In a dark, dark room.
A man with hands and feet tied to a chair and his whole body was injured, and the opposite picture was stuck in one hand, full of blood.
His head flashed quickly, blood, knives, a woman's painful and vicious face.
Some say it feels like "The Invisible Guest."
A domestic network is big, what is the basis -
The Liar Hunter
Currently Douban 6.9.
Abandon?
Recognize the reality, this score can be ranked second in this year's domestic new films. (Second only to "Spring Tide" in 7.2)
Straight.
"The Liar Hunter" as a whole still has a clear "sense of net".
But in the limited conditions and scale, it has achieved the greatest breakthrough.
A "small case".
Pull out four versions.
For 90 minutes, it was full of big density lies.
It's like "The Hidden Corner" begins with a windy and sunny climb.
"The Liar Hunter" is also peaceful.
The man made a rich love lunch for his wife.
But a hint of weirdness also seeps out of the perfect picture—
A lively fried steak.
But a sinister expression crossed his face, and there was also a shot of washing away the blood.
The male protagonist's words are intriguing:
"The last meal."
The wife was stunned.
The last meal before going abroad
Talk about moving.
The camera position was changed to the dry swimming pool to shoot back, and the director also played "Yin Music"——
The moment I picked up the knife and fork, the of the blade rubbing suddenly appeared, and I felt a cold light shoot out.
Everything is hinting at —
Ghosts.
The male protagonist is called Lin Chaofan (played by Wang Maolei, yuan Chunwang of "Yanxi Raiders"), but it is not worthy of the name.
Not superhuman, but also ordinary.
Graduated from a prestigious university, high IQ, shrewd and flexible, the mantra puts "integrity" on the lips.
But like Zhang Dongsheng, from his subjective feelings, it is "tiger falling in Pingyang", and Rao is full of ability to generate electricity for love and enter his wife's home.
Doing business in my father-in-law's factory, called the boss, is actually a high-level migrant worker.
Forced by his father-in-law to drink and socialize, full of KPIs.
Once socialized, dizzy.
The only son fell to the roof, his wife was depressed, the business plummeted, and his father-in-law was even more cold.
The only salvation is to go abroad with his pregnant wife and start over.
Unexpectedly, just the day before leaving, I was actually found by a female policeman.
Lin Chaofan, a witness to a taxi kidnapping three months ago. In the past two days, the car has been found, and inside is the body of the suspect Xiangdong and the victim Feng Lu.
The police came this time to find that there were still many doubts in the case, and asked him, an eyewitness, to understand the situation.
The truth of the matter slowly opened in Lin Chaofan's memories.
No, to be precise, the story, show the audience two versions first.
The first version is very simple, the taxi driver is short of money to the east, and he has his eye on the regular customer of his girlfriend who does massage, Lin Chaofan.
He kidnapped Lin's wife, did not expect to mistakenly kidnap Lin's secretary Feng Lu, and when he rushed back from the airport, everything was too late.
As soon as the camera turned, the policewoman immediately debunked the man's lie: "Why did you go to the airport?" ”
"Didn't you say that?" Rush to Australia to process my order. ”
"Go abroad to negotiate orders, but also fake passports?"
The first version, is fake.
The policewoman continued to ask, "Back to my question, why did you go to the airport on the day of the crime?" ”
Lin Chaofan quickly instigated, "I have something to hide, I can tell you the truth." But don't tell my wife, okay? ”
Lin Chaofan began to explain:
He did not want to deal with orders, but the business failed, and he rolled up money from the company to prepare to run, but he did not expect to be discovered by the secretary Feng Lu and chased to his home.
Then, he was tied up by Xiangdong as Lin's wife.
This is the second version of the case.
Memories come to an abrupt end.
As soon as the camera turned, the policewoman suddenly smiled:
The story is well made up, and it is worthy of graduating from a prestigious university
She didn't believe it.
Is it fake again?
However, because there was not enough evidence, he left and continued to search for evidence.
