. Hayabusa Kazama Published on: 2008-02-22 17:05 After
watching "Detective", are you interested in the following questions?
First, what are the superpowers that the detective possesses?
Second, the concept of the detective in handling the case.
Third, what kind of person is the detective?
Fourth, what is the wife next to the detective?
Fifth, what kind of person is He Jia'an?
Sixth, the number and record of the police gun.
Seventh, how did the gun change?
Eighth, editing loopholes?
Ninth, what story did the detective tell?
Tenth, what's new in "The Detective"?
If so, great, please read on. There is no truth in this article, only the words of my family, but it may help you enjoy the fun of "The Detective".
In "The Detective", Chen Guibin taught He Jiaan: "You should use the right brain to detect the case, not the left brain!" Then, to understand the "Detective", should I use the right brain or the left brain? I thought that you have to use your left brain to understand this movie! And you must use your left brain first, then your right brain, so that you can truly enter the world of "Detective".
"The Detective" is undoubtedly one of the brightest highlights of Chinese movies in the past ten years. Wei Jiahui and Ou Jianer's meticulous and imaginative script combined with Du Qifeng's increasingly rigorous technique, the final product may not be gorgeous, but it is highly completed and extremely delicate.
There are countless discussions surrounding a commercial film in Western movies. It seems to be rare in Chinese films. "A Chinese-language Journey" is about one, but although the story of "A Chinese-language Journey to the West" is reversed, it is not difficult to understand. Most of the texts derived around it are lyrical works based on shadows. "The Detective" is different. It is a movie that tests the brain first. To get to the core, you must first interpret the huge amount of information and inner activities in the film. The fun of watching movies is born from this. At this point, they have the qualifications to advance to cult movies such as "The Matrix" and "The Waste of the Night".
Because the emotional core is wrapped in various information, I think that in order to interpret "The Detective", we should first use logic and then emotions, just to reverse Chen Guibin's words: "Use the left brain first, then use the right brain." If the logic of the film is not clear, it will either complain about the film's mystery, or lyrically surround the characters in the film based on their likes and dislikes, completely ignoring the clues in the film. And this is exactly the two basic tendencies that are currently popular on the Internet.
Before starting my boring left brain, I would like to declare that my understanding of this movie has benefited a lot from cinopedia. The above article has attracted more than 160 high-level replies, with more than 10,000 clicks. , Inspired me in many places. Therefore, in some parts of the following, I will develop in response to the post. Interested readers can refer to: "Shen Kan "The Detective".
Any logical deduction is indispensable to the starting point. This starting point cannot rely on any philosophical and religious presuppositions. It must be reached. Look for it in the movie. Let’s start with the magic of the detective.
First, what are the superpowers that the detective possesses?
First of all, he can see the "ghost", the personality of others (inner personality in English subtitles). This ghost is not necessarily bad For example, Gao Zhiwei in the woods and Zhang Meihua next to the detective (some people think she is a fantasy of the detective, I don’t think it is, see below for details), even if the personality of He Jiaan’s child has not harmed anyone.
This ability has to be affected. Some restrictions, one is that the ghost must come from a living person, and the other is that a personality must have two conditions to be seen: to appear or be abandoned. The former can be seen by following a play of Gao Zhiwei:
(I got it The DVD is a family video version, and there are screenshots on both sides, but I believe that this paragraph is 5 people) The
personality is first 5, then 7, which shows that Gao Zhiwei's mood gradually relaxes, and various personalities gradually emerge one by one. Water surface. But Chen Guibin is not sure if they are all high-personality, so he has to stimulate him in the toilet to announce excitedly that he has found "a total of seven!" ". It can be seen that Chen can't see through all the personality of others at a glance. One proof is that when He Jiaan asked him "what is seen in me", he kept silent, because getting along with each other is shallow, and there is no way to be sure about him. Are there any ghosts?
