Man must rely on trust in man in order to survive, and the fraudster who uses this to eat is the most shameless person
Released in 2012, the film "The Crow's Thumb" is based on Shusuke Miao's mystery novel of the same name, which may be the culmination of Hidesuke Miao's masterpiece, which won the 62nd Japan Mystery Writers Association Award in one fell swoop, and even the reasoning master Keigo Higashino praised the novel:
Shusuke Mizuo wrote "The Crow's Thumb" at the age of thirty-three, and I didn't write "The Dedication of Suspect X" until I was fifty years old.
"The Crow's Thumb" is interlocked, and the scam method of the middle game satisfies the audience's taste, and heals our hearts with a warm and delicate plot. The entire film lasts nearly three hours, and the ups and downs of the play are buried everywhere with clues and the plot of the second half, which makes people surprised in the reversal, and in surprise at the superb layout of the author, only the middle of the play is not seen in the middle of the play.
The film co-stars Abe Hiroshi, Rimi Ishihara, Reina Nori, Akiji Murakami and Yu Koyanagi, who also won the Newcomer Award at the 37th Hochi Film Awards for this drama. The cast is not very strong, but with the help of Uncle A Kuan, who has a high acting school and a changeable actress ten yuan, this movie instantly becomes high-quality.
The content of the movie is about the fraudster "Lao Wu" and his partner "Lao Tie" in different places to defraud, one day suddenly intersected with the Zhenxun sisters and accidentally formed a temporary family, during the formation of the family " Lao Wu ' enemy family suddenly came to the door, in order to help "Lao Wu" get rid of the enemy family, the temporary family members began to launch a "revenge plan". And it was the beginning of this "revenge plan" that allowed us to see a wonderful scam bureau.
<h1>I thought it was just a natural start, but I didn't expect that everything had been ambushed with clues</h1>
At the beginning of the film, Lao Wu, played by Abe Kuan, stood in the racecourse holding the newspaper in his hand and looked at the horse betting news blankly, the partner Lao Tie pretended to play the horse farm veterinarian and the two sang and attracted a man next to him, Lao Wu used his superb acting skills to deceive the man's trust, so he exchanged money for tickets and finally cheated the man of 420,000 yen, and the panic on unfamiliar occasions was the most likely to make people have preconceived ideas. People with unhealthy intentions who deceive newcomers with the idea of being familiar with routines have instead fallen into The trap of Lao Wu.
Lao Wu and Lao Tie are using people's greedy and insufficient mentality to carry out fraud, the film came up with a straight-to-earth trend without hiding the two people's fraud technology to make the audience enter the state in an instant, in order to ensure that the audience has a sustained high-energy state effect, the film let's take advantage of the next fraud scam let's look at how Lao Wu and Lao Tie are defrauding their prey from the perspective of God.
When the first racecourse fraud bureau ended with a montage of Lao Wu's past memories, in just a few minutes through Lao Wu's past moments to portray the image of this fraudster, but also for the later encounter due to Lao Wu's past caused by a mother's death of a child to meet early, after the end of the second scam bureau by Lao Tie as a guide to the direction of the story, outside the jewelry store encountered Zhenxun also paved the way for the five to temporarily form a family together again. Every twist in the film means the foreshadowing of the next episode.
In fact, all this is based on the old iron hand in order to make the five people get together behind the scenes, but the audience in the early stages of the film will only take each turning point as a bland beginning, but they do not know that the layout has already begun from the beginning.
<h1>"Revenge Project" in the middle of the game, the classic of the Crow Master</h1>
Desperate, Zhenxun relied on contact information to find Lao Wu and Lao Tie, and along with her came her sister Hachiko and her sister's boyfriend Kantaro.
The natural sense of family atmosphere in the film makes Lao Wu and Lao Tie, who were originally drifting alone and have no sense of belonging, feel a warm current flowing into their hearts. One night, Lao Wu's enemy, the loan shark Higuchi, came out of prison and wanted to make a comeback, the first thing he wanted to do was to take revenge on Lao Wu for sending him to prison, and before that Lao Wu knew that Zhen xun and Hachihiro were the children of the lady who had been forced to die and commit suicide by himself. It turned out that everyone had a common enemy, and the people were forced to bear higuchi's revenge and finally began to plan revenge on him.
In the film, the "revenge plan" from implementation to action is coherent without any turning point, but it is precisely the superficial turning point that is the author's cleverness, so that the audience is caught in a kind of ordinary plot, mistakenly thinking that the plan preparation is so coherent and natural, but all the processes hidden under it are clues to uncover the final puzzle.
