Very simple plot. First of all, the protagonist does not have a mental illness, and several hallucinations are expressions. The first time was in the toilet after the murder, which was most likely a dream. The second is at the party. The so-called auditory hallucinations are actually the memory recovery of the protagonist.
I feel guilty about his father. The first half of the movie portrays a good man who has changed his mind, but there are two unnatural things. One is that his father did not mention in the whole film to find the murderer to show justice or indignation, which is inconsistent with such an affectionate man who insisted on going to the grave of his deceased wife for 10 years, and a man who showed a hideous face when boxing and was once called a rock. . The second is his embarrassing relationship with his son, 10 years of single parent life, 10 years of incomprehension caused by alcoholism and domestic violence is enough time to mend it, let alone some adolescent rebellion. The father's deep affection for the deceased wife is not reflected in the male protagonist's memory at all. Both of these points can be explained as the father's guilt. Because of the guilt, he couldn't forget his deceased wife for a long time, but he had no intention of revenge; because the guilt was always with him. The son's relationship is awkward, and it has always been a problem for his son to know some details back then. This is the dark line, let's look at the logical clue.
The male protagonist began to study chemistry and poison from the beginning of the film, and the dialogue with the policewoman on the street bench implied that he already knew who the murderer was. His revenge plan begins when he reads the newspaper and sees the killer again, as the retired old black detective suggests, and the detective suggests that his father knows the news as well. His father didn't do nothing, but wanted to ease the father-son relationship and divert the male protagonist's attention away from his mother's death. It seems normal on the surface, but the birthday is obviously a happy day, and when the father-son relationship is very harmonious after watching the game, he takes his son to the crime scene. Is this what a father who wants his child to forget should do? How can a man with a painful experience face the pain of the past in such a happy atmosphere at this time? Normally, going to the cemetery is also the way to go. But it would be different if the driving force was guilt and repentance. Father wanted to face his past, he was repenting. Of course, the male protagonist didn't think of the real reason for his father's repentance at the time, but accepted his father's repentance, and then the dialogue with the policewoman showed that he had come out and prepared for a new life. Going to parties and getting drunk wasn't planned, it was really planned to live the life of a normal teenager. Drunkenness and some external stimuli led to the connection of clues, the murderer knew his father, and called out the nickname, the key memory recovery (the FXXK OFF that the father replied later can also be interpreted as a dialogue between acquaintances, such as: "Dead, fuck business!" etc.). The correct logic is that his father, Gu Laoyou, murdered, deliberately drove to the scene of the incident, pretended to get lost, and acted with the killer, so the mother died alone, and the father and son were fine. (To say that I was really lost, I met the gangster and happened to be friends, and I happened to recognize each other. I happened to let go of the father and son who saw the criminal’s face. The father didn’t care about the hatred of the deceased wife. Cover the criminal, I can’t swallow so much anyway! ) and the abnormality of my father after seeing the photos in the cake shop. After the incident, my father’s hints at the police station to cover up the criminals have all kinds of clues, which are finally linked together through the photos. At this point, the male protagonist has made his own judgment, and the male protagonist did not suspect his father before this, so he lost control of his emotions. There is no logical contradiction here, so the male protagonist has no emotions when he finally sees the red stamp.
The red stamp is the key issue that causes the audience to wonder whether the father is guilty or not. I think the purpose of the plot director is not to confuse the audience to create Rashomon, and it does not match the overall theme of the film (if the male protagonist kills his father by mistake, then the overall theme will be A 180-degree reversal, from criticizing the judiciary and the society forcing people to use extreme means to maintain justice, has turned into criticizing this illegal act of upholding justice. This kind of reversal at the end of the film is too abrupt and blunt, and clever suspense films are often played, but for serious Drama is the last resort). I think that the director's arrangement of this plot is consistent with the overall tone of his film, which reflects the gist of society's dark and extremist means of upholding justice. The father was the master of killing the mother, and the male protagonist found out later. After killing the father, the revenge was over. Of course, from the standpoint of the protagonist, considering that the killer is also an object of revenge, he will definitely do it, but the director deliberately arranged this episode to highlight the gist of the film, which is the director's personal goods rather than the protagonist's reasonable wishes. I think the plot arrangement is simple and literal. The male protagonist decides to give the killer a chance to choose by himself. He will live if he admits his and his father's crimes, and if he hides it, he will die. The poison is on the red stamp. So the feeling of the male protagonist receiving the red stamp is not regret but an expected feeling. If the father is really innocent, the killer has a third option, which is to throw away the letter and not return it at all. It was because of the relationship that he concealed it. He didn't know that the male protagonist had killed his father, so concealment was to protect his friends and himself. This is also the dark side of human nature in society. No matter how his father repented, he still chose to hide it. There was also a small plot at the party. In order to hook the girl in front of him, the boy concealed the fact that he once liked other girls and denied that the male protagonist returned his paintings. , this plot is not meaningless. Concealment comes from the psychology of self-preservation and the original sin of selfishness, and it is also the reason why the father and the killer are personally "righteous" by the protagonist, and the main ideology is unified.
As for why the policewoman helps the male protagonist, it is actually very simple. It is the main theme of the film: society forces people to use extreme means to maintain justice. This film is a simple two-line parallel, one is the main line of the male protagonist, and the other is the sub-line of the female police officer. The female police officer becomes the victim of justice through the defender of justice, and the situation gradually changes in the contact with the male protagonist. She gathers her experience and receives a call from the killer to obtain a tainted witness at a critical moment, and finally joins the line with the male protagonist through the same killer. . If the male protagonist is a firm executor of the film's theme, then the female protagonist is an interpreter of the rationality and necessity of the theme. It is a complete elaboration process by judicial defenders-judicial victims-distrusting judicial procedural justice-hands-on-hand justice. Therefore, her choice to help the male protagonist is the consensus of the two. In addition to completing the necessary plots, the final scene of losing the gun also reflects the female protagonist's state of mind of breaking with the justice of the judicial process. As for the female protagonist's son being threatened, it is only one of the external reasons, a manifestation of the darkness in society, not the main reason why the female protagonist helps the male protagonist. The director did not try to criticize the male protagonist, but the fall of the female protagonist once again affirmed the male protagonist's thoughts, which is also the main theme of the whole film.
Generally speaking, this film is not deep, not difficult to understand, and the theme is very simple, and it has the subjective thoughts of the director, not for the audience to judge. But the characters are quite three-dimensional, the actors' acting skills are superb, and the overall structure is tight and compact. It's a rare crime drama.
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