A Probe into the Motivation of Crimes in the Sun

Amani 2022-01-16 08:02:19

In this case, judging from the results, the motive for the murder should be silence. The key clue is a real diamond. In the logical order given by the story, the background of the whole story is this: the jeweler first met Alina and gave her a diamond to propose to her; but Alina "ran into" on the ship back to New York. So Alina dumped the jeweler and took the diamond with her. The jeweler was so angry that he wanted to ask Alina to return the diamond, but Alina refused to give it back, and then reluctantly returned it to him. The jeweler took the diamond to the insurance company to insure it, only to find that the diamond was fake and was dropped. The jeweler naturally suspected that Alina had dropped the package. The insurance company also commissioned detective Poirot to sponsor him to pretend to travel on the island in the name of "business trip". The task was to investigate that he would definitely travel to the island with the whole family. Alina.

But with such a complicated background, firstly, it didn't happen on the island, but what happened before going to the island; secondly, there was never a scene where the jeweler and Alina interacted with each other. Therefore, where is this real diamond hidden? ? There are three possibilities: First, Alina is hiding by her side (but from the later plot, it is not). Second, the real diamond next to Alina was turned into a fake by her newly-acquainted male criminal, but if this is the case, the male criminal came to the island on vacation and came to the island to kill him. Alina, there is no need; third, Alina has a real diamond from the jeweler, she changed hands and gave it to the male criminal as a gift to her heart, and the two agreed: if the jeweler When he came to ask for it, he returned a fake diamond to the jeweler.

It seems that there is only the third possibility that best fits the design ideas of this movie. But how does this idea make the audience understand? Is it necessary to replay the case through the camera after the case is revealed, to show the process of communication between Alina and the male criminal?

This question derives another question: The whole process of the male criminal's murder of Alina is inseparable from the close cooperation between the female criminal and him. What is the true relationship between this female prisoner and the male prisoner? Are you a loving couple? Not like. Is it a lover and accomplice relationship? Kind of close. However, for the diamond conspiracy, have the male criminals communicated with the female criminals in advance? If so, this process can be omitted overnight, right? The female prisoner will inevitably think: Okay, you deceived a valuable diamond from another woman. I can’t get the light of this diamond. But you want me to take risks and cooperate with you, and then give this to you. The insider of the diamond was killed. Why should I do this? If you have the ability, just kill her yourself.

Or, this man and woman is a thief husband and wife, they have a good relationship in private, eat and eat together, and share blessings; they perform their duties externally: women pretend to be pitiful, and men use their handsome "hues" to hang on to ignorance. The rich woman of the family took the bait, and the man acted as the principal culprit in defrauding the money of the rich woman. This time they aimed at Alina and took advantage of Alina’s ignorance to easily obtain an expensive real diamond, and Alina was so stupid that she was willing to deal with fake diamonds for her dewy lover in front of the jeweler. . However, the Alina in the movie lens, no matter who she gets along with, appears to be noble and arrogant, including when flirting with male criminals alone on the boat, she also appears to have a strong aura, not like a weak female rich.

Therefore, in the logic of the design background, this story has fallen into the problem of pursuing a tortuous and moving plot, regardless of the rationality of shaping the main character's personality. The main reason is that the two men and women cooperated in committing crimes, which was completely reversed. On the contrary, it was Poirot’s motives that he said to the male prisoners at the first time the crime was committed. It was the criminal motives worthy of further digging, including the hotel proprietress’s suspicion of the female prisoners. That is: from the standpoint of a female criminal, she watched her "husband" and interacted closely with a woman who was in a relationship with her, including going to bed and fooling around and other easy-to-brain details, she should feel that she was at a loss in her heart. , It's only reasonable to feel really aggrieved. Therefore, the motive for killing can be designed like this:

The male criminal first left the female criminal alone and fooled around with Alina alone, and while Alina was not paying attention, he used a fake diamond in his hand to exchange for the real diamond Alina got from the jeweler. I thought I could just slip away from the sky, but the jeweler asked Alina directly, but Alina could only give out a fake diamond. As soon as the fake diamond was worn, the male offender felt extremely insecure (Alena is not a fool. Once she learns from the jeweler that the jewelry has been dropped, she will definitely suspect that the male offender secretly tampered with her when she was with her, and she would Don’t you bite the male offender because you’re pressed by the jeweler? This is beyond the control of the male offender), and the female offender took the opportunity to propose that in the name of extermination, the male offender must be forced to kill Alina. action. On the one hand, for his own safety consideration, on the other hand, in order to calm the anger of his "wife", the male criminal had to agree to take the risk on the island to wait for an opportunity to commit a crime. Especially after the male criminal received information from Alina forcing him to ask about the whereabouts of the real diamond, he made up his mind to stop talking. In this way, the victim's own strong behavior motives are also reasonable, and her killing has become a logical necessity. Otherwise, wouldn't the victim be confused and killed by others without knowing why?

Therefore, all the plots of the whole story must be carried out on this island: the male and female criminals actually came to vacation in the name of husband and wife, rather than deliberately go to the island to kill; detective Poirot also traveled at his own expense after work. Yes, not for the purpose of completing any investigation task; the jeweler and Alina met first, and Alina met the male criminal. All were incidents when everyone came to vacation together. That is to compress the clues of the jewellery in a tight time and space, so that the entire murder case is full of "temporary intentions" while not losing the color of carefully premeditated.

