Maybe the author wants to show human nature and expose the sins of people. As the title shows, only God can forgive the sins that people commit. As human beings, we cannot forgive and bear it. The behavior of the police in the film also fully demonstrates this. One point, the police did not punish the criminals by legal means, but punished the criminals with violent lynching, just like the sentence "Forgive you is God's business, and my responsibility is to send you to see God".
The author makes good use of sex, violence and bloody elements to attract the audience, and is matched with depressing music, dim lighting, dark red tones, including the combination of characters' movements and screen shots, all of which set off the film's atmosphere and The keynote, the plot of this film revolves around revenge. In the film, whether it is the police or others, violence is used as the main means of revenge and problem solving. I think the use of violence by the characters in the film is not really for revenge or sanctions. More It's just its own catharsis and release.
What attracted me to this movie was the police officer. The behavior of the police in the film goes against the description of the police in previous film and television works. In the film, they do not exist as the defenders of the law and the guardians of citizens. They stand outside the law and think that they are pursuing the root of evil. Punish all sinners, cast aside the law, and judge those who are wrong with their own moral standards. And they don't know that the real cause of sin is themselves. The police would go to a Chinese restaurant to sing after each sanction. It was like a ritual, a kind of baptism.
The male protagonist in the film is also a quite interesting character, who looks the most normal in the film, even a kind-hearted character compared to other characters. In the film, he appeared in close-ups of his hands many times, and in the early stage, he had the fantasy of being cut off and killed. It can be seen that his hands are also full of sin and fear. These hands are also the main performance of sex in the film. And metaphor, the male protagonist fled to Thailand because he killed his father, and has a serious Oedipus complex, and even has signs of incest, but he also shows resistance to his mother, the male protagonist is portrayed calmly in the film, and He doesn't like to be exposed, so that when he yells at the heroine, he gives the audience a certain impact.
Other characters such as the mother's morbid psychology and the heroine's innocence, I only think of innocence, because in this film with a strong impact point, she is only the object of the male protagonist's sexual fantasy.
I don't know the author's starting point and purpose for making this film. Except for the weird shooting techniques and topic selection, this film didn't give me much feeling.
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