A murderer who doesn’t need legal sanctions.
The film has the same criminal theme. This movie style is different from Hitchcock’s style. Just like Hitchcock’s movie "The Cry", their movie points are the same. It's all about the assault of the mentally ill.
M is the murderer. He focuses on telling the film straightforwardly. It involves many relationships between characters. There are criminal gangs, police groups, and small townspeople. They are all piles of actors. It is only in the middle of the film that the protagonist is the protagonist. Murderer M (ps: The whole movie is more than two hours, except for a flash of a murderer in 15 minutes). Murder M didn't have many appearances, and soon he was caught by the undercover marketers hired by the criminal gang, and then he began to declare that his assault was unconscious.
Movies of that era focused on stories, so screenwriting was also a painstaking and pure technical work. And the actors in this movie are on the same level, because there is no so-called protagonist, he involves the complex relationship between the actors and the large number of personnel, so the protagonists should be divided into camps, murderers, police, gangs, and the masses. Fatty Lao Xi also used the same method in "Scary". Assuming that the female staff is the protagonist, as the story progresses, she is killed in 20 minutes. So the protagonist does not have the aura of immortality, the story is the truth.
Fright, Fatty Lao Xi focused on the shaping of multiple identities in the role. For example, an ordinary female clerk suddenly became a criminal who flees with money, and a friendly innkeeper turned out to be a perverted murderer. (Ps: Fatty Lao Xi’s movies always like to work hard on the multiple identities of the characters. For example, a talented advertising businessman in the north-northwest was inexplicably involved in the undercover of a criminal gang, and a young and beautiful woman is also a policeman. The undercover agent on the side is another chess card of the criminal boss. For example, a newspaper photographer in the rear window has accidentally injured his leg and became a detective accidentally through peeping. For example, an ordinary sales lady in Ecstasy was hired Become an actor who confuses the police.)
The multiple character identities of Fatty Lao Xi make the movie more three-dimensional and full of saturation. This is an era when there are no special effects for movies and all the plots rely on scripts. Because there are no special effects, the director must spend time on the story of the film to win the audience’s favor. At the same time, it is an era without special effects, which even tests the photographer’s live lighting and lighting. Performing ability of actors. And not like in the current movies, those actors only need to be beautiful, stupid and naive. The texture of black and white movies nowadays is too lazy to light up, just like Disney's Wonderland, and it’s good to turn the real scene into black and white to make a retro feeling in the later stage.
The core of the story is the character, so the character needs rich and multiple psychological shaping. Every expression and every action of the character reflects his psychological level. The film does not have the psychological description in the novel, and can only be visually conveyed through the performance of the actors and the audience.
It was an era of legal sanctions, and the law was supreme, but the murderer was not subject to so-called sanctions. Because his attack was carried out unconsciously, when he said his attack, it was like a devil behind him telling him to do so, and then he did it as soon as his head heated up. This unconsciousness is not condemned and must Protected by the government. But as the movie says, those victims, and even their families, are so helpless to endure the criminals without sanctions, and their pain is mixed with more helplessness. The icy onlookers in the film do not have the ending setting of the pros and cons of the characters, and do not leave the audience with the pleasure of justice that the bad guys must die. Instead, it is like a camera lacking perceptual thinking, as if saying that I am just shooting.
There should be applause for the small details of the film. A perverted murderer crime movie, but none of them face the bloody scenes. A hydrogen balloon on a telephone pole, a small ball on a haystack, successfully hinted that the little girl had been killed. The use of props is meaningful. The little girl plays with the little ball at home from school, and the candy paper around the scene of the murder. The atmosphere of the movie rendering is in place. A group of people are in a closed conference room, because they want to find out the murderer's but helpless emotions, they use the smoke that diffuses from cigarettes and cigars to express people's fear. Every setting has an existential meaning. There is also the music that sounded before the assault. The music of the whistle represents the appearance of the murderer. It is a good example. The sound of the whistle before the assault also expresses the playful character of the murderer. He is not like a murderer in the Zodiac. The careful thought of the murderer shows that the murderer's behavior is an unplanned perceptual behavior.
The involvement of black and white. The white faction is the police, responsible for the frontal search. According to the clues of the murderer, the murderer sent a statement to the newspaper. The scribbled handwriting showed the uncertainty of the murderer's artistic emotions, which paved the way for subsequent unconscious crimes. Later, the witty police found the murderer’s residence and found the red pencil used by the murderer to write. The white faction is sure of the murderer. The black faction felt that the presence of this murderer made the black faction unable to do business because the large-scale police raid obstructed their transactions. So they also hated the murderer, and quickly caught and sentenced them and quickly resumed their business. Therefore, the black faction distributed money from the market people and placed them in a fixed position as undercover agents to catch the murderer and commit the crime again. But they also have a righteous side. They condemned the murderer's brutal behavior and demanded his life. They also have a human side. They actually assigned a defense lawyer to the murderer, and then the defense lawyer said that the murderer was a mentally ill person, and his behavior did not constitute a crime and was not punished.
This is a small society under the rule of law. Because there is a law, there is a basis, rather than being punished by seeing things that are not pleasing to the eye.
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