炎月

　　这个世界上总会有一群愚昧无知的人，也会有利用这群人混口饭的投机者，《名编》里的郑义就是典型的投机者，他会根据自身的优势及外部条件，抓住一切机会从那些盲从者手中骗取金钱利益，而《小师妹》中的小师妹则是典型的愚昧之人，她没有自己的判断力，他人的三言两语就能将她忽悠过去，盲从的同时也损失了金钱和时间，《有故事的人》里的三兄弟介于两者之间，他们既是愚昧之人，又想要骗取他们自认为愚昧之人的钱财，不想弄巧成拙，不仅赔了钱财，还伤了自己。

　　Like Fritz Lang, David Fincher or Bong Joon Ho before him, talented debut filmmaker Lado Kvataniya uses the concept of police detective vs serial killer for an excitingly stylised, macabre and haunting narrative, that ultimately revolves around the identity of an era: in this case, the late 1980s Soviet Union. With Glasnost and the end of communist rule, the West also learned of the (unsurprising) fact that there were serial killers in Russia too – the most notorious case probably that of Andrei Chikatilo, nicknamed the Rostov Ripper, or the Russian Hannibal Lecter.
　　Based on these and many other sources, Kvataniya and screenwriter Olga Gorodetskaya constructed an immersive psychological puzzle, jumping back and forth in time, to reveal ever new-possible motives for the actions of all the protagonists. It all starts in 1990, when Detective Issa Davydov is celebrating his promotion and receives a call, reporting a crime that looks precisely like the ones of the serial killer that he famously captured some years before ...