From 2010 to 2012, Zang Shazhan, a senior criminal police officer of hong Kong's West Kowloon Major Crime Unit, witnessed a case of humane and cruel and horrific murder and corpse fragmentation. The crime gave him the knowledge of several passers-by who could have a profound impact on his life.
They have youth and beauty but their wings are broken by poverty, they thirst for love and hope but reap endless indifference and ridicule, emptiness and confusion accompany them day by day, loneliness and loneliness chew on the soul night and night. Their lives are like a long river of black water with no end, where is the floating and fearful heart? Only the silence after death is the final destination.
(1) Cases of broken bodies without corpses
In 2010, a large amount of blood occurred in a unit building on East Street in Sham Shui Po Yao, Hong Kong, suspected of being the scene of the killing. The murderer quickly turned himself in, and the police combined the analysis of evidence at the scene and the confession of the murderer, and the case of Wang Jiamei's murder and shredding was quickly solved.
The investigation concluded that the murderer Ding Zicong and the deceased Wang Jiamei had sex in Ding's home. During the transaction, due to the excessive drug consumption, Ding killed Wang Jiamei in a confused state, and then dismembered and chopped the body in the corridor bathroom and rushed into the toilet, the bones were broken and mixed into the meat market, and the head was thrown into the sea. Ding confessed to the crime and was sentenced to life in prison.
During the court trial, Ding Zicong in the video footage faced the camera lens, calmly and in great detail about the entire process of killing and crushing the corpse, detailing the difference in the feel of the kitchen knife cutting different types of bones, and the difficulty of peeling off the skin of different parts of the body. Smelling it is like coming to the scene, I can't help but feel cold and chilling.
"I saw her internal organs, I didn't know which ones were the heart and which were the lungs, so I pulled them all out, cut them into small pieces, and rushed them into the toilet one by one..."
"I'm going to cut off my head first, cut off four or five knives and then the head falls, then go to my hands and feet, tear out the flesh point by point, cut my feet four or five times, my hands are relatively young, and two or three knives are broken..."
"I ripped off Jiamei's face, but the other skins didn't work, because there was fat under the skin, I cut the knife horizontally with a knife and cut it down, and then cut the whole piece of human skin, because I saw that the pork seller was doing this, and I followed suit..."
(ii) The myth of motivation
In Zang Shazhan's criminal police career, he has experienced countless horrifying and horrifying homicide cases like Wang Jiamei's case, and even more than that, many colleagues and friends who have worked together in that year have applied to be transferred from the serious crime team because they are fed up with the bloody murder scene, the perverted distortion of human nature, the infringement of nightmares and the unbearable mental pressure.
However, Zang Shazhan always firmly believed that solving the case was only a symptom, and exploring and understanding the cause of the motive behind the murderer's demonic mask was the cure for the root cause, and it was precisely because of this irrepressible fanaticism and attachment to the truth that he took root in the serious case to this day. For this he paid a high price for the breakdown of his marriage and the stagnation of his career.
However, Zang Shazhan, who was accustomed to brutal animalism and extremely vicious murder, was puzzled by this dismemberment of Wang Jiamei. On the day of the crime, the murderer and the victim met for the first time, there was no personal grudge, and the vendetta and love killing were not established. From the investigation of the social relations of the murderer, it can be seen that his personality is straight, and perverted sexual abuse and murder are not established.
The murderer's memory of the process of killing and dismemberment is clear and complete, the expression is true and detailed, and the court's judgment that the drug overdose led to confusion and accidental killing should not be established. So why did the murderer kill a poor girl who met for the first time and brutally mutilate the body?
After the court's judgment was issued, Zang Shazhan resolutely resisted the pressure of his superiors and continued to investigate privately.
(3) Wang Jiamei and Ding Zicong
In 2003, When Wang Jiamei was 9 years old, her mother took her sister to remarry and went to Hong Kong, due to immigration policy restrictions, she temporarily moved to Shilong, Dongguan, and was taken care of by her local stepfather friend, after living alone in Dongguan for 6 years, she immigrated to Hong Kong in 2009 to reunite with her mother.
However, the dream land she once longed for did not bring her a little happiness, the narrow and crowded, stuffy and damp public housing, the exclusion of school classmates and the indifference of teachers, the cruelty of reality, the combing of family affection and the rashness of love, prematurely left a thousand holes in her young heart. She was full of disappointment and boredom with the world, and felt that she was loveless.
In 1987, when Ding Zicong was 6 years old, a car accident took away his originally happy family life. The early death of his mother, the cripple of his father, and the poverty of his family forced him to be prematurely thrown into the bottom of society in order to survive. Years of survival ordeal have made him suffer from bullying, insults and exploitation, and has seen the coldness of the world and the ugliness of people's hearts. He hated this world full of people, and he hated people as creatures even more.
In 2009, Wang Jiamei and Ding Zicong met for the first time, and Ding strangled him in his residence, leaving no bones.
