"Seven Deadly Sins" is the movie that Li Yi Jinfinger remembered.
He didn't expect that Goldfinger would really give him a different movie.
There was "The Invisible Guest" before, and now "Seven Deadly Sins" is coming, the king of suspense?
However, "Seven Deadly Sins" can indeed be regarded as the pinnacle of suspense films, not only because of the incredible plot of the movie, but also because of the details.
It can be said that this movie has many, many details that are so evocative.
Serial murder can be said to be a very common case in crime suspense films.
It can be said that in many crime suspense films nowadays, serial murders are definitely the ones that appear the most.
Of course, people who can commit such cases cannot be ordinary people. They usually have extreme thoughts in some aspects, and to some extent, they are all the type with "mental" problems.
Serial murder cases, which are often full of ritual, are the favorites of many mystery writers and directors.
"The Seven Deadly Sins" is undoubtedly one of them. Religion is often used very extensively in this kind of movies. In "The Seven Deadly Sins", gluttony, greed, lust, laziness, pride, jealousy, revenge, etc.
The cautionary meaning of religious moral admonitions.
And the entire film has actually been showing "seven" through various details!
The English name of the film has only one eye-catching and startling word - "Seven". It is a mysterious number in religion. This is most fully reflected in the "Old Testament". God used 7 days to create Adam and take out Adam.
Eve was created from the 7th rib of Satan. Satan’s original body was a fire dragon with 7 heads. There are 7 fallen angels in the world called Satan. After the 16th century, Catholicism directly used the images of Satan’s 7 demons to represent 7
sins - pride, envy, wrath, sloth, greed, gluttony, and lust.
In the movie, there are 7 sins, 7 punishments, and 7 rains. The story takes place in 7 days. Even the ending is set by the criminal at 7 pm on the 7th day. The ubiquitous "7" implies to the audience: it is fate.
Crime and punishment. In this case, the tragedy of fate must belong to the human world. "God" as the "instructor" and "spectator" participated in the entire incident. The cold-blooded killer came to the world as a preacher and eventually died as a martyr.
From a certain perspective, there is no distinction between good and evil in tragedy. As small human beings, we can only accept the judgment of fate.
What’s interesting is that in the design of the case, when looking at the seven deadly sins separately, each one does not constitute a capital crime, because in a narrow sense God only tells us that those who commit these seven deadly sins will go to hell. Emphasis on
The punishment is after death rather than in this life. Therefore, the seven punishments imposed by the killer in the movie appear to follow the rules after careful analysis: he did not directly kill people. The fat man was forced to eat too much and burst his blood vessels and died; the lawyer
Cut off your own flesh - just 1 pound, no more, no less; the drug dealer was still alive when he was discovered; the female supporter was directly killed by the female ticket customer; the model only had her nose cut off because she was too proud.
He refused to call the police, so he bled to death. The murderer claimed to have committed the crime of "jealousy", but jealousy itself did not constitute a crime. Only when he killed the innocent Tracy, did it become Mills's furious revenge.
object.
According to this line of thinking, the murderer is completely following the guidance of "the Lord" to rectify the world. But in fact, there is a trap here. The Ten Commandments of the Bible say: "You shall not call the name of the Lord, your God, in vain."
That is to say, there is only one Holy Lord, and mortals cannot preach under the guise of his name. As long as this point is grasped correctly, the murderer's position will be completely untenable, and the "fatalism" will disappear. William has actually found this loophole. On the 7th day (
(Sunny Sunday), when the three of them were in the car, William asked John if he thought he was doing things for God, but John could not answer directly. He only said that "God's actions are mysterious." This alone was enough, because only people
, only then can we create the images of heaven and hell, and only then can we have the saying of "going through the seven levels to wash away all the capital sins and reach heaven on earth"!
Where is the fatal sin? It is all human imagination.
But this is the great thing about "Seven Deadly Sins". The murderer actually doesn't appear in the movie much, and the impression he gives people is not that clear. At least after watching the movie, Li Yi even felt like "I can't remember it."
"Live" feeling.
This method makes the so-called "fatalism" of the movie, which is both mysterious and mysterious, more deeply rooted in people's hearts.
If you think about it carefully, in fact, every film that is called a classic often has a sentence that highlights the topic or the main theme.
For example, "The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility", or "Most people don't know how to be grateful", or "Those who don't know how to cherish life are not worthy of having it", etc., etc., these sound like very reasonable words.
, the result often becomes the reason for the actions of the murderer behind the scenes.
The so-called seven deadly sins have been labeled as modern here. After peeling off all the sins themselves, there are naked sequelae of modernization. As the film says, "People regard indifference as a virtue." This is a typical sequelae of modernization.
Everyone walks on their own path and manages their own life. Busyness makes them lose their awareness of society and their surroundings, which is why there are several cases that are understated in the film: a robber was stabbed blind in order to steal some change and a watch.
A person's eyes; when a woman is violated, it is useless to cry for help. You can only cry for fire. This is undoubtedly the most cruel violence. It is this kind of violence that makes people abandon love and choose short-term lust.
Abandoning morality to choose dirty greed; abandoning friendliness to choose indifferent pride; abandoning health to choose gluttony and laziness; abandoning understanding and appreciation to choose anger and jealousy. Since then, the Seven Deadly Sins have been
With the cloak of modernity, the murderer also found a reason to be aloof.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Classic crime suspense films often have one characteristic, that is, the villains are often very outstanding.
"Seven Deadly Sins" has some differences, because the villain's presence in it is not that strong, or in other words, he himself is not so impressive. What is most memorable is that he committed the crime.
crime.
And this type of movies often have the same characteristic, that is, the murderer always feels that he is the just one.
