Counting from Queen Agatha and Conan Doyle, the history of suspense reasoning has been more than a hundred years. The reasoning works have developed by leaps and bounds, from the rigorous original reasoning, the social school created by Matsumoto Kiyotaka, to the pioneering of a large number of Japanese writers such as Keigo Higashino, Shoji Shimada, and Kotaro Isaka. At the same time, suspense film works are also flourishing, whether it is the pressing of Hitchcock's films, the adaptation of reasoning literature such as "Murder on the Orient Express", the classic film and televisionization of "Sherlock", or "Mulholland" Dao", "Deadly ID", "Memento" and other excellent works, but also make full use of the unique image medium and sound rendering of the film, and push the tense experience of suspense and reasoning to the extreme. Suspenseful reasoning and fictional works have long been flourishing, becoming a classic film and television genre, which also makes it difficult for latecomers to try to create new ideas.
A low-cost "Internet Mystery Tracker" has a new idea in front of the vast classics. Of course, this does not describe its suspense and structure itself. Even without spoilers, a slightly experienced viewer can easily find the real murderer from the clues. However, this does not prevent viewers from continuing to keep watching. Because it adopts a very novel expression technique and interprets the theme of the times.
The story begins with the change of a happy family. The young mother died of cancer, and the single father accompanies his daughter to grow up slowly. One day, his daughter disappeared without warning. The suspense and reasoning unfolded. The anxious father cooperated closely with the proactive police and approached the truth step by step. And until the final reversal arrives, the previous clues and evidence are suddenly combined into a new logic like building blocks, and the truth is so far away from the usual thinking.
A seemingly old-fashioned reasoning structure was put into a chic picture full of electronic style by the director. The entire film is entirely composed of computer screens, camera monitoring, operation interface, network video, chat records and folders provide all the plot and basic information, and promote the continuous extension of the story and reasoning. The first few operating procedures for setting up accounts and classifying photos easily and fully explain the background of a happy family, which is as exquisite as the montage at the beginning of "Flying House". The subsequent pictures are also completely processed into the low-pixel and high-grained style of online video, but this does not detract from its wonderfulness. On the contrary, viewers need to be more attentive and attentive, looking for clues that led to the disappearance of the girl in the rapidly flashing screenshots and selfie photos.
The setting of fixing all the pictures on the computer screen undoubtedly adds great difficulty to the script creation, but also enhances the fun of watching and decrypting the movie. This is also the reason why the reasoning is still fascinating after a hundred years. It places the viewer at the same height as the creator, and does not influence the viewer's judgment by jumping consciousness, fast-cutting pictures or visual spectacles. It's about presenting all the evidence and reaching shocking conclusions only through differences in logic and architecture. The only fairness may be that network communication and computer interface provide obstacles for reasoning, because it has a larger amount of information than ordinary movie pictures, and the characters and clues in it are also multiplied.
In addition, the story's relevance to the issues of the times is also thought-provoking. The protagonists of the film are a pair of middle-class Asian fathers and daughters. They have ordinary identities and ordinary families. The early death of their mother has created a sad atmosphere. On this basis, the daughter suddenly disappears and changes from the seemingly peaceful and well-behaved to the rebellious and indulgent. , A bad girl who desperately has a relationship. Following the traces of his daughter, the father also entered the inner world of her daughter, aware of the rich and sensitive girlish feelings, as well as his neglect of his daughter's growth, his rude attitude, and found that there has been a long-standing gap between them. The doting and sheltering revealed by the truth is also a distorted parent-child relationship. Whether it is the suspense or the truth, it warns us to cherish our family members and communicate in a friendly way, in exchange for real mutual understanding and long-term happiness.
Published in the Daily News.
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