At the end of 2019, a detective film suddenly set off a boom in theaters.
It first caused a sensation when it was released in North America, and won 96% freshness on Rotten Tomatoes, and then quickly swept the Chinese mainland, achieving a good result of 200 million box office, which can be described as acclaim and acclaim.
This film is "Sharp Blade Out of the Sheath".
Due to the collection of "007" Daniel Craig, "Captain America" Kirry Evans and many other well-known movie stars, "Sharp Blade Out of the Sheath" has attracted much attention since the confirmation of the finale, but the key factor that ultimately helped it gain good reputation and high box office is that it pays tribute to the famous detective novelist Agatha Christie in the most classical way.
It's an original Agatha-style detective story: the rich Harlan has a grand birthday party at his villa. But the next day, he died mysteriously. Detective Blanco was entrusted to investigate and found that the family's relationship was not simple, and everyone seemed to have a motive for killing. Who is the murderer?
Fans generally refer to the story unfolding in this way as the "country house pie" case, which is also a classic reasoning narrative model created by Agatha.
But if divided according to the theme, individuals prefer to classify "Sharp Blade Out of the Sheath" as a "rich grudge" (I set it myself, haha!). ）。 Because, behind the suspicious case, the story actually shows the various misfortunes of this rich family, and confirms the iron law that "money is not omnipotent".
Many fans don't know that not long after this, Indians actually made a similar film, is it curious?
Today, Crimson will analyze this film - "Lonely Night Seeking Murder".
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The famous wealthy businessman Takul Rahubi Sim (hereinafter referred to as Takur) decided to compete for the political arena, and in order to create a personal image of a happy family, he was widowed for five years and decided to marry his second wife, Rada.
On the day of the wedding, Tacul held a grand wine feast in his family villa. For a time, there were countless guests coming and going.
And in this festive atmosphere, a terrifying thing happened: the groom Tacour was shot, and the scene of the crime was the newly decorated wedding room.
Because of Takul's prominent status and the high official attention paid to the case, police officer Gaddin Yadav (hereinafter referred to as Yadav) was immediately sent to the scene to investigate.
With his strong professional ability, Yadav quickly figured out the membership of the family:
Ramish Johan is the younger brother of Takul's first wife, appears to be loyal, and is also the guardian of Karen, the younger son of Takul and his first wife.
Karen is a big boy with an immature mind, who usually doesn't talk much, but after the crime, he actually runs to harass Lada?
Karoo is Karen's sister and has a cowardly personality. Her husband, Lavich Sodia, is a soft-eaten king with a short temper and doesn't look like a kind person. When Takur found out that he had been killed, he became agitated and shouted that he would be the next victim.
Viclam was The nephew of Takul, a talented and capable man who is said to have been particularly valued by Takul and was once considered the heir to the family.
Vasuda is Viclam's younger sister, rebellious and mean-talking.
Pamela was Takur's sister-in-law, and after her husband's death, she took Viklam and Vasuda to live with Takur.
Chuni was a maid at home, and her brother was a driver for the Takul family, who died in a car accident with Takur's first wife five years ago.
The bride, Rada, is very young, she was sold to Takur by her father and has been here for several years. Apparently, Rata did not like Takur and suffered a lot of grievances.
At the same time, Takur also had a close personal friend, Munaraja, a successful politician who had long received financial support from Takur and had betrothed his daughter Toikram.
Apparently, the relationship between the characters is very complicated, and everyone seems to be suspicious, because according to Takul's will, Rada will inherit all his property.
A typical Agatha case.
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As with the plot direction of "Blade Out of the Sheath", as Yadav investigates deeply, he discovers that this wealthy family is not as beautiful as it seems, and the people in the family are not only pregnant with ghost fetuses, but also hide hidden secrets.
It seems that Takur's first wife did not die in a car accident; Rada and Vikram had an adulterous affair, the former hoping to get out of the predicament through such a relationship, but the latter had other plans; Munaraja had been obstructing Yadav's case, either seeking his superiors to suppress him or letting his subordinates murder him.
