(Text/Yang Shiyang)
What a boring title-Searching, which was translated into "Internet Mystery Trails", sounds nothing more than a suspenseful film made 15 years ago, but in fact this movie has attracted many fans in exclamation. This year is really an important year for "desktop movies". The popularity of "Unfriend 2: The Dark Web" was taken over by this "Internet Mystery Trail". The whole story can be presented on a small computer screen, video call , Search engines, Facebook, ins, video reports...everything, from a certain angle, this way of presentation may be the "realism" of this era, and the time we don’t face the screen in our lives is already far lower. When facing it, the screen is already an extension of our retina.
Aside from the external form, "Mystery on the Internet" is still a suspenseful thriller. "The Lost Lover" is a mix of "The Invisible Guest" and mixed with the coldness of the American drama "Murder", even in suspense. In addition to the horror and crime story, it also reminds me of the sad and moving "Unmanned Pilot", a story about the alienation, approach and mutual understanding between parents and children. "Online Mystery Trail" tells the story of a high school girl who suddenly lost contact with a single father. The father couldn't find it. She started logging into her daughter's social media accounts to try to find clues, and finally rescued her nine-dead daughter.
Regardless of the setting of the story, the arrangement of the suspense, the reversal of the continuation, or the reunion at the end, "Network Mystery Trail" is a textbook-style suspense film. Its external form and internal story complement each other and help each other, which is its success. An important reason. Everything happens in the room, within the square inch screen, all communication and communication are online, but the anxiety and impatience online are reflections of everything that actually happens offline, and this form brings everyone watching the movie to life. To effectively incorporate emotions, people face the screen, and the person watching them face the screen, this is a unique landscape unique to this era.
"Online Mystery Trail" has always intentionally or unintentionally shaped an "internal and external organic" narrative mode. On the one hand, it is the combination of the form of the desktop movie and the internal suspense story. The father cracks the union of the inner process of the daughter. The crime became an opportunity to restart the father-daughter relationship that seemed to be close but has long been estranged. "Searching" has become a dual action and dual motivation-looking for the girl's physical whereabouts and the girl's inner world. So, from this perspective, the whole story is nothing more than a process of "deciphering", deciphering who the perpetrator is, deciphering the motive of the crime, deciphering the girl's inner trajectory, and the growth process.
At the beginning of the story, it started with a family and beautiful life. The child grew up slowly, and the family happiness of a family of three took the mother’s cancer, struggle, and eventual early death as a turning point. From then on , Everything seems calm on the surface, but in fact, the inside is slowly being eaten away. Life has maintained its performance as always, with its apparent perfection, but some things have been irreversibly damaged. The father is immersed in memory and sadness, but avoids talking about everyone. On the surface, it is still sunny, but in fact, occasional frowning and avoidance when others mention the dead wife are the real flashes of the inner black hole, and the daughter has been playing the role. A kind of well-behaved and progressive setting continues the mother's ardent expectations of her back then, but she herself has the sadness that she cannot tell outsiders.
If compared with the same famous desktop movie "Unfriend 2: The Dark Web", "Network Mystery Trails" more completely shows the relationship between all people, the changes in emotional patterns, and the face of life reflected by social networks in the Internet era. The various possibilities of the rescued and tampered, the secretly manipulated and corrected in time, everything is more real and more comprehensive. In fact, the story began in the 58th minute, and some changes suddenly occurred. The ambiguous water splash was suddenly splashed. After the girl was officially declared dead, the grand performance began. Those students who were not familiar with the girl were on social networks. A self-portrait video was released on the Internet. The girl cried and said that she was her best friend. The boys performed a sense of responsibility and claimed that they were ready to make due contributions to the community at any time. The death of a young girl would not happen. What kind of real sadness is caused on social networks? Sadness only occurs in real space. All the content that is visible on the Internet is performance. The process of shooting, publishing, and interacting itself is contrary to the dignity of being immersed in grief, but Today, we all believe or are willing to persuade ourselves to believe in such a performance and participate in it voluntarily or semi-voluntarily.
In fact, the background color of "Internet Mystery Trails" is reunion and warmth. It is the father's persistence that finally rescued the daughter. The real and sincere all defeated the virtual and pretentious things. This is what people expect from the Internet.
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