"wait, do not take long
black man will be here
his cleaver blade benefits very
easily put you chop mess
is you!"
Top shots in games with the children doing the "nursery rhymes", slowly The camera turned to looking up, and the old lady on the balcony reprimanded the children not to recite this ominous nursery rhyme.
The prologue of the film kicked off.
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Aisi's mother is waiting for her daughter from school to come home for lunch, but the child is tricked away by a man from the school gate, and Aisi becomes the ninth missing and murdered child.
In just three or four minutes, through the change of space and the passage of time, things such as clocks, stairs, dining tables, shadows, balls, and balloons were brought to life by the lens, while the mother’s shouting of "Ace" and the man blowing on firewood Kowski’s "Candy Fairy Dance" whistles and other sounds also left a deep impression on people.
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With the beginning of the newspaper "extraordinary", the film has entered a new chapter. Because the murderer has not been arrested for a long time, people from all walks of life have mutual suspicion, distrust and even slander. Then there was a long telephone conversation between the Minister of Security and the Chief of Police, and the conversation itself was more of a voice-over, but the video richly narrated the clueless investigation of this case by different types of police.
In the meantime, when psychologists analyzed the psychological characteristics of criminals, the camera switched to the front of the criminal who appeared for the first time (it only appeared this time in the first 50 minutes of the film), and he made a hideous expression in the mirror. For a few seconds, let this expression linger in the audience's mind from beginning to end.
Fourth,
with a silent segment, the film advances to a police search of an underground entertainment venue. There are also many excellent shots in this segment, such as the scene where the police surrounded the crowd in the corridor. The words of the bar proprietress smoothly transferred the plot to the meeting of the gangsters. It turned out that due to regular surprise inspections by the police disrupting the normal operation of the underworld, they decided to use their own methods to bring the murderer to justice.
Government officials were interspersed with the discussions of the underworld leaders on the case. This parallel montage is very interesting. Not only is it a smoky space, but the lines of each other can be almost coherent, and the characters are also in appearance. There is no particular difference. Here you can feel the film creators gradually throwing out their intentions and questioning the superstructure.
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Gangs decided to cooperate with the gang of beggars and let them be distributed in every corner of the city to search for suspicious people. A blind man selling balloons identified the murderer by whistling the day he killed Little Ai, and told his fellow beggars, a group of beggars. Chase the murderer, and force it into an office building. At the same time, the homicide group leader of the police station also gradually sorted out his mind. Starting from the list of recovered mental patients, an agent confirmed Beckett's suspicion while searching for Beckett's residence.
The beginning of the shot went from the description of the life of the beggars to the underworld division of labor for each of them. In the middle, the extensibility of the lens was realized by switching the floors, and one of them penetrated the glass from the outside into the interior. It is hard to imagine the completion of such a photography back then. , It is said that it is reached by pulling off the glass instantly. The criminals once again wanted to commit crimes, the beggar gang's containment and the detectives' search were intertwined in an orderly manner, and dramatic conflicts spontaneously emerged. Many of these exemplary plots and lens processing have been tried and tested in subsequent noir films and crime films. The appearance of the letter "M" also pushed the plot to a small climax at this moment.
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Beckett, who hid in the building, did not follow the off-duty people. After the beggars who were besieged reported to the underworld boss, the underworld decided to search the entire building at night. In the end, Beckett was caught. The person who had captured Beckett evacuated, but a person who smashed through the ceiling and entered the room was left behind. The police arrived and arrested him. In both soft and hard actions, he revealed the purpose of their actions and the place where Beckett was imprisoned.
The director once again demonstrated his level of camera and sound control. The triad boss decided to act at eleven o’clock in the evening, followed by the sound of the building at eleven o’clock. You will have a different general suffering. The time of one second is stretched without limit. The sense of humor and tension during the entire arrest process and police interrogation was also very well performed, especially the light setting was also extremely effective. Among them, Beckett's breathing becomes a sound effect that is closely integrated with the plot, which is in sharp contrast with the previous whistle.
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In the old Kenzi and Levi distillery, people from the bottom of society gathered together and carried out their trial of Beckett. At the last minute, the police came and "freed" Beckett, followed by the real court trial. Tell the result, but in the last words of Aisi’s mother, we got the result:
"This will not bring our children back to life! You have to look after your children!" The
last paragraph pushed the film to a real climax, although Some commented that "the practice of rigorous underworld organizations and setting up private courts directly pointed to the Nazis before the usurpation of power in 1931." But looking at the film as a whole, the director does not have extreme political tendencies, but questioning the superstructure itself. Whether it is current or post-usurped, everything is driven by self-purpose. As for the political discussion of the film, I think it is not the focus of the film. This can be seen in the one-man show of the male protagonist. The director has given the character more room for self-expression, and has a groundbreaking discussion on compulsive criminals. . And as Fritz Lang said in an interview, "The essence of the movie is not to punish criminals, but to warn mothers: you must take good care of your children!", the original intention of the director to make a movie is always elusive.
The groundbreaking of the film has been recognized by everyone. As Fritz Lang’s first sound film, as the first film to describe a serial murderer, it is epoch-making in sound effects, picture construction, and actor performance, and the suspense afterwards, Films of black, law, politics and other genres have more or less taken nourishment from it.
2007-10-29
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