When "Disappearing Her" was a box office hit, another movie also rushed to the hot list, and this one she was even more mad
Who would have thought that the "fire" lit by "Disappearing Her" would still be very strong after burning for 16 days.
At present, the film's box office has reached nearly 3 billion, directly surpassing "Fast and Furious 8" and entering the top 20 box office lists in film history.
But while the box office was a hit, the film also caused a series of controversies.
For example, some loopholes in the plot design are more and more unbearable by the audience;
For example, the portrayal of female characters in the film, or demons, or seduction, is questioned about consuming women;
The most serious is the orientation for couples and love.
Because of part of the plot in the film, some viewers no longer believe in love after watching it.
These criticisms grew louder and louder, gradually pulling the rating of "Disappearing Her" to 6.5.
In fact, we don't have to care too much about these positive and negative evaluations.
"Disappearing Her" is a love suspense film on the surface, but it is essentially a commercial entertainment film.
Its highlight is the design of a series of ingenious tricks, coupled with handsome guys and beauties, the main focus is visual viewing.
If you want to forcibly connect with reality, or strictly infer cause and effect, then this movie must not withstand the details.
However, on top of this movie, there is another strange thing recently, but it is worth paying attention to.
When "Disappearing Her" was popular all over the country, another suspense blockbuster also quietly rushed to the hot list.
This is David Fincher's "Gone Girl".
As an old film 9 years ago, it even rushed to the 7th place on the Douban hot list for a while, which is really incredible.
Imitate? Plagiarize? Compare? Or what other reason?
In addition to the similar names of the two movies, the setting of the story is indeed similar -
The wife disappeared mysteriously, and the panicked husband ran to the police, and then involved all kinds of love and hate in the marriage.
But on top of similar stories, the look and feel of the two movies are completely different.
If you think that "Disappearing Her" Zhu Yilong is dark, then the heroine of "Disappearing Lover" will make your back chill for a long time.
After watching this movie, you will really question whether you want to get married or not.
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The beginning of the story of the film is almost the same as "Disappearing Her" -
On the day of the 5th wedding anniversary, the wife suddenly disappeared and the husband began to search wildly.
The beginning of this type of story is commonly found in various detective novels and legal programs.
The wife disappears, the husband is generally the first suspect, and the story often ends with "the husband is the murderer", such as the Hangzhou wife murder case.
"Gone Girl" did not escape this cliché.
In the process of searching for clues, the husband found a diary left by his wife, which recorded in detail the bits and pieces of the two years of marriage.
The "past line" of the film unfolds.
This line is also rather tedious at first glance.
The two literary youths met at the banquet, and the dry firewood met the fire, and soon entered the marriage hall.
However, after the passion, there is a relatively boring life.
As the husband lost his job, the conflict between the two grew more and more, until the husband made a move during an argument...
In the "Now Line" of the film, the husband calls the police, and the police intervene to investigate.
At home, they found wiped blood and sex panties in her husband's office.
The husband and sister also admitted to cheating on underage female students, and the film even spent a lot of time showing a cloud and rain scene between the two.
The two lines are put together, and the truth of the story is about to come out: the unemployed husband has an unbalanced mentality, cheats on a female student, and kills his wife in anger after being exposed.
For a suspense film, such a truth is really insulting to the audience's intelligence.
The screenwriter obviously won't settle for that, and she says the story "has sharp twists and unconventional rhythms."
Sure enough, halfway through the film, the reversal begins.
The wife was not killed, she just lost herself in married life, tired of seeing the bottom of life, so on the 5th wedding anniversary, she ran away from home, and before running away, she had already set up a situation and framed her husband.
She met her neighbors in advance and created her own victim persona through chat;
She invited pregnant women to her home, defrauded pregnant women into urine, and falsified the illusion that she was pregnant;
She forged hundreds of diaries in advance to fake the image of a domestic violence victim;
Before leaving, she laid out a scene of killing his wife.
When the pillow man starts calculating you, you can't resist even if you have three heads and six arms.
The male protagonist quickly fell into the vortex of public opinion.
Some people captured his smiling expression to prove that he was not so sad at all, some took intimate photos of him with other women, and there were fake rumors that he had an ambiguous relationship with his own sister.
Under great pressure, the male protagonist is on the verge of collapse.
At this point, the plot goes deeper again.
The male protagonist began to fight back, he found a lawyer to investigate and collect evidence, and found that his wife had a previous conviction.
She once framed her ex for raping herself, discrediting the other party; also played a rich second-generation boyfriend between the palms.
On the heroine's side, she began to reveal her perverted true appearance.
Disguised as being subjected to domestic violence, she came to the house of her rich second-generation ex-boyfriend to seek refuge, and then killed the other party in a passion.
