we know too much

Guiseppe 2022-04-20 09:01:34

I think the original purpose of the film should be the last sentence. Those sad mothers face the camera and tell everyone to care more about their children. If that's the case, why is this film so well-received?

I looked and looked, and found the silent part, the silhouette part, the long shot part, the monologue part, and the dark humor part...even a certain expression found a corresponding association. Then sigh, such a classic will not exist again in the future.

But, on the other hand, why do I always think that films from five or ten years ago are more instructive? Have more sample shots and camera angles?

A possible answer came to mind, that we know too much.

The more you know, the more value-added meaning you add to the film. For example, the picture of the balloon on the telephone pole, such as the look of the inspector when he learned the news of M's arrest, such as the pain of M's trial. I believe that any symbolism, any detail depiction, and any historical breakthrough will be used. Just like when we were reading, we were forced to analyze the two jujube trees in Lu Xun's house.

Thinking of this, I feel sorry for myself. The mode of film deconstruction I followed was exactly what I despised. But if anything changes, I can't do anything right now.

Or share a movie in which the masses are interrogated and raided, and the social order is chaotic and is related to a chapter in Agatha's novel "Murder on Order", to explore the disadvantages of the hidden murderer to the society. (This will make me happier, after all, I am familiar with the road...)

Movie part:

There have been many disappearances of little girls in Berlin these days, and finally it is found that these children are all murdered without exception. This murderer who specifically targeted little girls made everyone in Berlin terrified, and parents dared not let their children go out to play; the police were all dispatched under social pressure, but they found nothing; even the underworld felt the pressure, Because the police are looking for them all day and night, which greatly affects their business.

Fiction part:

"Murder on Order" synopsis: Jack Argyle dies in prison, but he claims his innocence; he swears that when her adoptive mother is slapped with a poker in the back of her head in her study , he was hitchhiking on the road...
Arthur Calgary could prove Jack's innocence - the killer was another family member, but his evidence came too late. The door to their house was locked the night Rachel Argyle was killed...

Excerpt from the article
"She spoke of innocent people," Calgary said. "She said it wasn't the guilty people but the innocent people that mattered. Now I see what she meant..."
Marshall gave him a sharp look. "I think maybe you understand."
"She meant exactly what you were saying," Arthur Calgary said. "She means the family is under suspicion again—"
Marshall interjected. "It's hardly a second time," he said. "The family was never under suspicion before. Pointing out to Jack Argyle in the first place."
Calgary waved off his interjection.
"Families will be under suspicion," he said, "perhaps for a long time—perhaps forever. If one of them is guilty, they may not know which one is. They'll look at each other—doubt... well, it's Worst of all. They won't know which..." There was
silence. Marshall looked at Calgary calmly, but said nothing.
"That's scary, you know..." Calgary said.
"That means," Calgary said, "it's the innocent who are going to suffer...and the innocent don't deserve to suffer."

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  • Graphologist: The aforementioned diamond-shaped and swelling swoops, clearly seen in the word 'soon,' third line from the bottom... attest to the strongly pathological sexuality of the sex offender. Period.

  • Prostitute: Let me go, you dirty bastard! Let me go, you son of a bitch! Goddamn bastard! Put me down! Let me go!