"The Sinner" has only one character (police dispatcher), one scene (police dispatch center), and one dramatic action (answering the phone). The bold and extreme sense of form has no dazzling elements at all, but brings a more tense and suspenseful dramatic effect.
The form of the movie may be reminiscent of "Sniper Phone Booth". In contrast, the person in "Sniper Phone Booth" is "pretending to be confused", and he is led by the "murderer" on the phone to tell the truth a little bit. The police in "The Sinner", like the audience, learned the whole truth of a strange kidnapping case bit by bit (the length of the film is the same as the time of the incident), but the audience may be like the police, thinking that they have guessed the beginning, but ...
The Guilty won the audience's choice awards at the Sundance and Rotterdam film festivals this year, and was selected by Denmark to participate in the competition for the best foreign language film at the Oscars.
More than 80 minutes of one-man show is inextricably linked, always making people eager to know what happened next, and the end result must be astonishing.
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