All the plot implies one thing: the wife will sharpen the knife to her husband.
But the plot is reversed again, and this reversal is also the most clever place in the whole film.
After disappearing for more than a month, the wife finally returned to her husband, and all the charges of killing his wife were cleared.
I thought a new killing was about to begin, but I didn't expect life to calm down all of a sudden.
The husband and wife know that the other party has a ghost in his heart, but he just doesn't break it.
A wife's greatest revenge against her husband is not to take revenge with a knife in her hand.
Instead, stay by his side, cook him delicious meals, say thoughtful words, let him live in guilt all the time, and then become his own plaything.
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This ending is so penetrating, it's a wonderful metaphor for real married life.
How many couples have long been separated and dreamed in the same bed.
But the pressure of reality makes them still live together, play model couples in front of everyone, and torture each other to the point of whiteness.
It also reveals the worst part of marriage: your pillow person, perhaps the stranger you know best.
She may be a perfect woman with a successful career, or she may be a psychopathic murderer.
You think you're separated by a layer of window paper, but you're actually separated by a thick wall.
Imagine that you really loved each other, lips and teeth grinding, every inch of her skin is familiar to you, the moles on her body, you remember where.
But when you enter marriage, the passion is dissipated, and the face you loved so much slowly becomes blurred, and even that heart is no longer sincere, and there are intrigues and calculations written behind it.
When two people fall in love at first sight, the body will release a substance called phenylethylamine, and the peak concentration of this substance generally only lasts for 6 months to 4 years, which is just the time when ordinary people fall in love.
Human cells are completely renewed every 7 years, which is exactly the length of a "seven-year itch".
In other words, human beings themselves are not long-term animals, and unswerving love is against nature.
And human beings have to fight against instinct, survive 7 years, or even longer, to force themselves to love a stranger who has changed beyond recognition.
That's why "Gone Girl" makes people feel frustrated.
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The film also has a 1:1 replica of the reality version, that is, the marriage of the article and Ma Yili.
The article and Ma Yili came together when she filmed "Struggle", and they also saw each other at first sight, and they loved to die and live.
Later, after getting married, Ma Yili became the benefactor of the article.
The article not only burst with resources, but also set up a beloved wife by the way, once unique, becoming the first actor of the new generation, and connected to the olive branch handed over by Stephen Chow, Jiang Wen, Jet Li and other big coffee.
But at the peak, the marriage of the two went wrong.
After the passion, personality friction appears.
The article and Ma Yili are both strong people who often quarrel over trivial matters.
The two were originally a combination of "small man + big woman", but as the article rose to the top, this balance was broken and a rift appeared in the marriage.
Soon, the article derailed Yao Di was photographed by paparazzi, and the "Monday See Incident" broke out.
At this time, Ma Yili's choice was exactly the same as the choice of the heroine in the movie, she did not go to the knife, but chose the most gentle revenge.
Before the article derailed, she had actually obtained the news through the wire newspaper.
After the cheating was exposed, she stood by her husband's side for the first time and hit back all doubts with "although love is easy, marriage is not easy, and it is okay and cherished".
After the incident, Ma Yili did not rush to settle the account after the autumn, but continued to accompany the article and play the role of a good wife and wife.
She cooperated with the article to play the bloody drama of the marriage proposal, looking for relationships to help the article come back, and everyone felt that she chose to endure.
But after watching "Gone Lover", you will understand that Ma Yili is not enduring, but waiting for the moment.
We all know the story that followed.
In 2018, the heroine of that year's events, Yao Di, got married in a low-key manner, and the following year, Ma Yili announced a peaceful breakup with the article.
There is no bloody drama, no sword and shadow, but everyone with discerning eyes knows Ma Yili's thoughts: I would rather endure humiliation and burden and tie you up, than fulfill you.
After the two divorced, Ma Yili returned to filming and ushered in the second spring.
The article has become an outcast in the film and television industry, less than 40 years old is already old, isn't this a realistic copy of "Disappearing Lover"?
Now you probably understand why "Gone Lover" is more clever than "Disappearing Her".
"Disappearing Her" is a remake, and the story does have a real prototype, but the traces of stitching and adhesion are obvious.
In addition to giving people a constant feeling of orgasm, it does not provide any reference for real married life.
"Gone Girl" is different.
It doesn't have many reversals, and the sense of suspense is not so strong, but it is short and powerful every time.
Its final destination is not a subtle puzzle solution, but a cruel metaphor for real married life.
People who can't understand this film may feel that they are not powerful enough, not a group of speechless neuroses;
People who understand this film will fall into a long thought.
That endless stamina is so strong that almost no one around me wants to brush this film twice.
All in all, "Gone Girl" is a premium version of "Disappearing Her".
When can domestic suspense films make such a high level of work, it is really gratifying.
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