Recently fell in love with radio dramas.
Unlike watching TV dramas, staring at the screen is very tired, and it is not good for the eyes, so I like to listen to the drama with my ears.
Basically, the cv voice in the radio drama is very good and recognizable, the pronunciation is also very accurate, and the sense of drama is quite good. The relationship between the characters in the play is usually not complicated, and the plot is relatively simple, so as long as you listen carefully, it is still easy to understand.
Well, I'm not here today to give you an Amway radio drama.
It's just that after listening to a large number of dramas, I feel more and more that the later stage is really a magical existence.
The same story, the same dry tone, and the strength of the later stage directly affect the overall quality of a play.
In fact, when watching movies before, especially visual blockbusters, I can't help but worship the post-production, especially when I see the process of special effects production, I will always lament that the later stage really has a kind of power to turn decay into magic.
It was only when I listened to the play that I gradually discovered that the cleverness of the later stage was not only the use of special effects, but also in the seemingly ordinary editing and interlude soundtrack and many other aspects.
The movie "Catch that Guy" that I want to talk about today is a suspenseful crime movie that stands out by post-editing.
Before talking about editing, it is still necessary to talk about the plot first.
15 years ago, the heroine's daughter was kidnapped and died, but the murderer took the money and fled.
After 15 years, the whereabouts of the murderer are still unknown, and the prosecution period is about to end (the prosecution period in South Korea is 15 years).
This means that this kidnapping and murder case is about to become another unsolved case.
However, just a few days before the end of the prosecution period, it was also the day of the death of the heroine's daughter, the murderer appeared again and put a bouquet of flowers on the road where the heroine's daughter died.
According to this matter, the police man who began to investigate the case 15 years ago once again tracked down the whereabouts of the suspect based on this clue, hoping to arrest the suspect before the end of the prosecution period.
Unfortunately, it failed in the end.
This sensational "Yin Guozhen abduction incident" ended in vain after all.
The male protagonist also resigned from the police as a result.
However, shortly after the end of the prosecution period in this case, another kidnapping case occurred that was completely similar to the modus operandi of the "Yin Guozhen abduction incident".
The suspect took advantage of the parents' lack of attention to kidnap the child, and then called for ransom.
Kidnapping and extortion cases have always been like this, first kidnapping people and then asking for money, and the other party threatens to tear up tickets when they call the police.
But the kidnapping is almost identical to the case of 15 years ago, both in terms of modus operandi and details.
The suspect passed a photo of the kidnapped person to the child's parents through a garbage truck, proving that the child was indeed in his own hands and was still alive.
Then, the suspect called the other party the next day and asked the other party to put the money in a military bag and place it at 12 noon under pillar 4 of Platform 5 of Yongsan Station.
The time and place are not different, completely consistent.
15 years ago, the male protagonist was in a crowd of people wearing camouflage uniforms, with his back to the suspect;
15 years later, he was involved in the same case again, in the same place,
This time, he did not let the suspect escape.
However, the moment the suspect was caught, he and another policeman froze.
This person is no one else, it is the grandfather of the kidnapped child, Han Zhe.
So, is he really a suspect?
After investigation, the police confirmed that he was the prisoner who kidnapped his granddaughter.
But the male protagonist did not think so.
Through the detailed investigation, he believes that the real suspect used Han Zhe, making Han Zhe a substitute ghost, and he is still at large.
But the police have ironclad evidence,
The sonic identification book shows that the threatening voice is completely consistent with Han Zhe's voice.
Sound waves, like fingerprints, can be recognized no matter how they change.
For a time, the male protagonist fell into chaos.
His intuition told him that Han Zhe was not the murderer, but how could the voice and other evidence in the hands of the police explain?!
All I can reveal is that this is indeed a copycat crime, and a very perfect imitation crime.
Han Zhe did not kidnap his granddaughter,
The murderer was someone else.
I think, seeing this, you should have guessed the real suspect.
After all, there is a person who is obviously an important role, but I have only passed it in one pass.
"Catch that guy" is also known as "Montage", perhaps because the translation of "Montage" is too much of a spoiler, so it is translated into "Catch that Guy" in China.
Let's start with what is a montage.
Montage was originally an architectural term, which has since been interpreted as a collage editing technique in the art of cinema.
Montages include narrative montages, performance montages, and rational montages.
Among them, narrative montages include parallel montages, crossover montages, inverted montages and continuous montages.
The film mainly uses the technique of parallel montage (also known as parallel editing), and it is the use of this editing technique that makes this originally tortuous story more ups and downs.
(Parallel montage, the parallel performance of two or more plot lines unfolding in different time periods and different spaces, narrated separately, and finally unified in a complete plot structure, or two or more events interspersed with each other, revealing a unified theme, or a plot.) ）
It is also the use of this technique that makes me doubt my judgment of the real suspect several times during the process of watching the movie.
"Catch That Guy" didn't have a big-name director to join, no popular stars to help, and no overly bloody and yellow-stormed scenes to make gimmicks, it all relied on the actors' solid acting skills and unexpected plot to win.
Of course, some people think that using editing to disrupt the timeline to increase the twists and turns of the story is too showy, but I have to admit that this is a genre film that is very worth watching.
The film has the facial features of "Memories of a Killing" and the facial features of "The Voice of that Guy". Many of the characteristics of the abduction film can be seen in the film, but this time it portrays a completely new prisoner, which can be described as an absolutely high-IQ crime. —Film journalist Bai Galaxy (transliteration) commentary
The plot is reversed twice in a row, which is simply breathtaking.
In fact, I do not advocate the method of revenge such as an eye for an eye and a for tat.
I always feel that countering violence with violence will cause things to fall into a vicious circle.
However, whether it is when watching "Naoki Hanzawa" or watching this film, I will have a feeling of happiness in my heart.
Who allows justice to be denied justice sometimes through justice and the bad guys to go unpunished?
Stills from "Naoki Hanzawa" that came in
However, the ending of "Catch that Guy" still follows the warm tear-jerking routine of Korean movies, and does not leave a cold sentence like "Memories of Killing", which makes people feel cold.
Finally, I think it is necessary to say that the heroine's actor Yan Zhenghua.
She was nominated for Best Actress at the 34th Korea Film Blue Dragon Awards and won best actress at the 50th Korea Film Grand Bell Awards.
To tell the truth, just by virtue of her last crying scene from forbearance to outbreak, she is enough to match the laurels of the queen of the film.