As the murderer said, "This is a work to serve as a warning." Just like the murderer's choice of crime methods, each piece is well arranged and full of metaphors, which is suitable for the classicism that runs counter to this modern world.
With his feelings, he used food to support the gluttonous fat man to death, used beds to trap the lazy drug addicts to death, and used justice to punish the greedy lawyers to death. He had a modern tool - a gun, and could have killed them with one shot, but he
But he did not let the short-lived modernization replace his classicism. He used the classics that everyone has basically lost to teach the vicious modernity. We have to say that his inspiration comes from modern times. As the film says: "We are facing
What’s right is daily life”.
Of course Li Yi knew that this was actually a paradox, because although many things the murderer said were facts that people could not deny, such as the real society is full of too many "seven deadly sins", the biggest paradox was that,
Who is the murderer?
What qualifications does he have to do justice for heaven?
Such a movie is undoubtedly something that should not be thought of in China. It is impossible to release it. After all, this movie is indeed too dark.
And the ending part is even more impossible to pass.
Of course, what Li Yi likes is just the artistic expression of this movie, not that he really likes this kind of serial killer.
However, Hollywood and Americans will definitely like this kind of movie. Why?
Although religion also exists in China, it definitely does not have as profound an impact on the entire world as it does abroad.
Take the Seven Deadly Sins for example, although many people in China may be able to talk about it and know what it is, but they really don't agree with it.
Of course, even in the United States, you don’t expect everyone to agree with this statement, but the movie itself is not really meant to popularize this statement, it is just a ritual!
There is a sense of ritual that makes people feel "unconscious". In fact, many scenes in this movie are definitely heavy enough.
Li Yi thought a lot at once.
When he came back to his senses, he realized that Mu Qing had quietly left at some point.
He couldn't help but smile.
Then he wrote the story script of "Seven Deadly Sins".
The biggest twist in "Seven Deadly Sins" is actually the murderer's sudden surrender.
On the contrary, the ending is actually not difficult to guess for many viewers who have read many suspense novels or film and television works.
Of course, this does not affect the quality of the film at all.
For this kind of movie, you have to say that Hollywood does have unique conditions. After all, this movie is really too despairing. It is always dark from the beginning to the end, making people unable to see any light.
European and American crime movies all have a very special feature that is different from domestic movies.
That is, there is often a murderer who makes people want to be cut into pieces. Everyone knows that such a person deserves to die, but when he is caught and brought to justice, things often happen that make people angry and even helpless.
That is, the murderer can still be arrogant because he can hire a lawyer, remain silent, or ignore the police detectives.
This kind of plot also exists in "Seven Deadly Sins", and in many other crime movies, the murderer may often be successfully brought to justice or tried through other methods. This can also be regarded as a kind of preemptive suppression.
It's the way to go later.
But "Seven Deadly Sins" is different. Although the murderer died in the end, it is difficult for people to have a good viewing experience because the murderer designed his own death and was not actually tried.
When Li Yi told Mu Qing the story of "Seven Deadly Sins", she felt completely bad.
"How did you come up with such a... depressing and despairing story?" Mu Qing is also a director herself. Of course she could tell that this was definitely a top-notch story, but that didn't mean she would like such a story.
Just like she said, such a depressing and desperate story.
"And it's difficult to film this story in China, right?" Mu Qing asked again.
Li Yi nodded.
"Your story is a little different from most of the current crime suspense films." Mu Qing thought about it carefully, putting aside her personal preferences and speaking objectively.
"Well, which ones are you referring to?" Li Yi asked with a smile.
"First of all, most of the time, in many crime suspense films, the truth and the murderer are often indispensable, or in other words, both are the ultimate goal of the film. But your case is a bit strange, especially since the murderer never appeared during the entire crime process.
No one was killed directly. And the ending didn't let everyone release their inner depression. I think this kind of movie is quite scary!" Mu Qing said with a frown.
Li Yi nodded.
Yes, the more exciting a case like "Seven Deadly Sins" is, the greater the impact, or in other words the negative impact, will be.
This is one of the reasons why this kind of movie cannot be made in China.
However, of course, it is impossible for the movie to be completely negative. It is full of negative emotions. In fact, the words spoken by the two characters in the movie, the old policeman, are more eye-catching.
The world is beautiful and worth fighting for.
Even if the truth of this world is dark and terrible!
But there is something worthwhile!
Li Yi thought that he would like to find someone to discuss and share the movie with before it officially starts shooting.
This time, for example, is no exception.
He quickly called his friends and called all his old friends over for BBQ!
"Are you really going to be the King of Suspense?" Chen Wen joked as he took a sip of beer and put down the script.
"I just suddenly had inspiration, how about it? What do you think of this story?" Li Yi smiled and put down a bunch of roasted potatoes and said with a smile.
"I really don't know how long your brain is. This story is more exciting than "The Invisible Guest"! The key is that the beginning of this story is very conventional, but the direction of the whole film is very unconventional." Zhou Guo sighed.
road.
"However, this kind of movie can only be shot in Hollywood, right? Even Hong Kong Island is too difficult!" Chen Weijie also said.
Everyone is an insider and naturally understands this truth.
"Even those few cases, when shown, are definitely full-screen mosaics. However, I am looking forward to it more and more. This movie, tsk tsk, are you going for the Oscar?" Chen Wen suddenly said again
asked curiously.
Li Yi shook his head: "This kind of movie is not suitable for Oscars at all. This is just a commercial movie!"
Li Yi is very sure about this. The Academy Award actually has its way. Although "Seven Deadly Sins" may seem depressing and hopeless, it is indeed a commercial movie through and through.
It cannot be said that there is no art, but at least to a certain extent, "Seven Deadly Sins" actually also means showing off skills.
If this kind of movie is made, it will not be bad at the box office and word of mouth, but it may not be so good in terms of awards!
