Let's talk from a game theory perspective
According to the general subsection of fans, the whole film can be divided into four acts, which are:
1. Introductory statement (about 10 minutes)
2. The version of the story told by the male protagonist (Adrian) (about 50 minutes)
3. The version of the story told by the lawyer (Goodman) (about 20 minutes)
4. The truth and the ending (about 20 minutes)
Many film critics have handled many key details very well, but I thought that there was one core detail that was not captured. That is, the first three parts are the game between the male protagonist and the fake lawyer.
The focus of the game is : whether to reveal the location of the corpse//how to get the location of the corpse.
We must first clarify our position throughout the article:
That is , the core purpose of the male protagonist is to clarify the relationship between the two murders and him , that is, he is not the direct murderer, and this is to require the whole incident to be twisted into the third act version of the story, the most critical of which is the sinking of the corpse. In the trunk of , put Laura's personal token.
The fundamental purpose of the female lawyer is to make the male protagonist confess the crimes he committed, especially the murder case of killing the boy and sinking his corpse. If you want to know the truth of the male protagonist's crime in the boy incident, you must know the location of the corpse. .
Act 1: Opening Statement (about 10min)
Give the audience a version of the basic event profile. The main focus is on Laura's murder, leading to the model of the murder in the secret room. The male protagonist must have another murderer and strongly deny that he is the murderer.
This is the initial model that the male protagonist has constructed in advance, and the purpose is to assess the basic abilities of female lawyers.
Female Attorney: But first he has to come in.
Man: He's already here.
From the relevant details, we can see that the male protagonist has already considered from the very beginning of the incident at the Mountain Villa Hotel to blame the boy's parents for the murder of Laura .
The female lawyer exposed the vainness and unreliability of this version of the story on the spot, and stated the core humanistic thought of the film, and echoed before and after: if there is no suffering, there will be no redemption .
Subsequently, the female lawyer took out a newspaper about the disappearance of the boy and linked Laura's murder to the incident of the boy. At this point, the male protagonist believes that female lawyers have basic business skills and begins to weave a second version of the story.
The second act: the male protagonist's statement (about 50min)
This scene offers plenty of storyline. The core of the story is that Laura is a femme fatale who advocates saving people, and Laura undertakes a series of further steps to cross the line. This is the version where the male protagonist further examines the female lawyer's ability and sees whether she can blame the boy's father for Laura's death. There are a lot of distortions in it .
The first time the female lawyer pushed this version of the story was to claim that the prosecution witness had arrived at the court, and the male protagonist of course knew that the so-called prosecution witness was the passing driver at the time, and at this moment he had ordered Felix to find this person and pay the huge cost of collusion. He was extremely shocked, which meant that the alibi he had conceived earlier had been overturned .
Among them, the female lawyer also took the opportunity to turn off the male protagonist's mobile phone to prevent Felix from contacting the male protagonist to explain that the prosecution witnesses had colluded and interrupted her inducement plan.
The second time the female lawyer pushed this version of the story was to claim that the male protagonist's name was seen in the police report, and Felix had already reported to the male protagonist that he had settled his alibi and removed his name from the police report.
The two reverse advancements of the female lawyer are to a certain extent the female lawyer's temptation, which disrupts the male protagonist's position to a certain extent, but it cannot prevent the male protagonist from further fabricating the story version of Laura as the initiator.
Even to some extent, the boy's father used his press card to meet him and have a radical conflict, which is very likely to be distorted.
Because we know later that the boy's parents learned the truth because Laura took the initiative to explain and repent, and then contacted the boy's parents to meet with the male protagonist. In other words, the boy's father did not have the time difference to touch porcelain to find fault. And the male protagonist pretended to be this plot in order to introduce the female lawyer's thinking into his established structure, so that the female lawyer could infer that the "invisible guest" was the boy's father.
For this reason, due to the so-called "prosecution witnesses have arrived at the court" and other circumstances, the male protagonist deliberately misled the female lawyer in the end, explaining that it was the passer-by driver who was blackmailing him and eventually killed Laura. This is a further test of the male protagonist on the female lawyer.
[The footage of passers-by and drivers lurking to watch the dead body is so terrifying...]
