Film noir, there is an anti-mainstream hero, a lone detective who often lives in isolation, but is shrewd and capable, with a clever mind and good skills, similar to today's Spider-Man and Superman, who use his own power to go with the evil forces or co-ordinate with evil forces or break through the net. Integrity and reliability. However, they don’t have any special abilities. Although they surpass ordinary people, they are still ordinary people. What surprises the audience is their meticulous mind and vigorous skill. With this ability, they can seek a life in a sinister society, and they often escape from death and become arrested. Fish, give the audience a thought. Raymond Chandler, whom Haruki Murakami likes, wrote this type of detective novel. Looking at the protagonist of Murakami, although he is not a detective, he is of the same nature. Envy readers.
The enemy of these lonely heroes is often set as a femme fatale. This is more intriguing. Women in the 1930s and 1940s were not wild enough to be feminist. Most of them revolved around men to beg for life. They were supposed to be gentle and not aggressive. Just like the heroine of this film, we all sympathized with her at the beginning, and listened to what she said to the male protagonist detective. It was a must to fire 4 shots and escaped from the underworld boyfriend’s claws, and even took 40,000 from the boss. The US dollar is also in vain. It is purely unbearable to live with this kind of scum. It belongs to the spiritual cleanliness and is full of sympathy.
But to set such a feminine woman as a femme-female beauty, I'm afraid it is to achieve amazing theatrical effects. The tension inherent in the story is that the nature of the heroine’s role has been changing, and the audience’s attention has been drawn back to this woman again and again. She flicked, thinking that she was good or bad, and repeatedly murmured that this kind of elastic effect might be exactly what the director wanted to achieve.
At the beginning of the movie, there is a flashback. A beauty who can't stand her underworld boyfriend and absconds and a private detective who rescues the beauty by a hero seems to be a lover who finally married, but after the two absconded and were discovered, the beauty took advantage of the two men's scuffle. At that moment, the person who was stalking was killed and ran away, and the detective discovered her missing 40,000 cheque, indicating that he was cheated by the woman. Concise and neat, a content that can be made for a movie is just an introduction before the opening of the film's curtain, which shows how high the gold content of this movie is.
The wonderful thing about this story is that we are always the same as the male protagonist, and we are willing to believe in the female protagonist over and over again. Although every turn of the game was to reveal his cards, such as this $40,000 lie, he was repeatedly deceived by the real eyes and enthusiasm that day. So the hidden clue of the whole play is whether he trusts a woman or not. And this trust fluctuates even more. Until the last moment, when the woman sees the detective inform the police, she is about to be exposed, so she preemptively kills the detective and curses him, we finally realize that she is really evil to the end. The beauty of the choreographer is also here. You dare to show your cards again and again, but you are not afraid that you will no longer take the bait. It seems to be a game of mantis catching cicadas. The whole play is firmly controlled by such a psychological rope, which makes the audience feel as if fifteen buckets are up and down.
"Beyond the Whirlpool" was included in film history as an excellent early road film, but it is different from the road film we usually understand. It's not what you have seen and felt on the road all the time, but the characters have tossed around and life has changed several times. The road film means the change of the environment, and the natural psychology will also change accordingly. And here, the characters change their lives time and time again as the scene changes, and they settle down with the situation. People yearn for road movies, maybe that freedom is what they yearn for. The independence of the detective profession and the plot design of wandering around the world with a lover and living in a secluded town after falling in love are somewhat unruly and unrestrained in road movies, which seems to satisfy people's yearning for another kind of life that people place on road movies. A protagonist such as Paul Oster, suddenly, one day, abandons everything under him, retreats into the crowd, and leads another life of his own.
Because of this yearning for a new life, people can't give up their yearning for road movies. The highway leads far away, full of infinite possibilities. Encountering strange people and things, maybe only they can ignite your life, but there is no such possibility in life, so you have to live in the movie. After all, it's just a dream. The dream is in the eyes and in the heart, so if you can take a good picture of your heart, it should be the guarantee of the success of the road film.
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