In 2019, a "Manslaughter" co-starring Xiao Yang, Tan Zhuo and Chen Chong came out, bringing us a movie-obsessed man to face the "manslaughter" in the family with a magic operation with a constantly reversed plot and sophisticated details.
In addition to the various metaphors that can be seen everywhere in the film, the classic lines "If you have watched more than a thousand movies, you will find that there is nothing bizarre in this world" and "Some children are children, some children are beasts" are the two classic lines that make a vote of the audience enjoy it.
When it comes to the manslaughter series, we have to start from the beginning, first there is a 2013 version of the Indian version of "Contest", and then in 2014 India remade a version of the same name, but I have to say that the appearance of these two versions of the actor is really somewhat unsatisfactory, so there is a 2015 version of "Manslaughter".
Compared with the first two versions, the author prefers this version, the male protagonist directly changed from a short and fat setback to a tall, and the rest of the actors are also very eye-catching.
The domestic version of "Manslaughter" is recognized as a remake of "Manslaughter", which is a remake of the remake in some sense, but for reasons that are well known, "Manslaughter" changed the ending of the original work, which is the biggest difference between the two versions.
In 2021, India continued to shoot "Contest 2", successfully continued the plot of the previous work, although the plot is somewhat self-indulgent, but it is also a temporary end for this series, and the domestic "Manslaughter 2", which was also released in 2021, had to remake another classic movie "Imminent" due to the previous changed ending, and reopened a version of the plot, using "fireflies in the daylight" as the core theme to achieve another continuation of the "manslaughter" universe.
Good food is not afraid of late, this time "Manslaughter Concealment" introduced into the domestic theater line, bringing a somewhat different manslaughter, and Xiao Yang's version of "Manslaughter", the plot and details are also different.
At the beginning of the film "Manslaughter", the new sheriff saw the police station, met the protagonist of the film, Vijay, and after expressing an exclamation of Vijay's appearance, flashed back to Vijay's daily movie scene through a close-up shot of Vijay's head, continuing the bond between reality and the movie, and then in the usual meal of Ma Ding's house, he used the court "habeas corpus order" from the movie to help an old couple who were blackmailed by Deputy Inspector Gaydend, compared with the domestic version of "Manslaughter" Li Weijie's small person to the black police Sankun's only promise, The Indian version shows Vijay's disdain for Gaydend.
And the domestic version of "Manslaughter" begins with a prison, Xiao Yang played by Li Weijie and the dialogue between the prisoners seems to have a deep meaning, with the scene of "Shawshank's Redemption" as if to start a prison escape operation, and then the desperate ending in the coffin after the failure of the escape made the restaurant owner Uncle Song very disappointed, the original is like the story location set by the film overhead, this is just a fabricated story told by Li Weijie to Uncle Song, compared to the obscure background of the original version, there is a little more Xiao Yang-style joke and the cunning of the little people.
Compared with the detailed transformation and ubiquitous metaphors of the domestic version of "Manslaughter", "Manslaughter" highlights the class of society and the dark side of the police.
For example, compared with the police chief Sherlock Holmes-like intelligence of the police chief played by Chen Chong in "Manslaughter", the Indian version directly uses lynching and coercion in prison as the shock of the strong woman in this police station, which is more cold and cruel, and As a black policeman, Gaiden de is more greedy and tyrannical than the domestic version of Sang Kun, and even dares to kill Vijay's young daughter Annu in the public interrogation, if it is not stopped by Chief Mela, I am afraid that it is not the plot direct GG.
Compared with the domestic version of the husband and wife relationship between Li Weijie and Ayu, the absolute status of men in Vijay's family is more reflected, whether it is the attitude towards his wife and daughter in the family, or the joke when he goes to the father-in-law's house, all of which allude to some unspeakable iron laws in Indian society, compared to the domestic version of Tan Zhuo's Ayu who dares to face La Yun's interrogation: "Some children are children, some children are animals", and the wife of Vijay in the Indian version is completely reduced to a certain degree of background board, and the status of women can be seen.
