[Exclusive] "Knife Out of the Sheath": Looks like a classic, better than a classic |

For any fan with a little accumulation of watching movies, "Blade Out of the Sheath" is a detective film that will quickly remind people of Agatha Christie. From the basic setting of the first scene of the film-the murder occurred in a closed space, everyone present has the motivation and suspicion of committing the crime, to the process of a little bit of the case, and then to a group show that highly depends on theatrical performance skills. Scheduling and a strong British fan, the whole "Blade Out of the Sheath" is like a combination of the various elements of classic movies such as "Murder on the Orient Express", "Tragedy on the Nile" and "No Life". Ye Yi furnace, a feast for the detective reasoning fans.

"The Knife Out of the Sheath" is a classic group play style, very similar to the style of Agatha Christie.

director Ryan Johnson is clearly familiar with all the stages and techniques of such classic detective films and detective novels. The skills of the narrative mode of classic detective films are laying various routes to provoke the speculation of the audience on the case. If you are careful enough, you will find that every detail of the final announcement of the case can echo the previous foreshadowing. In every scene, there will be an unexpected small reversal.

"The Knife Out of the Sheath" is done more thoroughly. It simply sets an extremely important character in the film-the murdered old man Haran Sloby-as an excellent detective novelist. His huge wealth was won by writing detective novels, and the huge legacy he left behind is the key to the whole case. Of course, Johnson will not forget to let a typical "detective in a detective film" reveal the final mystery. Bennott Blanc, played by Daniel Craig, has famous names such as Sherlock Holmes and Poirot. The shadow of the detective.

Harlan’s room is full of books, and Bacheng is a detective novel

. If you think that "Knife Out of the Sheath" is a newly produced tribute to the classic contemporary Agatha Christie-style movie, then you are wrong. That's wrong. Carefully recall the plot and details of the film, and then make some comparisons with those similar classics we are familiar with. It is not difficult to find that Ryan Johnson’s ambition is actually to pay tribute to the classics while completing the subversion and transcendence of the classics. The key to the suspense setting in the classic detective film of

is to hide the key information of some characters just right, and this information is often closely related to their behavior motives and methods. The choice for "Knife Out of the Sheath" is to use a detached "God perspective" from the beginning to reveal the background and secrets of everyone in the film. Everyone in the Sloan family had their own disputes and disagreements with Father Haran, and this information was also presented to the audience early in the morning. The result of this is that the audience seems to be invited by the director to participate in an immersive "killing game", and together with the characters in the film, find out who the final culprit is.

"Knife Out of the Sheath" also broke a variety of conventions in classic detective films. It not only allowed Harlan's death to be revealed halfway, but it even seemed to have a plug-in implanted in the game to let the heroine Marta (Anna de Armas) has a natural "lie detection" ability. It seems that the director is going to tell the audience-to give you the most useful tool to see if you can solve the case smoothly?

Marta’s persona is very interesting

Unfortunately, the answer is mostly-no. Because no matter how well you are familiar with the sections and routines of detective films, "Blade Out of the Sheath" is not in the classic routine mode. Therefore, even the most experienced detective film fan can never guess the real murderer, let alone the cause and effect of the entire case.

Here, Ryan Johnson uses a rather advanced technique of subversion and irony, that is, the more familiar you are with the thinking patterns and routines of those detectives, the more you are stuck in those more complex routines and cannot Win this game. This is true for the audience outside the screen, and the same is true for the characters on the screen. The core of

's entire case, as Blanco said, "like a donut", in the middle of the void, was wrapped in two illusions. The first floor is the game played by the old man Haran, and the other is the game played by the real murderer Lanson (Chris Evans). Harlan's game is to help Marta get rid of the suspicion, while Lanson's game is to confirm the fact that Mata committed the crime. It has been emphasized many times in the film that Alex is the most like Harlan among the family members. The two of them are obviously the two most familiar with various detective routines among everyone in the film (don’t forget the master novelist’s Identity).

z30It has been emphasized many times in the film that Lanson is most like Harlan

, but the one who won the game in the end was neither Harlan nor Lanson, but the white-like Marta. Marta was able to win, as Blanco said, precisely because she did not act in the way instructed by Harlan and Lanson, because she harbored genuine kindness. In the logic of her kind behavior, Lanson The ingenious layout is self-defeating in an instant. If we recall the beginning of the case, if Harlan followed Marta’s advice and used the simplest way of thinking to call the doctor, he would never die.

Harlan and Lanson are both clever and too clever people who have long lost their kindness and authenticity in various deliberate calculations of benefits. But the logic of things, in Blanco's eyes, can't jump out of the natural category. Just like the "rainbow of gravitation" in his mouth, like the baseball that is thrown out and always rolls back, like the pedal that is intercepted and recovered, it will always return to their original position and appearance. Just like Marta who can't lie, her kindness allowed her to win this complicated game in the simplest way.

Blanco has Sherlock Holmes and Poirot’s shadow

Marta’s simple kindness, which is in contrast to the style and appearance of the entire Sloan family. In the Sloan family, Ryan Johnson almost It is a naked satire of the present America. The Sloan family with rich family wealth, everyone looks glamorous and has a good life. Not only do they have wealth, but they also boast that wealth is earned from nothing (the American dream is quite fond of the term "self-made").

But in fact, only Haran of the big family really started from scratch, and his offspring not only have ghosts, but everyone is a parasite of wealth. If Harlan represents the pioneer who created the United States with one hand, then his descendants are the Americans today, and "American Team" Chris Evans is the extreme representative among them.

They can honestly argue for justice and the law on weekdays, and can package themselves as independent and self-improving celebrities, but once their fundamental interests are really involved, they will immediately reveal themselves. Jack (Michael Shannon), who had been vocal in support of immigration before, began to threaten Marta with Marta's family, and even the simplest and harmless daughter began to lie to Marta.

keeps saying that the Sloan family, who treats Marta as a family, is exposed in front of the heritage. One of the most vivid details of

is that almost everyone in the Sloan family has told Marta that she is family, but among them Everyone in, can't say which country Marta comes from. It was Uruguay for a while, Ecuador for a while, and Brazil for a while. In their eyes, there should be no difference between Latinos.

Thus, through this subtle story, Ryan Johnson not only achieved the transcendence of this classic type, but also completed his humorous satire on the United States under Trump today—a country that itself was created by immigrants. But the door is closed to the new immigrants; the most famous detective novelist of the world and his descendant heir most like him is defeated by a maid who knows nothing about detective reasoning.

I love this "killing game".