Details compare the similarities and differences between the suspense routine of "Disappearing Her" and "Invisible Guest"

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Just as Keigo Higashino certainly never thought that his book "The Dedication of Suspect X" would have such an impact on the Chinese commercial film "Manslaughter", Spanish director Oriol. Paul certainly never thought that his film "The Invisible Guest" released in China would also have such a big impact on "Disappearing Her".

And Scarlett herself did not expect that she ran to the cinema to watch "Disappearing Her" in less than twenty minutes, and guessed the ending. As soon as Ni Ni appeared, she benchmarked "The Invisible Guest" and guessed the key double reversal.

However, you can't say it's plagiarism, as if the industry is calling this behavior a stalker.

If you haven't seen "The Invisible Guest", in fact, you may really think that the double reversal of "Disappearing Her" is quite interesting.

Let's compare the similarities and differences between the two movies. Again, Scarlett did not say that the film was plagiarized, don't sue me.

The following is a full spoiler-style comparison.

01

The crime-solver target of both films

It's all about finding corpses

In The Invisible Guest, a man disappears and his parents need to find him. His parents suspect that the protagonist is the murderer, hoping to let the protagonist say the location of his son's body by setting up a situation.

In "Disappearing Her", a woman is missing, her girlfriend needs to find her, her girlfriend suspects that the protagonist is the murderer, hoping to let the protagonist say the location of his girlfriend's body through the situation.

This similarity can actually not be regarded as the same terrier, because there are more needs to find corpses in suspense dramas. These same terriers, must all read Scarlett's analysis combined to reminisce.

Of course, there are big differences in this similarity.

In "The Invisible Guest", the relationship between the protagonist and the deceased is a car crash that causes death.

In "Disappearing Her", the relationship between the protagonist and the deceased is husband and wife.

This difference can make up many different stories from the same meme. To sum up, the routines can be the same, but the character identities are different.

02

The way to solve the case is all role-playing, atmospheric persecution,

In the end, the murderer blew himself up the truth.

As a suspense fan, in fact, what everyone pursues is a process of finding the truth. The process of finding the truth usually has a lot to do with how the screenwriter sets up the situation and tells the story.

The same plot, if the way of telling the story is different, it is a different movie.

However, the way "Disappearing Her" and "The Invisible Guest" tell stories is the same terrier.

In "The Invisible Guest", after doing a lot of work by investigating the murderer, the deceased's parents pretended to be the newly found barrister of the murderer's team, and in a short period of time, through various lies, created a situation in which the murderer had to tell the truth to the lawyer pretending to be the deceased's mother before it was possible to escape.

In the end, the murderer said where he had buried the deceased.

The highlight of the whole film is the moment when the lawyer pretending to be the deceased's mother left the murderer's house, returned to the hotel, looked at the murderer in the window, tore off the disguise on his face one by one, and restored his old appearance.

Instantly, people have a feeling that the mother can be smart to this point for the sake of her children.

This contrast must be supported by the professionalism of the deceased's mother when she pretends to be a lawyer.

At the same time, it also needs the murderer's acting skills to support, because he wants to show the previous face before the truth is revealed, and after the truth is revealed, show the other side.

This movie, whether in the structure of the screenwriter and the acting skills of the actors, is very qualified, suspense fans are addicted to watching it, and the Douban score is 8.8, which is very reasonable.

Let's take a look at "Disappearing Her".

In this movie, the role of the mother in "Invisible Guest" undertaken by the deceased's girlfriend can be said to be a very important part, and Ni Ni played it very well.

Chen Sicheng gave her the job of a theater company director, which made the rationality of the plot recognized by the audience.

When she found that her girlfriend could not be contacted, after investigation, she thought that the murderer killed her girlfriend, but could not find the body, could not file a case, so she asked the troupe's friends to cooperate in a play, creating a false impression that the murderer must tell the truth in order to survive, and finally, the murderer was fooled and said the location of the body.

The highlight of the whole film is also after Ni Ni knows the truth, and puts Ni Ni's relationship with the deceased's girlfriend from the time of reading to the present, so that everyone can understand why Ni Ni set up a bureau and how she set up a bureau.

Putting aside the similarity of the routine, from the perspective of shock, compared to "Invisible Guest", it is much weaker.

Because, the length of the movie, usually the truth that shocks everyone should be a point, not a ten-minute revelation, this rhythm, very similar to a TV series, not a movie.

In addition, Ni Ni used a fake ward to force the murderer to confess, this scene, Scarlett has seen in an American drama and a Korean drama, the routine is exactly the same, of course, the person lying in bed is different, and the person next to the murderer to confess is also different, so it cannot be said that it is plagiarism, it can only be said to be the same terrier.

(Because I didn't remember the names of these two dramas for a while, I didn't write the names, and after Scarlett found them, she would definitely write the names in the comment area.) ）

Chen Sicheng, as a director, screenwriter and producer who constantly tries in suspense films, constantly shows everyone in the movie the richness of his watching and strong ability to melt stems, thinking about it from another angle, in fact, it is also an advantage, at least he is studying hard, right?

Looking forward to the day when our directors can create suspense films that other directors can also learn to melt.

Of course, if you haven't seen "The Invisible Guest", in fact, it's good to go to the cinema to see it, and the double reversal and details of the movie itself, Scarlett will analyze in the next film review.