Written at the beginning: This chapter is dangerous, read it quickly.
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Let’s start from the beginning.
"Day Rain" begins with the accidental reunion of the serial murderer Mo Sen and his high school classmate Tian Gang, with the intention of murdering the couple Tian Gang and Qiu Xue. It tells a story about a twisted life caused by campus bullying.
The whole film is divided into two completely different styles. Funny and pure love coexists with gloomy and heavy. Sometimes peaceful daily life and horrific murder cases run side by side, sometimes intertwined. The film uses a realistic and impactful shooting technique to show the complicated relationships between many ordinary and abnormal characters one by one.
Sitting in the audience, the most obvious feeling is that "it's like watching two movies before and after."
The first half is a love triangle between cleaners Tian Gang and Wang Dali and coffee shop waiter Qiu Xue. Wang Dali, who has a little man philosophy, has been in love with Qiu Xue for a long time. Tian Gang originally played the role of middleman and wingman, but was confessed by Qiu Xue. He felt torn between love and friendship, and later officially dated Qiu Xue without Wang Dali's knowledge. The two were engaged in a secret love like puppy love.
All the way up to this point, the story of "a diaosi unexpectedly brings the goddess back in her arms" is an ordinary story, no different from an urban comedy.
However, halfway through the film, accompanied by creepy background music, the title "Daytime Rain" officially appeared on the screen, and the tone of the entire film turned to "heavy taste", gloomy, depressing, and perverted. The rhythm of the whole film is also the same as the mental state of the murderer Mohsen, like a car with a broken accelerator and steering wheel, falling apart everywhere and losing control.
Until the end, Memory Kill reveals the truth that Mawson was bullied at school and tells the fundamental reason why he became so twisted and cruel. At the end, the past clips of Mo Sen and Tian Gang playing games side by side brought tears to tears. It turns out that they were once so good, it turns out that Mo Sen also had beauty and tenderness, and it turns out that "everyday" and "abnormal" are only on the thin line. However, school violence can ruin a person's life.
Looking at Mawson's life trajectory, the whole story is undoubtedly a history of revenge.
In high school, he was bullied by a classmate named He Ye. He was teased to drink a drink mixed with chalk dust and phlegm, which caused him to temporarily lose his voice. He was treated as a live target and allowed to be shot with a toy gun, and was forced to lie on the ground to drink. He was even forced to have personal information written all over his body, stand on the street, take off his pants and masturbate in full view of the public.
All kinds of experiences can no longer be described as simple "pranks" and "social death". As the original film said, "It was a hellish day."
So the suppression reached the extreme and it exploded. One rainy night, Mo Sen kidnapped He Ye and, together with another bullied student Cao Hao, beat He Ye to death and buried the body in the ground.
Since then, Mawson's temperament has changed greatly. The two extreme experiences of being raped and raping others have made his violent tendencies increasingly serious, and further stimulated his desire for sex. He was addicted to the pleasure brought by primitive desires such as sex and killing, but rape and torture did not neutralize the negative impact of campus bullying on him. Those memories still existed in his mind all the time, causing him sleep disorders and emotional distress. Irritated and mentally disturbed, his whole person has become increasingly animalistic, which is very different from the cowardly and shy self he once was.
He beat and kicked his grandparents, used the excuse of "killing He Ye together" to blackmail Cao Hao for many years, followed her and wanted to rape and kill her because she was commented on by a strange white-collar worker on the road, etc. .
By the middle and late stages of the film, Mawson has become a monster in human skin. He has no home, and the way to find a place to live is to break into someone's house, kill the whole family, and then live there himself. The pleasure that killing brought him gradually faded, so that when he killed a person later, it was like doing manual labor. As soon as he finished killing the person, he returned to the table and ate as usual, without any sense of morality and morality. The awe of life.
Compared with the straightforward and naked killing scenes, these details are more terrifying and make people feel numb.
But this does not mean that Mawson has become a "fashionable" villain. In fact, on the contrary, he has no character and does not regard violence as an elegant art like some movie villains do. He doesn't have any skills in killing, he only relies on brute force to compete with the opponent, stabbing with all his strength, and the way he grits his teeth with force is real and ugly.
