In the following years, I have also watched a lot of Korean movies one after another, including many excellent ones, but I have always been the most impressed with this first one. In addition, I fell in love with Ha Zhengyu after "The Yellow Sea", so yesterday On a whim revisited The Chaser. Less tension and excitement, more thorough understanding of the plot. I have to say that, as director Luo Hongzhen's debut, I think it's much more sincere than many big-picture directors. Luo Hongzhen has a clear and smooth narrative ability, as well as a sense of camera shots for bloody fight scenes with personal characteristics and a perfect sense of rhythm for chase scenes. For personal preference, I really like this type of film.
Black rain falls intermittently. As the main color of the whole film, black occupies the entire screen from the first minute until the last second. At night, the main road in Seoul is full of traffic. The camera shot the young woman and the gentle man in the woman's car after meeting for the first time, and disappeared into the traffic without any trace. People will pay attention to all this.
As the car drove down a secluded alley, the man told the woman to park the car a few minutes from his home. "The car isn't parked, is that okay?" the man asked softly. The woman said it was okay, she would come out in a while anyway. The camera kept taking pictures of this car that was parked crookedly. It was dawn and it was raining. The front and rear cars drove away, and the body was gradually covered with various small advertisements for recruiting women. Got a dirty body and it never started again. This is my favorite shot. Clean and concise yet delicate.
Several prostitutes who used to be police pimps disappeared after being called away by a man with a mobile phone number ending in 4885. The pimp forced a sick prostitute, Meizhen, to leave her 7-year-old daughter at home alone to pick up customers. . Because on the one hand, money is tight, on the other hand, he wants Mizhen to go to 4885's house to know the specific address and send a message to him on his mobile phone, so that he can find the man who abducted and sold his prostitute. When Meizhen arrived at the house, she found that this was a big house in the middle of the mountain with no mobile phone signal. In the corner of the bathroom, there was a small strand of long black hair with blood. She was scared and panicked that she had left the condom in the car and wanted to go out. take. Sitting on the sofa, the man turned his head and said softly, "Okay," and turned his head back with a smile that was not a smile. At this time, the camera passed over the shoulders of the slightly trembling woman, and stopped on the large lock on the door, and the climax began from then on.
I like Luo Hongzhen's chase scene very much, the male is powerful. The first chase is between pimps and murderers, and with the muffled drum beats getting more and more abrupt, people get excited. After catching up with a long staircase, due to physical reasons, the pimp had to stop at the place where he could not stay, and the music gradually calmed down. The fights that followed didn't have the fluffy fists and legs of Hong Kong films, nor the hail of bullets in American films. Some of them were just civilian-style scuffles and tears. The first fight between the two is more real than the last one, because neither the characters themselves nor the audience's emotions so far are just stuck in the angry stage, not the unreleased anger in the final climax. .
After the first chase and fight, the perverted murderer is caught. Things have developed to the part where they should have ended, but the movie is only about a third of the way through. At this time, the director has decided to abandon "suspense", the biggest element of suspense dramas. Maybe the director doesn't want to make a suspense movie at all. But for some reason, my heart as an audience is still hanging in the air.
The pimp was handcuffed to the murderer by the handcuffs he left as a policeman, but the real policeman took him back to the police station for impersonating a policeman. At this time, the Seoul Special Action Team (similar to the serious crime team) was devastated by the incident of the mayor being drenched in feces when he falsely condoled to the vegetable vendor in the early morning. At this time, the perverted murderer vaguely admitted that he was the one at the police station. The news of the murderer of the previous serial murder case immediately went to the police station for arraignment, hoping to divert public attention and ease the pressure on all parties by solving the major case. On the other hand, the pimp was convinced that the seemingly weak and timid young man in front of him had only abducted and sold his prostitutes instead of killing them. He is forced to take Mi-jin's young daughter around to look for the murderer's home with Mi-jin's last parking spot as the dot. Under South Korean law, evidence must be found to convict a suspect within 12 hours of being in custody. The suspect said at this time that he killed 12 people instead of the official 9 people, and he could not say where the bodies were buried. Various characters in the play have their own considerations and scruples. Of course, the police wanted to convict him, but there was no evidence. The prosecutor saw that the suspect was covered in scars, and believed that the police tortured a confession to divert the attention of the fecal incident. In addition, the suspect had falsely claimed that he had killed someone, but he was also convicted because there was no evidence. He had been released, so in the early morning 12 hours after the police searched in a panic and found nothing, the audience watched helplessly as the bloodthirsty perverted murderer swaggered out of the police station gate. At the same time, Meizhen, who was dazed by the hammer, woke up and fled to the street. There was no one on the street. She ran into the canteen at the crossroads covered in blood and asked the proprietress to call the police. Like her, the audience saw a glimmer of hope in this bright morning. At this time, the murderer also came to a fork in the road, and found that there was no cigarette, and by coincidence he walked into the canteen.......
Although the fight scene between the pimp and the murderer at the end is almost morbidly crazy, the dark red blood splashes everywhere, the heavy blows are repeated one after another, and the distorted faces fill the whole picture, but it still cannot be vented out of the hearts of the audience. The sense of anger, powerlessness and despair can't let people breathe freely until the moment the subtitle rises. I have to say that Luo Hongzhen's first maiden show won.
Jin Yunshi, who plays the pimp, wears a greasy suit, is full of swear words, and behaves vulgarly. From the mercenary at the beginning of the film, to the seemingly righteous self-redemption later, the whole character is full of violence. By the end, the audience will breathe with his breath, with anger with his rage. This Agassi with a standard Korean pie face successfully performed a seemingly brave and persistent but powerless pursuer. As for Ha Jung Woo, who has evolved into a murderous maniac, I don't know if I can look at each of his roles impartially and objectively. I only remember that when I watched the movie, I almost didn't remember what he looked like. I only remembered that it was a face with delicate but vague facial features. There are no exaggerated or stereotyped neurotic expressions, and some are sometimes normal, sometimes ferocious, sometimes timid, sometimes manic. I remember that when someone wanted to comment on this film, they only wrote: Hammer him to death, hammer him to death, hammer him to death... . Frankly speaking, I didn't pay more attention to him after watching this film. It wasn't until after "Yellow Sea" that I realized how charming this actor with a face that could be everyone is. His acting talent is not what some domestic so-called It's owned by old acting artists. Murderers, bereaved dogs, black bosses, lawyers, novelists, swingers are omnipotent, each character has a new face, and sometimes even a completely different body type. Ha Jung Woo is now the box office elixir that South Korea does his part, and he deserves it.
When the audience cursed at the incompetence of the police, the indifference of the prosecutors, and the stupidity of the proprietress of the commissary, have you ever thought that you may be one of them in real life, and dare to ask who can say that there has really been episode Conan around you The mind, Jackie Chan's skills and the blood of the American protagonist are a big hero. Heroes are like Santa Claus. Therefore, there will be <
I remembered something my relative who was a criminal police said in the past. There were two perverted murderers in the city where I lived. They specially tortured and murdered prostitutes living at the bottom of the society. It was exactly the same as the film, but the method was even more brutal. The flesh of the bodies of the other victims was shaved and hot pot. Because it was too bloody and feared to cause panic among the masses, no department was willing to report it. In the end, the case was closed because a prostitute escaped and called the police. It's so embarrassing to think about it now. It turns out that people in many unbelievable events are nothing more than mediocre passers-by A and passers-by. The role of passer-by, only when you watch other people's mistakes in the world of movies can you feel self-righteous and self-righteous. Smart and brave.
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