The documentary begins with real-life interview footage of the main characters of the event, who begin to recount what happened that day. The beginning of the story is told by the two main protagonists, and after listening to their slightly fragmented exposition, the viewer will want to continue to explore what is going on. When the shot from Randall Adams said, "But it happened," the screen immediately switched to a cinematic shot. In the dark night, a police car with a flashing red warning light was parked on the road. Two policemen got off one after another. When the first policeman walked slowly to the parked vehicle with a flashlight, the driver's seat suddenly stretched out. The pistol shot four times. After each sound, it switched to a drawing that outlines the death site of the deceased. The policeman was caught by surprise and was shot four times in a row, and then fell to the ground. The criminals drove away immediately. During the process, the camera never gave a frontal shot of the criminals and the cars driven by the criminals and the situation in the cars, creating a sense of suspense and mystery for the viewers. Throughout the film, on the one hand, the continuous use of "fictional" techniques such as objective representation of the scene allows viewers to more intuitively understand a real event that happened in the past and immerse them in a movie-like plot screen; on the other hand , and the documentary monologues of multiple real characters allow viewers to understand the development of things objectively and rationally.
The background music is a murder case in line with the documentary, and its accompaniment is more often found in the process of reenactment, and is often accompanied by a faster and more tense rhythm when the plot of the case reaches its climax. When the screen cuts to the interview monologues of the people involved in the case, it is often attributed to calm, just to listen to them objectively to explain the incident. The division of the retractable part of the background music allows the viewer to more clearly distinguish the content of the scene reproduction from the documentary part of the monologue.
The film tells the murder case with monologues from various perspectives. Among them, a couple who were witnesses in the case were accused of perjury for the reward. In the process, the filming technique started with the couple's respective monologues. The more persuasive monologues in , at once overturned their testimony. The design of this part subtly constitutes the suspenseful design of its murder theme, which is more fascinating and does not lose the authenticity of the documentary.
In short, this film uses more subjective cognition to design and produce. Although it adds a "fictional" scene reproduction, this arrangement does not lose the most important authenticity of its documentary, but instead creates a personal After subjective artistic expression, it has also achieved "documentary", forming a new form of documentary film, which is no longer restricted to the subjectivity of "direct film".
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