It seems that starting from Hitchcock's "Horror", the real culprit in the suspense film is no longer simply one or several characters in the film, but has become the culprit with the split personality of one of the characters, successfully maintaining the suspense of the film to the end.
Hitchcock
Since then, more and more directors have begun to use this suspenseful way in their own films, thus creating a film subtype that is not big or small- split personality films. On the Chinese network, this kind of film has a more network-like name - "fine sharding".
The name "Fine Shard" comes from "Tenth Screening Room"
In fact, you can't find the word corresponding to "fine shard" in English, a name that is unique to the Chinese context.
In the 2010 Lunar New Year slot, Yuan Heping's "Su Qi'er" was released in theaters, the famous film column "Tenth Screening Room" of CCTV's Science and Education Channel "praised" the film, and the famous film critic Zhang Xiaobei was discerning in his writing for the program, pointing out that "Su Qi'er" showed a unique genre hidden in Chinese films - fine shards.
Stills from "Su Qi'er"
On its reasons, the plot of "Su Qi'er" almost copied the same type of "Huo Yuanjia", this kind of skin-changing approach made foreign counterparts envious, in addition, the climactic narrative of the film's preface did not match the afterword, which also created a narrative sample of this type of film.
Although there is no evidence that Zhang Xiaobei was the first to use the term fine fragmentation, it was he who carried forward this word and spread it in the north and south of the river.
Schizophrenic movies≠ split personality movies?
However, with the fermentation of the Internet, the meaning of "fine fragmentation" has gradually been deconstructed, and the film critic's intentional ridicule has made a large number of films with split personality and schizophrenia as the core plot, Zhang Guanli Dai, become a conventional "fine film", hitchcock has inexplicably become the grandfather of the precision film.
So the problem arises, since it is collectively called "fine shards", but this imprecise concept confuses split personality and schizophrenia, from the perspective of abnormal psychology, it is not appropriate to collectively call these mental illnesses "fine shards".
Let's start with schizophrenia.
Patients with schizophrenia may be a more typical "mental illness" in everyone's mind, and from the perspective of popular science, there are basically impaired thinking (quantity, speed, form, logic, coherence), emotional disorders (irritability, anxiety, depression, overexcited), loss of will (no energy, no intention of doing anything, no intentions), cognitive impairment, and often accompanied by delusions (for example: everyone is ill-intentioned) and hallucinations.
In Conanberg's "Spider's Nightmare", the male protagonist played by Ralph Fiennes has experienced childhood trauma, he has long-term mental anxiety, and often fantasizes about a prostitute seducing his father, but this person does not exist at all. For example, in Polanski's "Cold-Blooded Horror", the heroine played by Catherine Deneuve is also anxious to kill people because of childhood trauma and always fantasizes that someone will sexually assault her.
Stills from Spider's Nightmare
Look at schizophrenia.
Split personality disorder is like the shell of the whole person with other souls, other souls in the end. Between different personalities, gender, age, temperament, hobbies, and physical qualities can all be completely different. The cause of schizophrenia is mostly traumatic experiences, or can be understood as a major blow. In order to protect themselves from being harmed, individuals produce other functional personalities to protect themselves.
The so-called "fine shards", including the kaishan", are actually mostly split personality movies. However, the first time I saw a split personality in film and television works was Bao Dingtian's brother Guoping in "Sister of the Gun Master 2", who not only killed Chen Sanyuan's family, but also instigated murder in prison to be called Hong Kong Hannibal!
In "Top Gun Sister 2", Bao Dingtian's younger brother Guoping
Since "fine shards" are not a unique hollywood film genre, but only a general term for a certain theme of the film, then when people usually talk about "fine shards", they actually contain a lot of content.
For example, there are schizophrenias, there are split personalities, and even other difficult diseases, as long as there is mental illness as a guise, it seems that they can be classified under this label, although they will have similarities in the arrangement of narrative and plot design, but this concept is actually not rigorous.
Moreover, this label is conventional by fans, so the significance of its existence is to facilitate everyone to find the same theme and the same type of film.
Top 10 "fine shards" film list
Next, we will summarize the ten classic "fine shards" for everyone, all of which should be thrown bricks and jade, and welcome everyone to continue to discuss in the message.
With the previous popular science, you can also try to distinguish which are schizophrenic movies and which are split personality movies.
10. Top 10 "Fine Shards" "American Mental Patients"
Stills from "The Mentally Ill man of America"
"American Psycho" starring Christian Bell is a classic in the perverted homicidal movie, the story of the film is set in the United States in the late 1980s, when the national economy took off and the people's material desires swelled.
