As the saying goes, "full of warmth and lust", this is especially appropriate for middle-aged men with successful careers.
No matter how good the wife is, no matter how harmonious the family is, as long as the material life reaches a certain level, there will always be people who succumb to the materialistic flow of the flower world.
The protagonist of today's movie is such 5 seemingly glamorous and decent fox friends.
In order to unknowingly complete the "grand plan" of the extramarital affair, they simply bought an attic joint venture as a secret base to escape from the troubles of the world.
But just when everyone was indulging in the gentle countryside and could not extricate themselves, a female corpse suddenly appeared on the bed in the attic.
All love and lust, sin and punishment, will explode completely at this moment.
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The Loft
The person who started the matter was an architect.
After completing his latest work, he set his mind on creating his own "secret garden".
Call in four other friends to buy the loft of this luxury apartment.
They can enjoy themselves and share secrets without being detected by outsiders.
The reason for the group action is, on the one hand, to share the funds, and on the other hand, to dissolve each other's uneasiness of conscience.
After all, these five are all "successful men" with families and mouths.
However, as the female corpse appeared out of thin air, their dreams were completely shattered.
The body was completely naked, with his right hand handcuffed to the head of the bed and his left hand brutally slitting the artery.
There was also Latin written in blood on the wall—
"Fate binds us together".
There are only 5 non-replicable keys in the attic, and the 5 brothers just have one.
The gate was not breached, and the alarm was closed after entering the password.
In other words, the killer could only be one of them, or a woman who had been hurt by them.
The film uses a flashback and flashback structure, beginning with the discovery of the body, and is divided into three timelines to show clues.
First, the suspicion and reasoning between the five people before calling the police;
Second, after calling the police, the police interrogate them separately;
The third is their own affair with the attic.
As more and more fragments of truth are found, a series of dark secrets gradually surface...
The most suspicious of the five was the architect Vincent (Carl Urban) himself.
On the one hand, the attic was designed by him, and on the other hand, the deceased also happened to be one of his lovers.
On a business trip, Vincent meets a beautiful woman, Sarah (Isabelle Lucas) at a bar.
After a romantic night, the two immediately develop a lover relationship.
However, Vincent is reluctant to destroy his family, which breaks sarah's heart.
So, when Sarah gradually got out of control, he chose to formally propose to the other party in the attic to break up.
Unexpectedly, the next day Sarah turned into a cold corpse.
However, according to Vincent, he left unharmed, just too much.
Suspected second, is the psychiatrist Chris (James Madden).
In fact, as a decent man, he was initially reluctant to participate in the "Loft Project".
But during this time, his wife often inexplicably became angry with him.
The sister of one of his patients, the beautiful annie (Rachel Taylor), came into his life by chance.
In the face of this, Chris finally took the key and completely fell into the long-lost warmth brought by Annie...
Quite the opposite of Vincent, obsessed, he is determined to start over and start a family with Anne.
But for some reason, it was ruthlessly rejected by the other party.
In order to prove his sincerity, Chrissy gave Anne the key to the attic.
Doing so obviously violates the principles of the "Brotherhood" and brings many unstable factors.
Another suspect is Chris's half-brother Philippe (Matthias Schönel).
Growing up with an alcoholic father, Philip's personality was very different from that of his mild-mannered older brother.
It seems that he will not give anyone a good look except his sister Zoe.
The day he got the key to the attic was the day Philip had his wedding.
Idle, he did not know what good luck he had, but he managed to capture the heart of the daughter of a local rich man.
However, this kind of thing is not as glamorous as it seems.
Philip, who has a strong personality, soon spoils his marriage.
So he simply vented his anger in the attic.
Constantly carrying a variety of style women, staged perverted SM dramas.
The usual handcuffing trick is exactly the same as the crime scene.
The middle-aged greasy fat Marty (Eric Stonestrongt) is a programmer.
He seems to be very "good at it", but in fact he is a timid and fearful "wife who is strict".
It was difficult to get a "situation" with the help of Vincent.
Unexpectedly, he was chased to the house by the other party and let his wife catch a straight...
What's even more unreliable is that after several times of drinking high, Marty almost told outsiders the truth about the attic.
His presence not only lowers the appearance of the "Brotherhood", but also a very restless time bomb.
Luke (Wentworth Miller) was the first to find the body.
Wearing glasses and Sven, he is probably the most harmonious marriage among the people.
Since his wife is diabetic, Luke carries insulin injections at all times and at all times, and his meticulous care is a model husband.
However, it is also his wife's frailty and illness that allows him to gradually give birth to some "hidden diseases".
Everyone else is using the attic to be merry, but Luke secretly installs surveillance cameras in the room.
