have always been somewhat out of the logical category of normal people. The development of the incidents always has a strong reversal of changes in film and television dramas, which can never be measured by formal legal principles and logic. Many times, Chinese people think that "life is like a drama" jokes will always produce the feeling of realism and magical themes in Korea that "real life is more absurd than drama"!
Victims of criminal cases that cannot be known, the judicial proceedings are dumbfounding! After the vigorous opening of
in the first half of this year, the posture is about to fully reshuffle the entertainment circle, and in the end, the "Li Shengli Incident" that died without committing a crime in the fall, and the praise of the people of the mid-year "Suyuan case criminals are truly exposed". Now, the news that the murderer of the Hwaseong serial homicide in Gyeonggi-do, which has been in dust for decades, has surfaced. This year’s news from the Korean judicial circle has been enough to make up a TV that can be called the best law reversal genre of the year. Series.
The Hwaseong serial homicide case in Gyeonggi-do, as the first of the three outstanding unresolved cases in South Korea, was presented by realist director Bong Joon-ho in 2003. In addition, Bong Joon-ho, who gave birth to a calf at the beginning of the year, gave the whole story a height that is beyond the reach of ordinary criminal investigation suspense with a sophisticated, calm, and calm technique that is extremely incompatible with his age. To this day, it is still an indelible part of modern Korean movies. No. Masterpiece.
This is the best Song Kanghao, and also the best Bong Junhao
Although this year’s Cannes Film Festival in France, Bong Junhao and Song Kanghao, the old couple, use the theme of depicting the division of social classes and the increasingly sharp social conflicts caused by the disparity between the rich and the poor. His realistic magical theme "Parasite" won the Palme d'Or and became the highest international award for Korean films in the past 100 years.
"Parasite" is a relatively solidified fable of the rich and poor in contemporary South Korea. It presents the magic of reality, using insects to compare the real life conditions of today's major classes. Magical realism satirizes what is now South Korea. Unbalanced economic structure and people’s living conditions.
However, the irony and metaphor of "Parasite" is too obvious, obviously to cater to the aesthetics of the jury of the Cannes Film Festival in France, in order to compromise with the Palme d'Or, it is deliberate. Therefore, so far, Feng Junhao's best work is the intangible "Memories of Murder" that hurt people back then.
"Memories of Murder" is adapted from the real story of the Hwaseong serial murder case in Gyeonggi Province. The entire serial homicide case lasted 4 years and 7 months from 1986 to 1991. There were 10 victims and only one survivor. The victims of
were all women, kidnapped by criminals, raped and then killed. Criminals commit crimes in a sophisticated and hidden manner, and the police's tracing system and investigative methods are imperfect, even if the US FBI supports the analysis of the suspect's DNA at the scene, it still cannot confirm the capture of the ultimate murderer for many years.
When Bong Joon-ho put this real event on the big screen, the Korean people had been tortured for too long, and even began to forget such events deliberately to gain the courage to live. For this reason, Feng Junhao went beyond the scope of the entire homicide, using this series of cases as a lead, and connecting them in series was the scene that he most wanted to forget in that era.
appeared, but it was not the horror of the crime scene, but the undulating golden rice field, a ignorant and honest child focused on the grasshopper. Then, in the warm golden light, the innocent child chased the dilapidated tractor of Detective Park and walked leisurely on the ridge.
"Memories of Murder" uses almost dreamy pastoral scenery, but it is full of unassuming calmness. After showing the golden harvest scene, the next second, Detective Park was watching a group of inexperienced children, carefully inspecting the female corpse full of insects in the drain. The golden rice fields are bred with vigorous harvests, but passersby will never think of the deep sins hidden in this beautiful land.
Then, as a routine matter, Detective Park was absent-minded in investigating the case. Even if they encountered such a bad case, their township police were still unskilled in using inadequate tools and numbly carrying out a procedural investigation process-writing Reports, questioning suspects, taking photos of suspects and setting up files, time passed bit by bit, but the case did not progress.
