After watching this film, I remembered a sentence from the "Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's Original Vows Sutra" in the Hong Kong movie Infernal Affairs: "If you fall into this prison, from the time you first entered, to hundreds of thousands of kalpas, you will die and live forever. Unless the karma is exhausted, one can be reborn. This is continuous, so it is called endless."
The countless foreshadowings in the first part of this film reached a climax when Zong Xiu’s eldest brother killed his eldest brother Bingdou. When burying his eldest brother Bingdou, Zong Xiu burned the photos of Bingdou. Burning the photos actually means falling into the underworld. Burn family, love, friendship. Some people hate Jong-soo, but he just repeats Byung-doo's path. They all fell into the "infernal hell" of the underworld. In this gray-based film, the pain of the underworlders is vividly displayed. Has Bingdou ever been happy? Born to die, not to be reused, to kill the elder brother, to beg for love, and beg for the understanding of the family. In the underworld, living is a pain.
Maybe death is a relief for Bing Doo.
As far as the movie is concerned, it is success that can make you cry because of Byung Doo, clench your fist because of Jong Soo, and be horrified by President Hwang's killing decision at the end.
As far as life is concerned, I still want to believe that there is true love in the world. Maybe we are also living in the "Uninterrupted Hell", we can't get what we want, and the cycle goes back and forth.
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