The first time I watched "The Dedication of Suspect X" in the theater that year, I saw it and stayed, and recently I watched it with my daughter again. This is the feeling of watching and writing at that time, and I still think it is a good movie.
I always knew it was a story of love and sacrifice. I just didn't expect that a person would be willing to sacrifice for love to such an extent. It's a heartbreaking story, not just for the protagonist, but also for the sacrifice itself.
There is a kind of movie that cannot be forgotten for a long time after watching it.
I don't often encounter this kind of movie, and it is lucky to meet one a year.
After I left the theater, I thought about the plot of the movie all night, and there were "Sliding Door", "Very Sudden", "Untouchable Lover", "Say I Love You Through the Raindrops", "Chain Butterfly Change", all of which ended in tragedy and made people think about the broadcast of fate. The only thing that was happy was Hal Moving Castle (too fond of Hal and Sophie's love).
I haven't seen such a movie in many years, until the dedication of Detective Galileo's Doubter X.
You ask me if I have any biases, maybe a little bit. But this movie is really good, after the fact to see the novel, the movie almost follows the novel, adding a section of the snow mountain is a stroke of God, the deleted part is also appropriate, and the editing of the ending is more shocking than the novel. (Haha, all say that there are preconceived notions, watching the movie first will naturally feel that the movie is better)
Adapted from Keigo Higashino's novel "The Dedication of Suspect X", which won five awards including the Naoki Prize in 2006, one of the protagonists is Yukawa Gaku in the detective Galileo series, and the previous short story was made into a TV series, and this long story was made into a movie. (In hindsight, I wondered, why did the author arrange for Yukawa Gaku to participate in such a story?) Keigo Higashino himself has many independent mystery novels. That's probably because the author not only wants to write a pure love mystery novel, but also wants to write a duel between two geniuses, further deconstructing the struggle between reason and sensibility. ）
General reasoning movies/novels are to find the corpse - to check the eucalyptus - to restore the eucalyptus , but "Suspect" at the beginning of the murder process is completely exposed, the audience began to wonder, the result has been fully mastered, what is the good suspense? And this is the most terrifying part of the movie/novel, the audience thinks they have it all, and when the final ending is revealed, they are like the protagonist in a shock that is difficult to let go.
Because the audience sees the murder process from the beginning, the next step is to focus on the offensive and defensive battle of the two geniuses. In order to cover up the murder of his neighbor, the mathematical genius Shi Shen was suspicious and made the police helpless, so he consulted the physics genius Yukawa Gaku. Yukawa Didn't care about this, but Ishijin was his classmate in college and the only person he recognized as a genius, and in the aftermath of the past, he realized that Shijin was related to the murder. The stone god was defensive everywhere, and everywhere he deployed his formations, and Yukawa Gaku found the answer in a small place, but Yukawa Gaku, who had always been rational, became emotional at this time. The other party is a genius he rarely respects, does he really want to expose the truth?
Most importantly, after the truth is revealed, no one will be happy. But what exactly do we believe in? Emotionally, we hope that the hard work of the stone god can be rewarded, but perhaps the more emotional is the protagonist. Therefore, there is that helpless ending.
I've been wondering, does things have to go this way? The stone god is too clever and too calculated, and he will fall into a road with no way out. How far can you love someone? The sacrifice of the stone god is difficult for me to understand, especially when the middle section sees the heroine's misunderstanding of him, which makes people feel more compassion for him. But even so, I still can't understand his sacrifice. (I can't say it," so look for it, whether it's a DVD or a novel.
The film raises a question: it is more difficult to design a problem that others cannot solve, and to solve that problem. (The film doesn't follow up, and the novel's answer is that design problems are harder.) Yukawa believes that the solver should have respect for the person who wrote the question. ）
The novel adds another question: which is simpler, coming up with an answer yourself, or confirming whether the answer said by others is correct?
The protagonist of the movie is actually The Stone God, but without Yukawa Gaku, the story might not have been so shocking, because without Yukawa Gaku, the Stone God would have won. He came up with a perfect answer that the police had to accept (it was difficult to confirm whether his answer was correct), and only Yukawa Gaku solved the problem, and although the problem was solved, there was no evidence at all.
In the end, what the stone god lost was not his logical mind, but human emotions. His arrangements are foolproof, but the only thing he cannot calculate is the human heart.
After all, reason can calculate everything, and sensibility is the key to success or failure.
As for the theme of "Suspicion", love, this topic is too big, completely beyond the cognition of the two geniuses. The two are addicted to the world of mathematics and physics respectively, and are unaware of the love thing, until the mathematical genius meets the heroine, even if from the beginning he never thought that he would have a result with the other party, he still planted it head in and completely dedicated his life and love.
As for Professor Yukawa, when will he understand the love thing? Although I didn't see him walking with Inland Sea in the movie, I wasn't disappointed. (The love of the film itself is enough to be evocative) I have to hope that Keigo Higashino will write this series again, and then adapt it into film or television.
Official introduction of the novel:
How far can you love someone?
What kind of encounter can you give up your life without regret?
The end of logic, not the ideal state of reason and order,
It is the love that I dedicate with my life.
"It's the purest love I can think of, the best trick I can think of." Keigo Higashino's confident work creates the culmination of ya's greatness.
The lonely mathematical genius who always gazes through the window at the woman next door,
A lonely woman who lives in a corner of the city with her daughter,
Two lonely souls, because of an occasional criminal rendezvous,
He decided to give everything to bring her eternal happiness;
In the face of such an unrepentant sacrifice,
And how do she make the most difficult choices of her life?
At the end of this life-gambling love road,
What awaits the two of them?