This is also the question I especially want to ask Dodger after watching the film.
Anyone who knows chess knows that the difference between a master and an ordinary player is that he can predict his opponent a few steps. That is, you can watch a few moves. The more who can see, whoever thinks more carefully, the greater the chance of winning. This is also the reason why computers are almost invincible in chess.
The film contains the metaphor of "chess" in both the dialogue and the lens, and it can also be seen as a kind of penetration of the whole film.
As a chess enthusiast, I would like to talk about my humble opinion in this regard: What steps did the heroine watch before finally reaching the final victory?
In other words, which parts are what Dodger foresees and counts, and which ones are not.
I hope you can correct and supplement the lack of rigor and omissions.
Some people may think that the heroine knows her friends very well and has conducted a thorough investigation of the hero in advance, so she can control all the personnel.
It is also because of this kind of thinking that some movie fans will feel that this film is a bit too deliberate, and real life can't be so thorough, and it's almost impossible to succeed.
But objectively speaking, this idea is untenable. Because mastering the thoughts and actions of everyone is the work of the screenwriter, not the heroine's ability.
So, someone put forward another explanation: Dodger's purpose is not to "borrow a knife to kill" but to "plant and frame." I just wanted to put the blame on Rich, by guiding Owen to find the gun.
This point, I think it is difficult to refute from the content, and it is more convincing, after all, this is a relatively feasible layout method. As for the death of Rich in the end, it should be a heroine who got unexpected results because of "acting by chance".
However, this is only difficult to refute from the content.
Let us consider this possibility from the perspective of the screenwriter and the perspective of the creator.
The final ending was very wonderfully flipped twice, especially the last flip, which directly distinguished this film from "Mind Game", which is also the most essential part of the film.
So in this most exciting part, the director obviously wants to tell the final "truth" through the mouth of the male protagonist, so that the audience can have a "subversion" addiction, rather than want to hide something, let the audience go home and check the "Wiki The analysis of "Encyclopedia" hailed the film as a god for all.
The director is not as complicated as making it like Mulholland Road.
Therefore, what Owen said in the end must be the true creative intention of the screenwriter.
The actor himself admitted that Dodger knew that he would shoot and kill Rich, so this should be the true creative intention.
So in terms of the screenwriter's intention: this is the ultimate goal of Dodger, he still wants to "borrow a knife to kill" instead of "planting and framing."
In fact, if it's the latter, it doesn't really need to be so troublesome. Moreover, if Rich seeks a lawyer to defend, he will not necessarily be prosecuted because of the possibility of guilty. And Dodger, who was often in and out of Rich's office and the "rival of love" of the deceased Becky, would definitely be suspected.
Therefore, in order for Dodger to find a "speaking scapegoat", the ultimate goal must be to get rid of Rich.
So she started a big game of chess, a layout that can be achieved by a "master" instead of a "god".
Owen is her first chess piece.
Other film reviews before have analyzed it very carefully, probably because the heroine should have a good understanding of Owen's character, and specifically asked Tom to take him to the church to play games.
Moreover, I chose Owen as a wolf.
In the end, the smart and confident Owen won the money, but because of this, he "offended" other partners. And he became more interested in this "lying" game and Dodger himself.
This is the first move.
After that, Dodger proposed to play a school-wide game and set the specific content of the rumor with others.
Then he sent threatening text messages to Owen one after another, with the purpose of encouraging him to take predictable actions.
This is the second and third step.
During this period, other people have already figured out some ways to "scare" other people, but these Dodgers don't need to know. Including the library being tracked, tongue ringing, putting a knife in a school bag, etc., these are ideas played by other people and do not affect the entire operation.
After that, what the heroine did was to find ways to make the hero fall in love with herself, so that the hero finally had the courage to pull the trigger and kill Rich when he learned that he was killed by the murderer. The actor really fell in love.
This is the fourth step.
In the fifth game, Dodger secretly put the gun that killed Becky in Rich's drawer. She later said that she had bid farewell to Rich, but she didn't lie because she knew that Rich was going to die.
Regarding the fact that the actor happened to meet kiss, Dodger did not need to control it, and it was difficult to control. After all, before that, the actor was looking for schoolbags, making calls, and asking for directions. Time was not easy to control, and she was not sure that the actor would see it.
And it is precisely because the actor saw a lot of things that Dodger did not expect, and finally the actor can understand the whole "layout" through a sentence of Dodger at the end, which must be unexpected by Dodger.
The reason why Dodger doesn't need to control and see Rich in intimacy is because she needs to control the night of the full moon the most. He only needs to show up in Rich's office on the night of the full moon when Owen is looking for herself.
Lewis and Regina knew about Mersey's attack on Owen from the back of the car. This could be known from the smile after they told Owen. They had heard that Tom was going to startle Owen, thinking that if they told the hero Tom that the car was there, he would definitely pass by.
As a result, Mersey was confined.
After receiving Owen's message that he was going to have a meeting in the church, Dodger took her sixth move.
Agree with several people except Owen, Mersey and Lewis (because they are a couple): Since Mersey and Owen have caused trouble for everyone, everyone should scare them.
Everyone thought it was a game except Dodger, but Dodger was implementing her other plan to kill "Rich" at the same time.
The above is the sixth step.
Also, because Owen and Lewis were kept in the dark, it was not pre-arranged for Lewis to call Mersey. Their plan is: Tom and Regina let Owen find that Randolph is dead in the church, and then Owen will go to the girls' dormitory to find the hero of Dodger to save the beauty.
After Owen said that Dodger and Rich had a leg, Tom and Regina's reaction was true because it was not planned.
Since Lewis was halfway through, Graham had no choice but to play temporarily and bought Lewis, so that everyone came to lie to Owen.
Next is Dodger's seventh move.
When Owen was looking for Lewis, a girl's scream came downstairs. This voice should be from Dodger, the purpose is to draw Owen down. Dodger should have discussed with Tom and Regina before and drove to the dormitory to pick her up. At that time Owen heard the sound of closing the car door, which should be the sound of Dodger getting in the car.
After seeing Owen running down, the car just drove away so that Owen could see Rich's car and go upstairs to ask for help.
At this time, Tom's car didn't drive far, because Tom and Dodger had to perform a good scene in which Dodger was "killed".
Next is the last move, and it is also the most critical one.
Dodger estimated that after Tom arrived at Rich's office, he called Rich and asked him to go to the office. Then call Tom again, let him find the gun, and apologize to him for sympathy. The windows and everything are naturally opened in advance, so that Owen can see that he is being chased by Wolf, played by Tom.
At this point, the eight moves have completed all the layouts.
Waiting for the last shot.
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