Love is originally a romantic thing, but in the film and television drama, it makes people a little thoughtful and terrified. Before
, there was a suspenseful film "The Disappearing Lover" that made his wife's scumbag into a textbook. After
, there is a Korean drama "The World of Husband and Wife", which broke the ratings with dog blood.
"Husband cheated, wife blackened" , such plots are not uncommon. Each of
is full of topics, so there is a trend of "marriage horror" .
Having said that, it reminds me of a domestically produced film 15 years ago.
look at the title, you will not associate it with horror, crime and other types of movies. Before and after the release of
, the film did not attract much attention. It may be that the subject matter is too sensitive, or it may be that the shots are too bold and direct.
However, with this film, the two leading actors Carina Lau and Hu Jun, one became the queen of the Hundred Flowers Award, and the other won the actor. The box office of
was fiasco, and the scale was so large that it was deleted. After Carina Lau was sealed, Hu Jun became the actor:
"Curiosity Kills the Cat
" 丨 Curiosity Kills the Cat
has only a statement on Douban 6.4 points, but it is definitely not a bad film.
director Zhang Yibai , known as the "godfather of youth films."
His series of works such as "The Subway To Spring" and "Pushing Love Through to the End" have influenced the outlook on love of a whole generation of people.
and the cast can be described as very eye-catching, with powerful stars Hu Jun and Liao Fan , as well as actresses Carina Lau and Song Jia.
The title "Curiosity Kills the Cat" is actually a Western proverb:
"Curiosity Kills the Cat"
implies that everything has a bottom line. Once you cross the boundaries, you will pay an unexpected price! The movie
mainly tells about a marital ethical tragedy caused by the curiosity of . The story of
has twists and turns. In just 93 minutes, the movie has revealed one truth after another for us.
If you don’t see the end, it’s hard to guess what kind of story it is.
Zheng Zhong (played by Hu Jun) and Qian Yu (played by Carina Lau) are a couple.
Although Qianyu was born in a wealthy family, she has never looked down on the solemnity of the poor family. Instead, she feels like taking care of him everywhere, fearing her husband's low self-esteem.
After marriage, Qian Yu put away the attitude of the eldest lady, became a good helper of her husband, and put the focus of life on the family.
In the eyes of outsiders, middle-aged Mr. Zheng has a successful career and has such a beautiful wife. He is simply a winner in life.
Therefore, everyone in this apartment often casts envious eyes on the two of them.
Among them, Liu Fendou, the security guard in the apartment.
He is very curious and yearning for the lives of the rich, and Mrs. Zheng is beautiful and temperamental, he can't help but look more.
But in fact, solemnly and Chiba's marriage is not as happy as everyone thinks.
was born in poverty and solemnly. When he chose to marry his wife, it was not because the two really fell in love, but because they wanted to change the status quo.
Although he found a shortcut to success after marriage, butIt was he who began to be dissatisfied with this kind of peace and life under the fence, which can be said to be extremely inferior and anxious. It didn't take long for
to solemnly meet the shampoo girl Liang Xiaoxia by accident.
Liang Xiaoxia is not only young and beautiful, with a variety of styles, but also allows him to regain his "dignity" as a man.
As time goes by, I solemnly have different dreams with my wife. Although the relationship is maintained very well on the surface, my heart is tired.
but with Liang Xiaoxia, solemnly became another person completely, and eventually the two developed a lover relationship.
However, his relationship with Liang Xiaoxia is limited to a lover, and there is no possibility of further development.
After all, everything he has now is given to him by his wife.
However, Liang Xiaoxia doesn't think so, she feels that she and Zheng are truly in love.
Later, Liang Xiaoxia moved to the apartment where he lived in order to be closer to solemnity.
However, he was seriously afraid that the relationship between the two would be discovered by his wife, and proposed to end it early, and gave Liang Xiaoxia 200,000 yuan to disappear on her own initiative.
