This is the first commercial film in South Korea to be restricted from release, in the style of a black cult film, with mutilated corpses, blood-colored, cruel and real. The characters played by Lee Byung Hun and Choi Min-sik are actually demons. Choi is a natural born murderer, and Lee is a vengeful demon. The confrontation between the two is to compare who is more cruel and who is more fearful.
The film is very depressing, especially Choi Min-sik's clue. Unlike "Memories of Murder" or "Chainsaw", Choi Min-sik's murderous maniac is flamboyant and casual, and he remains unmanned throughout the entire murder process. feel. The film does not explain how the murderer is developed. From the dialogue of another murderer Li Jiuzhe, I feel that they are a group of perverts who are interested in hunting. They are not afraid of death, and get pleasure from the death of the victim, law, human relations They are bullshit in their eyes, only the axe in their hands and the blood of the other party are their beliefs.
Looking at this story with a sense of substitution, I can understand Lee Byung-hun's pain and his decision to take revenge. For demons like Choi Min-sik, I really can't think of any way to punish them. Bringing them to justice will not pacify Lee Byung-hun's inner indignation. The only way is to retaliate with his own way and let Choi understand the feelings of the victims. Only with fear can pour Li's inner block. Therefore, this cat-and-mouse game is constantly being played out. The two murderers in the film are bizarre, Li Jiuzhe kills and then eats it, Cui Minzhi prostitutes and then kills, even if they are hard-hearted, they are cruel even when they treat themselves (for example, Li Jiuzhe pierces his hand through the dagger nailed to the table a little bit hard). It is precisely because they are cruel to themselves that a single shot would not have a devastating effect on them. Therefore, Li Bingxian tore Li Jiuzhe's mouth and chopped off his head with the hands of Cui Minzhi's relatives. At the moment when the great revenge was avenged, Lee Byung Hun took off his stern face like ice and wept bitterly. As Choi Minzhi said before his death, they were all losers. Li's failure is that his revenge plan has affected his father-in-law and sister-in-law, and Cui's death may not be forgiven.
Undeniably, this is one of the best movies I've seen recently. But aside from those eye-catching plots and shocking images, what kind of psychological impact can this movie bring to the audience? The average audience is not the happier the more degenerate, watching this kind of bloody noir film, except for the blockage, there is no benefit.
Li Bingxian does not have the pleasure of getting revenge for a big revenge, and neither does the audience. In such an environment where the weak and the strong cannibalize the life of the weak in the movie, the human heart has nothing but cold and pain.
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