On the other hand, Lin Chaofan tried his best to please his father-in-law and comfort his wife, and continued to arrange the matter of going abroad step by step.
The wife said she was a little scared. He comforted himself in the tone of a merchant:
Don't be afraid, I am a person, the most important thing is integrity
The house was sold, the car was sold, and the middle-aged couple who lost their son made a desperate bet, believing that the other side of the ocean was a new life.
Lin Chaofan rode a borrowed electric donkey and said that I seemed to smell the wind off the coast of Australia, and there was a fishy smell of the sea.
The wife said it was the smell of garbage.
Sure enough, a garbage truck passed.
Sad black humor, struggling in garbage emotions and life, self-deception.
The first two versions are nothing more than telling the audience that Lin Chaofan is a liar, a person who is squeezed and twisted by life, and his courage becomes fat.
However, when the female policeman found Lin Chaofan again, the previous story line intersected.
Back to the opening scene.
In the dim and cramped little black room, there was a chair in the center, and Lin Chaofan's hands and feet were tied to the chair. It was the policewoman opposite.
No, there is no such interrogation room.
The policewoman looked cold, walked up to him, forced his eyes into his eyes, and carried out a real judgment:
"There were no witnesses, and both the suspect and the victim were dead, so, you think, it's all seamless."
Policewoman? There are no cops at all.
The woman's name is Xiang Qing, and she is the sister of the kidnapper Xiangdong.
Xiangdong is a good brother to his sister, and although his sister spent a lot of money on illness, he still insisted on treating her.
Same as The Invisible Guest.
The families of the victims, in order to expose the murderer's "perfect" lies.
Makeover to hunt for the truth.
Only she knew.
Feng Lu was killed by Lin Chaofan and blamed on his brother.
Feng Lu is Lin Chaofan's third party, the night before the crime, came to him to ask for money, Lin Chaofan was afraid that the matter would be exposed, and accidentally killed Feng Lu in the dispute.
Xiangdong just happened to bump into this scene and was used as a scapegoat.
Xiang Qing's mouth was the truth, Lin Chaofan listened and listened, and suddenly laughed and laughed.
Then, take off your glasses and slowly open your mouth:
But have you ever thought about it, you have the money for treatment
Where did it come from
Lin Chaofan already knew Xiang Qing?
Does that mean that the third version that Xiang Qing believes is also fake...
Sir has already said that.
There is also a fourth version.
But you see.
Whether it is Version 1 and Version 2 of Lin Chaofan.
Or the Sunny version.
They all start from their own standpoint and construct a story that tries to make others believe.
Lies are not just fairy tales.
It is also an attempt to confuse fairy tales into reality.
In the rental house to the east, there is a pile of doll ornaments on the bedroom table, placed in front of the picture frame of the east and his girlfriend.
It's Elsa and Anna from Frozen.
In the second version, Xiang Qing chased Lin Chaofan for the first time, preparing to climb the window, when he suddenly felt a pain in his chest and stopped, and the two dolls were close together, symbolizing the unity of brothers and sisters.
And in the third version.
The ornaments are separated, representing the two separations of heaven and man.
No fairy tales, no superpowers.
In this hierarchical, mercenary society, powerless families can only choose to fall into darkness in exchange for hope.
The Eye of the Storm is Lin Chaofan, a man who is not superhuman and ordinary.
He thought he could, made up one lie after another, only to discover that bad luck was a process.
He and Xiangdong reached a cross-class cooperation in the fourth version.
It is because they are all failed men, but they have families who want to protect.
After all four versions are finished, look at a poster that marks the identity of everyone in the bureau early:
In fact, before the fourth version was unveiled, Lin Chaofan hinted in his own intellectual way, and the weak signal was also a rebellion against fate.
Except he cheered up and said it was the last meal.
During the first interrogation of Xiang Qing, a fake policewoman, he picked up a cigarette, and the cigarette was Xuan Hemen.
