Director: Robby Henson
Starring: Marc Blucas, Max Ryan, Justine Waddell
Produced: United States/Poland, 2006
Straight to the point, this is a thriller, the plot takes the "Human Bone Puzzle" route, and the thrilling elements Take the "speed of life" route. From the title of the film, you can get a glimpse. RK, Riddle Killer, is actually quite similar to the recently popular "Chainsaw" trilogy. However, the level setting of "Chainsaw" is bloody, naked, cruel, and without wit, this film requires some brains from the game people.
The time when the bus bomb was cracked, the female police officer Jennifer, whose younger brother was killed by RK, was keenly aware that the criminal especially loved the number 3 (interestingly, the first name that popped up in my mind was "Li Ming"). There is an episode of "Criminal Minds" written In the arson case on the university campus, criminal psychology experts discovered the characteristics of criminals from clues, and then found the murderer hidden among the students - a fundamentalist. I thought that the editor and director would also use it to make some articles, but it didn't. Although the whole film talks about repentance, good and evil, and original sin, it is actually just laying the groundwork for a split personality.
It also depicts split personality. Logically speaking, this film is not as self-consistent and rigorous as the Japanese director Xiong Ze Shangren's 2006 work "Give Back My Thumb", and it is not as popular as the American director James Mangold's 2003 thriller "Identity" starring John Cusack. and stimulation. In the final confrontation, although the director explained some of the previous scenes - for example, in the police station bombing, the male protagonist Kevin and his girlfriend Samantha were together, but in Jennifer's eyes, he was actually the only one; when Kevin fled from the hotel, Kevin Looking downstairs and looking at Jennifer and letting Samantha drive, he actually moved from the passenger seat to the driver's car - but several times Samantha talked to Jennifer, especially at the end Kevin was trapped in the basement, she followed and stopped Staying on the phone with Jennifer will not have a satisfactory explanation. Samantha first pointed out that Kevin was suspected of having a split personality, Slater was actually himself, and told Jennifer of this idea, and at the same time, Kevin had gone to his aunt's house. The film doesn't say anything about how Kevin imitates a female voice so vividly - I doubt that split personality has such an effect.
In "A Beautiful Mind", Nash imagined his roommate and his cute little niece, and in "Guess the Killer", Kevin imagined Samantha, who represents the best of human nature, and Slater, who is the worst of human nature. The latter imitates RK's style to chase and kill himself, while the former tries his best to help him cope with the test. Like most films dealing with split personality, this one is based on Freud's theory to explain Kevin's split personality in terms of his abusive childhood. However, the director deliberately played a trick, or planted a clue, but I ignored it: in the class, the old professor said, "Saint Austen believes that everyone has original sin", and a student answered: "So does Freud." The other students laughed, and the professor smiled and said, "Yes, it's just that I don't really like Freudian psychologists."
Overall, the writers were pretty successful. The thriller is about 20 to 30 minutes long, basically all the main characters have appeared, and the criminal must be among these familiar faces, which is almost the iron rule of the genre (probably the only exception is "The Seven Deadly Sins", Spacey until The last crime only appeared), and randomly pulling out a "Chainsaw", "Scream", and "House of All Sides" all conform to this rule. Empirical thinking led me to suspect that the murderer was Jennifer's boss in the middle of watching. Looking back, the murderer knew all about Kevin's childhood, and immediately rejected it. When Kevin talked about his childhood Slater, I, like Jennifer, immediately believed he was the murderer. Actually we did guess right. And the real RK did appear in the story less than two minutes after the start of the story.
The film actually hints early on that the killer is not an outsider. The police said that no one could survive RK's first attack, but the killer let go of Kevin and played hide-and-seek with him one after another, which was not in line with RK's usual style; Leaving instructions is too free. But I didn't pay too much attention at the time: for the first point, the killer may have a special connection with the protagonist, and it is reasonable to treat them differently, otherwise most movies of the same type would not be able to be made; for the second point, the villain seems to be omnipotent in the early stage. The fixed pattern used by the type slice. But I do catch an obvious "loophole" in the film: Samantha is trapped in the warehouse, Kevin goes to stop the bomb from going off, the seconds on the timer device plummet and there is a flash of Samantha shooting the lock and escaping the room. To be honest, I went back and re-watched this shot five times, trying to figure out what was going on: the only gun was in Kevin's hands, and that kind of lock wasn't two-shot from the inside. It's a pity, I "naively" thought it was a mistake made by the editor and director, where would I think that Samantha does not really exist.
This kind of film, as long as you watch it a second time, everything will be clear.
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