It is not easy to tell a good story, because the cowhide you blow always have to find a way to circle back.
Today to bring you a French suspense movie -
Only the Beast
This film explores human nature and desire, which can be said to be the first domino that fell.
It's also the intrinsic motivation that drives the storyline forward.
In the opening scene, a snowstorm covers the road leading to a remote french town, and an empty car is parked on the side of the road, but the owner of the car is missing.
The police came to the home of Michelle, the owner of the town farm, for questioning, but Michelle appeared impatient, extremely uncooperative, and coldly drove away the police.
His wife, Iris, was different, and she seemed to be intrigued by the case of the missing woman.
Iris is an insurance officer with many clients and many people she knows.
During a business conversation, Iris falls in love with joseph, a client who has lost her mother, and applauds him for her love.
It may be a thief's heart, or it may be that the husband really found something.
Once her husband Michelle said to Iris:
At the same time, a grandmother customer also told Alice some strange words:
Iris went to Joseph with trepidation, only to find that Joseph's dog had been shot.
Joseph crawled out of the haystack and faced Iris's confession, but viciously told her to get out of the egg.
When Iris came home, her husband rushed out of the door after a breathless phone call, and came home late at night with his face covered in blood.
Iris was puzzled and contacted the police.
Iris confesses to the police that she is in love with her client Joseph and wants to give the lonely man some warmth and pleasure.
He also said that the husband found out and got into a fight with Joseph, shooting and killing his dog.
Immediately after, the perspective switches to Joseph.
The scene returns to the moment when Iris went to find Joseph. (Interlude with perspective switching)
Following the dog's call, Joseph found a female corpse in the snow in front of his house.
That's right, the body of the woman who disappeared at the beginning.
？？ Could it be that Joseph killed him?
Just then, Iris came to applaud love.
No wonder Joseph comes out of the woods at the beginning of the film.
After clapping, Joseph transported the body to other snowy areas in the desert.
After throwing the body away, Joseph returned to the car and thought about it, took the body home and hid it, and built a grass hut passage for the body.
Joseph began sleeping with corpses every day and listening to music.
Thinking about it, this man is a twisted Oedipal complex. (Joseph also left his mother's body until it decayed after her death.)
Unfortunately, Joseph's dog dragged the body out of the haystack.
Joseph broke down and questioned why the dog was doing this.
With a gunshot... The dog is dead.
Joseph drove the body to a valley and threw it down.
After sitting on the edge of the valley for a while, I jumped myself...
At this point, Guo Guo learned that the dog had been killed by Joseph himself, and Michelle had not gone to fight with him.
Where did the blood on Michelle's face come from?
The story involves another person: Mary Yong, a young and beautiful restaurant waiter.
Mary Yong meets Evelyn (the female corpse mentioned earlier in the film) at the restaurant and recommends a delicious dinner for her.
Evelyn is 20 years old and exudes an air of maturity.
Just because I look at you more in the crowd, I fall into a deep fascination.
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A few times down, Evelyn left a note one morning and disappeared.
Mary Wing followed Evelyn's house according to the description.
After the meeting, love gushes and continues the frontier, but Evelyn offers to let Mary Yong go to the hotel.
Obviously, Evelyn was just enjoying sex on a whim.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, she proposed to Mary Yong to break up.
Since then, Evelyn's death has quietly arrived.
But the murderer was not Mary Yong. (This side can only spoilers, otherwise there is no way to go down)
The screen switches again.
Michelle suddenly finds Mary Yong and says she wants to elope with her.
For unknown reasons, Mary Yong was so frightened that she gave him a kick in the face. (That's why Michelle's face is covered in blood at the beginning.)
It turned out that Michelle was looking for Mary Yong because of an account.
Online fraudster Ammanti is adept at using photos of beautiful women to "fish" for money.
This time he used Mary's image to catch Michelle.
Michelle, a middle-aged lonely and longing for love, was cheated out of a lot of money by this image.
Every time the number of money was sent to him in the image of Mary Yong, a small video would be sent to him.
People are not as good as heaven, and Mary Yong stopped Michelle's car when she stopped the car on the road.
My wife was in the car, and Michelle sped past.
After seeing Mary Yongzhen, Michelle was furious and began to follow her.
The ducks to the mouth will easily let go, and it is easy to cheat money.
But after chatting, the scammer Ammanti knows that things are out of the way, and Michelle will find out sooner or later.
So I wanted to cheat a sum of money one last time and disappear, so I lied that I was threatened and could not meet.
But Michelle, desperate to meet, decides to help Mary Put an end to the threat.
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Michelle follows mary to her quarters and hears someone arguing inside.
That's right, it was Evelyn who was breaking up with Mary.
Michelle, who has no idea what happened, is blinded by "love" and secretly kills her heart, wanting to solve this trouble for her beloved girl.
As Evelyn leaves, Michelle strangles her to death and throws her body to Joseph's house.
This is also why a female corpse was suddenly picked up in the doorway of Joseph's house before.
That's the end of it.
As the title "Only the Beast" suggests.
The film focuses on the complex faces of human beings in the face of the animal instincts of sex and love, from deception, contradiction and compromise, to paranoia, madness and even pathology.
Michelle, in particular, lost herself by coveting the beauty of nothingness, lost her basic judgment, and even committed a terrible sin for it.
People who indulge in illusory emotions look ridiculous, but in fact they are very sad.
The characters in the film are actually sympathetic to each other, and from them, Guo Guo feels a bottomless loneliness.
Although the structure of this film does not push the suspense to the end of "The Invisible Guest", the interlocking ingenuity is also interesting, a bit like Kotaro Isaka's novel.
Intriguingly, in the end Michelle, knowing that she had been deceived, still anesthetized herself to indulge in that fantasy, which is the loudest lament sung by the lack of love.
In fact, the whole script revolves around the incompleteness of love, the thing that is labeled as hope - love.
When love is missing a skeleton, it is only a monster that triggers depravity.
In a particular environment, human nature is exposed, why some things that we can't understand always happen in life.
As a high-level animal, man also has animal nature in his bones.
A beast cannot remain rational at all times.