I didn't understand this film at first, but after watching half of it, I still have a vague understanding of the relationship between the characters. I don't even understand who is who, what their name is, and what their identity is. Because I couldn't understand it, I once thought that I had missed something. I watched the first clip no less than ten times, and I gradually "getting better" when I saw the middle part. Watching it again for the second time, I have a new understanding of the whole plot. There is no narration in the whole film. It is basically composed of realistic interviews, reenactments of past situations, and interspersed text and pictures that record the time. The whole tone is dark and gloomy, and it is accompanied by a little weird music. There are many people interviewed, and from their oral accounts, we slowly understand the process of what happened. The film reproduces the scene of the shooting at that time many times. According to the interviewee's dictation, the scene is reproduced and the scene is close-up, so that we can understand the scene at that time more intuitively, and also have a step-by-step understanding of the occurrence of the case. As for the content of the performance, there are few direct descriptions of the faces of the characters, and many of them are silhouettes or simply cut off, as if they were deliberately avoided. In addition to the crime scene, other scenes are mostly black and white. There is a recurring scene at the beginning----pressing the cigarette butt in the ashtray, which makes the whole tone seem urgent, expressing the character's anxiety, which is also related to the phrase "I don't know how long it has been, but two packs of cigarettes have been smoked. It's been a long time" responds. There is another recurring shot - a shot of orange flashing rotating lights, after watching it several times before I realize it is the flashing lights of a police car (indicating police identity?) I am more impressed. When some interviewees mentioned hypnosis, the constantly shaking pocket watch, the dizzy spinning text, and the rushing music appeared on the screen, giving a feeling of being "hypnotized". The transitions in the film seem a little stiff and a little incoherent. The film uses a lot of newspapers, photos, pictures, etc. at that time as supplements, so that we can learn more about the case information. In particular, there are a lot of words. If my native language is English, I should be more sensitive to these words, but I am not sensitive to English, which may have a certain impact on my viewing of this film. A recording at the end of the film, I thought it was the finishing touch of the film. When I listened to this recording, I looked back on the whole thing and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
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