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On July 15, 1975, an apartment in Hamburg, Germany, suddenly caught fire. While firefighters were actively fighting the fire, a female firefighter screamed and ran downstairs. She took off her helmet and started to vomit without any explanation.
Several plastic bags containing rotten corpses were found in the attic of the apartment. The accidental fire simmered the rotten meat together with the maggots-this is really a picture with its own taste.
The murderer in this case was named Fritz Honka. From 1970 to 1975, he killed 4 prostitutes in his apartment. Among the four dead, except for the first to be thrown by him, the other three were mutilated by him and hid in the closet.
Why hide the corpse?
Hongka, who has procrastination, said: After throwing the body for the first time, I found it was too troublesome. Besides, I was too busy at work and didn't have time to throw it.
Then why kill?
Hongka said it more upright and confident. He said with righteous indignation: When they slept with me, they were not enthusiastic at all, and some even laughed at me for incompetence, which is really unprofessional.
To be honest, the matter of impotence is not slander, he really can't.
For a long time, Honka has become a German urban legend, and it has also helped many mothers complete the important task of parenting. When a bear child is disobedient, mothers only need to say: Be careful Honka is looking for you. The bear child immediately became obedient.
The year Honka was arrested, there was a bear child named Heinz Strunk who was 13 years old, and another bear child named Fatih Akin was just 2 years old.
The bear child Heinz Strunk grew up and became a writer. In 2016, he wrote a novel "Golden Gloves" based on the story of his childhood nightmare Honka, which made a sensation in the German literary world and won many awards.
Fatih Akin grew up and became a well-known director. He made a movie of the same name based on that novel: "Golden Gloves".
The film caused a huge response when it was screened at the Berlin Film Festival. Many viewers left their seats after watching it halfway through: It was disgusting! !
"Golden Gloves" is a movie with mixed reputation. In my opinion, the cramped and dirty picture and the thinking behind it are a bit alienated, and the unique social background is difficult to find resonance, so the score is not very high. Judging from the undisguised shooting skills of the film itself, perhaps the artistic significance is greater than the critical significance.
There are many movies adapted from real serial killers. These movies either evoke the evil in our hearts, or reflect the injustices of the society, clearly write crimes, but inspire a strong sense of justice.
But this movie is different. You can hardly see anything related to beauty. Instead of asking yourself whether you like this movie or not, ask yourself if you can keep watching it.
He’s the kind of person who gets stuck on the road: Honka’s true history
On July 31, 1935, Honka was born in Leipzig, Germany. He was the third child of 10 children. When the Second World War broke out, because Father Honka was a GC party (this is reflected in the movie), he did not fight Hitler on the battlefield, but was captured by the SS in a concentration camp. Until the Soviet Union liberated the concentration camps, the family was rescued.
In short, at the age of 5-10, the Honka family spent time in a concentration camp. The gloomy years may have taught Hongka to swallow his anger, may have established a strange sense of justice in his heart, or may have made him accustomed to cruelty.
In 1946, when Hongka was 11 years old, shortly after leaving the concentration camp, his father passed away due to alcoholism and poor health.
In 1950, the 15-year-old Hongka went out to make a living and followed others to learn as a bricklayer, but because his body was allergic to certain materials (childhood malnutrition prone to allergies), he could not do this job.
In 1951, 16-year-old Honka fled to West Germany and worked on a farm. During this time, he fell in love with a woman named Margot and had a son. After the birth of his son, Hongka felt that he was unstable and did not want to marry Margot. After paying 3,000 yuan for alimony, Hongka left.
In 1956, 21-year-old Honka came to Hamburg to work as a worker in a shipyard. Seeing that he could earn a future with his youth and strength, he didn't expect a car accident as soon as he entered the factory. Although he saved his life, his nose was broken, oppressing the optic nerve and causing squint. After he was injured, his nose collapsed.
He became the Quasimodo in the factory, and colleagues often laughed at him for his strange appearance. Hongka is becoming more and more sensitive, as long as others laugh suddenly, he believes that they are laughing at himself.
In 1957, 22-year-old Hongka married a woman and gave birth to a son. It is difficult for a person with an inferiority complex and sensitive heart to have a happy marriage. Honka, who was scornful to the outside world, was a domestic violence man inside, yelling and even beating his wife at every turn.
Three years later, his wife left him (maybe in his heart he felt that this was his wife's betrayal).
Later, his wife and Hongka reunited briefly, but was beaten away by Hongka again.
Ugly appearance, marriage failed. Hongka's heart is getting more and more sensitive. He was afraid of contact with people and hated those colleagues who laughed at him, so he quit his job and went to work as a night watchman at an energy company. His lack of visibility at work also made his character more and more withdrawn.
Slowly, Hongka stopped pursuing any women. He thinks that instead of being ugly by those picky women, it is better to find a street girl. On the dirty attic wall, he was plastered with all kinds of nude girls pictures. He spent more time on the five girls to solve physical problems. His physiological functions were also consumed and withered by the five girls during this period.
