the main clues swamp there are two: First, trace the story line of cases; the second is a pair of partner relations lines;
schematic below (above is the story line, the following is between two partner Feeling line):
There are two larger plot points in the story line: one is to return to the hotel after finding the corpse, and a man comes to report the crime, so the case changes from a missing girl to a serial murder, and the story officially unfolds from here; the second is After it was determined that the girl had called the hunter’s hut in the late stage of the movie, the two agents went to the hunter’s hut to hunt down the final suspect; another important point in the two plot points was to track down the suspect Quinn as the girl’s current boyfriend. The reason for this The point is very important because it connects several cases that have occurred with a dangerous event that is happening now. It is also the first time a suspect has appeared in a case.
The relationship between the two is relatively obscure, but it is very important. As shown in the figure, the relationship between the two is not greatly changed when handling a case, but there are still several important relationship nodes between the two
. The first one is listed below . The two have just moved in and went downstairs to shoot. The scene is very exciting. I need to analyze it carefully. First of all, the goal of the two shooting is very interesting. At first, Padro hit the key chain, and one hit hit, and Juan hit It's wine. The director and screenwriter in the target comparison between the two people subtlely hinted at the difference in value between the two people. Padro's seriousness and Juan's cynicism (saying Zui Sheng Meng is a bit too much, but a bit of this meaning) can be seen from this target choice. One class. Afterwards, something more interesting happened. After Juan missed the shot, Padro changed the shooting target. Padro changed the target to the same as Juan's. He went to drink. What does this mean? Padro took the initiative to compete with Juan. I want to be able to do things that you can't do. This action is actually showing this. In the process of alternating drinking between the two, their argument became more and more intense. When Padro satirized Juan that he would only blackmail the prostitute and the barkeeper (implying that he was incompetent), it reached the culmination, and Juan stopped shooting. , Asked him what else he heard, Padro said, "Is this not enough?" Then Padro hit with a shot, putting an end to the dispute between the two of them-Padro won the battle between the two.. .
The relationship between the two people at this time was in a state of confrontation, but as the two of them deepened in their handling of the case, Juan demonstrated a strong detection ability, and when he found the body, he gave the uncomfortable Padro a step down, so In the next tavern scene, Padro said "thank you". At this time, the relationship between the two is much closer, and it can be said that they have become partners; when it came to the first confrontation with the suspect Quini, Juan knocked it out. Queenie put the knife on Padro’s neck and overwhelmed Queenie in the interrogation below. When the two were relaxing in the tavern that night, Juan went to tease his sister, and Padro no longer looked like after seeing it. At first, I despised it, but smiled in understanding. At this time, the two have become good friends, but the relationship between the two has just loosened here. The following is the reporter’s questioning of Juan’s life experience. At this time Padro didn’t take it seriously, but the foreshadowing had already been laid. When the reporter clearly explained what Juan had done, Padro really began to doubt. He originally wanted to ask Juan (from After the reporter came back, he saw the light in Juan's room, pay attention to his movements and expressions in that place) But, but he did it anyway. In the second half of the film, Juan told Padro that he had a scapegoat, Padro believed it, and Juan saved his life, so in the end he told reporters that the reporter was misled. By this time he had already I trusted Juan completely, but was soon shocked by the photos taken by the reporter. In the end, he tore up the photo in his room. This action is understandable. Personally, he believed that on the one hand, he was convinced that Juan had done shameful things, but on the other hand, he also felt that Juan was not the same in nature. Bad guys.
By the way, the act of tearing up the photo personally regarded it as showing Padro's changes in the play. He went from a simple young man resenting dictatorship to a somewhat profound understanding of the individual and the society. people. Of course, because I said earlier that this move can be explained more clearly, this point of view is only my personal point of view.
The character relationship line and the plot line complement each other. Once the relationship between the two people eases, it often means that the plot begins to accelerate, and the tension between the two adds tension to the relatively calm investigation plot. Specifically, you can see the
character analysis and character relationship in the picture I drew :
1. Padro: Padro was transferred from Madrid because he published an open letter attacking the general. A disappearance occurred in a remote town and he was transferred to investigate the case. Padro is a young man with a tendency to heroism, but compared with Juan, he really lacks experience in handling cases, or frankly speaking, has some lack of ability, and can only be reckless (specifically how the director restrained performance, I will analyze Juan's When comparing the performance of the two in the play, specifically).
In addition, although the film is narratively from God’s point of view, emotionally speaking, I personally think that the director is from Padre’s point of view, or at least on the surface is more in agreement with Padre;
2. Juan: I think, understand The key to the connotation of this film lies in the understanding of Juan and the transformation of the relationship between Juan and Padro. I'll take the specific content as an example.
