Text | Hu Xueyi
This summer, director Ke Wenli brought the movie " silently kills " to "break out" from more than 90 films that have been scheduled. As of now, "Silence" has been released for 11 days, with a box office of over 700 million. It is a "bright spot" in the film market after many months of silence.
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Social issues never lack attention. "Silent Kill" touches on many social issues such as school bullying, stalking and filming, domestic violence, people with disabilities, sexual assault, religion, etc. It is naturally one of the most topical movies in the summer season.
However, while affirming the significance of this point, we must also pay attention to the theme it really conveys, that is, silence can sometimes become an accomplice of evil, or even a sharp knife that stabs oneself. When you see evil, you can remain silent, but you cannot be indifferent.
To fight evil with evil, it is inevitable to break out in silence. The male protagonist Lin Zaifu uses a hammer to create serial murders, an evil act to avenge his daughter; the heroine Li Han abuses his daughter Xiaotong, an evil act that overprotects his daughter from being bullied by others; police officer Dai Guodong's son Wu Wang stalks different women, Secretly filming others is an evil caused by the lack of family education... Only the small group of school bullies is a naked and gratuitous evil, and is the source of countless evils in the film.
When evil happens, others turn a blind eye and stand by, which is undoubtedly condoning evil. Therefore, evil accumulates and explodes in silence, pushing kind people towards the darkness, and then uses evil to execute every indifferent person.
At this point, many viewers may be as confused as Dai Guodong asked Li Han: Why didn't the police call the police when the tragedy happened? Why not seek legal help? In fact, the background and ending of the film point out the social environmental factors that cannot be said about "women being sexually assaulted".
This point, whether in movies or in reality, is almost unexplainable.
Because of this, women often choose to remain silent when they encounter misfortune. Today, many years later, silence has become the boomerang of another tragedy, hitting me right between the eyebrows. There are many details worth paying attention to in the
movie itself. The combination of Xiaotong and Lin Zaifu is reminiscent of the relationship between Karasawa Yukiho and Kirihara Ryoji in " White Night Journey " - both use their identities and actions to redeem each other, and play a role in confusing the audience in the story. Xiaotong's smile in the ending of
is also Sinuo's smile in the movie " Chinatown Detective " directed by Ke Wenli and Chen Sicheng. The shooting technique is similar, meaningful and equally creepy.
In addition, there are scenes such as bloody flying pigeons, thorny rose crowns, floating boats, and recurring paper cranes, which add a metaphorical color to the film. Coupled with the alternating flashbacks of memories and phantom images, the plot structure is compact. , eye-catching.
Compared with the director's previous film "Manslaughter", the new film "Manslaughter" seems to be a bit "excessive": the picture is bloody and violent, some characters are flat and extreme, as well as obvious foreshadowing, guessable reversals, and unnecessary thrillers , all of which reduced the suspense a lot.
While "Silent Kill" is helping to heat up the movie market, it also raises concerns: How far can a satisfying film with all villains and "buffs" go?
