Masters always like to use their films to explore the relationship between film and reality. George wrote "Victorius" two days ago, and suddenly discovered that if he applies the metaphor of "the relationship between film and reality" in "Victorius", Li Xifat borrows the metaphor of the movie plot to interpret "The Third Degree Suspect" , There will be different discoveries.
The whole story of "The Third Degree Suspect" becomes a metaphor.
Misumi (Suspect)————Film Author
Zhongsheng (lawyer)——————Film critic/audience
Sakie (the daughter of the deceased) --- both an actor and an audience
Judge Shigemori (Father of Lawyer)—The film writer’s school
According to the above-mentioned relationship between the ontology and the vehicle, combined with the plot of the movie, we will find that "The Third Degree Suspect" actually metaphors "the creation of the film author and the audience's interpretation of the work".
As a suspect in the murder case, Misumi basically admitted every question in the first half of the movie. The lawyer asked him if he killed someone, and he answered "Yes"; the reporter asked him if he had an improper relationship with the deceased's wife/whether he was instructed to kill someone, and he answered "Yes". Even when the prosecutor asked him to plead guilty, he pleaded guilty.
This is like when a film author is in a movie theater to Q&A the audience, saying to the audience: "In fact, every interpretation of everyone is valid." Misumi affirmed all the "self-contradictory" inquiries, as if the film author received all the interpretations. Prosecutors, lawyers, media audiences, etc., all represent movie audiences. Here embodies the ambiguity and ambiguity of the movie.
Judge Shigemori, the father of lawyer Shigemori, accepted Misumi's old case 30 years ago and helped him avoid the death penalty. "The Third Degree Suspect" was released in Japan in 2017. George investigated the information of Hirokazu Ee. He graduated from Waseda University in 1987 and started his career. Is "30 years ago" a metaphor for the director himself? And does Judge Shigemori’s help to Misumi once a metaphor for the education of film authors by colleges?
In the process of investigating the case, lawyer Zhongsheng once said that "we don't need to be friends with the suspect." However, as the investigation deepened, he found it more and more difficult to see the full picture of the incident, so he decided to go to Sansumi’s hometown to investigate, gradually "walked into" Misumi, and even later entered the "memories" of Misumi. Misumi and Saki had a snowball fight together. This seems to be a metaphor: if a film critic/audience wants to truly understand a film, they need to investigate/understand the author’s past in depth, and even eventually become "friends" who do not live together with the author.
Sakie’s role is rather ambiguous. As an actor, she can interpret the movie to a certain extent (Sakie claimed that she was sexually assaulted by her father, and Misumi "maybe" killed her father because of her); she was also an audience, her interpretation of the movie After being denied by the film author (Misumi), Misumi insisted that he did not kill anyone. This seems to be a metaphor for the film, the actors can only watch the leopard, and the final interpretation power is still in the hands of the film author, that is, the director.
In the end, "The Third Degree Suspect" completed such a metaphor: a movie is just a container, and what is put in it is jointly decided by the author, the actors, and the audience. At the end of the movie, Misumi's and Shigemori's faces are on the left and right sides of the glass respectively, and then they switch positions, and finally overlap each other. It was Hirokazu Edema who used such an intuitive lens to put the audience and the author in the same position, and affirmed that the two have the same weight: it is the author's creation and the joint interpretation of the author, the film critics and the audience that give the meaning of the film.
The above analysis is only a personal opinion, a little superficial, just for a smile.
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