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Hello everyone, I recommend a high-level domestic suspense film "Behind the Scenes Player" for everyone
This is Xu Zheng's second appearance in a crime suspense film after "No Man's Land" and "Hypnosis Master".
The film constructs a complex story in which the financial circle is set against the backdrop of the struggle for interests, where some people go crazy and some people struggle. The male protagonist played by Xu Zheng is greedy for money and money laundering, and also loves his wife deeply, after being kidnapped, a person collapses and then calms down, trying to escape part of the tension, and then the process of finding the player behind the scenes is tightly linked, and the climax is very tense. As a small-budget film, it is very well done, and the actors' performances are also in place.
Simply put, Behind the Scenes is a story about "choice."
This theme can also be seen from the English name of "Behind the Scenes Player" "A or B", where A and B point to the choices that the protagonist must make.
In the film, Zhong Xiaonian is a billionaire who owns a private villa near the lake, and the beautiful wife Wei Simeng, played by Wang Likun, lives a life of winner.
But one day, he was suddenly kidnapped by a mysterious person and taken to a secret room.
The mysterious man contacted Zhong Xiaonian with a walkie-talkie and asked him to play a five-day game with him. Every morning at 9:30, Zhong Xiaonian must do a two-choice question, choose A or B, if he does not complete the choice within the specified time, the mysterious man will tacitly choose both options.
Such a drama setting, in domestic films, can be said to be very rare.
At this time, the unknown secrets behind Zhong Xiaonian's billionaires began to gradually surface.
For example, his huge fortune has an unclean source.
Or, knowing everything about financial markets, he has been manipulating the stock market in private and profiting from it.
Such a Zhong Xiaonian simply has countless handles, and any one of them is enough to ruin his own life and even the lives of those around him.
And the choice of multiple choice questions designed by the mysterious person will obviously not make Zhong Xiaonian feel better, to use an exaggerated analogy, choose A, is to die horizontally; choose B, is to die vertically.
And no matter which one Zhong Xiaonian chooses, what awaits him is a deeper trap and a more difficult next choice question.
If you were, which one would you choose?
The film unfolds in the multiple choice questions of Zhong Xiaonian's step-by-step fall into the abyss, who kidnapped him? What is the purpose of the mysterious man? What kind of harm Zhong Xiaonian and the people around him will suffer is an interlocking puzzle set by the film.
Kidnapping and selection, but a beginning, the manipulator behind the scenes, in the next big game.
Another point of suspense in the film lies in the setting of the kidnapping and the chamber of secrets. The kidnapped Zhong Xiaonian, in a secret room isolated from the outside world, is basically an enclosed space narrative. From here, several suspenseful settings can be derived.
The first suspense is, how does Zhong Xiaonian get in touch with the outside world? This is a suspenseful point of view that connects the enclosed space with the outside space. How are different, isolated spaces connected? It may seem unlikely, but Behind the Scenes opens up that possibility to you with its detailed setting.
The second suspense is how Zhong Xiaonian wants to get out of the secret room? This suspenseful point of view, while full of escape room elements, also means that there will be a heavy narrative motivation to break the enclosed space in the play, which is a great test of the skills of the screenwriter, director and actor.
The third suspense is in a kind of "anti-killing" possibility, many European and American suspense films are using "anti-killing" as the core suspense point, and even extended a small type of fans- "anti-killing film", the focus is on the design of the object "anti-customer-oriented" process.
In terms of cast, the addition of the old drama bone Wang Yanhui also made the plot of the commercial war part of the film more tense.
And the Academy Award film emperor Ren Dahua, also starred in the film, he stood on the edge of the building with his eyebrows locked, after which he made one of the most important life choices.
Duan Bowen, who has a good performance among the new generation of actors, is a younger force in the film, and he is involved in the story in an unexpected way, which is a crucial part of the film.
They are all those who are caught up in the whirlpool, and it is difficult to decide their fate under the manipulation of the players behind the scenes.
Xu Zheng, who is also an actor, director and producer, has been committed to supporting new directors in recent years, from last year's warm masterpiece "Summer of Pigs and Wolves", to this suspenseful crime theme of "Behind the Scenes Player", and then to the black humor comedy "I am not a medicine god" not long ago, all of which are xu Zheng's works to support newcomer directors.
From the context of these works, we can also find that even if we support new directors, Xu Zheng is also striving for diversification like his own director and actor road.
In Behind the Scenes, we can see thrilling drag racing scenes on mountain roads.
You can also see crime chase scenes on the streets at night full of film noir.
There are also ritualistic motion shots like this.
There is even a blockbuster crisis like a time bomb.
With these strongly genred elements added together, Behind the Scenes Player has basically anchored the position of the strongest suspense film of the year so far.
Finally, it comes back to the theme of "selection" in the film. In one of the many options, Zhong Xiaonian strapped to a time bomb and jumped off the building by himself.
You must think this choice is incredible, but the player behind the scenes, the problem set for Zhong Xiaonian, jumping off the building is really his only way.
Sometimes, the choice given actually means that there is no choice.
The suspenseful plot is confusing and leads to expectations
It is worth mentioning that "Behind the Scenes Player" is also Xu Zheng's second appearance in a suspense film after four years, and Xu Zheng once again joined hands with a newcomer director to create a crime suspense feast. It is reported that the film has been successfully selected as the opening film of the 8th Beijing International Film Festival, and the professional film quality has also been recognized by the industry.
The joining of a large number of powerful actors also makes the film more ornamental, and the inside of the play is a contest of money and power, full of dangers; outside the play is a competition of acting skills, sparks are splashed, which makes people look forward to it.