Every time in the interview program with Wen Bixia, almost a movie will be mentioned, this movie has a great impact on Wen Bixia's acting career, first of all, it is Wen Bixia's only film to appear naked, and secondly, after the release of this movie, Wen Bixia was accused by many media and audiences.
In the interview, Wen Bixia will always generously admit that she didn't think so much when filming "Shock", because she usually watches a lot of foreign movies, this kind of passion scene is very normal, plus she herself is more avant-garde, if the plot needs, then it should be dedicated to art.
Although Wen Bixia's career fell into a low period after "Shock", she said that she did not regret making this movie, but she just felt that she was a little stupid at that time.
The film is directed by the famous Hong Kong cult film director Yau Litao, in his previous works, full of a large number of bloody perverted violence, such as "The Judge of the Taxi", "Human Flesh Char Siu Bun", "Ebola Virus", etc., in this "Shock" Qiu Litao is somewhat convergent, focusing on suspense and sexy elements.
The male protagonist in the film is also played by Ren Dahua, who has played a lot of perverts, and he also converged on the exaggerated shaping of perverted characters this time, but adopted a relatively restrained and more focused on digging into the hearts of the characters.
Ren Dahua's exaggerated expression in "Doctor Lamb"
In short, whether it is for director Qiu Litao, or actors Ren Dahua and Wen Bixia, "Shock" is an important transformation work for them.
"Shock"
All of a Sudden
The story begins in a rear-end collision on the street, where the two owners have a fierce argument over compensation, but their argument is interrupted by a naked female corpse falling from the sky.
I found that Hong Kong movies like this kind of bridge that makes people fall to their deaths on the roof of a car, and this is how Sir Huang died in "Infernal Affairs", and the woman in this movie dies the same way.
Inspector Mak, a police officer played by Wong Zihua, arrived, squatting far away by the wall to analyze why such an exaggerated case occurred, historically speaking, there has never been a case of suicide by jumping naked from a building in Hong Kong.
Inspector Mai wore a pair of black-framed glasses, long flowing hair, some ill-fitting loose clothes, and a pair of jade bracelets on his wrists, because he had rhinitis, he always had to wipe his nose with paper, and he kept holding a wad of toilet paper in his hand.
Sure enough, Inspector Mai sneezed directly on the suicide note left by the deceased who fell from the building, and he had to stuff the paper ball into the evidence bag together.
Judging from the suicide note, the woman who fell from the building did commit suicide, he treated his old bus, she fell in love with her boss, but the boss is a husband with a wife, and it is certainly impossible to divorce her wife because she can't bear this pain and choose to jump off the building.
With a scream, the woman woke up from the nightmare, next to her husband hugged her gently to comfort, the woman is played by Wen Bixia The heroine of the film, Miao Keyi, his husband is called Lin Guocai, is a big boss of a group company, and the woman who committed suicide by jumping off the building at the beginning of the film is his private secretary.
After getting up, the couple found that their son had a high fever, so they started the car to send their son to the hospital, but then a masked gangster suddenly appeared, he frantically hit Lin Guocai with a baseball bat, Miao Keyi sat in the back seat of the car in a panic to protect his son, but did not expect that the gangster sat in the cab and drove away with the mother and son.
This gangster is none other than the husband of the woman who jumped off the building, Xu Zhandong played by Ren Dahua.
Xu Zhandong originally only wanted to teach a lesson to Lin Guocai, who brought himself a green hat and killed his wife, and did not want to kidnap his wife and children, but because Miao Keyi pulled off his hood in the car, in order not to expose himself, Xu Zhandong could only catch her on a yacht and imprisoned her.
This yacht was rented by Xu Zhandong from his friend A Biao, A Biao often gambled on horses and recently lost money, he took it upon himself to get on the yacht, discovered Xu Zhandong's secret, after understanding what happened, A Biao decided to blackmail Lin Guocai 10 million, Xu Zhandong is relatively kind, he was originally very hostile to Lin Guocai, and at the instigation of his friend, he also agreed to this criminal plan.
Xu Zhandong contacted Lin Guocai at the public phone booth and agreed on the time and place of the ransom payment, and A Biao was in charge of guarding the ship.
When he saw Miao Keyi's graceful figure, he had evil thoughts and wanted to mistreat her, and the two both fell into the sea in the scuffle, but fortunately Xu Zhandong arrived in time and did not let A Biao succeed.
Lin Guocai withdrew 10 million from the bank, paid a ransom with the kidnappers under police surveillance, and Xu Zhandong and A Biao drove two cars to cooperate with each other to escape the police encirclement.
Who knew that Lin Guocai actually stole the ransom money out of the bag, which actually only contained a thousand yuan, and the rest were all newspapers.
But strangely, not long after receiving the fake ransom, Miao Keyi was released back unharmed.
In the face of his wife's questioning, Lin Guocai did not admit that it was his own bag, and pretended to love his wife very much, in fact, he did mess around with his female secretary in private, and he was also in Miao Keyi's family, coveting only the money and status that Miao Keyi brought him.