The first was the first innings: after eavesdropping on the calls of Higuchi's group, he infiltrated higuchi's company under the pretext of clearing and checking whether the eavesdropping equipment was contained in the house. When Higuchi took out the money, The always timid and fearful Kantaro suddenly pulled out a pistol to force the people present to hand over the money, the BB gun that was originally thought to be a fool suddenly became a real gun, and the surprised expressions of Lao Wu and Lao Tie made the audience off the screen suddenly wonder, Isn't Kantaro holding a fake gun?
While we were still immersed in Guantaro's anti-water behavior, Makoto suddenly ran outside the door with the money bag packed, subconsciously thinking that the small family was going to have infighting, and before the audience could react back to the gunfire, the audience's perspective was pulled out of the house, and the camera turned to the balcony with the surprised look of the old iron - Makoto was lying in a pool of blood, and the gungun Guantaro disappeared, which made the audience collapse the image of Guantaro before, plus the appearance of the battered old iron and the panicked old Wu once made us think that something was really wrong.
As soon as the picture flashed, the original "dead" Makoto was resurrected, and Kantaro reappeared in our field of vision, and the audience returned to God that all this was a game. The "dead" Makoto is actually the sister Hachihiro pretending, Kantaro is actually deliberately replacing the fake gun with a real gun, countless explosions in just ten minutes stimulate the audience's nerves, a link of high-energy reversal and the five-person group's realistic acting skills make the audience have to admire the director's ghost talent.
Immediately after the second innings: after the completion of the plan, everyone planned to separate their lives, originally thinking that the plot was over, a letter and advertising materials made Lao Wu feel that everything that happened was too coincidental, and he began to investigate the shops that had previously printed advertising materials and the people who sold mobile phones and the restaurant owners who often went to dinner, and all the doubts pointed at Lao Tie. Surprised, Lao Wu found Lao Tie in the hospital, only to learn that all this was a bureau planned by Lao Tie, and everyone was in his hands.
The high-energy reversal did not breathe for a moment, and the original three-hour film suddenly did not feel long, and the film would lose its original color if it was missing.
You think this is true, but it's just a scam.
You think this is the truth, but it's just the beginning.
<h1>"The crow" + "thumb" is a metaphor for a father's path of self-redemption</h1>
Lao Wu who found Lao Tie finally learned everything from Lao Tie's mouth, the old Tie who was originally his partner was actually the biological father of the real sisters, the fire that forced Lao Wu to live on the street was actually just a smoke bomb, in order to make Lao Wu and his daughters get back up on the right path, but also to punish the loan shark company that killed his wife's suicide, Lao Tie began to set up a situation step by step to let them meet by chance to create opportunities to take revenge on Higuchi, killing three birds with one stone, and thinking of fear.
The purpose of the plan behind this is actually lao tie to take the final way to save himself in order to redeem the mistakes he made.
Speaking of which, it's all because I've done fraud that it all happened, and my daughters would have fallen if they had lived that life ever since. Lao Wu is the same, if there is no good opportunity, it is impossible to turn over in a lifetime, I have seen too many such people in my life, so I know best.
All Lao Tie did was to get the people around him back on track, and he hoped that as a father, he could make up for the missing 16 years of fatherly love, but in a different way to save his children.
Crow means insider in Japan, the fraudster is like a dark crow, and the thumb is the father of the japanese song that looks at the whole picture. In the film, these two clues have actually been buried for a long time, looking back at the film, in fact, the nursery rhyme "Only the thumb can see the front of the other fingers" is not a metaphor for Lao Tie himself.
As the king of crows higher than Lao Wu, the image of Lao Wu's apprentice has been created in the early stages, which is so plain and strange in the eyes of the audience, until the final reversal turns out to be a father who redeems his mistakes, and the combination of the two images of Lao Tie makes the audience hate, but adds a little more heartache.
As a fraudster, Lao Tie's trauma to the family due to his own identity is very huge, and he cannot live with his daughter due to his special status, and can only silently protect his children in his own way. The regret that Lao Tie could not accompany the child to grow up could only pretend to be a temporary family as a foreigner, even if it was a day together, it was a regret that he could not recognize father and daughter.
The original reasoning suspense drama coupled with ethical warmth suddenly makes people feel that the original father's love can be so varied, and the love from the father will never be late.
<h1>epilogue</h1>
"The Crow's Thumb" has continuous explosion points throughout the film, comparable to Hollywood dramas, unlike Hollywood, which is more inclined to visual impact, while "Crow's Thumb" is more inclined to mental stimulation. Reversing the high energy, foreshadowing the meaning of fatherly love with a reasoning heart, the film echoes back and forth, and a yellow balloon at the beginning reappears at the end, which also means that everything will start again.
If the European mystery drama is a delicious meal to satisfy, then the Japanese reasoning drama is a delicate kaiseki dish, and the more delicious it is.
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