Actually there are only two stories. Because both films are based on novels.
Read the two stories in reverse order.
The Oxford Mystery is a movie first, then a novel.
"The Devotion of Suspect X" was bought when I bought the book "Oxford", I read the book first and then watched the movie.
The two stories are similar in many ways:
killing all women
killed were relatives of the woman can not stand (or have loved ones)
two women have a man willing to do everything possible for them to cover up the crimes
and Both men are extremely smart mathematicians
. Although the methods of covering up are not the same, they are both "looks like a geometry problem, but is actually a function problem", and they both use the death of others.
Both stories have Another extremely smart mathematician (or physicist) has insight into the mystery at the last moment.
Compared with the two stories, he prefers "Oxford". The story design is more reasonable and credible. Many mathematical and philosophical truths in the book are better than "Oxford". The Suspect" is more profound and thorough, and the whole story is unforgettable. The latter seems to be only superficial, and is not as closely related to mathematics as the former. Of course, there are many coincidences in the former story, which help the mathematician, while in the latter, the mathematician is the only one.
In the two stories, the designed mysteries are so difficult to solve that I feel that the process of penetrating the puzzles by Martin and Yukawa, who act as the solvers in the two stories, is a bit abrupt and unconvincing.
It is really a problem for the author. If you want the story to be exciting and suspenseful, you have to design a difficult topic, and to pierce the strongest shield in the world, you have to design the sharpest spear.
The two films "Oxford" are better, and the two novels have their own characteristics. "Oxford" is suitable for reading slowly, "The Suspect" can't help but read it in one breath, I only took two days.
As a suspense story, what is commendable is that after knowing the answer, if I have time, I would still like to read these two books again. The former can chew meaningful thoughts. The latter can feel the tension.
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