regret that Yuchuan Xue came to the police station to meet Ishigami, at the moment when many people hope that Yuchuan Xue will not reveal the truth, and at the moment when Hanaoka Yasuko admits to the murder, please don't look for anything for Ishigami's murder. Seemingly noble and holy reasons, please don't elevate his original intention to selfless love! Because, from the moment he walked into Yasuoka's house, he was wrong. Not only was he wrong, but he also selfishly led Yasushi and her daughter to an even worse path!

The irrelevant homeless were brutally killed, the broken body was found, and Jingzi's daughter also committed suicide and cut her wrists. Naturally, this ending indicates that Shishen and Jingzi will also be charged with murder. However, those who know the law can clearly know that the ending can be completely different! Absolutely can be happy!

If it was on the day of the crime, when Jingzi's bastard ex-husband died, someone had called the police, and all traces had not been hidden, Jingzi still had torn scars on her face, and her daughter was kicked The bruising of the kick, coupled with Shishen's true description of the facts he heard, the deceased was another bastard who owed a huge foreign debt, this incident is completely "justifiable defense"! Even the worst lawyers encountered are at most "overdefensive"! There is no need for someone to be charged with murder, and more importantly, there is no need for innocent lives to be buried with bad guys!

Why, why didn't Shishen first think of justice for Jingzi and protect Jingzi's happiness through formal legal channels? Why do so many unnecessary things? Just because at the moment of the sudden incident, he was blinded by his selfishness!

Why do so many people sympathize with Yasuko's experience, feel the love of Shishen, and understand Yuchuan's distress, without thinking about the homeless or the law? - Don't use selfishness to sully the pure love!

Finally, it is understandable that the author of the original book may just want to create an achievable environment for the perfect crime replacement of the role of Shishen, and he may just want to create an equal opponent for the equally perfect reasoning of the role of Yukawa! To appreciate this drama, you should not be too obsessed with love or morality; to appreciate this drama, you should focus your attention and energy on the peak confrontation between the two geniuses of crime and reasoning - don't forget, this is just a suspense novel!

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Suspect X quotes

  • Manabu Yukawa: Is it harder to create an unsolvable problem or solve it?