Convict Me: A Fusion of Surrealism and Medical Shady

The super blockbuster "Captain America 3" attacked the city at the box office, earning more than 600 million yuan in just three days on the weekend, while the domestic film "Convict Me", which was released on the same day, although it did not have an advantage in the schedule, it was a good film that was eye-catching and refreshing. The film "Convict Me" uses a surreal expression technique to carry forward the core of film noir, face the current medical community and various shady scenes inside the hospital, combined with the recent high-profile Wei Zexi incident and Putian medical institutions and other hot spots, highlighting the avant-garde and precious of this film.

"Convict Me" is a black crime suspense film written and directed by Sun Liang, starring Li Xinyun, Wu Zhenyu, Dai Liren, Tian Xiaojie, Li Zhizheng and so on. Based on a true case, the film tells the story of female doctor Feng Xuehui (played by Li Xinyun), due to the death of her daughter, and the relationship with her husband Fang Wennan (played by Wu Zhenyu) fell into a freezing point. Inside the hospital, because of the death of patients and doctors jumping off buildings and other incidents have aroused the attention of the police, police officers Zhang Yue (played by Tian Xiaojie), vice president Kang Furong (played by Dai Liren), colleague Jiang Lihang (played by Li Zhizheng), each man has a different purpose to approach Feng Xuehui. As the police investigation deepened, problems such as the quality of the drug and the kickbacks of the pharmaceutical factory began to surface, and while the case gradually became clear, a larger conspiracy also followed.

"Convict Me" is a standard film noir, the tone of the film is gloomy, pessimistic, showing cynicism and human crisis, and the whole film is full of suspense, thrilling and terrifying sense of crisis. The heroine of the film, Feng Xuehui, like Natalie Portman in "Black Swan", is weak in appearance and is constrained everywhere, but in fact, she is scheming and ambitious, which makes people guess. As the saying goes, "two fists are not equal to four hands", but the heroine Feng Xuehui constantly stages a good play of "one against four", circling between the four men of husband, vice president, colleague and policeman, by changing the four different identities of wife, subordinate, colleague and whistleblower, to achieve the purpose of ulterior motives. In the film, many surreal plots are portrayed, such as the heroine grabbing the bug at hand and squeezing it into the palm of her hand, the heroine's hand appearing out of thin air with dense insects, and various performances are filled with a large number of visual metaphors, with rich contrasts between reality and fantasy, just like a tribute to Luis Buñuel's surrealist masterpiece "An Andalus Dog".

The release of the film "Convict Me" can be said to have gone through ups and downs, director Sun Liang has repeatedly deleted and modified the content of the film, the preparation period is as long as 5 years, and the review time has gone through 13 months. This film is the debut of female director Sun Liang, who has participated in the Busan Film Festival, the Beijing University Student Film Festival, the Beijing International Film Festival, etc., and has won the "Window on Asian Films" unit award at the 20th Busan Film Festival. The famous Korean director Kim Ki-duk highly praised the film, saying that he liked the subject matter, the story of the film is great, the actor's performance is also very good, the emotional drama of the whole film is very important, as a debut work, the director's degree of completion is very high.