Tokyo Swindlers

If people were truly good by nature, some people's evil has already outgrown what little good they have left. Don't pity the criminal just because you weren't the one he pushed into hell.

2024 · Crime · Hitoshi One · Netflix

Synopsis

Jimenshi ("land swindlers") is by novelist Ko Shinjo, depicting how land swindlers impersonate property owners to sell land, swindling huge sums in real-estate fraud. It's adapted from a true event — the 2017 "Sekisui House land-swindler fraud case."

Thoughts

If people really are good by nature, then some people's evil has already outgrown what little good they have left. You can't pity a criminal just because you glimpsed the kind side of him — because you don't know how much pain the people he pushed into hell felt. You pity him only because you're not the one he pushed down.

After chewing on that final bedside conversation, I pulled myself back out of the mindset that defends the lead (that high-sounding "revenge"). Whatever unspeakable reason there may be, it should never be an excuse for crime.

⚡️ Spoilers ⚡️

Setting aside the lofty premise of the lead becoming the very thing he hates, all for revenge — this show introduced me to the profession of land swindler, and how meticulous you have to be. If that skill were put to legitimate use it could surely make money too; maybe just without the thrill? I don't know, I'll think about it tomorrow.

Harrison is a genuine psychopath, and the kind who's great at finding excuses for himself: he's clearly burning bridges yet insists there's gain in every loss; he's clearly addicted to killing yet has to lecture with some hunting philosophy. He uses the hunter's method — laying traps to lure the prey to take the bait.

• Land theory — there shouldn't be land ownership.
• Striking at unreasonable phenomena ☑️ an abnormal sense of justice — but often this kind of person ends up doing something that takes that "justice" to the next level 😀
• Sharp insight paired with severe paranoia.
• Greed blinds people.

Such a silver tongue and such a brain, wasted on crime — such a pity. It reminded me of how a top Taiwanese university had a gifted student go intern in the US while running a website to sell drugs — when a bright future would've awaited on returning home. Was he chasing the thrill? Or had ordinary tasks stopped satisfying his desires? Who knows what goes on in a genius's head 😀

Side threads: the Ishiyo Group chairman-president power struggle; the development-division chief's affair with the president's secretary; the nun who loves orgies (absurd); the late detective whose wife was about to divorce him.

地面師

如果人性真的本善，某些人的惡已經超過了他僅存的善。你會同情他，只是因為你不是被他推下地獄的那個人。

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劇情簡介

地面師日本小說的作者為新莊耕，描述「地面師」冒充土地所有者出售土地，騙取鉅款，實施房地產詐騙，改編自2017年發生的「積水房屋地面師詐欺事件」真實事件。

心得

如果人性真的本善，那某些人的惡已經超過了他僅存的善，不能因為看到犯罪之人善心的一面而同情他，因為你不知道被他推下地獄的人有多痛苦，你會同情他，只是因為你不是被他推下去的那個人。

思考了最後在病床旁的對話後，再次把自己為主角辯護的（冠冕堂皇的報仇）心態裡拉出來，不管有什麼難以啟齒的理由，都不應該作為犯罪的推託。

⚡️暴雷⚡️

先不論主角為了報仇這個理由自己成為痛恨的人這種冠冕堂皇的開頭，這部劇讓我認識了地面師這個行業，要多心思縝密，這個功夫如果用在正途應該也是可以賺錢，可能少了快感？不知道啦明天再想。

哈里森是真真切切的心理變態，而且是很會幫自己找藉口的那種，明明就是過河拆橋硬要說是有得也有失；明明就是殺人成痴也要拿打獵的一番理論來說教，他用的打獵佈下陷阱的方式引誘獵物上鉤。

• 土地理論：不應該有土地所有權。
• 打擊不合理的現象 ☑️ 異常的正義感——但往往這種人反而會做出維護此種正義感更上一層樓的事😀
• 洞察力很強同時也有很嚴重的疑心病。
• 貪婪會使人盲目。

有這種口才跟頭腦拿在犯罪真的好可惜，讓我想到台灣某頂大也是有資優生跑去美國實習？同時架設網站販毒，明明回國理應就會有大好前程等著自己，是要尋求快感嗎？還是常人的任務已經無法滿足他的慾望？天才的腦袋不得而知😀

支線：石洋會長社長權力鬥爭；開發部部長外遇社長秘書；尼姑愛雜交（扯；已故刑警老婆本來要跟他離婚。