Similar to the Lumiere Brothers' "The Arrival of a Train", two taxis enter a tall stone arch at the train station at the same time, followed by a parallel montage of cross-cuts, two men in suits and leather shoes, like Two parallel rails meet at the railway station. This is where the wonderful story begins.
There are many screenwriting and writing skills worth learning in the film, such as: the method of approaching strangers who accidentally kicked their feet, and the way men communicate their feelings through smoking, which are all natural ways to introduce the protagonist. The name brooch that Bruno has always carried contains a lot of content. 1. He has been carrying the brooch given by his mother, which shows that Bruno’s love and respect for his mother and his mother’s doting on him are also part of his development into a personality that he wants to do. At the same time, it explains Bruno is unwilling to wake up his mother's filial piety because of the murder in the middle of the night; 2. The heroine remembers Bruno through the name brooch many times, thus discovering the secret that Kaihen has been troubled; 3. The audience has a high degree of recognition of him. A very commemorative A To G lighter is a very important prop for committing a crime. A premeditated murder must have evidence, and a good suspense reasoning story will have one or two clue tools.
Bruno, one of the male protagonists, is a very smart person. He can often think of some pranks to make fun of people. Now he is thinking about murder, that is, the method of committing a crime. Everyone has an object they want to murder in their hearts, but they dare not do it because they have a motive to kill. So the witty Bruno thought of a killing two birds with one stone and a seamless murder plan, which could not only kill the person he wanted to kill, but would not be arrested for the motive of committing the crime. The recently hit Japanese drama "It's Your Turn" borrowed the idea of exchanging killings from the film, and started a series of smiling killings. Each suspect got away with no motive for killing, and the killings continued one after another.
Unexpected conversation, Kaiheng, who was playing on the scene, agreed to the plan with a smile, and didn't take it seriously afterwards. It wasn't until Bruno's reappearance with his wife's glasses that he found himself involved in a horrific criminal conspiracy. If the inhabitants of "It's Your Turn" could be as honest and never hurt others as Kaiheng, and bravely fight against evil, there would not be so many deadly incidents, and of course there would be no exciting stories. .
Back in the movie, when Bruno was chasing Kahun's wife Miriam, he met several witnesses, such as puncturing a bear boy's balloon with a cigarette, playing the bell-ringing game to tease the frivolous Miriam, and hitting the bell directly. It is so big that it is easy to break a woman's neck; the boatman witnesses leaving after the murder; this is the bad taste of the screenwriter and director, and some behaviors reflect Bruno's strange hobby of teasing people.
In the era of black and white movies, there was no rich color stacking. Hitchcock was very good at using the light and shadow between buildings or characters to create a terrifying and eerie atmosphere. After following Miriam and the two lovers into the couple's tunnel, the style of painting changed suddenly. The shadow of Bruno wearing a suit hat gradually approached the three people who were embracing and flirting. The scream came, and just when the audience had a hunch that someone was killed, they found that it was just Miriam's excited scream. This is the director's brilliance, playing hard to escape and arousing the sensory nerves of the audience.
Murder is directly splashed with blood, which is Quentin's violent aesthetics. Hitchcock, who is good at light and shadow and using props, whether it is killing with a sharp knife in the bathroom in "Psycho", or killing with glasses distorted in "Stranger on a Train" The pictures all show a clever way of killing people to achieve the effect of horror.
This method of shooting is used in many places in the film. Beneath the huge column-shaped building, a black figure, under the high contrast of black and white, seemed to be controlling Kaiheng and suffocating him. The male protagonist in the first season of "American Horror Story" had just moved into the old house and was followed by a man with a strange face that was extensively burned. This strange atmosphere, Hitchcock used the language of the camera to easily can express.
What's interesting is the cross-narrative of the two parallel montages of Kaiheng men's tennis double base and Bruno's picking up a lighter at the end, which directly makes the audience feel nervous about the tense situation of the characters in the play. It's full of fun, and even now, "The Train Strangers" is still a masterpiece with a complete narrative, a well-organized rhythm, and full of characters. The scene where the merry-go-round is pinched is now a common bridge in action movies and horror movies. It was used in Jackie Chan movies. "Silent Hill 2" also has a similar plot. Action scenes are very innovative. In the end, Kai Heng returned to the train again and met strangers again. This time Kai Heng and his fiancée left directly. The whole movie tells us not to talk to strangers in public. This is Hitchcock's Law.
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