Two days ago, in the big night, Sleepy and I had a tenacious struggle and watched "Mystery Puzzle" on CCTV-it is said that CCTV broadcasted it many years ago before 123456 was separated. (Central VI may have just a few translated films in total, which are released endlessly in a cycle of many years, so you may be surprised to see yourself on TV again when you were a little kid after many years. I understand the foreign film that has been translated in a mess.) The
film is classified in the trailer as "Thriller Romance". In fact, classification is difficult. Generally, there are many elements in a movie, but it is not appropriate to classify them. For example, the category of
A. Bad imitation show and classic vulgar plot
. A mysterious name tells a terrible story. Beauty Patrol Emily (Angelina Jolie) found a scary body on the day before she was transferred to work in the office. The police handed over this old and difficult case to the black police officer Lyme, who was paralyzed in bed due to an in-service injury and could move his head and fingers. Because of Emily's talent and courage when collecting evidence at the scene, Lyme decided to force her to participate in the investigation. After that, Rhyme took command, and Emily went to the scene of the murder to collect evidence again and again, and finally solved the mystery. Emily and Rhyme also had a faint feeling... it
seems to be a very vulgar story.
I remember that Julia Roberts acted in one of the movies where my colleagues were born into death and turned hostility into love. It was about two reporters. A policewoman single-handedly entered and exited the tiger's den. Finally, she was successful and completed her personal growth. There is also "The Silent Lamb". The image of Emily in this film is obviously not like Angelina's full lips, and the distance is "Silent". His achievements are still far behind. Those who have read the "Seven Deadly Sins" can easily associate the two together. The film seems to be deliberately imitating the gloomy, gloomy, and dark feeling created for the city by "Seven", and even "wearing gangs" appear. For example, when Emily heard that someone called the police near the railway, she was obviously having breakfast, and when she reached the scene on foot, it was already dark. Since she is a patrol officer, her task should be to deal with cases in her jurisdiction. What if she doesn't drive so far? The next day when Emily was attending a class in the Youth Supervision Group, it should be in the morning. The indoor light was very strong and obviously natural light. But soon, when she was called out by her boss to get in the car to Lyme, a panoramic view was displayed. The dark blue repressive sky of New York... This is actually an atmosphere imposed on the audience, which may be regarded as "aesthetic violence".
From the concept of the story, it is also like an inferior copy of the "Seven Deadly Sins". They are all criminals with a high intelligence quotient deliberately leaving behind a series of puzzles, there are a series of bloody and horrible crime scenes, and every murder case follows a certain mysterious procedure... However, the "Seven Deadly Sins" have a background. Yes, the murderer killed those "sinners" in accordance with the seven sins of human nature referred to by the Catholic Church, while the murderer of "Mystery Puzzle" just created murders one by one according to the description of an ancient Gothic novel. "The Seven Deadly Sins" has become a typical analysis of "film noir" and "crime film", in which profound thinking about human nature, society and even religion, a certain despair of human living space, measurement and questioning of crime and punishment, etc. make the film desperate Not only stay on the level of visual impact. However, the simple imitation of "Mystery Puzzle" dispelled this rational thickness.
Since it is a "thriller", it won't be finished without frightening you. One of the most obvious and most vulgar Gu Nong Xuanxu is the night when Emily returns home from the horrible scene. Emily takes a nap at home, and then closes the doorknob turning (Classic Vulgar Episode 1), Emily wakes up and opens the door, but there is no one outside the door (Classic Vulgar Episode 2), scaring Emily and the audience. After that, Emily turned around, (feeling a movement outside the window), facing the window, drew the curtains abruptly, and the audience's hearts were hanging in their throats. Don't it be the murderer who came with her family? As a result, guess who is outside? Hey! It's Emily's colleague! This vulgar trick has reached home, and I have used it many times in "Deathing Scream". And there is no logic. Who can open the window without knocking on the door first at home?
In terms of scaring people, isn't "Old Nowhere" typical? It scares the audience enough, but after all, the narrative is not abrupt.
If you want to talk about crime, love, and horror, it's not uncommon. Isn't Instinct just one? However, these elements are perfectly integrated, because the actor and heroine are "police and thief", and the psychology of the audience fully agrees with the psychology of the actor.
And "Mystery Puzzle"'s "horror" as a selling point is completely superfluous. The murderer's trick is enough to disturb the audience, and he still uses such pediatric tricks to scare the audience. Isn't this looking for scolding?