Unexpectedly, Liang Xiaoxia refused decisively, and even appeared in front of the solemn family without authorization, pretending to say hello to her neighbors.
Soon, the affair between the two was accidentally discovered by the girl Mo Mo who worked in the photo studio, and evidence was left behind.
But she did not tell Mrs. Zheng about the matter, instead Mrs. Zheng took the initiative to invite Mo Mo to be a guest at her home.
Since Liang Xiaoxia moved in, a series of strange things have happened in the apartment.
was Qianyu's car first. It was scraped by a stranger in the underground garage and splashed with a bucket of red paint. This shocked her.
After the incident, Liang Xiaoxia happened to be on the scene. She saw that she was solemnly comforting her wife, with a dismissive sneer on her face.
It happened that Liang Xiaoxia was also at the scene. She watched Mr. Zheng comfort his wife Qianyu, but she had a sneer on her face.
Immediately afterwards, Qianyu was splashing paint on the roof while studying flower arrangements at his home and Momo. When
learned about it, she suspected that Liang Xiaoxia did it, so she asked her why she did it.
Liang Xiaoxia did not deny it, but instead used these things to force her to be with herself solemnly. After
, I found a photo of the two in the mailbox by accident.
He thought it was Liang Xiaoxia threatening him with these photos, so she cried bitterly in front of Liang Xiaoxia, begging her to let her go.
Liang Xiaoxia looked at the man she loved so much, she was so afraid of herself, she was extremely desperate.
Until one day, Zheng Zheng had just returned home when his wife told him that the child was gone.
things developed to this point and began to get out of control. The first solemn reaction of
was Liang Xiaoxia, and in anger she picked up the ashtray and slammed it at Liang Xiaoxia.
He not only wants to end this relationship, but also to vent all his anger. What is the result of
?
until he was solemnly arrested by the police, he couldn't understand why Liang Xiaoxia died but her missing son was not found.
But at this moment, a woman was looking at him quietly from a distance, with a hint of indifference in her eyes.
Unexpectedly, the plot went on here, and a huge reversal occurred.
Actually, the whole incident was planned by his wife Chiba.
Qianyu has long discovered the adultery between her husband and Liang Xiaoxia, but she did not chooseHe chose to expose it in person, but secretly took pictures of the two of them, and let Mo Mo see it on purpose.
Immediately afterwards, she and Liang Xiaoxia became best friends, frequenting her nail salon.
Then, she directed and performed two paint splashing incidents, and sent cheating photos to her husband.
Finally, using the disappearance of her son, she induced her husband to point the finger at Liang Xiaoxia.
And the whole incident, there is another accomplice- security guard Liu Fendou .
Liu Fendou has been secretly in love with Mrs. Zheng Qianyu, and Qianyu has already seen this.
then used money and body to lure this little security guard to work for himself.
Actually, Mrs. Zheng Qianyu originally wanted to teach her husband a lesson and drive away the mistress.
But she did not expect that the situation would gradually get out of control and eventually lead to a murder.
first, her husband was angry and killed Liang Xiaoxia, and then she induced the security guard Liu to fight to kidnap her own child. Unexpectedly, the other party was willing to bear all the charges for her and finally chose to commit suicide by jumping off the building.
At the end of the film, although Qianyu escaped the responsibility of the law, her conscience will never be peaceful in her life.
After all, the story of " Curiosity Kills the Cat " is very simple and straightforward.
However, the director boldly adopted a non-linear narrative in the narrative, restoring the whole event through the perspective of different characters.
, on the surface, looks like a romance film; in fact, it is a suspense thriller.
However, in 2006, there are few movies that can face this unavoidable social reality problem. The positive look of
even surpassed the horror effect that the film was supposed to bring to the audience, and it was chilling.
And behind the movie, there is a complex and cruel fact hidden, which may be as the poster's slogan says:
cats lost their lives because of curiosity; people are trapped in quagmire because of curiosity.
