Author: Ling Yun
The "troika" of male acting schools in the Korean film industry: Xue Jingqiu, Song Kanghao, Choi Min-sik.
Xue Jingqiu, good at showing the extraordinary acting skills of ordinary characters has always been his label.
Today's Korean film combines senile dementia, perverts, and serial murderers to prop up a movie by himself.
Xue Jingqiu, a serial murderer, washed his hands after a car accident 17 years ago. After 17 years, he developed Alzheimer's disease, and his memory gradually disappeared. At the same time, a serial killings occurred in his village, and his daughter was implicated, which plunged him into a chaotic memory.
The intersection of reality and fantasy, the fusion of truth and lies. Let's take a look at the Korean movie "The Killer's Memory Law" adapted from the novel of the same name.
Super brain-burning suspense film, who killed whom?
The Memory Law of the Murderer
Memoir of a Murderer
Single father Kim Byung-so (Seo Kyung-joo) and daughter Eun-hee (Kim Seok-hyun) depend on each other.
He has Alzheimer's disease and often forgets things, but fortunately Eun-hee has grown up and can take care of him.
But what the daughter does not know is that under the appearance of her father's dementia, he is actually a terrifying serial murderer...
Min Tae-joo, a policeman, can be seen from the beginning of the film that he is also a serial murderer, and even has a little problem with his head, he is actually missing a piece, how did he survive and do evil?
The amount of struggle between the murderer and the murderer, whether I kill or he kills, the murderer is dead or not at the end of the story, in short, don't believe your memory.
This film not only uses the ultimate interpretation of the actors, but also uses the truth and falsehood of the plot to weave out the interaction between lies and real, so that the audience is immersed in it and constantly wants to find the answer to the question.
Through the memories of Kim Byung-so (Seo Kyung-joo), the director divides the film into three story lines, real memories, indirect memories, and fabricated memories. The police and audience in the constant anti-transfer film are very confused, which is the highlight of the film.
Kim Byung-so (Seo Kyung-joo) is an Alzheimer's patient, but he has no appearance of illness except for his poor memory, and even he is a killer with dementia...
The eyes are fierce, the face is expressionless, and the expression is scattered... Kim Byung-so makes people shudder as soon as he appears, his daughter Eun-hee is the driving force for him to survive as a murderer, the whole story revolves around his daughter, and the murderer he thinks, policeman Min Tae-joo, has become his daughter's boyfriend, he wants to expose him, but is it really that simple?
The story becomes more and more complicated with Kim Byung-so's memory confusion, and the memory flashes back to fragments, interspersed with a large number of memories of his own killing. In the flashback memory, the male protagonist was the first to kill his father, and since then he has been out of control and has become a serial killer. But the difference was that he killed the hateful people, who, like his father had abused himself, were purged in his words. And Min Tae-joo is also considered a terrifying serial killer, and Kim Byung-so wants to get rid of him...
The protagonist, Kim Byung-so, has endured his father's domestic violence since he was a child, and when he can't stand the torture and begins to resist, the first memory divide point is generated, in his memory, he killed his father, but failed to save the whole family, and his sister has been praying for him, hoping that he can forget this unpleasant experience.
But the truth is that his mother was killed by mistake when he prevented him from killing his father, and his sister became a nun and then committed suicide, leaving him alone, in his heart, the death of his mother and sister was blamed on his own killing of his father, he was a sinner. No one can live well under such an experience, so he began a series of killings, killing those sinners he identified in his heart, to make up for and replace his sins.
As an adult, Kim Byung-so discovers that his wife is cheating, and how can he, who was originally a murderer, endure such a thing, and he brutally kills his wife and lover in the bamboo forest. And when he learns that Eun Hee is not his own child, he angrily drives home when a car accident occurs, causing his head to be damaged, and from then on, as long as he recalls the previous events, he will lose a memory, although temporarily suppressing the killing intention, but the things in his bones cannot be changed.
After suffering from Alzheimer's disease, the memory begins to fade, but the ferocity is still there, and the habit of killing people is far longer than the memory. He choked his daughter's neck from time to time and almost killed her, but in fact, the appearance of his daughter in his mind at that time was his cheating wife, that is to say, he was still angry about his wife's cheating, and he was determined to kill all the bad women in the world.
But killing people produces painful memories, so he generates a second memory division point, in his new memory, Min Tae-joo is the serial killer, and he is a messenger of justice who will eliminate this so-called bad cop. Kim Byung-so imagines him as a perverted murderer who was abused by the family since childhood, causing his head to be scalded off by his mother's electric iron. Min Tae-joo wants to do something to his daughter, and he can't sit idly by...
But these stories are Kim Byung-so's own psychological shadow, when he was a child, he was meant to protect the family, but instead he was blocked by his mother, and then his sister committed suicide, coupled with his wife cheating on him as an adult, Kim Byung-so could not accept one relative after another leaving him, so he had an extremely resentful psychology towards women.
The CT scan report at the end of the movie, is this really a picture of the brain of policeman Min Tae-joo? Or is there someone else...
At the end of "The Killer's Memory Law", Kim Byung-so's half-face twitched, and changed the shoes he was wearing back, with eerie music is really creepy, and the director uses the beginning and end to draw a perfect end to the film.
People's memories are originally the most trustworthy, but for people with Alzheimer's disease, the memories gradually fade and are replaced by the memories they want to stay. So for the murderers, Alzheimer's disease is their best umbrella.
Many times memories can be forged because people selectively sift through memory things so that they can better protect themselves. So the director also wants to convey such a message:
What is true, in fact, we have no way of knowing, people think that the truth, just exists in the feelings.
It means that you will dream, the dream is very real, but have you ever doubted that the you in the dream are the real, and the real you are the dream?