"Provocative Murder" is the second feature film directed by Ou Rong. The story is inspired by Grimm's fairy tale "Candy House". Ou Rong's version of the "Forest Hunter" dark style love story and the brave adventures of the two brothers and sisters in Grimm's fairy tales are colorful. The candy house is very different, and it is too cruel to even shout that Ou Rong's version of "Candy House" is too cruel. The charming and beautiful girl Alice deliberately teased her long-cherished classmate Say in the bathroom, and Luke instigated her boyfriend to kill Say. The two decided to flee with Say's body, but strayed into the claustrophobic forest. He found a hut with food, but was caught and imprisoned by a hunter who lived there alone. The core of "Provocative Murder" dressed in a fairy tale is full of blood and crime, reflecting the flesh and death.
In "Provocative Murder" Alice planned to murder Say. The director set the scene of the murder in the bathroom. According to common sense, the bathroom is a private and relatively safe place. It is built in a personal room and also because of the closed nature of the bathroom itself. It has its own further layer of protection. The bathroom murder in Hitchcock's "The Psycho" is one of the most classic scenes in film history. The bathroom murder is about 37 seconds, a total of 33 mirrors, and each scene is only more than 1 second on average. The scene is short, with so many shots, most of the shots are close-ups, large close-ups and close-ups. The horror illusion created by the montage editing technique actually does not touch the human body. This kind of killing effect created a shocking and tense atmosphere. It is so frightening, terrifying, exciting, attractive, and thrilling that it is completely conveyed to the audience by the tension and information of the image.
What bathroom murder brings is not the suspense itself, but the horror that comes after the suspense. The security of the bathroom mainly comes from its closedness, and once this closedness is broken, it is extremely fragile and dangerous, because there is nowhere to escape and no defense. Hitchcock said: "A murder must be shot like a love scene, and a love scene must be shot like a murder." In "Provocative Murder", love and murder are shown in the same scene. Ou Rong uses a long wide-angle shot to show the process of killing two people in the bathroom, making the murder more real. Alice peeps at Say's bath, the camera advances Say's carcass from far to near with her eyes, Alice deliberately seduces Say, angering Luke who witnessed all this, pulls out a switchblade, "outside the door" Under the objective lens of Alice grabbing Say's hand, Say's continuous slashing knives, blood splattered from Say's abdomen, and finally a close-up of Say's face covered in blood, the whole murder ended.
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