The whole story is laid out like this:

1. A large group of people came to the island for vacation (Among them, Alina, jeweler, male and female criminals, Poirot, these four groups are indispensable).

2. From the perspective of everyone, Alina and the jeweler almost publicly fooled around for a while.

3. From the perspective of everyone, Alina suddenly broke up with the jeweler and fell into the arms of the male criminal. The female prisoner pretended to be innocent.

4. Alina seems to have some quarrel or secret conversation with the male criminal (forcing the male criminal to ask the whereabouts of the diamond).

5. There seems to be a quarrel or secret conversation between the male and female criminals (the female criminal forces the male criminal to kill his love rival Alina, the male criminal first refuses, and then has to agree).

6. From everyone's perspective, Alina was suddenly killed.

7. Detective Poirot immediately intervened in the investigation.

8. Poirot restored the process of cooperating male and female criminals in committing crimes. Everyone thinks it makes sense.

9. The truth about the criminal motive is revealed.

10. Finally, the evidence of the crime: real diamonds, the only clue to the crime, was successfully found on the male criminal after Poirot’s secret detection and reasoning. That is to say, at the end of the analysis of the case, if someone asks: What is the picture of the criminal in the whole process of committing the crime mentioned above? There must be a specific material temptation, the only valuable is the diamond that was missing after Alina died after the jeweler gave it away. Whoever holds the diamond is the murderer.

Of course, with this design, Alina shouldn't take her husband and daughter to the island, because she will fool around with two men in full view. Wouldn't it be troublesome if her husband is in front of her? The design of the movie itself is embarrassing. Alina's husband has an extremely unreasonable character design. "Husband killed his wife because he was wearing a green hat" smokescreen, it is better to simply abandon it. The daughter is not biological, and she has no feelings at all. Designing a daughter role is nothing more than using a minor girl as a fake witness for a female criminal, and it is better to abandon it. Alina only needs to bring a portable assistant to the island. If you want to show the victim Alina's own personality evil, her attitude towards her entourage is enough to show it.

As for male criminals and female criminals, their reasonable relationship is best to be a poor and lowly troubled couple. Their past criminal record is only that they have committed property fraud against the rich and the opposite sex, and they have not had the criminal record of murdering and overcoming goods, which is better.

Regarding many audiences’ suggestions that the male criminal in the crime process temporarily met an old woman to make him "certificate of his absence when Alina died." This segment is that the criminal must be pre-booked. Therefore, this chance encounter should be the criminal's premeditated. But the movie didn't explain it clearly, especially in the last review of the case, the detective Poirot, the old woman and the male criminal who were present did not mention this process again. I felt that at the beginning of the cocktail party the previous night, the old woman took the initiative to say to the male criminal: "We have to talk", but was interrupted by a greeting from the hotel proprietress, so the male criminal took two glasses of wine. After walking away, there was no conversation between him and the old woman in the camera. The next morning, the producer and his wife were on the balcony of their room and witnessed Alina driving the yacht away alone. The old woman cursed Alina a few words, and then her husband got dressed and went out alone (from the back Wen Kan went to the garden to read alone) and left her in the room alone. The old woman in pajamas was still very unwilling to call her husband on the balcony. The subtext seemed to be: "Why did you go out by yourself and leave me in the room, how boring I am by myself."

In the next shot, the male prisoner has already unloaded the rope at the pier to start the yacht, and the well-groomed old woman suddenly appears at the pier.

In fact, here is a piece of the foreshadowing that must be filmed for the audience to see: the male prisoner must first hurried around in the hotel corridor to make preparations, and suddenly saw the old woman walking out of the house bored, so he was embarrassed. The male criminal of ”came forward to strike up a conversation: “By the way, ma’am, what are you going to talk to me about last night?” At this time, the old woman naturally asked the male culprit what he was going to do and whether he planned to go out to play, the male culprit. Naturally, the old woman said: "Take me out on the way." This design is much more natural than when two people meet by chance at the dock. In other words: the male criminal is indeed observing whether he can find a fellow traveler before he leaves, but he is not sure which person in the hotel happens to be available. This fellow traveler, in his plan, can be an old woman or the hotel proprietor (It’s definitely more natural to take a boring woman to sea). Of course, it’s okay to bring that playful male writer if necessary, but it’s not the best solution; the rest can’t be counted on: Detective Poirot certainly can’t Take it. Alina’s husband must not take it even if he is free, otherwise the “corpse” on the beach must be seen by the husband himself; the youngest daughter Linda has been taken away by the female prisoner; the male producer and the male prisoner There is no overlap, the other party is not so easy to be deceived.

However, the film regrettably moved the scene where the male criminal meets the old woman directly to the pier, which seemed to be a completely chance encounter, which was beyond the criminal's control and premeditated scope, causing distortion.

View more about Evil Under the Sun reviews

Extended Reading

Evil Under the Sun quotes

  • Daphne Castle: Arlena and I were in the chorus of a show together, not that I could ever compete. Even in those days, she could always throw her legs up in the air higher than any of us... and wider.

  • Mr. Flewitt's Secretary: Hercules Parrot, sir!

    Poirot: [entering the office] Poirot, Mademoiselle, pucker your lips as though about to bestow a kiss! Poi-rot.