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Coincidentally.
In the days of punching in the Spring Festival Viewing Medal,
Onmyoji has a mission to "destroy flowers with hot hands".
-Why do I watch movies
1. DETAIL
1943 film, black and white should be inevitable. The silence in the first few minutes of the movie made me think it was a silent movie. When I watched this movie for the first time a few months ago, it was completely just to complete the spring movie viewing plan as soon as possible and get the movie viewing medal. After a lapse of three months, in order to write a serious review, it is indeed a little different.
An inconspicuous little hotel, an elegant and handsome man, a lit cigar, a pile of scattered banknotes, an enthusiastic landlady, several "surprise" calls from a self-proclaimed friend, in line with the man's sudden anger and anger. Innocently broken wine glass, a suspense drama was staged.
(Insert a little thought here, when the landlady saw the scattered banknotes and said "not all people are as honest as I am" while pulling down the curtains of the room, I thought she would take a few The small money is regarded as a hypocritical satire of human feelings. As a result, I didn't see it... I'm probably a playwright)
Charlie, a widow murder, a widow murder, returned to the town where his sister's family lived in order to avoid detection by detectives. In order to silence, Uncle Charlie premeditated the murder of little Charlie, but ended up killing himself by accident.
2. CLUE
Considering the title of Hitchcock's suspense master, the suspense element (I feel) must be at the top. The director or the screenwriter explained the point of view through the dialogue between the brother-in-law's friend and the brother-in-law: without clues, murder is meaningless, especially in a book.
In order to establish his identity as a romantic killer, the director spared no effort to throw one clue after another to the audience: the last scene was Mr Spencer from the landlady’s mouth, and the next scene was Mr Otis, who was cared for by the flight attendant, and his forefoot was still weak enough to need A patient who was helped to get off a train turned into a swift Uncle Charlie on his hind legs; in addition, a large amount of property of unknown origin, a ring with a name engraved on it, an inexplicable attack on a bank clerk, a newspaper with murder information torn up, a waltz heard Merry Widow's unusual reaction, the habit of never taking pictures, the excitement when he heard the "murderer" was arrested... All these things, it would be a little inappropriate for little Charlie to not find out the truth.
3. TRANS
Another important element of the story, in my opinion, is the transformation, especially the transformation of little Charlie.
In a small town in Santa Rosa, little Charlie, a pretty young girl, lies in bed thinking about life - "We just sort of go along and nothing happens. What a terrible run"; her sister Anne, who loves to read , likes "citing the classics", and has already started reading Ivanhoe at a young age, a long (emphasis) historical novel written by British writer Walter Scott; her younger brother Charles, as the youngest child in the family, is well-loved and always pays attention to strange things Weird problems, like walking home from the pharmacy takes 802 steps. It can be seen that this is a typical, ordinary and even a little monotonous small town family.
At this time, little Charlie wanted to be freed from the repetitive and dull life, and she thought of her uncle, Uncle Charlie, who was away all the year round. She believes that Uncle Charlie has a lot of knowledge and can understand her ideas. Especially when she learned that she wanted Uncle Charlie to be a guest at home, and Uncle Charlie also sent a telegram saying that she wanted to go back to the town to save relatives, she was even more convinced that there was some kind of telepathy between herself and Uncle Charlie.
When Detective Graham pretended to be a reporter to interview the Charlie family, little Charlie said, "I guess I don't like to be an average girl in an average family".
In her heart, she is different from her idol Uncle Charlie, "we are not just uncle and a niece, it is something else. I know you (Uncle Charlie); I know that you don't tell people a lot of things. I don't either. I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there's something nobody knows about, something secret and wonderful. I'll find it out. ”
However, when a string of clues were put in front of her, the uncle who was suspected of being the murderer gave her a cold frown.
"You think you know something, don't you? You think you're the clever little girl who knows something. There's so much you don't know, so much. What do you know, really?
You're just an ordinary little girl, living in an ordinary little town. You wake up every morning of your life and you know perfectly well that there's nothing in the world to trouble you. You go through your ordinary little day, and at night you sleep your untroubled ordinary little sleep, filled with peaceful stupid dreams. And I brought you nightmares. Or did I? Or was it a silly, inexpert little lie?
You live in a dream. You're a sleepwalker, blind. How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know, if you rip off the fronts of houses, you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it? Wake up, Charlie. Use your wits. Learn something.”
little Charlie had to face the collapse of the idol in her heart and rethink the sentence "average family is the best" by detective Graham. Ordinary towns, town residents who know each other well, and a slightly monotonous life are actually not bad.
In the end, the death of Uncle Charlie may have also extinguished some of the thoughts in little Charlie's heart.
4. AVERAGE
I haven't dared to watch "The Hidden Corner", which has been popular all over the Internet recently, and it's a little scary to watch the cut. Even so, I also know that there is a child in the play named "Pop", "Pop" of "ordinary". I don't know how to explain the origin of this name in the play, maybe it's just a code name, maybe it has some unfathomable meaning, or maybe it's a beautiful yearning for ordinary life-since the experience is destined to be extraordinary, then Just keep the name generic.
At this moment, I still feel that the word average is a bit sad. Even if "ordinary and ordinary" is the normal life of most people, just like the song "When you are young, you must hurt your loved one", when you are young, more or less, you hope that you can be a little bit more. High energy moment. For example, among millions of people, winning a prize or the like can make the ordinary me burn in ordinary times and rush to the sky in ordinary times.
Some time ago, I actually had the desire to express myself (but I was too lazy to write it), and even had a dream. I can't remember what I dreamed about at all, but there is one sentence I always remember clearly - "We are all tightrope walkers". How should I explain it? I probably don't know when the string that carries my life will suddenly break, I don't know if my legs will suddenly become weak one day, and I don't know how to perform this acrobatic performance. A complete closing.
Ah, life!
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