There is an incredible thing called: real people and real things.
One |Real people, real storiesOn August 22, 2002, a case of rape and murder in a residential community. The third brigade of the criminal investigation detachment of the Municipal Public Security Bureau is responsible for this case, the captain of the three brigades, Cheng Bing, is 37 years old, has been a police officer for 16 years, and has handled countless large and small cases, and has never seen any bloody scenes....However, even such a policeman, who is accustomed to life and death, is enraged....17-year-old girl (14 in the movie) lying naked ** on the floor....A large hole had been broken in the skull, and brain tissue was mixed with blood and spilled all over the ground...The medical examiner mentioned ** from the girl's body....After emergency rescue by the hospital, the girl survived, but due to a head injury, she became a vegetative state....Such a case will make even hard-hearted people feel heartache...
Cheng Bing made a military order:Solve the case in five days. The case is not complicated, it is a typical burglary converted robbery, **homicide, the victim girl is alone at home, crashes into the burglary, **tries to ** girl....The girl desperately resisted the shouting and was hit on the head with a blunt object by **....Soon, the suspect was locked on:Wang Dayong and Wang Eryong, brothers, habitual thieves, worked as air-conditioning installers, and climbed windows to enter the room. 
Two days later, the Wang brothers committed the crime again....This time, Wang Dayong was captured by the masses, and Wang Eryong escaped in the chaos....The relatives of the victim grabbed Wang Dayong and beat him for several hours before calling the police...
When Wang Dayong was brought into the police station, he was already beaten out of shape by the crowd....The three teams conducted a surprise trial of Wang Dayong....However, Wang Dayong is very strict-mouthed, and he knows very well that as long as Wang Eryong does not return to the case, the evidence is not sufficient, and it will be difficult for him to be completely convicted....In order to protect his younger brother and get rid of his crimes, Wang Dayong bit to death and did not say where Wang Eryong went...
There are three days left to solve the case....The tragic condition of the victims....The huge pressure of time and spirit made the members of the three teams almost collapse...So, they gave Wang Dayong "means"....The mop rod broke three....Late at night, at 23:10, Wang Dayong died in the interrogation room....
Torture to extract a confession, resulting in the death of the suspect....Captain Cheng Bing was sentenced to 8 years in prison, and four other criminal police officers were sentenced to 3 to 12 years....Others who do not constitute criminal offenses are also "stripped of their police uniforms" after disciplinary action....The Third Brigade of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Municipal Public Security Bureau ceased to exist....On the other hand, after Wang Dayong's death, in that era when there were not too many cameras and criminal investigation technology was not perfect, Wang Eryong disappeared from then on...Since then, "822 major cases" have become unsolved cases....
Seven years later, Cheng Bing was released a year early because of his good behavior in prison...His wife divorced him, and the child was awarded to the woman....In order to take care of him, the leader of the Public Security Bureau introduced him to the logistics work of a security company under the Public Security Bureau, but Cheng Bing refused to recruit him
Cheng Bing was alone, stepped into the vast sea of people, and started a journey of chasing the murderer after seven years...He traveled around Hunan, Sichuan, Chongqing and Guizhou....He has worked in a night market, as a porter, as a night taxi, as a courier, as an Internet café security guard...Every job he does has a reason...For example, the night market is the easiest way to get to know people from all walks of life, and you can gather a lot of information...For example, if you drive a night taxi, you can talk to all kinds of passengers and find out the news...For example, the security guard of the community has access to a large amount of information about the owner...
He puts Wang Eryong's ** on his body every day, and takes it out to take a look when he has time....After a long time, he has become extremely familiar with Wang Eryong's physical characteristics. In Cheng Bing's words:Even if Wang Eryong turns to ashes, I can recognize it.
Perhaps, there is a cycle of heavenly principles and karma in this world...The emperor lives up to his hard work....One day in September 2013, Cheng Bing finally caught Wang Eryong, who thought he had gone ashore, as a water delivery worker...At this time, it has been a full 12 years since Wang Eryong committed the rape and murder case...
It is said that at the moment when Wang Eryong returned to the case...The water delivery engineer said to the police who came to perform the task:Please tell Director Yang that the tasks of the three teams have been completed.
II |The movie "The Three Brigades".On December 15, 2023, that is, tomorrow, Cheng Bing will be adapted from the real events of 11 years of chasing the murderer"The Three Majors".It will be released in major theaters across the country....Produced by Chen Sicheng, directed by Dai Mo, starring Zhang Yi.
The crow has already watched the screening in advance....The story is neat, the rhythm is bright, the performance is solid, the photography, lighting, and costumes are exquisite, and it is generally a qualified work worth watching in the near future....In particular, it is worth mentioning that the three supporting characters:Cao Bingkun, Wang Xiao and Zhang Zixian performed exceptionally well. It is certain that there are many excellent actors in the Chinese film and television industry such as Cao Bingkun, Wang Xiao and Zhang Zixian, who look familiar to the audience, but are not very famous....They played the role of several grassroots police officers with ordinary backgrounds, average ideological awareness, kindness and bravery, and at the same time ordinary people's careful thinking and small calculations...
