Praise is overwhelming, last night after sending a push, can't wait to buy tickets to see "Sharp Blade Out of the Sheath", some enthusiastic netizens suggested that "Knives out" be translated as: "Bright Sword", if Li Yunlong makes a cameo again, it will be more perfect.
Before the screening was hot, the reputation of "Sharp Blade Out of the Sheath" went all the way up after the premiere in Toronto, and rotten tomatoes media and audiences hit 90% + freshness.
IMDB is 8.1.
Douban has 8.4, slightly lower than the opening 8.6.
The cast is also the king of the explosion lineup, "007" Daniel Craig, "American Team" Chris Evans, "Horror Queen" Jamie Curtis, "Blade Runner 2049" "Joey" Anna de Armas, and veteran movie star Christopher Plummer and so on.
The director is Ryan Johnson, that is, he made "Star Wars 8" into that ghost, but after watching "Sharp Blade Out of the Sheath", I am sure that "Star Wars" is just for the right meal, and suspense and brain burning are his favorites.
Johnson is the brain-dead fan of the "Queen of Reasoning" and British writer Agatha Christie (Grandma), and the whole film is full of various homages, and I think grandma's name should be added to the screenwriting column.
I am also a fan of Grandma's books, she wrote more than 70 suspense novels in her lifetime, shaping the two immortal detective images of Poirot and Marple, and Grandma's complete works have been lying in my Kindle, and I can look at them twice when I have time.
If you want to say that this film is adapted from Grandma's work, I also believe it.
The classic Blizzard Villa \ Isolated Island model; and the struggle for inheritance, which is Grandma's favorite motive for killing, such as "Golf Course Doubt" is the strange death of a rich man, several people compete for a huge amount of family property; poisoning (morphine overdose is also a poison); the rich grudge, Although Grandma's readers are citizens, she hardly writes civilian stories, mostly write high society.
The most evil, obviously produced by Hollywood, but the whole film is full of a strong British atmosphere, in addition to the characters speak American English, you see the mansion below, where like in the United States, it is simply blood "Downton Abbey".
This movie can not be spoiled before watching, students who have not yet watched it, please stop here, the following I will be unbridled to clean up, and then emphasize the declaration of catching up with guests:
I! Yes! drama! penetrate!
Harlan Sloomby is a world-renowned crime novelist who has created countless mysteries and writings throughout his life. Yesterday he just passed his 85th birthday, and friends and family came to the luxurious mansion to congratulate him.
The next day, Harlan was found dead in the study, the cause of death was a throat cut, because the blood was very coherent, there was no sign of a fight at the scene, and everyone had evidence of not being at the scene, so the police preliminarily judged that it was suicide.
A week after the incident, the police brought together everyone in the Slomby family for questioning, including Harlan's personal nurse, Marta.
I won't say that the plot is particularly detailed (anyway, I have tacitly watched it), put a relationship diagram for everyone to recall.
The interrogation of the first twenty minutes showed a result: the seemingly xuanhe Slomby family was actually rotten, each pregnant with a ghost fetus, wanted to scrape money from the old man, and more or less had a motive for committing the crime.
In addition to the police, there was also a private investigator named Blank, who brought up a big doubt when he first appeared: no one knew who had ordered him to hire him, including Blank himself.
The first twenty minutes are all literary drama, and the director designed a "Rashomon" testimony, that is, what each person said and thought in his head was two sets of content, both of which were picked up for his own benefit, and concealed the ulterior motives, such as the youngest son Walter, who said that his father trusted himself, but actually wanted to fire him.
There is an interesting foreshadowing here, when the eldest daughter and daughter-in-law recall the birthday party, they say that they are the candles they blow around their father.
This two-sided and three-sided knife is presented to the audience, in other words, the audience knows more than the police detective.
The most important thing about this kind of suspense film is the word rhythm, and when the first small climax appears in more than 20 minutes, Marta has a strange disease, as long as she lies, she can't help but vomit, and the audience knows the truth of the night of the crime at this time. (Marta's fact of cutting the police at the same time is not a complete lie))
It turns out that Marta inadvertently injected Harlan with an overdose of morphine, and Harlan did not blame her, but instead helped create a crime scene that could be perfectly escaped, and used suicide to cover up Marta's manslaughter.
Here's the biggest mystery in the whole film: Why does Harlan help Marta so much? What exactly was his motive?
A week before his death, Harlan went to the lawyer to change his will, and the audience will later learn that hundreds of millions of dollars of tangible assets, as well as N billions of future intangible wealth (book royalties), will be left to Marta, a little nurse who has no blood relationship with Harlan.
Harlan saw through the hypocrisy of his family, they were all white-eyed wolves, and they would not give you a son when they died. (Don't consider why he is so cruel)
It can be inferred that that night, Harlan had already thought about committing suicide, and he could not have known in advance that Marta would inject morphine by mistake, so he simply went down the donkey and let her put on a play, so that he could deduce:
Harlan knew then that Marta hadn't killed him by mistake (the right medicine), the amount of injection was more than 30 times normal, and it didn't take a minute for the body to react, and Harlan didn't notice anything unusual, so he knew he wasn't poisoned.
