Montage is the transliteration of splicing in French. It is one of the core technologies of film art and the soul of suspense films.
The core focus of the film's story is the reenactment of the case. Except for the perpetrators and motives, other details are highly consistent. This is a kind of repetitive montage; the sound from more than 20 years ago is cleverly used in the set up through editing technology, similar to Sound montage technology; splicing the past crime scene with the target granddaughter (the so-called kidnapped person), similar to the video montage technology; the rest are framed technology, such as cigarette butts, cars, and the most extreme direct let the target be the same The modus operandi again commits the last typical crime. So, montage technology runs through the core of the story. The story is also handled logically well. The most amazing thing is that the framed person is actually a real criminal on another level; and the logic focuses on how to complete the reenactment and achieve the previously unsuccessful arrest and sentence links. Kidnapping, coercion and hypnosis are the logical artifacts to deal with the unreasonable actions of characters in most stories. This story just uses the kidnapping of the relatives of the framed target, and the face-to-face direct coercion completed by the police instead of the avengers. The connection is seamless. And the best part of the script is that the police did not follow a foolish routine, but let affection finally prevail over jurisprudence.
Aside from the story, the film production itself also uses a lot of montage techniques. From three different time periods of the story process, cross montage is used to form a temporal confusion, thereby increasing the suspense effect and completing the delicate before and after contrast effects. The most successful thing is to cleverly use the story process (especially the process of the Avengers investigation) when the retrospective period will expire soon as a hidden interference line, forming the illusion of the audience, such as after the target is caught, the film is still presented in the pursuit of suspects. In the process, chasing a suspenseful target (portrait person) that has been confused and confused seems to be a surprise attack line to hit Huanglong outside the fog, effectively removing the avenger and the framed target from the suspense at the same time, which is a good way for the final The big reveal lays the groundwork, and at the same time greatly increases the tension of the film reveal. The cross montage of the story line and the final story line 20 years ago also produced a strong emotional contrast.
It can be seen that the script of this film is first-class, and the production and editing technology is also first-class, such a suspense film is naturally a super-class model. So much so that in the domestic cinema movie "Manslaughter" 7 years later, this movie will be used as a sample teaching material for the protagonist's series of divine operations.
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