I have introduced the new Polish film Kama Sutra. The story is smooth, the subject matter is novel, and the pictures are elegant, revealing some old scars of "ism".
This time, Brother Fat once again pushed a Polish version of "Memories of Murder" "I Am a Murderer"!
Based on real historical events, the film focuses on the serial killings that rocked socialist Poland in the 1970s.
According to the parties, this kind of serial murder case was rare in Polish history, unheard of in the Soviet Union at that time, and even in the entire European region.
Dozens of women had their heads lifted by blunt instruments during the night, and their skirts and bottoms were removed, but there were no signs of sexual assault.
More than three years have passed, and the police station has changed several times, but the murderer has still not been caught.
Until the niece of the top leader also became the victim, the task of this hot potato fell to the hero, the lieutenant police detective Janus.
Although he was promised a promotion and a salary increase if the murderer was caught, Janus was under a lot of pressure, and he was very likely to become a scapegoat.
In order to catch the murderer, Janus used an advanced computer system for personality analysis and introduced psychology, hoping to narrow the search.
It even offered a reward of 1 million yuan, calling on the whole society to provide clues.
Let male policemen pretend to be women to walk at night in an attempt to lure snakes out of their holes.
But the effect was not good, and the investigation came to a deadlock.
An accident gave Janus the name of a potential murderer: Wesla.
After investigation, they found that the man named Wesla had violent tendencies. Because his wife was a prostitute, the family relationship was not harmonious, domestic violence often occurred, and he treated his neighbors extremely rudely.
After an in-depth understanding of Yanus and his companions, they found some suspicious clues, and everyone quickly decided that Wesla might be the murderer.
After finally catching a potential murderer, everyone from the top leaders to Yanus to the people was very excited.
The long interrogation process began.
Soon, Janus became the hero of the people, the star of the police department, and the big celebrity leading the people around him.
The novelty of "I Am a Murderer" is that it does not focus on the experience of solving cases and creating suspense, but focuses on what happened after the murderer was caught, depicting the life of society and the power class at that time.
By the time the murderer is caught, only one third of the film has passed.
Janus went from righteous awe-inspiring to swaying, and finally completely corrupted, selling his soul and giving up his family.
The narrative spine that accompanies the arc of this character is how the caught Wiesla pleads guilty and becomes the murderer.
Polish films always like to touch on the society at that time, metaphorical reality.
Throughout the confession, the film shows the collusion of power.
The moment Janus grabbed Wesra, he put the entire police system on his dangerous bow.
From top to bottom, they don't care whether Wisla is a real murderer at all, just want to give the society an explanation and make the people feel safe.
They called Janus brothers, and they complimented each other, but when things went wrong, they were eager to distance themselves from him in order to protect themselves.
In the end, in order to convict Wesla, who had insufficient evidence, Janus even threatened the judge, set up a bureau to seize the judge's handle, and asked the judge to quickly convict.
The conspiracy of power turns the lie into the truth.
At the same time, the film also highlights the greed of human nature.
Janus was introverted and calm at first. He is meticulous about the evidence and extremely attentive to the handling of the case.
But when he became a hero in the media's mouth, temptation followed.
First, the sexual seduction from the hair salon girl alienated him from his family.
The house, car, and position rewarded by superiors made him fall into the abyss of desire and could not extricate himself.
When he found out that Wesra might not be the murderer, he was shaken and struggled with his conscience.
But the first color TV, a higher honorary position, made him swallow the truth in his heart again and again.
He even threatened his colleagues who wanted to tell the truth, and came to provide clues to prove that Wiesla was absolutely a kind woman by nature.
Finally, the situation reached an irreversible step.
The whole society needs Wiesla to be a murderer! Because no one wants to admit that they are liars.
The climax of the whole film is the deliberately elongated hanging scene. The garage becomes a temporary gallows, and the police make a deafening echo when they discard one board after another, which is a spiritual question to every liar.
At the moment of hanging, Janus didn't even dare to face the hooded Wesra.
Because he is the murderer!
At the end of the first act of the film, he is a role model in the eyes of his wife and children, a hero in society, and a savior in the eyes of women.
But all of this was obtained through murder, and the murder was a kind and innocent ordinary man, the father of two children.
The end of the film is very ironic. The office where Janus handled the case at the time became a memorial, and the murderer's head was made into a mask and listed in the window.
When Lieutenant Colonel Janus came to cut, he looked at the familiar face in the window and saw himself in the glass mirror.
He told himself in his heart: I am a murderer.
In the contest between truth and time, in 1990, Poland banned this exhibition hall.
The stains of history are scrubbed and filtered.
People are busy forgetting the past.
"I Am a Murderer" turns the hero into the murderer, making everyone involved in it a murderer.
Desires, institutions, and power hide behind their backs, waiting for the brushing of time and the blurring of memory.
In reality, in fact, dark stories like this have not gone away, and there are still innocent people who have been labeled as sinners of the times, and they will be reconciled decades later.
When we forget the past, we betray the future.
Do not believe the reply, murderer, fat brother sent metaphors of the past and the future.
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