Chapter 2: Memory Of The Past
The movie is titled “Looking at the Sky,” and Jiang Qi plays the male protagonist named ‘Mu Xi.’
He is an unmistakable juvenile delinquent, a naturally cold-blooded and perverse seed. The film portrays Mu Xi’s life in an extremely gloomy and desolate manner, claiming to be a lifetime but actually spanning only twenty-five years.
On his twenty-fifth birthday, he was brought to justice by the symbol of the ‘light of justice,’ a firearm, along with the five lives he had taken.
The protagonist Mu Xi in the story discovered that he was a ‘monster’ at the age of seven. Unlike other innocent and naive children, he was unwelcome from birth. His mother was a ‘prostitute,’ and his father was a hopeless gambler. Debt collectors knocked on their door every day, making the family extremely depraved.
This led to Mu Xi’s cold and frozen perverse inner self, ruthless and cruel.
The first life Mu Xi took was that of his father. At the age of fifteen, after watching a suspenseful mystery movie where the protagonist used a rope to strangle a cannon fodder character and slowly decipher the mystery, Mu Xi felt stimulated and pleased.
So, that night, taking an attitude like conducting an experiment, he used a rough hemp rope to strangle his father to death while he was heavily intoxicated. Then, using a Swiss army knife he bought from a convenience store near the school, he stabbed him with hundreds of bloody holes.
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The movie does not depict Mu Xi’s actions with overly bloody scenes. Most of it is left to the audience’s imagination, occasionally describing the protagonist’s cruel methods through narration and various cinematographic techniques.