Whether a puzzle can be solved or not does not depend on how smart the solver is, because only the person who created the problem knows what he really thinks.
Number seven score: 7.70
Synopsis
Five famous detectives in the world: Charleston and his wife, Pharaoh, Pippi, Sam and Miss Ma.
They were invited by Mr. Shuang to bring their relatives and friends to Mr. Shuang’s mysterious residence for a dinner.
The falling stone statues at the entrance of the mansion, the doorbells screaming from women, the mysterious decorations on the walls, and a blind butler with a sense of mystery, all foreshadow that today's dinner is not easy.
The detectives arrived at the banquet hall, but there was danger during the dinner.
Not only is there poison in the wine, there is also a mechanism on the beam, and the fallen sword almost killed Mr. Charleston.
Just as everyone was in a mess, Mr. Shuang appeared.
He claims to be the greatest criminologist, and he brought all the detectives together to challenge them.
Someone here will die cruelly at 12 midnight, and the one who solves the puzzle first will get 1 million dollars.
After speaking, Mr. Shuang left by the agency.
After discussing with the detectives, they decided to hold hands around the table so that everyone was safe. (What is the logic)
At this time, a deaf-mute cook ran into the banquet hall. From her horrified look, everyone judged that something terrible had happened in the kitchen.
Lao Wang, Pippi, and Miss Ma went to the kitchen and found that the blind butler had died in it.
The three hurried back to the banquet hall to tell everyone the news, but strangely, Sam and others were no longer visible.
There was no way they could only look around, but when they returned to the kitchen, they found that the butler's body was gone. What was going on?
The three judged that all these are Mr. Shuang’s puzzles, and there are agencies everywhere in the house.
After some searching, the three of them still found the hint on the wall without any risk, and returned to the original banquet hall.
After learning this information, the detectives decided that no matter what happened, no one would leave the hall until it was safe at 12 o'clock to make plans.
The time soon came to 12 o'clock, and everyone was relieved.
But at this moment the door suddenly opened, Mr. Shuang was standing at the door, and a knife was stuck in his back.
Everyone took a deep breath. Could it be that Mr. Shuang’s puzzle is to commit suicide? But things are not that simple.
The detectives immediately started reasoning, and slowly, they discovered that everyone had an extraordinary connection with Mr. Shuang...
Film Analysis
"Weird Banquet" is a grotesque and illogical anti-genre comedy. It spoofs and satirizes detective novels and is full of bad taste and cold humor. I once wondered if many intelligent businessmen from different film and television dramas gathered together, would it be more exciting than the heroic civil war in "Reunion". But "Strange Banquet" did not satisfy my illusions. The detectives gathered together not to fight wits and courage, but more to spit out and make jokes. However, this joking way brought another aesthetic to the audience, which was very joyful and very interesting. easy.
The characterization and the shaping of the characters in "Strange Banquet" are extremely successful, which is also due to the excellent acting skills of the actors.
The look and feel of the film is very good, the rhythm is fast, the dialogue is also very humorous, and the ending is illogical and unexpectedly reversed, which draws a perfect end to the film.
The archetypes of the five detectives in the film are all famous detectives: the Charlestons are the Nicks in the novel "Skinny", Detective Wang is Charlie Chen from Biggs, and Pierre is the detective Poirot. "Murder on the Express" and "Tragedy on the Nile" have appeared in famous film and television dramas, Sam is Sam Spade in "The Maltese Eagle", and Miss Marble is naturally Miss Marple from Agatha .
There is a passage at the end of the film: "You have been so smart for a long time. You have forgotten your low-key and humbleness. Over the years, you have made fun of readers in various ways. The last five pages of the game also let new characters who have never appeared. As for you, you always hide clues to conceal information, so that we can’t guess the murderer at all. It’s good now, the situation is reversed, millions of angry readers always Calculated a breath of bad breath."
Interesting themes. In order to increase the unexpected degree of the ending, many mystery novels will hide the key clues, or get a passerby to act as a murderer, the purpose is to keep the mystery fans in the dark, after all, suspense is the focus of mystery novels. But this will make the reasoning fans who want to reason with the detectives in the book clueless, but goes against the original intention.
Therefore, a good reasoning story needs at least a very logical and interlocking plot, because what can be remembered or even imitated in the end must not be who the murderer at the end is, but the modus operandi he used.
A classic reasoning story that can be remembered or even imitated must not be the murderer, but the modus operandi.
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