Looking at the synopsis of the film alone, you might think it's a heartwarming story.
Don't forget, this is a criminal revenge movie.
Korean crime movies have never been gentle and courteous, and they will directly strike your sense of good and evil directly, accurately, and ruthlessly. Many people who have watched "Unforgivable" may not be able to recover for several days. And before you hit your perception, you have to hit your vision first.
At the beginning of the film, someone finds the body of a woman by the river.
Strangely, her limbs and head were cut off and stitched up. Although the picture is not bloody, the scale of the picture that challenges the moral bottom line may make some people feel physically uncomfortable. Therefore, when "Unforgivable" was released in South Korea, it was classified as a movie that "minors are prohibited from watching". That's why I recommend everyone watch the abridged version. (All the domestic websites are abridged versions)
Generally speaking, after a homicide, there will always be two waves of people - the first group, those who examine the corpse and evidence. Kang Min-ho is in charge of the autopsy of this case. He was a man of integrity and was the best forensic doctor in the search institute.
This was also the last autopsy he was responsible for before taking a long vacation.
The reason for taking a long vacation is that in a few days, his daughter, who has been in the United States for more than ten years, will return.
After Kang Minho's preliminary inspection, he determined that——
The victim should have died from a blow to the head with a blunt force;
Through various details on the deceased's body, he determined that the murderer committed the murder, cleaned up and dumped the body in three far-flung places: the concrete factory, the seaside, and the riverside.
Moreover, the murderer threw the body in such an obvious place, and did not seem to want to cover up the crime. Could it be that he deliberately wanted the police to find out?
This is a little strange.
While the first group of people was conducting identification, the second group of people, the police, were also on the move.
Min Ruiying , a new female police officer , is one of the police officers in charge of the case.
According to Kang Minho's description, Min Ruiying found that the three places he mentioned were all related to an environmental protection organization.
All signs are real. Li Shenghao , the leader of the environmental protection organization, once went to the corpse throwing ground, and the footprints on the corpse throwing ground were also consistent with his lame feet.
So, the police arrested Li Shenghao.
Unexpectedly, Li Shenghao readily admitted that the person was murdered by him.
What is this... The movie started less than half an hour before it was... over? ? ?
Don't worry, it's just the beginning.
Almost at the same time that Lee Sung Ho confessed to the crime, Kang Min Ho, who did not receive his daughter at the airport, received a document bag from a passerby, which contained photos of his daughter being tied up.
Apparently, Kang Min Ho's daughter was kidnapped!
He panicked. As a father, he can give everything for his daughter. Everything is possible.
He must save his daughter!
The person who gave him the photo said that Li Shenghao gave it.
Kang Min-ho broke into the police station's interrogation room and questioned Lee Sung-ho alone whether he had captured his daughter.
Unexpectedly, Li Shenghao admitted without hesitation for a second that he kidnapped this beautiful girl.
Lee Sung Ho also asked Kang Min Ho to hear his daughter's cry for help online through his mobile phone.
Jiang Minho beat him violently, but he only said: Only if he escapes from the police station safely can he save the girl's life.
Lee Sung-ho took the initiative to admit the crime and asked Kang Min-ho to exonerate him. Although he did not know the reason why Lee Sung-ho did it,
But for the sake of his daughter, Jiang Minho was willing to hide his conscience for him.
The autopsy report was the only tool he could use to exonerate Li Shenghao.
But at this critical moment, the saw that dismembered the body was found by the police. If both the victim's blood and Li Shenghao's fingerprints were found on the saw, it would be difficult for him to exonerate. Because the person who inspected the saw was not Kang Min-ho, he could only eliminate the evidence. He hurriedly sneaked into the physical evidence inspection workshop, and quietly replaced the original human blood on the saw with the blood of his own dog.
After doing this quietly, he told police Min Ruiying that although Li Shenghao admitted that he was the murderer, he had a cane in his hand, and his legs and feet were inconvenient to commit the murder.
And so quickly admitting that he is the murderer, there must be something else hidden in it. Min Seo-young believed it, because Kang Min-ho was a famous forensic doctor and was her teacher in college.
Everyone says that Kang Min Ho is an honest man, why don't you believe him?
But soon, Min Seo Young found out that something was wrong with Kang Min Ho.
Lies constructed in a hurry are easily exposed.
When Min Ruiying went to Kang Minho's house and wanted to ask him a question, he accidentally found that Kang Minho's dog had gauze tied on its hind legs.
She took the dog to the doctor, who said the wound looked artificial.
It was hard for Min Ruiying not to think of the blood on the saw.
Is Kang Min Ho helping Lee Sung Ho? why?
Min Ruiying was puzzled, so she quietly found a friend who could check the archives to find out the relationship between Jiang Minhao and Li Shenghao.
Unexpectedly, she really found it.
On the other hand, Kang Min-ho, who kept covering up the evidence, accidentally discovered the reason why his daughter was kidnapped.
On his way, he found the person who had handed him the envelope.
He followed the man to a bungalow with a lot of information about his daughter posted on the wall.
And many news clippings of the "Rape Case of Female High School Students" more than a decade ago:
"Children of high-ranking officials gang-raped female high school students."
"The autopsy results indicated that it was not rape."
"Witness Wu Yaen revised his testimony."
"Three defendants in rape case against high school girls have been acquitted."
It seemed that his daughter had nothing to do with the rape case, but at this time, Kang Minho was so shocked that he almost stiffened.
Because he knew that in the rape case, in order to get money to help his daughter who was seriously ill, he made perjury.
This will allow my daughter to go to the United States for treatment.
And Wu Yaen, who was dismembered and sewn up in this case, was also the perjurer that year.
Kang Minho, who was the victim, instantly became the perpetrator of the year.
Kang Min Ho suddenly remembered that he had met Lee Sung Ho in court more than ten years ago, he was the younger brother of a high school girl.
Come to think of it, he's here for revenge.
But at this time, Kang Min-ho has no time to think about "revenge", and helping Lee Sung-ho to get rid of his crime and rescue his daughter is the most important thing at the moment.
In order to exonerate Lee Sung-ho, Kang Min-ho had to act on the corpse as he did in the past.
Through a prostitute, he obtained the semen and fingerprints of a passer-by man.
These things can create the illusion that the victim has been raped, thereby modifying the autopsy report.
Letting the corpse have a relationship with a passerby man has nothing to do with Li Shenghao at all.
In this way, the police had to let Li Shenghao leave and arrest the passerby man after he admitted the crime.
Kang Minho's two autopsy reports against his conscience in his life were all to save his daughter, and both times he let go of the murderer.
But is Lee Sung Ho's revenge as simple as letting Kang Min Ho make a perjury?
The appearance of her daughter in the last ten minutes of the film is the climax.
Horrible, shocking, can't describe it.
Rooting pain in eternal memories is a hundred times more painful than any momentary pain.
Although the plot has some bugs .
But after seeing it once, it is hard to forget such a revenge.
Usually facing the topic of revenge and hatred, many movies emphasize forgiveness and letting go to redeem themselves.
But only a few people can truly let go and forgive.
And the most fierce thing about Korean movies is that they tear apart everyone's sense of moral superiority--
What is justice and what is morality? It's hard to pick up.
Some hurts are unresolved in themselves.
We know the bad cycle of "when will the grievances be repaid", but why can't grievances be repaid?
Even knowing that there is no winner in this revenge.
There are still so many people who resolutely entered this cycle because of their unwillingness.
Why?
Because there are few saints in this world,
Like, you and I are just ordinary people.
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