In fact, the first scene except the empty mirror at the beginning has already hinted at the character and relationship of the two people. The car broke down, and Padro went to a place far away from the car to see if there were any passing cars, but Juan didn't seem to care, sitting on the car's hood and watching the birds thoughtfully. It can be seen that Padro is more active and calm, compared to Juan is much more calm. At the same time, it can be seen that the two are not close at all as partners. Frankly speaking, when I saw the first scene, I had a foreboding that this film would not be a bad one, because the director's ability to shape characters can be revealed in the seemingly understatement of the opening scene.
The next two people checked into the hotel. Juan joked when he saw Padro angry at the cross with the picture of the "head of state": "Your brand new country". This sentence is very interesting, but it is actually a kind of irony to Padro. Feeling politically naive. But at the same time, Juan's words also have a sense of cynicism after seeing the status quo of society. It's like he has seen through the illusion of society and the country, and he is completely outside. But is he actually out of the picture?
What kind of person is Juan?
First of all, he is a capable person with extremely high emotional intelligence according to the current words, and his handling of cases is very sophisticated, loose on the outside and tight on the inside. He likes to drink very much, even when he is dealing with a case, but the alcohol did not make him unconscious, instead it became a "weapon" for him to communicate with others. He relied on drinking to make good relations with strangers many times. After the two played a shooting game, he drank wine and ordered a bunch of villagers. As a result, he got some information. When he went to investigate the victim’s sister’s house, he drank the wine poured by the hostess and praised the taste of the wine. Later the hostess came to him many times. Please note that it was him who was looking for, not Padro. Why are you looking for him? Because he makes people feel close, this is the reason why he drank the hostess wine in the first place. This feels a bit like toasting cigarettes between men. When two people who don't know each other light a cigarette, they immediately feel a lot closer.
He is very observant in the process of investigation, and asks few but often at points. In contrast, Padro is more reckless and often talks down. For example, when I first went to the girl’s house, Padro kept asking questions, and the final sentence angered the host, but Juan only asked one sentence: "Do you know why your daughter wants to run away?" This is indeed the case. The most important content, and the reason for asking this sentence is obviously that Juan has come to the conclusion through observation that his daughter wanted to run away and took some money (note that the screen gave the hotel a job advertisement and an empty wallet).
Juan can also break through their psychological defenses according to different people, such as finally breaking through the psychological defenses of the hotel administrator, while Padro is often at a loss or even messing up things, such as threatening a little girl, and finally pushing the little girl into a hurry.
Juan is also very human. For example, there is a small but interesting detail in the scene where the female body was found. Padro was very uncomfortable. Juan noticed it, so he said to him that my notebook was in the car. , Can you fetch it for me. He knows too well that Padro is a person with strong self-esteem. In fact, he doesn’t need a notebook, he can get it by himself if he needs it. Asking Padro to get the notebook just hopes that he will stay away from the body and go there "quietly" ". This is also the reason why Padro would take the initiative to say thank you to Juan in the bar in the next scene.
On the other hand, the film depicts Juan’s dark past in reality or fiction. In fact, it is expressed through the reporter's memories and photos. It tells us that Juan was a secret police and tortured many people. This can also understand why Juan knows how to interact with people and understand people's weaknesses.
Fictional writing is more interesting, mainly through the bird's intention.
There are seabirds in the film many times, and many people must have noticed the feeling of the image. But the real thing that shows the real feeling of the bird image is when a man came to report that his girlfriend and another girl were actually killed. The scene after that appeared. This should start with this scene. After Juan took the man’s necklace and opened it, there was a close-up shot of a hand trembling constantly. Below is Juan’s horrified expression. This hand is Juan’s hand, so why should he shake his hand? ? After this scene, in the next scene, Juan urinates blood in the bathroom. After coming out of the bathroom, he saw a bird flying in and fainted. Juan's panic in the previous scene was related to the fainting in this scene, because he thought of something that made him react, so what did he think of? I personally guess that he must have seen some similar pendants with photos of his relatives or lovers in pairs. These people have been mutilated by him... Yes, the repetitions in his mind should have been committed by him. Sin, and that bird actually seemed to him more like a ghost who had been urged by hell. I don’t know if you will feel this way. The repeated flocks of birds in the picture look like the fleeing crowd in the last photo taken by the reporter. Of course, this image cannot be a certain entity symbol, but I personally think that the bird in this film refers to the masses, and the bird in Juan's eyes is the masses who have been mutilated by him. On the other hand, if the bird refers to the general public, the swamp is synonymous with a dirty society. It also happens to fit the content of this video. (Of course, everyone has everyone’s understanding of these images. In many cases, the images must be tasteless. This is just my guess.)
