The crossroads of "Detective War" ｜ Window of Suspense

"Breaking!" "Crazy!" This is the first view of the Chinese Hong Kong film "Detective War" recently released. I have to say that this film in 2022 continues in 2007. The protagonist of the film "Detective" is alternative, the plot is compact and there are highlights such as the downturn's domestic suspense film market. Just 8 days after the release, the box office has exceeded 300 million yuan, and has won a good reputation among the audience.

"Detective War" tells that in Hong Kong from the late 1980s to the early 1990s, there were major major cases such as the "butcher case" and "magic police case". In addition to the death of death and true murderer, the only police station "Detective" Li Jun (Liu Qingyun), who was close to the truth, was dismissed by the police force for psychiatric patients because of some excessive behaviors. Until 2020, a group of victims of the case of the year formed a group who claimed to be "detective". According to the truth analyzed by Li Jun, he launched a series of revenge on the true murderer of the injustice and the police officer who had lost the case.

Chen Yi (Cai Zhuoyan), the only survivor in the "Butcher Case", was rescued by the Police Police Lixin (Lin Feng), and later became the "husband and wife detective" of the heavy case group with Fang Lixin. In order to find out the truth of the injustice and prevent the crime of the "detective" group, Chen Yi decided to cooperate with Li Jun. However, the final truth of the case was greatly unexpected ...

From the actors' acting skills, realistic and explosive scenes, and fascinating themes, "Detective War" can be said to be a suspense movie above the standard, but there is still a lot of distance from excellent suspense films. There is also a gap between the Hong Kong police and bandit films during the peak.

First of all, the biggest flaw of the film is in the plot. For suspense movies, in addition to the "explosive plot" that can attract people's attention, the logic and coherence of the story is also crucial. "Detective War" happens to lack these two aspects. The beginning of the movie directly cut into the plot with a vicious case one after another, and then Chen Yi and Li Jun followed up and tried to prevent the "Detective" group attacking the next revenge goal. Chen Yi's colleague's colleague police officer's assistance or obstruction. Most of the time the story of the story is compact, so that the audience has no time to think about the problems that may exist in the plot, but when the plot enters the last climax and reverses, the audience calm down and review the entire case. It is reasonable, which has also led to the shocking reversal of the real murderer behind the film, but due to the lack of plot pavement and character creation, many of his behaviors have not been reasonably explained, resulting in the ultimate villain to promote the suspense plot. , "Video Tool Man" for reversal.

For a long time, the Chinese suspense film market lacks its due respect and attention to the position of screenwriter. The screenwriters and directors of "Detective War" are also held by Wei Jiahui alone. This may be an important reason for the scene of the scene and stimulating the plot, but the logic and coherence of the story.

Secondly, it can be seen that "Detective War" has made efforts to break through the traditional Hong Kong police bandit film model, but lacks a clear theme. Not only different from Jackie Chan's "Lonely Heroes" created in the "Police Story" series of movies, but also different from the "double protagonist" of the two camps of the "Infernal Affairs" series, respectively. The film "Detective" of the main creative team, the protagonist of an anti -traditional hero who tried to create, Liu Qingyun played in the two movies, both of which are alternative "detectives" with schizophrenia. Nietzsche's famous saying "When you stare at the abyss, the abyss is also gaze at you". In particular, Li Jun, the protagonist of "Detective War", finally left a shadow that was unknown in the reflection of the window, leaving the audience reverie. But if even the protagonist is exactly that evil cannot give a clear answer, how can such police bandits have a long -term attractive general public with simple and wrong?

(Author: Zhang Xuan focuses on research inference, suspense, detective literature and television, with millions of -related works.)

【Edit: Zhang Jing】

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