If you want to make Little Sister Amway's dark style crime movie, most of them will recommend Korean movies.
There are films like "The Melting Pot" and "Su Yuan" that unfold from the perspective of the victim, and many of them start from the perspective of police tracking.
For example, Bong Joon-ho's classic "Memories of Murder".
But Xiaomei won't talk about Korean movies today, let's talk about a Polish movie with a similar theme.
More importantly, it is adapted from a real case -
"I Am a Murderer"
I'm a Murderer
The title of the film uses the first-person "I", which can easily make people think that this is a movie about a criminal who changes his mind and becomes a new person.
However, on the contrary, the film has nothing to do with the crime, and it does not have a deep connection with the victim, it starts with a police officer.
The story takes place in Poland in the 70s of the last century, and a number of murders have occurred one after another in a quiet town.
And without exception, the victims were all young women.
They were hit on the head with a blunt object by the killers, and their flesh was blurred.
The scene of the crime was extremely tragic, but strangely, the victim's wallet and jewelry were all there, and although he was stripped naked, he was not violated.
In this way, the murderer should be a perverted personality, and he also committed the crime randomly.
For a while, the people in the town were panicked, and the investigators who solved the case were also under unprecedented pressure.
Even the bounty for providing clues has already been mentioned in the millions.
With no evidence, the whole investigation process was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
But the case did not stop, and at this time another female deceased was killed, and the scene was the same as the previous modus operandi.
This is already the 11th victim of this serial murder.
This time, though, the investigators received a strange letter.
The man who wrote the letter claimed to be the perpetrator of the case, and he threatened the police to continue the crime and kill 30 people before Poland's national day.
In desperation, the police department applied to send people from above to support the case.
So the male protagonist appeared.,After repeatedly reading the file and the victim's place of murder,
He decides to change his strategy and find a police officer to play a single woman to lure the enemy out of the hole.
Everyone was around that night.
Sure enough, a dark shadow appeared.
Everyone rushed over, but if you look closely, the person caught is not the murderer.
It was at this time that not far from the criminal investigation team, someone found a female body.
The 12th person.
This completely annoyed the male protagonist, because the murder was less than 100 meters away from the place where they were ambushed, and they didn't even notice it at all when they committed the crime at such a close distance!
But fortunately, after the incident, they cordoned off the scene in time.
People walking on nearby roads were also suspected, and all of them were investigated.
Before that, the boss also handed over the database of the computer department to the male protagonist.
By chance, the male protagonist noticed a person in the list of databases, Volcker.
This person's name has appeared in the list of persons questioned at the scene of the crime.
When the two lists were compared, only his name appeared twice.
Could it be that he is the perverted murderer? The male protagonist immediately ordered Volcker's arrest.
Case closed?
Of course not, it's not enough to be suspicious, they also need to find evidence that can indict Volcker.
But Volcker pleaded not guilty, insisting he had not committed the crime.
So the male protagonist decided to start with Volcker's family and nearby neighbors.
Because Volcker and his wife often quarreled, the neighbors' testimonies were very unfavorable to Volcker.
And the wife, who is the key person, is ambiguous,
If I provide a clue, will I get a million bounty?
From his wife's testimony, the male protagonist learns that Volcker has burned things and has shown strong violent tendencies towards women.
Plus the shoe size left at the scene of the crime and the iron rod found from Volcker's house,
There are all human and material evidence, and the male protagonist has already determined that Volcker is the murderer.
The murderer was caught, and the whole town was suddenly lifted from the smog.
The news, newspapers, and everywhere are singing praises to the heroic deeds of the male protagonist for the people.
helped the police station deal with the hot potato, and the male protagonist also became a big celebrity in front of the leader.
But after a period of time, the police still did not get the testimony of the murderer's confession.
What the? Is he still resisting?
The male protagonist went over to inquire in person.,But Volcker is in the same state as when he was first arrested.,That's what it says.,I haven't killed anyone.。
The male protagonist decides to break down Volcker's defense with facts, he lights a cigarette for Volcker, and then reviews the details of the crime scene.
But as he spoke, the male protagonist had no confidence, yes, all the clues pointed to Volcker,
But clues can only show that the person is suspicious, and only evidence can convict a person.
