This is the second time I've watched this movie. I just wanted to briefly comment on it, saying that there will be no next time. But after flipping through the discussion, I found that many people didn't understand what the movie was trying to say at all.
This movie is not about procedural justice, so don't compare it to "Law Abiding Citizen".
This movie is not about revenge, so don't say that the male protagonist is stupid, that the male protagonist can't play, and think that the male protagonist should do what you said: gouge his eyes and cut his tongue the first time he catches it.
What is the main character in this movie trying to do? He wants to hunt, he wants his prey to be afraid. It is the fear of his prey, not pain, not repentance, but fear. This is the series of actions of the male protagonist.
In the end, Cui Minzhi said to Li Bingxian, "You also lost." I understand that the male lead really lost. This villain is indeed a demon, and he has no fear. The male protagonist can't get what he wants, so he loses. The male protagonist also admitted and said that he underestimated you. At this time, the male protagonist's mentality changed: there was no way to harvest fear, so he compromised.
Of course the pain is top notch. The male lead said that it would be nice if you could feel the pain after death. This of course cannot be achieved, but this form can be approximated as the inheritance of suffering by the living: the villain dies, but his living parents and children continue to suffer.
Recalling what Choi Min-sik did: killing a woman and making the woman's relatives grief-stricken. We call him the devil.
Let's look at what Lee Byung-hun did: Killing Choi Min-sik made his relatives heartbroken. So Lee Byung Hun has also become a demon here. This is the meaning of the movie title, which expresses a kind of violent aesthetics, symmetrical aesthetics.
You make a person miserable and you terrify a person, it's not an order of magnitude at all.
Finally, I would like to say something about the sensory stimulation this movie gave me. If I came to do this last stroke, I wouldn't put the end of the rope in his mouth, I'd tie a few hooks to the end of the rope and hang it all in his skin, and as his parents pulled the door, the skin would Little by little, the large piece of skin was finally pulled up like peeling a banana, and the knife fell again. Not only do I want to make his family miserable, I want him, in this world, right now, to be fed.
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