The film is slow-paced and prone to falling asleep, but it's a good movie, and it's even worth going back and rewatching it.
As long as you calm down and appreciate it slowly, you can understand the heart of each character and fully understand the story. Then there will be aftertastes, constantly recalling the natural landscape of Turkey under the camera, repeatedly chewing on the characters' words and subtle expressions, and then thinking of a deeper human nature. If you want to quickly enter the plot for nerve stimulation, you may not see anything. "Quietly appreciate" is the correct way to open it. The director's setting has the meaning of "Jiang Ziya fishing, whoever wants to take the bait".
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The main characters include the police, prosecutors, forensic doctors, murderers and victims.
The murderer and the victim were friends. The murderer and the victim's wife developed an underground affair and gave birth to a son without the victim's knowledge.
Until one night, the murderer and the victim were drinking together, and the murderer accidentally missed his mouth.
In order to protect his lover and his own son, the murderer killed the victim and buried it on the vast plateau of Anatolia. However, it is not clear whether the killer's lover was also involved in the killing.
The police quickly caught the murderer and escorted the murderer overnight to identify the burial site.
The murderer refused to identify, perhaps to protect his lover and son.
Along with the escort vehicle, there are also forensic doctors with extremely rigorous and meticulous logic, and prosecutors with leadership qualities.
On the way, the forensic doctor chatted with the prosecutor about his divorce, and the prosecutor talked to the forensic doctor about a case of a woman committing suicide. A woman prophesied her own death, after giving birth to a child. As it turned out, the woman died of a heart attack. The forensic doctor asked if an autopsy had been performed, and the prosecutor replied no, because the cause of death was obvious and the family could not accept that the woman's body was mutilated again. The forensic doctor still insists that an autopsy should be carried out, because overdose of certain drugs can also cause heart disease. The chat was then terminated due to the work of identifying the corpse.
The police work extremely seriously, urging the murderer like an eagle, and the two started a fierce psychological battle under the night. With the strong wind at night, the group had to hide in the village chief's house to rest. Unfortunately, the strong wind caused a power outage, so they had to light candles. The village chief's daughter served tea for the guests. The elegant and dignified village chief's daughter amazed everyone when she appeared, and looked even more holy under the dim candle light.
This situation caused the murderer to suddenly have a nervous breakdown. He explained everything to the attorney general and the police, but asked the police to take good care of their children.
The body was successfully found, and it was appalling, as if it was tortured. A group of people loaded the body with difficulty and prepared to be transported to the morgue for examination.
Before the autopsy, the prosecutor found the forensic doctor and took the initiative to chat about the woman's suicide. Prosecutors said the woman could not have committed suicide and had no motive. The woman once caught her husband cheating but quickly forgave him and the two pretended nothing happened, so it couldn't be the motive. The forensic doctor said that on the surface, it was forgiveness, but in fact, the woman had already decided to commit suicide, but the child was innocent, so she ended her life after giving birth to the child. Suicide is often done to punish others. The prosecutor asked which drugs overdose could induce heart disease. The forensic doctor gave an example, which happened to be the drug that the prosecutor's father-in-law had been taking for many years. Apparently, the woman who committed suicide was the prosecutor's wife, but no one knew the truth. The pained look on the prosecutor's face shows the years of torment he has endured, and the woman's revenge has served its purpose, but at the cost of her life. Before leaving, the prosecutor said to the forensic doctor that the woman was really ruthless.
During the autopsy process, the forensic doctor found that the victim's lungs had mud, which means that the murderer buried the victim alive. What kind of hatred made the murderer so cruel? The forensic doctor had actually suspected the murderer's lover. The murderer's lover is a beautiful and fashionable young woman who doesn't seem to be compatible with her sloppy husband (the victim), what happened between them? No way to know, but the forensic doctor keenly felt that the victim might not have been good to his wife, or that the idea of burying him alive was her instigation.
However, the forensic doctor hesitated and did not include this important finding in the report. why? Could it be that the imprisonment of the murderer's lover will make the child suffer more? Is it to let the murderer's lover suffer the guilt of murder forever?
Perhaps, the rigorous and rigid forensic doctor also changed a lot of thoughts after talking with the prosecutor: Does the truth really matter? Does revealing the truth we see hide the deeper truth? Whether the self-righteous one is doing good or evil?
The forensic doctor looked out the window, where the murderer's lover was walking away with the child. The film ends with the profile of the forensic doctor with complex eyes, leaving a huge space for thinking and imagination.
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