Five young people living in despair planned a kidnapping case that shocked the world! Why did their friendship break down? How do the police crack the clues? "Shocking Kidnapping Group", "Frontline" will be broadcast later

Alessia 2022-04-01 08:01:02

The name "Kidnapping Group" sounds a bit fake, not as honest as the English name "Kidnapping Mr. Heineken" (kidnapping Heineken), in fact, this movie originated from five diaosi in Amsterdam kidnapping the president of Heineken beer company in 1982 The true story of Freddie Heineken.


Aside from the true story, the movie itself, it can be said that it recreates a wonderful crime story for us. The film adopts the perspective of the kidnappers to advance the plot. Business failure and life frustration are the motives; robbery financing and detailed planning are preparations; execution of kidnappings and inner suffering are the process; unexpected incidents and broken friendships are the ending. The whole film does not talk about any details of the police solving the case, which is a highlight of the film. The director just focused on telling the inner changes of the five robbers. Through the suppressed tones and shaking shots, we in the movie theater felt the same loss and suffering as the five kidnappers back then, but we had no idea what the other side of the kidnapping case was. At one end, any dynamics of police and hostage families.


Let's talk about the good points, then let's talk about the bad points. The film focuses on shaping the different personalities of the five kidnappers, and also coincides with their different endings, but it is a little abrupt in the advancement of the story. It is incomprehensible by any means that five frustrated diaosi with almost no criminal record decide to commit a $70 million kidnapping case just after a drink on the boat. I believe that in reality, they must have sufficient reasons to embark on this road, but the film is limited by the length of the film, and may also be introduced into China for further deletion, so the final feeling presented to the audience is - the director said Lao Tzu wanted to kidnap the ticket, so we tied it up.


Another problem is that this film is too positive. Although I was mentally prepared when I sat in the movie theater, since a movie with such a theme can be released in China, the kidnappers should not get away with justice in the end, but when several protagonists were arrested, I was still a little lost. After all, watching We grew up with legal programs, we always feel that this ending is more suitable to appear on the central 12 sets of screens, and finally accompanied by Zhang Shaogang's sentence "criminals have finally been severely punished by the law, thank you for watching today's "Today's Talk" "Hehe
, having said this, finally I want to talk about a domestic TV series called "The Great Robbery". Older friends should still have an impression of this TV series released in 1995. This TV series can be described as an early crime in China. film classic. In fact, "The Great Robbery" and "The Great Kidnapping Group" have many similarities. They are both high-IQ crimes and involve huge sums of money. The criminals eventually fell apart. Of course, the most consistent between the two films is that the criminals eventually get severely punished by law.

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Kidnapping Mr. Heineken quotes

  • Freddy Heineken: There are two ways a man can be rich in this world, he can have a lot of money, or he can have a lot of friends. But he cannot have both.