Some people say that "No Name Girl" continues the consistent style of the Darney brothers. I have a hard time agreeing with this point of view. Compared with all the Darnay brothers' feature films, it is clear that "The Nameless Girl" is Darnay's bold attempt to the core of the story, a bold attempt to suspense stories.
The Darney Brothers emphasized in Film Notes that the so-called style is an artificial trace, and it is not clever. They oppose style as much as they oppose labeling their work. However, what we have to accept objectively is that even the Darney brothers have their own working methods and style trends. This style is a clear sign that it is different from others. The style can be selected from the beginning of your choice of subject matter, characters, and the final film. See. This is also why the audience can determine whose film this is and what kind of style it is after watching the opening chapter. Not everyone puts pigeons in the film (Wu family style), not everyone who is okay, not everyone is doing it deliberately, but as long as you do things, you must have habits and principles. There is no way, the master is also a human, he He has his habit, and the traces of this habit continue, which is his personal label and style.
The story of "Anonymous Girl" has two lines. One is an outright and introverted intern who suddenly gave up medical practice. These two incidents make Dr. Davin feel very distressed and uneasy. In order to make up for the accountability of her soul, she seeks the truth of the matter by herself, so as to bring out the unspeakable complex truth. Look, if the story is retold like this, the suspense plot is certain.
When the video reaches 0109, the intern says that he wants to study medicine because of his family, but he finds that there is a gap between reality and rationality and he gives up medicine.
The black girl had no name and no identity, suspected homicide, and followed Davin to investigate. She found that the black girl was a peripheral. Her investigation was threatened by a smuggler, and to her surprise, her patient was actually a client and a client. Witnesses to the girl's death. Because of the unknown girl, the relationship between them was related explicitly or implicitly. Because of the death of the unknown girl, the relationship disappeared, and the relationship surfaced again because of Davin's investigation.
Compared with many netizens, I am a long time late in my understanding of the Darney brothers and their works. I have only watched 2016's "Anonymous Girl" now.
While watching, another film with a similar plot structure flashed in my mind, "Winter's Bone". Because my father absconded on parole, the only broken house will be taken away. My mother is a cripple, and my younger siblings are still young. Homeless, the eldest daughter had to find her father alone to find out the truth.
Looking at the plot, they are extremely similar. Strangely, I haven't seen anyone on the Internet make a comparative analysis of the two films. They are all literary films, in fact, they all use a classic routine of suspense stories. If the "routine" doesn't sound good, we say it is the structure and the core of the story. That is, the murder or disappearance of a key person, the protagonist investigates, and finds the people behind and the amazing truth one by one. In this way, it is found that there are many films that can be included, which proves the existence of genres. The people behind must have harmful motives, but they are not necessarily the perpetrators; the truth behind must have amazing discoveries.
I took a brief look at the online comments. First of all, it was said to be a continuation of the Darney brothers' narrative style. This is wrong. The previous stories are all in the opening 30 minutes, and the situation and conflicts have been clearly stated. The protagonist is struggling in the bottom life, seeking a moral or life rescue. The final conflict point is whether he can get redemption. But "No Name Girl" is a "journey of discovery" that is typical of the structure of a suspense film. The overall structure of the film is established, and the details are also cleverly used: through the pulse of the boy's rapid heartbeat, it is further discovered that it is related to the death of the black girl , but I didn't expect that the boy's father was the client, and he indirectly caused the girl's death. Davin continued to track down the blind and stumbled to find the snake head and the girl's sister... These are wonderful settings.
It's just that the intern's clue conflict is insufficient. Furthermore, the beginning of the black girl ringing the doorbell was too inconspicuous, and was even completely buried by other trivial matters of doctors and patients. This weakens the audience's attention and will not keep up with the pace of the author's narrative for the first time.
This kind of classic suspense structure, as well as "Prisoner", is through the missing girl, step by step to trace the real culprit of the child abuse case for many years.
Another comment on the Internet said about Dane's props. The mobile phone in "Anonymous Girl" was taken out by netizens and said that in fact, there are also many mobile phones in "Two Days and One Night". Mobile phones, in these films, have no special meaning, let alone symbols, and it is guessed that they are extraneous. Apparently, if the cell phone was used as a symbol, the Darney Brothers would "call where to play" claiming its meaning. Dane did not declare the symbolic meaning of the mobile phone, that is, there is no, it is very simple, and there is no need to interpret it too much.
As is Danet's habit, props were capitalized in previous films. The folding ruler and wide belt in "The Son"; the stroller in "The Child"... These were deliberately pointed out by the Darney brothers and added in the second and third drafts of the script. These props work very well, deepening the interpretation of the theme and the characters.
The selection of props and stories, as well as the characters, are the result of the Darney brothers getting up early to shoot many documentaries and have philosophical skills. The reason why the Darney brothers became masters is because of their accurate judgment of human nature, accurate grasp of trivial matters in life, and the principle of human nature can be reflected with some subtle movements and emotions. Compared with commercial films, especially Chinese modern films, they are more realistic. It is a meticulous and precise arrangement, a rarity that is extremely lacking.
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