Based on the French film Maigret tend un piège (Maigret tend un piège) in 1958, this film retains the motive of committing the crime and slightly changes the process of handling the case. Chief Inspector Maigret is starring Rowan Atkinson, who is his rare screen image other than Doudou.
As a British film set in Paris after World War II, in addition to the background and the more French style of clothing, the whole film has an unconcealable British temperament. There is no sense of humor in French films, and no French perspective of contempt for power; instead, there are cold shots, cold observations and reflections, and a deep-flowing attitude towards things that are unique to the British. All truth and words are clear. Under the water.
Mr. Maigret's big pipe really helped the audience to pull Atkinson out of the shadow of Bean. The silhouette against the light and the lens from the back are really beautiful.
This is a film that uses the shadow of childhood to explain the motives of crime. The criminal has an indifferent butcher father who has always regarded him as a strong mother of a baby. As a young man, he must prove his ability to maintain the high-end living standards of his mother and his wife; his mother's rent has not been paid for 7 months, and the killings began at this time. The man of this standing year, when he clearly appeared in front of the camera for the first time, in the eyes of Maigret and the detectives, he was like a child who knew nothing about the world, he was polite and dazed not to see the detectives visiting. He did not dare to ask the visitor the reason for the visit, and the latter confirmed Maigret to lock the suspect as him. This weak man under the strong wings of his mother and wife does not have a strong physique or the ability to work independently to support the family, but he has to maintain a superficially luxurious life. He couldn't prove his worth in the ordinary world, and finally chose extreme methods to make the whole Paris tremble. In this tremor, he found happiness and his own value.
In the confrontation with Maigret, the criminal showed his other side-tenacious and calm. Even an old fox like Maigret could not make him confess his guilt from the existing evidence. The two sides competed in silence.until the new one. The criminal reappeared. His mother and wife were the objects of his hatred. In his consciousness, his failure was attributed to their intervention and his love. He knew exactly why Maigret brought them to him. So, when they appeared together in front of him, he told them that he hated them; when his wife said the color of the murdered’s dress, the isolation fence rustled in his hands, and he told her he was the murderer. He hates her for hating her. The couple looked at each other with tears in their eyes. His mother faced the scene that she didn't want to see without saying a word. In her world, facing her son, she was a failed mother; facing her daughter-in-law, she was a failed lover.
This film is worth recommending, when the case is settled, the film is not over. Before the murderer arrived, there was Maigret's journey from home to office, and all the peace was hidden uneasy; but at this moment, on the way home from the office, it was still the old scene. In the soothing music, Maigret enjoyed it peacefully. With the evening sun. Isn't this the source of power for what he does?
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