My answer is: "Who Cares?"
The madman's nonsense, or even a perverted killer to excuse himself, because the logic of the plot is not important at all, the important thing is that this movie is very dark.
As a B-level film, Detour's production quality is not high. As a film noir, this film includes almost all the elements that a film noir should have. There is a tragic hero; Femme Fatale has it; crime has it; stylization has it; plus a very fatal feeling. So it's downright film noir, and noir is awesome.
In that era, there were too many interesting films, because the overall development of the film industry, on the one hand, there were countless good directors and good actors, and on the other hand, the result of prolific production was of course uneven quality. The style of many noir films is not deliberate, but the result of funding problems. There are many times when there are too many shadows, and the background cannot be clearly seen.
Having said that, Detour was shot in six days. If you think about it this way, this movie is simply a miracle. The current movie progress is about six days and ten minutes, let alone a feature film.
In fact, the story is terrifyingly simple. With a little more than an hour in length and a lot of non-plot scenes, it's all about how a hapless person becomes even more hapless. This gentleman looked bitter and hated from beginning to end. It really makes people feel bad for all the most unlikely bad luck in the world to happen to the same person in a few days. But even if he was so unlucky and innocent, it was hard to sympathize with him. Every time he said with that constipated look, "I'm innocent, I didn't do anything" I wanted to beat him up.
The male protagonist is like a framed idiot in some mentally retarded movies. As soon as he enters the murder scene and does nothing, he first picks up the murder weapon and looks around, wishing to engrave his name on it, and then smear it on the side of the corpse. A little blood, and finally fled the scene in a panic. By this time even he himself did not believe that he was not a murderer. It doesn't matter if a person dies, but it's his fault to do a series of things that make him look suspicious.
The only thing in this movie can be said to be a coincidence like winning the lottery, that is, the male protagonist accidentally hooked up the female protagonist in the car. The heroine actually likes it personally, and the bad is very thorough and very hateful. Another woman who is more powerful than men. Although not beautiful, but very vicious feeling, very demon. In fact, she did almost nothing, just threatened her with words, and the soft-hearted male protagonist was willing to be led by her nose. I said this gentleman, if you are really innocent, why would you be willing to be blackmailed? Isn't that because you did something that would be misunderstood. Sometimes there are too many misunderstandings, and when they pile up, they become the truth. In the end, he was going to go to jail for his own death. It's really....... Ironic
as he said: I'm innocent, but what I'm doing now just proves that I did what they said I was I did something that I didn't actually do (that is, kill).
Can not read it? I don't know either. Because that's pretty idiotic logic, but film/tv history has given us too many stories like this. Detour just makes such a scene even more idiotic. Noir movies often have such logic, killing people is just to set off the tragic sense of the protagonist. But someone like the hero of this film who is so tragic is ridiculous.
PS: The Chinese name of the film "Tuan" is translated very well and is very appropriate.
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