It should be noted that the film admits that these personalities really exist, and there is absolutely no personality that Chen Guibin imagined, it's just that outsiders can't see it. This is fundamentally different from paranoia. Chen Guibin is a detective, not a nerve. This is crucial.
The second ability of the detective can perceive the remaining information of various personalities. According to the setting of the script, the detective needs to be immersive to solve the crime and imitate the crime process at the crime scene. He can easily feel which personality committed the crime in the vicinity of Mahjong halls, convenience stores and cash transport vehicles. He can directly identify the criminals in the box, and he can even feel what the "ghost" is planning now in the dirt pit. Even seeing other ghosts through the perspective of ghosts, knowing in advance that the personality they rob will be a child. It can be seen that the sensing ability of the detective increases with the increase in the degree of simulation, and even almost suffocated for the last time.
Can the detective predict the future? I’m not sure about this. If Zhang Meihua is regarded as his fantasy, then “he (and she) will kill you” can be explained in this way. Later, when he sees the ghosts robbing the little ghosts, the same can be explained, but this explanation cannot explain it. In the end, why he didn't foresee why he would shoot himself, and he couldn't explain his severe despair and resentment before he died. And I think the function of "foreseeing the future" seriously destroys other settings in the script, so I don't take it here. Of course, I welcome someone to propose other theories based on this assumption.
Another very important point is that the detective has no mind-reading skills. The so-called ghosts are not "cooks". The little abacus and detectives in everyone's heart cannot be seen. They must be strong enough to exist independently to see them. Otherwise, it is impossible to explain why the detectives did not preemptively kill Gao Yuhe in the end. In the beginning, the little girl in the convenience store can think that she has had this heart for a long time, and her personality is strong enough to be discovered.
Like "foreseeing the future", "mind reading" is also a serious offense function. I think this rigorous script should not allow such a versatile plaster to appear.
In addition, the film suggests that ghosts can exist independently of the deity. Gao in the woods and Zhang Meihua next to the detective are both like this, perhaps because they have both existed in the deity for a long time and are relatively stable personalities. So it will not disappear after being abandoned.
To sum up, about the "ghost"
1. Ghost is a relatively stable and independent inner personality. Will alternate with the environment and mood.
2. Ghosts will take shape along with people's psychological changes, and they will also be abandoned.
3. Ghosts that have stabilized for a long time can exist independently after being abandoned.
Regarding the superpowers of the detective:
1. You can see ghosts, but you can't see unformed inner activities.
2. You can feel the remaining information of ghost activities, but you need to be immersive and cannot predict the future.
Secondly, in the
final scene of the concept of the detective law enforcement , I still haven't fully understood the two sentences of the detective.
"If you shoot, there is no difference between you and others."
"I am also a person, why should there be a difference?"
Can it be read as the detective tired of my stubbornness? The avatars of him and Zhang Meihua are the two purest people in the film (Uncle Kaohsiung avoids it for the time being). The detective is because of stubbornness and determination, and the "clone" is because of the concentration of a part of the character of the deity. At the last moment, the detective finally understood what was most important to him, but it would never belong to him anymore. I read this as a kind of repentance.
But what is this "discrimination"? Do I not kill my colleagues, do I only use my brain but not my hands, or do I never hurt my colleagues? And why should this shot be fired to prove that "there is no difference"? Why can't Gao Zhiwei be arrested?
Now that the chaos is unraveled, after two days of thinking, I finally realized that this "differentiation" refers to his philosophy of handling the case.
The detective can see ghosts, so in his eyes, the police's purpose of "punishing criminals" has changed qualitatively. It is no longer indiscriminately arresting the criminals, but to distinguish which personality is at the heart of the crime, and then Destroy this sinful personality. The concept of "cure illness and save people" is really not an exaggeration to describe the detective. You can understand this from the beginning by drinking the "ghost" on the female students in the convenience store. There are two scenes that can illustrate this concept of the detective. One is that after stimulating seven ghosts, he was so excited that he couldn't even care about the pain of a broken ear. He just kept repeating "there are seven" and guessing what that ghost represents. Personality. One is to reappear the scene of the robbery, and he stubbornly wants to distinguish which personality is committing the crime. After figuring it out, rushed happily into the "Heavenfall" rain to revel.