Until I met Officer Xu from the city, his passion and impatient attitude inspired Officer Park and othersThe two forces are combined because they are competitive, but there is no substantial advancement in the case. Similar cases have been happening all the time, and the suspect has been screened many times, but the conclusion is that no murderer has been caught. . The entire process of investigation and screening of suspects not only showed the audience the chaotic life of the bottom Korean residents at the time, but because the process was not smooth, it inspired more hatred of the case, and we can even infer , 's torture of the suspect has inspired impersonators other than the original murderer.
That is an era, an era in which people turn into beasts! The final result of
is very frustrating for the audience who is looking for the bottom, because the answers they want, the plot and the director's intentions are not likely to satisfy them. In real life, more than 30 years after the incident occurred, it was revealed that the murderer was suspected of being arrested after the police strictly sealed the suspect's information!
It is difficult for us to classify "Memories of Murder" as a general suspenseful criminal subject, because the process of 's investigation is a lead in itself, and what is connected in series is the living conditions of the entire era.
The seemingly vigorous, but in fact sluggish and barren rural period, the residents of every bottom struggling in a precarious survival panic. The chaos of the political situation and the inefficiency of public servants have led to the constant brewing of the underlying emotions. Dissatisfaction with the status quo of life is accumulating, but there is not enough room for improvement. In a closed life, the accumulated anxiety and hopelessness accumulate to a certain extent, and it is necessary to find ways to seek release outside of legal channels!
So someone released their bestiality on the weak, causing endless murders. However, the enthusiasm and urgency of the police, to a certain extent, played a stimulating effect on the bottomless excavation of the private lives of the bottom residents.
Personally, the director's gaze is not focused on the murderer, but on the vague expression- anyone can be forced to become the next murderer!
is like the last key suspect Xiaobai, in fact, it is very likely that he was provoked by police behavior and finally embarked on the path of crime. He was only one of the suspects, but after being questioned by the police, coupled with the incompatibility of the social environment, he became a mimic. Therefore, in the final focus on the case of police officer Park’s wife and female student, the murderer is no longer the person who committed the crime. Most likely, the suspected Xiaobai was wronged and chose to use the imitation method to remove the suspicion. The advantage of
"Memories of Murder" lies in the long pursuit and anxiety, and finally return to the most normal emptiness of long life. In the face of the victims who have been grieved, as well as the participants and suspects who were disrupted by the whole thing, it did not blame anyone, nor did it praise anyone. It used an objective and alert lens, meticulous but clueless. The clue runs through the plot, but in the end, it blames everything on the impermanence of the world and the emptiness of life.
It was a long and hopeless struggle against life. Just like the continuous golden yellow rice field, year after year of birth, but underneath, there are countless people's despair and decay buried.
The reality is the same as the plot, because in the face of the delicate prosecution period of Korean law, this case is likely to be dealt with coldly, turning into a headless case that knows the results but still cannot settle the victims.
is like the most classic segment in "Suyuan"-the murderer who hurt Suyuan pleaded guilty in front of his father. When the father is indignant, even if he picks up a brand name, he can let the murderer go to court on the spot. However, under the law, the father may Was imprisoned for injury.
In the conflict between law and emotion, the original drama conflict is naturally formed. Therefore, in the process of dealing with emotion and law, how to solve the victims' demands to the greatest extent is the top priority of the modern judicial system. Questions to consider. Is
just an ordinary person?
After all, the audience is still curious about what the murderer looks like. Is it vicious, hideous, or smiley?
After all, such over-obvious appearance features are largely unsuitable for such cases that have been hidden for many years. After all, the murderer can be hidden among all living beings for so many years, and his appearance may really look like a movie.In the end, the words the little girl left to Detective Park-just an ordinary person.
This is the most paradoxical part of life, and ordinary people like this are the most confusing. They are different from the hideous people, they make people feel defensive, so it is easier for people to remove their defenses from others, and it is easier for people to walk into people's safety and security, and then show the most primitive appearance and make those impossible. The sin that people accept.
In "Memories of Murder", Feng Junhao shows a case that is inevitable in an era, and also reveals the social roots of the entire case that cannot be easily ended. In the ever-changing reality, while the audience is asking the murderer's answer to "what does it look like", they should also pay more attention to what makes these ordinary people become beasts. And how to let the people you care about, love, and want to protect from the possibility of being harmed and hurt by these beasts!
