Joe has mobilized all available police forces, but still can't find the kidnapped Emily's car, and she may be killed.
Joe told Emily to fasten her seatbelt and then jerked the handbrake. With the sound of cars spinning out of control and tires rubbing, the call to an abrupt halt came to an abrupt halt.
This story tells us the importance of wearing seat belts in our cars.
The 2018 Danish film "Sinner" is Gustav Moller's film debut, the whole film is a scene in the alarm center, the male protagonist constantly answers the phone, trying to rescue the kidnapped woman.
Such a suspense thriller, which is completely supported by dialogue, is a good subject for newcomer directors to practice their hands, and has achieved good reviews at international film festivals such as Sundance.
The 2021 American remake has a much stronger production team than the original, but after it aired on Netflix, it has a reputation, and today we talk about what really happened to this new version of "Sinner".
Let's pile up a set of data first:
Director: Anthony Fukuia (Masterpiece: Training Day)
Starring: Jack Gyllenhaal (Masterpiece: Brokeback Mountain)
MPAA Rating: R Rating
Good film index: 66 points
Police phone
One early morning at the 911 alarm center, Joe received an alarm call from Emily. She claimed to have been kidnapped by her ex-husband and the car was driving on the interstate.
Due to the Fire in California, air support was fighting the fire, and the smoke led to extremely low visibility, and field colleagues were afraid that they would not be able to find the kidnapped Emily in time.
Ben didn't have anything to do with Joe when he came here, but he was already a field worker, and he was only sent here to be on duty because he made a mistake at work.
The unhappiness of work and family makes Joe's life a mess, and at this time, he invests more emotion in the victim.
The police often have to deal with urgent cases, witness the most tragic and unbearable aspects of the human world, and make the best judgment in the shortest possible time.
So the police are a bit like doctors, if they can't do their part, but put their personal emotions into the case, it is likely to be counterproductive and cause more trouble.
Sure enough, Joe used the phone to guide Emily to save herself, while trying to find a way to investigate the ins and outs of the case.
As a result, the whole incident was completely different from what he thought.
High concept
The film's angle is a bit like Harry Berry's "Fatal Call" in 2013, which is the story of the alarm center receiving an alarm call from the kidnapped and trying to rescue them.
But the shooting method of "Sinner" is more like "Buried Alive", the camera position is firmly fixed on the operator Joe's body, and the narrative is completely explained through dialogue.
In addition to drastically reducing the cost of filming, the Danish original filming also increases a lot of suspense by restricting the audience's perspective.
After all, in most movies, the audience is from the perspective of God, even if it can't know the whole picture, it must know more than the protagonist.
But that's not the case in Sinners at all, and even because we don't know Joe's backstory, the audience gets less information than the characters in the film.
The male protagonist's overstepping, arbitrary, and unstable emotions are actually suggesting that he himself is problematic.
But the camera let us follow his train of thought, even if many times his judgment is so subjective, the firm belief makes people look strange, but under the guidance of the screenwriter, the audience can not take a step back to think about the overall situation, only to be imprisoned in the world of the male protagonist.
Therefore, the high-concept narrative method of "Sinner" is not the whole reason for the success of the original version, and the exquisite script arrangement is also the highlight of the film.
Invalid remake
However, the American version of "Sinner" copied almost all the plot points of the original version, except for adding a few original settings such as the California fire, making the story more local, almost a one-to-one remake of the original.
Although Jack Gyllenhaal's performance is still interesting, the various emotional changes are more enjoyable than the original, and the scene scheduling and camera use are much richer than the original, but there is a lack of surprises in the play.
Although classic movies like "Twelve Angry Men" can indeed be remade many times, because each remake has a different feeling due to different national conditions and different eras, and even many remake versions have become classics.
But Denmark's "Sinner", although it is also very clever, is a simple story, and it is not good enough to repeat it once.
Here I have to say how Americans hate watching subtitles.
For us Chinese audiences, watching subtitles has become accustomed to watching, and even watching Chinese videos without subtitles feels uncomfortable.
But American audiences are a little strange, very few Americans learn languages other than English, and very few American audiences watch movies in other languages.
The culturally confident beautiful country has no interest in all the beautiful things outside the country, even if it is heard of any foreign language film is extremely wonderful, it is the first time to remake it into an English film.
"Infernal Affairs" is like this, "Midnight Bell" is like this, and so is the American version of "Alcohol Project" that Little Plum is expected to star in.
Foreign-language films like "Parasite" that won the Oscar for Best Picture were previously unthinkable.
So if you haven't seen the original and don't want to see a Danish movie, the new version of Sinner is still a good choice.
If you happen to be interested in small structure suspense movies, or like Jack Gyllenhaal's performance, then this movie is your thing.
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