The detective does not reject arresting people, but rejects the elimination of criminals from the flesh, because in his eyes, everyone's flesh is just a carrier, and the sinful personality is the real murderer. The enemy of the detective is not a crime, nor a criminal, but a dark personality in a person. He patrolled the world like a Zhong Kui, hunting down ghosts. His deep vision is destined that he will embark on a dark road full of thorns, and he is destined to bet on life. To say fate, this is the fate of the detective.
Solving the case is not difficult for the detective, but the difficulty is to realize the law enforcement concept in his mind. He put in a lot of hard work and was willing to take care of his shoulders to carry out this concept, but because of this, he couldn't be seen by ordinary people, including his wife. He sacrificed his happiness for this.
At this point, the meaning of the last two sentences is very clear. After witnessing Gao Zhiwei’s crimes of killing others, planting and setting up faults, he began to understand that the evil of human nature was beyond his imagination, or that he had doubted the idea of destroying ghosts and saving people, or that he had admitted that this burden was not his own. People can afford it. In short, he gets tired and begins to give up his beliefs. This is like Gao Zhiwei in the woods, splitting a new self. These two sentences are the dialogue between two personalities (this shows from another aspect that "ghosts" are not necessarily evil). "Why is there a difference?" Yes, why can't you kill the bad guy with a single shot, cleanly.
Third, what kind of person is the detective?
The superpower of the detective often makes the audience forget to explore his character. But don't forget, the "madman" is just an evaluation of him from the outside world. In his opinion, his life is very normal, just different from others. He is also an individual like everyone else. So what kind of person is he?
If you look closely at this character, we will find the usual setting in police and gangster movies. The detective is a policeman who is devoted to the career of "ghost hunting". He owes his wife and apologizes, but once the mission comes, he will attack without hesitation. In fact, if we get rid of the supernatural setting, Chen Guibin's family is a Hong Kong police family that is too normal to be normal.
Judging from the words and deeds of Chen Guibin in the film, he is very proud and paranoid. The attitude toward wives in convenience stores roughly reflects this kind of paranoia. Cutting the ears shows the arrogance of a genius, not madness. He knew he had superpowers and was willing to use him to help others, but at the same time he was tortured by this superpower very hard. So he said to He Jiaan, "It's hard to be me!" This is both a confession and self-confidence.
After Zhang Meihua's clone left him, he collapsed because he realized that he could never live with his wife anymore. So there was a split in his inner personality, and after he finally killed Gao, he found out that He Jia'an, whom he wanted to save, was already entangled with demons, so he died with hatred.
This is the process of Chen Guibin's psychological changes.
To summarize:
Aside from superpowers, Chen Guibin is no different from normal people in other aspects. He is a policeman swinging between his career and his family. In the end, his career was disillusioned and he turned to self-doubt.
Fourth, what is the wife next to the detective?
I said earlier that Zhang Meihua next to the detective is not his fantasy, but the personality that Zhang Meihua has left behind. We can infer from their emotional experience:
Wang Guozhu's incident occurred on March 14, 2006, and 18 months later was September 2007. This is when the story happened. Abao said that he had known Chen for 7 or 8 years, that is, between 1999 and 2000, and Chen divorced not long afterwards. Zhang Meihua claimed to be married to Chen in 1996. It can be seen that the two spent about 4 years of honeymoon after their marriage, and then Zhang couldn't stand the detective and divorced. This action has undoubtedly aggravated the detective’s condition (perhaps also strengthened his superpowers?), which can explain why Zhang Meihua’s clone said to the deity: "He was killed by something like you"
. The wife's personality stayed with the detective.
