[I am trapped in the wardrobe of a blind old man, he seems to want to kill me and my little friend, what should I do? Online wait, urgent! 】
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This film has a long shot that imitates "Thriller Space", although it is not as complete as the latter, it also reflects the author's ambition.
The main advantages of the film are the very strict rhythm and sound design, as well as some detail settings that clearly reflect the ingenuity. The disadvantage is that there are bugs that cannot be eliminated in some plots, and the screenwriter is suspected of being abducted.
The strict grasp of rhythm points should be easy to see. There are several key plot points in the whole film story:
1. The introduction of the trio of hair thieves and the setting up of people are about the first 15 minutes.
2. Invasion of the blind old man's house, paving the way for some details, until Money is killed (the appearance of the first plot climax), about 15 to 30 minutes.
3. The first time to see the hope of escape and open the door, around the 45th minute.
4. Alex died (feigned death) around the 60th minute.
5. Rocky successfully escaped from the house and hid in the car (scene switch) around the 75th minute.
6. The rest is the ending of the two.
It can be seen that the film is very strict in the length control of a single large plot, and the major plot changes are almost stepped on a time point of 15 minutes. Such strict time control and alignment of rhythm points are actually to ensure that the audience can follow the suspense line of the story rhythmically, without being too tired because of the tight rhythm, and without having space to start thinking about plot bugs. And basically the first 15 minutes are paving the background of people, and 15 to 30 minutes are paving the background of events, which have a very important supporting role for the subsequent plot.
Persona foreshadowing: Three people correspond to three completely different personalities and values and personal concerns.
Rocky is a teenage mother living in a slum, where her mother and her boyfriend are the obvious bastards, and her lovely daughter makes her determined to get a lot of money and flee. In the opening theft case, the things she stole basically showed what she wanted, shoes, bags, jewelry, big houses...
Alex's father has poor skills in the local security company. With this condition, he can get the back door of the intelligent security system and the keys of each house. At the same time, he also wants to leave his father because he likes Rocky and some reasons that don't seem to be shown. Follow Rocky to California. It may be because of the family education or because of the house. He is very familiar with the laws and regulations related to burglary.
Money is the most unreliable of the three. The burglary and peeing all over the floor are like wild dogs occupying the land. I am afraid that I will not be found out in the future, right? I will be detained every time I sell stolen goods. Dissatisfied with the large fees and trying to steal cash. Moral standards are the lowest of the three.
Foreshadowing of the event: Everything you do during this period of the invasion is to pave the way for the subsequent progress of the plot. Poisonous dog, the money medicine of the dangerlang was not enough, so that the old man could easily wake up the dog and put it in the hall for vigilance after he got up. The four locks at the front door could not open the door, paving the way for the key to be retrieved later. The cellar door was locked from the inside, paving the way for later attempts to open the cellar from the cellar. The bathroom glass fell in the hallway to pave the way for the old man's plank-nailed windows behind. After the side door is opened, there is a long shot. This long shot follows the path of the three thieves after entering the house, and gives the shot and even close-up of every prop that will play a role in promoting the plot, shoes, living room glass skylight, tool room The hammer, the bell, the wardrobe, the interior door to the cellar, the alarm system, the cramped space in the mezzanine, the gun under the old man's bed...
Sound Design: The sound design in the film clearly distinguishes between the narrative stage (realism) and the emotional stage (expressionism). The narrative stage refers to the old man's perspective in the main part of the plot. When it is necessary to reflect the old man's listening position and capture information, it is a realistic sound effect, that is, only ambient sound without any soundtrack, because the background of the story is a late night burglary Events, the ambient sound is only the sound of breathing or the sound of people touching something, such as the creaking sound of stepping on a wooden floor. When it is necessary to reflect the sense of fright in the thief's heart, some kind of low-pitched high-pitched noise is added on the basis of the ambient sound, and the audience's emotions are constantly provoked into this scary atmosphere. This kind of design is very effective and necessary, because after 30 minutes, there are very few lines, and most of the information needs to be presented by sound and picture. Invisibly, the sound effect assumes more things that should be expressed by the lines. . Using two different sound design techniques to distinguish the two stages is undoubtedly worthy of recognition.
Details settings: There are many ingenious details, such as recording video in advance to ensure that there are no police patrols; using an upside-down photo frame to clarify the fact that the old man's eyesight is basically zero; He only came in alone (in fact, the old man believed it so easily, it was even more surprising, which was a shortcoming); after the lights were out, the old man could identify his position by the things in the cellar: a fan, a beam, two after the lights were out. A hairy thief is more like a blind man, and the old man is a normal person; the old man pre-processed Cindy's body so that the police did not discover his crime at the end... These details are still relatively many, and it is not difficult to design, but The ingenuity of such meticulous arrangement is indeed worthy of some screenwriters' reference.
BUG: The bugs in this film are lack of realistic basis and logic that cannot be self-consistent, as well as the screenwriter's abduction behavior.
Frozen sperm, unless the old man renews his inventory every three or five times, it is impossible for a blind old man to do freezing and thawing of sperm himself. This link, especially the realization of Cindy's conception, is doubtful. But the question arises again. If it is updated every three or five times, this white-haired old man is so energetic?
Kidnapping, how is this action realized? A blind old man can't even drive unless he's hired for compensation.
Believe in "there is only one person", this behavior is very difficult for me to understand. The old man has found the broken window of the bathroom and the side door that has been opened, which should at least cause him to be highly suspicious and vigilant about the number of hair thieves, not to mention Alex behind him. Also made noises on the wooden floor. If the security level of his house is so high, then this completely mismatched vigilance is very unreasonable.
Why are the passwords of the two safes the same?
The mobile phone seems to have no other purpose besides sending two text messages? You guys aren't going to text your friends "if I don't confirm in 30 minutes, call the police" or something?
After Cindy is killed, you can use the threat of "I'm going to call the police". After all, the old man doesn't know that Rocky has to ask for that million. You can at least try to bargain if you pretend that you don't want money to get justice.
The biggest flaw in the plot arrangement of this film is that most of the plots are prop-driven, and when a prop is triggered, the corresponding plot develops. Compared with "Trembling Space", there is an almost siege-like difference in the behavioral motives of the two sides of the bandits, such as "I want to go out/I want to go in", the psychological game process of the two sides and the avoidance of external forces that are full of plot rationality (Zhu. Auntie Di's Porch Play), this film lacks a real motive conflict at first - the story actually ends with the current ending or the two thieves leave in about 45 minutes under the threat of taking pictures and calling the police. There is no difference. Two It seems that in the play, it is choosing to deliberately forget the existence of external forces, and trying to trick the audience into forgetting hundreds of contacts on their mobile phones with them.
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