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If you want to choose a classic brain-burning movie, then "Terror Cruise" and "Mulholland Drive" will definitely be the choices in most people's hearts. In addition, some people will also choose films such as "Pre-Destination" and "Source Code" , but if wants to choose the most classic, brain-burning, and brain-burning suspense movie with the best reputation, then all movies must bow before the old version of "Witness for the Prosecution."
The most exciting thing about the old movie "Witness for the Prosecution" is that actually realizes the sharing of information inside and outside the movie. When you can't find the real culprit, the people in the movie can't find the real culprit either. . also breaks the old pattern of traditional criminal investigation films/dramas and information asymmetry. Therefore, this film is enough to be called a god!
"Witness for the Prosecution" is adapted from Agatha's original novel, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, and Charles Laughton. The film was released in the United States on February 6, 1958. The film currently only has box office in France, with a total of US$7,693.
At the same time, the film was nominated for a total of 6 awards at the Oscars the following year, , but all of them lost to "The Bridge on the River Kwai". But the reputation of "Witness for the Prosecution" is surprisingly good. On Douban, a total of 582,000 people gave a high score of 9.6, ranking 19th on Douban's top 250; on imdb, 134,000 people gave it a high score of 8.4, and ranked 19th on the top 250 of imdb. 65 bits.
It is no exaggeration to say that this film is an excellent work that is unanimously recognized by China and foreign countries.
From Luoxue's personal perspective, this film was made in 1957, so is slightly inferior to today's films in terms of story structure and suspense creation. However, the story of this film progresses layer by layer, and the suspense is gradually peeled away bit by bit. , but it created another greater suspense. The movie focuses on the court trial, without too many off-site stories, making the story a bit boring, but the overall effect is still excellent, especially being on the same starting line with the audience, which makes this movie receive more praise. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration.
And the judicial justice, legal loopholes, darkness of human nature, and the use of the law involved in the movie are all from a third party, and they are examined with a more calm attitude, making the film a god.
The same movie and the same format, Huang Xiaoming's "The Last Truth" has quite the feel of "Witness for the Prosecution", but the problem is that the lawyer in it is not impartial enough, the son has no reason, the mother is inexplicable, and the old men have too much motivation. Ridiculous, is why "Witness for the Prosecution" is even more outstanding.
The following contains serious spoilers. I suggest friends who haven’t seen it to watch the movie first and then read Luoxue’s recommendations! (Remember to turn off the barrage)
. The best criminal investigation film
There are countless criminal investigation movies or TV series around the world. Some are famous in history, and some have long since disappeared in the long river of history. But whether it is "Memories of Murder", "The Invisible Guest", or "Sherlock Holmes" and other Chinese and foreign criminal investigation thrillers and suspense films. Or TV series such as "Young Bao Qingtian", "Detective Detective Dee", "Detective Sherlock" and so on.
We found that in all film and television works, there will actually be information asymmetry. takes "The Invisible Guest" as an example. Why is the girl's mother so determined? It's not her intelligence and determination, but the fact that the heroine found her and surrendered a long time ago and explained everything, so of course she is so determined, but the audience only knows this information at the end.
is like doing a math problem. Given x=3, what is the value of y? How do you ask for this? doesn't even have all the known conditions, so how can it resonate with the characters in the drama in solving the suspense of the case?
But "Witness for the Prosecution" completely breaks this point. The information Sir Wilfred knows in the movie is equivalent to the information the audience knows. So when we can't know the result, Sir Wilfred also doesn't know, and he will be in despair.
When Christine pretends to be a love rival and gives false news to Sir Wilfred, the audience will think that this evidence is too baffling and too coincidental, and the defense lawyer Sir Wilfred will also feel the same way.
"It's a little too proper, too beautiful, and overall it's too smooth, so it doesn't look right."
So, we found that at the end, Wilfred, the barrister, was deceived, and the criminal who should have been punished finally escaped because of him. Not only did he kill and clear his name, he even received a considerable inheritance.
When we watch criminal investigation films such as "Detective Chinatown", "Vicious Lawyer", "Knives Out" and so on, the protagonist will definitely grasp some clues that we don't know, and then give the villain a fatal blow at the end of the movie. Click . Although this treatment makes the audience happy, it lacks the sense of simultaneous solving of the crime and cannot achieve resonance between people and the movie.
As a legal criminal investigation film, what is more important is that it does not deliberately reduce the role of the police in the investigation of the case, which means that the lawyers here will not get too ridiculous evidence . On the other hand, "The Last Truth" and "The Vengeful Lawyer", some of them are very obvious and can be seen by anyone with a discerning eye, but the police just don't know about it, and they want to wait for the protagonist to find out after causing an unjust case.
