Which part of the memory is real? Do you know the truth after reading it?

Alda 2022-07-22 16:13:26

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Criminals find excuses for their sins, otherwise no one can live the rest of their lives with peace of mind after hurting others.

No. 7 Rating: 7.57


Synopsis

Single father Kim Young-soo (played by Seol Kyung-gu) and daughter Eun-hee (played by Kim Seol-hyun) depend on each other for life.

He has Alzheimer's and often forgets things, but fortunately Eun-hee has grown up and can take care of him.

There was a thick fog that day, and Jin Yongshu was driving home when he was distracted by his phone and crashed into the car in front of him.

The trunk of the front car was knocked open, so he got out of the car to check the accident.

Jin Yongshu found that there was a large travel bag in the trunk of the car, which seemed to be full of things, and there was red liquid seeping out of the bag.

Jin Yongshu has been working as a veterinarian for many years. He instinctively took out a handkerchief, dipped a bit of oozing red liquid and put it in his pocket.

He was going to take it back for testing because he suspected it was blood.

At this time, a handsome young man (played by Kim Nam-gil) got off the car. He closed the trunk and claimed that there was a dead deer in the travel bag.

The strange thing is that he is not going to hold Jin Yongshu responsible for the accident, as if he has something urgent to do.

Jin Yongshu insisted on leaving his mobile phone number to him, expressing his willingness to bear the cost of the other party's car repairs, but the young man drove away without saying a word.

After Jin Yongshu returned home, he checked the blood and found that it was not deer blood at all, but human blood.

He immediately called the police, but what he didn't expect was that the young man turned out to be a policeman.

Soon after, Kim Yong-soo learned in the news that police had found the body of a woman in a pond near his crash.

Therefore, he is more certain that the young man is the murderer, but he has done what he should do.

But it didn't take long for the situation to change again, because Jin Yongshu actually bumped into his daughter Enxi on the street with this young man.

This made him very afraid. If the young man was a murderer, his daughter would be very dangerous.

So Jin Yongshu used his connections to investigate the identity of the young man, and learned that his name was Min Taiju, he was indeed a policeman, and Enxi and him had only recently met.

Jin Yongshu hurriedly warned Enxi not to be with him, but Enxi seemed to like Min Taiju very much and didn't take his father's words to heart.

As Jin Yongshu's Alzheimer's disease progresses, he fears that he will soon be unable to protect his daughter.

So, for the safety of Eun-hee, he decided to follow Min Tae-ju and strike first...


Video Analysis

The first half of the film is full of suspense. The director uses a non-linear narrative and alternates reality and reality to bring us into the fog, which is very brain-burning. In the second half of the thriller, with the deepening of the plot, the main line gradually became clear, the audience gradually became better, and the ending was the finishing touch. The truth was about to come out at the end. Just when we thought that everything was settled, the director came to overthrow everything. Pulled the audience back from brainstorming, which was wonderful.

Xue Jingqiu is known as one of the peaks of South Korea's acting "Chongwu Road Troika". In the film, his performance is perfect. He grabs the audience's heart every moment. The madness of the killer, I was curious how he showed the spasms of half of his face so naturally. Every time I see Xue Jingqiu's work, no matter what the quality of the film itself is, his acting skills will be discussed separately. Such an actor should be the object of cooperation among directors.

Because the plot of the film is more brain-burning, the following content contains a lot of spoilers. It is recommended to watch the film before reading: Can people trust their own memories? For the group with Alzheimer's disease, the answer given by the director is no, and people often change their memories in order to live well. The protagonist of the film, Jin Yongshu, suffered from domestic violence since he was a child, and when he couldn't bear the torture and started to resist, the first segment of memory was created. In his memory, he killed his father and saved the family. And my sister has been praying for him, hoping that he can forget this unpleasant experience.

But the fact is that his mother was mistakenly killed by him when he stopped him from killing his father, and his sister committed suicide after collapsing, leaving him alone. That is to say, in his heart, the death of his mother and sister was entirely due to his own act of killing his father. sinner. I believe that no one can live a good life with such memories, so he started a series of killings, killing those sinners in his heart to replace his own sins.

After his wife cheated on him, he told him a cruel fact that his daughter was not his own, and he not only killed his wife and her lover, but also planned to go back and kill his daughter. A car accident prevented his evil deeds, his head was seriously injured, and the painful memory made him have a headache whenever he wanted to kill. This accident seemed to suppress his ferocity, but it was only temporary.

After suffering from Alzheimer's disease, the memory begins to disappear, but the murderousness still exists, and the habit of killing is far longer than the memory. In the middle of the film, he strangled his daughter's neck and almost killed her. Attentive viewers will find that the appearance of his daughter in his mind at that time was his cheating wife. To kill all the bad women in the world.

But killing people will produce painful memories, so he generated a second memory split point. In his memory, the one who killed was not himself, but the policeman named Min Taiju. After the accidental collision of their cars, Jin Yongshu Then the murder was transferred to Min Taiju. He portrayed Min Taeju as a person who was burned by his mother with an electric iron because he helped his mother when he was a child, and then hated women.

This is exactly Jin Yongshu's own psychological mapping. When he was a child, his original intention was to protect the family, but he was stopped by his mother and his sister committed suicide. This made him completely unacceptable. In addition, his wife cheated when he was an adult, and he developed a very resentful mentality towards women. And the CT scan report at the end of the film directly confirmed that it was Jin Yongshu who was seriously injured in the head, so although Min Taiju was a real person, his murder was completely imagined by Jin Yongshu, and it was Jin Yongshu who committed these crimes. .

At the end of the film, half of Jin Yongshu's face twitched, and he replaced the shoes he was wearing backwards. With the dark and weird music, it was really creepy. The director used the first and last echoes to draw a perfect end to the film. Human memory is originally the most trustworthy, but for a person suffering from Alzheimer's disease, the memory gradually fades and is replaced by a false memory that he imagined to protect himself, but human habits and muscle memory will last forever. So for killers, Alzheimer's is their best umbrella.



Many times memories can be faked because people selectively sift through memories to better protect themselves.

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Memoir of a Murderer quotes

  • Byung-su: Funny? Should I skin you too?

  • Byung-su: I regrettably can't kill any more.