Aaron Kwok, Duan Yihong , Zhang Zifeng " Secret Visitor " is a suspenseful and thrilling movie.
For director Chen Zhengdao , many fans must be familiar with it.
Although his " memory master " was light-hearted, the first half of the film still produced an avant-garde sci-fi concept that is rarely seen in Chinese-language movies.
And his " Hypnosis Master " brought a brain-burning experience to the audience, and its subversive ending is very happy, it is really amazing.
This "Secret Visitor" is also full of brain-burning and game-in-game plots just like the previous two works.
Unfortunately, it ended in haste, and the situation feels more serious than "Master of Memory".
The movie has a first-class cast. The entire movie was shot in South Korea, and the movie also strives to pursue the routine of Japanese and Korean thrillers, and then creates a sense of unease from the gorgeous mansion.
Even though most of the time happens in the mansion, I don't think there is anything boring. The first half of
is highly relatable and suspenseful, making the audience unconsciously use their brains.
is really enough to burn the brain, but unfortunately the plot didn't unfold much.
"Secret Visitor" has been playing tricks and tricks for a long time. At this point, I feel that the movie is difficult to end, and there will be a next one.
When suspense has been pulled to the top without revealing the secret, it is not surprising that the movie will end in haste.
After Chen Zhengdao challenged how to perfectly combine supernatural elements in Chinese movies in "Hypnosis Master", this time, even bullying , wealth disparity , legal injustice, etc. are all included in the movie.
If this is a Korean movie, it is estimated that it can be made into a masterpiece.
But there are many restrictions on domestic movies, so under this situation, everything can only be avoided, which seems to be hesitant to say.
In short, the movie has built a very large pattern, but the interpretation of the ending is very far-fetched, which is really more disappointing than "Master of Memory".
The school bus driver Yu Chenqiao was killed in an accident (only one student survived). Even though he escaped the French Open, he was worried that he would be "private" by the victim's family.
Suffering from short-term amnesia, he was fortunate to be taken in by Mr. Wang, the surviving student, Chu Qi's father.
After being in the Wang family for a long time, he began to feel that this family hides all kinds of secrets, and he even felt that there were ghosts and shadows in the mansion, following the family like a shadow.
At first, he was unimpressed. But as the memories and haze of the past gradually emerged, he began to discover that the family's secrets were far beyond his imagination, and the accident was not as simple as it used to be...
Unlike the two "Masters", "Secret Visitor" does not have sci-fi elements, but it still has a strange feeling of ghosts and shadows. Under the framework of domestic movies, there is no need for spoilers to know that there will be no "ghosts", but how to make a perfect interpretation in the case of "obvious ghosts", whether it can inherit the subtlety of the script of "Hypnosis Master".
This can be said to be a simple suspenseful story about the complex relationship of this family and everyone hiding some secrets. But in the process of watching, I obviously feel that this is like playing the popular "script kill".
Chen Zhengdao did not disappoint when it comes to creating suspense and creating tension.
Soon after the opening, it quickly created the due tension and suspense, and quickly brought the audience a desire to watch "what happened".
Since this is an "open cage", it can come in and out of its own accord. Why is the so-called "fugitive" Yu Qianqiao willing to be trapped?
This family obviously "has a ghost in their heart", but they pretend to be a good person. What is the hidden secret behind it?
You know that there are no "ghosts", but how do those strange pictures appear? These suspense are slowly laid out, making the first half of the episode not only a thriller, but also a tense puzzle-solving scene.
As the style of the previous work, "Secret Visitor" is also very thoughtful in terms of technology.
Even though almost the entire movie takes place in a big house, the camera scheduling is done to every corner of the house, and the audio-visual entertainment is extremely high, which can even be compared with Feng Junhao 's " parasite ". Down.
"Secret Visitor" was all filmed in South Korea. Although the intention is unclear, it really has the style of Japanese and Korean thriller movies.
In terms of camera placement and atmosphere, it's like watching a Korean black thriller.
These have repeatedly broken through the domestic framework of the same type of film, which is a bolder attempt by Chen Zhengdao.
And that meticulous audio-visual technology, "Secret Visitor" did not live up to the expectations of the audience.
This film was defeated by the script.
"Hypnosis Master" and "Memory Master" have established a huge world view and extremely brain-burning way, the former story can finally make a perfect interpretation, even if the latter is superfluous, it is still a good story.
But after "Secret Visitor" pushed everything to the extreme, it was obvious that he couldn't hold back, and the ending had to use a memory to explain everything, which gave people the feeling of being an anti-climax.
Chen Zhengdao said in the interview that the audience must take the place of the five characters , and from the emotions and backgrounds of the five characters, in order to understand everything about this family and the hardships hidden behind them.
The first half of the movie has been constantly building up the secrets of the characters, and has not explained the characters' pasts in depth.
Only at the end of the series suddenly passed a series of "flashbacks", it is really difficult for the audience to immerse in the deep pain of the character, and even recall the first half.
These will only make people feel that Chen Zhengdao is constantly making up mysteries and creating too many foreshadowings to mislead the audience, but in the end it is difficult to explain everything well and make it coherent.
chose the method of reminiscing through a monologue, and suddenly "exploded his life". Even if the truth of the ending is unexpected, it is difficult for the audience to synchronize with the protagonist and uncover the truth layer by layer like the first two works.
