Downstream is a humble compromise, upstream is a noble persistence

Dylan 2022-04-23 07:01:47

The criminal policeman, who was keen to kick, beat, and torture, finally cut off his limb.

The criminal police who believe in scientific data finally choose violence.

This kind of "black humor" between cause and effect appears to be fatalistic at first glance, but in fact the real culprit is the military dictatorship of South Korea in that era. I have always liked this theme of looking at small places through the background of the big era + the joys and sorrows of small people: in the long river of history, people are humble compromises when they go downstream, and noble persistence when they go upstream. In the end, Song Kanghao revisited his hometown after 17 years, and when he learned that the real murderer had also visited the crime scene not long ago, he broke the dimension wall and looked at the audience, pushing this obsession to the climax of the whole film:

Hi, murderer, are you watching this movie too? look into my eyes!

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Extended Reading
  • Kiley 2022-03-24 09:01:40

    Murder is not the point, the point is memory. The collective memory of the entire nation is presented in a very helpless way. We can't find out who the murderer is. It seems that the pain of the nation is invisible and inaccessible. In the rice fields next to the railway, the brand of time is imprinted on Every ordinary person, and decades later, when we look back at that time, we may only see the ordinary face of the times.

  • Orin 2022-03-23 09:01:44

    Probably better than "12 House"

Memories of Murder quotes

  • [last lines]

    Detective Park Doo-Man: Did you see his face?

    [Girl Nods]

    Detective Park Doo-Man: What did he look like?

    Schoolgirl: Well... kind of plain.

    Detective Park Doo-Man: In what way?

    Schoolgirl: Just... ordinary

  • Detective Park Doo-Man: Do you get up each morning too?