Having said so much, what I want to talk about is that Juan actually has a strong sense of guilt in his heart, and this work is more like a self-salvation to him. So although he played a far greater role in this case than Padro, but at the end, he has to hold Padro and say that you are the hero. In fact, in this case alone, he should be considered a hero, but he himself feels that he is still a sinner in his bones...
But if you analyze Juan from the point of guilt alone, I think it is far from deep enough. There are two issues that need to be resolved. The first one is why Juan eagerly asked Padro to take out the newspaper reporting his heroic deeds and emphatically said: "Show it to your son, don't lose it." Pay attention to "don't lose it." My personal guess (although it is a guess, but I am more certain about this guess) the director is actually implying that Juan may have also been a hero, or at least he was an idealistic young man. But... he finally fell into the "marshland" of the dictatorship. Seeing Padro is like seeing who he once was. Since he is inevitably a sinner, he needs a young man to realize his once ideals. Rather than saying that this is a conversation with Padro, maybe Juan wants to say to himself...
Second question: Since Juan is such a capable person, he has also worked for interest groups. One person, why does he work in such a remote place? Because we knew from the beginning that Padro was "distributed" to this place, which shows that this is actually a very bad place. So if Juan understands the unspoken rules of society, why has he got here too?
I personally think that there may be two reasons for this. The first reason is voluntary. Maybe Juan has already seen through all of this. He has no enterprising spirit. He wants to do something in a place where no one is left. Recognized by people like reporters in large places.
Another possible reason, I personally think, may be more in line with the situation. Juan was actually sent to such a remote place. Like most of the former lackeys, he became the loser in the story of unloading the grind and killing the donkey. The dictatorship has become a democratic government in form. The dictator can be transformed into a celebrity, but the secret police who used to be a gun for the dictator have made too many enemies and can only become victims or even scapegoats. This may also be Hu Ann sees through the world, the reasons for cynicism.
Generally speaking, in my opinion, Juan was once a cruel secret police, but he is also a small stone in the torrent of history, a tragic figure. He may have been an idealist, a nationalist, or a person who regarded collective interests as the supreme and most sought after person (how many young people were deceived and eventually became Nazis in World War II)? He is also sympathetic, human, and even artistic (good sketching), and has a relationship with women (it’s easier to catch two girls in a bar). He is an ordinary person among you and me, or even a better ordinary person. However, this does not prevent him from being "institutionalized" in a dictatorship, or even brainwashed, to treat the interests of the dictatorship as safeguarding the interests of the country and the people. Until one day, the dictatorship suddenly collapsed, and everything he had maintained collapsed suddenly. He was dumped from the State Secret Police to a remote police station as useless, and he was also terminally ill. It is inevitable for a person to become cynical after experiencing such disillusionment. He understood that what he had done was actually doing evil, so although he was very relaxed on the outside, he couldn't sleep every day. He was frightened when he saw things (necklaces, flying birds like a crowd of people running away) that could remind him of what he did evil. . But looking around, they are full of seemingly free but poor people after experiencing national labor. The powerful are still powerful, and they still harm ordinary people with their lackeys. The only atonement he can do is help a young man of faith to catch. Live the criminal who committed the crime directly, and tell this young man "Don't lose (your belief)"-don't be like me. Can he seize the powerful and convict? It was impossible to do it, and it is still impossible to do...
Padro's change of attitude towards Juan, from disdain, to gratitude, to doubt, trust, and finally to acceptance, is actually due to his own understanding of society and people. Deepen, he is still the young man with faith, but he no longer requires everyone to be completely clean. He may understand that everyone has committed more or less, or committed some crimes actively or as a last resort, but he Not a wicked wicked person, but an ordinary person who has light and can't get rid of darkness.
The relationship between other characters is to
sort out the relationship between the three criminals and the victims, because this is very helpful for clearing the clues of the story. In
terms of time, the first victim is the single mother Adela. This happened in 77 Year,
The second victim was Beatrice, the girlfriend of the man who took the initiative to report the crime. It happened in 1978. The
third and fourth victims were sisters Estrella and Carmen, which happened in 1980;
and A girl who was raped but was rescued was counted as the fifth victim.
These cases all occurred before and after the assembly, so that a few people would not be discovered until after they disappeared.
