At the beginning of the story, the audience's emotions are mobilized with a tightly paced background music, so that we can't help but be substituted, and at the same time, the camera is given to two old people who are skilled at tapping the keyboard, and they each leave their own information on a dating site called "Excellence Dating"
"Master of Lies" ~ Listening to the name can be roughly guessed, this is not a simple story about twilight love~
The director gave us a set of playful details: Here Mr. Brian skillfully smoked a spray and filled in the "No" column; Ms. Estelle's red wine was already poured, but she also denied it in the "whether it is a drinker" and took a pleasant sip...
The information of the two old men was quickly docked, and after a pleasant conversation, they agreed on dinner.
What's even more interesting is that the two of them quickly "confessed" themselves after meeting, it turned out that they did not use their real names, Brian named Roy, Estelle's real name is Betty, and the reason why Roy was so quick to open up the lie, I think, is because he saw Betty blatantly drinking in front of him.
The story behind it also slowly and quietly begins.
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Bidding farewell to Betty, Roy waved goodbye to her with a trembling arm, like a decadent look of a twilight old man, and in the next scene, he suddenly changed his face, his expression became severe, his arm neatly called a taxi, announced the place name, and rushed to his real "lair"
In the bright and green sound and color place, several middle-aged people gathered together to "talk about trading", Roy gleefully told his fraud process today, it turned out that these people were using illegal means to do money business, Roy has made a lot of money by deceiving women over the years, this meeting, like a white rabbit, a pure old woman Betty, let Roy have a sense of control.
I have to say that Roy is a master of disguise, one second is still weak and can't help the wind, the next second can be alive, in the words of netizens said "out of the door Lin Daiyu, the entry Fang Shiyu", this point from the invitation into Betty's bedroom, throw away the details of the abduction can be seen.
In the process of Roy and Betty's relationship, he thought that he had captured the heart of this beautiful woman with a house, a car and a deposit, and was getting closer to his misdeeds, but he did not know that what awaited him was another game - the magic was one foot high, the road was high; the person who made the game was Betty, the little white rabbit who was harmless to Roy.
The cunning Roy thinks that he has secured Betty's money as a financial planner, and when he is about to evacuate with the money, he finds that his self-service cash transfer machine is missing, and without the "small keyboard", he will get nothing and have no money.
He hurried back to Betty's private apartment to retrieve the keypad, only to find that the room that had once been elegantly modernly furnished was empty, leaving Betty alone in the only chair in the center of the room, looking at Roy with scrutinizing eyes.
It turned out that Betty had known Roy for a long time, and when Roy was 15 years old, he gave Betty an English tutor, of course, at that time, Roy was not called Roy, but Hans, and Betty was not called Betty, but Lily.
At that time, Lily's love affair was just beginning, and she had a crush on the handsome Hans, and left his hair stored in her beloved little box, but things always came unexpectedly, and when Hans was waiting for Lily in the living room, he heard her father talking about the war arms business in another room, and was attracted by the laughter and music of Lily's sisters' room, and through the hidden door, he saw the girls dancing ballroom dance
Stunned, Hans was discovered by the girls, and was immediately pulled into the room by the prodded dance partner, but somehow did not control his scale and slowed down the eldest sister, wanted to kiss, and was finally stopped by the other party and other sisters;
When a disgruntled Hans arrives at Lily's room to prepare for class, she is carefully aroused by Lily's careful overtures, first taking advantage of the girl's good feelings for herself to kiss her, and then forcibly dragging Lily to the corner cabinet door and raping her against her will.
This is not the most serious, Hans, who was at fault, still felt insulted after being talked to by Lily's parents and "invited" out of the door, so he maliciously reported to the government what he heard about Lily's father's business, Lily's father was arrested and hanged for treason, all the property and factories were confiscated, Lily's mother committed suicide because she failed to withstand the blow, and the three sisters were later killed by the bombs of war, and only Lily survived.
Lily spoke calmly, but could not hide her sorrow and helplessness.
"People are really weird sometimes, you do things that you don't even think about, just to live another day, and then so on, and so on, and even more... Lie, become a master of lies. "A word is clear.
The mystery of the story has been unveiled by this point, and the audience should be very curious to know the end of the bad guys, what will greet Hans? He had put all his wealth in that hypocritical public account— he loved money like his life, so Lily designed to take away what he loved the most.
It can be seen that although "Roy" wants to leave by deception, he really has feelings in the process of getting along with "Betty": when his "money partner" asks him if he wants to leave Betty a little, he still can't hide his concern for her health; when he signs the agreement and walks out of Betty's apartment, the glass wall on the side reflects his unwilling look; when he waits for the train at the platform, he tentatively expresses his willingness to stay to "Betty"...
He has been acting, but at the last moment he almost really becomes a person in the play.
This scene makes us have the illusion that he will repent, but we don't know that those seemingly good-natured displays are just fleeting moments, decades of walking in the rivers and lakes, and "Roy's" heart is already as hard as a stone.
He will not repent, which is foreshadowed in the first half of the film:
The film does not introduce Hans's childhood experience too much, in the clip showing his youth, he has a gloomy look, full of lies, refuses to admit mistakes, and ruthlessly makes Lily break the family, although he has talent and ability, he has no choice but to misbehave, and it is difficult to become a great instrument after all;
"Often walk by the river, where there are not wet shoes", the people who have been pit by him naturally want to settle accounts with him: and there is a scene when he and "Betty" are dating, the deceived people have targeted him, he leads him to the subway station, takes the umbrella handle to the top of the monitoring equipment, and when he is caught up, he takes advantage of his lack of preparation, and uses the key that has been prepared as a sharp weapon to stab the other party's eye, and pushes it towards the locomotive that is driving by, and its poisonousness is visible;
How could such a person have a gentle ending?
So in the end, when his plot was exposed by the girl he had hurt decades ago, shocked, still had to be angry that Lily did not leave him enough money, stirring up the killing heart, at the critical moment, Lily arranged the backup (two men who had been cheated by Hans) arrived in time, when the two asked for their own money, Hans refused to return, and finally was beaten into a lifelong disability, and could only spend time in the nursing home~
When cheating becomes inertia, fraud becomes the only way for him to maintain his health, he is doomed to walk on the road of no return in this life.
The film's camera language also plays a plendane in the film at the right time, and its scene scheduling is used quite appropriately: for example, "Roy" and "Betty" each sort out their clothes before preparing to sign a contract, and then the camera gives them two jaws that appear together, each walking through a long porch and meeting briefly in front of the camera, which also implies that the two people have been walking in different worlds for most of their lives, and after a short intersection, another life is about to begin, behind the lie, who is the master, that is, to see the difference.
After doing this, Lily finally returned to a peaceful life, and the last sentence of the film, her words to her granddaughters who are playing in the water are also meaningful: "Beware, this water is deeper than you think." ”
People's hearts are like water, the water is deep, unfathomable, and you have to be wary.
This film not only reveals the fate of good and evil in human nature, but also becomes a reminder
1, for girls: do not insist on believing in the beauty in front of you, you must have a keen, discerning heart, so as to maximize the protection of yourself; believe that life is beautiful, and do not relax your guard against possible harm;
2, for all people: lies with evil, and always be exposed, when your lies have seriously hurt the interests or even lives of others, then one day, you will not be able to justify yourself, by the evil of the ingress;
Finally, we must give the two old dramas a round of applause, the male protagonist - Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings" played by Ian McLean, and the female protagonist - helen Mirren, the villain in "The Queen"
Good actors give life to characters, and it's obvious to all.