Douban with a score of 8.8 has once again ignited the domestic suspense movie that has fallen into a trough. "The Mirage", both directed and performed by Auriol Paul, and "The Master of Memory" by Chen Zhengdao, are among the best of their kind.
Back in 2017, there are not too many domestic films with outstanding box office performances like "Wolf Warriors 2". The domestic film market is still the world of Hollywood blockbusters, and a little-known Spanish suspense film is quietly released.
did not have the marketing hype that was advertised in the early stage, and there were no star actors familiar to domestic audiences. Relying on the continuous reversal of the plot and the quality that exceeded expectations, the audience gained a good reputation by word of mouth, and took it in the cracks of the blockbuster. At the box office of 172 million.
The movie called "The Invisible Guest" looks simple, but it is especially thought-provoking. The male protagonist is a successful person with a successful career and a handsome appearance. Unexpectedly, when he wakes up from a hotel room, he sees his dead mistress in front of him.
All the evidence is very unfavorable to him, and the court will be held in three hours. Guided by the seemingly experienced and logically rigorous "woman lawyers", one after another half-truth "situations" are constantly appearing and they are constantly being denied. Lies and concealments are peeled away, and the truth is a little bit like a puzzle. Was spliced out.
It turned out that the "unjustified" man in front of him was a selfish, cruel, merciless murderer. He not only killed his mistress and killed a young man he didn't know each other, but also cleverly spoke and denied him in every possible way. In the face of the truth, all mere appearances become worthless.
"The King of Reversal" brings forth the new: "The Mirage"
, like "The Invisible Guest", is a suspenseful movie that will reversal to the extreme, relying on the subtle logic of "unexpected and reasonable". How to complete fatal plot reversals again and again within a limited film length, in addition to the rationality of the plot and the inconsistency of the characters, more is the ability to control the story and control the rhythm just right. From this perspective, the success of "The Invisible Guest" depends on the screenwriter and director Auriol Paul. The performance of
"The Invisible Guest" exceeded expectations. Two years later, in 2019, the New Year's Eve is still warm. The Spaniard Paul brought his new film "The Mirage" to domestic theaters, an extraordinary reversal The suspense drama was staged slowly and got 110 million yuan in box office results during the off-season of theaters.
A storm brought the little boy who witnessed the truth about the murder 25 years ago to a dialogue with the hostess 25 years later through a TV. The heroine’s advice to the boy actually changed history, and the new timeline brought a completely different career, event and relationship with the heroine’s memory.
However, the murderer who committed the crime was still at large. With the assistance of a police officer who seemed willing to believe her "crazy remarks", the heroine stepped closer to the truth of the murder. At this time, the heroine finally realized that the police officer turned out to be The little boy she rescued.
The complex, changeable and understandable timeline of "The Mirage", coupled with the constantly broken and reorganized relationship between the characters, and the suspicious but flawless cases of the year are the core of the whole plot.
The strong sense of pressure brought about by the urgency of time makes the rhythm of the whole movie very lively. Although the introduction of the "time and space shuttle" effect has led to some difficult to explain plot issues, it is still worthy of scrutiny.
's terrible memories and motives for killing: Like Auriol Paul,
is accustomed to self-writing and directing Chen Zhengdao. After the suspenseful film "The Master of Hypnosis" released in 2014, it was well received. In 2017, the second work of the "Masters" series "Master of Memory" was launched. Huang Bo and Duan Yihong's two-hero play made this work full of tension. Under the background of "future + overhead", the intricate memory superposition is increasing. The core point of suspense.
In the ever-changing future of science and technology, the writer played by Huang Bo, who was divorced from his wife, underwent an amnestic surgery after being heartbroken, but mistakenly loaded the memory of others. Worse, this memory pointed to a In the murder case, the police officer played by Duan Yihong took over this strange memory case. However, the appearance of another mysterious woman in the mysterious memory made the whole case even more incredible. In the
film, Huang Bo usesThe identity of the "watcher" witnessed the suspect's crimes throughout the whole process. He brought suspense to the whole film; the policeman played by Duan Yihong tried to give a reasonable explanation to the whole thing through constant temptation and induction, without revealing the fox Before the tail, he led the audience to conduct a logical analysis.
However, the ending of "the police is the murderer" completely broke the balance of the plot of the whole film, and overturned all the doubts that floated on the surface, and overthrew all the unreasonable points. , Attributed to "relatively reasonable". This is also where Chen Zhengdao is smart. Although
is still flawed in the whole film, Huang Bo and Duan Yihong contributed outstanding acting skills to this film, which directly supported this domestic suspense film.
