As the suspenseful soundtrack sounded, the audience in the theater fell silent for the first time.
The first shot of the movie starts with an aerial shot of the city. The street scene takes the form of a time slowdown, quickly transitioning from day to night.
Coupled with the help of the soundtrack, just one opening creates an eerie and mysterious atmosphere.
The scene moves from far to near. A black car stops on the street, and the lawyer played by Zhang Haiyi gets out of the car.
The camera followed Zhang Haiyi into the hotel in one shot.
Although the background of the story has been adapted and set in China, the decoration and scenery of the hotel still look quite different from some hotels in life.
It's not that realistic, but generally speaking it's more cinematic.
The screen follows the lawyer to the door of the room. There is a knock on the door. Jiang Zhe, the character played by Jiang Yuan, wearing a close-fitting T-shirt, opens the door and welcomes the lawyer into the room.
"Give me a few minutes to change clothes." Jiang Zhe greeted the lawyer and temporarily left the screen.
The camera then shows a close-up of the TV news, introducing the background of the story to the audience.
"Recently, Zhang Qianyu, a well-known photographer and artist, died. It is currently speculated that he was most likely killed by his lover Jiang Zhe, a young and promising entrepreneur who just recently...
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A short piece of news roughly explained the reason why the hero and the lawyer met in the hotel.
It also made the audience feel a little more energetic. After all, they are lovers and murderers, and the character setting is still a young and promising entrepreneur. It is very touching to watch.
After the news was played, Jiang Yuan also changed his shirt and appeared again to talk to the lawyer. The first round of confrontation began before the audience even realized it.
The lawyer informed the male protagonist that the progress of the case suddenly changed. Because of the sudden appearance of a witness, Jiang Zhe had to attend the lawsuit that day. There were only a few hours left before the start of the lawsuit.
In response to this situation, the lawyer needs the male protagonist to tell more details of the case.
Jiang Zhe said in this regard that during the previous process, he had already said everything he could tell.
In response, the lawyer continued to recount his glorious past, and the countdown to litigation convinced the male protagonist to tell the story completely again.
"Let's start from the beginning. Which hotel were you and the deceased in?" The two sat opposite each other, and the female lawyer pressed the countdown stopwatch and asked.
The camera started to move, and the scene switched to a castle-like hotel covered in snow, entering Jiang Zhe's narration.
"Someone asked us to go there..."
According to Jiang Zhe's account, someone knew about his relationship with Zhang Qianyu and threatened to blackmail them into doing business at this location.
"Why choose a hotel so far away?" the lawyer asked timely.
Regarding this question, Jiang Zhe shook his head and expressed that he was unclear.
The lawyer then mentioned a text message that played a key role in the case.
The scene once again cut back to the hotel room. While waiting, Jiang Zhe received a text message.
The text message was sent through Zhang Qianyu's mobile phone, and the two immediately realized that it was a trap.
The two quickly started to take action and prepared to leave. Just as Jiang Zhe took the extorted cash and stood in front of the mirror to sort out his clothes, he was suddenly hit by a mysterious man who appeared in the room and threw the dressing mirror into a coma.
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After being unconscious for a few minutes, when Jiang Zhe woke up again, the nightmare began.
The police came to the door and knocked on the door at some unknown time. At this moment, Jiang Zhe discovered that Zhang Qianyu had been killed at some unknown time.
When the male protagonist was still immersed in grief, the police broke into the door, just like a crime scene where the evidence was complete and was just caught.
According to the report provided by the police, on the day of the incident, witnesses heard screams coming from the room, but did not see anyone leaving the room.
The door was locked from the room, and the windows in the room were not designed to be opened from inside. There was no trace of anyone else's presence at the scene.
Based on this, a secret room environment has been formed, and it also clicks on the title of the movie.
If there is such a person in the room, it can only be an invisible guest.