However, in "Witness for the Prosecution", Wilfred looked for evidence by himself, and ended up being cheated. severely slapped the lawyer in the face for finding evidence, which is a common practice nowadays!
In addition to allowing the audience to simultaneously experience the process of solving the case, the director also severely criticized the foreign judicial system.
. Objectively examine
As a legal suspense film, it will inevitably involve satire on judicial justice or social reality, such as "The Vicious Lawyer". However, this film is viewed in a very objective and calm manner, and the effect is excellent!
The deliberately bad guy gained sympathy by pretending to be a good guy. On the other hand, he also performed a double act, and finally succeeded in getting the bad guy to be cleared and released in court. It can be said that such a result is the greatest travesty of judicial impartiality, trampling on the so-called justice underfoot and ruthlessly ravaging it.
However, it is precisely because of this kind of treatment that allows us to see the shortcomings of the judiciary and how unreliable the evidence that the lawyer found without review is. Because of the failure of , we will pay more attention to avoidance, so as to improve the law, improve the evidence extraction system, and reduce the occurrence of unjust, false and wrong cases in the future.
Only when we can face up to errors and loopholes can we correct errors and plug loopholes. On the other hand, "The Last Truth", a recently released movie that was rated 5.9 by Douban netizens, has a cliched plot and incomprehensible characters. In the end, lawyer Ding Yifeng, played by Huang Xiaoming, finally found the murderer for the sake of judicial justice and blew himself up to threaten the prisoner. Not only did he completely lose everything he owned, he was even sentenced to jail.
Why? Because the Chinese ending does not allow the judiciary to be fooled and the bad guys to go free . The final result is that people do not trust credibility and do not repent of problems that are visible to the naked eye. Therefore, it is not as good as the reversal in "Witness for the Prosecution".
At the same time, although the judiciary has been fooled, it must be like the presiding judge said, when giving the trial result, personal feelings must not be involved: " You will conduct the trial strictly based on the testimony and evidence in this court. , we must abandon any preconceptions about this case and eliminate all distracting thoughts, except for what happened in this court.”.
Watching this film, we find that in fact, the two parties have been debating the existing evidence and the insufficiency of the evidence. Although the final result is that the prisoner was acquitted, the root cause is the problem caused by illegal evidence, and That is to say, if this point is changed, will the judiciary be more fair?
The movie examines the judiciary in a more calm and restrained manner, and will also make the audience immersed in it for a long time after watching it.
commented in Douban's praise: "Watching it with a bias towards court themes, I didn't expect it to be a film that can be remembered for several days. Not only because of the stunning ending, the whole drama is like making the viewer... It’s like being there, thinking about what you’re thinking, worrying about what you’re worried about. The black hole-like plot attracts people, and finally completely wraps you up and swallows you up quickly. ”
And the excellence of the movie is actually related to the director’s control of the characters. There is a huge relationship.
. Exquisite interpretation
Grandma's novels have been adapted to the screen many times. In the past two years, "Tragedy on the Nile", "Fright Night in Venice" and "Murder on the Orient Express" have been adapted to the screen. However, the quality of the movies adapted from Grandma's novels is mediocre, and a big factor is the interpretation of the characters.
The four main actors in "Witness for the Prosecution" performed impeccably, and they all have very strong personal imprints, making people convinced of their roles. For example, Wall, who always insists that he is innocent and shows his true feelings; the cold and ruthless Christine; and the funny nurse lady; Sir Wilfred, who likes to smoke and drink but is focused on the trial.
Each of them performed the emotions that their characters should have, especially Wall, who always insisted that he was innocent, which even made people doubt that he might really be wronged , which increased the charm of the movie. Viewability.
At the same time, in order to cope with the boring scenes in the movie, the director also designed a funny scene between the nurse lady and Sir Wilfred. The two of them also had a very strong chemical reaction, and the cp feeling Very strong (reality is a real couple).
In general, the biggest advantage of this film is that it allows the audience to think about the entire case with the protagonist. Everyone is on the same starting line, which increases the connection between the audience and the film ; at the same time, the film uses a calm and restrained perspective To examine the problems existing in court trials, so that people can think about judicial justice through movies, or improve judicial justice. And everyone's performance is very good, well worth watching.
However, this film also has shortcomings. The suspense creation of this film is indeed not as strong as today's films, and the large court trial scenes reduce the interest of the film and reduce the desire to watch it.
Overall good reviews, this film is highly recommended!
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