Black Dahlia is a 2006 suspense drama film. If you look at the degree of obscurity and confusion in the whole film process, it is really Zhang'er Kong who is confused and has a sense of suspense. But if you look at the results of the film, in fact, the case has been broken, and the truth is also revealed, which is not a suspenseful case!
This is a film based on a best-selling novel with a very tortuous and complicated plot. However, just like films adapted from novels such as "The Da Vinci Code" and "Harry Potter", the rich data in the book is almost a matter of seeking fish in two hours in the movie, and many details can only be selected to be taken in a hurried image or dialogue, which is simply a big test for the audience who have not seen the original book.
In addition to the detective's pursuit of the murder of a young star Elizabeth Short, another main axis of the story is the relationship between the two detectives Butch (josh Hart) and Lee (played by Alan Eckhart), involving the two sides of the justice police and the corrupt police, a moral struggle of love, betrayal and lust, thus telling the dark side of society and human nature.
Faithful to the original work, the plot begins with the narration narration of the protagonist Butch, telling the whole story, but his narration is not a kind of annotation, but makes the plot more like a pusher in the clouds. But if we've seen Mission Impossible, we wouldn't doubt this arrangement, because the director is Brian de Palma. From "Mission Impossible", we know that Parma likes to make complex, this time to get such a huge and complex script, how can he not be special?
Therefore, starting from the name of each character, to the metaphor, clues and rhythm of the plot, Parma uses repeated crossover techniques to take the maximum of complexity, and must show the ultimate suspense. For example, the male protagonist Butch's name is "Douai", "Butch", "Bright", and even the title of "Mr. Ice", everyone calls him differently, not to mention other characters.
Although the original name of the foreigner is like this, it is not very considerate to play this set in the movie. Infuriatingly, after half a day of complexity, the arrangement when the water came out seemed to be within reach, Butch suddenly understood to the scene of the murder, took a trip, turned back to ask the key people, and immediately the answer was revealed, which was a bit of a top-heavy loss.
The background of the story is in Los Angeles in 1947, in order to present the retro atmosphere of that era, the costumes and set props are successful, and the whole film is deliberately adjusted to a faint nostalgic tone, but the tone is not uniform, a very retro, a sudden like a return to the modern, let people feel like time and space interlaced.
The temperament and physicality of the actors have also been leaked, Josh Hartnett is still a 20th century person no matter how he looks, and Scarlett Johansson's Kay, although full of costumes from that era, is full of modernity and is a failed performance for her.
It is surprising that Hillary Swank will be looking for a performance of Madeleine, a rich woman who looks like the deceased Elizabeth Short, and to be honest, apart from a few identical outfits and deliberate angles that seem to be somewhat similar, the two of them are not at all at all, which is not convincing.
However, Hillary expresses Madeleine's charming, mysterious, perverted, and deep snake and scorpion heart to the fullest, which can be said to be the most scene-stealing one.
We have seen a lot of homicidal reasoning cases, and this film is not too amazing in solving the case reasoning, but it is a very set of descriptions of human nature. The male protagonist Butch is a good man, and he has repeatedly compromised during his police career, playing fake boxing matches for the cost of his father's admission to the nursing home. Kai, the girlfriend who loves her friend Lee, can only be put in her heart until after her friend dies in the line of duty.
During his investigation of the Dahlia case, he is unable to extricate himself from madeleine's erotic temptations, which may be due to madeleine and Elizabeth's resemblance, a perverted empathy effect that he himself cannot clearly identify. In the end, whether his union with Kai was because he found that she was not as pure as she looked, but also had characteristics from the sinful world, it was more intriguing to say.
Lee is ostensibly a hot-blooded good cop, but in fact the reason for his promotion is a dirty lie, which he knows himself, so he must deceive Butch, for the aftermath of this lie, for the matter may be exposed and all the time he is afraid.
And his enthusiasm for the Dahlia case, in addition to the psychology of compensating for the death of his fifteen-year-old sister, is another opportunity for him to extort money. Such a conflict between good and evil makes his role full of twists and turns.
The most pitiful is Elizabeth, a small star who wants to become popular in Hollywood, but innocently died of brutality, a miserable death, ironically after her death, she is really popular, on the headlines. What happened to her was one of the tragedies of that era. The perverted family she met at the last stage of her life is also a microcosm of the perverted hearts of the people in society, indirectly satirizing this corrupt and full of lies.
Whether you can read it or not, after watching this film, it makes people think a little about it, which is quite a nerve-wracking film.