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Wading through the Sea of Wrath is a very succinct ** that can be expressed clearly in one sentence.
The madman's crazy daughter was killed, he thought it was the son of the madman who was mad, so he traced **, and finally found out the truth, the madman was imprisoned, the madman's wife fled abroad, the madman's wife disappeared, and the madman's husband also died.
Because the plot does not have too many twists and turns, and the puzzle in the last paragraph is also expected, is "Wading in the Sea of Wrath" a thriller?Let's take the suspense in Hitchcock as an example.
Hitchcock summarized 6 elements: the ladder, the shadow, the McGlene, the bomb theory, the misdirection, and the 10-minute reversal.
Stairs and shadows can be grouped together in one way, that is, atmosphere building, and MacGuffin is an unreal Scottish lion, which is often referred to as a murderer in horror films.
The so-called "bomb" is to set a landmine in the movie, which makes people always worried and scared, just like the corpse in the box in "Soul Snatcher".
The so-called "misleading" refers to the fact that when a person tells a story, he will use a very clever way to give people an illusion, and a logical plot, such as "Train Monster", which only appears at the last second.
Introduce these elements into "Wading the Sea of Wrath" and see if you can pass the test.
The first is the establishment of the atmosphere, Cao Baoping really put a lot of thought into it, like a fish rain, like a cloudy day, like a heavy rain, like a strange **, and like a wet scene.
But it doesn't help much for the suspense, but it highlights the criminal nature of this film, which is directly a fierce, undying, and sweeping momentum across the universe.
In this movie, people don't have a strong curiosity because they don't know the plot or can't see the ending, on the contrary, there are many logical errors that make the reversal of the movie seem less important.
Jin tracked **, Jinglan stopped, the expectation of the murderer was to watch the two fight to the death, but the film did not appear, the suspense disappeared, the guilt weakened, and the atmosphere became meaningless.
Secondly, there is McKevin.
One of the first questions to be solved in the film is, who killed Jin Lina?
Lao Jin went to Japan to find his biological daughter, and learned that Xiao Na's roommate said that Lao Jin found Li Miaomiao and wanted to find out the truth of the matter, but after Li Miaomiao saw Lao Jin, he turned around and fled.
Such a setting eliminates the suspicion that Li Miaomiao is the real murderer, so that everyone no longer guesses, and another question is whether Lao Jin can catch Li Miaomiao for revenge, and the reversal of the ending seems boring.
After the movie, Lao Jin learned from the Japanese that Jin Lina was dead.
If she committed suicide, it is difficult to explain why there was no autopsy in the first place, and then the truth was learned in this way.
If it is suicide, then Li Miaomiao is not a murderer, why should he be a thief and run away, just say it?There is only one possibility, and that is that he has crippled the two-dimensional.
The first two MacGuffins failed, as did the last.
Perhaps Cao Baoping also realized that the bug in his script could not convince the audience, so he arranged the love conflict between Lao Jin and Xia Lan to increase the highlights.
As soon as it came up, it was a vicious battle, Huang Bo and Zhou Xun refused to give in to each other, as if either you died or I died, which made everyone full of expectations.
But in the back, everything became fragmented, Jinglan didn't insist anymore, and Lao Jin gave up.
At the beginning, he was very strong, but in the end, the 0-5 difference was too big, the vague feeling was gone, there were not many gray lines, it was difficult to negotiate with each other, and it made McGuffin meaningless.
The other is misleading, and the essence of this trick is to play *** with the audience
Since the film and the audience are binary, it is only through the director that they can communicate, and only by transforming a one-way ** into a one-way **, it is very important to mislead, it "teases" a group of people, but instead of making them angry, they will applaud.
This requires a good rhythm and structure to leave some ideas, but this kind of thinking often goes astray, and many times, when the audience is still thinking about whether their judgment is wrong, the next one comes again.
Such a tortuous deconstruction method makes people fall into one trap after another while seeking answers, but in "Wading through the Sea of Wrath", McFain's mistakes dwarf the film's misdirection.
Finally, the reversal lasted ten minutes.
At the end of the movie, there are three twists, one is the cause of Jin Lina's death, the second is that Li Lie killed him by mistake, and the third is that Lao Jin finally realized his mistake.
Jin Lina's suicide, the sunshine in the closet, and her diary all show that Cortana's death was caused by the environment in which she lived since childhood.
Li Lie's death, it was Lao Jin who revealed his hatred for Li Miaomiao, and his true intention to imprison him, lost his mind in the panic, and was beaten to death.
Lao Jin surrendered and Li Miaomiao was alive, which was a good result, and it also met the censorship and the requirements of the whole plot very well.
But none of the reversals in these three places are satisfactory.
The first reversal was made boring by McGuffin's defeat, and the second reversal relied more on backtracking to add details, but it was simply too old-fashioned.
The third turning point is even more surprising, Lao Jin was arrested and arrested, but he can still be safe and sound, this scene, as long as people with common sense, will understand that this is simply impossible.
Overall, "Wading in the Sea of Wrath" is not a good suspense drama, mainly revolving around the characters and their families, because this is a completely different work.