Weird Banquet-Unconventional Tribute

It can be said that this film is a blatant "washing powder" work, leaving the pseudo-inference novel lost all the way, and I don't know where the laughter is. The screenwriter obviously has an overview of the best works in the mystery fiction world. He is very familiar with several classic detective images and styles of acting, and he has used the characters in the film at hand. The names and mantras are perfectly embedded in the plot, only familiarity. Readers of the original work can only laugh. The common bridge sections and background settings in the case are used in series, and some even include almost black humorous flip designs, such as villas in dense fog, crumbling suspension bridges, and people are invited to gather together and share without the owner’s presence. The last dinner. One of my two favorite designs is that the plot arranges the villa owner to install a device that can deliberately create wind and rain without storms, and the other is the plot of repeatedly opening the door and having to drop a heavy object. Originally, these two conventional designs were designed to create a ghostly and gloomy atmosphere, and the other was to set off a prelude to crises. However, the scriptwriter used the plot to make these two segments lose their function in the general sense, highlighting the artificial deliberateness of the two background settings, no longer serving the suspense portrayal, but breaking the rhythm and the frame effect, leading to A kind of escape from the comical experience of watching movies. The impact on the audience is that the originally expected plot rhythm and familiar routines have been directed to subversive interpretations, and the more experienced the reasoning film fans are, the greater the impact, the resulting humorous sparks are relatively obscure but very advanced.

Of course, the following plot has more deconstruction and reorganization of the classic sections, but at this time the audience should have adjusted their expectations and understand that this is not an ordinary crime detection film, but a comedic-like and unconventional reasoning movie. Therefore, in the second half of the movie, the audience, such as me, is more looking for the stalks buried by the screenwriter in the corners, or purely appreciate the visual collection of the routines of many crime novels. What's commendable is that the plot obviously does not just stop at the irony of the conventional plot, but also strives to stimulate the audience's sense of participation through the reinterpretation of the old cliché. The deja vu of the plot makes it easy for viewers who are accustomed to stereotypes to follow the story to make their own plot predictions, but they will soon be caught off guard by the unconventional route of the sword. At the final climax of the plot, many detectives take turns to express their opinions, and the plot reverses layers, which is quite enjoyable. The subtlety of the plot layout is that several reasonings are reasonable and nested with each other, and the protagonists of each novel are carefully "complained". In the end, after everyone left the field satisfied, they were again subverted by the ultimate appearance of the murderer behind the scenes. This kind of breathing and enlarging tricks now seems a bit old-school, but it was definitely a creative move more than 40 years ago.

One of the reasons why I rarely watch old movies is that the novel plots at the time have often become tasteless. But the special thing about "Strange Banquet" is that the series of routines it aims to refresh still run through our current film conventions. At the time, it seemed that the creative subversion was because of the tribute color. Now it does not look outdated and stereotyped. It is light and retro with a bit of retro, and it is worth seeing.

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