Self-righteous people tend to shoot themselves in the foot, please don't look at the world with tinted glasses.
No. 7 Rating: 7.87
Synopsis
In the evening, in an apartment, two men strangled another man with a rope and put him in a large bookcase.
The blue one is named Brandon (John Doyle) and the other is Philip (Farley Granger), and they just graduated from Harvard.
The man who was strangled was their classmate David.
There is no hatred between them, it's just that Brandon has long wanted to plan a perfect murder, he thinks murder is art, and David's killing is just bad luck.
Many people want to kill, but few really dare to do it. Brandon thinks he is superior.
Philip was terrified, and he seemed to regret what he had done.
But it's not over yet, and Brandon thinks the artwork isn't complete enough.
He invites David's parents, fiancee Jenny, classmate Kenneth, and college professor Rupert (James Stewart) to a murder dinner, using a bookcase containing David's body as a dining table.
In Brandon's eyes, except for Philip and Rupert, everyone else is inferior.
He will mock these inferiors with his art, and let Rupert be a witness.
It's the first time I've seen such a miraculous brain circuit. After killing people, they still laugh at his parents and girlfriend on his corpse? At this moment, three words appeared in my mind: Neuropathy.
Kenneth was the first to arrive, and it's worth noting that he's Jenny's ex-boyfriend.
For Brandon, it might be his bad taste to have two old lovers have a dinner party on the corpse of a new love.
Brandon didn't tell them the guest list, obviously he wanted to see how the "lower class" in his eyes would react to seeing his old lover without knowing it.
Jenny arrives as scheduled, embarrassed to see Kenneth, but the two greet each other out of courtesy.
Then came David's father, which made Philip nervous, and he found himself unable to face David's family at all.
In addition to being nervous, he accidentally crushed the wine glass and cut his hand.
However, when everyone asked about David's whereabouts, Brandon prevaricates it on the grounds that he has not seen it.
Finally, Rupert's arrival will push the plot to a climax. As a professor, he is very knowledgeable and very smart.
Brandon also became nervous at that moment, after all, he was Rupert's student, and the theory of the art of murder came from him.
The banquet is about to start, and everyone crowds around the bookcase, how will this bizarre story develop...
Video Analysis
Almost every work of Xi Pang has its unique characteristics, and this one is no exception. As one of Xi Pang's most representative works, "Reaper of Souls" uses long shots. The film uses a pseudo-one shot to the end, which is actually made up of several long shots. Although it is not like a real "one-off" stage play, it has already tested the director's scene scheduling and the actors' performance skills.
What's more, in the process of watching the movie, you will even forget the "one shot to the end" sense of stage play. We will be brought into the plot by the tense atmosphere deliberately created by the director, and enjoy the character dialogue and plot settings brought to us. wonderful. The reason why he is called the master of suspense is because he can use countless methods to suspend the audience's appetite with suspense all the time.
Few of Xifa's films have a deeper interpretation of human nature, this one is an exception, the role of Brandon is the touchstone of Xifa's evil to human nature.
We know from Brandon's mouth that he thinks Jenny is with David after leaving Kenneth because David is richer. But it is clearly stated in the film that Kenneth was the one who proposed to break up, and it was David's concern for Jenny when the relationship was empty that led to the development of the two.
If this happened in reality, after the two broke up, the woman was with another man, and if bystanders found that the man had more money, they would probably think that the woman broke up with her ex-boyfriend because of money and invested in other people's embrace. The funny thing is that people always think that they see through the world, but they don't know that they have been living in a world full of misunderstandings and prejudices, and people are always so self-righteous.
Rupert is a man with a very high dual quotient. In the middle of the film, he talks about social phenomena and the topic of "the art of murder", making the wife next to him laugh. Rupert's purpose in talking about this topic is to please the audience, it does not mean that he will actually kill people. And when Brandon and David's father quarreled over this topic, Rupert was the first to come out to mediate.
I believe that in reality, there will also be many people who will complain about some injustices in the society, and will complain about many things. They will also feel that there are too many people on the earth when buying tickets or traveling during the Spring Festival. However, many things are limited to ridicule and can be used as It is impossible to put the talk after dinner into practice. But there is such a kind of person who will take your jokes or random words seriously and spread them everywhere. In fact, what they want to promote is only their own opinions.
It stands to reason that Rupert, as Brandon's professor, is also the source of the idea of "the art of murder", and Brandon should respect him very much, but at the end of the film, Brandon shows his true colors. When he wanted to kill Rupert, he had already explained that he was just a mortal, and like ordinary people, when it came to their own interests, anyone could sacrifice. In the end, Rupert's fierce monologue finally clarified the theme of the film: everyone is an independent individual, and has the right to live, work, and think. Who is inferior?
Everyone is an independent individual, and has the right to live, work, and think. There is no distinction between noble and vulgar in life, and there is no distinction between high and low.
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