This interpretation faces another objection. That is to say, this wife was actually only imagined by the detective, and is part of his personality. All the words spoken by the detective are spoken on behalf of the detective, so others can also hear it. That is to say,
one of the reasons for the "split personality theory of the detective" was put forward by Daqi Hupi. In the restaurant section, Zhang Meihua said that Chen Guibin did not have a driver's license, so He took the initiative to say "I will drive you." Explain why it must be audible. I read it again and thought it might not be:
in Chen's manner, there is no need to hear Zhang speak, so why should I guess that Zhang didn't let Chen go. So he offered to drive.
So I think that both theories make sense, but I prefer "Zhang Meihua's Personality Lost Theory", because this is more in line with the explanation of the lens. After all, there is no hint that a detective will speak on behalf of his wife. We can test two from three aspects: First, it is difficult to explain why this personality is so vivid. The dialogue between him/her and the detective deity is more lively than any other personality seen in the film. "The personality of the detective is more divisive than anyone else. If you take the phrase "Zhang Meihua's personality legacy", it is a dialogue between the two, which is easier to explain. The second is Chen Guibin's daily actions. "The theory of splintered personality of the detective" assumes that Chen Jiabin "plays two roles in one person". And "Zhang Meihua's Personality Lost Theory" is more natural. In the last few scenes, the "Split Personality Theory of the Detective" interpreted a breakup with his wife as the Detective broke with another personality of his own, and then gave birth to a new personality in the final battle. "Zhang Meihua's Personality Lost Theory" assumes that at this time Zhang Meihua and her lost personality are reunited and turned and left, so the detective is completely lonely, and finally split in the decisive battle.
In comparison, although both are feasible, I still think that "Zhang Meihua's Personality Lost Theory" can be explained more satisfactorily. Especially in the part of the breakup in the parking lot, this explanation is more grounded. You can try to analyze the scenes and plots. For convenience, call them the "lost personality" and "the deity" respectively.
Scene: First, the detective saw a woman (the deity) he didn’t know, and then the deceased personality came over to pull the gods away.
Plot: At this time, the deity was full of desire to solve the case. The deceased personality did not want him to be hurt by the deity again, and was also afraid of himself Will return to the deity.
Scene: The detective and the abandoned personality get in the car, the deity gets in the car, the abandoned personality retreats to the back seat, and the deity theory, the detective asks "Who is this person?"
Plot: The deity only wants to solve the case at this time, and doesn't want to miss the old one at all. Willing to be hindered by the leftover personality. Lost personality is tried to prevent it.
Scene: The deity beats the lost personality, and the detective tells the murderer.
Plot: Zhang Meihua tried to suppress the feelings in her heart for the detective, and the detective hoped to send her deity away soon.
Scene: After the deity left, he came back and said, "Everyone has ghosts, but you don't have any. That means you have a problem."
Plot: At this time, the face is still the deity, but the goal is achieved, and it has begun to arouse sympathy for the detective.
Scene: Lost personality chases out of the car and says, "He was killed by something like you", the detective says, "She can't see or hear you."
Plot: The deity thinks that he has hurt the detective, and has a heart Guilty. The detective's words are tantamount to accusing her of betraying her feelings.
Scene: The lost personality says "Take care". When the music sounded, Zhang Meihua returned to her original appearance and left.
Plot: Zhang Meihua's old feelings are surging, and she picks up her personality back then. However, she knew that she could not endure the detective again, and could only leave with love for him. This also took away the only consolation around the detective.
The last paragraph is extremely important. If you use the "split personality theory of the detective", the drama here is equivalent to saying that the detective has completely abandoned the fantasy of his ex-wife, and Zhang Meihua is completely unfeeling. This is not only inconsistent with the previous step-by-step foreshadowing, but also inconsistent with the last tender music. But it can explain the lonely figure of the detective at the end. The contradiction mainly comes from Zhang Meihua's inner entanglement, it is impossible to have the best of both worlds, so the two explanations can only coexist.
