in 2019 is insufficient, but there is only one month left, and the theaters usher in many good movies.
's upcoming "The Gathering at Southern Station" and "Lanxin Theater" will not be discussed. Now there are films in the theaters, which have a strong impact on the best suspense film of the year with a high reputation.
, although the box office momentum is not the strongest, the word-of-mouth performance is really strong enough.
Domestic Douban 8.4, better than 94% of crime films, suspense films, 96% freshness of rotten tomatoes, MTC 83 points, the momentum of praise from foreign media is also very strong.
What does it say?
This article has slight spoilers.
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"The Knife Out of the Sheath" can be said to be a neat detective suspense story that takes place in a relatively confined space.
An old country house, where an old man lives. This old man is a famous mystery novelist and a rich man.
was on his eighty-fifth birthday, and everyone came to his birthday party. But after this birthday party, an accident happened.
The housekeeper came in the next day and found that the old man was dead.
Although the investigation results point to the father's suicide by cutting his throat, whether it is from the confession, the scene, or the blood traces, things are still strange.
The police came again a week later, and someone anonymously hired private investigators to solve the case. So I called this family again and asked them one by one. The eldest daughter of
has her own company and has an excellent relationship with her father. Second daughter-in-law is an internet celebrity blogger who sells goods every day. With the help of his father's book, the younger son has become more popular in the publishing company.
In this way, it seems that everyone in the family has a successful career and has no motive for killing. Except for the black sheep recognized by the family, the idle boy Lan Sen.
But in fact, after everyone talked in harmony, the detective discovered more. The seemingly decent family members hide something.
The eldest daughter’s husband secretly cheated and was discovered by the father, and the daughter-in-law’s living expenses were immediately cut off by the father. The younger son also had a dispute with the father because of the filming of novels.
also, the big inheritance left by the old man after his death, who will inherit it and how to divide it is a big question.
This time the detective asked them to reminisce about the night of the party. They wanted to use each person’s narration of true and false to remove the false and keep the true and restore the day of the incident. When
questioned, the detective also found a special breakthrough. There is no blood relationship with this family, but Marta, the caregiver who takes care of the dead every day.
Mata has a special feature that as long as she lies, she can't help vomiting. The question is, can her words represent the whole process of truth? Detective
listens, observes, and then hesitates to find the truth. The audience followed the detective and experienced the reversal and reversal of this story, which was quite exciting. In addition to the story of
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, the actor is also quite strong. The two leading actors, Daniel Craig and Chris Evans, have a strange style of 007 mixing and matching the American team.
In this movie, neither of them looks like their classic screen image.
Let me talk about Chris Evans. In addition to Marvel's career turning point for his Captain America, he also acted in works such as "Crooked Boy Scott Against the World", "Sun Catastrophe" and "Snow Country Train".
"Snow Country Train"
and in the early years also played some relatively wild comedy, like "Very Male and Female", played very well.
American milk cover, come a wave?
Therefore, he has only recently been framed by the US team's too successful image. As for the Lanson of "Knife Out of the Sheath" and Wei Guangzheng's US team, the gap has widened.
Lanson is a cynical kid, a scum in the rich second generation. When Chris Evans no longer needs to be Captain America and let go of himself, of course, let the character explode a few more swear words.
However, the more core role of this film is the detective starred by Daniel Craig.
Daniel Craig is the sixth 007. He was caught in a lot of controversy because of his tough appearance. He played 007 in "007: Battle Royal Casino" and "007: Ghost Party".
In addition to 007, he has also played many roles as police detective agents in films like "The Girl with Dragon Tattoo".
《The detective in "Blade Out of the Sheath" is a bit different. Follow the gentle route, basically all talking and observing, there is no such thing as climbing buildings with bare hands or getting documents from bullets.
Daniel practiced his southern accent specifically for this detective character, and he was particularly happy. There are also a bunch of shining stars in the
film including Michael Shannon ("The Shape of Water"), Jamie Lee Curtis ("True Lies"), Toni Colette ("Genetic Doom").
Because of the limitations of the scene and story, there are no special effects scenes. The group dramas of these actors have added a lot to the film.
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Director Ryan Johnson filmed "Star Wars 8" and "The Ring Messenger", and he himself is a fan of Agatha Christie.
Agatha Christie, a name that cannot be avoided when talking about mystery. "Tragedy on the Nile", "No Survival", "Murder on the Orient Express"... There are many works in his life, and he is honored as the queen of detective novels.
"Murder on the Orient Express"
"The Knife Out" is quite Agatha's "country house school" detective novel style. Location restrictions, the murderer is a few specific people, and advance the story through different motives.
The difference in this movie is that it uses a little trick. The opening gave a false omniscience perspective, and later it overthrew and reversed to play with the audience. In the film
, everyone insists on their own opinions, has their own opinions on the truth, defends themselves and beautifies themselves, which obviously has the color of "Rashomon" and "Citizen Kane".
"The Knife Out of the Sheath" has many reversals, but it is a very traditional detective reasoning story, so some people may think it is clichéd. The gloomy house where the main story of
takes place gives the film a little stage style. The character in the film saw the sentence from Zhaizi, "This person is simply living in a crime movie", which is appropriate. The
movie also has a big ingenuity, combining retro and modern. The interior style and furnishings of the
house, including the concepts of family and detectives, and the plot setting, are full of a retro atmosphere.
But the e-books, mobile phones, and Netflix adaptations that pop up from time to time remind the audience that this is indeed modern and contemporary.
"The Knife Out" also has obvious political metaphors. A big white man claimed to care about the caregiver Marta, but in fact they don't even know where she is from. Brazil, Uruguay...South America is the same in their hearts. Through the interaction between the characters and the direction of the ending, the film satirizes a wave of Trump's immigration policy. This level of
is not very interesting, mainly because the film itself is well completed, and finally it returns to the torture of human nature, good and evil, and emotions.
In recent years, the domestic popular "script-killing" games, in fact, many are born out of similar mode stories. But "Knife Out of the Sheath", of course, is more sophisticated and advanced than the design of ordinary scripts.
So, but too much spoiler, go to the theater to experience it if you are interested.
such a neat detective reasoning story is hard to come by.
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