This movie is by no means a masterpiece when viewed as a suspense, and even slightly mediocre. Except for the two-minute reversal at the end that makes people feel refreshed, everything else is as plain as water, but it is the final finishing touch. Revitalized the entire movie. When thinking about the director's ending intentions, it makes people wake up to the ideology hidden under the mask of suspense.
The murderer finally became a good person praised by everyone. Is such an unexpected reversal just to save this vulgar mystery film? Or is it to ridicule bad guys that they often fail to get their due end in the end? This is just the surface, and what lies beneath the surface is the resistance to the current American middle class.
Imagine that Uncle Charlie's criminal motive was to murder the widow Mary and take her money, and Uncle Charlie did not kill for money. Looking back on where the stolen goods went, the stolen goods were given to relatives. The ring was also used as a McGovern throughout the film. The $40,000 was also donated to the hospital. He didn't get anything. The money was obviously not the motive for the murder. Regarding the victims, Uncle Charlie said, "Their dead husbands exhausted their life's wealth and left a large sum of money to their stupid wives. They squandered their lives, spent money like running water, and their bodies were full of the smell of copper. "Obviously, I can't understand that the stench of bourgeois copper is the cause of murder.
What is the director's "motivated to kill"? What the murderer of Uncle Charlie tore off is the mask of hypocrisy of the American middle class. When the hostess showed up for the first time, she has already stated the nature of the middle class, "Do you think the family is the best thing in the world? And our family is being broken down, we are just living a routine life, that routine is terrible. We ate and slept together. We didn’t communicate. We just talked and worked.” My mother used to do housework like a dog, my father used to discuss murder with friends, my younger brother used to think about numbers, and my younger sister used to read books. Quiet appearance. In the bar, Uncle Charlie once again exposed the hypocritical middle class, "Wake up from bed every day, carefree, ordinary life. You live in a dream, do you know what the outside society is like? Can you imagine Is that dirty like a pigsty? Do you know how many masked villains are around? Who cares about what happens in this damn world." How can a group of exquisite egoists know what the other is. What’s interesting is that during this conversation, the heroine’s classmates appeared. In this dirty bar that the heroine disdains to enter, her classmates work here, and the heroine is still surprised by the fact that the uncle is a murderer. Pay attention to the situation of classmates. Here again, the irony of the middle class's indifference to the surroundings in the dialogue is taken care of.
The irony of the hypocritical nature of the middle class has spared no effort. The female protagonist was proud of her face when she was holding Uncle Charlie from New York, and she was lying about her friends who broke her trust due to dating. Her mother tried her best to show the "best" family when the detective took pictures. I know the sensation before Uncle Charlie left, the embarrassment shown by his father and the people around him when he faced Uncle Charlie's joke at the bank, and the compliments after the speech. Only in the small details of life can the current US hypocritical middle-class ideology be fully demonstrated.
In this false world, Uncle Charlie has no place to live, and finally borrowed the hand of the heroine representing the middle class to send Uncle Charlie to death, and Uncle Charlie's final resistance to the middle class also failed.
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