The successive murders of children have put the whole city in danger for everyone. The difficulty of investigation has intensified the police's suppression of the underworld. In order to protect themselves, the underworld decides to find the murderer by itself. The clues were discovered by the wide eyes and ears of the beggar gang, and the police were also approaching the target through screening and investigation. The beggar heard the whistle, and the underworld targeted the criminal and trapped him in the bank building. They were all out for a big search. The security set off the alarm, and the underworld caught people and left at the last minute. The one who was left behind said everything under the false confession of the police. In the grand trial of criminals by the underworld, a debate unfolded. When everyone was about to execute the criminal, the police arrived.
Structure:
Based on the event time flow structure, from the shadow occurrence of the child murder case to the investigation of the case, the search for the murderer, the arrest of the murderer, the focus on the case and the arrest of the murderer, from the public to the black and white group portraits, and finally use the trial debate to propose more changes. deep question.
Film language:
1. The children's game at the beginning (thinking of the end of "The Elephant"), the ball is on the bounty and the shadow of the murderer appears;
2. The use of sound, the whistle (a clue, which later becomes a harbinger of a criminal atmosphere), starts at 1h19 The use of voice-over (out-of-picture space and narration, dealing with the relationship with the in-picture information), breathing after holding your breath around 1h9 (use silence to highlight the sound);
3. Looking down at the staircase at 6:56 (later Hitchcock "Vertigo");
4. The use of empty mirrors, several sets of empty mirrors starting at 7:51 (the voiceover is grandma's shout), then the rolling of the ball and the floating of the balloon (using the empty mirror and sound to create a sense of death Atmospheric omen and then indirectly confirmed with props), starting from about 1:21:06, people go to the empty destruction scene, and then the one who fell down speaks from the bottom of the hole;
5. Read the news from 10 minutes, using the characters in the reading scene Conversion (also the use of sound, from the in-picture voice at the beginning to the voice-over voice and then to the sound source screen scene);
6. The narrative technique is condensed, the telephone conversation starting from about 15 minutes, using the content of the call, interspersed with each other. relevant screen passages and scenes;
7. The use of movie time, the voice-over at 1h19 only has a few minutes left, which does not match the actual time, but it does not affect the psychological acceptance of watching. The explanation at 1h34 has jumps, and does not repeat what the audience already knows in the order of questions and logic The antecedents, but directly tell the results of the places the audience cares about, and then use the statement to transition. Both of these are the processing methods of film time. They do not stick to reality but start from the viewing psychology, compressing and jumping time and information. 8. The character and shot scheduling starting at 22:44
, first a woman ran up and out of the painting, then a man ran up, turned, ran down, and at the same time everyone ran up the voice-over police whistle and the woman was caught. Called, then everyone turned around and ran down the police and entered the painting, the police carried the woman who was just caught in the painting and entered the painting. Bring back the off-screen information);
9. At 27:52, objects (props) are used to show the identity of the character group, and there is a long shot of the Beggar Gang starting at 42:24, and a table of various cigarette butts;
10. Cross-montage from 35:15, both black and white are in a meeting to study what to do;
11. The shot from 44:18 crosses the window;
12. The pre-crime performance from 51:53, the performance of the criminally impulsive actor ( 13. At 1h3
, the potential victim found the mark and helped the criminal to wipe it off. This technique and the regret brought to the audience are common in later crime films;
14. The composition of "Suffocating the Cow" in 1h4 ;
15. The gangster search building scene that started at 1h10, and the sense of form of the set of clock alarms inside (including drawings);
16. The final trial scene, the criminal's trial of the crime, the lines, the police did not show up (one 17. Handling at
the end, the semi-openness continues the thinking on the questions raised by the debate in the last trial scene, and the psychological pressure on the audience to speak will apply the concerns of the question to the hearts of every audience.
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