"Disappearing Her": Chen Sicheng's "refuge" is worth entering

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The whole movie "Disappearing Her" seems to have originated from the idea that a stranger claims to be your wife, and the photos in your mobile phone, the hotel attendants, the physical evidence and human evidence you can find are also on the side of this strange woman, so what will happen?

I've recently felt that the idea of a story's first place is important, and sometimes it can determine how far the story goes. If the idea mentioned above is the original idea of this story, then this idea is really good.

So, what will happen?

How do you prove that your wife is your wife? And it seems that you don't have a single card in your hand that you can use.

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You can't press pause in the cinema. In a hurry, a thought rushed out. The male protagonist is crazy, it must be so, so that everything can be explained.

Many domestic suspense films do just that. Dig a huge hole and push everything onto psychosis. Hallucinations, all hallucinations. Or, it's all a dream.

This is what Carver calls "No cheap tricks." "cheap trick". If people who engage in creation always engage in such "cheap tricks", they will be struck by lightning.

"Disappearing Her" will not be struck by lightning.

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Chen Sicheng is the executive producer and screenwriter of this film. Regardless of the reputation of the "Detective Chinatown" series, he finally created a refuge for mainland movies on the screen, a Southeast Asian country in the movie, officials can do bad things, the police can be corrupt, and detectives can also solve cases in the plot.

"Disappearing Her" takes the Southeast Asian impression one step further. Media people who have seen the movie early said that "Disappearing Her" is simply a Southeast Asian tourism dissuasion film. "Disappearing Her" tries to explain the previously dug pit: the male protagonist and his real wife are caught in a terrible conspiracy. Organized criminals can have access to the sky, can alter surveillance video, forge passports, and point deer at horses.

The male protagonist has to find his disappearing wife in a limited time (his passport visa is about to expire), and find the person who impersonates his wife, the real purpose of this organization. He is both a race against time and a huge organization. He doesn't seem to be able to win very well.

However, even so, the pit seems to have been filled. Moreover, this is also a relatively reasonable explanation. In Southeast Asia in the movie, where organized criminals have their hands and eyes, the rich may encounter such ingenious and cruel tricks.

Only, it seems that it is not enough. And, in general, if a suspense movie tries very hard to hint at who is behind the scenes, then, nine times out of ten, he or she will not be behind the scenes.

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Reversal is the foundation of suspense films. Some suspense films are not enough to reverse once, often reverse two or three times, it seems that the more reversals, the more they look like a suspense film.

"Disappearing Her" will naturally have a reversal. This reversal is like lifting the table, turning everything mentioned above to the ground.

The advantage of this reversal is that all the details in the aforementioned story that cannot be scrutinized can be forgiven in this reversal. Even to some extent, the story mentioned above is to be slightly pompous, only right.

Why?

I certainly won't explain why. Children spoil it.

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I'm not too interested in suspense films. On the one hand, as mentioned earlier, some suspense films always like to reverse too much, and in front of such movies, I always have a feeling that my IQ is offended. On the other hand, suspense films tend to focus on the setting of puzzles. However, once the puzzle is solved, when the water falls out, there is often nothing left and nothing is boring.

Watching movies, after all, is not doing math problems. What's more, many viewers are not good at doing math problems in the first place.

"Disappearing Her" is good that it is not addicted to doing questions. It dug a rather interesting hole, and it was also quite cleverly filled. But that's the end of it. It leaves considerable room for the emotions of the characters. Why did he do such a thing, and why did she do such a thing, there was foreshadowing, there was explanation, there was arrangement, there was presentation. Quite rich emotions will seep out little by little in the process of solving the problem, and in the end, it will converge into a river and rush into the sea.

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For me, watching "Gone Her" was enjoyable. However, after reading and reviewing, you will feel that there are some unreasonable points.

For example, the photos of the male protagonist and his wife in his mobile phone have all been replaced with photos with strangers, but he has to find evidence, just return to China, marriage photos at home, marriage certificates, can't they all be proved? The visa that the male protagonist has been counting down to himself is about to expire, but what about the expiration, go back and reapply for a visa again?

I can probably understand why. Because the film had to make the whole story take place outside the borders. As mentioned earlier, Southeast Asia is a refuge for mainland movies. Because of this, I decided to forgive these unreasonable places.

Whether you forgive or not, that's your business.

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Although "Disappearing Him" deliberately makes the whole story take place outside the borders, when telling the story of the past, "Disappearing Her" cannot avoid hitting the iron wall of class. "Class hatred is as deep as the sea", in this, it is delusional, and it is not delusional. Once it switched to this perspective, the film immediately changed its look. This is far more terrifying than the horror scenes of Southeast Asia in the stories on the screen.

It is useless to talk about this point, and it is okay not to say it.