Too much is not too much, more is not necessarily better

Chance 2022-04-22 07:01:34

This film can be said to be a re-creation on the basis of Hitchcock's masterpiece "Telephone Murder", retaining many key plots of the original, such as the plot from the murder planning at the beginning to the implementation stage is almost the same as the original, and the final The key to exposing the sin of the husband. But compared with the original work, more commercial gimmicks have been added, such as the wife has a lover, the lover is a professional liar, the husband and the lover join forces, and the lover is thinking about blackmailing the husband and so on.
These numerous offshoots deviate significantly from the original in the second half of the film, which may be a way for the director to prove himself, but the standard of the film also falls compared to the original. The torture of human nature has turned into a battle of wits and courage between the husband and wife. From the original role of controlling the overall situation, the husband has been reduced to rushing around to put out fires and panic. The tension from the beginning to the end and the worry and anxiety about the fate of the wife that the original work brought to the viewer also disappeared when the wife turned to investigate her husband.

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  • Xzavier 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    It's really easy for Viggo to play such an uninhibited great artist, let's play in his true colors! The boat is so beautiful (I suspect? is cut). When Chili was still Chili, I couldn't get it at all, but she is so beautiful in this movie! ! !

  • Merle 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    The plot is interlocking, and the acting is aggressive!

A Perfect Murder quotes

  • Raquel Martinez: [in a bar] This is crazy I don't understand I'm your best friend, right? Half the year goes by and you don't say one thing, do you love him? Are you going to leave Stephen? So, talk to me.

    Emily: I will, if you shut up for one second.

    Raquel Martinez: Alright I'm waiting.

    Emily: I didn't tell you because you adore Steven, you cried at our wedding for God's sake.

    Raquel Martinez: I cry at every wedding.

    Emily: No, you don't, you like the "idea" of us, everybody does, but you have no idea who he really is.

    Raquel Martinez: Steven, I know Steven.

    Emily: No, you don't, you don't know that every single thing has to be on his terms, you don't know that he no real interest in who I am.

    Raquel Martinez: What are you going to do?

    Emily: I don't know, I'm going to figure out a way to tell him, he deserves that.

    Raquel Martinez: What makes you think he doesn't know?

    Emily: There's no way, you know he knows that something's not right, but that's it.

  • Emily: [over the phone] I can't do this anymore, I've got to tell him tonight, I'm really sorry.

    David Shaw: It's ok.

    Emily: [referring to Steven surprising her by taking her to lunch] He's never done that before, something's wrong, he knows.

    David Shaw: No, he doesn't.

    Emily: I cannot live like this anymore, it's not, it's not fair to him. I've got to tell him.