If the director really followed the idea of the 90-minute version, he would not have to deliberately and insinuated to disrupt the chronological order to shoot, but to use more plots to dig deeper into the inner activities and behaviors of the five people in the film. That's enough, it doesn't have to be a suspense movie.
The shooting method of this film makes me feel that it is flashbacks for the sake of flashbacks, and fragmentary performances for the sake of fragment performance. Nowadays, directors at home and abroad want to learn directors like "Rashomon", "Once Upon a Time in America", "Pulp Fiction"... The way the film is made can't help but feel a little bit of a frown, and it also makes it difficult for audiences with a slightly lower intelligence to understand, and looks very smart.... If that person in my life describes a simple thing in such a topsy-turvy way, I definitely want to smoke he.
According to the 93-minute version, the film will appear full of loopholes and contradictions, so I won't go into details. The timeline of the story should be:
1. One day, Terry found out that his girlfriend lied to him, saying that he was on a business trip and actually went to a local family. When the hotel opened, I was very sad and annoyed, so I secretly opened a room opposite my girlfriend, trying to find out.
2. After the girlfriend checked in, she called her lover (Terry's buddy who was going to take a bath at his house at the time) Julian and invited her to come to the hotel to have an affair. Julian came to the hotel and took the only elevator that worked normally to go upstairs At the same time, I happened to meet my ex-girlfriend who was also staying in this hotel (enough bloody), but when I entered the hotel and the hostess's room 507, I was not seen by Terry (unreasonable).
3. The two of them slapped (the voice was painfully heard by the unfortunate Terry, foreign men are indeed self-restrained, Chinese men will definitely not wait until they will shoot), Julian went to the toilet in the room When he was about to take a shower, he received a call from Terry (due to the director's deliberate editing, many viewers mistakenly thought that Julian was taking a shower at his own home), and learned that Terry was watching in the opposite room and brought a gun (this one The gun was stolen by Terry from Julian, and the time of the steal should be after Julian left home, which is not logical, so if the 90-minute version is used, after confirming that Julian is an adulterer, design ideas, including It would be more reasonable to steal this gun), after preparing to do something reckless, I realized that I was blocked in the room, so I lied to Terry that he would come right away, and at the same time woke up the sleeping heroine, how to plan in a panic Resolve the predicament. When the panic happened, the waiter (actually the owner of the hotel) came to the door to deliver the wine that Terry ordered for the hostess (it is said that Terry designed the wine to send the wine or wanted to see what the adulterer looked like, or took the opportunity to break into the room, The adulterer and the prostitute were blasted away, but he did not respond. The director also designed a plot for the heroine to sign and leave a note for help, which is unnecessary).
4. After that, Julian tricked Terry to answer the phone call in room 508 and left the door mirror and escaped from room 507 to take the elevator (should knock on the door of room 508 directly after exiting the door of room 507, and then tell Terry As soon as he came from home, everything would be fine), and he closed the door loudly (unreasonably) like a fool, causing Terry to chase him out. Julian then ran into the ex-girlfriend's room for help.
5. Later, the soy sauce man in the corridor was involved. After accidentally injuring the heroine to death, Terry called Julian and accidentally found Julian's mobile phone in room 507 when he was escaping in a hurry. Then immediately planned the next step (in fact, the subsequent plot did not show him how clever).
6. At the same time, after Julian asked his girlfriend for help and was rejected, he ran outside the hotel to start the car and drove a dozen meters to a stop (this plot design is completely to mislead the audience, making the audience think that Julian just drove from home. Julian should have called Terry as soon as he escaped from Terry's tracking, and told Terry that he had arrived at the hotel and went out to drive a special car?), and found that he was not holding the phone just now, So he ran back to the 5th floor in a panic, and was pulled into room 507 by Terry.
7. Then there is a series of inexplicable plots, during which "Soy Sauce Man" actually fainted on the chair, and his head drooped for a while and then leaned back and did not wake up. In the end, they didn't see any good plan to deceive the police, so Terry left. Then Julian picked up the cell phone that he had just kicked under the bed when Terry was present and left in the room when he was running away. Seeing Terry's voice message, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly checked the gun. The bullets, and the performance of Terry just now, confirmed that Terry already knew the truth (Actually, logically, Julian could not conclude that Terry must have discovered the truth based on these, there is a text message from Terry on the phone. It can't be inferred that Terry must have found the phone, and the fact that the pistol bullets are all gone is not a sufficient and necessary condition for this logic. Moreover, according to the subsequent development of the plot, the director did not let Julian make good use of this information to arrange the subsequent events. The action is just about preparing to run away in a hurry, and it was originally going to run. So this plot is purely superfluous, unless Julian can take advantage of this plan and then take a more awesome measure to deal with it, it is necessary to design this plot, no wonder 90 minutes The version of the movie deleted this scene, but after only this part was deleted, the whole movie looked awkward again).
Terry would never have thought that Julian would be caught by the police on the spot when he left the room. No matter whether Julian was caught by the police at the hotel on the spot, can Terry choose himself in the future? I don't know what the director and screenwriter think? Good material but I don't think it's a good shot!
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