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A film that is not special in terms of genre plot, about multiple forces, about disordered timing, about a lot of money and a big robbery plan, and a series of black and black, and the protagonist trying to escape from each faction We, about the weak trust between people and the usual betrayal, about the retro love and retro characters, about Singapore, which seems to be no bad at debut...
However, one of the elements is quite special. After all, no one knows that whistle can also be used as a language, and this language is still a language that actually exists in the world.
That's the whistle.
This movie is like the whistle in it. If you like the whistle setting in it, you will decide whether you like the film or not. In the end, "Because the police are monitoring all the time, you should use the whistle. The language that is acceptable to the city (let's think about how a busy city can communicate with this whistle, especially at such a long distance) is not enough, because first of all the audience can't learn the whistle in such a short time (which means I understand the whistle) So maybe the director also knows about it, so the character in the film will tell the other person in spoken language after listening to the other person blowing the whistle (but these people actually understand the whistle, so why? Need to paraphrase? This is actually for the audience.)
Not to mention that we already have subtitle translations when they are blowing.
And on the other hand, if there is such a continuous strange whistle in the city, shouldn't you pay special attention to the sound of birds? After all, wouldn't we find it strange to have this strange bird chirping? Not to mention, if the people under police surveillance often blow this whistle, wouldn't the police be suspicious?
Perhaps we should think the other way around, the film was constructed to promote something, such as the emphasis on whistle, a language that actually exists on the island of La Gomera in Spain's Canary Islands, based on a culture that defends the world's cultural heritage. If it was filmed for social welfare, it may be more acceptable to accept the existence of this element in the film.
Although if this is the case, the scene of the story should take place in the wilderness where electronic communication is completely impossible.
I think we can only design from the fact that the film is completely in accordance with the aesthetic requirements of the director's expectations (such aesthetics is also something like the "Whistle" that the director intends to promote), rather than "how things should develop", The multi-party forces and the chaotic narrative do not intend to make the audience feel better from the beginning. It can be said that a kind of complexity is deliberately constructed, whether it is a large number of plots or a large number of characters or a large amount of time, but its purpose is rooted in the root. But it is quite simple. It is to show the state of modern people's heart that is not ancient, and to use a simple retro to set off interpersonal intrigue, just like asking the police who have worked in the city for a long time to learn the whistle on the island, and then blow the whistle of the island in the city. , its symbolic meaning is greater than its functional meaning, which aims to illustrate a kind of returning to simplicity, just like the scene at the end of the film where the crowd seeks him thousands of times, but the scene where the hero and heroine meet again in the dim light does not need the audience to question "How did the protagonist get away from the police?" "So did the heroine kill 'that person'?" "When did the heroine fall in love with the protagonist?", "Why does the protagonist have more than lust for this woman? infatuation?"
One of John Ford's "The Searchers" played in a movie theater scene in the film may be one of the director's hidden keys, because in the film the Indians are whistling, and the male protagonist is both a police force and a Belonging to the gangster force (Indians), and at the same time he is the enemy of these two forces and only loyal to the heroine who belongs to the gangster force.
Of course, these are just an attempt at association.
Having said that, it is impossible for whistle language to be used as secret language, because when whistle language is popular, it can spread far, which means that it will be heard by many people, but if everyone knows whistle language, such language cannot be used as secret language, like a film Other retro elements in the ensemble also form a kind of secret language.
All in all, although "The Whistleblower" welcomes the audience to challenge in the form of a puzzle, when you actually put it together, you will feel that the puzzle is missing something, and the rest of the patterns are also very simple. Of course, he The aesthetic coordination of tone or color or music is good, but overall it makes me look very tired, like the male lead as a middle-aged cop.
By the way, the heroine, Catrinel Marlon, has a fragrant and exciting opponent scene with the male protagonist at the beginning of the film. In the violent body movements, she accurately conveys "the sex scene that you have to pretend to be passionate about is also only Stop pretending", this scene can be said to crush most of the dialogue in the film, and neatly demonstrates the concept of "speech is better than speech".
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