Introduction: "The people who repair the car are solving the case, and the people who solve the case are repairing the car." ”
"The Pursuer" is a black humor suspense film directed by Cao Baoping and starring Liu Ye, Zhang Yi, Wang Ziwen and so on. The film is based on the 2009 incident of "Liupanshui Peasant Five Brothers Pursuing The Murderer for Thousands of Miles", the prototype event is that a master of Kaimo was brutally killed, and his brother embarked on a journey of chasing the murderer in order to find the murderer and help him avenge.
Director Cao Baoping made a large degree of changes on this basis, retaining only the framework of the incident - Mo's master was killed. In order to make the storyline more dramatic, the protagonist of the film changes from a good brother to a fellow villager, the motivation of the character changes from revenge to clear the grievances, Song Lao'er is the owner of the auto repair shop in the town, he is suspected of being the murderer of the cat brother, in order to prove his innocence, he embarked on the road of pursuing the murderer.
According to Brother Cat's lost motorcycle, he suspects that Wang You, an unemployed youth, is a murderer, but as Dong Xiaofeng's perspective unfolds, he gradually uncovers the truth of the incident. It turns out that The cat brother was killed by mistake, and Dong Xiaofeng's target is actually Song Lao'er, and a series of ironic plots unfold from here. The whole film revolves around this absurd murder case, and with this dramatic coincidence of "no coincidence, no book", the story has a vigorous vitality.
The film is narrated in chapters from multiple perspectives, and the whole film is divided into five chapters, each of which is titled Liyu in Yunnan.
1. Huan Bao - a fool, a fool, a tendon, describing the character of Song Lao'er. In this chapter, the audience is introduced to a suspenseful case of tracking down the murderer, and the perspective of Wang Youquan in the second chapter is introduced.
2. Little - no shape, referring to the little bastard Wang Youquan. This chapter focuses on the story of the small town young Wang Youquan and his girlfriend, and at the same time, as the story unfolds, the speculation of Song Lao'er in the first chapter is completely denied, which is a functional supplement to the first chapter, and acts as a role in carrying forward the upper and lower chapters, leading to Dong Xiaofeng in the third chapter.
3. Soil thief - the variety is not pure, corresponding to the five-star killer Dong Xiaofeng. This chapter tells the story of Dong Xiaofeng's murder process as a killer, with strong black humor elements, and at the same time, the first two paragraphs are supplemented by Dong Xiaofeng's perspective, connecting the whole picture of the whole event for us. The first three chapters are unfolded from the perspective of the three protagonists, echoing each other and interlacing, restoring an absurd and bizarre event for the audience.
4. Disorderly criticism of hemp - disorderly and disorderly. Refers to the chaotic scene where three chapters meet. The same event is looped on different people, each person's perspective is a piece of the puzzle, when the film develops to the end, all the stories interspersed and intersect, and finally become a complete picture.
5. Chicken fir - a mushroom. The original meaning is a kind of fungus in Yunnan, and then used in an angry context, at the end of the film, on the surface, the murderer was ambushed, Song Lao'er was wronged, it was a kind of reunion ending, but in fact, Dong Xiaofeng was just a killer, and the forces behind it were not eradicated, but the film did not reveal the whereabouts of these people, and the culprit behind the scenes was still at large.
The entire film tells the story in a way that is intertwined with three threads and overlapping multiple perspectives, placing the tangled side of the characters' inner troubles under the appearance of ease, forming a unique humorous temperament.
The director places the narrative space in a small county town in Yunnan Province, without too much modification of the story line interference, and human nature is more straightforward and more modified. The film analyzes the selfishness of human nature, and the choice of the three protagonists of Song Lao'er, Wang Youquan and Dong Xiaofeng on the edge of good and evil finally makes the story run out of control, and the motivation of each character seems to be because of "love".
Song Lao'er went after the murderer in order not to let his son raise his head in the village, Wang Youquan helped Song Lao'er in order to have a better future for himself and his girlfriend, and Dong Xiaofeng became a killer in order to make money with his girlfriend to buy a house in the provincial city. It seems that the motivations of each character have been "rationalized", but in fact, they are exposing the spiritual core of human nature.
The film is very particular about sound design, in the first chapter, Song Lao'er feels that he is being followed on the way back from selling the pigs, the ringtones in the background music and the vigilant eyes of Song Lao'er, which seems very nervous, and when presented in the third chapter from the perspective of Dong Xiaofeng, although the same soundtrack is used, but because of the protagonist's character actions, it is funny and funny, and the director uses the same background music to express a completely different atmosphere in the same paragraph.
The title of the film is "The Pursuer Also", which is actually a game process between the "murderer" and the "pursuer". "The people who repair the car are solving the case, and the people who solve the case are repairing the car." The first chapter of the film lays the groundwork for the line of the police station, the police officer of the police station is a double bachelor of the University of Political Science and Law, but it has not played its function in the whole process of investigating the case, full of irony.
It is worth noting that the copy of the photo of Wang Youquan and his girlfriend in the hands of the murderer was actually searched by the police, at the end of the film Dong Xiaofeng just pulled out a knife and was shot by the police, when Song Lao'er went to find Gui Brother alone when there was no policeman, the composition used the door frame to separate the two, representing the opposition and estrangement of the two people's positions, combined with Gui Brother's sentence "You blocked the financial road of the whole village, the whole town, the whole county and even the whole province", can't help but think about it. The police in the film are not really "pursuers", on the contrary, the marginal characters in the small county are real "pursuers", which seem absurd and ridiculous, but they are so close to reality, full of irony.