Recently, somehow, I suddenly wanted to watch some old movies, and yesterday I watched a crime-solving film "405 Murder", which was directed by Shen Yaoting and starred Zhong Xinghuo and other stars, and was released in 1980. It tells the story of a murder case that seems to be triggered by a love triangle, but involves a complex case within a case.
Many years ago, I watched it intermittently for ten minutes through the movie channel, and later saw an introduction on the Internet saying that the film "created a myth of 100 million box office in the era of one dime and one movie ticket". Today I watched it in its entirety, and sure enough, there was no disappointment, the movie did not have cool special effects, there was no gorgeous big scene, returned to the movie story and character portrayal, and found that the movie plot was fuller and more interesting. The film's picture editing and soundtrack really slapped the domestic film market that is now rampant with bad films, and the whole film does not drag on, one step in place.
The investigation and reasoning process of the case is full of twists and turns, which are very tortuous and interesting, and the logic is relatively rigorous. At the same time, considering that this film was released two years after the Gang of Four was overthrown, it was a miracle that the film was able to pass the censorship in a relatively tense political atmosphere at that time, thanks to the comrades who censored at that time, otherwise we would now have one less classic work.