The charm of a detective novel, as far as I am concerned, is that it turns the sinful event of crime itself into a work of art in a sad arrangement. The process from committing a crime to solving a case makes every reader or audience immersed in it. A subconsciousness of discovering flaws and searching for secrets is involuntarily stimulated in the process of the story. Sometimes, everyone who watches Polo solve a case is actually not Polo himself? However, after thinking hard, I still have to admire the cleverness of Polo, or more precisely the cunning of the author.
The step-by-step narrative mode allows the audience to reach the same knowledge as the detective himself, but what they think in their minds depends on their ability to comprehend. In fact, we will never find out who the murderer is earlier than Polo, impossible, and the author will never allow it. Otherwise, the most important artistic charm of this fictional story will not be discussed.
Watching such a film, I pay more attention to the chewing of the narrative method, and the process of analyzing the case is the real place where the film gives me spiritual enjoyment. A vicious murderer who deservedly was stabbed 12 times to death. Such a concept makes the originally evil and dark motive for murder suddenly become a little righteous. With the analysis of the case one by one, it seems that what the murderer did was so compelling and worthy of sympathy. In the end, Polo's way of closing the case was even more unexpected. It is not clear whether such a form of closure is acceptable in today's legal ethics. But since it's a movie, why be too demanding?
Solving a case has become an art, which is most vividly shown in Polo's detailed analysis. The discovery of the true identity of the deceased, the understanding of the motive for committing the crime, the reproduction of the crime scene, the judgment of causal logic, the flexible application of questioning skills, the performance of each part It's all so admirable and astonishing. At this point, I don't know whether I admire Polo or the British female author!
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