Zhou Dongyu , Yi Yang Qianxi starring " Teenage You " was forced to postpone the release due to "technical problems", so I know that bullying is a taboo subject, and domestic movies are still difficult to touch.
In addition to bullying, "Secret Visitor" also touches on issues that are difficult for domestic creations to touch, such as the disparity between the rich and the poor, legal loopholes, and so on.
is already extremely sensitive in terms of subject matter, and the movie will inevitably avoid the heavy and light, or even hesitate to say anything, and can only rely on the audience to "make up for it" by themselves.
Of course, if "Secret Visitor" could be made a little bolder, had a more reasonable explanation, and had a more delicate plot, then the story of these five family members could be made into a TV series at any time.
In this way, the movie can only explain in haste, and even feels that the movie seems to have deleted a lot of fragments, which is difficult to coherent.
Many characters and plots start off without a clear description, resulting in inconsistent characters. In the first half of
, you may find the constantly reversing plot layout very enjoyable, but when the layout is overdone but fails to be explained well, everything becomes top-heavy and far-fetched.
Aaron Kwok's acting skills in "Secret Visitor" still remain in the exaggerated acting skills of "Sanchakou", while his character Mr. Pushing it too far, he can't deduce the psychological struggle between the role of good and evil.
Instead, Duan Yihong plays a poor man who is entangled in the past and has long been accustomed to compromising. The scenes of several inner battles are in stark contrast to Aaron Kwok.
Mrs. Wang, played by Weining Xu , is set too thin under the constraints of the script, and can only be reduced to the role of a vase.
And Zhang Zifeng is always rebellious from beginning to end, as dazzling as " hello , Zhihua".
All in all, The Secret Visitor is a real disappointment.
Of course, the first half of the movie has a strong flavor of suspense, and just a few episodes make people want to watch it.
, coupled with first-class art direction and various technical fields, also makes the film audio-visual meticulous, inheriting the aesthetic skills of Chen Zhengdao's previous works.
Unfortunately, the story has been pushed to the extreme, but there is no way to explain it well, or because of time constraints or domestic creation constraints, the film ended hastily.
The audience can't get into the perspective of the protagonist, and the ending of the story is equally unclear.
The concept of "home", the definition of "freedom", and the embodiment of "the spirit of the rule of law" in the film can only be conveyed through empty words in the dialogue.
In this way, the movie is completely lacking the amazingness of "Hypnosis Master".
At the moment when "Secret Visitor" ended, the audience seemed to feel inexplicable, and they couldn't figure out what happened in the story, what was the relationship between the family, and was it really what they understood?
Chen Zhengdao tried his best to create suspense, and the movie hid all the time and space and the background of this family from the very beginning.
All this is because "Dad" Mr. Wang wants to be "private" with the troubled woodcutter, and because each family member has their own difficulties, making them a "family".
Movies may not be able to tell the story, you probably know what's going on, but it's hard to understand the full ins and outs.
Here we will start with the original accident in the story and share what happened in chronological order.
As a school bus driver, Yu Qiao Qiao has always been living at the bottom of the society, living a submissive life, knowing that he can live well as long as he compromises, so he was bullied by the students of the aristocratic school.
These aristocratic students are like devils, not only bullying their classmates, but even being taken to court by the students, falsely accusing him of dangerous driving, only the female monitor Lulu (Wang Shengdi) is defending him.
In an aristocratic school, there is Chen Zhengqi, the son of a factory owner, who is also the target of bullying by his classmates.
Once, Chen Zhengqi was teased by his classmate Wang Chuqi and asked him to pay 100 yuan to ask him to stop at the sleepy woodcutter to help him tie his shoelaces.
Yu Qiao knew well Chen Zhengqi's plight and wanted to help him. Unexpectedly, there was an accident while parking. The school bus was knocked over by an out-of-control truck and fell off the cliff.
In desperation, Yu Qiaoqiao tried to climb down the hill to save people, but accidentally fell and was sent to the hospital.
Although Yu Qiao Qiao was not the culprit that caused the accident, he was found not guilty, but he could not escape the hardships of angry parents. At this time, Mr. Wang, the protagonist of the story, had the opportunity to go to the hospital to find him.
Mr. Wang's son, Wang Chuqi, died in the car accident . He has always hoped that Yu Qiao Qiao would be punished by law, so that he could use his own financial resources to bring Yu Qiao Qiao, who had short-term memory loss after the car accident, to the basement of his home.
Then they arranged extras to act as parents, scaring the sleepy woodcutter and making him mistakenly think that the parents outside wanted to abuse him, and only Mr. Wang treated him the best, gave him a home, and continued to stay in the house set up by Mr. Wang. In prison, suffering from the pain of the past.
The purpose of Mr. Wang's move is to hope that he will one day realize himself and take the initiative to plead guilty to the police station.
As for the background of the son "Wang Chuqi", what role does the daughter Wang Chutong play in the story, and what is the relationship between the "fake mother" and the "real mother"? I won't say more, you are welcome to share your views in the comments section.
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