As a crime suspense movie, "The Great Hunt" is wrapped in the story of great fatherly love!
Among many Hong Kong films, "The Great Hunt" not only presents a very explosive story, but also a highlight of acting skills.
Director Zhou Xianyang successfully won the Golden Horse Award for New Director with this film, and the lead actor of the story, Zhang Jiahui, was nominated for multiple awards for his outstanding acting skills.
Although the film borrows from "The Dedication of Suspect X" in terms of story content, so that many viewers have predicted the outcome after only half of it, zhang Jiahui and Ren Dahua's excellent acting skills still conquer many people.
The film adopts a two-line progression, and the policeman played by Ren Dahua is thoughtful and good at digging into the roots.
The "villain" portrayed by Zhang Jiahui constantly creates suspense, this character does not have a single line from beginning to end, and all emotions are interpreted by expressions.
The reversal created at the end of the film finally changed all of Zhang Jiahui's emotions. As soon as the mystery was revealed, the expression on the "murderer's" face immediately became deep and affectionate.
Zhang Jiahui used an introverted and resolute expression to make this two-sided emotional acting skill explode.
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The Great Hunt tells a tragic story full of suspense.
The film begins with a fight scene in which Wang Yuanyang, played by Zhang Jiahui, fights with multiple people in the bathroom. The film presents this special battle in yellow tones and slow motion, with splashing water droplets and violent perspectives, and the whole picture is very Hong Kong.
Then the picture switched, and the lonely and indifferent Wang Yuanyang was released from prison and returned to society. At this time, the director deliberately released a set of street corner shots, and Wang Yuanyang, who had regained his life, sat on the side of the road eating ice cream and looked at the beautiful women who passed by with a bad smile.
Under this set of shots, it seems to portray a perverted pornographer, and also lays the motivation for the subsequent plot.
Subsequently, when Wang Yuanyang was tuning the piano, he overheard beautiful music, and with the sound of the piano, he found the target Xu Xue.
At this time, Zhang Jiahui staged a close-up shot again, and a surprised and crazy look was suppressed on his face, and at the same time, he also created a suspense for the audience: "Who is this woman?"
Since then, Wang Yuanyang has been following this woman, and has also rented a house opposite her home to spy around, as if he is a pervert who does nothing wrong.
He would sneak into Xu Xue's room at night, constantly scanning the woman in front of him with excited and seductive eyes, and would also install surveillance in the room to eavesdrop on conversations.
Until this time, Wang Yuanyang's identity as a bad person had basically been confirmed. The director uses countless close-ups to show Wang Yuanyang's perverted heart.
From another perspective, Xu Xue encounters domestic violence at home, and his father's serious violent tendencies are a huge turning point in the film, which triggers Wang Yuanyang's murder of Xu Xue's father in the dark night.
At this point, all the conspiracies pointed to Wang Yuanyang alone, a lonely and indifferent man who seemed particularly mysterious.
The plot after the film uses an objective perspective to show Wang Yuanyang's motives and identity, and the policeman played by Ren Dahua constantly searches for answers and finally uncovers the secret behind the murder.
When Wang Yuanyang's true identity was revealed, the man who was unjustly imprisoned, endured bullying and oppression, and tried to return to life was completely unexpected by the audience.
What is even more touching is that the father-daughter identities of Wang Yuanyang and Xu Xue are perfectly hidden, the daughter killed her adoptive father by mistake, and Wang Yuanyang would rather bear the charge of murder to make up for the lack of growth of his daughter.
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The twist at the end of the film seems to be a reversal of "bad guys" becoming "good people", but in fact, what is more exciting is a complete reversal of Zhang Jiahui's acting skills.
After understanding Wang Yuanyang's true identity, let's look at several close-up shots of Zhang Jiahui.
Eating ice cream on the street corner shows a bad smile, which happens to be the happiness and hope of Wang Yuanyang's return to society, he eats ice cream and misses the happy past with his girlfriend, and the smile on his face is actually a good memory.
Wang Yuanyang heard the close-up shot of Xu Xue playing the piano and was attracted, Zhang Jiahui's lips trembled and tears could not stop flowing down, and the original perverted expression had now become a deep interpretation of father's love.
When Wang Yuanyang was dying, the smile that was full of happiness exuded a kind of relief and relief.
Wang Yuanyang, played by Zhang Jiahui in "The Great Hunt", is his first time playing aphasia. From the beginning to the end of the film, Zhang Jiahui did not have a single line, but this role needed extremely deep emotional support.
In order to better portray an innocent person with a lonely heart and a lonely personality, Zhang Jiahui forcibly reduced fat and lost weight to achieve a state of mental withering.
In order to make the character's expression and eyes more real, Zhang Jiahui never communicated with others during the filming of the film, completely substituted himself into the role, and cultivated the lonely Wang Yuanyang with his lonely self.
It is precisely because he studied the role so deeply that he finally had the acting effect of "a face interpreting double-sided emotions".
"The Great Hunt" may not be Zhang Jiahui's most exciting movie, but the acting skills are definitely the best.
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