The latest suspense drama starring Kim Nam-il and Chen Sun-gyu, "People Who Interpret the Heart of Evil", is adapted from the documentary literature "The Man Who Chased monsters" by "Korea's first criminal psychologist" Kwon Il-yong.
In the era when there was no Criminal Profiling concept and compulsory search, Song Ha-ying, a policeman who wanted to catch the real murderer, and Guo Rongxiu, who wanted to form a scientific search team, opened the road of modern scientific search by analyzing the motives and behavior patterns of serial murderers.
The genre is very similar to the American drama "Mind Hunter" directed by David Finch, but it is not a remake, but it is in the same vein.
The first episode reveals this, and Guo Rongxiu gives Song Ha-young a book to let him understand what exactly is "crime profile"?
This book is the original work of the American drama "Mind Hunter", "Psychological Detective", which is a non-fiction work written by FBI agents John Douglas and Mark O'Shack before 1996, based on their own experience, and is the FBI's first criminal profiler, through interviews with serial murderers.
Why know the psychology of a serial murderer? What is the significance of the crime profile?
If you are familiar with the American drama "Criminal Minds", you must know that the FBI's Behavior Analysis Division (BAU), agents in the form of episode by episode, the crime profile of the ongoing serial murder case, to help the local police solve the case.
Criminal Minds was filmed for 15 seasons over a 15-year period, and no matter how brutal and complex the case is, it has never changed its pattern: using crime profiles, catching criminals, and rescuing survivors.
This is the meaning of crime profiles, summarizing empirical laws from known crimes, deciphering unknown crimes, and preventing the next innocent person from being killed.
The first two episodes of "People Who Interpret evil hearts" are to lay the groundwork for the necessity of scientific searching using criminal profiles.
In addition to the significance of the crime profile itself, there was also a necessary precondition for the social environment in South Korea at that time: there were too many cases of false statements obtained by means of violent searches, innocent people were treated as criminals, and the real murderers were at large.
The case in the first two episodes is a typical case, a pregnant woman living alone was killed by the neck of her own home, and when the body was found, she was naked, but there was no trace of sexual assault. The police search found that the traces left in the home were only her boyfriend Fang Jixun's, and even the two had a big fight that night, and the motive for the crime was sufficient.
The police naturally locked the suspicion on Fang Jixun, and under the terrible violence to extract a confession, Fang Jixun confessed to murder and was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Although Song Heying was not accustomed to it, he could not do anything, and he found too few clues. The slogan in the background of this scene is a satire of violent searches.
However, another similar case occurred, and Song Ha-young noticed what he had in common with Fang's case: strangling and stripping off the victim's clothes. In order to catch the real culprit, Song Heying learned from liang Longzhe, a prisoner in prison, because "the prisoner's psychology is the most clear to the prisoner." Liang Longzhe told him that the real murderer was very obsessed with stripping off his clothes.
Soon, the real murderer was arrested as a thief, Song Heying found the suspicious point, this interrogation scene is very exciting, the lines and the delicate acting skills of the actors show a tense psychological warfare!
Song Heying quietly probed the prisoner: "When I used scissors to pry the lock, I was arrested on the spot, but that may become a murder weapon." ”
Offender: "But that's just a pair of scissors." It's normal to answer here.
Song continued to guide: "Scissors can also become a murder weapon, after all, they can also stab people. ”
Offender: "How can you insert someone with scissors, it's too cruel." ”
At this time, Song paused, and his expression was a little surprised: "Cruel? ”
Why pause? A seemingly normal answer isn't it?
Let's imagine that if it is the average thief's thinking, I heard the police say that scissors can also kill people! This kind of deterrence should be a little flustered to argue that he only wants to take scissors to open the lock and steal, and there is absolutely no idea of killing.
But the main point of the prisoner's answer was not the reaction to why he took the scissors, but the use of emotional and emotional words for the killing of people - too cruel.
Song Was keenly grasping the first breakthrough and probing deeply: "What is cruelty?" Is it the act of stabbing, or the result of killing? ”
But the prisoner was very clever, avoided Song's "trap" and was not guided to choose one or the other, answering: "Of course both are cruel." ”
Song began to raise his eyes carelessly again, because the prisoner was a little alert to the topic of killing, so he pulled the topic back to stealing: "How many times have you sneaked into someone's house like this?" ”
Song: "Do you still climb the wall?" I look at the nearest thief 3 floors is not a problem, is it because of youth? It's awesome! ”
This sentence seems to be praising the prisoner is great, and the tone also has the feeling of "young is really good", this kind of speech makes the other party send vigilance, and some people can't help but show off themselves when they boast. This is the second breakthrough.
