Regarding social networks and their interaction with human beings as users and beneficiaries, it is no longer a fresh topic of discussion. From the information space production mechanism of social media itself to the future imagination of post-humanity, there is a discussion on this topic. Yanshen has promoted the creative development of related genres very efficiently. To a certain extent, contemporary movies themselves are also included in a cross-media coexistence ecology in this process. People are keen on streaming media to watch movies/videos, staring at the square-inch screen of the mobile phone on different occasions. In an environment where all network traces are integrated into “big data”, watching movies is not even a private or exclusive dream experience, but a part of data that is analyzed, quantified, utilized, and reproduced.
"Network Mystery" is first of all a big-screen movie in the traditional sense, and its original form of expression must be adapted to the audience "watching in the theater" scene, but this movie does not use the camera that audiences are accustomed to ( Or the photographer, or God) to organize the image structure, which gives the whole film a completely new meaning. Even from the perspective of the main line of the film’s narrative, it is still a film that contains everything you can expect. A suspenseful type of film from the beginning and the end. The middle-aged man Jin, who lost his wife in his early years, faces a middle-aged daughter who has not returned overnight, and gradually falls into a situation of constant pursuit and frustration. Everyone in this girl disappearance case bears a certain amount of memories, these memories. Some are the past warmth of the Jin family, including the life of Jin's younger brother Luo Tuo. At the same time, the female police officer Vic and the mysterious woman on the live broadcast platform involved in the case each have a rich and mysterious background, which triggered the case. Constantly turning around.
The above is of course a very mediocre description, and it can be applied to any Hollywood movie of the same kind. After "Internet Mystery Trails" came out, it was dubbed the title of "desktop movie", and it is even expected to open the "desktop movie universe." There is only one picture element, that is, the world presented by different forms of electronic senses such as XP system, MAC system computer and the camera picture, video connection picture, video recording, phone call record, and detached car location map. In this world, Jin, Vic, etc. appearing through the camera are themselves in the opposite of reality from the perspective of their bodies, while the computer belonging to the screen appears to be attached to the eyes of the audience and constantly changing the body of the host. The ghost of the general, forcing the audience into the subjective perspective of the role. Every character who turned on the computer, looked at himself, and constantly looked at others who were connected or searched through the Internet. There is no purely real world scene in "Network Mystery". While the cold human-computer interaction system evolves over time, it is highly dominated and relied upon by users, and at the same time it gradually controls the whole situation in turn.
On this basis, text messaging or chat software based on text transmission has become the most intuitive field for the audience to peek into the real inner heart of the character. What they say to their daughter, Vic, and younger brother, etc., and at the same time directly pushes out their mental state in considering the words and sentences. Kim Jae’s words about whether to mention his dead wife to his daughter were in a dilemma. He wrote and deleted them. It is the epitome of the seemingly close but possibly alienated relationship between the father and daughter, and the message sent by the other party before the words he wanted to say. Interruption is the visualization of countless similar operations on the phone every day by the audience, and the subtle and momentary changes in the human heart during the period. It is very cleverly displayed in silent words. Assuming that the lines that promote narrative in the traditional sense belong to the category of auditory, then in "Internet Mystery Trails", the voiced dialogue displayed through the phone or video is as important as the silent communication that occurs under the keyboard. The silent text even extends to Theory Mountain, which can reach countless social network media. In the process of deciphering his daughter’s Facebook password, Jin sent security verification codes to various associated mailboxes one by one. This process itself constitutes considerable suspense. The verification process itself is to ensure the safety of users, and here it becomes a last resort to save lives, so that the male protagonist who is outside the computer screen does not say a word, but burns his heart like me.
The discussion of social network as a whole medium is gradually deepened in the film for the anxious interaction between the medium itself and the film presentation mechanism. The first half of the atypical noir film "Escape from Prison" in 1947, directed by Delmer Daves, was presented from the subjective perspective of the fugitive, showing the effect of the male protagonist as an independent narrator intervening in the narrative of the film, which is seasonal in classical Hollywood The cross-view point text. "Network Mystery" is obviously going farther in the latest time coordinate, and may even have started the sequence of "desktop movies", which is the same as "Buried alive" in the form of a one-man show in the past few years or "Walking" filmed on the iPhone itself. There are similarities and similarities, the apparent interaction between the scene and the film, the filming medium and the film is replaced here with a subtle relationship between the social network that covers every bit of human life and the production of film text, but both can be done. Return directly to the organic harmony between the characters and the story itself. "Online Mystery Trails" until the end still maintains a very American view of the family. Regardless of the perpetrator or the victim, the starting point is to maintain the form of family organization or emotional integrity. From this level, it is in line with the past. There is no difference in Hollywood production, but its projection angle completely separated from the real world, which strongly proves to the astonishing extent that the film can be penetrated by the Internet media. This is not a passive retreat, but an active embrace of simplifying the complex, with a positive attitude. Optimism, in fact, has opened up a new pattern of film narrative from another side. The English name "searching" seems to be serial puns both inside and outside the play.
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