The summer outpost battle began, and "Disappearing Her" "has great stamina"

Attractive suspense films should create a deep sense of immersion and participation, making watching a movie a game between creators and audiences. "Disappearing Her" is a kind of scarce product in the current theater, it uses multiple tricks and obstacles, the audience can naturally lie down and enjoy the excitement brought by the revelation of this miracle, but if you are willing to "fight", there will be a large number of clues, puzzles and even traps, waiting to be discovered, identified and revealed. "The whole process is guessing", which has become a post-screening summary for many audiences.

Author: Lan Er

Editor: Prince Zhi

Format: Wang Wei

When people are looking forward to the summer of movies returning to the era of tens of billions, "Disappearing Her" first started the sentinel battle.

This new work of Chen Sicheng's team in a series of suspense is full of suspense and reversal around truth and human nature, bringing a very enjoyable puzzle game to the public.

At present, its market performance continues to rise, after the Dragon Boat Festival quickly won more than 500 million box office, as the audience recognizes and continues to spread the brush and brush to watch the movie, the final expectations of all parties for the film's results are rising every day.

It is worth mentioning that the "sense of departure" of "Disappearing Her" is very strong, its content details, actors' performances, and the realistic emotional impact left by the true appearance of events and characters all resonate and accumulate sound volume among the audience, which strongly enhances the sense of existence of "watching movies" in the moment. This is actually an important appeal of Chen Sicheng, as a producer and screenwriter, behind the creation of the film: how to make the public pay attention to the film again, how to pull the audience back to the theater.

Chen Sicheng, who firmly believes in the power of genre films on the market and the public, fell on "Disappearing Her" as an attempt to pursue more extreme genre characteristics.

The ultimate suspense creation, allowing the audience to enter the game

Attractive suspense films should create a deep sense of immersion and participation, making watching a movie a game between creators and audiences.

"Disappearing Her" is a kind of scarce product in the current theater, it uses multiple tricks and obstacles, the audience can naturally lie down and enjoy the excitement brought by the revelation of this miracle, but if you are willing to "fight", there will be a large number of clues, puzzles and even traps, waiting to be discovered, identified and revealed. "The whole process is guessing", which has become a post-screening summary for many audiences.

The film begins with the puzzle of "the wife disappears". A couple who are on vacation, his wife Li Muzi disappeared for no reason, and her husband is looking hard for no results. When he woke up one morning, the problem was solved, and his wife returned by herself, but at this time, He Fei was overly frightened and reported that the person who came back was not his wife.

But the two people's licenses, the group photo on the mobile phone, the personnel and monitoring of the hotel and multiple check-in points during the trip all prove that the wife is correct.

From this point on, the puzzle and the puzzle are alternately connected, each puzzle solution will lead to a new question, and the unfolding of each corner of the iceberg makes people more aware of the huge volume of the sunken volume.

The self-confessed wife began to uncover He Fei's mental problems, and the neurological drugs carried by the latter and the manic behavior that he was constantly provoked increased by the distrust and isolation of the police and others.

At this time, a strange lawyer, Chen Mai, believed him and was willing to help him; And under the excavation of this capable lawyer, the truth continues to expand along the expanded, uncontrolled conspiracy theory, a criminal syndicate with a strong black hand is involved, and He Fei's real wife may also be the black hand that fuels the situation, or even the key setter.

In fact, the above descriptions are all superficial, true and false, full of all kinds of information fog and psychological traps in the first half of the movie.

Throughout the film, the size reversal design, including events and characters, can be sorted out at least a dozen times, but it is interesting how deep the story is and how big this game is, which varies from person to person, and can completely depend on the individual state of the audience.

On the one hand, it must test the audience's sensitivity to detail and familiarity with suspense logic. For example, for almost all viewers, it is easy to determine the "fake wife gang", but some viewers will wonder, why are they so "bad" so obviously? Should it be regarded as an actor acting too hard, or is it to show the rampant bandits in Southeast Asia? Or, you know that there is something strange, can you think of this strangeness to the point?

On the other hand, each individual's understanding and cognitive differences in human nature will also determine the difficulty of this suspenseful solution. For example, a person who has made a big mistake, do you believe that TA can turn back? Do you believe that a common simple emotion in life can be turned back to the extreme? The difference in these fundamental beliefs makes some audiences make up too much brain to add "levels" to themselves, some viewers can instantly reach the truth, and some viewers go all the way through the fog before finally realizing.

The existence of these flexible reasoning spaces relies on the creator's ultimate pursuit of suspense this time. The content text is solidly polished, and many classic tricks and logical structures such as the Mandela effect, identity displacement, and narrative traps are newly created, and the suspense tension is continuously extended with the intensive advancement of events; At the same time, the extreme in the film is reflected in the images, sets, performances, etc. have become part of the suspense setting, deeply created, and there is no waste.

For example, many of Van Gogh's works appear in different elements and forms in different situations in the film, to deeply bury hints at the true psychology and fate of different characters. In the many plots of He Fei's confrontation with the fake wife gang, with close-ups, strong light and shadow segmentation effects and the latter's weird performance, there is not only a subjective perspective that allows the audience to have a strong sense of substitution, connected to the psychological pressure and collapse situation that He Fei is bearing, and on the other hand, there is an objective perspective, which reinforces and reminds of all kinds of wrongness.

