Director Park Chan-wook did not hesitate to praise Tang Wei: "As an actor, Tang Wei has a very bold quality, what she can express seems to be unlimited, but at the same time it is difficult for you to read her, she is like an abyss, a deep well, I don't want to describe it as mysterious, but she does have such depth, which makes people deeply curious." For an actor, this is quite rare. What kind of film is this that makes the director have such a high evaluation of Tang Wei? Zhang Haijun is an excellent criminal police officer full of mission and responsibility, due to the long-term burden of various cases, the mental pressure is too great, and he has been plagued by insomnia.
His wife works at the nuclear power plant in Lipu and can only be a weekend couple because they are off-site. It seems that the family is happy, but in fact, it is full of dangers. At the foot of the mountain, a mountaineer fell off a cliff and died. As a dedicated criminal policeman, Zhang Haijun habitually recreates the situation and wants to restore the truth of the matter. After climbing to the top of the mountain, HaiJun's pride is presented through the upward perspective, and when he gazes at death from above, death stares at him with a more bizarre perspective, which plays a metaphorical role in the subsequent plot. In the morgue, Hae Joon meets the deceased's wife, Tang Wei.
"I was worried he hadn't come back from the mountains and thought he might end up dying." Tang Wei showed no signs of excitement about her husband's death, and even laughed, and her behavior was very different from that of her grieving relatives, and Haijun also learned that Tang Wei's husband had been committing domestic violence against her. What kind of woman is this?
Hae Joon is gradually attracted to this enigmatic woman. Subsequently, Hae Joon launched an investigation. He came to the housekeeping company and learned that Tang Wei was nursing in an old man's home on the day of the crime, and that her work performance was approved by the supervisor and met the conditions for alibi. The police station found the DNA of other people in the nails of the deceased, in order to compare, Tang Wei received a call from Hai Jun and then went to the police station, in the process of recording a confession, Tang Wei used Chinese to justify why he refused to climb the mountain with his husband: "Confucius said, the wise man enjoys water, the benevolent one leshan, I am not a benevolent person, I like the sea." "Mountain" and "sea" in this film are important images that carry the characteristics and relationships of the characters, and the junction line between mountains and seas is also the emotional intersection of the male and female protagonists. During the conversation, Tang Wei's smile as a suspect could not help but instantly infect the upright criminal policeman Hai Jun, at this moment, Hai Jun's sensibility overcame reason, showing the impulse to understand Tang Wei's inner world.
When it was time for lunch, Hae Joon broke the ground to invite Tang Wei to eat sushi luxury set menu, and the charm of the image was fully reflected in this clip, sushi entrance, eye-raising, and close-up food packaging. Food and character psychology needless to say. The two men cleaned up the table like a husband and wife. The interlacing of hands, the exchange of tissues, various images, and the future relationship between the two have all been "predicted" and "implied" clearly. Subtle changes have taken place in the relationships of the originally opposing roles. The role of criminal police officers and suspects has also gradually become blurred.
In the process of Haijun's pursuit of the fugitive, Tang Wei stared with interest, and his defensive heart slowly let go, and this flesh-and-blood man also began to fascinate her. Out of the criminal police's intuition and insomnia, Haijun began to closely monitor Tang Wei day and night, Tang Wei deliberately let Haijun stare at himself, and made a tentative confession to Haijun when talking to the wild cat: If you have to give me a gift, the criminal policeman, go and give me his heart, I kind of want it. A forbidden entanglement of love and desire slowly unfolds like ink.
During the investigation of Tang Wei, Hae Joon learns that Tang Wei was euthanized at the request of his mother when he was young, and after coming to South Korea, because he could not tolerate domestic violence, he reported her husband's corrupt behavior of assisting foreigners in smuggling, which once again proved the possibility of her husband's self-destruction after being frustrated in his career. When an upright criminal police officer saw a fragile and beautiful woman bearing a fate that was too painful for her and even resigned, Zhang Haijun felt regret and sympathy in his heart. Based on his character as a policeman and a man, in her long-term lack of respect and insecurity, she became a kind of warmth in her heart, and at that time she decided to love him, to pestering him, to confuse him, because she was reluctant to lose this warmth.
Later, when the two people got closer, boldly probed, flirted with each other, and Haijun personally cooked a delicious Chinese dish for Tang Wei, tang Wei began to help HaiJun regain sleep, and he began to fall in love with the woman who was a suspect in his case. The next day, Haijun normally visited the old lady who tang wei nursed, suddenly found the clue of the whole case from the mobile phone, haijun who transformed into a detective speculated step by step, step by step role play, the truth finally dawned on, but he has been deeply immersed in the forbidden love for Tang Wei, it is difficult to extricate himself, so that all the way to "I was originally a competent policeman, but I was fascinated by a woman, and now I have collapsed".
Tang Wei was convinced of his feelings, and she saw his vulnerability, so even if he did not admit his love for her, she had this sentence and was willing to listen to it every day in the time when she decided to leave. But at this time, the criminal policeman Haijun was still in the process of condemning himself, he just couldn't deny it, but he didn't have the conviction in it, so he almost fled her in a daze and returned to his orderly life, trying to maintain the illusion of nothing happening and deceive himself.
So when she appeared in front of him again, he was shocked and puzzled, because he couldn't understand why there were people so stubborn to chase what they couldn't chase, and Hae Joon asked: Why marry that kind of man? Tang Wei confessed again without scruples: he married him in order to make up his mind to break up with a certain man.
And she knew he was in love with her and wanted to cover up her crimes, but that was why she had to continue to create crimes and draw him to her again. In the second case, Tang Wei took advantage of the revenge of the victim of the fraud, which indirectly led to the death of her second husband.
But the crime always ends one day, she knows that there will always be a moment when he will find her attempt again, once again cover her up or can't bear to arrest her, the chase will be over, so the play only has one line, "When you say you love me, your love is over", she will say to him, "Anyway, you can't marry me", will lead him to Grandpa's grave, let him scatter her mother's ashes, say that he brought a reliable man back, where he kissed him resolutely, in fact, in front of the grave, Tang Wei was afraid that he secretly thought that it was her wedding,
She has married her soul to her, which in the film is their love and, more broadly, the absolutely free self that is not bound by the social order. But just as the first time he could not resist her, it seemed that in the process of chasing her and unveiling the mysteries she had laid down, he gradually lifted the thick fog to see the self, and the second time he also instinctively chased.
Zhang Haijun did not really realize that his feelings for Tang Wei had become so necessary and so profound, until she went around a hundred bends, cut a heart open for him again, and then indifferently walked towards death on the beach.
Until that moment, the criminal police officer Zhang Haijun threw away the shackles that had been imposed on him, and the man who roared in the urgent search and rescue finally realized that this time she decided to leave, it was permanent, and there would be no more carefully arranged chases.
The light burned out in front of the grave on the mountain, and the only temperature left was the moment his lips touched, and he finally had her briefly. Well, Tim tim to watch the movie is here, thank you for your attention, we will see you next time.