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A detailed analysis of the best interrogation scenes of the first two episodes leads to the necessity of criminal psychological profiles.
However, in the social environment at that time, the police were still very unfamiliar with the analysis of criminal acts, or even had no concept, and naturally questioned the profile of the analysis team. Because the two have different ways of thinking.
If the average policeman in the process of solving the case, bent on how to quickly catch the prisoner, such as through ambush, monitoring and other methods. The analysis team's approach was to identify the prisoner's patterns of behavior from the crime scene and ask the question: Why did he do that? What is its psychological motivation?
In the face of the murderer who brutally raped and killed and split the body of the girl, Song Xiayong found out that the prisoner's behavior pattern was to split the body, why did the prisoner do this? Song Xiayong analyzed the purpose of his dismemberment in order to hide the crime.
Note that there is a foreshadowing here. The next serial murderer in the play, Gu Yingchun, will also have a pattern of behavior of splitting corpses, and it will be more meticulous and systematic, and the purpose of splitting corpses will be more complex than that of this prisoner.
Later, we will talk about the character archetype of Gu Yingchun - Liu Yongzhe.
When the girl was caught, it was found that he was a former criminal, because the punishment for sexual offences was too light at the time, and the prisoner committed even greater crimes soon after he was released from prison.
Combined with the little girl who hit the yellow umbrella at the beginning of the film, it is reminiscent of the "Suyuan case" Zhao Douchun.
Even in 2022, when this drama was broadcast, Zhao Douchun has been out of prison for more than a year... Criminal psychology professors also judged on "Want to Know the Truth" that he was highly likely to repeat himself.
This case not only satirizes the failure of Korean laws to severely punish sex offenders, but also issues a conscience question to the adults who created such a society, which has a strong social criticism.
Unscrupulous journalists write sex crimes against girls as "wrong instincts" and post them online, which also reflects the chaos of public opinion in the pursuit of exclusive hot spots, but in fact lacks objective and correct cognition and attention to crimes - "Is crime instinctive?" ”
The gaze of the female reporter, who represents the conscience of the media, is also the gaze of Song Xiayong's empathy. The director edited the female reporter's article in the form of a narration with a picture of Song Xiayong mourning the victim, and she wrote what he wanted to say but did not say, "All we can do is remember the child for a long time and grieve." ”
The inmates in the first two cases are all introductions, in order to lead to the real serial murder case of Yingchun: entering the homes of the wealthy class in broad daylight to commit crimes, mainly the elderly and women, and excessively killing with unknown blunt objects. The victim had a cross in his home, and the prisoner destroyed the cross, possibly out of anger toward God or society.
Just as the arsonist, out of his fascination with fire, will always watch the fire from a distance, the serial murderer will return to the scene of the crime, not only to watch his "masterpiece" and savor the pleasure of the time; it is also a manifestation of enjoying the attention.
Gu Yingchun also watched his own wanted warrants, watched television, collected newspaper reports about himself, and found a sense of superiority that attracted attention, in order to compensate for his sense of inferiority in his borderline personality disorder.
In this scene, Song Xiayong looked around, the prisoner was close to the foot, and the police, including Song Xiayong, did not think of it at all.
The American drama "Criminal Minds" usually takes photos of the crowd around the crime scene for follow-up careful observation, because the prisoner is likely to be among them.
The police's back-only wanted notice did not deter Gu Yingchun, but made him more contemptuous of the police, more confident, and instead discover new ways of committing crimes.
Song Xiayong did not realize at this moment that the key point that really determined the change in the behavior pattern of serial offenders was not because of fear of being caught, but "pleasure needs to be upgraded", from Gu Yingchun's experiment with puppies and venting anger, to blunt weapon killing, he has completed an "upgrade".
When the police are still clueless and unable to lock in the suspect range, the serial offender is constantly evolving, with Yingchun forging police badges, self-taught dissection knowledge, and taking full-body X-rays for more secret pleasure and more brutal crimes - dismemberment.
His body splitting is different from that of a girl's criminal, he has a thorough plan, and a variety of reasons have led to this pattern of behavior.
From his residence, it can be seen that with neatly arranged newspapers, clean floors, and neat beds, he is a person who pays attention to cleanliness, or has some obsessive-compulsive disorder in this regard, and is somewhat similar to the previous girl offender.
