Well, I saw demons, more than one.
Among these demons, some demons have distorted personalities, kill innocent people indiscriminately, and have no humanity. They regard life as a toy, and treat torture as fun, while the pain of others is only a special effect blessing when playing games...
And there is also a type of demons. They used to be peaceful, upright and pure. After the demons brought maddening and heinous injuries, they finally made a solution that might not be so correct when they were sad and helpless--using the devil's way. to get revenge.
The story of this movie is between such a born demon and a demon who is forced out. It is said that the most untested thing is human nature, but Korean movies always like to do this.
In the movie, Cui Minzhi plays the outright devil Zhang Jingzhe, who has a rough life, an extremely distorted personality, and maybe the departure of his wife (which is never explained in the movie). Rape, kill and then dismember, and even sometimes his series of behaviors can be regarded as ritualistic, because the tools and techniques of dismembering can be regarded as exquisite. His murder was not impulsive, nor for no reason, the method was cruel, and the game was in it. If this is not the devil, then I really can't imagine how ugly human nature can be.
And another demon in the movie was forced out, which made people feel distressed. The male protagonist, Kim Soo Hyun, played by Lee Byung Hun, is a young police officer who works for the National Intelligence Agency. He has just been engaged to the girl he loves for a month, and his fiancee Zhu Yan was brutally killed and dismembered by Zhang Jingzhe while driving home alone at night. The movie only explained this incident in a short space, and the remaining two hours were all spent on the male protagonist's hunting and revenge against Zhang Jingzhe. After the incident, the male protagonist found the photos of the four main suspects and began to independently trace the murderer. (From here on, we must ignore the bug that the director made the Korean police a bit silly for the sake of the plot.)
When he first caught the pervert Zhang Jingzhe and almost killed him, leaving me in front of the screen to think about how the plot would develop next, the male protagonist put down the stone of "send the murderer back to the west directly" instead, and It's stuffing the capsule with the tracker into the pervert's mouth for him to swallow.
From then on, revenge officially begins. After that, every time Zhang Jingzhe committed a crime, the male protagonist would appear in time to interrupt his "good things". In his opinion, the male protagonist was definitely haunted.
The heartache is that the uneducated can only be called criminal suspects, and usually only those with high IQ can become the devil. When Zhang Jingzhe was punished in time by the male protagonist for the second time, he realized that he was being tracked.
The scary thing is that Zhang Jingzhe's reaction was only a moment of panic, and then it was more like a child's excitement when he saw a fun toy. So Zhang Jingzhe's fun also began to change from killing women to "games" with the male protagonist. This game is not Tom and Jerry's chasing and losing, but at the cost of more innocent lives and increasing the stakes again and again.
Every time the hunt is successful, the male protagonist will leave some traces on Zhang Jingzhe, such as kicking his wrists and breaking his hamstrings.
Every time the tiger returns to the mountain, Zhang Jingzhe will also add some blood to the male protagonist, such as telling him that his fiancee was pregnant when he was killed by him.
One is a natural demon who delights in provoking the pain and anger of others, and the other is a fallen angel whose emotions are constantly manipulated by demons.
After a few rounds, Zhang Jingzhe stopped playing. He felt that he could reach a climax, so he told the police that he was going to surrender, but he had to do one thing before surrendering. Start.
It's too easy to make a good man miserable, and to hurt the one he loves is enough to destroy him.
In the whole process, it seems that the male protagonist actively pursues Zhang Jingzhe, but in fact it is Zhang Jingzhe who is manipulating the male protagonist's emotions and revenge. Before Zhang Jingzhe hurt the male protagonist's family, this active-passive relationship was still hidden behind the story line, but when the male protagonist was forced to rush to save people, this relationship was instantly clear. In this process, Zhang Jingzhe was indeed tormented, but in my opinion, the male lead lost, because the real pain to Zhang Jingzhe was not the skin and flesh, and this kind of pursuit would not make him fear at all, but aroused The uglier and more perverted side of him, such a demon is no different from the demons in some fantasy dramas that suck the negative emotions of human beings to increase their energy. The more angry you are, the happier he is, the more painful you are, the more excited he is, and you lose your mind to the extreme. , he will be happy.
In fact, "revenge", whether it is in martial arts novels, ancient costume dramas that regard human life as ants, or modern dog-blood dramas, is a plot that will make people bloody and applaud, and it is too bad to see All the bad guys feel good when they are punished. There are also some demented criminals in life, and sometimes even make us feel that the death penalty makes punishment too easy, and it is impossible to relieve the hatred of being executed at a late time. Sometimes I really want to say "reject humanitarianism, I just want to fight a tooth for a tooth"! The pain they caused the victims, I just want them to pay back tenfold!
Well, if I turn into a demon at this point and fight back, as the movie says, I'll get nothing but more pain and even more people I love and get implicated innocent lives;
And if I'm still an angel, how can I be willing to watch the devil get away with it or die happily and comfortably, no matter what the outcome is?
After watching the movie, it reminded me of a very favorite Korean drama called "I Hear Your Voice". Thinking about it, it is actually the same essence as "Seeing the Devil". It is also a pervert's endless harm to the hero and heroine. At first, he may only enjoy the fun of the fear he brings to others, but slowly his excitement turns to "turning the hero into a person like him" on this matter. The biggest difference between the two works is that "Seeing the Devil" controls this emotion to the extreme, and the devil forces another person into a devil; and "I Hear Your Voice" obviously has a relatively ideal ending, with the male protagonist in the female role. In the Lord's strength and love, in the end, he did not become the same devil as a pervert.
Thinking about it now, there is an earlier Korean drama that combines the contradictions and struggles of these two choices into one drama - "City Hunter". The male protagonist's way of revenge is to capture them and hand them over to the police and let the law rule, while the fake father who cultivated the male protagonist wants to kill the enemy himself, because he knows that the law is too kind, and as a high-ranking official, they will be sheltered. (Speaking of this, I still have to sigh with emotion that South Korea's works are always black government, black president, black system, black laws, and black laws.)
So, in the final analysis, these works are still expressing "we don't want to be demons".
Intellectually speaking, the male protagonist in "Seeing the Devil" got nothing in the end; psychologically, although the male protagonist tortured him physically in the process of revenge on Zhang Jingzhe, the male protagonist did not gain any pleasure; materially, This process actually made him lose more...
But emotionally speaking, I can't find a reason to continue to be an angel. In the face of the heinous harm of the devil, we can't do anything. We are forced to accept the "rational ruling" of the law, and we can only let them accept it. No one can be reconciled to the "caring off" from the humanitarian society...
But in the end, I think maybe the words of the heroine's mother in "I Hear Your Voice" when she was brutally murdered can be used as consolation——
"Children, don't hold hatred in your heart, because it's too tiring to live like that. You can only live happily and happily, which is the best revenge for those bad people."
Finally, may there be no demons in the world of angels.
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