"Capricorn, keep it old."
Smoke, there are also "smoke language".
There is a saying circulating on the Internet: smoking only smokes hemen, and only loves one person in his life.
Many people say it's the taste of first love.
Look at the poster again, no. Not the truth.
This is the world in Lin Chaofan's eyes.
A failed man, when isolated, puts down all his gear and is the most authentic.
A cut-out scene in "The Hidden Corner" - Zhang Dongsheng went to McDonald's alone, ordered three children's packages, ate hamburgers, and cried bitterly.
Zhang Dongsheng remembers his wish: I hope that everything can be repeated.
Lin Chaofan's heart is also thinking: start over.
The producer of "The Liar Hunter" left a message on Douban, and the story is actually a sentence: using lies to deceive the truth.
Sir's understanding is.
The world that is about to collapse is supported by one lie after another.
At the crack, the humble soul decides to take a desperate risk, leaving hope to the one who loves.
Back to the "Lie Hunter" that is repeatedly mentioned - "The Chinese version of the invisible guest".
It is also a story of revenge for love.
The same is the suspense and reversal.
Where is the gap?
In a word—
It's sculpted.
It is everywhere, but there is no trace.
For example, "The Invisible Guest" has been foreshadowed many times to imply the false identity of the "lawyer".
△ Pictures and masks on the walls
The "police" in Liar Hunter is also suspicious.
Interrogations are never at the police station.
I also keep eating "sugar".
If a good suspense film is to combine each reversal together and let the story run smoothly.
The place where "The Liar Hunter" is still unheated is that —
It seems that every part is complete, but when it works, the logic is stuttered everywhere.
For example, someone pointed it out.
The male protagonist's motivation and ending, the persuasiveness is a little reluctant -
I smoked, drank, cheated, lied, broke the law,
But I have a wife and children, and I'm a good person
Another example.
Xiang Qing knew that Lin Chaofan paid for his own operation and stabbed himself with a knife on the spot.
Pull out the pacemaker...
As a result, everyone in the barrage was collectively confused:
neuropathy
Brother Bai died
Your brother is all here to save you, and you're not alive again?
Even more incredible.
After she took out her pacemaker, she was taken to the hospital, but she actually saved her again...
This came and went, and the operation cost twice as much ah sister.
The movie is called The Liar Hunter.
But in fact, the film is also a "lie" told by the director -
Making up a lie is easy.
The difficulty is to make up lies continuously, but also not contradict each other, and to harmonize with each other, so that the audience is completely convinced.
Between "lies" and "lies", it is necessary to achieve a tight seam.
It must be repeatedly polished.
Take an example of Parasite.
In the main film, before the butler leaves the mansion, he turns his head and looks at it.
Later, the director exposed a "deleted" clip -
She glanced back, then walked to the base of the wall and tried to probe.
Why delete it?
There was nothing wrong with this action, and she was worried about her husband in the basement, so she wanted to go back and have a look.
But if you keep this shot, it is too obvious to expose what is in the basement, reducing the degree of surprise that follows the plot reversal.
Every detail is in the service of the director's "lie".
This "lie" cannot be guessed by the audience in advance .
The information must be covered up.
And the audience must be able to guess at the last minute —
Information must be leaked in advance.
Both to see and not to see, the two need to be carefully considered to achieve a delicate balance.
Some people say" "What's so great about the story of Parasite".
In fact, it is misunderstood, and the great thing is not to make up this story, but to put every scale to the most accurate position.
Behind every reversal, there are grains of hard work.
Back to The Liar Hunter.
It opens up a new situation and gives domestic suspense a basic framework.
After watching the movie, it is like finishing a very wonderful script killing, there are many story versions, there are many suspects, for you to identify one by one.
But once you've cleared it, you've used all the fun.
Next time and, it will no longer be opened.
So, there's still a long way to go from a script kill to a really solid script.
I hope that domestic films can go down this road and go all the way.
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