Let’s talk about the second possibility.
If Mawson is telling lies, it is also reasonable based on his previous series of performances. During the conversation with Tian Gang while eating, Mo Sen's speech could not be described as more than a lie.
When Tian Gang described Qiu Xue to him, his answer was "I don't know her. What happened to that woman?" In fact, he had been following Qiu Xue for some time at that time. When Tian Gang talked about Wang Dali, Mo Sen said inconsistently, "I have started to annoy him a long time ago, and he is always scowling." The flaws and loopholes in his words were very obvious, leaving Tian Gang at a loss.
The general conversation between the two at that time was:
Tian Gang: "You just said 'start early'... But that day, didn't you say it was your first time to go back to that coffee shop?"
"yes."
"Then you just said 'early'..."
"I didn't say that."
Even though the evidence is in front of him, he still refuses to admit it and refutes it in an extremely natural manner, just like a child who has become a habit of lying. However, children can still be disciplined strictly and guided in a timely manner. Mawson, whose mental level may have been fixed at that of high school, has taken this state of lying as a matter of course.
Facing Tian Gang's questioning, there was no trace of embarrassment or guilt in his expression that his lie had been exposed. Instead, he was very confident, as if the truth was really what he said, and he just didn't say it.
Later, when he was questioned by the patrol police after killing people and seizing a house, Mosen's answers were inconsistent and aroused suspicion. So the patrolman insisted on entering the house to check, and Mawson simply killed him together.
It can be seen that Mawson does not use subtle words to prevaricate others, nor does he care about his confusing speech and many contradictions. His way of thinking about things is almost a straight line: lie if you want to, be tough if you are caught, and get rid of the person who raised the problem if it can't be solved.
Mo Sen didn’t understand and couldn’t plan. Cao Hao had been blackmailed for many years and was his main source of income. However, neither during the process of killing Cao Hao nor after killing Cao Hao, he did not think of this until later. Only then did I realize that I don’t have much money now.
Furthermore, Cao Hao and his fiancée Su Qi were killed by Mo Sen in his small rental house. After the killing, Mo Sen burned the house on fire, destroying the corpses and wiping out traces (while implicating the innocent residents upstairs). , died in a fire). After that, he lost his fixed residence, and the only way he came up with was to break into other people's homes and occupy the magpie's nest.
Mo Sen's logic of action is simple and crude. He takes it one step at a time. He has two characteristics of "calmness" and "avoidance" at the same time. So back to the above, what Mo Sen said about Tian Gang's positive apology. "I don't remember" might be a lie.
He still had those good memories sealed up in his heart, but he did hate Tian Gang because of what happened back then, and considering that Tian Gang was now preventing him from violating Qiu Xue, the combination of various factors made Mo Sen not want to face Tian Gang at all. The apology has been delayed for many years, and I am unwilling to consider whether to accept it or not.
The feedback to Mawson from sex and killing time after time was direct, without any twists and turns of pleasure. If you feel good, you feel good; if you don't feel good, you feel bad; if you go well, you will be calm; if you don't, you will become irritable and crazy, chasing the next pleasure.
The temperament and thinking that are becoming more and more animal-like make Mawson unable to deal with complicated matters. Following this line of thinking, when Tian Gang mentioned the incident that year, Mawson seemed confused, but in fact, the explosive in his heart was already there. After being exploded (whether he himself realized this remains to be discussed), causing him and Tian Gang to smash the glass and fall out of the window, he grabbed Tian Gang like crazy, only wanting to kill him, and then ended up with himself life.
In the later stages of the film, Mawson has gone completely crazy. He went to the roadside to snatch a car. The car owner was suddenly yelled at by a stranger with a knife. He was still stunned. He lost patience because he didn't get timely feedback and stabbed the car owner directly. Throw it away. While driving to escape the pursuit of the police car, when Tian Gang mentioned that he was a kind and gentle person in the past, Mo Sen turned around manically and stabbed Tian Gang's thighs with a knife.
This performance once again shows that he does not want to face his former self. Just like people who have lived in darkness for a long time will "die upon seeing the light", the more Tian Gang recalled, the more Mo Sen was stimulated, because his mind could not bear the tragic comparison between his past and now. His spiritual world has long been in chaos, tortured by the nightmare of campus bullying, and filled with primitive pleasure, like a tangled wire, which is difficult to untie, and it is impossible to start because of its sharpness.
It wasn't until the car accident shattered the bundle of steel wires that the wrapped core, symbolizing love and beauty, was seen again after many years. Only then did Mawson finally get relief in such a cruel way.
To sum up, whether Mawson's "not remembering" at that time was a true response or a lie to avoid, there is logic to follow, and there are sufficient arguments to understand and demonstrate. I think this is also the space that Director He left for everyone to think about in "Daytime Rain".
Next, let’s talk about the second thing that attracted me to this film: sex.
As we all know, such "sensitive topics" are mostly avoided in middle school and high school, which is the process of adolescent development. In this implicit cultural environment, children are being subtly taught that "sex is shameful" when they are just beginning to have sex. On the one hand, they are uncontrollably curious and eager due to physiological reasons such as hormones, and on the other hand, they are also influenced by the environment. It is forcibly suppressed with customary ideas, forming a contradiction.
