One of the reasons for the affirmation is that the film is a good example of the principle of respecting the original. In the movie, we feel the suspense that Keigo Higashino is willing to create all the time. Even if the director has told us who the murderer is at the very beginning, the direction of every detail seems to affect the final development of the plot. Accompanied by various uncertain factors, the audience actually has a high sense of curiosity about the plot. And this sense of doubt continued until the final hero of the movie revealed all the secrets. This dramatic turn of the plot also fits well with Keigo Higashino's habit of revealing the final mystery at the last moment of the novel.
In addition, in the strict logical interpretation of the film, the director did not forget Keigo Higashino's emphasis on human nature and love. In the movie, the math teacher Shi Shen's fearless sacrifice for the neighbor's mother and daughter is very moving, and when Shi Shen tells the reason behind this, we can feel a kind of sad but very warm feeling. Ishigami's emotional sacrifice of repaying kindness, and going on in such a sinful way, what Keigo Higashino wanted to torture was still the humanity he was concerned about.
On the whole, this "Devotion of Suspect X" uses Keigo Higashino's suspenseful reasoning spirit to a certain extreme. The only thing that makes me dissatisfied is that the beginning of the movie doesn't seem to have too much connection with the plot. The audience understands the super analytical ability of the people in the play, which is a bit deliberate in my opinion. However, in terms of genre dramas such as solving cases, suspense, and reasoning, "The Devotion of Suspect X" can be counted as one of the top ten movies on my list, although I have never been very good at Japanese movies. feel.
In terms of actor selection and interpretation, Yukawa played by Masaharu Fukuyama is a character similar to Sherlock Holmes. His ability to infer the case through clues is actually the same as that of Conan Doyle's characters, and in terms of image, Masaharu Fukuyama also has a bit of a mysterious temperament. As for the other key character, Shinichi Tsutsumi, who plays Shishen, he is a late bloomer in the Japanese film industry, but it is only after his experience that his acting skills are more skillful. The stone god in the play is a bit like a Frankenstein, but he is the kind of unhappy one. The top students in the same school as Yukawa ended up teaching mathematics in a high school. In fact, the setting of Keigo Higashino makes all the strange behaviors of Shishen have materials that can be analyzed. There is a scene in the movie where Shishen deduces a math problem on the blackboard, but no one of the students below listens and makes a loud noise. The director's handling of this shot is quite meaningful. When the camera is aimed at Shishen, the only sound in the movie is the sound of Shishen's mouth and chalk writing on the blackboard, and only when the camera is swept to the students, there will be student noise. of noise. This kind of misalignment between sound and painting, in fact, the director intends to highlight Shishen's investment in mathematics, but more expresses Shishen's forbearance. It is this kind of forbearance that finally caused Shishen's entire tragedy.
Compared with the outstanding performance of the male actors, the actresses' roles are much inferior, and whether it is expressive or infectious, the female characters in "The Devotion of Suspect X" are not so brilliant.
Music is naturally essential for a good movie, and even more so for a suspenseful movie. The music of "The Devotion of Suspect X" is a little rough on the whole, but it is a good thing that it can be perfectly combined with the plot of the movie. Whether it is the creation of tension or the control of emotional points, the music of this film can better serve as a foil and foil.
In fact, if you look closely at the two films "Walking in the White Night" and "The Devotion of Suspect X", they have made achievements in the expression of love. This is the value of another part of Keigo Higashino's novels. In addition to his excellent reasoning logic, his novels focus on society, human nature and love, which Keigo Higashino has always incorporated into his novels. The love in "Walk in the White Night" is despair. The sadness is extreme, and the bizarre relationship that can't be loved or hated casts a bitterness that makes readers want to cry without tears. Although "The Devotion of Suspect X" is still based on crime, the love in it has a little warmth because of the madness of both sides of the story but not indifference. There is a scene in the movie version that is commendable. The hero Shishen walks forward with a smile after being arrested, and the narration that follows is a kind of love. Keigo Higashino implies the warmth of this love. tone.
Therefore, I am more looking forward to the Japanese film version of "Walk in the White Night", to see if it can surpass the two films of Keigo Higashino that have been released and have different styles.
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