Chungmuro is a street in central Seoul, South Korea, where major cinemas and film production companies were concentrated at the beginning of the founding of Korean cinema in the 1920s.
Famous directors have witnessed the growth of Korean cinema here, known as the "Hollywood" of South Korea, and Korean actors are proud to be born in Chungmuro.
The actor I want to introduce to you today is the peak of Korean film history, known as One of the "Chungmuro Troika" Xue Jingqiu. (The other two are Choi Min-sik and Song Kang-ho.) ）
The three movie emperors filmed an advertisement for a bank together
Unlike Choi Min-sik, who is accustomed to performing action dramas and big brother type roles, and Song Kanghao, who is good at portraying small citizens, Xue Jingqiu's drama path tends to be "silent".
He has not only interpreted the lament of the era of the marginalized youth in "Mints"; but also interpreted the stoic and resolute officer in "Real Tail Island"; and the sweaty and silently tearful father in "Suyuan" who was hot by the doll's hood.
Director Yin Jijun once said: "An actor like Xue Jingqiu, I will not be sad at all when I pay 500 million films, there are many people between the two identities of advertising models and actors, but Xue Jingqiu is different, he is a person who only spends 24 hours a day on movies." ”
In this "The Killer's Memory Law", Xue Jingqiu once again used explosive-level acting skills to prove to the audience: such a praiseworthy word is used on such a great actor, which is no exaggeration.
The Memory Law of the Killer | South Korea 2017 Douban 7.4 points
This film is extremely suspenseful, the plot is reversed in four ways,
This push does not involve key plot spoilers, please feel free to read.
Veterinarian Kim Byung-so, over fifty years old, has gray hair and is slow to move.
Because of Alzheimer's disease (commonly known as Alzheimer's disease), it is common to forget the next sentence halfway through the sentence, and it is necessary to use a voice recorder and keep a diary to maintain daily life.
Such a seemingly simple, innocent old man, who has been single after his wife's death, the only praiseworthy thing is that he has a beautiful and sensible daughter.
Of course, all this is a symptom. Another identity of Kim Byung-so is that of a perverted killer who has been lurking in the city for more than ten years.
Although he killed people like hemp, he recalled the first killing, and Kim Byung-so still remembered it vividly.
The father was an alcoholic and violent, and he was amused by beating himself and his sister, and the sisters and brothers had to grow up in silence.
One day, Jin Bingxiu wore a pair of beloved white sneakers, and watched his father overturn the pickles on the table, pick up a fat beating of himself, and the shoes were instantly stained with yellow sauce.
His tense nerves reached the extreme, and his anger rose from his heart, reflexively fought back, and strangled his father to death in Kangtou.
Kim Byung-so buried his father in the back hill, thinking that he would soon be taken away by the police, who knew that this matter was not revealed.
After tasting the thrill of killing for the first time, Kim Byung-so soon began to look for the next target: dog abuse, wife beating, petty theft...
One by one, innocent melon-eating masses died under the iron claws of the male protagonist, but he was at ease, and he found a sufficient excuse for his perversion, thinking that he was only doing harm to the people.
After most of his life, on a foggy morning, Kim Byung-so accidentally crashed into a young man's car on the way out of the city.
When he went to check it out, he found that the back seat of the other car was stained with blood.
Although the other party explained that it was deer blood, with years of business sensitivity, Old Jin judged that the other party had killed someone and was still a rather fierce perverted killer.
Min Tae-joo, tall and strong, modest and courteous, with handsome Korean Oba thick bangs, the little girl blushed and chirped when she saw him.
He is ostensibly a police officer in the police station, but in fact, he is the biggest suspect in the recent serial murders in the mind of old Kim.
Where can a mountain accommodate two tigers, the two generations of killers of young and old have already locked each other.
This time, Kim Byung-so is still relying on his own unintelligent brain to monitor Min Tae-joo's home.
He stayed in the car, first drank the water in the bottle, and then peed in the water bottle on the spot.
After a while, Old Jin completely forgot about this stubble, glaring at the window of the enemy family, while picking up the urine bottle and grunting and pouring it straight into his mouth.
On the other hand, Min Tae-joo and Kim Byung-so's only daughter Eun-hee fell in love, and the relationship between the two quickly warmed up, even to the point of talking about marriage.
The old father's heart was anxious, his memory was disappearing, but the instinct to kill people was still in the body.
Fearing that he would hurt his daughter, he had to make a desperate bet before his memory was completely gone, and killed Min Tae-joo to avoid the trouble.
Who knew that Min Tae-joo had already taken a step ahead of him, using Eun Hee's birthday to unlock old Jin's computer password, and also deleted and revised his murder diary, in an attempt to blame all the cases he had committed to Old Jin.
Old Jin was like the dough in the hands of this evil young man, letting him knead and flatten. The two fought several times and three times, all of which ended in the complete defeat of Old Jin without any image.
Kim Byung-soo was furious and entrusted her daughter to the care of her sister at the convent.
He was about to take his old police friend to fight Min Tae-joo to the death, but he was told that his sister had committed suicide more than thirty years ago, and the monastery he frequented was already in ruins.
And the blood handkerchief he relied on as evidence was also tested to be only deer blood. In the eyes of ordinary people, Officer Min is a good young man who is law-abiding and reliable.
As the film says, "People with Alzheimer's are only willing to remember things that are good for them." ”
In the face of the world's doubts, old Jin also has deep doubts about himself.
All this is his fantasy, will the bloody crime committed by Min Tae-joo also be his own doing? He subconsciously blamed all the crimes on Min Tae-joo?
At the time of the collapse, Kim Byung-so finally remembers his last murder seventeen years ago, against his cheating wife.
Old Jin used this pair of skinny hands to strangle his wife and adulterer alive.
That is, on the way home, there was a car accident, which made his memory deteriorate.
When his wife died, she also revealed a secret to him: his daughter Eun Hee was not his blood.
At the moment of learning the truth, he did kill his daughter.
As a man, Kim Byung-soo really hates his wife's betrayal, and as a father, he loves his daughter deeply, and he is glad that her daughter is not the blood of a murderer.
Killing is the art of poetry, and parenting is timeless prose.
Xue Jingqiu used those sometimes gloomy and sometimes dazed eyes to show us the battle of a killer and an old father when he reached the end of the road.
Who is the real murderer? Is Min Tae-joo innocent? Is daughter Eun-hee alive or dead? Where will old Kim go from here?
Here Xiaobian will not further spoilers, I strongly recommend that you watch the 128-minute director's cut version, clear and completely interpret several suspense.