Today I want to introduce a long-awaited movie of my cousin, douban score 8.9, Rotten Tomatoes fresh index 93%, popcorn index 89%, audience and film critics unanimously recognized!
It's the Sundance award-winning film starring Hollywood Asian star John Zhao—
Cyber Mystery Trail
The cousin had written its trailer before, the missing daughter, the out-of-control father, and the seemingly intimate father-daughter relationship, which were broken as the case unfolded.
The plot is reversed step by step, the atmosphere is layer by layer, and even the father seems to be related to the disappearance of his daughter.
The trailer ends at the interface requesting a video call, and the father is still asleep in the dark room, and only a ringtone rings, which is a bit infiltrative.
A teaser video of just over two minutes can catch people's eyes. After watching the positive film, my cousin responsibly said that the positive film was even more wonderful than the trailer.
In the film, David King, the father played by John Zhao, has a happy family, and together with his wife and daughter, he records every big and small event in his life with photos and videos.
Since their daughter's kindergarten, every year they will take a picture of "the first day of school".
Unfortunately, the world is uncertain, and his wife died of cancer two years ago, leaving only David and his daughter Margot in the photo.
David tried not to mention his wife, and he wanted time to heal the family's sadness.
One day, Margot said that he would review with his classmates all night, but the next day David could not contact Margot.
David thought Margot had gone to piano lessons, but the teacher said she had dropped out of the class six months earlier.
David thought Margot and his classmates were going camping, but the classmates said that Margot did not participate and that they could not contact her.
He immediately called the police, waiting for the officer to investigate while looking for clues on his own.
David even cracked the password of Margot's social account to find all her friends, but got an unexpected answer -
Margot had no friends at all.
Since the death of her mother, Margot has always been alone, and she is lonely and quiet and does not participate in activities between classmates, which is very different from David's impression of Margot.
But time passed, and the longer the disappearance, the greater the likelihood of encountering danger, david did not think about it, at this time, Vic police officer in charge of Margot's case called and said that she had found a new clue.
The new clue is a section of road condition surveillance, in which Margot is on her way out of town.
David found Margot's bank account, which showed that she had saved up all of david's weekly piano lessons and withdrew $2,500 in one lump sum before she disappeared.
Officer Vic also found a fake ID card from Margo's contacts and found another fake identity of Margot.
All the evidence points to Margot's disappearance as running away from home.
Still unwilling to believe that Margot was not a wayward child, David continued to rummag through Margot's computer, and he found margot's live-streaming website.
Margot went to a lake during the live broadcast, and she said she loved to be there in a daze. The address of the lake was only a few minutes' drive from where Margot last appeared, and David was sure that Margot was not out of town and away from home, but was going to the lake to relax.
David traveled to the lake overnight, and sure enough, he found Margot's key ring, overturning the police's conclusion that he had "run away from home".
The next day, the salvage team salvaged Margot's car, which had signs of a fight, but margot was missing.
No news is the worst news, and the police searched everywhere and found no trace, just when the rainstorm search operation had to be delayed.
News of Margo's disappearance has spread throughout the city, and the news media are covering it.
The classmates who started out saying they didn't know Margot all ran out to put on a show, rubbing Margo's heat, hypocritically saying that they were best friends with Margot, crying and praying for Margot to get clicks.
There are also netizens who blindly analyze that David killed Margot and then disguised as missing.
The most infuriating thing was that one of Margot's classmates, with a poor mouth, fell into the well, so angry that David broke his jaw, and his cousin almost clapped his hands!
However, the police officer prevented David from continuing to assist in the investigation because he acted too impulsively, and David was on the verge of collapse.
Looking through the photos of the case, David found margot's car with his brother, peter's team uniform, opened Margot and Peter's chat history, and David was shocked to find margot and Peter secretly contacting behind his back.
This time David learned to gather evidence, and he first went to buy a lot of surveillance cameras to place in Peter's house, and then showed peter a showdown.
It took Peter a violent beating to tell the truth: Margot learned to smoke marijuana from Peter and came to Peter's house from time to time to smoke two mouthfuls.
Peter also told David that Margot had been immersed in the pain of losing her mother, but her father's silence had left her pain unsolved, and she would become melancholy and silent.
David realized that he not only did not understand his daughter, but he had never tried to understand her.
He was a derelict father.
Before the blow could pass, Officer Vic brought even worse news: someone had pleaded guilty, saying that Margot had been killed by him.
David discovers new clues while preparing photos for Margot's memorial service, this time the killer points to an impossible man!
After reading the cousin, I just want to say, where is such a father looking! IQ online, not dragged by the police, insist on looking for her daughter, running on the front line of the case, otherwise you can't catch the real culprit.
Each reversal is also wonderful, when you feel that this person is the murderer, immediately prove his innocence; when you feel that this person is innocent, the next second there is suspicion again.
In particular, the reversal at the end of the movie overturns all the previous conclusions, which is simply terrifying.
The subdivision of family affection is not cumbersome at all, and it is precisely with the line of family affection that emotion and suspense are properly combined, and the whole story has been sublimated.
David and Margo clearly love each other, but because of improper communication, they have estrangement, which is also a common problem in today's society.
In the process of finding clues, he re-acquainted himself with his daughter, and the warmth at the end was moving.
The setting of the whole desktop is also fantastic, there is no pressure to replace, and it can resonate in several places.
"The other party is typing" This is not mentioned, the most let the cousin feel real is:
In the film, David initially thought that Margot's disappearance was actually angry when he went to camp, and made a large paragraph of criticism of Margot, but then felt that it was inappropriate to delete it all, and changed it to "call me when I come back".
It is a portrayal of our daily online life.
Some netizens quipped that it is better to use not the domestic search site otherwise:
"It is estimated that not only will I not find my daughter, but I will also be cheated of 20,000 pieces by Putian advertising."
In addition, John Zhao "Hollywood Jay Chou" this title is really not empty, there are several angles really godlike, do not believe you can go to see the movie ~
Well, after watching your cousin's introduction, are you interested in this movie~?
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