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Since June this year, South Korean theaters have begun to resume work on a large scale, and new films have been released one after another.
On June 3, the suspense thriller "Intruder", starring Song Ji-hyo and Jin Wulie, was released first, and the first week of box office results were eye-catching.
However, although the Korean net score is very good, THE NAVER score is 9.4, but the follow-up word of mouth has dropped quickly, and it is currently only 7.65.
Fortunately, soon another new local work was released.
As soon as the new film was released, it squeezed out "Intruder" to the top of the single-day box office, and since then it has occupied the first place for 10 consecutive days.
Up to now, the cumulative number of moviegoers has exceeded 800,000, and the position on the box office list is second only to the zombie film "Alive" starring Park Shin-hye and Liu Yaren.
However, in terms of word of mouth, the performance of this film can be described as the most eye-catching.
The Korean opened with a score of 9.8, and the current rating tends to be stable, as high as 8.61, even compared with the current box office champion "Alive" (7.44), it is better in terms of word-of-mouth.
This new South Korean cinema line of mouth in June is a suspense movie starring Shin Hye-sun, Bae Jung-woo, Heo Jun-ho, Tae Heng-ho and so on.
"Innocence" (also known as "Innocence")
"Innocence" is a typical Korean suspense crime film, and the plot begins with a murder case.
In a certain family in the village, a funeral is being held.
The male protagonist's friends before his life gathered, did not expect to drink rice wine, these 5 friends have vomited up and down diarrhea, 1 died on the spot, 4 people were sent to the hospital for emergency treatment, including the mayor.
After a preliminary investigation by the police, the suspect was locked in the hostess of the family, Cai Huaci (Pei Zongyu).
At this time, Cha Jung-jin (Shin Hye-sun), a daughter who works as a lawyer in Seoul, learns of the case from the news and immediately returns to the village from Seoul to investigate.
In fact, Zheng Ren has not returned for more than ten years, when she accidentally fell off a stool with her brother on her back, causing her brother to be injured.
When he grew up, his younger brother Zheng Xiu could not be like a normal person because of autism, so his father blamed this result on Zheng Ren and scolded him at every turn.
After his father tore up Zheng Ren's college acceptance letter once, Zheng Ren completely collapsed.
She committed suicide by cutting her wrists, but she did not succeed, packed up her things and left that night, never to return home.
Today, Jeong In is an elite lawyer in Seoul, and she returned home because she was skeptical of the case.
Unexpectedly, my mother was already in a state of basic amnesia because of acute dementia, and the truth of the case was unknown.
To prove her mother's innocence, she began investigating the case.
But as soon as she began to investigate, she found that the whole incident was full of doubts.
First in the evening, it was discovered that someone had secretly infiltrated her home, and then it was discovered that the witnesses' confessions were false.
The testimony was provided by her father's former friend, and it was logically impossible to lie.
The lawyer who then defended her mother had no intention of defending her, and left it to the prosecution to convict.
She later found evidence of private meetings between prosecutors, police officers and witnesses, and even some people colluded with doctors privately to prevent her mother from being released on bail.
In addition, as she investigates the case in depth, people begin to come out to stop her actions, and she and her brother are threatened and beaten in the street.
At this moment, one of her elementary school classmates told her that a few months earlier, her mother had come to the police station to report the crime, calling her father and his five friends a murderer.
Could it be that there are any other secrets about her mother? Did it have something to do with her dad's friends?
At this point, there are many doubts, and the mystery involved in the case is like a snowball, getting bigger and bigger.
Is Mom innocent?
This question is left to you to find the answer for yourself.
Here is only to reveal that unlike the ending of too many Korean films exposing the darkness of society in the past, the heroine's choice is to use one truth to cover up another truth.
As a suspense movie, perhaps because it is adapted from a true story, "Innocence" is not very unexpected in the setting of the story structure.
But the secrets hidden in the story are still surprising, and the whole narrative rhythm is also remarkable.
At the beginning of the film, two major cases are introduced, first to satisfy people's appetites, and then to take the poisoning case as the main line to carry out the investigation.
In the process of investigation, clues appear little by little, the truths that try to be hidden are slowly dug up, and the whole story is like a spider web, weaving bigger and bigger.