In terms of background setting, there are also many differences between the two versions, compared with the domestic version of the story deliberately overhead city and fabricated text language, directly embodied the real Indian small city, the male protagonist shop has also changed from the domestic version of the network operator to a cable TV business with more characteristics of the times, the eldest daughter An Jiu has also become an object of adoption, Li Weijie played by Xiao Yang in "Manslaughter" is a devout Buddhist, and Vijay in "Manslaughter" only achieves his purpose through the sermon conference, and the interest also changes from Li Weijie's boxing match + Movies became only interested in movies.
In terms of personality, compared with Li Weijie's only promises and passive counterattacks against Sang kun in the first half, Vijay appears to be more strong, more often as an active rebel, whether it is exposing Gaiden de's bribery tricks in front of the police chief who goes to the restaurant to eat or protecting his partners against Gayton de and calling: "The police should be public servants, not the other way around", which highlights this.
On the outside is a strong leader, in the home is also a protector to protect the family, whether it is the various strange plans after the crime, or the arrangement of the family has not been neglected, the ability to adapt to the situation is also excellent, whether it is in time to block the sheriff who is scared to cry when the sheriff passing by the home arrives, or the police formally interrogated the flaw that perfectly plugged the flaw in the wife's mouth, calm and self-assured.
After the "manslaughter" in the first half of the film, the next two versions of the "Hidden Sky" plot go about the same direction, for the sake of the family, whether it is Li Weijie or Vijay, they all use the knowledge in the movie to carry out a series of operations like hiding the sky, cleaning up the crime scene, using the SIM mobile phone card signal to mislead the police's sight, handling the car, and using the family trip as a cover several times to do montage-like time and space confusion, the most important thing is to adjust the mentality and unified caliber of themselves and their families, the difference is that after the East Window incident, In the face of Gaidend's report and temptation in front of the director, Vijay temporarily dispelled his suspicions with a determined departure, while the domestic version skipped this paragraph and was directly arrested and imprisoned, which seemed a bit sloppy.
In the two versions of different "manslaughter", whether it is the simple candid shooting of the second generation of officials as the fuse of the incident or the video after the rape, the vegetable meal bag or fried rice in the family trip, the rotten wild dog dug up after the beating or the sheep killed by Sang Kun, it is only the localization product of reality and overhead.
The biggest difference is two points, one is that in the Indian version, the mother and daughter duo achieved the "manslaughter" of Su Cha, while the domestic version used the blood handprint on the coffin to trigger another layer of careful thinking, and the other point was the ending, the domestic version of Li Weijie later surrendered out of inner torment to stop the spread of the riot.
The Indian version of Vijay is for the family to die to the end, when he looks up and walks out of the police station, accompanied by the Indian BGM, the switching of different time and space scenes reveals the real buried place of Sam who was "killed by mistake".
Compared with the various localization changes and deliberate metaphors of the domestic version, the rhythm and design of the Indian version are more reasonable, not so much a suspense film, but rather an Indian-style cool film, just like the "Heavenly Mystery Case" of that year, compared to the domestic version of the ubiquitous echoes and various metaphors about sheep, an unexpected cool film ending is more gratifying, but also conducive to the continuation of the sequel plot.
Indian society, women, family, movies, classes, black police, many elements constitute this unconventional "Manslaughter and Concealment of Heaven", there are no too many metaphors and deliberate details, some are just "manslaughter" and "concealment".
Borrowing the meaning of the domestic version of "Manslaughter" English title "Sheep Without a Shepherd", sheep are weak and can only be eaten by wild beasts, sheep can form flocks, but can only be driven by shepherds, whether for people or for sheep, "Manslaughter" has completed just the right crime art, looking forward to the next part, hoping to bring a bigger surprise.
Author / sonic
Edit / Amber