"It's easy to climb the water pipe."
Sure enough, it was "young", and the prisoner fell into the trap again, and from here he panicked.
Song Shunteng touched the melon and began a series of disturbances, asking him how many layers he had climbed? What kind of houses are they? Is there anyone inside? What if someone is found? Haven't you been discovered before?
The front is all quiet dialogue, no background music, from this section there is rhythmic and tense background music, setting off the prisoner's gradual panic.
Song told him to write out the ones he had stolen before, and committed: "I will be confused by you like this." ”
Then the paper used for the statement was folded up, and the camera close-up his origami action, which is an unconscious manifestation of obsessive-compulsive disorder, otherwise who would fold the criminal statement book well...
Song tilted his head slightly and raised his eyes, and he also noticed this detail.
Song flipped through the information and looked for a breakthrough for the third time: "When did you live with your grandmother?" ”
"Did you talk to my grandmother?" When it comes to family, the prisoner is not calm, and now there is a more obvious defensiveness and aggression in the eyes than before pretending to be innocent.
Song Yu's grandmother's relationship asked about his parents, and the prisoner's breathing became short when he heard his parents, and he would look up at the police when he answered the question before, but this time he looked down and avoided it.
A liar will look the other person in the eye to see if the other person believes what they are saying. Here his unusual avoidance proves the truth of this answer and pokes at the sore spot. Song Du looked in his eyes.
The second time he entered the interrogation room, Song got the hat that the prisoner deliberately discarded, and also took a large stack of irrelevant information on the table, pretending to be related to him, which was more deterrent, which would make the prisoner confused about the extent to which the police had found and how much evidence they had mastered, which was a common method of psychological warfare.
Song opened the 4th breakthrough by the topic of hats, buying brand-name hats requires money, how does the money come from, set out the prisoners in addition to stealing, but also part-time, robbing students' money...
Song then said part-time, and set out that the prisoner had once delivered food part-time. Here Song already has 90% of the evidence, and the prisoner in front of him is the real murderer of Fang Jixun's case! All that's left is physical evidence. As the handwriting was confirmed and the photographic evidence was revealed, the background music became more and more urgent, and the prisoner knew that he had been exposed.
He confirmed the number of family members by delivering takeaways, and marked them on the outside wall, 1 is male, 2 is female, 3 is a child, and finds out whether a single woman commits a crime.
Song did not stop at the prisoner's confession, but continued to ask him why he did that? Why obsess over stripping off your clothes? During this period, there are close-up details of the prisoners shaking their feet nervously.
It turned out that when I was a child, I grew up in a violent environment and hated the weak people who would not resist, which led to psychopathy. Song remembered that Liang Longzhe in prison had a similar childhood experience, and would it become a key point in the study of serial murderers?
The reason why this interrogation scene is wonderful is that in addition to the interlocking lines, step by step temptation, asking questions that you want to know, and accurately capturing the psychology of the prisoner with very ordinary words. There are also two opponent plays, especially Song Ha-young, the delicate acting skills of actor Kim Nam-woo, there are "thorns" in stability, very calm dialogue but full of tension, there is no Korean drama police common yelling, only calm, analytical psychological warfare, this is the charm of crime profile!
Moreover, this case is a typical example of the necessity of scientific search, and it is also a very practical case.
Now takeaway, express delivery has become a part of people's lives, but for the solitary may also be hidden dangers, and thieves will make marks outside the door is also worth vigilance, from this point of view of the case, there is a warning significance.
After the premiere of two episodes, I saw some comments that said it was not exciting enough, and there was a sense of déjà vu with similar suspense drama cases. In fact, the route taken by the show at the beginning is not the "high-energy reversal" of "Snooping", nor the handsome perverted killer in "Voice"...
As the criminal psychology professor said on the variety show, the current work deliberately makes the characters more cruel and sharp in order to stimulate.
The result is a large number of suspense dramas featuring handsome mentally ill people.
And "People Who Interpret the Heart of Evil" is not a suspense drama that pursues excitement, but a scientific search that really wants to tell, using criminal profiles as a means. How did it begin to form a system of Korean society that was chaotic at the time? How the original crime profilers faced the prisoners and used the criminal psychology to solve the unsolved cases... The charm shown in the play is the charm of the criminal psychology theme itself.
Coupled with the fact that the male protagonist's setting is a person with strong empathy ability, this drama is more humane and has a humanistic care, but this care is definitely not the gaze of those serial murderers, but out of respect and love for life. In every sense, "Heart of Evil" is a work worth looking forward to!
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