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In my impression, Korean crime films are good at quietly and skillfully introducing the audience into an intricate web, stimulating your curiosity, but ultimately not telling you the correct solution to the problem.
"Unforgivable" is two hours long. If you've only seen the first 50 minutes, you won't think it's anything special. However, after watching the entire film, looking back and thinking about it, I can't help but cheer! It turned out that the first 50 minutes were carefully set up.
This is a story of revenge and redemption. Various emotions that should have been deep in the film turned into fires of vengeance.
A murder case was discovered by the riverside. The deceased was a naked woman, whose body was dismembered. The policewoman who just debuted, under the guidance of her teacher, who is also the number one forensic doctor in South Korea, easily brought a suspected murderer to justice. However, what makes this film more terrifying than a horror film is that as the plot deepens, the old forensic doctor falls into memory: he made a perjury case ten years ago. Back then, he fell into a trap that was already designed by others, trying his best to escape—hope was right in front of him—unexpectedly, he fell into a deeper darkness at the last moment.
The movie reminds everyone not to do bad things, especially things that hurt someone's life. Otherwise you will have to pay it back sooner or later. The pain will last a lifetime, and the hatred will spread like a cancer. How to redeem? You cannot forget the sins you have committed, and you may end up guillotining yourself.
In addition, the film raises another ethical issue: the relationship between a father and his daughter's body. In the film, under the circumstance of being blinded, the forensic doctor dissects his daughter's body with his own hands, destroys the body, and implants the man's semen into his daughter's body. This heavy ethic is a forbidden area, and people are ashamed to talk about it. It was this that finally broke the forensics. This person who has always claimed to adhere to scientific ideas collapsed under the impact of this layer of ethics. How can the audience in the play not be moved by it?
(2020-5-10 at noon in Ningbo)
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