According to Volker, the male protagonist personally visited his route that night.
Everything is as Volker said, flawless.
No, no, something must be wrong.
Volcker is a cunning murderer because his methods are so clever that the police have not found evidence.
If the hard one doesn't work, then use the soft one, and the male protagonist constantly stimulates Volcker with children and death.
Think about your children, they're so young.
Do you think you'll be released if you don't confess your sins? They will also scrutinize you, and you will not be able to do it then.
Unexpectedly, this trick actually worked.
Seeing that Volcker had a reaction, the male protagonist continued,
You can also pretend to be a nervous patient at trial.
In this way, even if the facts are confirmed, it will not be a death penalty, at most it will be sent to a psychiatric hospital.
Sure enough, after this "heart-to-heart" conversation, Volcker suddenly went crazy.
But the mystery in the male protagonist's heart has been getting bigger and bigger, until the police received the murderer's letter again.
"I'm just sick and quit for a while, and the game isn't over yet."
Just one sentence made the male protagonist panic immediately.,Someone proposed to start with the hospital mentioned in the letter.,But the male protagonist was pressed down on the grounds that "the case has been closed".
The male protagonist kept comforting himself that he hadn't made a mistake in judgment, but within a few days, a mentally ill person in a nearby hospital killed his wife and children after returning home.
Could it be that he is the real murderer? There's no evidence!
The male protagonist, who can't stand the torture of conscience, finally puts forward a hypothesis to his friend, what if we are all wrong?
But my friend immediately became serious, whether it was right or wrong, there was no turning back when he came to this point.
Volcker was the murderer, and there have been no such murders since his arrest.
What's more, he has already pleaded guilty, and the case is closed.
At the scene of the trial, Volcker in the dock did not say a word.
Instead, the witnesses took turns to describe the "facts" they had speculated.
They exaggerated Volcker's behavior, saying that he had an odd temper and did not get along well with people, and that they wished to put him to death immediately.
However, in addition to the witness testimony, the evidence submitted by the prosecution is full of loopholes.
After the first round of trials, the results were very unfavorable to the prosecution, but the male protagonist at the moment breathed a sigh of relief.
In fact, he has long been shaken.
But the commendation was still hanging at home, and the praise of the residents was still ringing in his ears, and he had no way out.
I only hope that the judge will acquit Volcker on the grounds that there is insufficient evidence.
Before the second round of trials, the male protagonist went to prison on purpose.
The warden told him that Walker was in a bad state and had tried to commit suicide with a bed sheet two days earlier.
"Did I kill those 12 women?"
As soon as he saw the male protagonist, Volcker actually asked this question rhetorically.
He was tortured in prison, and he didn't know whether he killed anyone or not.
The male protagonist just held his hand and comforted,
It doesn't matter, you won't die, and the judge won't sentence you to death.
Unexpectedly, at the second trial, the judge directly read out the verdict.
The crowd gave a standing ovation and endured for a long time.
Walker was sentenced to death by hanging.
The male protagonist looked back at Walker, only to see that his eyes were glazed, and he left with the support of the guards, and finally did not defend himself.
Everyone thought he was a murderer, and after a long time, even he himself accepted the result.
In fact, no one cares who the murderer is, all everyone cares about is that the murderer has been arrested.
The storyline is similar to the Korean movie "Memories of Murder", but the way of dealing with feelings is very different.
This film does not put the male protagonist catching the wrong person as a reversal at the end, but questions the identity of the murderer in the first third of the movie.
The male protagonist is not without suspicion, but he is still defeated by interests and cowardice.
He doesn't want to lose everything, and others don't want to work in vain.
At that juncture, whether he is a murderer or not, he must become a murderer.
After the case was over, the male protagonist made a great contribution and was promoted.
Due to the far-reaching impact of this case, a special exhibition hall was also set up.
On the wall, the display case is full of the process of solving the case at that time.
The camera follows the background of the male protagonist, and Volcker's plaster cast is placed in the window to be spurned.
The moment the two look at each other, the movie ends.
A blank space was given to the audience.
"I am a murderer", so who is "I"?