Mawson's thirst for sexual pleasure was morbid. When he was in high school, He Ye forced him to stand in front of prostitutes in the red light district and commit suicide. The physical pleasure and psychological/personality humiliation were at two extremes, positive and negative, which caused him to have a mental breakdown. This abnormal "pleasure" The "cascading reaction" was therefore deeply imprinted in Mawson's body.
After that, Mo Sen tortured and killed He Ye. When he strangled He Ye to death with his own hands, the psychological sense of accomplishment brought by revenge was one-sidedly divided into pleasure, and this psychological pleasure stimulated physical desire, so there was Cao Hao turned around and saw Mo Sen masturbating to He Ye's body. At this time, two different pleasures had distortedly overlapped in Moson, causing him to become completely psychopathic and fall into this wrong pleasure, out of control.
As mentioned before, Qiu Xue is Mawson's psychological projection of the campus era. When He Ye used sexual shame to humiliate Mo Sen, Mo Sen was forcibly indoctrinated into this method of sexually violating others to obtain pleasure. After his revenge was successful, he turned from a victim to a perpetrator, regardless of whether it was against He Ye. He masturbates with the corpse, still wants to rape Qiu Xue, and even says that he doesn't mind raping the corpse, there is a kind of revenge in it, which is sick and twisted.
I originally thought that the depiction of sex in "Day Rain" was a supplementary content. In addition to portraying Mo Sen's abnormal and terrifying character, it naturally and reasonably connected to the plot of Qiu Xue and Tian Gang. However, at the end of the film, a sufficiently stunning plot setting brings all these aspects together. It is not a reversal but rather an onion-like layer-by-layer peeling, which makes people marvel.
Speaking of this, I have seen many viewers saying that "the car accident at the end came too quickly", "it was suspected of being a sensational whitewash", and "didn't understand what happened in the end". Indeed, I have to admit that there is indeed a deliberate concealment here, because the soul supporting character is not in the visual center of the picture, but is slightly behind and towards the background. The first time I watched the movie, I was a little confused. It's normal.
So, first, let’s describe what happened in timeline order:
It turned out that when He Ye forced Mo Sen to masturbate in public across from the red light district, there was a prostitute wearing a bright purple tight vest opposite. Unlike the other people who were either disgusted or laughing, she looked at Mo Sen with an expression of distress and joy. pity.
After Mawson was exhausted from orgasm and collapsed to the ground almost naked, it was the prostitute who brought an old coat that was left behind by a client, and covered Mawson's lower body, blocking the The shame of this young man also left behind a small but extremely important kindness from strangers in his shattered shame and personality.
Mohsen always remembered her and wanted to say "thank you" to her, but perhaps due to the influence of his ideological concepts, Mohsen subconsciously held contempt for sex workers and was ashamed to say thank you to such a lowly and humble prostitute. Because Mawson was already at the critical point of collapse at that time and could no longer react to the outside world. In short, this "thank you" was always deep in his heart, and the figure of this unknown prostitute was firmly remembered by him and sealed in the corner of his memory.
Many years later, Mo Sen went insane and drove Tian Gang to die with him. At the critical moment, his headlights flashed across the back of a woman walking at night. This woman was wearing a purple dress, the most dazzling purple in his memory. So at that moment, Mawson subconsciously stepped on the brakes and turned the steering wheel to avoid the passerby, causing the vehicle to lose control and roll over the fence.
Later, Moson lost his memory due to the impact. He looked at the woman stupidly and shouted loudly to the "sister in purple" in his memory:
"Sister - thank you -!"
This sincere thank you from the bottom of my heart was finally spoken after years of repression. It was only then that Mawson's twisted desire for sex was finally resolved, and he finally came to terms with the profound negative impact of the serious bullying incident. From then on, he no longer struggled with the nightmare of the past and was constantly suffering from it. torment.
When I read "Day Rain" to the end, I realized that there were two sentences that were long overdue in Mo Sen's life.
One sentence is Tian Gang's "I'm sorry" to Mo Sen; the other sentence is Mo Sen's "thank you" to the prostitute.
It's just that Director He's way of handling the latter in the film is unconventional. He uses both flashbacks and narration to piece together the truth. The overall order of presentation is:
Mo Sen followed the white-collar worker and attempted rape → Mo Sen once masturbated on He Ye’s body → He Ye bullied Mo Sen and forced him to commit suicide in public → Mo Sen avoided the woman in purple and overturned the car → finally recalled the killing, it turned out that that time A prostitute wearing the same color came to Mawson's aid.
This exploratory plot line flickers on and off, and the second half is almost hidden under the complicated relationship between Mo Sen and Tian Gang. In addition, the clips about the prostitutes in purple are all put at the end. The first time I saw "Rain in the Day" it is indeed interesting. Most likely, they were puzzled and couldn’t understand why Mo Sen killed so many people, but he felt compassion for an ordinary passerby and turned the steering wheel crazily.
But it has to be said that this line complements the entire transformation of Mawson from gentle and innocent to collapse and depravity, making the character creation not only plump, but complete. Coupled with Mawson’s sincere and clean gratitude and smile, it is very touching. .
3300+
(End of chapter)
