For this kind of film, creating a sense of reality is the key to its ability to hold the audience's attention tightly. This is of course because the cruel violence contained in criminal cases is super-normal, and it is very easy to directly stimulate people. On this basis, if you can make the audience believe that what is happening on the screen is true in a short period of time, he will Will willingly, deeply involved in it, step by step can not extricate themselves. "The Chaser" is such a movie.
The opening treatment is very good-night, downtown, traffic, girls and men meet, drive away from the downtown and enter a secluded alley... The camera is clean and neat, not only the scene brings a good sense of experience, but also the suspense is born naturally.
The first set of shots was of a prostitute driving a car in parallel. She called (the other party is actually the serial killer Chi Yingmin), and the camera shakes and cuts quickly, which is quite beautiful. Under normal circumstances, this lens can also be placed outside the prostitute's car (front window or side window) to take a close-up shot of the prostitute making a phone call, but here we choose the middle shot, in order to deliberately pull the audience away from the transaction and the female victim The distance to the murderer (the same goes for the shots in the back alley) makes the audience involuntarily guess.
When I realized that this story involved the serial murder of prostitutes, I immediately remembered the "Southern Weekend" I watched not long ago, and the above detailed report on sex workers in Wuhan ("Southern Weekend: Survival of Low-level Sex Workers" Security Investigation), the content is almost a Chinese extension of the film. I don’t know if there have been serial murderers who specifically killed prostitutes in China, because as usual, I hardly have the opportunity to inspect the real case files through normal channels, but some of the case analysis missed out in the 1980s, coupled with contemporary China From the understanding of the degree of social turbulence, it is conceivable that similar cases are by no means impossible.
——Speaking of a digression, the "Weng·An·Xian·riot·Chaos" that took place in Guizhou on June 28 is obviously an excellent subject matter in itself. I am especially curious about the origin of the incident because of the doubts. Quite a lot. I hope that the information revealed in the future can explain my confusion.
"Chaser" handles the complex original material of the real event (the murder of the heroic pool) well, and cleverly integrates the fictitious event of "the mayor of Seoul was attacked by stool", despite the rich experience in watching the film Of you, you will definitely feel that this is somewhat deliberate, but it really helps a lot to enrich the subject. Put a simple criminal case (in fact, a criminal case is not simple) into a specific era background-for example, I am curious, why Weng An’s juvenile crime can evolve into a county-wide crime in a very short period of time The social reasons behind the "riots" are actually far more shocking than the criminal cases at the beginning-considering it, the story will be more powerful, and this movie will be more meaningful with hard work.
"Chaser" uses some basic storytelling skills when stitching the gap between fiction and reality. The biggest creation is the fiction of the former criminal policeman Zhonghao, who added a clue to the film. In order to tell the story more reasonable (and more sensational), Mi Zhen's mother and daughter, especially Mi Zhen's daughter, were added. She later became Zhonghao's biggest motivation to pursue the murderer. This kind of character design is just the simplest and most effective screenwriting skills I need to learn. Of course, precisely because this clue is fictitious, even though the screenwriter has racked his brains, you will still feel that it is not as solid as the clue of the murderer Chi Yingmin. This imperfection in the plot is exactly what I need to accumulate. The simplest and most effective screenwriting experience.
The climax of the film happened in the concession stand, my god, this disintegrating plot makes people really want to run away. It completely counters Hollywood's gentle approach of "last-minute rescue" and stuns the audience on the chair, which is too fierce. However, whoever wants to borrow it in the future must be prudent and prudent.
"The Chaser" is certainly not an impeccable movie, especially when compared to "Memories of Murder" (the feelings, plot, performance, and rhythm seem to be inferior), but as a feature film debut, you can't help but put up a big deal with director Luo Hongzhen thumb. I absolutely love and hate in my heart: this is the fucking Korean movie!
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