The film begins with a man laughing when he sees pictures of men and women in action, and then the picture is shot of an office. The other person is Jack, the protagonist of the film. He resigned from the police because he was dissatisfied with the dark society in this place. He became a private investigator. One day, a Mrs. Morale found him and entrusted him to help investigate her husband's derailment. Jack found that Morale was a local water conservancy engineer. They were going to build a local water conservancy project, but the team had a dispute with a local farmer. , This water conservancy project Mrs. Morale's father also participated in it. He is a very rich man. He also has interests in water conservancy projects with Morale and is in a state of opposition. Later, someone gave Jack some proof that Morale was derailed. but Mrs. Morale asked him to stop the investigation. Jack continued to investigate. Later, he came to the construction site and found that the water would be flushed from time to time. He also investigated that it was Mrs. Morale's father who intercepted the water and let The crops dried up. Later, he came to Mrs. Morale's house and found that Mrs. Morale's father killed Morale, raped his daughter, and gave birth to a girl. This girl was the rumored Morale's cheating. Object, at the end of the film Jack is brought back, while Mrs. Morale's father takes him and his daughter's daughter.
The girl was fifteen years old and was in her prime, but was raped by her father. She fled to Mexico and gave birth to their daughter. Morale came to her and became a little light in her life. It was Morale who was taking care of her. They got married, but she was coerced by her own father to hide the cause of her husband's death. She could only ask a private detective to pretend to find out about the affair to pick up the plane. Her husband's death was her last Straw, while Jack helped her investigate, the two of them also had a relationship, and Jack slapped her in the face for knowing the identity of Morale's lover. These two attitudes are in stark contrast. She didn't protect herself in the end, didn't run away, didn't catch the 5:30 train, her daughter was taken away by her father, and Jack was taken away. I think this is the darkest society and ending. Most of the suspense is set in the front of the film, and a small part of the time is in the back to reveal the mystery, which opens the audience's eyes.
This film is a classic work of American noir films. It has a strong dark society atmosphere. The film has a strong sense of suspense, and the originally happy ending was also changed by the influence of the society at that time, reflecting a very cruel real society.
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