A few years ago, a movie " The Distance between Us and Evil " exploded and became a phenomenal masterpiece in Chinese dramas.
Recently, another Taiwanese movie focusing on random murders was launched.
not only includes Golden Horse Actor Mo Ziyi, Best Supporting Actress Wang Yuxuan , but also represents Taiwan, China to strive for the Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film.
Three chapters, three unique designs of parallel time and space, intuitively presenting the discussion of human nature and good and evil, full of strength -
"Damn Asura"
The video begins with a video of a mobile phone.
A scream suddenly broke out in the night market as noisy as usual: "That person has a gun!"
People gradually realized the danger and ran away, in chaos, and the camera of their phones shook violently.
Then the video shooter hid between the two stalls and boldly turned the camera around. We saw the face of the thug clearly - a young man who had not yet faded his youth.
He looked like a ruthless machine dullly with his gun at every stranger in front of him who had no time to escape.
Passers-by were shot one after another, but none of them seemed to be injured.
shot focuses on the injured person who is moaning and falling down. When he lifts up again, the murderer is no longer seen.
The next moment, he suddenly appeared behind the photographer.
Then a short gunshot sounded, the phone fell to the ground with the photographer, and the video image was still...
Then, time went back a few days before the case occurred, and three story lines were unfolded in the form of flashbacks.
The protagonist of the first line is the murderer of the night market shooting Zhan Wen .
Zhan Wen is a high school graduate who failed the college entrance examination. He loves comics and is good at writing scripts.
He and his friend Axing anonymously created comic "Angry Zero", which has harvested countless fans.
comics tell the story of everyone in the information age, who are controlled by the big data demon king and cannot make their own stories. The story of
is actually a true portrayal of Zhan Wen.
Early parents divorced, and Zhan Wen was sentenced to his father. My father is the boss of a big data research and development company and a well-known figure in Taipei.
Although he never treats Zhan Wen unfairly in terms of material things, his father's mental control over his is also in all aspects.
From a denial of his dressing style to a denial of his creation.
Father could not see the shining points of Zhan Wen, and felt that his love and talent were incompetent, and even put him in shame.
The son's grades were not good, and in his opinion, he had already gone astray, so he arranged his son abroad to force him to "take back to the right path."
From childhood to adulthood, Zhan Wen has lived under his father's arrangement, and this time he can only obey and endure it silently.
He asked for help from his more enlightened mother and asked to move to live with her. However, his mother, who had already re-established her family, was very embarrassed. Zhan Wen also gave up sensibly.
The only person who accompanied him and understood him was his friend Axing.
He created with Zhan Wen, spent time together, and did some ridiculous things in the eyes of adults.
even deliberately applied for a university with a much lower score than his college entrance examination in order to attend the same school as Zhan Wen.
What Zhan Wen didn’t know was that Ah Xing had always had a crush on him.
Ah Xing didn't know that Zhan Wen, who had accumulated a great deal of world weariness, decided to go to the night market with a homemade pistol on his 18th birthday to create an indiscriminate shooting...
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But indulgence is just Zero's A side.
Her B-side is a talented girl with great mathematical talent.
When other students in class were thinking hard, she raised her eyelids while surfing the Internet and surfing , and she could quickly figure out the answer.
However, facing the teacher's suggestion that she wanted her to quit her side job and concentrate on preparing for the math specialty students, she could only pretend to refuse disdainfully.
Zero, who is also divorced from his parents, depends on his mother for life.
The mother was drunk all day long, not doing her job properly, and was deafened by her ex-husband. Zero had to use unjust means to make money to support her family.
In order to buy high-end hearing aids for her mother, she used beauty tricks to deceive senior players from game equipment and sold them for money; she even took risks to participate in drug trafficking...
The third story line revolves around the only deceased person in the shooting case Xiaosheng.
Xiaosheng also has his own AB side.
During the day, he is a timid otaku civil servant. He speaks inappropriately and is disliked by his fiancée.
At night, he turned into a game boss, dominating the Internet, and is good at leading girls to score points. He has countless fans on live accounts.
fiance Vita is a social animal in an advertising company who is worried about work every day.
proposal was killed and you have to force your face to face customers with a smile. It is common for you to work overtime until late at night.
So she habitually vented all the stress and emotions on her boyfriend Xiaosheng.
There has been a rift between the two, but because of the inconsistent pace of life, there is not even time to talk.
Each character in the movie has his own anger.
