Truth is always paradoxical. The night never goes away. She's just hiding in the shadows.
Night... The time when the secret becomes clear and vice versa. Night is a time when a person does what he would never do in the light of day. The onset of night envelops the streets with darkness and people with obsession. At night, the rules of the game disappear and anything can happen.
Prison... This is a place that can change a person forever, either giving him a new life or breaking him forever. This is a place where you can rethink and realize a lot. This is a place where you can get either better or worse by trying on a monster mask, because it is impossible to live among monsters for decades.
Police... It is a structure that can turn a person into a paranoid alcoholic, making him accept work as the only necessary thing, making him forget about family, friends and daily little joys, forget about food and soul.
Isn’t it surprising that only night can immerse us in memories?
Nick Chung and Simon Yam are high guild actors, which I think many will agree with. Here they once again show their high class, but if Simon Yam in the role of a police detective we are quite accustomed and just keeps his high mark, then Nick Chung, who I have long liked as an actor, in my eyes raised his personal bar even higher. All right. Very well he got used to the role of a silent prisoner, condemned to life imprisonment, but for good behavior released early into a world that has changed a lot and in which, perhaps, there is no place for him. In a world that brought him only pain and desire for revenge.
For more than an hour and a half, together with the characters, we piece together the plot into a clear picture, discovering the motives of the characters, separating truth from lies. The detective component is intriguing, although I have read the opinions of people who proudly stated that they put everything on shelves in the first half hour. I am happy for them, personally for a long time it was not clear what was going on, although in the end my guesses were confirmed. But it's not even about the ingenuity of telling the story. The film turned out to be quite atmospheric, it is interesting to watch the confrontation between two people, and additional facts that emerge as the investigation progresses only fuel interest. To top it all off, we become unwitting witnesses to the personal dramas of the main characters, some of whom voluntarily, others for lack of options turn their lives into hell, putting it on the altar of revenge and the search for justice or false ideals.
Perhaps the film turned out too gloomy tones, which, of course, will cause sadness in a particularly impressionable viewer. Perhaps there are some unnecessarily violent scenes in the film that will make you look away from the screen. But life, unfortunately, does not always present only pleasant surprises and often has to become a hostage of circumstances shrouded in hopelessness, which no ray of light can break. After all, in life, unfortunately, often people are not those for whom they pretend to be in public and this audience will never know who a person becomes with the onset of night.
And on the drum we have subjective
8 out of 10
Z.Y. My subtitles N13