I saw other comments about feminism, disadvantaged groups, support for homosexuality, etc. Whatsoever, these elements can be reflected in the film, but I think this is a well-made drama, a film that has always been hanging on the audience's taste.
The main line is this theft plan, or the goal the audience wants to see is that the two women get the money and get together, because the characters in the film have information asymmetry, and these information asymmetries may break (ie expose) this at some point. As a result, each step may have the possibility of countless branches, and the possibility of each branch will have a different impact on the achievement of the final goal, so the audience will always have a sense of suspense. All in all it's like telling a story and the audience always wants to know whats next. Of course, the occurrence of each branch possibility may be closer or farther from the preset goal, so the audience may have a preference expectation for a certain possibility from the bottom of their hearts. Then, when one of the many possibilities occurs, it will extend the possibility of countless branches. Of course, it is not the responsibility of the film to exhaust these possibilities, but the responsibility of the audience. The responsibility of the film is to continuously create such possible forks. Let the audience keep wanting to watch, this is called promoting the plot.
In short, the above analysis should be said to be a meta-analysis of "story", and because movies (most movies) are essentially telling a story, the above analysis is naturally applicable to movies. Of course, some movies are not told in this way. It may be narrated in a person's personal name, and then this person has experienced some things. During this process, the audience has one or more guesses about the cause and effect of these things. Maybe the film is misleading The audience does this, and then in the end, there is a reversal of things, that is, the cause or the result of the thing or the thing itself is not what the audience or the protagonist thinks. I feel that some detective novels or crime films are shot more like this, some mystery novels and the like; of course, these misleading things also have their primary and secondary points, such as a murder case, and the secondary testimonies are later found to be false. The liars have other reasons to advance the plot.
In the previous paragraph, the audience is God's perspective of suspense production is actually very common in some comedies, especially the comedy or dark humor adapted from the stage play (or drama) of Happy Twist, such as A Midsummer Night's Dream or Li Er Wang (partially), the impression should be that I am not an expert in drama, two big smoking guns in the movie, Ning Hao's work, and Richard's aunt who is happy twist are examples.
In short, this work has a lot of suspense (it can also be said to be a reversal), and it has a good foundation and is more realistic and credible. Of course the edits are all good, including the one where the toilet connects the two rooms, and when corky says a million and then Caesar says it again in another place to connect the two scenes with the same sentence. For example, the position of the characters in some space suggests the relationship between the characters, such as some sexual hints in the scene where corky helps find the ring, such as the position of the characters in the top-down perspective in the elevator at the beginning of the elevator, such as Caesar before shooting. The voice hints and blinks the action.
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