There are two main clues in the film, one is that the ruthless Shuotai helps Hua Yi to exorcise the monster in his heart. One is that Hua Yi slowly awakens and uses the power of justice to resist the monster in his heart.
After Hua Yi was kidnapped, he had five adoptive fathers. In order to make it easier to distinguish, the film gave the obvious illustrative actions of each character, a knifeman who is good at using a knife, a hotshot who is good at using a gun, a simple and honest driver, the first three He is Huayi's technical adoptive father. The latter two are the main ones, one is the adoptive father in charge of life, and the other is the adoptive father Shuotai in the soul.
The supervisor wanted Hua Yi to stay away from him, and wanted him to go abroad and live a normal life. Shuotai believes that Huayi grew up in such an environment and has not really completed his self-awareness. If Huayi is far away from them, he is far away from his roots, because their lives are already full of evil. So Shuotai forced Hua Yi to kill his biological father with his own hands. Regardless of whether the things Huayi did were deceived by Shuotai, the fact is that when he killed everyone in one go and looked back, the monster in his heart had disappeared.
Seeing this, the demon's way of expressing love is far more contagious than self-defeating demons. Shuotai has the characteristics of being ruthless, loving, cruel, delicate, vicious and efficient, and the characters are very tense. The revelation of Shuotai's characters in the film even exceeds the climax of the main line of Huayi's self-transformation.
The in-depth reveal of Shuotai's characters is actually a mapping of the theme of the film, which is also the depth of the film. The time span of the film is about 30 years (the girl of the same age who was raped by Shuotai was born in 1971). After the Korean War, South Korea implemented a military dictatorship, and Shuo Tai and others were orphaned and lived in a Christian nursery. The light of the Holy Light could not erase the shadow of his parents' absence when he was young. Demons appeared frequently in his heart, and later he gradually realized that only by turning into a monster would the monster in his heart disappear. From then on, the psychology began to distort until metamorphosis. The environment in which Shuotai grew up was the military dictatorship in South Korea and the rapid economic take-off. Political high-pressure control and great changes in the external environment made people lose themselves in the process of change. Shuotai's growth is witnessing the era of the rapid rise of South Korea's deformity. Huayi symbolizes the rising part, and Shuotai is the deformed part. We feel the growth in the change, but more of the cruelty and desolation it brings. When the film reveals the heart of Shuotai's characters, it also reveals the era, which makes the film have an epic sense.
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