Many actors in the film, including Zhu Yilong (as He Fei), Ni Ni (as Chen Mai), Wen Yongshan (as Li Muzi), Du Jiang (as Zheng Cheng), all presented wonderful performances that boldly let go. Throughout the film, Zhu Yilong's interpretation of sincerity, dazedness, panic, fear, collapse, madness and other contrasting states, the complexity of the characters is very high, such as the control of facial muscle twitches, the moment of shaving the head shed a drop of accurate but unattainable tears and other details, all of which form a strong impact in the corresponding situation. And Ni Ni's strong sense of control as a character who promotes the truth throughout the process, and the extremely dangerous femme fatale "charm" presented by Wen Yongshan are all strong women rarely seen on the current big screen.

The difficulty and proportionality of these performances lies not only in the problem of conventional "completion", but also in the "ambiguous space" that portrays complex human nature and fate decisions; When the plot goes back step by step, when the audience sees more truth, when some scenes reappear in the form of Rashomon, these former performance details are shaped and the character state is presented and recalled, which has both the rationality of the moment and the new motives examined now, and between good and evil, it has become a very powerful suspense creation in the movie.

It is precisely this effort to pursue content creation with stronger suspense tension from multiple directions, create a high sense of immersion, stimulate the audience's active "thinking creation", make "Disappearing Her" an intellectual film that has been vacant in the market for a long time, and also create a wide exit space for the audience to interact, analyze and discuss after the screening.

Type creation for deeper thinking and exploration

The plot of "Disappearing Her" is unexpectedly until the last moment, so in the audience's various comment interactions, it is often seen that there are several exclamation points emphasized, "no spoilers"; However, many viewers believe that even if they know the truth of the incident, there is still a lot of space to be explored, because the feelings of reality and human nature are "thrilling" enough.

The thinking and expression in the film are precisely reversed with the layers of suspense, and the layers are naturally revealed, and the same is let go for everyone to feel.

In an interview, Chen Sicheng said that the film wants to remind people about the "choice" of life, the inevitability of someone's heart behind the accident of fate, a difference in thought, a step away, brings about an extreme bifurcation of life. In fact, about the last opportunity for the villain to miss at the end of the film, about whether he will regret it and whether he will be re-elected, it has triggered many viewers to interpret and discuss his humanity.

Among the audience, the most frequent is the discussion of emotions and intimacy. Compared with a purely emotional film, in the extreme situation setting of a suspense film and the interweaving of mixed good and evil, it may be more able to tear away the hazy illusion and let people discover the true texture of emotions. In "Disappearing Her", the audience excavated many classic focus topics from the new story, such as the safety and stability of emotions with a difference, the scale of kindness and the possibility of redemption, how to identify the truth of emotions, how people protect themselves in emotional relationships, and so on.

Many viewers also read about the new attention and deconstruction of the gender situation from the film.

Such as the common "crazy woman" in literature and art - in this film, the male protagonist is framed and encountered, from such a main perspective, feel the incomprehensible and absurd collapse. Just like the decisive courage and dedication of all the righteousness shown by the heroines, as well as high intelligence and meticulous control, the audience feels the charm and power of more faceted female characters.

In fact, in these expressions, we can also see the deeper development state of Chen Sicheng's team in the creation of suspense genres.

In the eight years since 2015, from the "Tang Detective" series to the "Manslaughter" series, to the current flexible creation of new works such as "Disappearing Her", Chen Sicheng's team has continued to deepen and explore in the field of suspense. The "Tang Detective" series uses "suspense + comedy" to serve the most popular audience, and collide with the suspense content preferences of the widest and most diverse group of people; The "Manslaughter" series uses "suspense + emotion" to realize the discussion of social issues and real events; In "Disappearing Her", as mentioned earlier, through the creation of suspense that is more extreme than ever, under the framework of several real cases of high social attention integrated by the film, they are also further amplifying the suspenseful crime theme's in-depth insight into complex human nature and people's subtleties.

In this process, Chen Sicheng undertook the most concentrated suspense innovation exploration in the field of domestic commercial films, and also gathered and led a group of young creative groups. During this period, the diversified richness of the suspense content of Chen Sicheng's team is constantly expanding, and the temperament and tonality of the "Chen Sicheng" brand suspense have gradually formed, and they have their own recognition in the story spectacle and image style; Many classic elements from the structure of Western suspense genres have been continuously tempered, skillfully used and integrated in localized creations, typical of which is the Mandela effect, the core trick of Benge reasoning, which is continuously designed and used in "Manslaughter" and "Disappearing Her"; At the same time, Chen Sicheng's team also made suspense reasoning realize a new path in the changes of the times, such as the bordering and aphasia of female characters in traditional suspense films and television, which achieved subversive changes in this "Disappearing Her".

It can be seen that "Disappearing Her" is not only a new attempt to create suspense, but also represents an important breakthrough in the field of suspense for Chen Sicheng's team at a new point in time, allowing the industry and the public to see their more determined march in genre creation.