However, faced with the tall gangsters, the thin and skinny Mohsen could not defeat them. He was used to being kicked to the ground on the street and snatched away the gains he had just won in the game arcade;
When he came to the book bar, Moson, who was still stabbing people with a knife before, could talk to the front desk well and normally. If he didn't have enough money, he would offer to change to a lower-grade rest cubicle;
When dealing with life, he only showed an attitude of breaking things down, with empty eyes and no hope at all. The classic line he said to Tian Gang was enough to sum up his thoughts -
"Neither I nor you, we are all completely finished."
So obviously, Mawson knows that he is not a god of murder, but that he is low, a rat in the gutter. To put it bluntly, the terrifying serial murderer is just an ordinary gloomy citizen who bullies the weak and fears the strong, and does not have any high-level villain filter.
The complexity and distortion of human nature are vividly reflected in the character of Mawson.
But on the other hand, this kind of Mawson exactly embodies the horror of "alien hidden in calm daily life".
Because no one knows what an inconspicuous person on the street looks like, and no one wants to provoke a murderer with a word or a look, causing sudden disasters in ordinary life.
At this point, I would like to make a point that is contrary to current popular belief.
I saw that some viewers "turned against" Mo Sen after watching "Day Rain" because Tian Gang and Mo Sen were friends, but they turned a blind eye when Mo Sen was bullied, and even became direct accomplices in serious bullying incidents later on. It can be said that apart from He Ye and his followers, the main culprits that caused Moson's mental breakdown.
Therefore, some people said: "Mo Sen should kill Tian Gang. He Ye has taken revenge, so why should Tian Gang not die? I think Mo Sen wanted to kill Tian Gang because of what happened in the past. That woman (Qiu Xue) just happened to of."
I hold a certain degree of opposition to this.
Mo Sen first appeared in the cafe where Qiu Xue worked. At that time, he and Tian Gang had not met again. According to Wang Dali's description, he had been eyeing Qiu Xue for some time. Afterwards, Mo Sen and Tian Gang ate in a restaurant. When Tian Gang described Qiu Xue, he said she looked a bit like their physical education teacher back then.
Based on these two points, I think Qiu Xue is a kind of projection of Moson's past. He cannot escape the influence of his school days and wants to "resist", and this resistance is transformed into "wanting to invade" because of his distorted character. desire. Therefore, even if Qiu Xue's appearance is similar to that of Mo Sen in high school, and even if the physical education teacher did not do anything to Mo Sen, their mere "existence" is enough to meet the conditions for psychological and desire projection.
Halfway through the film, Tian Gang and Qiu Xue "went home". Mo Sen, who was standing downstairs at Qiu Xue's house that night, heard the news of their love and quickly returned to his residence to call Cao Hao and said he wanted to Kill Tian Gang.
I think maybe he feels that Tian Gang and himself are both "finished people", and if he can succeed in doing something to Qiu Xue, he must have done it through unfair and immoral means (it's amazing, Mo Sen knows it himself) He is an immoral person), but Tian Gang successfully slept with Qiu Xue without using these means. In such a comparison, it makes sense for Mo Sen to feel unhappy.
Or, for Mo Sen, Tian Gang, who is in a relationship with Qiu Xue, is undoubtedly an obstacle to his infringement of Qiu Xue, so under this logic, it is "reasonable" to deal with Tian Gang first.
I have to say that the relationship between Mo Sen and Tian Gang, and Qiu Xue, or the relationship with sex, are worthy of in-depth analysis.
Let’s talk about the former first. Tian Gang knew very well that he was sorry for Mo Sen, but as a bystander of campus bullying, his attitude most of the time was to avoid and deceive himself.
In the early stages of the film, when Wang Dali and Qiu Xue asked about Mo Sen, Tian Gang, who had obviously had a friendship with Mo Sen, looked strange and hesitated, saying that he was "not familiar" and "hadn't spoken much", which shows that he He was deeply impressed by the memory that he indirectly harmed Mawson, but he just didn't want to admit that he was one of the culprits, so he evaded responsibility and refused to mention it even to Mawson himself, pretending that the incident never happened.
