The murderer is like that grasshopper

The soundtrack at the beginning of the movie is very good, the few piano keys hits are soothing and concise, but it creates a nostalgic sense of time and space. The picture is lit up, the blue sky is surrounded by big white clouds, and there is an endless golden wheat field on the ground, which is a beautiful and quiet scene of the countryside. After a while, several cursive characters appeared one after another on the hills in the center: Murder Memories. -A 16-year series of rapes and murders unresolved in reality are unfolding one after another in this sunny village. Rainy night, red dress, single woman, a tragic song followed by exquisite bondage and cruel assault, two detectives with different styles meet on a narrow road, and do whatever it takes to find the real murderer. The shell of the Detective Detective case contains the collective memories of the totalitarian rule and the democratic movement of the 80s by the Koreans outside the story. Just as in "Monsters", using the horror film model to explore the indifferent society, Feng Junhao's usual technique-the fusion of various styles makes the film exudes unique charm and rich connotation. Perverted visualization stimulates people's senses, and the hidden images of details penetrate people's hearts. Life is higher than drama, and the sense of reality and powerlessness brought by the four words "undecided" made this movie. Think about it, one day in 2003, the real murderer might be sitting in a movie theater and moaning with 5 million other Koreans. What kind of psychology does this "real protagonist" admire? This kind of reality that can give rise to endless imagination is really chilling.

The first official picture given in the film is quite meaningful in retrospect: a seemingly stupid boy is standing in a wheat field and staring somewhere in front of him. After a while, the kid stretched out his hand and caught a grasshopper on the wheat ears in front of him. This grasshopper is extremely unobtrusive in the first picture, because its color is very similar to the surrounding wheat ears, and the focus of the lens deliberately ignores it, until the next picture, the audience will not understand The boy's attention was originally on the grasshopper. These two seemingly insignificant shots actually hinted at the ending of the movie early in the morning.

At the end of the movie, the detective Song Kanghao, who had changed jobs in 2003, revisited his hometown. He happened to learn from a little girl that a person had come back not long ago (at the scene of a certain crime). Song became excited and asked what that person looked like. The girl curled her lips and said: Very ordinary, just a very ordinary look. The camera turns to Song, a long facial close-up: the policeman has a complicated expression and tears in his eyes. From the subtitles, the background is still a beautiful blue sky and wheat fields, but with less splendor and more haze. In the last meaningful scene, many people said it was implying that Song had guessed the prisoner, but all I felt was that he felt endless despair once again. Those faces with ordinary looks that can't make an impression are just like the grasshopper drowning in a large wheat field at the beginning. This unsolvable case will be a brand in his life, accompanied by nightmare pain and resentment, unable to get rid of it, and always with him.

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