In addition to Queenie and Sebastian, there is another farmer who is Queen's gold owner. Based on the content of the film, it is easier to speculate that the funder has a relationship with the third and fourth girls. These five people all knew Queenie, and at the same time they were bewitched by the gatekeeper Sebastian to go to work and live in the port city.
Personally, I think Queenie and the sponsor are in the same group. They designed to rape minors, but the murder has nothing to do with them.
It is very possible that these women were spotted by Sebastian when they were meeting with Queenie in the hotel. Most of the local women wanted to leave here. In addition to being abandoned and raped, they strengthened their desire to leave. Desire, and when Sebastian gave them a chance, they believed him credulously and eventually led to Sebastian software, rape and murder.
The reason why he believes that the funder has nothing to do with murder is because he personally feels that it is not in his interest to kill. What he did was to control these girls for sexual assault. Even if the girls wanted to escape, they should be captured and controlled. The goal of killing was very high, and it was really unwise to change the individual to be more dangerous. In contrast, Sebastian has more motives for killing.
Some people say that the fifth victim was almost killed because Kim was tested for blood, so the gold master was afraid of killing, but the story clearly did not conform to this fact. In the monitoring call, the girl called Sebastian to leave, not Sebastian contacted him, so it doesn't make sense to say that the sponsor instigated killing. Of course, I personally feel that the girl's initiative to contact Sebastian at this time is not very logical. This place is actually a plot added for the last-minute rescue and the acceleration of the film's rhythm.
The reason why movies are movies-the atmosphere brought by movie language
Frankly speaking, the story of this film is more traditional, not even so brilliant. There are two main points of the film's brilliance. The first is the portrayal of Juan's character, and the second is the creation of the atmosphere of the film, which I will talk about below.
The big difference between movies and TV shows is that TV shows are basically just narratives. Compared with movies, the atmosphere is rarely created. If this film is only narrative, it will actually be attractive, but it becomes a TV series, without the taste.
The atmosphere of the film mainly depends on several aspects.
The sense of image and atmosphere brought by the lens.
First of all, I have written about the image of the bird before. This is the most important image of the film, so I won't repeat it. The second film has a large perspective shot in many key places. In addition to the obvious panoramic view of the marshland at the beginning, there are also shots of the ship lonely offshore after the woman on the poison ship told Juan that it would die; for example, the panoramic shot of the rainy marshland where Sebastian was killed and fell into the water at the end. , For example, the last two people driving out of the swamp. These lenses all have an atmosphere, so I won’t use words to describe them. In addition to another shot, I think it’s particularly good. Two detectives drove home after discovering the stockings in the well. In the darkness, the girl walking alone by the road was like a prey, without any street lights around. , Only the car lights hit the girl, after the car passed, the red tail lantern covered the girl, and the sense of insecurity immediately jumped into people's minds. And this shot not only rendered the atmosphere, but also heralded tragedy. The next scene is that the girl's body is found.
In addition to the lens language, the sound design and music of the film are also very solid and appropriate. In sound design, there is a commonly used but characteristic sound effect that is often used, that is, low-frequency noise. In indoor scenes, when the crisis worsens, the sound designer will add some low-frequency noise, for example, when visiting a sister’s home. , When I visited the hotel for the first time, low-frequency noise was added, but this may not be audible on ordinary playback equipment, and it was obvious when I watched it in the movie theater.
The music of this film is not melodic music, but music with a strong sense of atmosphere, which is a bit like sound effects. In recent years, in the film industry, the sound of music and the music of sound are two unified trends, and the music is getting more and more. Integrating into the plot, being dragged away by the plot instead of with the plot, this film can be said to be a representative of this type of music.
The music of the film played the role of emotional segmentation. As shown in the picture I uploaded, the place where each downward arrow points is where the music divides the emotional segmentation. In each corresponding section, the music keeps the different scenes emotionally connected. In fact, this kind of detective film is easy to be fragmented because the plot is relatively trivial. It is a very meaningful way to use music to unify the relatively fragmented plot.
The style of photography
that I have taken in a stroke may not be too small for me to watch movies, so I don’t think this film is very stylized. This film basically conforms to the usual photography style of this kind of film. For example, indoor scenes have a larger light ratio between day and night, and the tone is dark; outdoor scenes are dark at night, although they are often bright during the day, but because of the yellow color of the swamp The upper saturation is relatively low, so it seems very depressing, and the light in outdoor scenes during the day is also harder. In terms of color, the saturation of the entire film is relatively low (except for the first few panoramic empty mirrors), the dark tone is blue, and the light tone is yellow.
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