A classic of anti-genre films

Thelma 2021-11-18 08:01:27

It rained the first day, the ground was full of mud, and the sun was so shining that people couldn't open their eyes. The children ran in the fields, laughing and chasing the tattered car that used to travel by. The wind blew and rolled up the waves of wheat. The agent smoked a cigarette and sat in the back of the car, waving his hands at the children, and then making fists at them again. He is more like a farmer who is going to farm soon. Behind the leisurely, the next shot was a ditch by the side of the road, a female corpse full of bugs lying under the stone slab in a twisted posture, where the sun could not shine.

The beginning of the story is shocking enough. You will never know or care about what crimes have happened in such a remote and poor place. It's just a remote mountain village, it's just a rape and murder case. Not many people have studied here, and not many have been to the city. The detective hopes that the case can be closed quickly. Some suspects can pick one of the most insignificant and must be the prisoner. The most important thing is that you should not forget to give the receipt for the fried noodles.
If the cases weren't like this one after another, and the cruel methods, which attracted more and more attention from the whole society, maybe this case would be like countless unjust, false and wrong cases before, and no one cares about it. Finally, under pressure, the police station was reorganized, and Detective Su from Seoul with a college degree finally made the case more eye-catching. He is not like the reckless man in the original police station. Those people only know that watching American dramas and looking forward to the FBI, it is impossible to falsify evidence, and even ask God to worship Buddha for a flash of inspiration. Agent Su is calm and meticulous, observant, he has received real training.
However, is he Holmes possessed? Or is it possible that Agent Park, who has developed limbs and simple mind, finally succeeded in a counterattack and finally came to light at a critical moment? Isn't all suspense movies like this? As the case progresses layer by layer, a pair of awkward gears at the beginning, and finally a strong combination, one provides a quick and meticulous mind, the other provides amazing intuition and agility, and finally the murderer is arrested and brought to justice. Sure enough, he was an unexpected person who appeared in the play a long time ago. He had a thought-provoking pain behind him, or a pervert with high IQ who was arrogant and arrogant.

If that is not a classic, at best, it is a somewhat mediocre and unexpected ending, which may be amazing, but it will be forgotten for a moment. In this story, the only reversal in the whole play is the character change between the two protagonists. And this did not make people stunned, and things turned around. There is no sudden turn of the story, no secrets that have been hidden for a long time are revealed. Everything went so naturally to the end, unexpected and reasonable.
Although it is taken from reality, how many people dare to shoot a suspense film until the murderer has not even revealed a face? Not to mention showing up, in the end there was no evidence that they were half a step closer to the truth. How many people can take a headless case like this and still make people call it classic? As if a hole was dug to make the audience jump, the people who jumped clapped and said that the hole was dug really well.
Yes, imagine that if it is a general criminal reasoning, the protagonist possessed by Conan can always perform a perfect deductive reasoning at the crime scene. Although the footprint is damaged by the rain, he can still judge the height of the criminal from its depth. The messy footsteps indicate that the criminal is nervous and hurried when committing the crime. He may squat in the wilderness for a long time, and then wait for the rainy night to commit the crime randomly; steady footsteps indicate that the murderer has hard-hearted and long-term training. There are not many such people in the village, maybe Before committing the crime, he had followed the victim for a long time and understood the victim's whereabouts; the footsteps were deep and shallow, and maybe the murderer was a lame... But didn't these police officers find it all? They have mastered enough characteristics of the murderer. The murderer was insane, so they caught a fool; the murderer was a pervert who preferred red, so they caught the red underwear worker who came to masturbate at night; when the murderer committed the crime, the radio would play the same song, so they caught a song Little white face. And in the end, this little white face is more in line with all the characteristics of a murderer. He has just been discharged from the army and has been trained to kill quietly; his palms are as delicate as a woman, conforming to the testimony of a woman on the mountain; he is handsome, just like a fool said; he is in Songs on rainy night, he didn't even have an alibi! However, the last piece of DNA identification overturned everything.
This is normal. Almost every man in South Korea has to enlist in the army, and there are tens of millions of people with delicate palms, and it is not only murderers in this world who prefer rainy nights. Without evidence, everything is in vain.
This is the difference.
Conan were able to infer from the mud on the suspect’s trouser legs which way he walked, because the road the victim walked would always make people stick to the black water with special compounds discharged from the nearby factory, or it was just refurbished. Red mud. Conan could not find Yin Mao from the crime scene to infer that the murderer had impotence. It can be guessed that the murderer did not commit rape at all, but poured semen into the victim after slapped himself, and then impotence in the next second plus childhood molestation. The wretched man will appear. They can still lure crimes when it doesn't work, and the policewoman in red in the rainy night can definitely catch this cruel pervert. What DNA test is needed? What forensic department do I need? As long as you walk in the most unlikely direction, there will be a murderer waiting for you.
It's a pity that this is a true story. The murderer is not a cleanliness and high intelligence quotient committing crimes, nor does he have any high-tech methods. He was just waiting for an opportunity on a rainy night, maybe even on a whim. He never fooled the police station. There was no noise, no hindrance to the verification, and even no killing of the witnesses who survived by chance. Except for not surrendering himself, he is an ordinary man with an honest duty. He just committed the crime simply. He has never despised anyone, but simply enjoys the pleasure of rape and murder in the rain.
This is the truth, the dark night rains, the remote villages, the murderers pat their buttocks and leave after committing the crime. They don't know how to play any games.
The police officers seemed to be close to the truth every time, but they were totally unfounded. Conan can use the dander in the victim's nails to find the murderer with scratches on his body, and even if there is a prisoner's semen in such a story, it is of no avail.
Not to mention just a few words of a fool, his words may be used as clues, but they will never be evidence. Therefore, even if the fool is not dead, the murderer can still get away with it. Obviously, it is better to send more DNA to the United States for the fool to identify whether the suspect is the murderer.

At the end of the story, the seemingly random but awakening dialogue, the complex face that freezes at the end, has become the most quintessential part of the whole story.

You see, more than ten years later, the sun is still dazzling, and when the wind blows, the waves of wheat roll. By the side of the muddy road in the country, the original ditches still remain.
I stretched my head and looked inside and saw the sun shining in the shadows.
A little girl asked me what I was looking at, and I said I just remembered the past.
You look at me with your innocent eyes. More than ten years ago, there was a girl who was similar to you.
I really want to tell a story. The name is not "Reminiscences of Police Detectives" or "Reminiscences of Criminal Cases"
but "Reminiscences of Murders."
You ask who am I?
I am the protagonist in the story,
although the role is less than any supporting role.

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Memories of Murder quotes

  • [repeated line]

    Detective Seo Tae-yoon: The documents never lie.

  • Detective Park Doo-Man: Chief, I may know nothing else, but my eyes can read people. That's how I survive as a detective, and why people say I have shaman's eyes.