Only Jiang Zhe still claimed that there was indeed such a third party in the room, and that he had hidden himself in the room long ago.
The review and advancement of the case seems to have reached a dead end at this point, and it is difficult to make new breakthroughs.
Jiang Zhe also said once again that he had already explained everything that happened.
At this time, the lawyer once again laid out a folder and opened it in front of Jiang Zhe. It was a newspaper.
The newspaper's front page news reported that a young man had disappeared.
"Perhaps the newly found witness will know what happened?"
The moment the newspaper appeared, Jiang Zhe's expression changed slightly.
At this time, the lawyer further passed the tight deadline and asked Jiang Zhe whether he really did not know the true identity of the mysterious man who appeared in the hotel room.
After asking this question, Jiang Zhe hesitated for a while and then started a new round of narration.
It's just that this time the timeline has been extended a lot further.
"Every story begins three months ago..."
The narration began again, and Jiang Zhe indeed had something to hide in his previous narration.
Three months ago, Jiang Zhe had an affair with his lover Zhang Qianyu in a private suburban villa. On the way out, the male protagonist drove on the mountain road and made some scumbag confession in order to end the relationship.
But this time, because a roe deer suddenly ran out of the road, he accidentally collided with an oncoming car without reacting, and a car accident occurred.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The two got out of the car to check and found that the owner of the other car was a young man with his head bent over the steering wheel. It was the young man in the report.
At this time, Jiang Zhe made the decision to call the police, but the character played by Yu Xiaoyu made a completely different choice at this time.
Zhang Qianyu decided to hide the car accident and pretend that nothing happened.
However, when the two were preparing to drive away, they noticed a vehicle driving behind them and were about to reach this section of the road.
Regarding this situation, Zhang Qianyu also made an immediate decision, pretending to be the owner of another car and standing on the side of the road with Jiang Zhe, hiding it from the passing vehicles.
But when witnesses appeared at the scene, the nature of the whole thing was completely different.
Because she was worried that the passing car owner would remember the incident later, Zhang Qianyu made an immediate decision. The two of them needed to dispose of the body and the vehicle together.
At Zhang Qianyu's request, Jiang Zhe drove the accident vehicle and left the scene with the young man's body.
"If there hadn't been..." Jiang Zhe narrated the whole story, showing great regret, and a tear appeared in the corner of his eye at the right time.
After seeing Jiang Yuan's performance in this section, the audience in the theater felt their hearts twitching.
Although he clearly knew that this character was a scumbag in the movie, he acted like a very conscientious Yazi.
In addition, humans are always visual creatures, but when you see a good-looking person showing this state, especially that one drop of just-right tears, it is called a feeling of fragmentation.
In the theater, no one made a sound, everyone was watching the movie intently.
The movie had just started, and everyone was completely brought into the rhythm of the movie. They felt that the story was developing very quickly. Some people even couldn't help but glance at the time to confirm.
"Where did you leave the car?" the lawyer asked.
"It sank into the water." Jiang Zhe replied.
"Did it sink with that man?" the lawyer asked further.
The scene once again cuts back to the narrative, Jiang Zhe drives all the way, and time transitions from day to night.
Finally, we came to a lakeside. When we were about to push the car into the water, we heard a deer passing by and was startled.
In the end, the vehicle sank into the water.
"What happened then?"
The two of them had left their seats and stood in front of the hotel window at some point. After Jiang Zhe felt regretful, the lawyer continued to ask questions.
The camera cut back to the narrative story again. After Jiang Zhe sank the car into the water, he called Zhang Qianyu from his spare number and told him his location.
When the two met again, Zhang Qianyu shared his experiences during this period with Jiang Zhe.
After Jiang Zhe drove away, Zhang Qianyu tried to contact someone to repair the vehicle, but failed.
Fortunately, a kind-hearted uncle drove by. The uncle said that he used to be an engineer for a car company and could help repair the car, but he had all the tools at home.
