In fact, this case statement is only for the "audience" and has no value to "Lawyer Goodman" in the play, because these things have already become confessions in court, as everyone knows. So then Goodman launched a third attack on the male protagonist.
A round of offensive: She questioned the male protagonist if he knew who the murderer of Laura was; questioned the impossibility of the murderer entering the room and escaping from the room, etc. This offensive played a transition role to the second part of the movie, transitioning to the case
A more comprehensive direction.
The interesting part is this. What effect does the first part of the movie have on the audience? First of all, it is the basic explanation of the case. Secondly, it is also very important: it focuses the audience's attention on "how the murderer entered and exited the crime scene (killing Lao
room) without leaving traces." This is a common trap in suspense films, because as soon as you think about this problem, you will subconsciously assume the existence of another "murderer". Then you will walk into a
Wrong direction. Furthermore, the tear shed by the male protagonist after the narration also contributed to the audience going astray.
The essence of suspense films, or the most commonly used routines, is actually the same.
First of all, the audience must be "led astray"!
Because the audience is not the director or the actors from God's perspective, they are unaware of the case. The information they obtain is what the director shows them through the movie.
The attitude of Attorney Goodman here also convinced the audience, because there was no flaw in her performance and she was purely the image of a lawyer in people's minds.
Let everyone know that when she questioned the actor Chen De'an, she was not looking for trouble, but once in court, the prosecutor would be more aggressive than her.
And the doubts she raised are reasonable, just like Chen De'an said that it is not his responsibility to find the murderer.
But Goodman's lawyer told him that this was true, but the current situation was that both the police and the prosecution had regarded him as the murderer.
This made Chen De'an unable to refute.
But he still insisted that he told all the facts.
Goodman stood up and said: "You know what? In my more than thirty years of career, there are two types of clients. One type knows that they are in danger, but they still tell the truth even if they have no choice. The other type
You are a smart person who doesn’t mean what you say, but you think you can escape unscathed. Which one do you think you are?”
Goodman's meaning was very clear. She believed that Chen De'an was not telling the truth.
"But I'll say the ugly things first!" Her face became extremely serious, and she walked up to Chen De'an and got close to Chen De'an, feeling a sense of oppression.
"If you keep talking nonsense, just wait to go to jail. Also, stop being so self-righteous!"
Her words made Chen De'an's face become ugly. At this time, Goodman's hand seemed to have unconsciously touched a newspaper on the table, which contained news about the disappearance of a teenager.
This left many people confused.
Because I have no idea what the relationship between this news and the current case is?
"Have you ever thought about the impact this secret witness had on your case?" Goodman said.
At this time, what made the audience even more confused was that Chen De'an's eyes seemed to be attracted by the news.
This left the audience puzzled and couldn't help but wonder, does this person's disappearance have something to do with Chen De'an?
"We have wasted ten minutes. I will only ask the next question once!"
"Do you know who that person is in the room?"
But Chen De'an's eyes still fell on the photos in the newspaper and he shook his head.
"If you want to clarify the truth, if you want to get rid of murder suspicion and avoid jail, stop lying to me!" Goodman continued to say step by step.
Chen De'an seemed a little embarrassed. He glanced at the rotating pocket watch and then at the family photo of him, his wife, and their children on the table.
Finally he spoke again.
He told something that happened three months ago.
That day he had a tryst with his lover Laura, and he had been lying to his wife that he was on a business trip abroad. He seemed a little tormented.
Through the screen and the dialogue between him and Laura, the audience knows that although he cheated, he actually regretted it all the time, but Laura kept saying that they were very happy together, weren't they?
He knows that you can’t have your cake and eat it too, there’s always a trade-off, and this is wrong!
But Laura insisted that it would be fine to keep the status quo!
Then Laura said let’s end it!
At this time, a car came from the opposite direction and hit him.
As a result, he and Laura were fine, but the person in the hit car died.
He immediately wanted to call the police, but Laura stopped him.
At this time, the audience at the film show suddenly realized, because that person seemed to be the missing young man in the newspaper!
This was a bit unexpected for everyone. Obviously, Lawyer Goodman did not accidentally turn to that newspaper!
The plot continues on the big screen.
Laura looked at the person in the car. He was not wearing a seat belt and was using his mobile phone!
But Chen De'an said that he was driving in the opposite direction and because she told him to drive faster, he didn't notice it.
At this time Laura said: "What did you just say? There have to be trade-offs or something, right?"
"What are you talking about?" Chen De'an looked a little shocked.
"Either he dies or we die! If you call the police, we will be doomed! Listen to me, listen to me, no one has seen this, just pretend it never happened. Think of your wife, think of your daughter,
Your career, you don’t want to lose this, right?”
He was convinced, and they wanted to leave, but after getting in the car, they found that the car could not start.
At this moment, Laura heard the sound of a car coming. She quickly got out of the car, and sure enough she saw a car coming down here.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! She quickly asked Chen De'an to get out of the car, then she came to the car, pulled the dead young man aside, and took out a notepad from the car
.
The two pretended to be both parties to the collision and were discussing how to resolve the matter.
At this time, a car finally drove over and stopped to ask them if they needed help. Both of them said they could solve it by themselves, no need!
At the same time, the young man's cell phone rang. Laura lied that it was someone from the insurance company and ran to the car to get the cell phone.
But Chen De'an, who was distracted, thought the other party was frightened. He quickly followed what the other party said and said that a wild dog suddenly jumped out.
Laura hung up the phone and pretended to be talking to someone from the insurance company.
But the blood on the car kept dripping.
Laura saw it and quickly covered it with her body, and finally the man drove away.