One night in December 1970, 35-year-old Honka approached 42-year-old Gertraud Bräuer, who was a hairdresser and took part-time guests. Gertrude has a cheerful personality, and afterwards he ridiculed Hongka: It's so ugly, Tintin can't do it.
Before she could say anything, she was knocked down by Hongka and choked her neck.
This is the first person Hongka killed. Nervous, he dismembered it with a saw, then put it in a trash bag and threw it out in batches.
The body was soon discovered by the police and the deceased was also identified, but they never found the murderer.
For the next four years, Hongka has been very well-behaved.
Until August 1974, the 39-year-old Honka met Anna, a 47-year-old street girl. This time Anna did not laugh at him, nor did he laugh at Tintin. But he still strangled her to death. For this, Hongka explained: Anna had no enthusiasm in bed, she must be disgusted with herself, so she must die.
This kind of explanation makes people wonder how much other sex workers must love their jobs to survive from him in the past four years (the movie actually tried to make some explanations).
This time, he mutilated the body. But instead of throwing the body, it was stuffed into the closet.
In December of the same year, Honka found another 57-year-old street girl named Frieda Roblick (Frieda Roblick), who killed her for the same reason and method, then dismembered and stuffed it into the closet—this Once, as a demon, he didn't need to find any reason for killing.
In January 1975, Honka asked a 52-year-old streetwoman Ruth Schult to come to the apartment. The same routine was killed again.
In the closet of his small apartment, there were three dismembered corpses that were allowed to be eaten by maggots, and the smell of corpses had accompanied him for almost a whole year. The neighbors also protested, but no one knew what it was like.
Until a neighbor accidentally caught fire, the serial murder case was solved by firefighters.
Killed four people. Guess what he ended up?
In 1976, the court found that only one of the four was murder and three were manslaughter. Taking into account that Honka was drinking heavily and his mind was affected by alcohol, he was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment and treatment in a mental hospital (which reminds me of Arkham).
In 1993, Hunka was released from prison, and then moved to a nursing home in Hamburg under the pseudonym Peter Jensen. He died naturally after five years, and finally died in good faith.
Interpretation of Novels and Movies
There are many mysteries in Hongkaqi's character, and there are certain social and environmental factors behind it. Therefore, novels and movies have turned their attention to the low-level bar he frequented: Golden Gloves.
A group of orphans from World War II gathered in this bar, one older than one, one more alcoholic, and one more hopeless. There were old and frail prostitutes, a bartender named Anus, and an old SS who was blind. Here, the old SS, as the persecutor, and Honka, the persecutor, seem to get along peacefully. Those bloated, fat and unlovable old prostitutes will go home with you even if they just want to find a place to sleep. .
This group of people will burst into tears because of the same old German song, suggesting that they have the same background-and among this group of people, Honka has his own bottom line and dignity relatively.
He is proud that he is a person who has a job and can support himself. He is proud that he can drink his favorite wine at any time. Although he is ridiculed by others because of his appearance, he feels that he deserves a better life. Worthy of enjoying a better woman.
Deep down in his heart, he is still a straight man, looking for dignity and a sense of power from those down-and-out women.
He was superstitious of contracts, so he signed a contract with a prostitute. The contract stipulates: 1. The woman is required to announce that he has given her a pleasure that she has never had before; 2. The woman is required to introduce her beautiful daughter to him.
These two are actually idiotic dreams. Because Tintin can't do it, he can only serve the prostitute with a wooden spoon. And the beautiful daughter in the mouth of the prostitute had already left her.
But the woman signed without hesitation, just to drink a sip of wine and sleep well.
Watching the two of them get along in the movie is like watching Honka kill a person—it's disgusting. The woman takes care of his daily life, but he keeps beating and insulting him. But when Honka’s brother came to visit, Honka treated her as his wife, telling her family history, and telling her brother’s difficulties.
Before leaving, my brother said drunkly: Don't lose this woman.
He sneered with reluctant dignity: I don't want her, I want her beautiful daughter.
In this segment, you can feel the bleak struggle of a low-level character, some morbid struggles.
The film deliberately included two irrelevant young high school students, a delicate student girl and an ignorant long-haired teenager. They came to Golden Gloves with a curious mind, and found that they were completely incompatible with this small society. They had more or less an impact on this bar: the student girl became the angel in the hearts of all down-and-out men, and became Hongka’s dream. lover. And the long-haired boy has no masculinity in the eyes of these old rivers and lakes, and the one-eyed SS urinates on him wantonly.
From the perspective of a normal person, it is impossible to understand such characters and backgrounds, let alone integrate them.
I remember when I watched "Notre Dame de Paris", I was very strange about the character of Quasimodo. In fact, Esmeralda didn’t like Quasimodo in the end. The kind and innocent Quasimodo hugged Esmeralda’s corpse and died together. Is there a trace of an ugly man in such a heart-warming ending? read?
It was as if this unknown Hongka always had an angel-like girl in his heart.
PS: Jonas Dassler, the actor of Honka, is actually a handsome pot, playing ugly and revealing in the film, and having to go to bed with a composted middle-aged aunt, it is also hard.
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