I accidentally saw this remake of Hitchcock's 1927 film of the same name, because it was originally a very classic old film, so even the remake is still good.
After watching the movie, I recalled some details of the movie to the sliding credits on the black background, and then found a scene after the long subtitles, a scene that seems to reveal the ending, a scene that most people may not will wait for the shot.
After reading a lot of movie reviews, I found that everyone is trying to understand who is the real murderer in their own way, and the content of everyone's argument is nothing more than whether the tenant really exists. If there is, then the murderer is the tenant, and the tenant does not. Existence, the murderer is the landlady. Others say that everyone could be the murderer.
I have to say that "The Tenant" really does a great job of confusing the line of sight.
The landlady is a big pawn to confuse the line of sight.
I imagine that my child Timmy, who was not born alive eight years ago, is by my side, always reminded by my husband to remember to take medicine, and I am alone in a huge house every day. Fan... These details all indicate that the landlady is somewhat delirious, has hallucinations, and has obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The murder method of the murderer "Jack the Ripper" also shows that he not only has mental problems, but also has serious obsessive-compulsive disorder, so he will cut out the different internal organs of the victim after killing people.
And the tenant's eccentric character, prohibiting anyone from entering the house, hardly staying in the house in the middle of the night, the landlord has never seen the tenant, etc., makes people almost certain that the landlady is the real murderer, and everything about the tenant is her fantasy.
At the end, after the virgin landlady was arrested, the policewoman reassured her that she would take good care of her children. The landlady's understatement, "Timmy? Timmy died seven years ago." It seemed that the landlady knew that her child did not exist, but when she thought about the child's death eight years ago, the clues in her head became even more confusing.
And it's not just the landlady who confuses the film.
Mr. Detective is another big suspect. Chaotic family history, irritable temper, accepting the "Jack the Ripper" incident for many years, also owning a black bag, always out of sight at critical moments and losing alibi... These details inserted from time to time add another suspect , only to be overturned when the killer tried to kill the detective's daughter.
From time to time, Mr. Landlord, who was drawn into sight when he went out at night and returned in the morning, could not find evidence of his alibi, although he was never a strong doubt, he always stepped in during the chaos, keeping the truth a step further away.
But carefully analyze the details in the film.
The tenant's weird personality, going out at night and returning in the morning, there is no trace of living in the house, rummaging in the kitchen at night for knives, trousers that were burned under the excuse of mistakes, black trench coat, black bag, black boots that appear in every murder scene...
He calls himself a writer and wants to find inspiration in quiet places, echoing the red flags that keep popping up in the film, the two threatening letters that detectives receive in red ink.
No matter which clue it was, it pointed to the tenant, and the reason we suspected the tenant was because we couldn't be sure of his existence.
If the clothes and shoes in the room, the burn marks on the clothes near the house, the red ink with blood in the cupboard, and the black bag that the tenant handed to the landlady to make him blame him, it is possible that the landlady was hallucinating and doing it on her own. , then there are some details, but it can overturn the suspicion of the landlady.
For example, when the detective was saving his daughter, he was stabbed by the murderer, which made him feel that the murderer was not the landlady.
For example, before the death of Mr. Landlord, he grabbed the police detective and said some unknown words, which made the detective determine that the landlady was not the real "Jack the Ripper".
Another example is that when the tenant first appeared, he put a sum of money in the landlady and asked her to buy some food for him. He said, "I'm not picky..." After the landlady closed and left, he said to himself. Add the sentence "...about food". Yes, he's not picky just about food, but he's extremely picky about the people he kills. It had to be a prostitute, and it had to die in a certain way, in a certain order, in a certain place...a complete Jack the Ripper copy.
And the clue that really made me identify the tenant as the murderer was not just because of previous reasoning, not just because he showed up at another rental shortly after, and not just because he reappeared with the previous landlord in his hand. Mr.'s black bag, but because of the scene after the subtitles of the movie.
A hand holding a pen draws a bright red dot on a map at the tenant's new residence.
But I think that this scene is placed in such a place, probably to leave enough room for most people to guess. Just like when I watched the end of Inception, it didn't matter whether the TOP spinning on the table finally stopped or not.
Who is the murderer, everyone probably has their own answer.
Mo.
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