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Starting from personal viewing experience, it is more subjective than objective analysis.
The film kicked off neatly, and a slightly gloomy manor was displayed in front of the audience. Obviously, this was the place where the case took place. The manor murder case was coupled with the hint of two hounds. I subconsciously thought that this was a manor in England. It was not until the police reported their home. I didn't realize it before, but in my mind, "Manor in Classical Reasoning" and "English Manor" (and maybe "grandma style") are directly linked. On the one hand, it reflects my lack of reading, and on the other hand, it also shows the great influence of the birthplace of British detectives and mystery novels, and the popularity of British mystery novelists.
When it comes to grandma, I think the role design of the nanny is very characteristic of grandma. In addition, we can also see the shadow of the great detective Poirot from the detective. The nanny is a distinctive character of truth, goodness and beauty in this film. Although he is confused in the investigation of the case, he also resists the pressure and does not fall to the criminal side. The film uses a lot of space to flesh out her image. However, seeing that many film critics are committed to breaking the original reasoning process and analyzing the "new murderer", I think that apart from the loopholes in the case itself, an innocent and ultimately "profitable" character is lacking in persuasion now. Well, such a role is a bit outdated. In fact, some of the female characters written by Grandma are also criticized in the same way.
And speaking of the detective, a detail later in the film reveals that the detective has always been suspicious of the babysitter, but even so brings her into the investigation because she "has a good heart". Detectives not only rely on actual physical evidence to judge a suspect, but also judge the possibility of a person committing a crime by analyzing the character of the object and his behavior, which can be said to be heart evidence. Such a detective is really humane, which can give people a breather in the cold criminal process, but the work on humaneness will also make the final proof of the murderer's reasoning taste like a "moral trial". This kind of morality is more or less persuasive depending on the era. For people who like this kind of non-cold reasoning or are interested in this model, I recommend Grandma's well-known "Murder on the Orient Express", and I am very impressed by the final statement of David Suchet's version in the film and television adaptation.
In terms of tricks, because the memory is not very clear after only watching it once, I will briefly talk about a few good and bad points.
From the old man's mortuary room at the beginning of the film to the nanny's memory reappearing the suicide scene, in addition to the suspicion of "suicide" by the police and other people involved, the nanny's mother said at home, "Your sister's friend has just committed suicide, be considerate." The mother's point of view is clearly a paraphrase of what the nanny said herself. As soon as I came up, I regarded this as a "conjecture" like other family members, but I didn't expect this to be an expression of the truth. It could be described as a narrative trick. In addition, the fact that the nanny will vomit when lying, has the taste of the setting system in the new Japanese reasoning, which is equivalent to adding new rules to the familiar rules of the game, introducing fresh logical relationships and reasoning possibilities, and focusing on the retro movie. A rare use of fashionable speculative novel processing techniques. Also, it's quite interesting that the film focuses on Whodunnit, the final solution to the murderer's mechanism and "who anonymously hired a detective". The fact that Ranson knew the contents of the will before everyone else got me completely stuck, but it also gave me an insight into the reasoning of the sequence of events. I couldn't accept reasoning works that were too motive-oriented, but "Knives Out of the Sheath" has a surprisingly good impression of "fairness in material evidence, and essay on motives".
However, in the second part of the case, the victim of the housekeeper, I think there is a timeline hole. If Ranson meets the housekeeper and injects her with an overdose of morphine before going to the forensic laboratory with the nanny, according to the consensus established at the beginning of the film that "an overdose of morphine will kill you within ten minutes", Ranson is murdering a woman. Afterwards, the housekeeper had to go through a series of events, such as driving with the nanny to the laboratory, watching the police investigation, chasing the car, and being arrested by the police, which must have taken more than 10 minutes. The nanny should have died when she saw the female housekeeper in the laundry room later. In the same way, Ranson didn't have the opportunity to secretly meet and kill the housekeeper during the operation with the nanny. He could only kill the housekeeper before meeting the nanny.
Having said so much about the advantages and disadvantages, let's end with the place where reasoning fans are "served". "Knives Out of the Sheath" restores a complete process of classical natural reasoning from inquiry, evidence collection to reasoning: I excitedly arranged timetables, genealogy, etc. in my mind during the inquiry; There are a lot of details that are useless to solve the case. The process of filming and filming is too attractive to me, but I feel that the use of the amount of information on the screen has not yet reached its peak; in the end, when the suspects gathered together and the detectives started to reason, the police officers’ small actions” Don't you interrupt the detective's reasoning." I smiled knowingly. There are also many tributes in the details. The death of the mystery novelist, the "planning of the case" by the mystery novelist, and the complete reasoning still require physical proof of the real murderer. There is obviously a person behind the film who "understands" reasoning. I was very happy to see it. Of course, such a "fan-oriented" movie also has its limitations. Retro is nostalgic, but the characters need fresh blood, and the complexity that is sacrificed for viewing is also a pity. In short, looking forward to more good-looking reasoning movies.
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