The long shot of 3 minutes and 20 seconds at the beginning of the film has been talked about. A drug dealer secretly placed the bomb in the trunk of the car. Then the owner and the woman got in the car and drove away. On the highway, the camera moved and lowered to the close-up, then back to the long-range, and then to the close-up again. The male protagonist Vargos and his wife Susan were walking on the side of the street, and more than two people in the car drove away from the screen. Then the two overtook the car parked at the intersection waiting for the sheep to leave, and finally arrived at the US-Mexico border checkpoint at the same time. When the bomb exploded became the biggest suspense. It wasn't until Vargas and Susan were kissing on the street when the sudden explosion sounded the suspense. Orson Wells used a long shot at the beginning, complicated scene scheduling and playful jazz to create a charming rhythm of the shot and a tense suspenseful atmosphere.
Next, Orson Wells also had no intention of telling a straightforward case-solving story or a catch-up story. Instead, he divided the story into two lines. One is Vargas and Obese Sheriff Quinlan investigating the bombing, and the other is that Susan was controlled by gang gangsters in the room and injected her with drugs in an attempt to convict her. Put the blame on the Vargas couple. And on the basis of these two lines, Wells turned the core point of Vargos’s cooperation with Quinlan to solve the case into Vargos’ discovery of Quinlan’s corruption, colluding with gangs, creating perjury and setting the blame on the charges. Evil deeds for innocent people. So the core of the narrative of this line changed from cooperating to solve the case to that Vargos wanted to find evidence to expose Quinlan's crimes. At the same time, Quinlan has a close relationship with the gang leader who controls Susan. In the end, these complex and intertwined relationships and clues make up the whole story, a story that is constantly changing. The film uses a lot of close-up shots taken from a low angle, creating a very oppressive atmosphere and a frightening atmosphere. For example, Susan in the room called the front desk because of the noise in the next room, and the insidious smile and eyes of the gangster who answered the phone were creepy in the close-up shot, and worried about Susan's fate. The gangsters rushed into the room to subdue Susan and inject drugs together. The gangsters looked at Susan who was horrified on the bed with weird eyes, and the cheerful music played at the hotel's front desk set off the weird atmosphere to the extreme. Quinlan strangled the gang leader in Susan's room, who fainted after being injected with drugs, in order to blame the "addict" Susan. The scene of Quinlan fighting with the leader in the room and the scene of Susan struggling half-dreaming and half-waking on the bed kept going back and forth. Switching, created a crazy lens effect, and when Susan woke up and saw the hideous face and prominent eyeballs of the dead leader on the bedside, in the dark room, the faint light hit the corpse’s face, horrified The effect is full. Finally, when Vargos used a bug to hide under the bridge to monitor Quinlan, the echo from the bug made Quinlan on the bridge suspicious. The setting of the echo of the bug was quite imaginative, and it created conflict and tension. feel.
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