At that time, I liked Keigo Higashino's novels very much. I have basically read his novels, and there are many Keigo Higashino fans around. They often chat with their friends about the plot in the novels.
In this way, when the film was first released, I did not hesitate to take my friends to see it. The film is mainly about parents' infinite love for themselves. The story inside is suspenseful and brain-burning. You can't understand it without looking carefully.
Kaga Kyouichirou, male host: His mother is a woman sitting on the stage with a disgraceful history. After getting married and having children, she was insulted by her husband's family and got depression. When he was ten years old, she ran away from home, lived in seclusion in a restaurant in other places, fell in love with a mysterious man, and died of heart failure many years later. The mysterious man then disappeared without a trace; The proprietress of the hotel informed the man to collect the urn. This man is a criminal policeman. In order to better trace back to his mother's past, he spent sixteen years looking for the mysterious man.
Xiaosan lives in Bomei: her mother's marriage derailed and eloped, leaving huge debts. Her father fled with her when she was 14 years old in order to avoid debt better. She tried to earn extra money by "sacrificing herself", but she killed someone by mistake. Her father disguised her body as himself who committed suicide, pretending to be the dead, hiding in the city, making her daughter an orphan, taking care of by the government, separating her father from her daughter and meeting her quietly. The father knew that his daughter had talked with the teacher about the love between teachers and students, and the teacher had seen him before he died. He killed the teacher to shut him up. Many years later, my daughter became a stage director. A former female classmate came to see her and met her father, who killed her classmate.
When the body of the female classmate was exposed, the police immediately filed a case for investigation, and the stories of both men and women were slowly intertwined: the mysterious lover of the man's mother was the woman's father.
A woman who knows the truth, in order to know her father's dead lover, approaches a man actively, which makes the man's idea of solving a case turn from danger to safety: by relying on logic and motivation to solve a case, she can't find a breakthrough for a long time, from "love" to "love", and then slowly peel the cocoon.
In fact, the mother and father of both husband and wife really love each other in their twilight years. If they get married, husband and wife will become brothers and sisters.
After the female host's father killed his classmate, the pressure accumulated by years of escape made him miserable, and now her daughter has a successful career. In order to better keep the black history from being exposed forever and safeguard her future, he decided to set himself on fire.
The hostess thought it was too painful to be burned alive, so she decided to strangle her father first and then burn his body. ...
The woman didn't turn herself in voluntarily, but when the man looked for evidence, she accepted the law frankly and sighed: What a long tragedy, it can finally end.
In fact, I really like the name of the movie "The End of Prayer". When a person is in pain for a long time and helpless, they will pray and pray for God's mercy.
When all the dust settles, we will also pray and thank the gods for their salvation. This prayer contains too many things, including pain, helplessness, fatigue and, of course, the last hope and peace.
When it's all over, the prayer is over. No matter how intense and tortuous you have experienced, the curtain will come to an end and your heart will be calm.
Bomei, the young girl in the play, was well protected, because her father took the blame for her, and she also realized her dream of directing. Life seems calm, but what about the heart?
These dull pains tormented her day and night like worms. Although a lie solves a temporary problem, it can't get inner peace, because you never know if anyone will find out the truth in the next second.
People cannot be saved by hiding. Only by digging out the truth and looking directly at it can we step on it firmly, otherwise it is impossible to get real peace and relief.
When the truth came out, it was obvious that Kaga Kyouichirou and Shimomura Bomei were saved. So, they can finally say goodbye to the past calmly.
The warmth of the film lies in that when abandoning the past and starting a new life, the father living in Bomei and the mother living in Kaga Kyouichirou meet by chance. It turned out that these two people comforted each other.
Many years later, when their children know the truth, they also get comfort from it. Although it is a mystery play, Keigo Higashino wrote more about helplessness and warmth between people than reasoning.
After all, when it comes to reasoning, there are always many skeletons in the closet. Nobody wants to live with a secret. Once you have a secret, you are doomed to have too much helplessness.
When reading Keigo Higashino's novels, there is always an impulse to read them all at once. It is also wonderful to watch the remake of Keigo Higashino's novels. I like Keigo Higashino's friends. This movie is not to be missed ~