Brilliantly honed lines, tight and unstoppable plot, Billy Wilder.
1.
Rivada (narrator): Yes, I killed him, I killed him, for money...and women. I can't get money and I can't get women. It's fun, isn't it.
2.
Mrs. Di: Do you do car insurance or all kinds of insurance?
Rivada: Various. Fire, Earthquake, Theft, Public Liability, Group Insurance, Industrial Accident, Down and Out
Mrs. Di: Accident insurance?
Rivada: Of course, Mrs. Dee.
3.
The matter involved 50,000 yuan
but also a life
someone who never offended me
It's just that he married a woman he doesn't care about and I care about...
4.
Patton (sitting in a chair, holding a document in his hand): Mr. Lu, you do have a plan, but unfortunately you are clumsy. You lose 40 yards for a foul and you're down because you can't stand.
Mr. Lu (standing at his desk): Really? She can go to court and we prove suicide.
Patton (stands up, puts the document on the table): Can you? Mr. Lu, I also thought it was suicide at first (walking towards the camera, Mr. Lu turned and poured water on the table next to him), but I immediately put this thought on the shelf, you should look at the suicide data (Mr. Lu was standing with a water glass at this time. Look at him from the position just now), maybe you will understand the insurance industry.
Mr. Lu (as soon as he was about to drink water, he took it off and stared at him): Mr. Qi, I grew up in the insurance industry.
Patton: Yes, at the reception. You've never read an actuarial table, but I have ten books on suicide. Race, color, occupation, name, season, calendar. Methods of suicide, poisoning, firearms, drowning, falling from heights. Suicide by poisoning is divided into many categories, corrosion, irritation, systemic, gas, anesthetic, alkali, protein and the like. Falling from a height can be divided into jumping from a building, under a train wheel, under a freight wheel, under a horse's hoof, and falling from a steam ship. Mr. Lu, according to past cases (the water glass in Mr. Lu's hand is exposed), no one has ever fallen from a moving train. The tail fell, do you know where the body was found and what was the speed of the train? 15 miles per hour. At this slow speed, how can anyone think that suicide is possible? (Pauses) No soap, Mr. Lu. We will lose a fortune this time. can i drink it? (Drinks the water from the glass in Mr. Lu's hand, and finally drops some on his collar) Let's go, Huada.
Huada didn't say a word the whole time. Until he walked out of the office, Barton was still looking for a match with a cigar, and Huada took out the match and lit it for him, with a smile on his face.
Huada (Voiceover): For you and your data, I really wanted to hug you, you were the only one we were afraid of, but you almost became our helper.
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Patton: That's great, Huada, the paper's running out of steam. Murder is never perfect, sooner or later it will be revealed. If there are two people involved, the incident will happen sooner. Knowing now that Mrs. Dee was involved with someone, it won't be long before you know who someone is. He will definitely appear, they always have to meet at some point, the two are in chaos, it doesn't matter whether they love or hate, they can't keep in touch with each other. They think that two people are twice as safe. (laughs) In fact, it is not twice as safe, but 20 times as risky. They commit murder, it's not like taking a train, you can get off at different stops, and they'll be stuck together until the end. It's a one-way ride, and the final stop is the grave. She has filed a claim and I will fight back. Although she accuses me, I am ready to fight. She and someone, they'll dig their own grave together.
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Mrs. Dee: I love you, Huada, and I hate you. But I never thought of doing this before I met you, it was your plan, I just wanted him to die.
Rivada: I'm the one who killed him with my own hands, do you mean that?
Mrs. Di (staring at him, taking off her sunglasses): No one can quit, we have to start together, we have to end together, everyone has to go through it, you have to remember. (turns away)
Rivada (Voiceover): Yes, I remember, as I remember you said, Patton, about the ride, you have to get off at the terminal, the terminal is the grave. Then I thought to whom the grave was for, for the dead. That was the first time I thought of Phyllis like that, death. What if she dies?
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Rivada (Voiceover): I probably don't need to tell you about my intentions, the first time I saw myself in a predicament, and Phili's predicament.
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Mrs. Dee was holding a handkerchief with a pistol in it. She put the pistol under the sofa cushion, then lit a cigarette. She heard the door open and was half lying on the sofa smoking.
Rivada opens the door, shadow.
Mrs. Dee: Here, Wadda.
Rivada: Hi, baby. (looking around) Is anyone else there?
Mrs. Di: No, what's the matter.
Rivada (walks in): What music?
Mrs. Dee: The radio outside the street.
When Lihuada walked in, it was still the same living room as she was with him.
He sat on the arm of the sofa: the same as when I first came. We're talking about car insurance, but you only think about murder, (heads down, hands, looks up) I only think about anklets.
Mrs. Di: what are you thinking now?
Rivada: I've figured it out, I'm just here to say goodbye. Say goodbye.
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