The difference is that the previous inmates were incidental crimes and did not initially aim to kill. Now Gu Yingchun is a very systematic intelligent criminal, and the first person in South Korea to meet the definition of serial murderer:
"When he can't find the target, he will go back to the area where he has been able to do it before." He would return to the crime scene, the cemetery, and symbolically tumble over the dirt, bringing the fantasies of his heart back to life again and again. ”
The above is the description of the behavior of a serial offender in the book "Detective Solving The Crime", which is in line with the performance of the psychological cooling-off period, in which the prisoner is not unwilling to kill without desire or desire, but obtains temporary alternative satisfaction from fantasies and memories. When the satisfaction dissipates, the next crime is committed.
The real prototype of this evolving prisoner in the play is the original Serial Killer in South Korea, Yoo Yong-chul.
The movie "The Chaser" starring Ha Jeong-woo is also based on Yoo Yong-chul; Netflix has also produced a special documentary "South Korean Raincoat Killer: A Comprehensive Pursuit of Yoo Yong-chul".
You can compare the crime tools in the play with the crime tools in reality, a special hammer made by hand, and the degree of reduction is very high.
There are also details of forging police officer cards, self-taught anatomy, and taking X-rays of themselves in the play, which are also real adaptations!
Liu Yongzhe's behavior patterns "escalated" and became more cruel and perverted. In the "Want to Know the Truth" program, the professors focused more on analyzing his criminal psychology, that is, the motive for committing the crime.
And Netflix documentaries focus more on depictions of cruel crimes, such as he cut the victim apart, tied his head with a rubber band to the toilet where the toilet paper was hung, and let the blood drain a little bit...
I don't think the TV series will shoot such a cruel scene, after all, "Heart of Evil" is a work that avoids curiosity and focuses on psychology.
In addition to the cruel scene depiction, the Netflix documentary also details how incompetent and stupid the South Korean police were, which is quite worth watching!
In the play, Chief Jin racked his brains to come up with a ridiculous "clue", saying that where the case occurred, the initials are the same, such as gg, cc... It made Song Xiayong feel very ridiculous and speechless.
In fact, this is also said in the documentary, the police at that time did say the same thing...
Maybe the audience often spits out that Korean dramas deliberately portray non-protagonist police officers as stupid? But if you watch that documentary, you will know that it is wrong... In fact, it really can't be caught.
It was not easy to catch, but one did not pay attention, and the prisoner fled from the door of the police department with a big swing; there was also a policeman who kicked the family of the victim down the steps...
I often feel that reality is even more absurd than TV dramas.
At the end of Episode 6 of "Heart of Evil", another new serial killer appears - Zheng Nankui. He practiced running every day in order to be able to run away quickly after killing people, not to be caught, and the running speed was almost up to the level of an athlete.
There is a detail in the play that when the new serial offender stabs the victim, he does not sneak up from behind, but makes the victim turn around and attack head-on.
In reality, this is also Zheng Nankui's criminal model, he must look at the victim's expression of painful death, and get pleasure in the pain of the other party.
At this moment, Seoul actually has two serial killers existing at the same time, and the horror has escalated!
And how Song Xiayong and Guo Rongxiu should use crime profiles to find out these two serial killers will be the biggest highlight of the later plot!
One of the fascinating things about Heart of Evil is that it offers a variety of ways to understand the psychology of crime for audiences with different needs. No matter what type of audience, you can learn something in it.
It can be used as an introductory course in criminal psychology, learning with Song Xiayong, and the scene of the policemen holding "lecture notes" asking questions and answering questions can also help the audience understand how each profile is deduced.
If you are already involved in the audience and know the real case well, you can also follow Song Xiayong to "immersive" detective, you can see more details, which are the real case details? Which are theatrical adaptations? What is the different focus from the general suspense crime drama?
"Heart of Evil" is such a rich and diverse work, which not only has practical significance, social criticism, but also learns knowledge and explores many aspects. In the days when the Winter Olympics were suspended for three weeks and episode 7 was waited for, let's learn more about the real case behind the drama!
(4 profilers analyze 4 serial offenders)
(Hwaseong serial murder case - Li Chunzai)
Film and television works based on the Hwaseong case: the movie "Memories of Killing", the Korean drama "Signal", "Cape Tongyi", "Tunnel", "Life on Mars"
Film based on Yoo Young-cheol: The Chaser
(Zheng Nankui case)
(Jiang Haoshun case)
(3 profilers + 1 legal image analysis)
Public number: Foggy, welcome to pay attention.
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