Watching Kim Ki-duk's films requires a certain amount of imagination, especially this film with a chaotic narrative but full of connotations, and the final ending is reversed powerfully, but many of the previous relationships are not clear. If you say that a work about the theme of revenge, after reading even the cause of the story needs to be guessed, this is also too inexplicable, and the sense of substitution is much lower.
Ma Dong seok is a veteran, a little girl was brutally murdered, but the murderer did not get the trial he deserved, so he wants revenge. He firmly believes that the injustice of the world can be changed, and recruits a group of frustrated people such as car repairmen, unemployed people, waiters, nail households, etc., to join him as underground judges for Skywalker.
But he was impulsive and irritable, countered violence with violence, did not listen to the advice of others at all, and thought that he was bent on doing his own thing. Therefore, he has a clear purpose from beginning to end, knows what kind of effect to achieve, and even kills people.
But he is not a god, nor does he represent justice, and over time it will make his teammates feel that he is more dangerous than the bad guys, and they are eager to flee and avoid it. The later disintegration and mutual killing, the director's setting is still very soft, if Ma Dongxi kills his teammates, the topic has escalated again.
Although Ma Dongxi wants revenge, starting from Wu Xian and Zheng Lishi, a violent confession is certainly indispensable, but when the incriminating evidence written by everyone is obtained, there is no further exposure or how. Moreover, he had never thought of living from the very beginning, and this kind of revenge with thunder and rain was quite contradictory.
One by one, people related to the female student's case were arrested by Ma Dongxi and others, and the rank was getting higher and higher, and naturally they were becoming more and more shrewd and not easy to deceive.
The identity of the organization was revealed, and Ma Dongxi actually did not hesitate to shoot the other party with one shot, which was premeditated, but he had been deceiving his teammates. So what about his teammates who thought he would commit suicide afterwards? Do the accomplices of each murderer also commit suicide with him?
Perhaps for films of this genre, too much logic can be required, but the female students have not seen an explanation at all for what they were killed. The background that can mobilize the military must be a big person, and the intersection that female students can produce, if it is a brain supplement, the movie manslaughter is like a template, and I always feel that the movie is a deleted version.
The last creep counter-killing has a point to watch, the energy that erupts from people who have been suppressed for too long is very scary, and Ma Dongxi can understand it without fighting back and letting others slaughter, but as the ending of the movie, it is more like a repetitive cycle for the expression of ideas, giving people a feeling of painlessness, compared to other Kim Ki-duk movies, this ending has been weakened.