Who is the murderer? It's a lot of doubts!
These two people are the key
Compared with the comedy of black humor throughout "Blade Out of the Sheath", "Lonely Night" as a whole is more terrifying, and many plots take place at night or in dimly lit rooms, which makes people feel very depressed.
And with Yadav's indomitable investigation, the truth gradually surfaced: the root of the case turned out to be an incest scandal.
No further spoilers will be given here.
In short, the moment the mystery was revealed, it was still relatively shocking.
It reveals how inflated man, catalyzed by power and money, has no bottom line and loses his conscience. And all these tragedies could have been prevented in time, but for the sake of the so-called "family honor", some people will really poison their loved ones and ignore their own flesh and bones.
This rich family has long been a purgatory of distorted human nature.
If the ending of "Blade Out of the Sheath" is warm (celebrating the kindness of the heroine), then the ending of "Lonely Night" is bitter, and they just show the two sides of human nature one by one.
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Basically, "Lonely Night" is to grasp the essence of Agatha's detective story, but there are also more slots.
Since it is a "rich and resentful faction", it must reflect "Howe"!
However, it is difficult to see the picture that can show Takur's financial resources in the film, and I really don't know whether it is not enough production funds or the director's ability is too poor.
The exterior of the villa is actually like this, there are lights at night to set off better, during the day it looks tattered.
The interior of the house is all like this, and it really doesn't feel very generous.
Compared with the picture of "Sharp Blade Out of the Sheath", is there a big gap?
The casting aspect is also very fanatic.
According to the setting, Lada should be a young and beautiful girl, otherwise why was she caught in the picture of Takul, and why was she seduced by Vikram?
As a result, Radhika Eppert was hired to star. Little Sister's acting skills are really good (she has starred in "The Tuner" and "Indian Partner"), but she is 35+ years old and has no girlish feeling at all.
Fortunately, Radika herself is not bad-looking, but the stylist has made her very sloppy, completely devoid of any personal charm.
You know, Rada ended up obsessing Officer Yadav. (Oh my goodness!) ）
It's not credible at all.
The last and most excessive point is the addition of too much unnecessary side content.
The story of solving the case usually depicts the detective, but it is also two or three strokes, such as the detective Blanco in "Sharp Blade Out of the Sheath", who appears with a second leg and a playful face, which immediately shows his cynical personality.
But this film took a lot of time, focusing on Yadav's dialogue with his mother, and even had a fierce dispute over the traditional dowry system, which was really a waste of time! Because of all that said, Yadav's image is still unclear, at best he knows that he doesn't want to get married for the sake of getting married.
However, what does this have to do with the content of the film?
As for Yadav and Lada's love affair, I can't afford to complain.
The detective and the suspect have an affair, which is a very unprofessional performance, and generally does not arrange it this way. Even if it is arranged, the detective will eventually be killed by the suspect, who makes you unprofessional! For example, in the second story of the drama version of "Detective Chinatown", Lin Mo and Ivy are like this, and there are similar in the earlier "Great Detective Polo" and "Sherlock Holmes".
However, Yadav finally had a lover with Rada and eventually became a family.
The film also deliberately lays out a large section of the story before the two people: a few years ago, Yadav met Lada on the train, and Lada wanted to escape, but Yadaf believed that people without ability, recklessly running out is also a dead end, resulting in Lada compromised to fate, was sold to Takur, and was tortured.
After the case, Rata was the first suspect for a long time, but Yadav, because of guilt, never believed that she was the murderer, and finally fell in love with her.
In this way, the main line suddenly becomes Yadav's rescue of Rada, the redemption of himself, which is not absurd!
Where is there such a case?
In addition, due to the excessive attention to the carving of the core, "Lonely Night" ignores the most basic fun of "suspense detection", and the first half of the content has been swirling around in place, making people sleepy. Of course, there is also this problem in "Sharp Blade Out of the Sheath".
At present, the score of "Lonely Night" in Douban is 6.3 points, just over the passing line, which is really deserved!