So Zhang Qianyu was brought home by tow truck.
The uncle was repairing the car, while his wife was responsible for entertaining Zhang Qianyu. During the conversation, his wife showed Zhang Qianyu photos of her children.
But after seeing the photos, Zhang Qianyu fell into a rather frightened mood.
Because the young man in the photo is clearly the one the two of them bumped into.
At this time, my wife happened to be chatting with someone about her children, and she said that she had been out for a whole day and had not come back yet.
At this time, the uncle repaired the vehicle, gave the key to Zhang Qianyu, and asked his wife if she would stay with him for dinner.
Zhang Qianyu, on the other hand, had already fallen into a state of disbelief and was about to leave after taking the key.
The wife hung up the phone and discussed the children with her husband. She took the phone and made a call to see what was going on.
Zhang Qianyu, who noticed the conversation between the two, was quite alarmed to find that she had taken the other person's mobile phone.
After dialing the number, the cell phone rang in the house.
The couple heard the sound and came over. Zhang Qianyu stuffed the phone behind the pillow on the sofa out of desperation. When the couple saw this, they thought it was because the child had forgotten to bring the phone out.
Although she felt a little strange, she still watched Zhang Qianyu drive away.
After this incident, Jiang Zhe and Jiang Zhe disposed of the car they were driving together and agreed not to meet again.
After returning to normal life, while Jiang Zhe was coping with life, he could never forget the mistake he made.
At this time, a police officer whom Jiang Zhe knew called and briefly explained the situation before continuing his narrative.
The disappearance of a young man appears on the news, and ordinary life is once again interrupted.
Someone found traces of a vehicle collision a few kilometers away from where the young man disappeared, and the police came to the door.
The young man's father explained how he met Zhang Qianyu on the mountain road and wrote down the other person's license plate number.
The license plate number was that of a vehicle registered in Jiang Zhe's name.
However, when handling the vehicle before, Jiang Zhe immediately reported the loss of the vehicle and also forged an alibi.
Although on the surface, Jiang Zhe was just describing the whole story of the incident as he learned it.
But in fact, he secretly gave the lawyer some hints. Following the clues in Jiang Zhe's narrative, the lawyer also developed some reasonable assumptions.
Entering the lawyer's imaginary perspective, the audience has already understood that the film's narrative technique uses narratives from different angles to restore the truth of the incident.
Many viewers who have watched "Roger's Mystery" have already experienced this method of handling.
Therefore, neither Jiang Zhe’s narrative nor the lawyer’s imagination is fully believed.
However, in this brand new version, the real murderer of Zhang Qianyu is no longer invisible, but has become the concrete figure of the young man's father.
According to the lawyer, in order to throw all the blame on the deceased Zhang Qianyu, he wanted to get the location of the sunken car from Jiang Zhe.
In this version of the story, according to the information given by the lawyer, the young man's mother was a waiter in the hotel, which provided ideal conditions for the case to take place.
With the help of his wife, he could open the window from the outside and enter the room where Jiang Zhe and his wife were without any trace.
After carrying out the case, he returned through the window again, and with the help of his wife, he was able to conceal himself without leaving any trace.
This kind of conjecture was also interpreted in the movie in the form of real actors.
Regarding such a favorable hypothesis, Jiang Zhe also followed the trend and said that he actually knew from the beginning that the real murderer was actually the young man's father.
Only at this time did Jiang Zhe fully believe that the lawyer really wanted to help him.
It was also under such conditions that Jiang Zhe revealed the location where his car sank.
And while informing the location of the sunken car, an even more important news was thrown out, which was also a twist that many viewers in the theater did not expect.
When the news was announced, there was a "wow" sound in the theater, and everyone was obviously surprised.
At this time, everyone had not realized that more than half of the movie had already played, and they were completely absorbed by the continuous advancement of the storyline.
The vehicle that Jiang Yuan and others were riding in also approached the theater little by little.