In summary, for Zhang Meihua who is next to the detective, I am inclined to "the theory of lost personality." The main reasons are 1. It is more concise; 2. It can explain the psychological changes of the detective more clearly; 3. The contradiction with the lens language is small; 4. It is warmer for personal reasons.
Fifth, what kind of person is He Jia'an?
There is basically no controversy on this point. He Jiaan's character has been foreshadowed from the beginning. When he encounters difficulties, he always imagines how to solve the case if the detective is there, which shows that he is more inclined to rely on others. The whole movie is basically a process in which he constantly seeks to rely on different people, and of course he fell into the embrace of that female personality in the end.
By the way, some people (as far as I see them are all men, paying tribute to the gender awareness of men!) who criticize the dominant personality of bad guys are middle-aged women, and think that they are suspected of patriarchal feminphobia. I partly agree, but I think there is a reason for such a setting. These female personalities may be the image of mothers. Look carefully, the appearance of these multiple personalities is actually a process of fear. For example, Gao Zhiwei killed a colleague in the woods. The appearance sequence of the three personalities of fear, rage and stability can explain the problem very well. He Jiaan’s juvenile personality is obviously It is also the embodiment of fear. As early as in "The Threat of Ghosts", Master Yoda saw through Anakin's energy instability at a glance, saying: "Fear produces anger, and anger brings evil." Although it is a science fiction soap opera, these words are still very important here. suitable. When you are afraid, you will naturally look for a stable dependence. This dependence can only be a mother for anyone. So these evil middle-aged women are actually the incarnations of their mothers, but they have projected their own evil on them.
He Jiaan's transformation began after he was buried. Before that, he worshiped the detective, talked to his invisible wife, and took the initiative to invite down into the pit. In fact, it was a manifestation of children blindly worshiping adults. But his immature psychology determined that this kind of worship was fragile. Once he got up and found that the detective was missing, he immediately fell into fear. This fear reached a climax after being attacked by a werewolf (Huahua was right, the huge shadow on the street during the chase hinted at the rise of his inner demon.) After that, his conversation with Kiki was very interesting. Qiqi asked He Jiaan why he slipped away during the action. His answer turned out to be "I was stuck in mud, so hard. I was taken by Chen Jiabin and he refused to return it to me. I saw Chen Jiabin's wife, but she was not dead. I was pointed at me by a gun. head of". Kiki asked him to calm down and asked, "Who is holding a gun to your head?". "I don't know, I don't even have a police officer's card. He insisted that it was Gao Zhiwei. What should he do with my gun to kill people? No, I have to report to the superintendent." At this time, he was completely controlled by fear.
In the rage stage, he had a conflict with Gao Zhiwei. After being frustrated, the smart Gao Zhiwei provided him with support in a timely manner, so he fell to Gao. Even at this time, the fear in his heart still did not disappear. In the final battle, he was still scared. I think he shot at the detective not because he believed Gao Zhiwei’s words and regarded the detective as a bad person. At this time, he has put good and evil in a secondary position. Believe that what he was worried about was that the detective used his own gun to kill Gao Zhiwei and to knock him down as soon as possible. As for whether Qiqi's gun would leave the case, it was a secondary consideration.
In the end, both idols fell, and a new personality was inspired. He created a personality for himself to control everything in his heart.
To sum up, about He Jiaan. I think he is a mentally immature person who is easily knocked down by fear. Because he has no faith, he eventually sacrificed everyone in order to save himself (this point will be explained more clearly below) and embark on the path of Gao Zhiwei.
Sixth,
there is nothing to say about the numbers and records of the police guns . I have basically discussed them on the Internet. I will summarize the opinions of various companies.
Gao Zhiwei immediately changed the number after winning Wang Guozhu's gun. A netizen pointed out that the $$$$$ number represents money and greed, which is very possible. But it doesn’t work to modify the record alone. There must be corresponding records for the rifling, gun number, and police officer’s identity of the police gun. So what Gao Zhiwei changed here should not be the records of the General Administration, but the records of the local sub-bureaus. This is enough to deal with routine affairs. According to the inspection of the warhead, the rifling data was handed over to the General Administration, and the local police station could not see it. Only in this way can the criminal take the gun and commit the crime, but he is safe and sound.
