There are many gimmicks in this story. The first is the cannibalism between a limited number of people who are familiar with each other in a closed space. This reminds people of the well-known "Battle Royale". The crisis of trust in human nature when faced with the predicament of survival, and the opposite is always something that violent aesthetics is happy to describe. One second is still laughing and scolding, the next second, copying the guy and scolding your mother to kill you, this is not beautiful at all in real life, but it is just an enlarged projection.
Due to the special identities of the protagonists, the realm of this drama has gone to another level. Needless to say, we are always curious and interested in the lives of the FBI, even if they catch bears as rabbits, after all, they are labeled as smart people among smart people, and they are a microcosm of the American hero dream. Therefore, the movie can't wait to show us how powerful the protagonists are at the beginning of the movie, and even play a reasoning game like the Japanese. In this regard, Americans have always been inferior to Japanese and British people, so it is not bad to this extent.
After further reading, I found that it was not a battle royale, but Agatha Christie's classic "No Survival", but 11 people were condensed into 8 people.
Maybe with such preconceptions, I always thought that the murderer would be one of the dead, as in the novel, and unfortunately it turned out, I was disappointed. Throughout the process of unraveling, especially near the end, the setting of the suspense was unsuccessful, the mystery was revealed, and my speculation was not turned upside down at
all. Reasonable.
People who like reasoning, who like to understand a little bit of brains when watching movies, are very suitable for watching this drama. Basically, you can make your own guess after watching half of it. The director's cover-up method is not very clever, and he has been showing his feet. Fortunately, there are various ways to die in the second half, so it doesn't seem boring.
Generally speaking, for this kind of "the murderer is among us", anyone who has seen Conan and Jin Tianyi knows that the person closest to the protagonist is usually the murderer. In this film, the beautiful sara, whose sister died at the beginning, is obviously the heroine, so the most suspicious, even if she is the closest to her, is her partner, and the skinny who has been showing her favor. Tall handsome guy. (This is especially obvious in the "Scream" series.)
Of course, Sara is neither Conan nor Jin Tianyi. Maybe she has a split personality, and she is the one who started it. So the initial target can be locked on these three people.
The first to die was Sara's partner, Nick's lover, and the leader of the squad. This Xiongtai's death method can be said to be the bloodiest and tragic one in the whole movie. The whole thing was cut into pieces alive, almost equal to the laser death of the black police officer in "Resident Evil". In any case, this kind of death is impossible to come back to life, unless he is not the FBI but an amateur Liu Qian or the like, which is impossible to explain. So he was excluded from the suspect list.
After Victim No. 1 was finished, the tall and thin handsome man began to attract attention. The person started assigning tasks to the people in the group, and easily dispersed the crowd. At this point, I had some suspicions about him, but in the process, no one died, so the suspicions were put aside.
Immediately afterwards, he uncovered suspicious evidence of black people, and made everyone point the finger at black people. Very suspicious, is not very suspicious. Because black people are definitely not the real murderer. Being the only outsider in the group is either terribly bad or terrific, but neither will really be the key target. (This can be seen in "Battle Royale". What's more suspicious for the tall and thin man is that he didn't seem to have a sip of the coffee that made everyone faint, but he was still very suitable for the occasion. fell down.
The decapitated death of the handsome blond guy really surprised me. After SARA examination, he said that his blood had been drained, which is easy to doubt the authenticity of the "corpse" in this show. No blood, no It's an excellent cover for faking the death scene when people see the murder. I'm a little excited, thinking I've grabbed the screenwriter's tail so quickly. I don't want to take a DNA test from the wound later. In this way, it can't be It's fake, after all, the FBI is not so incompetent that an autopsy can't detect the authenticity, so the handsome blond guy is dead.
Immediately after the electricity leakage incident, why did the black man and the wheelchair man stay in the room that was about to suffer? Because 1 tall, thin man identified a black man and made him a target, he needed to be watched. 2 A tall and thin man named a wheelchair man to take care of him. Why is it a wheelchair man, because he is inconvenient to move, and precisely because of his inconvenience, it is conducive to the implementation of the plan.
When descending the stairs, the tall, thin man was the first to walk, like detonating a bomb, but he didn't step into the water just in time. Immediately after the maintenance was also assigned by him, the illness finally caused the death of the third person.
It's obvious to see what's right and what's wrong. I'm really not an afterthought, I can only say that I continue to watch it with 90% certainty. One of the highlights in the second half of the movie is that the boss is made into a doll and hung from the ceiling. This scene is really scary and interesting. Another highlight is that Sara analyzed that the murderer was using the weakness in their character to kill people. Slightly creepy.
Here, there is a great deal of the film, and it may also be a failure. That is, SARA emphasizes that water is its own weakness in its analysis. I don't know if SARA deliberately said this to confuse the murderer. After all, the listeners at the time were very suspicious. If so, then she really saved her own life and gained the upper hand when she competed with the murderer at the end. Otherwise, it would become a paradox of the film itself.
Overall, this is a good film, Agatha's novel in the American FBI coat, the unknown murder on No Man's Island. There is reasoning, suspense, blood, and entertainment elements. Except for the explanation of the perverted killer at the end, which made me feel a little weak, the rest is still full of surprises, and it is an American thriller not to be missed.
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