Because of the kidnapping incident, Xu Zhandong, who had a stake in Lin Guocai, was seriously suspected, and he was called by the police to the police station for questioning, and in another room of the police station next to the wall, Miao Keyi and his wife were questioned about the case.
In the questioning of the two parties, no valuable doubts were found,
After the questioning, Inspector Jiang specially arranged for Miao Keyi and Xu Zhandong to meet in the corridor to test whether Xu Zhandong was a robber, but Miao Keyi showed that he had never seen Xu Zhandong.
Seeing this, we may be wondering, why would Miao Keyi protect Xu Zhandong who kidnapped herself?
The truth will not be revealed until the second half of the film.
After leaving the police station, Miao Keyi drove a red sports car through an intersection, and Xu Zhandong was there, stopped the car, Xu Zhandong said that Miao Keyi called him to wait for her here, but Miao Keyi said that she had not asked him.
However, Xu Zhandong still got into the car, and the car suddenly failed to brake while driving, almost killing the two in a car accident.
Miao Keyi's community security guard inadvertently revealed that her husband repaired his car overnight last night, which made Miao Keyi suspicious of her husband.
Miao Keyi was afraid that her husband would kill her and swallow her property alone, so she found a lawyer, transferred the inheritance of property to her son's name, and set her son's guardian as Xu Zhandong.
After Miao Keyi confirmed that it was her husband who dropped the ransom, she fled home directly with her son.
And the object she chose to protect herself is Xu Zhandong, through a flashback picture, we know that the reason why she trusts Xu Zhandong so much is because on the yacht, A Biao is dissatisfied because he only received a thousand yuan, he pinched Miao Keyi and did not let go, and was blinded by Miao Keyi with a sharp weapon in tearing, Xu Zhandong killed A Biao in a hurry, and the two disposed of the body together, which was regarded as a grasshopper tied to a rope.
Miao Keyi and Xu Zhandong took the children to play in the playground, like a family of three, Lin Guocai found Xu Zhandong through a private investigator, and also found a group of punks to beat him on the street.
When Miao Keyi wiped Xu Zhandong's wounds, the spark of passion between the two could no longer be suppressed, so a wonderful lingering scene in the history of Hong Kong films was staged.
When Miao Keyi went home to get something the next day, she and her husband completely tore their faces, but in the end, Lin Guocai bit back, saying that Xu Zhandong was also for her money, trying to provoke the relationship between the two.
Lin Guocai's trick really worked, Miao Keyi also wondered if Xu Zhandong's beating before was a bitter meat plan he wrote and directed, she took back her child from Xu Zhandong, at this time Lin Guocai led a group of punks to rush to try to snatch back his child, but in the scramble, the child fell to the middle of the road and was hit by a car and killed.
Miao Keyi suffered a nervous breakdown after the loss of her son and was admitted to the hospital.
Xu Zhandong, who came to visit, received Miao Keyi's psychological hint, and he drove Lin Guocai to death on the street.
At this point, Miao Keyi lost her son and husband, and her lover Xu Zhandong was also imprisoned.
In our eyes, we felt that Miao Keyi was a tragic woman at this time, but in the end, Inspector Mai's words to Miao Keyi reversed the whole incident,
Although there is no evidence, there is a possibility that Miao Keyi is the behind-the-scenes figure who controls everything, it was she who pushed her husband's cheating lover, that is, Xu Zhandong's wife, downstairs, and it was she who took the initiative to seduce Xu Zhandong and use him to get rid of her husband.
The only thing she did not make a mistake was that she did not expect her son to die because of this.
The film ends in this suspense.
But is this really the whole truth? The most powerful thing about this movie is that it sets up different levels of suspense.
At the end of the film, Miao Keyi saw that Inspector Mai had a back scratching shot in front of the car after leaving, which is the same as the action of the person when the security guard saw someone doing something to Miao Keyi's car that night, although Miao Keyi did not know the details of this scene in the security guard's memory, but the audience could know through the comparison of these two places that it was Inspector Mai who wanted to kill Miao Keyi and Xu Zhandong.
At that time, calling Xu Zhandong to wait for Miao Keyi at the intersection was also arranged by Inspector Mai, although Inspector Mai looked unreliable on the outside, but he observed the details everywhere, and he had already confirmed the truth from Miao Keyi and Xu Zhandong's pretending not to know each other.
The ambition of this film is actually very large, it wants to create an image similar to the femme fatale in American film noir, and incorporates Hitchcock-style multi-layered reversal and suspense settings, but unfortunately in the general environment of the Hong Kong film market at that time, whether it is the texture of film noir or the ingenuity of suspense design, it cannot be compared with those global classic movies.
In order to attract the audience's attention, the whole film focuses too much on Wen Bixia's sexy body, and the entire movie focuses on Wen Bixia's stockings and long legs, and also adds some low-grade interesting displays of body parts from time to time.
If you can reduce some of this vulgar content at that time, and spend more energy on polishing the suspense design, I believe that this movie can achieve higher achievements.