(4) Human disqualification
The world we live in is like a big lake, the surface of the lake under the sun shines brightly, and the lake water is warm and comfortable. The further down the lake, the colder and darker it became, and it was a place that could not be reached by the sun, a place to fight for survival.
In the mud at the bottom of the lake, there is a group of people who have lost their dignity like insects and ants, have no hope, and fear the future, they are the marginalized, vulnerable, and bullied people of society, who sell their humble souls and numb skin and flesh all day long in exchange for the fine food foam that falls and precipitates in the upper lake.
Wang Jiamei and Ding Zicong, two lonely and confused wandering souls, two desperate souls with scales all over their bodies, and two tired and weak bodies, meet, meet and touch here. Like two wounded lonely beasts at the end of the road, sniffing each other, rubbing each other's necks, snuggling up to each other, hugging each other for warmth.
They are saddened to find that in this inhuman world, they have lost their qualifications as human beings and have become dust and garbage scattered in the dark corners of society.
The world went on day after day, leaving them with endless loneliness, despair, pain and bitterness.
Ding Zicong tightened Wang Jiamei's delicate neck and helped her fulfill her wish to escape from the world, discarding the skin of the walking dead before the Father's apocalyptic judgment came, leaving this world of bad abuse and rape, liberating the soul and returning the soul to heaven.
Cong'er on the shore: "When I asked you, are you afraid of death?" ”
Kama: "Don't be afraid, sometimes I think, it's good to die." ”
Satoshi on the shore: "Why"
Kama: "It's hard to say, if anyone knew exactly why I wanted to die, if he killed me, I wouldn't hate him." ”
Satoshi on the shore: "Don't say such things." ”
Kama: "It's okay, at the end of the world, everyone can go hand in hand"
Real case playback
The film is adapted from the "Case of the Crushing of the Corpse of a Prostitute" that caused a sensation in Hong Kong in 2008. Compared with the story of the film, the real case is more cold and cruel.
In 2005, the 14-year-old Hunan teenage girl Wang Jiamei, because her mother remarried and moved to Hong Kong, she once had excellent grades, but because of her disagreement with her stepfather, she suspected that she did not want her mother to pick up waste to survive, and took the initiative to drop out of school to find a job to support her family.
Due to the unsuccessful application for a girl model, he switched to assistance and communication. According to Hong Kong's Ming Pao newspaper, Wang Jiamei is likely to owe 50,000 Hong Kong dollars in debt, and use the online name "KIMI" to pick up prostitutes in the online aid social discussion forum, and upload sexy selfies, providing different sexual services for prostitutes at a price of 1500 to 2600 yuan.
Wang Jiamei disappeared on April 27, 2008, and on April 29, after receiving a report from her family, the police launched a search operation and successfully arrested the criminal, Ding Qitai, who confessed to the crime.
According to Ding's confession, he met Wang Jiamei on the Internet and asked him to go to Suite 2C of Renfa Building, No. 39 Shek Kip Mei Street, Sham Shui Po on the day of the crime. trade. do. In the process of love, Ding, who weighed more than 200 pounds, lost his hand and strangled the emaciated Wang Jiamei.
Hou Ding was afraid of the sin and shredded corpse, chopped up human flesh and internal organs and flushed them into the toilet, and when dismembered, he could not bear to look at the face of the deceased, and tore off the skin of his face in pieces. After putting the head into a styrofoam box and adding bricks, take the Kowloon Bus Line 6C to the Kowloon City Pier and throw it into the sea. The limb bones were mixed into the meat stalls of the shijiaowei shopping mall to impersonate pig bones, and some of them were purchased by customers and restaurants.
After abandoning the body, Ding went home to dispose of the blood-stained sheets and kitchen knives, took more than 4,000 yuan of money from Wang Jiamei's wallet, rinsed to sleep, and contacted another young girl on the Internet on the same day.
The case once occupied the headlines of major Hong Kong television print media for a long time, triggering a cannibal panic among many restaurants, restaurants and Hong Kong people.
The original intention of the film
Director Weng Ziguang once said that he remembered the case that year, and the TV newspaper and magazine repeatedly recounted the case with sensational headlines and shocking details, but no one ever asked: "Why?" "Readers and viewers are obsessed with the hunting case and the smell of blood, but they forget to explore the causes behind the case."
So Weng Ziguang took the case as a model, spent nine months to complete the script of "Treading Blood and Plums", and won the Hong Kong Award at the 2011 Hong Kong Asian Film Investment Conference.
In the story of the film, he takes the hunting case as the entry point, and uses the image of Zang Shazhan as a criminal police officer to replace himself and go deep behind the case, reconstructing and reproducing the short tragic lives of the two parties. As a result, hong Kong politics is in the midst of today's high-speed change and development. The government, society and Hong Kong people asked:
In this era when this person lives for himself and has no time to take care of others, is the world we live in still the beautiful world that we originally hoped for, worth fighting for and fighting for?
Author: tiger