At the end of the story, tie it all together again and give the circle back.
Therefore, in terms of the completeness and rhythm of the story, "Innocence" is worthy of praise.
In addition, because the film is not only a suspense story, but also a lot of ink on human nature and warmth.
Because of this, in terms of shooting, the film is also different from the general suspense film, and it is not based on creating suspense and contradictions.
First of all, in the design of the lens and the picture, it will be more inclined to the mobilization of emotions.
The film begins and ends with a set of contrasts of the same scenes, and the opening paragraph wants to show this hidden secret, using a black-and-white picture to show it.
And the ending is after everything is kept open to see the moon, under the same scene, the whole picture appears warm because of the rich colors.
The contrast between the two times, after watching the story in its entirety, will be touched.
The second is that the film reveals the truth at 2/3 of the way forward, and the time after that is left to the excavation of human nature and the redemption of family affection.
On the one hand, the direct representation of the story involved in the poisoning case lets us know how terrible human nature can be.
For the sake of profit, friends will also stab in the back, and even turn against each other.
On the other hand, how should the heroine choose in the face of so many unbearable facts and truths?
How do you make the facts public? How can the family bond that was once severed be tied back?
In general, the story itself alone is the most popular suspense crime film in South Korea.
But the reason why "Innocence" can stand out in south Korea's Theater movies in June and become a word-of-mouth hit is that the acting skills of the protagonists in the film are a big plus.
The heroine Cha Jung-jin plays Shin Hye-sun, which is her first time as a female number one on the big screen, after she starred in many high-scoring and high-rating Korean dramas, so she is also known as the queen of ratings.
She once starred in the high-scoring Korean drama "The Secret Forest", playing the newcomer prosecutor Yong Eun-so.
In this drama that brings together the queen of the film, Shin Hye-sun's acting skills not only did not drag his feet at all, but also surprised people, and finally won the "The Seoul Awards Best Newcomer Award".
After that, she was nominated for the Best Actress Award at the 54th Baeksang Arts Awards (TV Category) in South Korea in 2018 for "My Golden and Brilliant Life".
This time starring in "Innocence", in fact, it is also a bit of a fateful meaning.
Before deciding to participate in the performance of "Innocence", she was busy with other work, and before she could finish reading the script, she put it on the table and went out.
Unexpectedly, Shen's father accidentally read the script at home, and excitedly said to her: "Daughter, you should read this script well, this role is worth fighting for!" ”
Director Park Sang-hyun also said that because he watched her delicate performance in "The Secret Forest", he pointed out that he wanted to find Shin Hye-sun as the heroine.
In the film, Shin Hye-sun alone does not have a little collapse from beginning to end, and in the film, she mainly has 3 states, before running away from home, before accepting the case, and after knowing the truth.
In these three states, her performance can make people clearly distinguish.
And several big emotional changes in the film, her performance is very natural and delicate, empathy is particularly strong.
Especially the confrontation scene between her and her mother in the detention center, her mother's sudden awakening, plus a confession, directly made her emotionally collapse.
She went from being an elite lawyer who was thoughtful at every turn, and suddenly it was like she had been broken in disguise, to the little girl who needed her mother's protection more than a decade ago.
Holding my mother and crying this section is very contagious and quite tear-inducing!
Of course, the birth of this famous acting scene also lies in the fact that she plays against her is Pei Zongyu, a Baixiang film queen who has been debuting for 35 years.
This post-film figure not only holds a doctorate degree from Korea University, but is also an adjunct professor of the Drama Department of Chung-Ang University in South Korea, and is the first artist in the Korean performing arts industry to obtain a doctorate!
In recent years, she has mainly performed in drama and stage plays, and it is rare to appear in a movie to contribute to the famous scenes of the drama, and she has to be served.
In the film, her expression between dementia and normal people changes, it seems that there is no big change, in fact, the scene is in the eyes.
In summary, "Innocence" as a Korean-style suspense warm film, acting skills online, the story is qualified, although there are some small loopholes, but the flaws are not hidden.
More importantly, the temperature of family affection in the story can be personally felt after reading it, and it is worth it. #影视杂谈 #
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