Note: This article has a little spoiler
because I know that "You Are the Murderer" is a remake of a Korean movie. Before entering the theater, I deliberately blocked all information related to the original. The reason is simple. As a crime suspense film, the most taboo is to reveal the answer in advance. This will undoubtedly make any viewer lose most of the pleasure of watching.
After watching this film, I think my choice is correct. Regardless of whether the remake of "You Are a Murderer" is successful, at least in terms of maintaining and creating suspense, the film has already used its brains. If you don’t examine the plot from a particularly harsh perspective, the story told in this film is logically self-consistent (of course, there are also loopholes. For example, the murderer can be recognized by one sentence, and a superior Older murderers can still fly over the walls on the ship, etc.). Don't underestimate this. It is a "rare product" in domestic movies, especially crime movies.
And what impressed me most about this film is the non-linear narrative editing method. Ordinarily, this is not a novel technique, but in domestic movies, it is not the same thing. In the previous domestic suspense films, the director always wanted to disassemble every shot and every detail, for nothing else, but worried that the audience did not understand and could not understand how the case was broken. Sometimes, the director has even stepped up, hesitating to use long-winded lines or voice-overs to tell all the events in the film carefully and carefully from beginning to end. At this point, I always doubt my IQ.
Not only that, the more "patient" the director is, the more the film's rhythm will appear to be procrastinated and stagnant. In the end, it will be the audience without patience. Finally, the film did not repeat the same mistakes. Although the beginning is a bit confusing, it is not difficult for the audience to understand the truth of the case as the plot progresses. The two cases before and after, in the similar passages, also save a lot of pen and ink for the film, which also keeps the development of the plot on a fast-paced track.
However, the calmness of the narrative and the right rhythm are not enough to make the film enter the ranks of classics. The reason is probably not in the design of the case, but in the depth of the theme. This shouldn't have been a problem. A mother who was on the verge of collapse because of her daughter's murder, a criminal policeman who felt guilty for failing to solve the crime, and a murderer who suffered from accidental killings. The three of them make a play, which can bring more thought to the audience. Connotation. However, the bad breath of the film is here.
Ordinarily, the lineup of this film is quite reassuring. Xiao Song Jia, Wang Qianyuan, Feng Yuanzheng, no matter who they are, they are enough to hold up a movie, but they can be combined together, but they fail to produce a chemical effect, which makes people sigh. What's wrong with
? Obviously it is not the performance of the actor, but the flatness of the character. Take Wang Qianyuan as an example, playing as a down-and-out criminal policeman who has not solved the case for ten years is a great opportunity to show off his acting skills. But in this film, the audience can neither see his melancholy towards the victim's mother nor the pain of his inability to solve the case. Instead, they see a greasy middle-aged man who is ruffian. Obviously, from "Lobster Detective" to "Big Shot" to "You Are the Murderer", Wang Qianyuan has an increasing tendency to be stereotyped by various directors. This kind of positioning is easy for him, but in terms of acting skills, the essence is a kind of not advancing or retreating. If this continues, the powerful actor will be shaped.
Similarly, the mother played by Xiao Song Jia could have shown the entanglement and depth of human nature. There are many articles to do about how a weak mother was forced to take a dangerous path step by step. But in this film, Xiao Song Jia appeared from the beginning to the end with a face of "You owe me eight million". The audience only saw her gloom, but did not see her miss for her daughter or hatred for the murderer. , And reflection on fate. If you only need to perform painful gestures, this would be an overkill for Xiao Song Jia. Not long ago, "A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind" has fully demonstrated that Xiao Song Jia is fully capable of handling characters that are difficult to distinguish between good and evil and have complex personalities.
As for Feng Yuanzheng, there is even less room to play in this film. His mental journey has been almost completely omitted. Although there is a reason for the suspense here, there is no doubt that the role he plays has become too thin.
In short, the three capable actors have only completed satisfactory work in this film, without breakthroughs, and lacked a little bit of intention.
Looking back, back thenWhy did Keigo Higashino's "Devotion of Suspect X" become a hit? This is not only because he has a good hand in case design, but also because the emotional entanglements of the characters in the works are enough to dig into the human nature. Can’t help but sigh, "You Are a Murderer" cut the theme into a simple "revenge" in order to pursue the fun of narration. It really wasted the good "materials" of Xiao Song Jia, Wang Qianyuan, and Feng Yuanzheng.
finally has to say that in recent years, remakes of Korean movies, especially Korean crime action movies, seem to have become a trend. But not to mention that the blue is better than the blue, it is the same as the original, it seems that there are very few. This is really an embarrassing phenomenon.
