Preface read carefully
Everyone is familiar with Anthony Wong. Some people say that he has high acting skills and is the only Hong Kong actor who can star in Lao She's drama "Teahouse"; some people say that Ao Sheng's face is evil, and he can only display his true acting skills in Cult-level films, such as the two films "The Eight Immortals Hotel: Human Steamed Steamed Steam Bun" and "Ebola Virus". In any case, it shows that the love for movie fans for him is precisely because of his vivid performance of an extremely perverted alternative role that makes the name of "King of Cult Movies in Hong Kong" so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
It should be said that this kind of perverted character is easier to get along with than ordinary characters, so every performance is a torture for the actors themselves. Therefore, with the 2002 Hong Kong police and gangster film "Infernal Affairs", Ao Sheng, who played Sir Huang in the film, began to deliberately change the course of the show and rarely took on roles similar to "serial murderers". However, with the rise of the Korean film industry in recent years, many well-known actors have begun to challenge Cult-level roles, and even decisively destroy their own image.
Unlike Hong Kong movies, Korean genre films often focus more on digging out the evil of human nature and the darkness in the corners of society from a realistic perspective. For example, the horror film "Seeing the Devil" starring 2010 Choi Min-sik and Lee Byung-hun has almost challenged the bottom line of human nature, and many plots are portrayed to the point of being outrageous. However, it is not only these that really make the film famous...
1. What is the difference between the original English version and the deleted Korean version?
The "Seeing the Devil" we see now are all deleted in Korean, while the full English version of "Seeing the Devil" called "the number one banned film" is not allowed to be released as the original version, and is often circulated in overseas markets in the form of discs. The main difference between the Korean version of "Seeing the Devil" and the original English version is the seven minutes of the opening of the film and the plot of eating human flesh in the film.
In fact, the director initially edited the first and second versions of the director did not delete these seven-minute plots, because the film was delayed in passing for review, so in the third version, "suffering love" became the later Korean version. Even so, the film is still defined as the commonly known as the "Nineteen Forbidden". According to the judgment of the Korean Image Level Committee, Korean movies are divided into five levels, namely, which are available to all audiences, those over 12 years old, those over 15 years old, those over 18 years old, and screenings are restricted. South Korea generally uses the virtual age to calculate age, that is, the child is 1 year old at birth, so their age is over 18 years old, which becomes commonly known as the nineteen forbidden.
This "Seeing the Devil" is different from Hong Kong's restricted films, and American R-rated movies cannot be compared with it. Even Japanese "Real Devil Game", " Evil Classic ", "Battle Royale" and other horror films filled with plasma are less than one-third of it. If all the nineteen bans in South Korea are like "Ebola" and "Human Steamed Stew Bun", then "Seeing the Demon" can be regarded as the supreme pervert.
2. Let’s briefly talk about the plot .
Many movie fans swear that they can only watch the movie "Seeing the Devil", of course, this is just a Korean deleted version. How perverted is this video? Let’s first briefly understand the plot -
The murderer Choi Min-zhi committed many evil deeds and fled, and the criminal policeman Lee Byung-hun set up a net to wait for arrest. At this moment, Lee Byung-hun's fiancée was kidnapped and killed by Choi Min-sik on the way home, and threw her head into the river... The grieving Lee Byung-hun decided to use violence to fight violence and obtained the consent of his father-in-law, who was also a policeman.
Finally, in a midnight flower bed, Lee Byung-hun captured Cui Minzhi and held him in a plastic bag until shock. Just as he picked up the stone and was about to end the devil's life, a devilish thought suddenly surged from his heart: he decided to let Choi Minzhi go and continue to start the "cat and mouse" hunting game...
After escape, Choi Minzhi not only did not restrain himself, but instead killed and cared for more unscrupulously.Later, Choi Min-sik was captured by Lee Byung-hun again. This time, Lee not only broke his tendons, but also bandaged him carefully and let him go again... Choi Min-sik, who survived the disaster, finally understood that the other party not only wanted his life, but also enjoyed the pleasure of pursuit and revenge. In order not to let the other party succeed, the two of them continued to escalate their methods, and Choi Minzhi killed more and more people... What was deleted in the 3- or 7-minute deleted version?
The beginning of the original English version of "Seeing the Devil" can be said to be a rich and colorful portrayal of Cui Minzhi's entire process of killing and dismembering people. Under the gloomy and bleak music on the painting, his cruelty is not inferior to Anthony Wong at all. It is said that when Choi Minzhi saw this plot in the script, he cried for a whole day and vomited for a whole day -
Screen 1: On a snowy night, Choi Minzhi helped the female driver repair the car seriously. Before the audience could react, he had already swung the wrench in his hand and smashed it... Under the snow, the red blood stains dragged by him were particularly dazzling.
Scene 2: Close-up of the face of a female driver, fair teeth and weak breathing make people feel heartbreaking and suffocating. Cui Minzhi tied it with iron chains as thick as a bowl, and the female driver begged in a faint tone: "Can you not kill me? I am pregnant..." Before he finished speaking, Cui Minzhi chopped off his face with a knife expressionless... The most terrifying thing is that there was a "knife and chop" sound here.
Screen 3: The bright red blood was washed by boiling water, a pair of black boots were slowly moving in the vegetable basket, a pair of broken human body was piled up in the vegetable basket, the camera was pulled from near to far towards the audience...
Screen 4: Several children were playing by the river, and suddenly found a black plastic bag, but reached out to take out a human ear. The camera turns, and the police begin to search along the river...
4. The meaning of movies in reality
The evil of human nature is difficult to understand. Evil alternates with good, small good will create great evil, and great evil cannot be redeemed without good intentions. Evil can change good, and even turn it into mistakes, that is, adding mistakes to mistakes. If Lee Byung-hun had a knife to kill the demon, there would not be more tragedies in the future. It was because of his own mistake that he had made great evil.
Although Lee Byung-hun, who was originally one of the victims, ended up executing the demon in an extreme way, the demon's family and descendants will become demons and harm the world again. Similarly, victims such as Lee Byung-hun have not been freed from the whirlpool of revenge. On the contrary, the pain of hatred will always be with you.
