Recently, the domestic suspense film "Secret Visitor" launched on May 1 was accused by netizens of "making things up", and the Douban score also fell to the "failing line" of 5.7 points, which disappointed suspense film lovers.
In fact, suspense films pay the most attention to the foundation, in addition to the need to integrate a lot of logical reasoning, clever editing skills, but also to ensure that the entire story setting will not be easily overturned.
So, today to bring you a suspense crime film with a good reputation -
The Best of Innocence
The film is directed by the Spanish suspense master Paul, and the Douban score is 8.8 points, which is the same as the "Invisible Guest" directed by Paul.
I believe that most people who have seen "The Invisible Guest" have recommended this film to those around them, and as the highest rated suspense/crime film, it received a good box office and word of mouth at that time.
And this time Paul and the original team of "The Invisible Guest" filmed "The Best of Innocence", what kind of subversive story will happen?
In fact, "The Best of Innocence" and "The Invisible Guest" have a commonality, that is, the screenwriter is particularly good at using the coincidence of the script and the speculation of human nature to tell the play full of black suspense.
The protagonist Matt, like most children, is not rich in his family, but he is still happy.
But on that day, he wanted to try to stop a fight, but instead of manslaughter, he killed Danny during the fight and was sentenced to four years in prison.
And his life, there was also an inflection point again: the first time he served his sentence, his parents died in a car accident; after he was released from prison, his brother Isma suddenly died of cerebral hemorrhage and died in the courtyard of his home.
Fortunately, time is gradually erasing Matt's pain, and he places hope in his wife Olivia.
When he thought he and his wife could finally live in the beautiful bubble he had woven, a phone call punctured the dream again.
The wife received a phone call saying that she was going to Germany for a business trip, but the wife could not get through the phone, and even the name of the hotel she gave was false.
After his wife disappeared, Matt began to receive nude videos from his wife's mobile phone, and a naked man next to him was stroking his wife's body.
Matt is indignant, is it possible that the wife who has been in love for 7 years has cheated?
He investigates his wife through a private investigator, but finds that she has not gone abroad at all.
Matt wondered what his wife was hiding from him.
Just when the whereabouts of the wife are unknown, the suicide of the nun Maria on the other side is involved in a phone call, and all the clues point to the wife Olivia.
After some investigation by the police, at this time, these seemingly innocent clues were slowly intertwined.
And a dirty pornographic deal is gradually emerging.
An elderly prostitute showed police a photo he had taken at a strip club 10 years earlier, showing Matt's wife, Olivia, and the nun Maria who fell from the building, a prostitute and pimp from a strip club.
It turned out that Olivia's original name was Candice, and the nun Maria also used a pseudonym, and her original name was Emma.
In the club, they were just a plaything for the club owner, Avanier, who was not only ravaged, raped, and had to dance with alcohol every day, but even cheated them out of their meager rewards and confiscated their passports to prevent them from sneaking away.
The distraught Avanier also expanded into a prostitution business – sex parties.
At the party, Aniwal ruled that all girls were minors; almost nothing was forbidden.
The crowds were wealthy businessmen and politicians from all over the world, wearing masks to hide their identities at the banquet, and in this lascivious orgy, the underage girls provided them with playthings and collected videos inside.
It's hard to imagine what a man would do when he wasn't bound by his face.
They could no longer bear all this, and Ovilia, Maria, and Kimi decided to betray Avanil, but the three of them had to abandon Kimi and escape because Kimi was out to pick up the guests.
Avanil was then killed, and Ovilia and Maria took their passports and videotapes of the numbered prostitutes, changed their names and surnames, and buried the secrets back to life.
But on a phone call that day, Olivia's past was back.
Avanier's former Mazai Ibai joined forces with retired police officer Rodrigo to use her past to kidnap Olivia.
On the other hand, Matt travels to his wife's location through a private detective, but is attacked by Ibai and admitted to the hospital, and then learns of Rodrigo and Ibai's deaths, all of which point to Matt.
Although Matt seems to be out of the whole case, in reality, everything is inseparable from him.
The screenwriter weaves the intertwining lines of the characters so large through flashbacks, interludes, parallel space montages, cross multiple montages, confessions and other narrative techniques that the murderer who controls the entire case appears until the end, which shows the depth of the screenwriter's skill.
Even if the narrative clues seem scattered at the beginning, under the high-energy direction of each episode, each clue also leads the direction of the story, and 8 episodes in one breath are not a word, which is the difference between "The Best of Innocence" and other suspense films.
It is worth mentioning that there is no shortage of second-person confessions of the main line in "The Best of Innocence", which gives the characters a full and three-dimensional personality, immersively integrates into the surroundings of the main line characters, and makes the audience have a more sense of substitution.
Matt – His life is torn apart by manslaughter, hiding his past from his wife and the crowd;
Olivia – witnesses her mother dying in front of her, reveals from an orphanage, is down the streets, is recruited by Anival, and hides her prostitute status from her husband Matt and her unforgettable experience;
Lorena - 7 years old witnessed her father's suicide, with her own efforts to become the youngest policeman, bent on seeking justice;
Mary – During the day, Mary is a good nun, and at night, Emma indulges in lust with married men, burying her past as a prostitute;
Marcos – a member of the Special Crimes Group, ostensibly a loving father with a harmonious family, in fact hides from his daughter his past of raping minors and killing prostitutes;
Kimi, a former sister of Ovilia, was betrayed and abused by Ovilli, and she is full of hatred for Olivia, who abandons her;
Jamie – As Danny's father, he hates Matt for killing his son, Matt's joy and sorrow affect his every move, he hides his revenge plan from his wife, and gradually designs traps to punish Matt;
In the film, the biggest attraction is the secrets that everyone hides.
At the end, you will find that the whole film conveys a main theme: when you have some unbearable past, will you choose to say goodbye to the past, or will you live forever in regret?
Everyone makes different choices: Matt and Lorena choose to face the past and start over; Olivia and Rodrigo choose to cover up; Danny's mother chooses to forgive; Kimi hates and punishes each other; Danny's father hates the past and kills because of hate...
Looking back at the title of the play "The Best of Innocence", innocence is also guilt, guilt or "innocence", maybe everyone is not a black and white individual.
The dark Easter egg that reverses at the end of the film also confirms this, although it is unexpected, but it is also expected.
In human nature, as long as there is sunshine, there will be shadows, and the evil of human nature is in a thought, and the imperfect human setting seems to make the whole drama add a lot of points.
And for Avanil, who pushes fragile women such as Olivia, Maria, and Kimi into the endless abyss, no matter what the point of view, he is always the most heinous villain, hoping that no one in the world will take pleasure in raping girls again.
In addition, "The Best of Innocence" has resources to watch in Renren Film and Television, and friends who like suspense films can join their favorites.
Ps: The scale of the film is larger and bloodier, timid friends please be careful.