Although they are all works by Billy Wilder, after watching "The Witness for the Prosecution", I always feel that there is no more awesome work than this, and I don't want "Double Indemnity" to be comparable to it. It is also a father-killing drama in which a wife colluded with her lover. "The Witness for the Prosecution" is a bargaining chip that love makes people love and hate, while "Double Indemnity" is a game of cat and mouse that makes women play cat and mouse from beginning to end. There are many similarities between the two. The insurance investigator Keith in "Double Indemnity" is a replica of the lawyer in "Prosecution Witness". In fact, in various noir films, the perfect murder is the favorite of directors and screenwriters, and this film is 7 years earlier than "Stranger on a Train", which completely uses strangers to murder each other's enemies. It is a masterpiece of film history.
The film tells the story of an insurance salesman who met Phyllis, the wife of an oil tycoon, when he went to a client's home to sell auto insurance renewals. The two fell in love at first sight. Later, Phyllis asked about buying accident insurance without her husband's knowledge. The salesman guessed To her purpose of killing her father, but love makes him dizzy, so using his professional knowledge and judgment on the behavior of his colleagues, he decides to create a perfect murder...
When designing a murder, every detail will be flawed, and every link may be unintelligible, so the appearance of every episode will make the audience horrified. And the rhythm of the whole film has been in a tense state. Although the investigator's omission once gave my audience a chance, but the beginning of the film makes the decadent and gunshot hero appear on the stage, which makes people look forward to it. The next plot trend. The salesman with a gunshot wound returned to reality from his memory, and the blood on his shoulders became more and more, which also awakened the audience invisibly: the criminal can only get off at the terminal, and if he tries to get off halfway, he It was jumping from a fast-moving train, and even if you didn't die, you would fall to pieces.
Phyllis is nothing more than a representative of "the most poisonous woman's heart". While working as a nurse, he killed the rich man's sick wife, and prepared to wear a filial veil before her husband was murdered. It's not that she's not smart, she's just too impatient. If the calmness in the face of the president of the insurance company can be used on the stepdaughter, it will not be threatened by the stepdaughter who may expose it. And the scene where she ends up trying to kill her lover feels a bit dramatic, because she doesn't have a reason to kill him: as two people who have only met legally and are usually unconnected, suddenly the salesman dies in It's too suspicious to see her. If she wanted to kill her stepdaughter's boyfriend again, and framed him to create the illusion of two men competing for one woman, it would be a bit of a joke, after all, what they had been planning was that the salesman and Phyllis were not familiar with it. Therefore, the plot of Phyllis shooting the salesman has no practical use except to add a little stimulant to the atmosphere and leave some arguments for "Skynet".
Naif, an insurance salesman and the holder of the sales champion for two consecutive years, is tall, handsome and arrogant in his heart. When he first met Phyllis, he flirted in the hostess's house openly. For the design of the perfect murder, he did it with the mentality of spoofing his colleagues and being self-reliant. In his position, he understands the benefits and benefits the most, and he created a mysterious case in an unknown place that caused a sensation in the company. Even the investigators and the company president that he fears the most can be deceived. Isn't it more fun than that? The freshness of love.
When the insurance salesman and Phyllis first met, the flirtation about the speed of the car was clearly driving, but the words that were irrelevant to love made the heart blush. It's a pity that such subtle but bold love words are rarely seen in today's movies:
Phyllis: "The speed limit in this state, Mr. Neve, is 45 miles per hour."
Insurance Salesman: "What's my speed?"
Phyllis: "90 miles per hour."
Insurance salesman: "I guess you're going to get off a motorcycle and give me a ticket."
Phyllis: "This time, I'll deal with it with a warning."
Insurance salesman: "I guess I won't listen to the warning."
Phyllis: "I guess I'll punch you."
Insurance salesman: "I guess I'll cry and lie on your shoulders."
Phyllis: "I guess you'll want to lie on my husband's shoulders."
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