Zhan Wen is unwilling to be a sway in his father's will, and Axing is unwilling to be a backup tire silently; Zero resents his mother to drag her down when she is drunk and dreaming, but her mother is trapped by love when she meets people. Vita can't stand Asheng's tenderness and cowardice, and Asheng is also fed up with Vita's neglect and strength...
Before the shooting, Zhan Wen would squat in the alley whenever he has time, talking to a puppy locked in a cage. He often secretly let the dog out when the owner is not paying attention, hoping that it will regain freedom.
But every time, the puppy will reappear in the cage.
Maybe it was caught by the dog owner, or it chose to go back to the cage by itself.
Dog, metaphor for every character in the film.
is trapped in a cage and often wants to escape, but there is nowhere to escape.
cage is probably their permanent destination.
What traps them may be some established rules, may be the misfortune of the original family, or they themselves.
So, alcohol, games, abuse, and guns became their tools for evasion, and also made everyone's life fall into a vicious cycle of cutting out flesh and treating sores...
That night when Zhan Wen walked into the night market with his homemade pistol, Ah Xing did not keep up because of his bad mood.
Vita was unable to get rid of her work and asked Asheng to wait for her in the night market. The last call between the two was still out of place. Asheng rashly interrupted Vita's important meeting, and his fiancee returned the response to him and still roared impatiently.
Zero, who was injured by his mother with a beer bottle, was invited by reporter mold as a representative of the household in a poor community, and the location was also in the night market.
Three story lines meet here, and the fate of the six people has changed... After the incident occurred, everyone asked "if" in regret.
If Vita can be more patient with Xiaosheng, if her mother agrees to Zhan Wen live with her, if Ah Xing can keep up with her friend when he pulls his gun and leaves home, if Zero can avoid his mother's hysterical attack...will everything be different?
These assumptions open up the story's second time and space . This is also the cleverness of the film's drama design -
Zhan Wen, holding a gun, made his final struggle at the entrance of the night market, and happened to meet Zero who was not hit by a beer bottle.
It turned out that the two were middle school classmates. At that time, Zero, who was very good at math, would always help Zhan Wen cheat.
For many years, Zhan Wen has been in love with Zero, and the comic "Angry Zero" was written for her. The appearance of
Zero made Zhan Wen's dark life suddenly open a gap, just enough light shines into his heart.
After leaving contact information with Zero, Zhan Wen did not go to the night market in the end. A Sheng, who survived
, waited for Vita, who was off night shift in the night market, but the two had a big fight because of cheating and parted ways.
butterfly effect caused by different choices makes the story develop completely differently.
Zero is no longer a lonely bad girl, Zhan Wen is no longer an unforgivable murderous demon, and Vita is no longer a sad unknown.
On the other side, Ah Xing, who had always been in love with Zhan Wen, watched him fight with Zero in a hot mood, and was jealous. He stole Zhan Wen's gun, broke the window of the wedding shop, and was arrested by the police.
After breaking up, A Sheng became more and more negative. He accidentally learned through an interview report by reporter Mie Jing that Zero had "scamd" tens of thousands of "equipment" from him, so he came to ask for an explanation.
After the two had a fierce verbal conflict, A Sheng, full of anger, accidentally beat Zero to death.
Under various opportunities, the victim in the first version became the perpetrator in the second version; Zhan Wen, who took his life, became the family of the deceased in parallel time and space...
Of course, this design that inverts the fate of the character is not to whitewash the murderer or discredit the dead.
The murderer's evil deeds are undoubtedly. No one has the right to sanction others through personal means and take away their lives.
But the focus of the film is not to condemn the murderer, but to borrow such a shell to show the complexity of human nature and measure the "distance between us and evil".
Each fork will lead people to a different ending, perhaps, everyone may become an Asura. In the
film, reporter Mie lost his mind after witnessing Xiaosheng being killed, snatched the gun and pulled the trigger at Zhan Wen. Fortunately, there were no bullets in the gun at that time.
Afterwards, he once said this:
"I have visited all the families of victims for a round, including those vendor owners.
Everyone just wants to find the answers quickly and make a conclusion quickly, so that this society is more normal and clean.
Then?
If I had been a few seconds earlier that day, I would have been A Sheng and I would have died.
After Zhan Wen was arrested, both his family and society were asking him to give an apology.
But mold tried to sort out the whole story behind the murder through investigation.
This is not from the heart of the Virgin who empathizes with the murderer .
, but because, compared to a simple apology, reflects on and asks about , which can better prevent the tragedy from happening again.
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