In fact, the truth is that Xu Hanlin died because he was accidentally pushed off the terrace while beating his daughter Xu Xue and fell to his death. All this was seen through the telescope by Wang Yuanyang, who silently cared about his daughter after being released from prison.
So he took the initiative and used horrific techniques such as heavy blows, burning rocks, and sinking into the sea to destroy Xu Hanlin's body. After the body was accidentally discovered, he continued to guide the investigation of the case, trying to take the blame for his daughter.
When Lin Zhengzhong investigated the Xu Hanlin case by tracing the doubts about the Xu Yiyun case twenty years ago, and was about to identify the real murderer Xu Xue, and forced Wang Yuanyang to a desperate situation on the roof of the building for questioning, he who could not speak sent a letter explaining that year
A text message of the truth to the police detective, and at the same time, death brought an end to everything.
Father as a mountain.
When Wang Yuanyang smiled at Lin Zhengzhong, opened his arms and fell from the roof, the tears that kept falling proved the weight of these four words.
After just a few scenes, director Zhou Xiangyang was very satisfied with Su Ze's performance. No wonder even Zhang Jiahui actively recommended it.
He plays a mute and has no lines. To use such a character as the protagonist and carry the whole movie, the difficulty of the actor's performance can be seen.
Therefore, it is very important to choose an actor, otherwise the whole movie will be focused on this role. Su Ze only used expressions, eyes and body language to vividly portray a prisoner who had been wrongfully imprisoned for 20 years and a father who risked his life for his daughter.
In order to speed up the pace, the beginning was designed to be a bloody group fight. Su Ze needed to challenge four, which was very real and set a weird tone.
I never expected that Su Ze's action scenes were so strong. The originally difficult design was completed in one go, making people hooked.
The subsequent editing, soundtrack, and Nick Cheung's gloomy expression all made the film increasingly weird, and the occasional overlapping narrative technique also increased the tension.
From a director's perspective, the core of this work is actually father's love. The three fathers actually love their daughters deeply. Even the extremely controlling musician father played by Wang Minde is still willing to give everything he has to her.
daughter.
Even though this daughter is not his flesh and blood, she has put all his efforts into it. This can also be seen from the fact that he continues to raise his daughter.
When dealing with this character, we must not fall into the cliché of a non-biological father and daughter, which brings the whole story to a higher level.
Although the tone of the entire film is bloody and violent, it does not lose its deep masculinity. The cases are tragic but the personality is not chaotic. It explores the relationship between father and daughter within the scope that normal people can accept and can happen to them.
The fathers played by Wang Minde and Simon Yam both love their daughters, but they both fail. One is a failure caused by his own success, and the other is a failure caused by his own failure.
But their original intentions are good, and it is also the path that many people have taken or are taking. Especially in adolescence, distance and conflict are bound to arise between daughters and fathers.
Wang Minde's control is too strict and things will turn against each other. Simon Yam's control is too little and in the end he can't control it. Under high pressure, the good girl and the slightly laissez-faire little girl will do what their father fears most - have sex with a boy or a man too early.
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In fact, every father has a strong desire to protect the daughter he has worked so hard to raise, and it can easily become a desire to control that restricts her growth and contact with society and other people. Loving her may also be harming her.
Because every adolescent child, regardless of boy or girl, will be extremely rebellious, and high pressure can only make the rebound stronger.
It's a pity that Su Ze is a little regretful that her mother has become a weak point. The two died in passing, and the only one can only be regarded as the adoptive mother, and she has a questionable IQ. She simplified a complex case, wiped the same ground repeatedly, and was in
Every time the police come?
Even a passing police officer cannot help but be suspicious, right?
In addition, when my husband died, I didn’t feel sad and cried bitterly. The slightly nervous and panicked eyes clearly told everyone: I am a person with stories.
Wouldn't it look better if this character was more fleshed out?
Of course, no work can be perfect. The Great Pursuit itself is not a suspense mystery in the strict sense, it is just a cover-up to discuss the relationship between father and daughter.
Compared with Johnnie To, Chong Man-keung, and Lam Chiu-yin, this time the director showed another set of dark and deep cold violence, using the tension of the plot to replace the hot violence of gunfire.
For example, the fight in prison at the beginning, the mutilation of corpses under the moonlight, the murder of a girl twenty years ago, etc. It is obvious that the director's interest is biased towards cult films, but in order to adapt to the censorship standards, he has restrained himself.
When expressing such scenes, on the one hand, the lens light is used to emphasize it, and on the other hand, side renderings and psychological hints are also used to stimulate various associations in the audience.
Rather than the crime itself, the director pays more attention to the exploration and portrayal of the characters' motivations. Wang Yuanyang, played by himself, is an extremely serious criminal who looks very dangerous. He poses a threat to the heroine every step of the way, killing people under the moonlight and causing more trouble.
But this is not enough to shock the audience. What shocks the audience even more is why he did this?
Finally reveals his fate, his wrongs and his injustice.
For this mystery movie, the answer is important, but the contradiction in human nature behind the answer is even more interesting. When the audience thinks that everything is for revenge, the movie tells you that it is not, everything is because of love.
The three fathers are all like this, but some of them have wrong love. Love is colder than death, more powerful than revenge, and is a deeper human motivation than revenge and death.
Here Su Ze has to lament that Hong Kong movies have been looking for some kind of breakthrough point for resurgence in recent years. Whether it is story or form or structure, if you want to resurgence, you must have a different perspective.
"The King" is based on black humor and satirical reality, "Sister Tao" is based on warm and touching feelings, and "The Hunt" is a completely different kind of humanistic care.
It tells you that "the truth may not be important" but "the talents in front of you are the most cherished", which means living in the present.
The reason why the first half of the film continues to create a thrilling and suspenseful atmosphere, and even uses the bloody violence and tragic details of the murder scene as seasoning, to continuously create waves of challenges for the audience, is to combine the rich humanistic care at the end.
——The most touching emotion——Pushed to the highest point.
When the audience understood that he was a father who had never been with his daughter and watched her grow up, this huge turn brought an impact, and the ideas that positioned him as a murderer with a criminal record were shattered.
The gestures of holding feet, looking at hands, and touching faces intimately touch people's hearts even more.
Yes, he is just an ordinary person who has the right to have the emotions that everyone should have.
Why do you open Xu Xue's hand to look at it, hold it gently, look at her feet, touch her again, see her face, put your forehead close to her cheek, and show an expression.
Parents all know that when their children are still young, do they think that there are such small hands and feet in the world, and these small hands and feet are actually their own children? Look at the sleeping face of the child, how much do you think?
Get close and kiss.
Wang Yuanyang missed all of this. He had always only watched it all outside the glass window, and wanted to use this unreasonable way to have such emotions for a short time.
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