So why would Harlan pretend he was poisoned? And on the surface, the exoneration plan he designed for Marta was very unreliable.
Let's not say that the action line is too long, each link may be flawed, just say that if morphine injection is overdose, even if Harlan commits suicide, the autopsy blood will be exposed, and Marta also has a problem that can't lie, the communication room boss can ask the truth, as a detective novelist who has been riding the rivers and lakes for decades, it is impossible to think of such a big bug.
There was only one possibility: he wanted Marta to be caught by the police.
Marta is caught, the police arrest her for murder, and the family must have cheered, because if convicted, the will will be annulled. But as soon as the autopsy results come out, it is found that Harlan does not have morphine in his blood, which proves that suicide is established, and Marta can successfully exonerate and inherit the property.
With Harlan's old calculations, he must have known that once the will was announced, the family would be embarrassed by Marta, and after this arrest and whitewashing, the anger of the family was invisibly released, and there was no reason to prevent Marta from inheriting the inheritance.
All this was conceived by Harlan between the electric light and flint, worthy of the old fox crime writer of the bull fork, even the last moment of life to design a mystery case, but also with the throat slit this hardcore suicide, so that the police can not scratch their heads, really love the cause!
Although it is very clever, there are still artificial traces, in fact, Harlan can completely let Marta leave immediately, without the series of mysterious operations behind, Marta must be caught faster.
But this is a suspense drama, and it is necessary to make a proper mystery, otherwise it will not look good, including the drop of blood on Marta's shoe, which is purely designed by the director to confuse the audience.
Later, The appearance of Ranson seems to be a dazzling and fierce operation, but in fact, it is more to render Marta's personality or virtue, he did not expect that Marta was such a competent nurse, just by feeling the density of liquid can distinguish morphine and painkillers.
He also did not expect that Marta would risk being caught to save Fran, and that human nature can sometimes be as bad as eighteen levels of hell, and sometimes it can be full of divinity, which Ranson, the villain, can't imagine.
This story is a bit like the recently popular "script kill", I played it once two weeks ago, and if there was a similar script, it would be cool to draw a us team character.
The US team changed Wei Guangzheng in "Reunion", talking roughly, but it was broken, I roughly counted, he should have said No less than twenty times Shit.... (US team chaos) Language!!
The most amusing thing is that after he said that he told everyone to go to Eat Shit, he forgot who replied: I don't eat a bite!
By the end, Marta inherited hundreds of millions of family property, and the children did not fish a word, here I think there will be a big reversal, will everything be planned by Marta long ago? Including the strange problem of her vomiting as soon as she tells a lie?
In fact, I think the director gave a detail in the end, which is an indirect reversal, Marta wrote "My House, My Rules, My Coffee" on the cup she took on the balcony, and this cup has been placed on the old man's table, at this time Marta is safely holding it, like the new owner of the Fortune Building.
In addition to the murder plot, there are also distinct political metaphors in "Sharp Blade Out of the Sheath", everyone at the birthday party is discussing the topic of "immigration", the eldest son-in-law says that immigrants should abide by the law, illegal immigrants should get out of the United States, the third daughter compares the Virgin, and feels that those who should come should not refuse, "Everyone has the right to pursue happiness!" This represents several currents of thought in the United States, and the eldest son-in-law should allude to Trump who built the wall (designing the character as a cheating scumbag).
A little deeper, it's more subversive.
Why would Harlan Sloomby give the family fortune to a low-level girl? Because the elite class represented by the three children has become untouchable, it has become a parasite of the family, simply, to format and restart at the bottom.
Isn't this an agrarian revolution, a radical change in the relations of production, or is it a bit of socialism with American characteristics?
Of course, this is my personal "over", and you don't agree with it when I fart.
In general, although the logic of some points is slightly far-fetched, "Sharp Blade Out of the Sheath" is still very worth watching, and the annual introduction of the top ten is no problem, even if it is put into the world, there is not a suspense film with such a precise rhythm for many years.
Although there are thousands of turns, the main idea still falls on the "right way on earth".
Now there is a popular saying, called "between kindness and correctness, please choose kindness", I think many students have a misunderstanding of this sentence, as if for the sake of kindness can ignore the truth, in fact, this is not the case.
Each of the elites in Blade Out of the Sheath has a self-consistent, correct set of words, and the correctness of words does not lead to the goodness of behavior; and Marta has no intellectual clever words, she only knows that a dying person needs help, even if she understands that if she saves Fran, she will be in trouble, and she will have to save.
This is called choosing kindness, and her most "correct" approach should be to see death and not save.
Kindness is a concrete practice of behavior at a time, not lip service, which is not called kindness, but good at debate.
May everyone be truly, kind.
As the saying goes: The heart of heaven is benevolent, and the right path is not alone.
See you later.