Judging from the audience's reaction to "Heart Labyrinth" since its release, many people have praised it as a brainstorming work, and some people say it is a TV movie with too rough quality. But the public is undoubtedly unfamiliar with such films. In order to be different from the mainstream narrative techniques in the past, director Xin Yukun here shows us layer upon layer, layers of connection, foreshadowing and accidental events, and finally a stylized narrative that points to the truth.
"Heart Labyrinth" takes the excitement of the suspense reasoning process to its extreme, constantly creating a factual level, and constantly reversing the previous factual level, overturning the previous fact and creating a new fact until the end of the film The truth was revealed, the father and son were relatively speechless at the funeral coffin, and the real facts were exposed to the audience. Although "Heart Labyrinth" is the first work directed by Xin Yukun, before that, Xin Yukun has filmed more than 20 legal programs, and he is very comfortable with the suspense reasoning process. The film repeatedly creates a factual plane around the scene of manslaughter in the woods, and then overthrows the previous structure on this basis, and advances layer by layer. At the beginning, the first floor is explained. That is, Zong Yao and Huang Huan had a tryst in the woods. After being blackmailed by Bai Hu, Bai Hu was killed by mistake. The two young men had to rush to the county seat. Afterwards, Wang Baoshan passed through the small forest to lead out the second floor when he went to Liqin’s house for fornication. Da Zhuang's love for Liqin makes the story go in a more absurd direction. After the second layer was laid out, it began to enter the core level of the film. That is, the head of the village Xiao Weiguo burned the body in the small forest. Xiao Weiguo, who attended a banquet in the same village that night, accidentally saw the process of his own son Zong Yao murdering the white tiger by mistake. Therefore, the guardian was keen to help his son burn the body.
Based on the actions of the characters in the play, the film revolves around the central question of "the owner of the corpse", and sets up a third plane, namely Huang Huan, Chen Zili, and Bai Hu. After Zong Yao took Huang Huan and fled to the county, the villagers mistakenly thought The owner of the corpse is the missing Huang Huan. With the appearance of Huang Huan, the owner of the corpse points to Chen Zili, and then reveals that Chen Zili is not the owner of the corpse in a more absurd way. At this time, Baihu’s brother even borrowed the corpse to "pretend" as Baihu to hide from debts. At the end of the film, the villagers realized that the owner of the corpse was Baihu. This is different from the previous paragraph on a factual level, but the movie uses a similar Hitchcock style to the corpse owner. The suspense setting method is to reveal the suspense in advance. At the beginning, I was told that the owner of the body was Baihu. The reasoning of the corpse is combined with the reasoning of the facts, the known and the unknown are constantly alternated, mobilizing the audience's senses and thinking, making "Heart Labyrinth" present a more interesting and multi-directional stylized narrative.
In terms of specific narrative advancing techniques, "Heart Labyrinth" is also uncharacteristically. The most frequently used advancing technique is the uncommon "accidental passing" in other films. The accidental advancement of the story by people with their own minds in action development of. The action details link the story direction, which is undoubtedly the charm of film art which is different from other forms of expression. Therefore, complicated multi-layer wait-and-see appears in the film many times. The characters related to the funeral banquet at the beginning of the chapter all appeared on the scene, and they were connected by accident. Just the core scene of the small woods, first there was the conflict between Zong Yao and Huang Huan, and the contradiction between the spectator Baihu, and then Xiao Weiguo's watch and participation, and Wang Baoshan passed by during the process of Xiao Weiguo's burning. With the participation of characters in this closed and absurd space, the film presents a very interesting duplex. Each scene of
presents a double-layer or even a multilayer plane. For example, the most exciting incident of Chen Zili's death. At the beginning of the film, the scene of Da Zhuang murdering Chen Zili was intercepted to confuse the audience. After that, he used Chen Zili to answer the phone and accidentally fell off the cliff to complete his great wish. As the story progresses. The film returns to this scene again. It turns out that the death call Chen Zili received came from the village chief Xiao Weiguo. Under this exquisite and economical structure, the scene of "Pigpen" has also become an important scene clue to connect the story sequence.
draws on the fact that it is constantly reversed and overturned, the central question that was informed to the audience in advance, and a large number of unexpected and reasonable accidents. "Heart Labyrinth" presents an alternative narrative that refreshes the audience. The unusual narrative pleasure constantly refreshes the audience's senses and rationality. This is why this film that does not rely on stars and exquisite production can stand out in the market.
