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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 ...
影片讲述的是一位名叫Rich Johnson（Cam Gigandet饰）的花心大少在被女朋友捉奸后决定痛改前非，许了一个类似“上帝啊，把我的命根子带走吧”的愿，然后第二天早上起来发现“它”变成了人型…
面貌清秀的宋志元（姜东元 饰）是来自朝鲜的谍报人员，在代号441的老间谍影子的带领下，他们闯入首尔一幢公寓，刺杀了本国叛逃人员及其一家。期间，他们遭遇韩国安全部门的追捕，一番激烈枪战过后宋志元等侥幸逃脱，但他被上级认为有叛变之心而从此弃用。另一方面，行动的失败导致韩国一方的行动队长李仁奎（宋康昊 饰）遭到革职处分，他只得开设侦探所，靠收钱追踪逃跑的越南新娘养家糊口。 不久，金正日和金大中实现历史性的会见，朝韩双方局势缓和。六年后，李仁奎在某个越南人工厂偶遇宋志元，他希望抓住志元及神秘的影子赚大钱，而志元也想利用仁奎洗脱自己叛变的罪名。两人别有用心住在了同一屋檐下，随着了解的加深，他们的想法渐渐发生改变……