B. Gender power ebb and flow: The second clue is unknown.
If distraction is the first clue in the film, then the ebb and flow of gender should be the implicit second clue (I include the love of the hero and heroine).
At the beginning of the film, Emily sits by the window of the apartment and looks out the window in the early morning. Afterwards, the panoramic view shows her boyfriend sleeping on the bed behind Emily. Then her boyfriend woke up and hugged Emily. Emily said that he was going to work, and the boyfriend asked if he wanted to make her something to eat. Then her boyfriend said: "...you know what I want" Emily said seriously: "I care about you, but I don't want to get married."
This part of the plot is obviously subversive, and Emily is a " The image of "strong woman", and her boyfriend is in aphasia, this comparison is rare.
After discovering the corpse and bravely stopping the train, the chief who rushed did not put Emily in his eyes, dismissed her behavior, and even called her "stupid", largely because of Emily's gender. When Emily went to see Lyme for the first time, she used a subjective lens to close up Emily's lips in Lyme's eyes. So even though Rhyme continues to praise Emily’s “talent, courage, and keen intuition” and provides reasons for his insistence on appointing Emily as an assistant, the audience still seems to have a feeling that Rhyme is “using public for private”. Here, Emily's value is in fact still the value "in the eyes of men".
Two times when Emily entered the underground, long-abandoned, dark and dark crime scene, Lime encouraged and requested it. Lem said: "I will always be with you, and I will be with you every step of your way." After arriving at the scene, the two talked on a wireless phone. In other words, what Emily did was actually Lyme's body. That is, men perform complex thinking and women perform simple actions.
After the three murders, Lyme's "puzzle" still has no clue. It was with the help of Emily and Lyme's female nurse that key progress was made in the investigation of the case. After this, Emily was able to successfully rescue a victim and entered an abandoned subway station following the clues left by the murderer and Lyme's instructions. Strangely, the contact signal between Emily and Lyme was cut off as soon as she entered the subway station (it hadn’t happened before, although every scene was underground), and Emily was judged independently by a string of numbers left by the murderer. The next victim is Lime!
It turns out that the murderer was a former police officer who was imprisoned because of Lyme's report many years ago. After he was released from prison, he waited for an opportunity to retaliate and committed a series of murders. Just as the murderer broke into Lyme's room and raised his sharp knife to the paralyzed Lyme, gunshots sounded-Emily appeared. (Classic Vulgar Plot 3. When I watched it, I didn’t worry about Lyme at all, I knew he couldn’t die)
At this point, we can sort out a context of the ebb and flow of the strength of the two sexes implicit in the film. It seems that Emily has completed her growth as a woman, growing from a substitute male body to an independent thinking subject, and she also seems to paint the film with a feminist color. However, the arrangement at the end of the film seems a bit hasty, and the mystery solved by Emily alone is not clever, especially the David Griffith-style "last-second rescue" is not satisfactory to the audience. In particular, the "double weak" image of "male + female" is particularly intriguing. If Lyme was not in this so-called "critical situation", the story would crash to the ground.
At the end of the film, Lyme is sitting in a wheelchair celebrating Christmas with friends and colleagues. Emily is wearing a sexy evening gown and sitting next to Lyme. A close-up of Emily's hands with bright red nails stroking Molem's hand. In contrast to the previous close-up, Emily stroked Lyme's hand in a comatose, slender hand. At this time, Emily's female identity was once again highlighted. Is it love? Caused by career? The meaning here is still ambiguous.
C. Visual spectacles and hidden political implications
. People who have watched the film must have been deeply impressed by the pile of high-tech equipment in Lyme's ward. Although Lim only has one finger to move, he can still read the news on the big screen by pressing the button, look up information, and scan the on-site physical evidence for "puzzle". After the serial murders occurred, Lyme's room immediately formed a research center, and various instruments and experts gathered together...
It was the use of computers to puzzle and dilute the fragments left by the murderers that brought light to the solving of the crime. It can be said that without high technology, there will be no final conclusion.
In order to solve the case, Rhyme tried his best to solve the case, several times of coma, convulsions (every time he has a seizure, he may become a vegetative), and he is still tireless...
Another thing is that the audience can easily notice that Rhyme is black, his The nurse is black, and one of his team members is likely to be an Indian... I
don't know if Americans really solve crimes like this in real life. Of course, there is always a difference between movie "spectacle" and "real". But the political implications that may be implied in this are intriguing. Not here.
In short, "Mystery Puzzle" has a lot of elements, and the purpose of its creation can be seen. On the whole, it is more like a pot of gruel. I want to get everything in, but nothing tastes enough.
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