Before sitting in the movie theater, I knew nothing about this movie. The Spanish full of ears at the beginning is a bit confusing. This is a movie that depends entirely on the actors' performances and subtitles to understand. With no understanding of Spanish at all, all attention was focused on the actor's tone of voice, facial expressions and body movements. I have to say that the performance of the actors is very good, and they grabbed my attention throughout the whole process, constantly deduced according to the plot, and constantly thought.
Personally, I think this is a very classic ingenuity movie, and almost all clues are generously displayed in front of the camera, rather than flashing by. For example, Adrian tells the scene where Laura puts Daniel’s phone in his coat pocket, the lighter his father saw when he repaired the car, and Laura adjusting the seat while driving, or Laura’s husband’s router, and so on. But not every clue leads to the truth, because these clues are presented through different narrative angles. The design of the stopwatch is particularly wonderful. It not only creates a tense atmosphere to put pressure on the male protagonist, but also is an important tool for the female protagonist.
The beginning of the movie is very interesting. The capable female lawyer and the elite male protagonist start a conversation in a confined space, or it is more appropriate to say a psychological battle. A murder case in a secret room is presented to us through the male protagonist's narration. The details of the male protagonist's narration are so clear that he was sober after being in a coma. He once picked up the decorations on the ground, and the decorations were stained with blood. With the appearance of the deceased, it seems to confirm that this is a long-planned secret room murder. The closed room, the deceased, the stunned and cheap male protagonist, it seems that everything is so logical. But with the progress of the dialogue between the two, the male protagonist told about a car accident, but it is quite interesting that the performance of the deceased Laura at the scene of the car accident can be regarded as calm and cold-blooded, but the psychological quality is so strong that Laura is facing The elderly who took the initiative to help were very nervous, and the coping room was almost full of flaws. She didn't know at the time that the friendly old couple were the parents of the car accident victim, and she was so flustered that her husband just heard her voice and thought there might be something wrong, not to mention the old man. And when she found the victim's photo, she panicked. She didn't even remember to turn off or hang up the phone with her phone, but just threw it on the sofa. But she was calm when she secretly used her husband's gateway, and when she and Arian faced blackmail together, she had a neat action and decisiveness comparable to that of the police. Laura's unstable image is in stark contrast to Adrian's stable, peaceful image. So far, Laura's character design seems to have been completed. As the plot progresses, some details are very obvious, such as the view from the trunk, such as the small bubbles around the victim, which are almost clear to the audience - the victim is drowned. instead of dying on the spot in a car accident. With the confrontation between the female lawyer and the male protagonist, and by constantly resetting the scene, the characters of Adrian and Laura gradually collapsed and became clearer, and the truth of the matter gradually surfaced.
There is no so-called reversal, all the clues are in front of our eyes, but we are fascinated by the narrative, because the human heart is invisible. For example, when the female lawyer learned that Daniel was alive and drowned in the trunk as the car was pushed into the water, her emotions collapsed instantly. She yelled at Adrian, but then she woke up and quickly reset the scene, changing the questioning into a question. It has become a trial simulation, and the interlocking is very exciting! This drama is very worthy of a second or even three, it is really a rare movie.
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