Gao Zhiwei really started the robbery after he saw the South Asian man rob the Mahjong hall with a police gun. He pursued the South Asian man with all his strength. On the one hand, he wanted to recover his gun, and on the other hand, he was afraid that he shot and exposed his loss. The thing is to kill people.
In a nutshell, He Jiaan believed the above ins and outs that the detective told him when he started to change guns, so Wang Guozhu and Gao Zhiwei's guns were in line with the truth in his mind. After understanding this at night, I was greatly relieved. , Otherwise I have to place the guns in the wrong mind, and I don’t know how many left brain cells I want to kill.
After these peripheral details are basically clarified, we are about to enter the climax part, that is, the last part of changing the gun.
Seventh, how did the gun change?
To understand that the final change of guns is as difficult as doing a GRE logic problem (I think it’s because I’ve practiced it because of my buddies). Not only does it involve the owner of each gun, the person killed, and various ways of putting it. The words and intentions hidden behind directly affect the understanding of the characters and the ending. The first time I watched it, I felt nothing strange, but the more I watched it, the more I was frightened. Finally, I suddenly realized that the real ending was not shot at all, but it was all contained in this puzzle.
Before He Jiaan started to change his gun, Gao Zhiwei changed his gun. After 6 shots were fired, the South Asian shot 1 shot, He 1, Chen 4.
The story of Gao Zhiwei's plan: Chen Guibin (with South Asians) killed Wang Guozhu and seized a gun to commit crimes. Dividing the spoils and killing the South Asians, Gao and He rushed to kill the South Asians and Chen. In the gunfight, He was killed by the South Asians with the gun of Wang Guozhu. He took back his gun.
After a gun battle, the initial situation is as follows:
South Asian: Gao Zhiwei's gun. No bullet was fired.
Gao Zhiwei: Wang Guozhu's gun. Killed the cashier, shop assistant, South Asian, Chen, and hurt him.
Chen Guibin: He Jiaan's gun. Kill Gao Zhiwei.
He Jiaan: Qiqi's gun killed Chen Guibin.
First change of gun:
Take back the gun in Chen Guibin's hand (kill Gao Zhiwei).
Call GG to prove the shot. Open the handcuffs of the South Asians.
Give Gao Zhiwei's gun to Chen Guibin (not fired).
Give the gun of Wang Guozhu in Gao Zhiwei's hand to the South Asians (killing the cashier, shop assistant, South Asian, Chen, and hurting He).
Story: South Asians took the Wang Guozhu gun crime, He, Gao, Chen, and Qiqi came to arrest, the South Asians killed Chen and injured He.
Intent: Sacrifice South Asians and preserve the reputation of the police force.
Flaw: Why did He Jiaan kill Gao Zhiwei? Why did South Asians kill themselves? Why did Kiki kill Chen?
The second gun change:
Put the gun of Wang Guozhu in Gao Zhiwei's hand into Chen's hands (killing the cashier, the clerk, the South Asian, Chen, and he injured).
Give Gao Zhiwei's gun to Gao Zhiwei (not fired).
Story: Chen Guibin took Wang Guobin's gun and committed a crime. He accompanies the South Asians, He Jia'an and Gao Zhiwei Qiqi arrive, Chen kills the South Asians, wounds He, and Qiqi kills Chen Guibin.
Intent: Sacrifice Chen Guibin, a lunatic, to protect himself and Gao Zhiwei.
Flaw: Why did Chen kill himself? Why did He Jiaan kill Gao Zhiwei?
The third gun change:
Return the gun of Gao Zhiwei in the hands of the South Asian to the South Asian (not fired).
Story: It was the South Asian who took Gao Zhiwei's gun, and Chen Guibin took Wang Guozhu's gun and committed a crime. He Jiaan, Gao Zhiwei, and Qiqi arrived, Chen killed the South Asian and injured He, Qiqi killed Chen Guibin.
