…… Viewing movies are different. Everyone has different perspectives and experiences. They have different heights, but at least one thing is certain, this is indeed a rare classic film. A rainy night, a woman in red, the radio station is slowly playing a sad love song. A quiet night like a pair of silky and exquisite hands. The director makes a perverted rape and murder. The rain has stopped, the body is exposed to the sun, and the murderer is mixed in the crowd. Middle, disappearing ~ ~ No one knows who he is until - the next rainy night, the singing sounded again... Mysterious and mysterious, with a lot of fog. The film begins 20 minutes, adhering to the classic Korean film style, slow pace, and using melodious music to bring people back to the background of the story of the 1980s. Leisurely field scenery, large golden rice fields, delicate and tireless descriptions of scenes, even the details of the fat agent’s family life, tractors going to and from the farmland, simple town people, occasional demonstrations, frequent air defenses during the military and political periods The exercise was like a picture of the lives of the people during the military and political rule of South Korea in the 1980s, making it difficult for first-timers to think of a series of horrifying murders. The two detectives in the small town have not received systematic and strict judicial training. They use intuition and violent torture to extract confessions. The primitive and clumsy way of finding a case is funny and exasperating, and the film begins to be filled with black humor. Until the arrival of Agent Su from Seoul, the university graduated Agent Su was full of self-confidence and ideals. As the two conflicting case handling styles collided with each other, the case began to make breakthroughs-the woman in red who was killed in the rainy night, the mysterious legend of the girls’ school , Sad love songs on the radio, anonymous songwriters... Finally there are clues to follow, the evidence is intertwined, and the truth is approached step by step. The audience’s breathing has been controlled by the director, and even in the end, a number of coincidences are enough to convince everyone that the handsome song-catcher is the murderer, although he must rely on evidence to speak, so he must wait for the DNA test results. However, the case The truth seems to have come out. At this time, the case took a turn for the worse, and the wise director mastered the nervous and depressed mood of the audience at this time, and used a trick to make the plot ups and downs, so that everyone fell into the hope of keeping the clouds open and seeing the moon. In the silent valley of despair. The last victim is a high school girl. It is cruel to choose such a stark contrast between youth and death. The girl’s withered life, disgusting death, unclosed eyes, and the band-aids that Agent Su personally put on the girl not long ago are now attached to a lifeless corpse, and the hand of sin is not let go. The life of youth, the rain is pouring down. The sensible and calm Agent Su finally broke down. He heard the dirty stealing in the dark Secretly sneered, the hand of justice has no power. He prefers to believe that the long-awaited DNA report is just a lie. He has to rely on himself to end the evil in front of him-take out a pistol and shoot at the suspect in anger... Seventeen years later, in 2003, South Korea, which successfully transformed into a democratic society, was peaceful in the fields. Harmony, as if nothing happened. The former police officer has become a businessman, raising children, but when he passed the rice fields that year, he could not stand up to the Tianken drainage pipe where the first corpse was found. I learned from a naive girl that the murderer had been here not long ago. Continue to ask, the answer makes everyone desperate-he is just an ordinary person. The film ends with the complicated eyes of middle-aged Agent Park with tears, astonishment and loss, leaving the audience with an unanswered ending. In these few seconds, the interpretation by South Korean actor Song Kanghao is very wonderful. If there is no last ten minutes, this movie might not be so outstanding. Many people still ask who the murderer is. However, the focus of the director of this film is not to expose the truth, but to give an open ending: The murderer is among the ordinary people who pass by us every day, and everyone can— — In this world, there are always some people who hide their unknown side and continue to walk; and there are some truths that are destined not to be revealed to the world and are engulfed by darkness. Like the train tunnel that often appears in that movie, it is dark and long, and no one can see what the end is. [Repressive times, distorted human nature, and missing laws] The film’s special political background cannot be ignored. The real case occurred in 1986, when South Korea was under military and political rule. Historically, South Korea was undergoing transformation and was in a democratic movement. Critical moment. Therefore, the film is full of distinctive symbols of the times: continuous demonstrations on the streets; endless air defense alarms; school ambulance exercises; military police are dragged to suppress the demonstrations; the judicial system is chaotic, torture and abuse of confessions, improper protection of evidence... Park The agent and his partner have never been to Seoul, and they have a vague concept of the world outside the small town. In that era, they had a narrow vision and received limited knowledge. The director used ridicule and humor to express their ignorance and helplessness: For example, Park When the detective encountered a bottleneck in the detection, he asked God to ask for clarification, saying, "The United States is too big, so their detectives have to use their brains to solve the case, and South Korea is very small, so they only need to use their feet to solve the case." The two partners sit in the field and brag about the college campus life they have heard about. They frankly confessed that each other had only gone to high school, the pedantic bureaucracy, and the limitations of the existing conditions made their violent interrogation and perfunctory investigative attitude become the inevitable of the times. The trauma of the times, from top to