Recently, a new Hong Kong film, "The Writer's Lie", attracted the attention of Pigo.
Although the popularity has not been high before, many netizens on Douban are not stingy praise.
The most "powerful" in the film's starring list is the post-80s Japanese model Matsuoka Rina, who is charming in the film.
The film is 90 minutes long, and the first half is a very ordinary plot advancement, but with the occurrence of a murder in the middle, the pace of the second half begins to accelerate and enters the suspense mode, and the story is reversed and reversed, which is very surprising.
The story is that the male protagonist is called Xu Zhe, a romance novel writer who wrote a book called "Those Years, My BoyHood Era." The book, which describes in detail the detailed process of his and his wife from acquaintance, love to union, is full of love for his wife between the lines, which makes thousands of flower girls intoxicated.
But in reality, it is a different look, Xu Zhe's wife Tang Qiqi was originally a nurse, after the two got married, she quit her job and hid at home all day playing with her mobile phone.
Most of the housework must be done by Xu Zhe, and even the forms signed for the children's kindergarten must be done by Xu Zhe.
Therefore, Xu Zhe's family life is not happy, and the marriage crisis will break out at any time.
It is said that flies do not sting seamless eggs, and the sudden intrusion of a woman brings the couple's marriage to an end.
Because Xu Zhe had a lot of real estate, he took out a suite upstairs from his residence to rent, so a charming goddess named Chen Qianqing quickly hooked up with Xu Zhe.
At first, Xu Zhe and Qianqing were like glue, but Qianqing's appetite was very large, and she began to frequently ask Xu Zhe for money, and Xu Zhe gradually became overwhelmed and decided to cut off contact with her.
But the trouble followed, it turned out that every time Xu Zhe and Qianqing were together, they were filmed by the other party, and she threatened to make the video public, in order to extort Xu Zhe 10 million sealing fees, and the deadline was to pay within 5 days.
Xu Zhe had no choice but to agree to go to the bank to withdraw money, but on the night of the agreed payment, Qianqing fell from her own building and fell to her death.
The film moves from here to high-energy reasoning, and according to the foreshadowing of the previous plot, it is easy to think that Xu Zhe is the murderer.
The police also determined that in the process of interrogating Xu Zhe, Xu Zhe quickly revealed the process of his adultery with Qianqing and confessed that he had pushed her downstairs and fell to her death.
But Senior Inspector Su Weixiong felt that something was wrong, because Xu Zhe looked like he was lying when he explained the crime process.
The police officer who was the first to appear at the time of the incident also confirmed that he only saw Xu Zhe present after Qianqing fell from the building, which means that he had alibi.
The only explanation for being able to prove that he was not present but admit to killing people was that Xu Zhe wanted to shield the real murderer, who was most likely his wife.
Therefore, Su Weixiong decided to investigate Xu Zhe's wife Qi Qi, and soon got new clues.
Clue one, Xu Zhe's home found Qi Qi's diary, which contained her motives for the crime.
Clue two, the camera head in Xu Zhe's home captured a video of her trying to jump off the building with a child and xu Zhe stopped her.
Clue three, Tang Qiqi's psychologist Miao Ziqin confirmed that she had received treatment for psychological problems.
These three clues all pointed out that Tang Qiqi may be the real murderer, but because there was no strong evidence, Xu Zhe and Qiqi could only be released, and the police sent someone to follow them.
Qi Qi knew very well in his heart that Xu Zhe used the "signature handwriting" on the kindergarten curriculum to forge the motive for the murder in the diary, and then ran to turn himself in, and his "pretend scapegoat" was nothing more than trying to push the charge of murder to himself.
Enraged, Qi Qi kidnapped Xu Zhe to a timber factory and tried to force Xu Zhe to sign a will that would leave all the property in his name to her.
Under the confrontation, the husband and wife also showed each other, and the truth behind the scenes began to surface.
It turned out that the female tenant Qianqing was hired by Qiqi, the purpose was to lure Xu Zhe to cheat and take a video to prove it.
As long as Qi Qi makes the video public, Xu Zhe will be discredited.
The reason why Qi Qi did this was that she read the book "Those Years, My BoyHood Era" written by Xu Zhe. Seeing that he portrayed the marriage feelings of the two so well in the book, the huge gap between reality and ideals made Qi Qi very sick, and he decided to unveil Xu Zhe's hypocrisy to the world and let him reveal his original form.
However, after recording the video, Qianqing refused to give the video to Qi Qi, but used it to blackmail Xu Zhe, which Qi Qi did not expect.
Xu Zhe knew that once he signed the will, he would be killed by Qiqi, so he resolutely refused to sign the will. At this time, Qi Qi was already mad, and she tied Xu Zhe to a wooden board and wanted to use a chainsaw to split his body.
Fortunately, the police arrived in time to stop Qiqi's crime and rescue Xu Zhe.
In the end, the police identified Qi Qi as Qianqing's killer and arrested her and imprisoned her.
But it is not until the end of the movie that the truth of Qianqing's murder is revealed - the person who killed Qianqing is actually Xu Zhe, who the audience first thought of.
It turned out that Xu Zhe was a science and engineering man before he became a writer, and he changed his writing to romance novels because he was unspeakably famous for writing detective reasoning. Therefore, after deciding to kill Qianqing, who asked for a huge amount of money, he spent the precious 5 days to make a careful plan.
The first is the creation of a device that can be used to eject objects through remote control.
On the day of handing over the money, he stunned Qianqing and got it on the device, and after he left, he used the remote control device to bounce Qianqing downstairs and fall to her death.
In this way, he had a full alibi, and he only needed to collect the catapult device before the police arrived at Qianqing's room after the incident, and he was unconscious.
Then Xu Zhe forged the diary of his wife Qiqi and used surveillance at home to take a video of his wife trying to jump off the building, which was actually someone he was looking for someone to pretend.
Through all this, Xu Zhe successfully killed the woman who tried to blackmail him, and then put the blame on his wife.
And those policemen, because of their own cleverness, were actually carried away by him step by step, and finally fell into his trap.
The film is run through by a very forceful sentence: "The most vicious lies are often told in silence." ”
Xu Zhe, Qiqi and Qianqing were all very clever, but after Xu Zhe felt that he had fallen into the trap, he made a careful plan and finally achieved a reversal.
The whole process of implementation, in addition to the need for rigorous and careful planning, also needs to have a strong enough accumulation of knowledge, and the catapult device is not something that ordinary people can make.
So what this movie ultimately wants to say is that "people still need to read more"!
And there are many places in the film that hint at this point, at the beginning there are explanations that Qi Qi does not do housework at home on weekdays, and likes to watch dramas on a tablet; and Qianqing also said that she does not like to read books, only likes to watch movies; only Xu Zhe, as a writer, likes to read books and pays attention to the news about the development of new technologies.
"The Writer's Lie" is just a suspense movie with a small cost, but Pigo feels that although the pattern is small, the degree of completion is still very high, and at the moment when Hong Kong masterpieces are rare, this is also a sincere work.
Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: Bloody Dan Heart
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