Whenever someone greeted him to use the attic, he quietly turned on the surveillance.
Perverted voyeurism, on the one hand, can release Luke's inner repression, on the other hand, it will not break his promise to his wife...
However, the day before the incident, the unruly Vincent did not squeak, so Luke happened to not have this crucial time video.
Through flashbacks and self-descriptions, the complete outlines of the five "scumbags" gradually became clear.
But the truth of the matter is becoming more and more confusing.
Was it Vincent who impulsively killed people and then pulled his friends to pad his back?
Or is someone among friends trying to frame the arrogant Vincent?
Or did the wives and lovers find the clue and want to severely punish these dressed animals?
Interested friends can go directly to the film, of course, you can also continue to go down, listen to the evil king to finish the story ~ ~
As everyone confessed, Vincent took the brunt of it and began to rack his brains to sort out the causes and consequences.
But just when he came to the conclusion that his wives had joined forces to frame him, he fainted on both feet.
The remaining four men then stripped him of his clothes and handcuffed him to Sarah's body.
The story takes its first turn.
It turned out that earlier in the day, Luke had already found the body.
However, poor Sarah committed suicide by taking medicine after leaving a suicide note.
Looking at the situation in front of him, Luke quickly called Chris, Philip, and Marty —
Only the person in question was not told Vincent.
Faced with everyone's questioning, Luke confessed the fact that he was peeping.
And turn on the surveillance and let them "appreciate" the good things Vincent did in the attic.
So Marty discovers that Vincent slept with his wife while helping him deal with the crisis of a one-night stand...
Philip learns that since that wedding, Vincent has captured his baby sister, who has just come of age...
Even worse was Chris.
His beloved Anne was hired by Vincent at his expense, only to lure him into the company.
Of course, for the attic, Anne is not unfamiliar...
Such an act of indignation between man and god, even the best brothers cannot forgive.
They immediately agreed to leave out all their relationship with the attic.
And disguised Sarah's suicide as murder, all blamed on Vincent.
First, they laid out Sarah's death scene in a bloody and appalling way.
Then they left separately to make an exact alibi.
Finally, pretending to have just found the body, called the unsuspecting Vincent.
When Vincent himself spoke out about last night's movements, Chris poured sleeping pills into the wine, and locked him in a daze with the corpse...
The subsequent development is fully in line with the expectations of everyone.
Faced with police interrogation, they insisted they had no knowledge.
In the case of conclusive evidence, no matter how Vincent justifies, he still cannot escape the conviction of murder.
However, when he left the police station, Chris learned an unexpected fact -
Sarah did not die of sleeping pills, but a knife wound to her wrist.
In this way, Philip, who disposed of the "corpse", became a murderer in the true sense of the word.
Chris, who was the older brother, had to start re-examining the whole affair.
Soon, he found an inexplicable doubt -
The suicide note that Sarah left behind.
The story then takes a second turn.
Chris was pretty sure he had put the suicide note in his coat pocket, but now it was missing.
The rush to destroy the suicide note suggests that it must be hiding secrets, and it is even possible that it was not sarah's own.
The only person who had the opportunity to do all this was Luke, who knew all the movements in the attic and was the first to rush to the scene of the incident.
So in the night Chris took Luke to the attic again, and after some aggressive psychological tactics, finally let the truth come out.
It turned out that luke was also present on the day Vincent and Sarah met.
Unfortunately, there are thieves who have no thief's guts, and he can only watch as Sarah falls into Vincent's arms.
When he returned, Luke installed surveillance in the attic and waited for his "lover".
When he discovers that Vincent is constantly hurting Sarah, he also tries to pick everything out.
However, Sarah, who fell deeper and deeper, did not accept this "beautiful intention".
So on the night that Vincent ruthlessly abandoned Sarah, Luke finally broke out completely.
After Vincent left, he went into the attic, pretending to comfort Sarah but giving Sarah sleeping pills.
Then he injected her with deadly insulin and forged a suicide note with hatred for suicide.
The plan went smoothly until Chris sensed it...
Upon learning the true cause of Sarah's death, Luke spirals out of control and commits suicide by jumping off a building in despair and remorse.
Chris confessed everything to the police, giving the remaining "good brothers" a chance to start over.
Ironically, I thought they would be able to completely change their ways after suffering.
But I didn't expect that when Annie reappeared, Chris, who looked the most rational, still resolutely chose to repeat the same mistakes...
In fact, this is already the third remake of "The Attic", which also proves the wonderful degree of this mysterious mystery case from the side.
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The fragmented suspense of the first half, as well as the first major reversal, is simply perfect.
Although the second reversal was slightly forced, it was still harmless.
Coupled with the Hollywood version of the full line of face value upgrades, there is really no reason not to watch ~