This film consists of four parts. Every part is around one core topic: depicting people's free wills to execute death penalty or refuse to retrieve of one's life, under an extremely despotic regime. Also, those four parts bring different watching feelings to me.
Part 1 "There Is No Evil" This is the most shocking part for me, making me stunnng and unforgettable for its ending. Although it starts in a slow-paced moving combing with several ordinary scenes, its ending even reveals that this middle-aged male executioner has his own family stuffs to solve, just as you and me.
Part 2 "She Said, 'You Can Do It'" This part describes a male soldier who wanted to avoid form killing a prisoner. At first, he behaved like a coward, almost trembling weeping for his duty to execute tonight's death penalty and receiving the warm advices and harsh words from his colleagues. (He constantly picked up his girlfriend's call as well.) Finally, he successfully escaped from the prison without killing one person, meeting his girlfriend. Just like their secret conspiracy! From their happy faces and the roadtrip sceneries that they drived and passed by, I can sense the wind, the sunshine and the freedom of joy.
Part 3 "Birthday" This part is the most reflective for me because the contrast of 'life vs. death' reveals in a sorrowful way. The girl understood that her boyfriend was her teacher's executioner (in exchange for 3 days off from work) at her teacher's funeral in her birthday. With bittersweet tears, the girl broke up with him, firmly declaring her position.
Part 4 "Kiss Me" This part shows a father chose to refuse to execute death penalty when he was a young soldier, causing he send out his daughther to relatives and firstly meet her after many years. He decided to suppress his desire to see her with silent endurance for a long time, just because he insisted that human lives deserved better outcomings other than death (though his daughter might be hard to forgive his behavior for destroying their family relationship). It seems that there are two sides obviously: One side is happily staying with family but full of feeling of guilty (being responsible for the cruel duties); the other side is tough but still believing humanity and justice, trying to live and love.
Unlike Part 1 (executioner himself) and Part 2 (an escaping soldier), Part 3 and Part 4 reveal why some people make their decision, and Part 4 shows how the protagonist insists the value of humanitarianism all the time. Under the despotic regime, this is truly hard to make a choice. It's the point that I respect the director of this film.
In sum, I recommend this film. It's worth watching!
Part 1 "There Is No Evil" This is the most shocking part for me, making me stunnng and unforgettable for its ending. Although it starts in a slow-paced moving combing with several ordinary scenes, its ending even reveals that this middle-aged male executioner has his own family stuffs to solve, just as you and me.
Part 2 "She Said, 'You Can Do It'" This part describes a male soldier who wanted to avoid form killing a prisoner. At first, he behaved like a coward, almost trembling weeping for his duty to execute tonight's death penalty and receiving the warm advices and harsh words from his colleagues. (He constantly picked up his girlfriend's call as well.) Finally, he successfully escaped from the prison without killing one person, meeting his girlfriend. Just like their secret conspiracy! From their happy faces and the roadtrip sceneries that they drived and passed by, I can sense the wind, the sunshine and the freedom of joy.
Part 3 "Birthday" This part is the most reflective for me because the contrast of 'life vs. death' reveals in a sorrowful way. The girl understood that her boyfriend was her teacher's executioner (in exchange for 3 days off from work) at her teacher's funeral in her birthday. With bittersweet tears, the girl broke up with him, firmly declaring her position.
Part 4 "Kiss Me" This part shows a father chose to refuse to execute death penalty when he was a young soldier, causing he send out his daughther to relatives and firstly meet her after many years. He decided to suppress his desire to see her with silent endurance for a long time, just because he insisted that human lives deserved better outcomings other than death (though his daughter might be hard to forgive his behavior for destroying their family relationship). It seems that there are two sides obviously: One side is happily staying with family but full of feeling of guilty (being responsible for the cruel duties); the other side is tough but still believing humanity and justice, trying to live and love.
Unlike Part 1 (executioner himself) and Part 2 (an escaping soldier), Part 3 and Part 4 reveal why some people make their decision, and Part 4 shows how the protagonist insists the value of humanitarianism all the time. Under the despotic regime, this is truly hard to make a choice. It's the point that I respect the director of this film.
In sum, I recommend this film. It's worth watching!