"Procuratorial Storm", which has been withdrawn and finalized many times, has finally arrived.
But under the strong attack of other films on May 1st, the box office of "Prosecutor" is not ideal, and its quality is not so bad.
There is Mak Zhaohui choreographer, although some places in the film are out of sync and the suspense is not enough, but at least it can ensure the lower limit and make it worth the ticket price.
This is a movie that feels okay to watch at the moment, and many details in the film really do not stand up to careful consideration, are not logically reasonable, and you can find problems with a little scrutiny.
If Zhang Youcheng (played by Wang Qianyuan) was hit, the police knew to adjust the surveillance, but whether Xia Wei (played by Wang Likun) went to Chen Xin's (played by Bao Bell) house, and whether anyone else went to Chen Xin's house but did not know how to adjust the surveillance.
This intention to forcibly hide key figures is all too obvious.
However, according to the subsequent plot development and the foreshadowing, it can be seen that the narrative trickery used by Mak Zhaohui in the play failed.
At the beginning of the film, Hong Qiming, Hong Junshan (played by Feng Shaofeng), and Chen Xin are very familiar with each other and have business contacts, and Hong Qiming also intimidated Chen Xin.
Then Chen Xin was killed, the fingerprints of the third person were found at the scene, and then Hong Qiming asked Hong Junshan Xia Wei how much he knew about them, and the plot developed to this point, and the audience could already guess that the third person in Chen Xin's family was Hong Qiming.
Later, using the lens language to reveal the truth of this fait accompli is no longer much suspense and attractiveness, so the hiding and shifting of views of Mak Zhaohui's unadjusted surveillance did not have the effect it should have.
It is better to tell the audience directly that the third person is Hong Qiming, and then focus on who killed Chen Xin and why he killed Chen Xin.
In this way, the pace of the movie will be a little faster, and the plot will be more compact, instead of being like now, all the scenes of Hong Qiming being the third person are more cumbersome.
Because the purpose of "Procuratorial Storm" is not to talk about how complicated the murder case is, but to delve into the umbrella behind it, as well as the collusion between officials and businessmen, but the current structure is a bit of a trade-off, and there is no distinction between the main and the secondary.
This is the loophole in the script design of "Prosecutor Storm", and in other aspects, it is a concentrated embodiment of Hong Kong flavor.
What is Hong Kong flavor? Hong Kong flavor is utilitarian, the audience can see whatever they want, it is best to keep them busy in the length of more than 90 to 100 minutes.
Therefore, Mak Zhaohui has poured many elements into "Prosecutor Storm", love, suspense, criminal investigation, tomb robbery, crime, law, almost taking care of the taste of every audience.
More elements mean that it is easy to mess up, and the threshold for viewing movies will be increased accordingly, how to make it orderly and easy to understand, Mak Zhaohui adopts a progressive structural method.
First use the rape case to lead to the homicide case, then use the murder case to bring out the tomb robbery case, and finally use the tomb robbery case to break the umbrella, only one element of the crime is retained on the main line, and the other elements are tools.
This layer-by-layer pattern may seem a little dazzling, but the clue has always been why Chen Xin was killed, so that the focus is no longer blurred and the story becomes simple.
When the story is simple, in order not to make the plot too thin and the audience's viewing experience boring, the rhythm of the film must be adjusted so that every emotional change of the audience is under the control of the director.
In order to achieve this goal, Mak Zhaohui uses MacGuffin's continuous transfer and flashbacks on the editing to keep the audience interested in the film and form waves of freshness, without time to think about whether it is rigorous.
For example, at the beginning of the movie, the director threw out the tool person of the campus loan girl, and her task was quickly taken offline, and then the story was really staged.
In order to seek justice for her students, Xia Wei took a voice recorder to find Chen Xin to explain, and finally broke up unhappily, and then the camera turned, Chen Xin died in the house, and Xia Wei was considered a suspect and taken away.
At this time, the audience's intuitive idea was that Xia Wei was definitely not the murderer, otherwise the case would be too simple, and Mak Zhaohui also followed the audience's intention to develop, and led to the fingerprint of the third person to support the audience's inference.
With this clue, the audience's conjecture becomes who the third person really is.
Then the director used wrong guidance, constantly suggesting that Hong Junshan was the third person, such as fingerprints were determined to be male, and there was an unspeakable past between Hong Junshan and Chen Xin.
Just when the audience's enthusiasm for the film gradually weakened because they guessed the mystery, Mak Zhaohui released the tomb robbery line, allowing the audience's focus to shift from Hong Junshan to what Hong Junshan, Hong Qiming, and Chen Xin did in the past.
But Mak Zhaohui did not show all the hole cards at once, but slowly like squeezing toothpaste, in the past the line mentioned, now the line is clicked, is to keep the audience in a state of guessing.
When this practice of hiding and locking was about to fail, the director once again took out the third person who was about to be forgotten by everyone.
But instead of expanding along Hong Junshan, it tells the audience that your previous guesses were all wrong, and the third person who killed Chen Xin was not Hong Junshan at all.
Just like Hitchcock's "Psycho", the first 45 minutes are spent creating an atmosphere where the heroine's money will be stolen, and only in the middle of the process is it that the audience is told that money is not the real MacGuffin, murder is.
The same is true of "Prosecutor Storm", Hong Junshan is not a ruthless character, and Mak Siu-fai uses him as a cover to deliberately disturb the audience's sight.
In the end, it is to surprise the audience when the murderer reverses, and this practice of "playing" the audience, although not as clever as Hitchcock, is still above the standard.
The line of the murder case can be ended here, as long as the tomb robbery behind the murder case can stand, "Procurator Storm" deserves a good evaluation.
It's a pity that the collusion between officials and businessmen caused by the tomb robbery case is too sloppy, like a dragonfly in a little water, resulting in insufficient heaviness in the film and lack of appeal in dramatic tension.
This makes the struggle between the positive and negative factions become a one-sided output of the villain, and the ability of the decent is not shown, and all rely on external forces to bring the evil to justice.
If you can, the script of "Prosecutor Fengyun" will be polished and polished by Zhuang Wenqiang, perhaps the decent image will be more specific, and at that time, the quality of the film can also be improved by several grades.
The current "Procuratorial Fengyun" has a sense of high and low, it is a pity that the food is tasteless to abandon, but it can be seen, but it is so bad that people are not happy enough to watch.