Movies worth watching N times mostly fall into the following two situations:
1, too classic;
2, there is a mystery.
Tomato has seen many movies many times, but the most worthy of domestic films is not one of the movies that are worth n brushes and do not have -
It's "Looking for a Gun."
Douban 7.7, Lu Chuan's debut; Jiang Wen and Tranquility lead.
There are so many bragging gimmicks to brag about, but none of them are reasons why it's worth n brushes.
The real reason is this: the film's hidden sexual metaphors, plot hints, and Easter egg endings.
Maybe you have seen "Finding the Gun" and even clearly remember the plot, but after listening to Tomato's analysis today, you will find that there is another horrible horror truth hidden in the story of "Finding the Gun"!
Let's first review the synopsis of the story of "Visible to the Naked Eye": Jiang Wen plays the male protagonist named Ma Shan, who is an ordinary policeman in a border town.
Boring work tasks, tense husband and wife relationships, boring small town life, Ma Shan's life could have been seen at a glance.
But this day of excitement came, Ma Shan stall!
His police gun was lost, along with three more bullets.
The missing pistol was likely to turn three bullets into three murders, and Ma Shan instantly felt five thunderbolts!
He vaguely remembered wearing a gun to his sister's wedding, when he was drunk and drunk, and the pistol was probably lost at that time.
Quickly follow the clues to locate the three suspects who may have stolen the gun:
A. Liu stuttering, who sells lamb powder. This man Ma Shan is not familiar with him, and his mysterious and mysterious days are always hanging around Ma Shan;
B. Businessman Zhou Xiaogang. Among the people who sent Ma Shan home that day was Zhou Xiaogang, who had never had a good feeling for speculative drilling;
C. First love Li Xiaomeng. She was once Ma Shan's girlfriend but later married to a foreign country, and now she has returned to the town to become Zhou Xiaogang's adoptive lover.
Among the three people, Ma Shan felt that Zhou Xiaogang was the most suspicious.
Ma Shan looked for an opportunity to block Zhou Xiaogang and searched his car, but found nothing. At this time, the clues about the gun were also temporarily interrupted.
After losing his gun, Ma Shan trembled all day, and in the end, he reported the fact of losing his gun to the leader.
Only this time, the town's police station fried pan.
The police chief not only stripped Ma Shan of his uniform, but also ordered him to retrieve his gun within a few days.
However, Ma Shan's gun hunt was stuck in a state of stalemate.
He followed Zhou Xiaogang, but apart from discovering that the latter was secretly running a fake distillery, he did not find any clues about the police gun;
He also has to deal with a noisy wife, who has always thought that her husband is cheating on his ex-girlfriend, and her chatter is even more troublesome to Ma Shan.
In the end, ma Shan and the police chief were most worried about something!
Someone in the town was shot.
The person is Ma Shan's ex-girlfriend Li Xiaomeng, and the gun is Ma Shan's missing police gun.
In the murder case, Ma Shan was originally the first suspect and was directly detained by the police station.
But soon, Zhou Xiaogang, who had raised Li Xiaomeng, appeared, and he was an eyewitness to the shooting.
According to Zhou Xiaogang's account, the person who killed Li Xiaomeng was a strange person wearing a raincoat, and this person was definitely not Ma Shan!
Ma Shan cleared his suspicions, but he did not give up the investigation.
The person who stole his police gun and the person who killed Li Xiaomeng must be the same person. Ma Shan believes that the murderer came for Zhou Xiaogang, who is only interested in profit.
As long as Zhou Xiaogang is guarded, the murderer will definitely appear.
Ma Shan had a plan.
He first imprisoned Zhou Xiaogang by deception, and then pretended to be Zhou Xiaogang, and went to the train station to buy tickets and pretended to run.
Sure enough, the murderer was hooked.
When he shot Ma Shan with a gun, Ma Shan also found that the murderer was the haunted Liu Stutter.
Liu's stuttering family once died drinking fake wine made by Zhou Xiaogang.
On the day of the wedding, he took advantage of the chaos to steal Ma Shan's gun and began to take revenge, but he did not succeed in thinking of a bad teacher, and accidentally killed Li Xiaomeng, The lover that Zhou Xiaogang had adopted.
In the end, Ma Shan fought for his life and caught the murderer Liu Stuttering.
And he himself was killed in the line of duty.
The whole film is finished.
The above is the plot that Tomato saw when he first watched "Looking for a Gun", and I believe this is also the story that most viewers see. Maybe the story is a little simple, but the plot is very gripping.
Coupled with the strong team in front of and behind the scenes, the Douban 7.7 of "Looking for a Gun" is also reasonable.
However, if you think so, it is really too one-sided.
