Movie: "Disappearing Her", the haze under the box office explosion, a fly in the ointment

"Preach in words. - Tang Tears"

The suspense movie "Disappearing Her".

The box office explosion is a visible fact, and the rapid decline of ratings and word of mouth is also an eye-catching fact.

This is, of course, a fly in the ointment.

This genre of films started from a niche and gradually evolved into a popular theme.

But except for a very small number of works, there are very few box office and word-of-mouth collectors.

It's harder to call it rising.

Early years "C+ Detective", "B+ Detective".

With a box office of more than 20 million, it is already a leader in the suspense genre.

In the 10s, "Master of Hypnosis" and "Master of Memory" exceeded 200 million, "Scorching Sun" exceeded 300 million, "Detective Chinatown" jumped 800 million, the second part broke 3 billion, the third part broke 4 billion, and "Matchless" reached more than 1 billion.

Of course, strictly speaking, the police and bandit crime of "Scorching Sun" is greater than suspense, the comedy color of "Detective Chinatown" is more than the suspense background, and "Matchless" also has the factor of borrowing Hong Kong-style commercial police movies and top casts.

In terms of pure suspense type movies, there is still a long way to go.

This "Disappearing Her", from the expectation before its release, is very similar to Chen Zhengdao's "Secret Visitor", and even the word-of-mouth trend is particularly similar, and the film involves script, narrative, clue arrangement, skills, art, performance and many other links, any link is difficult to become a classic.

The so-called haze mainly refers to the serious decline at the word-of-mouth level.

Chen Zhengdao's "The Secret Visitor".

There are powerful sound, light, shadow techniques and performance bonuses, but it is inevitable to fail the ending.

The movie tells the story of a rich family, a family of four, father, mother, daughter and son, and a driver who briefly lost his memory lives in the basement.

Where is the suspense?

The complex composition of a family of four, whether the driver is loyal or traitorous, behind each heart, what kind of purpose is being promoted.

The school bus accidentally fell off a cliff, the father lost his biological son, adopted his son's classmate as a stepson, the daughter is the child of the ex-wife, and the current wife is the mother of another unfortunate child.

This is a family without kinship, but with a pretend sweetness.

The story is actually good.

But the fatal point is that the purpose of forming such a family is only to awaken the conscience of the driver who caused the accident, hoping that he will confess his guilt and turn himself in.

From all the ruthless, to the end, no one is dark.

This feeling made many viewers who had their appetites adjusted by the previous information step on the air and were so uncomfortable that they wanted to vomit blood.

And then feedback to the box office and word of mouth.

In fact, this problem is easy to solve.

In such a big battle, there should definitely be a role to "back the pot", and the harmless people and animals are actually the best candidates.

Just add a slightly heavyweight reversal.

That is, the fall of the school bus off the cliff, ostensibly an accident, in fact is a conspiracy that lasts for months, and everything that seems to happen unintentionally is the result of careful calculations by Yu Qiao, including the location of parking, the timing of smoking, and Chen Xiaoqi's random requirements, which are mixed with various emotions such as resentment, pain, fear and fear, regret, and helplessness.

Although this design is slightly dark, there is no problem from the perspective of the suspense art of the film.

On the other hand, it will add a lot of speculative details and clues to the movie, and whether it is a conspiracy or an accident, the truth will always be known only to Yu Qiao.

You can also add further temptations, suspicions and repetitions between Kwok Fucheng and Duan Yihong, and the plot tension will be more sufficient, and even make the movie leap to the "masterpiece".

But the result I saw was finally a kick in the door.

It is also difficult to speculate why the director's deduction of the suspense design stops at the original ending of the movie.

Back to this "Disappearing Her".

The only movies released at the same time were "I Love You! " and "Don't Call Me "God of Gamblers", both of which have no commercial value, so even if the movie's reputation has fallen rapidly, it almost occupies the best schedule of this summer file, and has no opponents in two weeks.

So the final box office data must be considerable.

But for both Chen Sicheng and Zhu Yilong, this is not good news.

Chen Sicheng's "Detective Chinatown" series, the box office has repeatedly rushed, but the reputation has gradually fallen, the reputation of "Manslaughter 2" is also obviously weak, and the reputation of "Mozart in Outer Space" has collapsed, and Zhu Yilong has just set a new high in word of mouth and commercial box office with "Life Events", and it is still necessary to further consolidate the foundation.

For both of them, the importance of word of mouth is actually greater than commercial box office data.

The logic is obvious.

Commercial box office and quality reputation are two sides of the same coin, and both for directors and actors, they need to maintain a certain degree of balance, otherwise it will be difficult to sustain.

Of course, in terms of negatives, Chen Sicheng bore the brunt, and Zhu Yilong, as an actor, was relatively less affected.

As for the problem of the film itself, it was not possible to watch it as planned for various reasons.

Only talk about appearances, not unfold.

In terms of domestic suspense movies.

Audiences are growing, and filmmakers still have to work hard.

The movie "Disappearing Her".

Despite the schedule advantage and good business performance, the reputation has not been as expected.

It's a pity.