We are all murderers-about "Untraceable"

Glenna 2021-12-24 08:01:49

Look at the title or trailer, you will think this is a suspenseful film, the kind of cool. Cool is not bad, it is a bit reluctant to say suspense, because the murderer has been exposed in less than 30 minutes. The only thing that hangs people’s appetite is the original motive for the murder, but that seems to be a dispensable thing. The focus of the film does not seem to be the murderer itself, but rather the "strange" cyber murder.
The murderer built a website called "kill with me". This website broadcasted the murderer’s crimes. For example, he tied the FBI agent who was tracking him to a sink. The website visit counter was connected to a pipe that released sulfuric acid into the sink. When the number of visitors increased, the more sulfuric acid was released, eventually burning the agent to death. For another example, he used cement to fix the lower body of a victim to the ground, surrounded by high-powered lights. When the number of visitors increased, the heat emitted by the lights became higher and higher, eventually burning the victim to death. This website keeps changing its server to hide its ip address and avoid police chase. Without any clues, the police held a press conference and asked the public not to log on to the website, because in doing so, each of us was a murderer for the deceased.
Is it really?
Maybe not. The murderer actually has no direct relationship with whether there is anyone or how many people. Anyway, he is definitely going to kill a person, just using a more hypocritical method. Then there is another question involved: why does he want to kill. Didn’t I say that this is irrelevant and dispensable?
Obviously, I was wrong. The murderer’s father died many years ago. He committed suicide. On a bridge, he blasted his head with a pistol. This was filmed by the media, and it was continuously broadcast as a show of the world’s wonders, with no regard for the deceased. The feelings of the family. So the murderer started to kill in retaliation, and the victim was the reporter of the year.
Wait, it's chaos here, who is the murderer taking revenge?
Does he have hatred with the reporter of the year? No, the reporter represents the media. The media filmed the death of the murderer's father. It is understandable from the so-called journalistic morality, but his repeated release is trampling on the dead and the living. The reason why the media is released is because people like to watch it. Why do you like to watch? Because we are perverted. Each of us is a murderer.
You have to admire the director, he knows what you are thinking, he knows that you will die without admitting that you are the murderer, so he hits you again. Make you undeniable, no way to escape. We become murderers not because of the moment we clicked the mouse, but because of the indifference and ruthlessness that we are born with.
Watching a movie, what I think about most is, if there really is such a website, would I go there? How about you? Will you and I become us?

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Extended Reading
  • Ruth 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    The male protagonist is the kind of character that makes people want to kill with a knife immediately after watching it. The American version of "Curiosity Killed the Cat"

  • Donna 2022-04-22 07:01:39

    There are also those numb spectators who are killing people!

Untraceable quotes

  • [online, Griffin sits in a chamber with sulfuric acid pumping into it]

    Detective Eric Box: If that's water in that tank, pretty soon he's going to be sitting in battery acid.

  • Agent Griffin Dowd: Got the list of them right here. The most common is Heparin; get the dose right you save a life, wrong, got yourself a hemophiliac.

    Richard Brooks: So the more people who visit the site, the more the drug is released, and the faster he bleeds.

    Agent Jennifer Marsh: That's right, that's what we believe.

    Richard Brooks: Well, isn't that wonderful.