"The City That Never Sleeps" is different from the traditional noir films in the past. There is no dilemma, right or wrong. The protagonist is in a gray area. The whole film is mainly aimed at the police detective partners of the old and the young. Good and evil are clear. There is also no portrayal of charming female characters, only the young detective's wife has left the world in the image of a good mother and a beautiful girlfriend who has been kept in the dark by the suspect. Although it still has a sense of fate with a tragic factor, it still loses a bit of the depressing, deep and dignified shell. The lines are relaxed and interesting, and two of the "accidental guests" are also very entertaining. The detective's ridiculing words are vivid and wise, and the atmosphere is fascinating. The whole film was shot on site in the Big Apple, with familiar buildings and eye-catching landmarks, the streets and alleys with endless flow of people, and the doubtful eyes cast by the crowd in the chase. The reporter's hallucination, carrying the camera and following the police detective's thoughts and footsteps, shuttled through the city to find clues, cleared the layers of fog, and revealed the truth. Footprints reveal the truth as a matter of course, very realistic and reasonable without any blood.
The rhythm is properly grasped, and the links are interlocked according to the clues, and there is no need to worry that the documentary style will bring a boring feeling. I saw a lot of children's shoes complaining that the narration was unnecessary, disrupting the atmosphere and showing a sense of disobedience. I remember that when a paragraph later gave the murderer's inexplicable naughty advice from the perspective of a bystander, the narration that added fuel and vinegar did sound a bit disruptive. , but combined with the picture, I still feel that I have ideas and ambitions. In addition to the description of the various vernacular images of the Big Apple, the expression near the end is more intriguing, and I have a deeper and more direct understanding of the film. To sort out the direction of the story, an unsolved case caused by a beautiful girl who was brutally murdered, the police detective, after careful thinking and smart investigation, found the real murderer, and finally revealed two cases of murder and murder. The close relationship between Niu and her colleague and boyfriend uses the influence of the doctor's status to steal from the rich, and the second is the murderer of the wrestler who murdered Mei Niu because of greed. For fame and status, a strong desire for collective consistency is to blame.
After watching the last episode of "The Dawn of Love Owl", the climax of the chasing scene at the station, I was still amazed at the director's shooting ability, and then I turned to watch the last chase scene of "The City That Never Sleeps". Between the police detectives who are heroically chased by the fugitive fugitives, through sharp editing close-up shots and a wide range of scene explanations, they echo each other's comings and goings, tension and excitement go hand in hand, showing the demeanor of a master, with a sense of substitution human eyeball. Another thing worth pondering is the duality of the Big Apple shown in the camera. Through the interspersed pictures and narrations in the film, we can see not only the workers who are still working hard in the dead of night, the office workers who rush to the place of work on the working day, and the other side The innocent little boy playing carefree and the police detective's happy family life. From these information, it seems that the Big Apple has a peaceful and harmonious side, but from this case, we can see its dark and bitter side. The widening of the class division between the rich and the rich has created a survival scene in which a group of people from the bottom class who are huddled in the corner of the Big Apple and want to work hard to turn over, resolutely transcend the legal boundaries and moral bottom lines.
Often when we see a horrible murder case on the Internet or on TV, we will unconsciously start to want to find out the reasons behind the brutal and brutal acts, in addition to our own irreparable sins. The last resort or objective social influence, I remember that the detective in the film invited the victim's parents to authenticate the corpse and inquire about the situation. The unrelenting pursuit of fame and fortune and the infatuation with money will lead to the current end. When I see the body, I cry bitterly. The white-haired man sends the black-haired man. , using lies to try to package himself as a high-ranking person with status, background, status, and face, and look like a gentleman, until he is exposed by police detectives one by one, embarrassingly revealing the true image of nothing, cheating, stealing, filthy, shameless, and being a boxer. The murderer of the hand showed his strength in the dialogue with the police detective, repeatedly avoiding being in the low class, until finally he had to grit his teeth and go to death with an attitude of never admit defeat and surrender. In addition to the inescapable own factors, the environment often plays a decisive role.
For the Big Apple after World War II, without any sabotage, heavy losses and adverse effects, it began to develop vigorously and vigorously. It seems that everyone has lived a stable and prosperous life. The rise of the actual financial market has made capitalism like a virus. Expansion has begun to prevail, and the living conditions are seriously polarized. The rich are more blessed and the poor are poorer. People living at the bottom do the hardest work but suffer from the suffering of poverty and the trampling of dignity. Psychological havoc and insatiable desires have caused many people to have a thirst and irrational need for money, and taking shortcuts has brought helpless consequences, whether it is a criminal full of lies, a beautiful girl who died tragically, or It is not difficult to see that the murderer who jumped down last has a trace of defense of dignity. For them, money can bring a decent status symbol and respect from others, so that they can overcome the unfair class division and have full superiority. You can see how embarrassed, small and humble they are living in this crowded and busy star-studded city, as the film says, this is just one of the eight million stories in this city, Countless ordinary personnel affairs will only be buried in the depths of memory with the passage of time in this extremely wonderful and rich big apple, and the seemingly infinite surface often hides some inevitable sadness and regret.
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