Female lawyers lashed out at this with three questions:
1. The content of the text message cannot be explained
2. The money was not taken
3. The secret room killing method cannot be realized
The female lawyer directly exposes the lie, and then leads to the third act.
Act 3: Attorney Statement (about 20min)
This is the version of the story that the male protagonist wants most . It fully proves that the female lawyer is worthy of entrustment. She can tell her the location of the corpse and give her the task of placing a Laura token in the trunk of the accident car .
The male protagonist initially conceived of this version of the story, which had a rough outline when Laura happened, but the story of his own construction had fatal loopholes :
First of all, the passing driver (the so-called eyewitness) was not found at that time - did not settle with money;
Second, the boy's father's secret room killing method lacks the necessary details to form a complete closed loop.
The female lawyer pointed out that the boy's father was the murderer, and it was in the best interest of the male lead, and revealed the inner child of the male lead and Felix. The male protagonist has put the female lawyer to the ultimate test-complete the true elements of the secret room murder technique .
The female lawyer deliberately covered the mirror over the details of the composite photo, talking about the boy's mother working in the villa, combined with the details of the boy's father who deliberately revealed the boy's father pretending to be a reporter to find fault, and told the male protagonist's most desired [Laura's death] Version story - the boy's parents work together to set a trap, kill Laura, blame the male protagonist, and avenge the boy.
The mystery of the text message, the money not being taken away, and the murder technique in the secret room, etc., are also three difficulties that the male protagonist himself cannot perfect the version of the story.
The female lawyer used a false phone call to learn that the prosecution witnesses were under control, and came to the door, creating an extremely critical situation for the male protagonist . Then, as a defender, he thoughtfully arranged the version of the [Death of a Boy] story that the male protagonist most expected - Laura's personal evil throughout the whole process, and he has an alibi. The corpse of Daniel in the trunk of the accident car and Laura established a definite connection through the token , which led to the focus of this game:
Is it possible to reveal the location of the corpse//How to get the location of the corpse.
The male protagonist always cares about the existence of the witnesses from the prosecution. The female lawyer tells the truth, and the male protagonist feels relieved instantly, and says that he already knows that the murderer is the boy's parents. The male protagonist already had a basic outline before killing Laura and getting started with the police. The boy's father was the murderer, and seeing the boy's mother before he was caught in the helicopter gave him further specific details of the story he conceived. And why not say it directly is to test the female lawyer to see if she is capable enough to defend him sincerely .
The key to getting yourself out of the two murders is to characterize the dead Laura as the murderer of the boy, thus binding Laura to vendetta. For this reason, the decisive evidence the police need to see is Laura in the trunk of the accident car. keepsake.
Of course, this is not the most important point of the male protagonist .
Act 4: Truth and Ending (about 20min)
The male protagonist's evil nature is exposed, and the darkness of human nature is terrifying .
The female lawyer thought that she was done , knowing the location of the dead body, and she could obtain conclusive evidence to prove the male protagonist's crime against the boy's death; at the same time, through the recording, the boy's mother (that is, the female lawyer herself) did not go to work when the incident occurred, and it was impossible for passers-by and drivers to admit it. A series of evidence of the murder, the police's established secret room murder judgment, etc. proves that the male protagonist lied, and it is only possible that the male protagonist killed Laura.
She looked at her husband who was facing the window, and then the next words of the male lead , that is, the male lead's real bottom-level premeditated , will calmly play the role of the female lawyer's boy's mother, and the emotion of shock and indignation cannot be suppressed .
The male protagonist's underlying premise is: when placing the Laura token, dispose of the boy's body, so that the police will not find that the boy died directly from drowning instead of being hit.
"But Laura has gone too far and there's no turning back."
This line shows how deeply the male protagonist is involved in the play and how strong his sense of survival is for his own sake. At this point, the female lawyer herself has been able to understand everything in an instant, and will restore the real situation of the whole incident that has been distorted by the male protagonist several times .
In the end, the film ushered in the climax in the continuous improvement of the background music. The male protagonist took out the recording pen in the pen, and the boy's father turned off the remote playback sound.
In the calm, the real female lawyer appears, and the male protagonist will eventually be punished by law.
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