I wrote an article before to interpret the various personalities in "Deadly ID". This time, I will talk about the narrative of the movie.
"Deadly ID" uses a two-line narrative. The main line of the film is the psychological time and space of Rivers, in which eleven personalities conflict and die one after another, thus reflecting the different value pursuits of different personalities and completing the three-dimensional shaping of the character of Rivers. At the same time, the personality of different ages and occupations is also the compensation for Rivers' psychological deficiency, corresponding to the reasons behind the split personality and the time when the split occurred.
Real time and space play an auxiliary role, and the process of merging personalities in psychological time and space is all presented through the time and space visible to the audience, that is, the killing and disappearance of different personalities within the time and space of the motel. In addition, the use of the prop of the house number takes the suspenseful atmosphere of the film to a higher level. The tenants died one by one in the order of the house numbers, gradually approaching the movie characters to the brink of collapse, and had to form a fierce conflict with the environment. Assimilate" into the characters in the film, and thus deeply worry about the fate of the last tenant, the prostitute Paris.
Such a design is easy to set up suspense and entice the audience to delve deeper into the relationship between the two clues. The comparison of the two clues will not confuse the audience with the psychological time and space and the film reality, so as to better analyze the psychological activities of the protagonist's split personality.
The narrative style of the film is also very novel. Instead of using full flashbacks or telling the story, the film uses a causal retrospective method in the process of bringing all the personalities into the motel.
Innkeeper Larry was watching TV with great interest when a man broke in with his wife in a car accident, breaking the calm. Then the film explained that the accident happened because the high heels punctured the tires, and the high heels were dropped by the prostitute Paris while driving. The wife got out of the car to help the husband who was repairing the car to hold an umbrella and play games with his son. The driver Ed, at the request of the female star, helped to find the battery of the mobile phone, but did not see the road conditions clearly, which led to the car accident. The plot processing and promotion of this section is very dramatic, and the transition using freeze frame strengthens this sense of drama, opens the prelude to the story, and also explains the virtuality and unreality of this time and space (psychological time and space, not as documentary as the real world).
Also memorable in the film is a parallel montage presented through the harmonious separation of sound and picture. The characters each enter the room, and following a rhythmic melody (the music begins after Road watches Paris leave the vending machine), the activities of the Timmy family, Ed, Larry, Paris, Lou, Rhodes, and the criminal are paralleled. Launch and get an introduction. The little boy is sleeping on the sofa while the little boy's father is talking to his mother in bed; Ed leaves the little boy's room and takes medicine because of a headache; Larry is afraid of being discovered by others (he is not the The real owner of the motel) was packing; Paris went back to his room to check his money; Lou was lying on the bed with his back to his girlfriend, watching Paris through the doorway, ignoring his girlfriend's calls; Rhodes was sitting In a daze on the bed, the criminal he brought is trying to escape... This paragraph explains the spatial position of the characters in the hotel very well. Different characters have different motivations for their actions due to their different backgrounds, and these actions are set off from the side. The subconscious mind of each person's character and the personality it represents. At the same time, these tight movements and the tension expressed by the characters, combined with the relaxed music, collided with a more ominous feeling, paving the way for the subsequent development of the story.
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