bottom, the oppressive society breeds distorted groups. The film’s suspects range from mentally handicapped teenagers to sexually perverted workers to calm and weird veterans. They have become the epitome of socially disadvantaged groups, and their personal destiny bears the shadow of the times. Looking at the legal issues reflected in the video, there are many scenes of on-site inspections in the film, but unfortunately the protection of the crime scene is not strong enough. For example, the obvious footprints in the first case were run over by a tractor and lost. There are many opportunities for evidence collection; of course, the incident is always on rainy nights, and the washing of rain also gives evidence The collection increases the difficulty. Secondly, in that era, such a small town’s backward interrogation conditions and the low quality of the detectives blindly pursued the detection rate, which increased the detective’s dependence on confessions; the presumption of guilt made the purpose of interrogation is to obtain a confession. , Illegal interrogation methods, and no continuous recording, the evidence appears to be completely unimportant in the process of finalizing the case; not to mention, "the use of torture to extract confessions or threats, inducements, deception and other illegal methods to obtain witness testimony, victim statements, defendants A confession cannot be used as a basis for a verdict"-this contemporary universally recognized principle of exclusion of illegal evidence was effectively applied at that time. What's not entirely bad is that DNA identification was finally applied. Unfortunately, the case occurred in South Korea in 1986. The first report on the application of DNA technology in criminal investigation identification was only in 1985. The sampling process was due to lack of professional knowledge or improper preservation in the later period. All of them may lead to failure of DNA identification, even if it is scientific evidence, the conclusions may be in error. Without a democratic constitutional government, a sound legal environment cannot be established, and the entire society without guarantees is in a potentially unstable state. The reason for the tragedy is far more than the same. The constant rain that runs through the whole film, the air defense alarm that roars through the night sky, the turbulence of the overall situation, and the weak manpower make each time the truth is missed. If the perverted behavior of the murderer is distorted. Human nature, so the people who were killed in this case may not have been victims of the democratization of South Korea’s politics. [What is "Memories of Murder"] "Memories of Murder has a very strange name-lack of subject, or detective, or the murderer himself. As for the former, the two protagonists in the film have very different personalities. Detective Su from Seoul is rigorous in thinking, good at reasoning, and has received good judicial education, and believes in relying on evidence to speak. Detective Park, a native of the small town, has a reckless nature, violently extorts confessions, perfunctory judgments, is good at inducing confessions, and trusts his instincts. Their emotions changed as the case progressed: When his partner was finally amputated due to recklessness, he stared at the remaining empty shoes and shoe covers; When he witnessed the key witness being hit and killed by the speeding train, he After the hands were splashed with blood; I only wanted to close the case hastily, but the perfunctory mentality of handling the case began to change, and he began to accept the scientific methods of Detective Su, learning rational education and believing in scientific evidence. Until the end, Agent Su was soaked in helplessness and despair in the heavy rain. The moment he raised his gun, Agent Park stopped him. At this time, ingeniously-the character of the two changed dramatically. Therefore, the last sight fell on Agent Park, who switched to business. When he was young, he was good at fabricating "memory of murder" for criminal suspects in order to obtain confession to solve the case. After an experience, he changed his identity and returned to his hometown. Memories from 17 years ago will never be erased. Together with the unpunished murderer, we keep those memories that cannot be lost. In this way, I am more inclined to the latter statement, that is, the director is helping the murderer to state his memories. In this way, challenge the murderer of An Ran who was sitting in the cinema watching this film. Come on, and recall your murder experience. Even if you forget those who were killed more than ten years ago, we have not forgotten, let alone allow you forget. This film with a style close to "Black Dahlia" is also based on real cases. In the same reality, there is no unsolved case of the real murderer. The difference is that the director of the "Black" drama arranges the murderer and confesses it to the audience. The truth, only the murderer who has a complete memory of the murder, only he knows what he did that rainy night. The difference is that the director of the "Black" drama arranges the murderer and tells it to the audience. The truth, only the murderer who has a complete memory of the murder, only he knows what he did that rainy night. The difference is that the director of the "Black" drama arranges the murderer and tells it to the audience. The truth, only the murderer who has a complete memory of the murder, only he knows what he did that rainy night.
—————Time dividing line after twelve years————
Make up
One afternoon in June 2007, Professor Zhang Jianwei, the "male god" in the Criminal Procedure Law class, showed it to the whole class. I was shocked by a Korean movie when I had never seen the world.
There is no writing skills, no film theory support, and even now it seems that the use of words is superficial and improper.
The only things that cannot be reproduced are:
When I was young and surging, I rushed back to the dormitory and couldn't restrain the words and pictures surging in my mind. On a sultry summer night, I knocked out this simple afterthought in two hours.
After more than ten years, students have become aunts and talkative become dumb.
Thank you for correcting me.
----2019.9.20 Germany
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