Intent: Sacrifice the lunatic Chen Guibin, Gao Zhiwei is guilty of missing a gun, and save himself.
Weakness: the same. Moreover, the two gun robberies were even more difficult to convince people.
Until the screen darkens, the gun swap is still not over. However, we can see from the above analysis that if He’s gun and Kiki’s gun are put away, other guns are not valid no matter how they are placed. Five people and four guns are not a problem, because Chen Guibin should have no guns. The key is why He Jiaan's gun killed Gao Zhiwei. Why did Qiqi's gun kill Chen Guibin?
Therefore, we can speculate that He Jiaan has the only and most favorable outcome for him: In the end, Gao Zhiwei must be a bad person, and one of Qiqi and Chen Guibin must be an accomplice and the other a good person.
If 1, Qiqi is a good person and Chen is an accomplice. Can't explain why Gao killed Chen.
If 2, Chen is a good person and Qiqi is an accomplice. As long as Qiqi is here, returning the gun to her, and then killing Qiqi with He Jiaan's gun, it is righteous to kill her. Can't use Gao's or Wang's guns, because they are in the hands of Gao, and the logic of shooting them is unreasonable.
The final plan should be:
He Jiaan: He Jiaan's gun (kill high).
Kiki: Kiki's gun (killing Chen).
Gao Zhiwei: Gao's gun (not fired), Wang's gun (killing cashiers, shop assistants, South Asians, Chen, injured He).
So there is only one final ending, and that is the story told by He Jiaan:
Gao Zhiwei and Qiqi captured the king's gun crime. He Jiaan and Chen Guibin got the South Asian informant and rushed to kill the South Asian and Chen. Qiqi also fired at Chen. Killed Gao and Qiqi by himself.
In the above deduction, I excluded the factor of "infighting", otherwise, the South Asians could be counted as Gao and Qiqi and let him take a gun. But it doesn't matter, the key is to meet the two conditions of "Gao Zhiwei is a bad guy" and "Qiqi and Chen Guibin are good and the other is bad".
This is the final outcome. It can be seen that the process of constantly changing guns is exactly the process of He Jiaan's gradual influx, from protecting the police force, to protecting herself and Qiqi, to sacrificing everyone to protect herself. He Jiaan's demons became stronger and stronger, his evil personality became more and more prominent, and finally became another Gao Zhiwei. The look of resentment and despair in the detective's eyes is precisely because he saw that the person he had given his life to save had completely fallen into a devil.
Eighth, editing loopholes?
Continue to move my left brain and respond to the statement on the post that all editing is very rigorous, but there is a loophole in the lens of He Jiaan and Gao Zhiwei in the car:
I think it is not a loophole. If you look closely, this kind of lens is actually in the whole film. A lot of them. For example:
Like the subsequent scene of He Jiaan and the group of ghosts in the car, the detective is tracking here. Where did this scene come from? There is also the following:
Chen Guibin and his wife are in the same scene.
This shot is even more bizarre, obviously not from anyone's perspective.
I am not a film student, but according to my intuition, there are not only objective and subjective shots in this film, but there is also a type of shots. I will call it "identification shots". In fact, it is the director's exploration of the world in his mind. Show to the audience, let the audience agree with his views. This is not a loophole in the editing, but intentional. In fact, when we see these shots, we can't help but agree with Chen Guibin's vision and even sympathize with him. At least when I saw Chen Guibin taking his wife for a drive, I felt romantic and warm. There is nothing wrong with Chen Guibin living in this kind of world.
Ninth, what story did the detective tell?
After explaining all the logical mysteries, my left brain has been developed abnormally (the other one said: Actually most of the casualties), and now I can finally rest (the other one said: I can finally rest in peace). Now let me move my right brain (the other I said: remnant) to understand what kind of story the director is going to tell under these complicated clues.