Until the bodies of Cao Hao and his fiancée Su Qi were discovered, Tian Gang heard from the police that these were all done by Mo Sen, and then saw with his own eyes the tragic situation of Wang Dali in the hospital - in other words, he finally realized that When Mo Sen's fire was about to burn on him - Tian just told the truth to Qiu Xue, admitting that he had helped He Ye bully Mo Sen.
Very true.
We always have a mentality of escaping and getting lucky with "black history". It is not until we have to face it in the end that we finally face it and face what we have said and done.
However, in contrast, was Mawson's reaction. This is also one of the two most attractive points when I watched the movie three times.
When Mo Sen pointed a knife at Tian Gang and Qiu Xue, and Tian Gang tremblingly apologized to Mo Sen for what happened back then, Mo Sen was confused.
What Tian Gang said was: "He Ye and the others forced you to masturbate in front of everyone, and I laughed with them at that time. I'm so sorry! You're angry with me because of this, right?" (roughly the meaning) )
The words spoken in critical moments are basically the truth. Tian Gang's lines here show that he really believes that Mo Sen hates him because of this incident and wants to kill him to vent his anger.
But what surprised me was that in the face of Tian Gang’s apology, Mohsen just took the time to think about it, and then said:
"At that time...were you there?"
Tian Gang asked in surprise: "Don't you remember?"
Mawson said, "I don't remember."
Then he said "forget it", gave up the memory, stabbed Tian Gang directly, and the rivalry between the two started again.
This episode interests me very much, and it also makes me struggle with one question, which is:
Is Mawson telling the truth?
Does he really not remember?
After thinking about it, any answer seems to make sense.
If it is true, first of all, Mo Sen's mental state is indeed abnormal, otherwise there would be no direct amnesia in the subsequent car accident due to the impact. Therefore, he forgot that Tian Gang was also involved in the bullying incident, and even wanted to protect himself. I can’t remember the specifics of the bullying incident, it’s all very reasonable.
But in this branch, I prefer to do an in-depth analysis. Everyone who has watched the film knows that after losing his memory, Mo Sen returned to his high school days. He only remembered that he and Tian Gang were good friends. The two made an appointment to play games together, and had no memory of bullying and other things.
So can I think that these beautiful memories are always sealed in the depths of Mawson's memory, far away from those hellish days of bullying? It’s just that Mawson himself didn’t want to dig out, face, and recall, so he buried them deeply in the corner of his memory. As time went by, it seemed as if none of them had ever existed.
It wasn't until it suffered a physical impact that this dusty treasure came to light again, fundamentally covering or replacing Mawson's bad memories of being bullied.
The public masturbation incident in high school was the most important point in Moson's life. Before the string was broken, he was still alive. After the string was broken, he was a living dead.
Tian Gang recalled: "I have never forgotten the look in Mo Sen's eyes at that time. It was a very desperate look. There was no light, no energy, and no hope in the eyes. It was simply not like a look that a living person could have." ( roughly meaning)
What matched his words was the image of Mo Sen turning his head. In other words, Mo Sen turned to look at Tian Gang at that time, because his good friend had deceived him and deceived him that He Ye wanted to apologize to him, so he went out and suffered such a horrific insult.
Apart from He Ye's bullying, I think Tian Gang's deception and betrayal were also one of the most important reasons for Mo Sen's collapse.
From this point of view, what Mawson said many years later, "Were you there at that time? I don't remember." can also be interpreted to mean that Mawson suffered too much mental shock, but he valued and cared so much about his friendship with Tian Gang. , he believed that he would not lie to him or harm him, so he activated his self-defense mechanism and automatically and consciously erased Tian Gang's existence from that bullying incident.
In his deepest memory, Tian Gang had always been the good friend who took the initiative to talk to him and played games with him.
Never changed.
3800+, together with 3200+ in 4.15, a total of 7000+. In addition to 4.15 and 4.16, an additional 3.29 update has been added.
(End of chapter)