Chen De'an was afraid that the other party had seen a dead person, so Laura said that the body should be disposed of immediately!
The two argued for a while, but Laura finally convinced Chen De'an. They took the body out and put it in the trunk of the car, and Chen De'an drove the car to dispose of the body.
He said he regretted why he was with Laura instead of with his family!
If it hadn't been for all this, perhaps this kind of thing wouldn't have happened.
At this time, Goodman asked: "What did you do with that car?"
Chen De'an shed a tear.
"I sunk it!"
"With the boy?"
Chen De'an seemed to feel guilty. He covered his forehead with his hands and said, "I keep thinking about what Laura said. It was just an accident. There was nothing we could do about the boy. He has no future. But we do. We can save ourselves!"
"I regarded the boy as a stain on the glass and turned a blind eye so that I could continue to live a normal life."
Goodman asked: "What's next?"
Chen De'an said that next, he asked Laura to pick him up, and then Laura cried and said, how terrible!
It turned out that because their car crashed, they asked someone to pull the car to repair it. As a result, she followed them to the car repair shop, only to find out that the person they killed turned out to be from the family who repaired the car.
son.
As a result, when the other party called, Daniel's cell phone happened to be in Laura's hand, and she quickly stuffed the phone into the sofa.
Although this successfully deceived the other party, Daniel's father still became a little suspicious, but he just felt something was wrong and just remembered her license plate number.
Then they disposed of the car completely without leaving any trace, and then parted ways with Laura. He went to the police station to report the car as lost, and then pretended to come back from out of town.
The same thing goes for my wife.
He couldn't sleep for a long time because of this incident.
"I feel like I have deceived people and am a liar!"
"But it took me ten years to build my current career. How could I let it be destroyed overnight? I went to work as usual the next day..."
Afterwards, he returned home to see his wife and daughter, and saw on the news that Daniel was missing. He saw on TV that Daniel's father, the police, and people nearby were looking for him.
"Seeing the pained expression on his father's face, I vowed that I would never make such a mistake again in my life!"
This narrative can be said to have once again shocked and surprised the audience, because they never expected that there was a case before the case.
In Chen De'an's narration, he has always been passive and remorseful, which made everyone feel a little sympathy for him.
Because according to what he said, he was the first to call the police, but Laura stopped him, and he made the same mistake again and again!
At this time, Goodman's cell phone rang.
She said a few words and then hung up the phone.
"The secret witness has arrived in court! We don't know who it is yet, but the judge is on the way!" Goodman said.
"We must contact Felix!" Chen De'an said quickly.
He quickly called his lawyer Felix, who had just gotten off the plane.
He said he wanted to speak to Goodman.
Goodman told Felix on the phone: "There is a secret witness, and it is very likely that he will appear in court tonight!"
Because it was so noisy at the airport, Felix asked Goodman to send him all the details she had, and he thought they still had a chance of winning!
"I still have very important information on this case. I'll call you in an hour or two!"
Chen De'an asked worriedly: "What did he say?"
Goodman smiled and said: "Everything is under control, don't worry!"
"Continue, where did you just talk?"
As Chen De'an said, he continued to work and live.
Goodman said the next moment: "Then the police came to the door?"
Chen De'an was a little confused: "This is not in the records, how did they know?"
"This is the detail, Mr. Chen De'an!"
The police told him that they found traces of a collision between two cars five kilometers away from the home of Li Danjie, also known as Daniel in English.
But there is no report or accident record.
The strange thing is that the boy's father once drove a woman home on the day of the car accident, which was the scene where the boy disappeared.
The police gave him a sketch and asked him if he recognized it.
Just as Chen De'an was about to answer, he was stopped by his lawyer Felix.
He asked the police if what happened there had anything to do with Mr. Chen De'an who was out of town.
"The woman told the boy's father that she had hit a wild dog, but the signs at the scene were that a car had crashed..."
For this reason, the police suspected that they had covered up the truth of the accident!
The car the woman was driving at the time was registered in Chen De'an's name.
The lawyer said the car was stolen from the parking lot that weekend.
He believed that the police were insinuating that the incident was related to Mr. Chen De'an, and asked the police what evidence they had?
In the end, the police had no choice but to let Chen De'an be taken away by his lawyer because there was no conclusive evidence.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Felix also realized that his employer Chen De'an was a little nervous and asked what the truth was?
Chen De'an confessed to the lawyer that he did not actually go to Baodao, but was with others.
Felix said it was no wonder his secretary couldn't provide the police with proof of exit.
He asked his lawyer to help him get an alibi and did not want to appear in the police report.
The lawyer said he could handle it.
Felix did help him create an alibi.
At this time, Goodman shook his head and said: "Felix just helped you with the alibi, but there is no such thing as the police report!"
"My informant saw your name in the police report, and I think the prosecutor saw it too!" Goodman said after looking through the information.
Chen De'an: "I wouldn't have gotten to this point without Laura!"
"When you told her that the police summoned you and asked you to identify her, how did she react?" Goodman continued to ask.
"I didn't tell her!"
"I know you have contacted her!" Goodman said.
Chen De'an shook his head and said no.
Goodman continued: "In order to preserve their wealth, rich people will always find ways to protect themselves and protect everything they own! Surveillance is everywhere outside the residential areas of the rich..."
After being exposed by Goodman, he had to confess that he had indeed contacted Laura.
He told Goodman that Laura's unscrupulousness shocked him.
Laura faked Daniel's misappropriation of half a million Hong Kong dollars from bank customers, making people think that Daniel was not in a car accident, but was absconding in fear of crime!
It turned out that when Laura was moving the body, she got Daniel's wallet from his body in case of emergency, but she didn't expect to actually use it.
