The opening shot is an empty scene of the train station. The subtitles begin to appear. After the subtitles are over, a car drives in and the story begins. One word, "good", a classic but rare way to start a movie.
A person gets out of the car and gets a close-up of the shoes, the camera cuts to another car, and a person gets out of the car and gets a close-up of the shoes. The two characters have now appeared, but no frontal shots were given - who are the two people, and how will they intersect? The director started to create suspense from the first minute of the story, it's really nb
After cutting a few shots of two people's shoes, one person was seated, the other was also seated, the two were sitting opposite each other, the shoes accidentally touched, and then the whole picture suddenly became clear, giving a panoramic view, bringing out the images of the two characters . Well, this kind of feeling is like a firework, with a bang, after it is released, everyone knows it will bloom, but they don't know when, at what height, and in what form, and finally the fireworks bloom - Satisfaction .
The story of the movie is actually very simple. The strange guest chatted with the male protagonist and proposed an idea of exchanging murder. The male protagonist thought it was a joke. Who would have thought that the strange guest took it seriously and really killed the male protagonist's ex-wife... If such a story is different If a director came to shoot it, it might be a bad movie. The best thing about this movie is mainly in two aspects, one is the shaping of the characters, and the most important is the director's shooting method.
There are four main characters in the movie, and the most outstanding is the eccentric. This image is different from the general mental patient, not the rich second generation of the playboy, nor a cold-blooded and brutal image. This character is very interesting, in this movie Before, I have hardly seen such an image in a movie. On the one hand, he can kill without any guilt, but on the other hand, he is very elegant. Gentleman, apart from killing, he has hardly done anything bad in the movie. Oh, yes He even helped the old man to cross the road, and even if the male protagonist betrayed him, he hardly ever got angry. If the character is not well-created, the image of the character and the motivation behind the character will be unsustainable, which will make the audience lack empathy; the film uses a lot of hidden details to enrich the character, such as the mother's tie on the tie The embroidery, the hatred of the father, and the part of looking at the portrait of the stranger's father are all telling the audience that the stranger's psychology is deformed. I have seen the introduction about the director's life before, and the director will study something similar to the subconscious and psychology. Therefore, when creating this character, the director should have created this image with a basis, and explained the character in the movie with details that the audience can't quite capture. Regarding this image, his motivation for doing things can make the audience feel reasonable, the role itself can be recognized and liked by the audience, the role is well shaped, and the actor interprets it well.
There are many passages in the movie that can make the audience's eyes shine, such as the filming method of the character's entry at the beginning, the cross-narrative of the tennis match and picking up the lighter, the murder of the strange person and the scene of the strange person meeting the second female lead for the first time, etc. , it is very helpful for shaping the characters and creating a tense and suspenseful atmosphere. The director of the colleague has mixed a lot of humorous and wicked scenes in the film, such as when the stranger kills his ex-wife, the girl in the tunnel screams, and after killing the person, he comes back to get a lighter , the singing professor that the male protagonist met on the train, etc., there are too many, it is these clips that make the movie more interesting, so that a simple story will not look boring.
When a film director is shooting a movie, sometimes he has to convey some opinions based on the plot, such as this one, don't talk to strangers, I don't know if the director is such a person in real life.
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