As Tomato said earlier, clever tubes brush this work twice, and will find that the name "Search" itself hides a strong metaphor for "human nature", in Jiang Wen's films, the concept of the gun always appears repeatedly, and mostly represents the wildness and dignity of men. The process of losing a gun and finding a gun is the process of a man's self-redemption.
Then you will discover a surprising secret - the murderer and the police gun thief are actually Ma Shan himself!
Ma Shan was already insane, and it was his split personality who stole "his" police gun and shot Li Xiaomeng.
As those who have seen the movie recall, Tomato said that there are three reasons for Masan's schizophrenia.
First, in the film, Lu Chuan uses a lot of subjective shots to hint at Ma Shan's abnormality.
These first-angle shots are fast-forward and dizzy, and at first Tomato thought that Jiang Wen's personality style was too heavy to affect the director, but when he brushed it second, he found that this was intentional.
In broad daylight, Ma Shan will see his son give him clues to solve the case on the roof, and will also have auditory hallucinations to mistakenly think that Li Xiaomeng is calling him.
The "Ma Shan Catches the Thief" bridge section suddenly inserted in the film seems to have no head and no brain, but it is actually Ma Shan's subjective imagination.
By this time he was already in a serious hallucination, a bicycle would even appear in front of his eyes out of thin air, and he rode a bicycle to chase the thief for fifty kilometers and did not even feel tired at all. These are all very abnormal story segments.
Second, the wife may have witnessed the murder of her husband Ma Shan.
On the night that Ma Shan confessed to his wife that he had thrown the gun, the couple went to sleep separately after a night of talking.
However, not long after, Ma Shan had a strange dream, dreaming that he took advantage of the night to go to Zhou Xiaogang's villa where Li Xiaomeng was raised. As a result, the next day, Li Xiaomeng's body was found.
In Tomato's view, Ma Shan was not dreaming at all, but jingfen nocturnal and killed Xiao Meng.
After the incident, Ma Shan was detained at the police station, and when his wife came to visit, Ma Shan asked if he had been out that night. He was not impressed.
And the wife's answer is: You did not have to be in bed for a while.
What Ma Shan did was sleepwalking and killing people.
That night, when Ma Shan got up at night, he saw his wife washing her face, and in the face of Ma Shan's figure, his wife showed an extremely complicated expression. It is likely that Ma Shan went out in a trance to kill people, and was witnessed by his wife who was following him the whole time.
Third, the "real murderer" Liu Stuttering is Ma Shan's split personality.
Ma Shan had seen Liu stutter twice, and for this strange and familiar man, Ma Shan's conversation with him could be described as a donkey's lips not on the horse's mouth.
From a superficial plot point of view, this character is completely a dispensable chicken rib character in the early stage. And the sudden self-portrait of a murderer in the later period is very sudden.
And the ironclad evidence that Liu Jieba does not exist at all is the end of the film.
Ma Shan was shot twice by Liu Stutter, and the bullets in the police gun were finished, and at this time Ma Shan locked himself and Liu Stutter tightly together in handcuffs.
However, when the police arrived, only Ma Shan himself was lying on the ground, and there was no so-called Liu Stuttering.
Moreover, at this time, After being shot, Ma Shan actually stood up straight, suggesting that his soul was out of the box.
After discovering such a dark line, you will find that "Gun Hunt" has completely turned into another brand new psychological thriller story!
The middle-aged Ma Shan accidentally met his ex-girlfriend Xiao Meng when attending the wedding, but found that his former goddess had now become someone else's plaything.
Perhaps it was the burden of life and the scene in front of him that drove Ma Shan crazy, and he had serious hallucinations and even a refined personality.
Ma Shan's jingfen personality is named "Liu Stuttering", he hates fellow countryman Zhou Xiaogang and his ex-girlfriend Li Xiaomeng, so this jingfen personality "steals the police gun, kills Xiaomeng", and the whole criminal process is so that even Ma Shan himself does not know.
In the end, the deranged Ma Shan completely fell into madness, and the two personalities entered a state of mutual beating.
"Liu Stuttering" shot and killed Ma Shan, but in fact, the latter could not bear the pressure and committed suicide in fear of guilt.
And his soul was liberated at the last moment.
The design of "Find gun" is very similar to "Fight Club", but it is N times more obscure than the latter.
So much so that when you brush this movie alone, you will only feel that some plots and shots can't be scratched, but you don't realize the hidden plot that makes people goosebumps!
(Stills from Fight Club)
The analysis of Ma Shan's fine points has never been confirmed by director Lu Chuan or male protagonist Jiang Wen.
However, the eerie and unexplained scenes in the movie all prove that Ma Shan is the real murderer.
This is the reason why "Looking for a Gun" is worth n brushes.
This is also the unique charm of the movie.
(Rotten Tomatoes Movie Editorial Department: Ji Ou)