I think there are two clues here, one is human nature and the other is love. A clue of human nature unfolds through He Jia'an, telling how this seemingly powerful inspector fell into division step by step in the face of his inner fear. In this sense, He Jiaan and Gao Zhiwei can be regarded as one person. They both repeat the same mental journey, fear-raging-composite, the difference is only Gauguin's greed.
As for the line of love, it is naturally Chen Jiabin and his wife. Contrary to many viewers who complained about the "darkness" of "Detective", I was moved by the warmth of "Detective". The detective's wife loved him for a long time, so that this personality was indelible, and the detective also loved her wife, so that after the wife left, she was still satisfied with living with a part of her. The scene of a motorbike ride is a rare and truly romantic scene in recent Hong Kong movies. It makes us feel the simplicity and happiness between the detective and her in this dark world. At that moment I even had a feeling that I hope they will travel like this forever.
In the scene of the parking lot, according to my interpretation, Zhang Meihua's love for the detective has recovered, but the price of this recovery is very heavy. It is equivalent to pulling the detective back to the heavy dark world and facing the price of genius alone.
Tenth, what's new in "The Detective"?
After both the left brain and the right brain were used up, another personality appeared on my body, which made me, a fan who had never studied movies and watched movies, boldly ridiculed the novelty of "The Detective". This dominant personality is so calm, cunning and full of dominance...Look! She is also a middle-aged woman!
Almost everyone admits that the various elements in "Detective" are not new. The idea of "seeing ghosts" appeared in "Sixth Sense". Many people play a role, and the split personality appeared in "The Wilderness of the Night". The use of lenses to refract personality and supernatural investigations is even more commonplace in thrillers. The question is, how can sparks burst out when these "ruffles" come together? I dare to say one thing, because it opens up a whole new dimension of the character's psychology in the film, which is qualitatively different from all the "close relatives" in the past!
As we all know, the biggest flaw of video art is that it is difficult to express the heart of the characters. This flaw is particularly obvious when adapting literary works. The clumsy ones such as "Red Rose and White Rose", even play full screen text to fool the audience. Smart filmmakers know how to use various methods to overcome or avoid this shortcoming. To overcome, the actor’s performance can naturally show the heart, and the color tone, lighting, props, costumes, etc. can be used as various symbols to externalize the inner world of the character. If you want to avoid it, simply use the image to express the shape. Long, put the comic heroes on the screen, and the modeling is above all else. But there has never been a movie like "The Detective" to show the inner world of the characters, which is both vivid and subtle, and highly conforms to the image essence of the film.
A detective who can see a ghost meets a patient with split personality. This idea sounds boring. When you think about it, it is not a simple "Sixth Sense" + "The Wilderness of the Night". This "damn" and "multi-personality" encounter opens up A door that describes the heart of the character. Just imagine, no matter how rich and delicate an actor’s expression is, it is always limited. How can the subtlety of his inner emotions be conveyed at once? The setting of "multiple personalities that can be seen" releases the shackles at once, and we can use several actors to express the multiple emotions of a person at the same time! Imagine a moment when Xiuhu saw the castle besieged by his own son. If seven actors were on the stage at the same time, wearing different clothes, showing the surprise, regret, anger, regret, bravery, dignity and fear of Xiuhu at this moment, what would it be? Strong visual impact?
All in all, I think the setting of "The Detective" is very powerful. Although it may not be able to be copied in large-scale batches, it is very explosive as an idea. As a Chinese movie fan, I’m going to be a Chinese movie fan. Another movie made me feel that I’m proud to live in this era, otherwise I would have immigrated to Mars a long time ago (Why Mars/or the moon better/you What I said earlier was the era/then go to the Southern Dynasties/to watch a movie tonight/will there be ghosts in the dark outside/the chick opposite is very beautiful/am I sick/will the gang of Du Qifeng come from Mars /Why do they call it "Galaxy" image/I want to eat shark's fin and rice/Do you want to go with rice or spaghetti?)
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