Zhang Yi's performance is remarkable. Especially in the second half of the movie, it gradually gets better, accurately portraying the inner evolution of the character Cheng Bing....The character of Cheng Bing, who appeared at the scene of the crime for the first time, had a serious and calm expression, even if he saw the tragic situation of the little girl, he did not show violent emotional fluctuations...Zhang Yi's handling of this paragraph stems from his understanding of this role, as a criminal police captain with six years of experience, he is used to seeing too cruel crime scenes, he can only refrain from it, but also must be calm....In this paragraph, there is a detail that is well designed...Cheng Bing easily pulled the skirt on the little girl's corpse up to cover her thighs...This detail, silently explaining the compassion and vibration hidden in Cheng Bing's heart under Cheng Bing's indifferent expression, laid the groundwork for the character's emotional out-of-control...
Also, it's worth mentioning....The film is based on non-fiction written by a grassroots police officer"Please tell the director that the tasks of the three teams have been completed"....The original text is only more than 7,000 words in the real case file, which is relatively brief, and this amount of information cannot meet the requirements of a movie of more than two hours....For example, after Cheng Bing was released from prison, the process of chasing the murderer for four years has no details in the text at all....Therefore, the film must complete this part....For some well-known reasons, we know that in Chinese mainland movies, it is impossible for the protagonist to enforce the law on his own....This makes it very difficult to design the dramatic conflict and plot in the middle of the film....Personally, I think that under the existing conditions, the creative team has fulfilled their mission relatively well, telling a moving story that is twisty and bizarre but does not lose the fireworks of the world....
Speaking of soundtracks, there's a bridge in the film....A few frustrated men, they used to be policemen, but they inexplicably became prisoners, and finally they turned around and wanted to complete their own comfort and redemption by catching the absconding **...This state of mind of theirs....The director arranged a scene, they drank a night beer, drank three rounds, and they sang a song "Young Ambition Without Sorrow"....
To be honest, the young audience of this episode seems to be very confused....You know, this song comes from the theme song of the TV series "Plainclothes Police" that swept the country in 1987, telling the story of a policeman who was wrongfully imprisoned and arrested the real murderer after being released from prison....I estimate that such a bridge is unlikely to be written by the screenwriter and director, but more like Chen Sicheng, who was born in 1978, came up with it....It can be imagined that in 1987, when "Plainclothes Police" was on the air...When night falls, the first-year-old Chen Sicheng can always hear the singing of "Young Ambition Without Sorrow" coming from the windows of each house in the streets and alleys....This complex, after more than 30 years, has been turned into an image and put in a 2023 movie...Zhou Zhiming, a criminal policeman more than 30 years ago, seems to have found his soulmate in our time...
III |Cinema and realityThere is a controversial point in this story, which is also a difficult point when filming the film...Cheng Bing and the members of the three major teams tortured to extract confessions, resulting in the death of the suspect in the interrogation room, which is the starting point of this bizarre and unfortunate incident...What do you think of this event?
Back to the real case....We can see some of the details of this case in non-fiction texts....On August 24, 2002, Wang Dayong and Wang Eryong committed another crime, climbing into a resident's room from an air-conditioned booth and committing a burglaryAt that time, the mistress of the family was home alone....Wang Dayong and Wang Eryong repeated their old tricks, preparing to carry out ** on women....Unexpectedly, the woman's husband and younger brother happened to come home, and several people fought, and Wang Eryong escaped in the chaos, and Wang Dayong was captured by the masses and beaten....There is a possibility that in the process of the mass beating, Wang Dayong has already suffered serious internal injuries....
In other words, Wang Dayong did not die of torture to extract a confession...
However, the existence of this possibility did not reduce the guilt of Cheng Bing and others....
For the audience, on the one hand, we can understand the reasons why Cheng Bing and others were sentenced, and on the other hand, we feel sad for their ill-fated fate....
Of course, we know the dangers of using violence to obtain evidence, extorting confessions by torture, and undermining procedural justice....
We can cite cases like "Hugjiltu" to accuse the evil consequences of undermining procedural justice, explain the "fruit of the poisonous tree theory", and demonstrate the jurisprudence that "there is no doubt about the guilt".
Fruit of the poisonous tree |The logic of the term is that if the evidence is tainted, then any evidence obtained from it is also tainted and will not be admissible in the course of the proceedings, even if the evidence is sufficient to reverse the decision.
But we must also know that more than 20 years ago, due to the lack of scientific and technological level and backward criminal investigation methods, it was difficult for the grassroots criminal police to collect evidence and solve cases
Many times, the so-called reality is "dilemma", that is, "this is not right, that is not right"...
In the case of "Three Teams", it also explains the difficulty of handling cases at the grassroots level of the criminal police in that era from a certain angle, after all, handling cases is not writing **, and we are not living in theory....
Fortunately, in this world, there are still people like Cheng Bing....
In the face of complex real life, he chooses to believe in those simple and simple truths...
For example:Reap what you sow.
For example:Skynet is magnificent, negligent but not leaky.
He did not hesitate to destroy most of his life to complete the persistence of his self-belief....
You can call him stupid or you can call him tough, but you have to feel admiration for him....
It is precisely because of the existence of people like Cheng Bing that you will feel:The world is in tatters, but there are always people who mend it.
Sitting in the cinema, there are moments.
I can't even believe it's a real story.