On top of an excellent script, the director gets extra points, which is a necessary condition for creating an outstanding film. In fact, the movie itself is very forgiving. If the script is excellent, if the director plays mediocrely, or if the script is mediocre, if the director shows his skill, both can make a good movie, but if you want to achieve excellence, both are indispensable. . Agatha's novel itself is excellent enough. Although it uses the author's usual routines, such as actor stalks and makeup stalks, it is already a very rare story from an independent and objective standpoint. The director fully respected the three-stage shooting method, and also adopted the traditional structure of the protagonist, opponent, and hero. The only difference is that multiple reversals are realized at the end. The protagonist becomes the opponent, the opponent becomes the protagonist, and the hero still needs to continue to perform tasks. , telling the audience that the movie is over but the story is not over. In addition, the director's use of lighting (such as taking pictures of Leonard), as well as adding some details (such as arranging a square of pills in the courtroom, turning the single lens in his hand, taking it off and putting it on), became the It's a very sublime bonus point, and it can be called a model movie.
The shooting cost of this film is extremely low, and the biggest and most successful investment should be the actors. It is almost impossible to pick out any mistakes and omissions. It seems that the filming of this play is a metaphor for the life of the actors themselves. A few years later, he contracted the same disease as the lawyer in the film and died on the set; the heroine who played the German wife appeared at an advanced age and lived an elegant life afterwards; the lawyer and the female nurse who quarreled with him were also husband and wife in daily life. It's astonishing. The fate will be unpredictable, and there is a story besides the story. When the subtitles that explain the follow-up are raised, it is really sad.
In addition to the form, the connotation of the story itself is also thought-provoking. About true and false, good and evil, good and evil, tears and laughter. A bright ending that is rare and not offensive ends the whole film, with countless truths: fairness is always on the way. A man can fight for his faith all his life. And, never turn your back on those who love you. Enough comments have been made about the above-mentioned rationale, and I won't mention it here. One of the details worth sighing is: the film uses a fragmented narrative. For the plots that are not filmed in detail, some are unnecessary, and some cannot be completed. Killed by a greedy male protagonist, these plots do not need to be filmed, and the audience can understand if they are explained in the past; but why and when the male protagonist changes his mind, these are details that cannot be restored, because this is unsolvable in movies and in life. topic. When he was in Germany, he really loved her, saved her, became her ceiling, and brought her to the UK. Even the male protagonist himself said that after they came back, they rented a small apartment, which was really the best. The time... In the series of lies, this sentence is true. The heroine's tears when she heard the man's acquittal was not out of self-repentance, but out of relief. Why do some people change their hearts and some people stay in the long years? What happened during this period? When did the first screw of love start to loosen, when did the first drop of betrayal rain fall, the film could not be filmed, and the audience could not imagine, only one head and one The tail is shown in the movie, love is true, and not love is also true.
The work in 1957 is already so exquisite, it is hard to imagine. It seems that the sentence was right, and what we later did was really only pay tribute.
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