The upper class represented by Bell's role, like those who know that they are "invited", have a high enough education, hold a lot of social wealth, and have a good taste for art, but these are still not proportional to his narcissism, the spiritual self can never be satisfied, in the comparison, in the gap, completely sick.
Because of its open narrative, "American Psycho" makes the plot in the film seem virtual and real, but it is certainly an indictment of the dark side of capitalism and consumerism.
9. "Deadly ID" of the Top Ten "Fine Shards"
Stills from Deadly ID
Ten people live in a motel, they have different identities, beneficial personalities, genders and men and women, but they will all usher in the decisive day of their lives.
There are many movies with split personality, such as "Fatal ID" such rigorous, interesting, layer by layer reversal is not felt abrupt but very few, compared to many genre movies now for the reversal and reversal, "Fatal ID" is not only more complex story, more reasonable details, more compact rhythm, IQ has always been online.
8. "Razor's Edge" of the Top Ten "Fine Fragments"
Stills from Razor's Edge
As a loyal disciple of Hitchcock, Brian de Palma can find a shadow of tribute in his films at any time, and the fine elements are naturally not uncommon in his films, and you may even suspect that he split another Hitchcock personality in his head when filming.
"Razor's Edge" is the pinnacle of de Parma's work, and it seems that the real murderer is not difficult to guess now, but the camera design and scene scheduling of a single scene have already had 80% or 90% of The Power of Xi Fat.
7. "Black Swan" of the Top Ten "Fine Fragments"
Stills from Black Swan
Not crazy, not alive.
Other fine films are almost all crime themes, but Daronnovsky has made the daily situation of dance training into the atmosphere of a horror film, and Natalie Portman's interpretation of good and evil is a masterpiece of her career. Of course, the film's success is also due to the fact that the director stands on the shoulders of his predecessors — such as "Mulholland Road" and "The House of Unma" for example.
6. Top Ten "Fine Fragments" of "Unseed House"
Stills from "The House of the Unhemped"
Idol girl groups are facing transformation, the original young girls have been reborn on the road of performance, and even have to star in bold erotic scenes, which makes fans how to endure?
In today's highly developed idol culture, Imatoshi's work seems to be very predictable, not to mention that he has always been a powerful presenter of visual performance, and it is even more crazy to interpret personality splits in the form of animation, even if you have guessed who the real culprit is, but still immersed in the spiritual nightmare created by the vision.
5. "Detective" of the Top Ten "Fine Fragments"
Stills from "Detective"
Du Qifeng's authorial films can always cut into his familiar subjects from different angles. "Everyone has ghosts, and you don't have one." If it's true, it's that you have a problem. In one sentence, the true meaning of the film is simply told, and extraordinary creativity is stimulated between the switching of different personalities.
4. "Forbidden Island" of the Top Ten "Fine Fragments"
Stills from "Forbidden Island"
All-around director Martin Scorsese has directed films in various genres, and this suspense thriller is also outstanding.
"Confinement Island" focuses on the disappearance of a mental prison in Boston, although it is a suspense film, but Scorsese's film is certainly not so simple as solving the puzzle, especially the open-ended ending of the film, which makes the text and narrative appear more complex and ambiguous.
3. "Cold-Blooded Horror" of the Top Ten "Fine Shards"
Stills from Cold Blood
Among the many popular films, this masterpiece from Polanski's early years was still chosen.
In fact, the works of this Polish film master also have many fine elements, such as the alienated tenant in "Strange Tenant", the good and evil Seneyer in "The Ninth Door", and the schizophrenic Catherine Deneuve in "Cold-Blooded Horror".
"Cold-Blooded Horror" juxtaposes the two issues of sexual repression and schizophrenia, while at the same time pointing the spearhead of criticism at topics such as immigration status and male sexual assault, which can be called a classic that has been ignored.
2. "Fight Club" of the Top Ten "Fine Shards"
Stills from Fight Club
1. "Horror Story" of the Top Ten "Fine Fragments"
Stills from "Horror Story"
Everything must start from "Horror".
"Horror Story" can be said to be the law of fine shards, and its success not only lays the foundation for some classic narrative techniques of such films, but more importantly, makes producers and audiences aware of the commercial value and unique charm of fine shards.
"Horror Story" is Hitchcock's intention to start shooting at a very low cost ($800,000) of the water test work, but has gained great commercial value, with the current point of view, the film's plot is still ups and downs, especially the bathroom killing section is constantly being homed, imitated, and worshiped to this day.
In addition, we have added a split easter egg, Mulholland Road.
Stills from "Mulholland Road"
David Lynch's legendary work "Mulholland Road" is also often listed in the various lists of fine films, in addition to the plot setting of the film itself, more because the film has built a labyrinth where dreams and reality are intertwined, and in the word of mouth of fans, it has embarked on the cult altar.
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