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Chapter 1365 The Seven Deadly Sins

"Seven Deadly Sins" is the movie that Li Yi Jinfinger remembered.

He didn't expect that Goldfinger would really give him a different movie.

The previous one was "The Invisible Guest", and now it's "The Seven Deadly Sins", 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 definitely appear the most.

Of course, the people who can commit such cases cannot be ordinary people. They usually have extreme thoughts in some aspect, 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, and revenge, there are some who agree. The cautionary meaning of religious moral exhortations.

And the entire film has actually been showing "seven" through various details!
The English name of the film has only one eye-catching and shocking word - "Seven". It is a mysterious number in religion, which is most fully reflected in the "Old Testament".God took 7 days to create Adam and took out Adam's 7th rib to create Eve.Satan's original form is a fire dragon with 7 heads. There are 7 fallen angels in the world called Satan.After the 16th century, Catholicism more directly used the images of Satan's seven demons to represent the seven sins-arrogance, jealousy, rage, laziness, greed, gluttony, and lust.

In the movie, there are 7 sins, 7 punishments, 7 rains, the story takes place in 7 days, and even the ending is set by the criminal at 7 pm on the 7th day. The ubiquitous "7" hints to the audience: it is fate. of crime and punishment.In this case, the tragedy of fate must belong to the human world, and "God" participated in the entire event as the "instructor" and "spectator".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 is interesting is that in the design of the case, if we look 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 penalty is after death, not in this world.Therefore, the seven punishments administered by the killer in the movie appear to follow the rules after careful analysis: he does not directly kill people.The fat man was forced to eat too much and burst his blood vessels and died; the lawyer cut off his own flesh - just 7 pound, no more, no less; the drug dealer was still alive when he was discovered; the female branch girl was directly killed by the female ticket customer; The model only had her nose cut off because she was too proud and refused to call the police, so she bled to death.The murderer claimed to have committed the crime of "jealousy", but jealousy itself does not constitute a crime. Only when he killed the innocent Tracey did he become the target of Mills's furious revenge.

According to this line of thinking, the murderer is completely following the guidance of "the Lord" to correct the world.But actually, there is a trap here. The Ten Commandments of the Bible say: “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.”

That is to say, there is only one Holy Lord, and mortals cannot preach in his name.As long as this point is grasped accurately, the murderer's position will be completely untenable, and the "fatalism" will disappear.William has actually found this loophole.On the 7th day (a 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 and only said, "God's actions are mysterious." This alone was enough. Yes, because only human beings can create the images of heaven and hell, and there is a saying that "go through the seven stages of death and wash away the sins of death, so that there is a paradise on earth"!

Where is the fatal sin?It’s all just human imagination.

But this is the great thing about "Seven Deadly Sins". The murderer actually doesn't appear in the movie for much time, 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.

In this way, the so-called "fatalism" of the movie, which is so mysterious and mysterious, becomes even more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

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 probably 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, only to 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; abandon morality and choose dirty greed; abandon friendliness and choose indifferent pride; abandon health and choose To choose the quick gluttony and laziness; to abandon understanding and appreciation and choose anger and jealousy.Since then, the seven deadly sins have been put on modern clothes, and the murderer has also found a reason to be aloof.

And classic crime suspense films often have one characteristic, that is, the villains are often very brilliant.

However, there are some differences in "Seven Deadly Sins", because the villain actually does not have such a strong sense of existence in it, or in other words, he himself is not so impressive, what is memorable is that he committed 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 is contrary to this modern world. With his feelings, he used food to support the overeating fat man to death, used a bed to trap the lazy drug addict to death, and used justice to punish the greedy lawyer to death.He had a modern tool - a gun, and could have killed them with one shot, but he did not let the ephemerality of modernity replace his classicism. He used the classics that everyone has basically lost to teach the vicious modernity a lesson. It must be said that his inspiration comes from modern times, as the film says: "What we are facing is daily life."

Of course Li Yi knew that this was actually a paradox, because although many of the things the murderer said were facts that people could not deny, for example, real society is full of too many "seven deadly sins", but the biggest paradox is 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, this kind of movie, Hollywood, Laomei will definitely like it very much, why?
Although religion also exists in China, it definitely does not have as profound an impact on the entire world as it does abroad.

For example, the Seven Deadly Sins, 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 smiling.

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 too many suspense mystery novels or film and television works.

Of course, this does not affect the quality of the film in any way.

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 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 detective.

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 be regarded as a way of suppressing first and then promoting.

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 judged.

When Li Yi told Mu Qing the story of "Seven Deadly Sins", she felt completely bad.

"How did you come up with such a depressive and desperate story?" Mu Qing is also a director herself. Of course, she can tell that this is definitely a top-notch good story, but it doesn't mean that she will like such a story.

Just like she said, such a depressing and desperate story.

"And this story is difficult to film 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 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 frowned.

Li Yi nodded.

Yes, the more exciting a case like "Seven Deadly Sins" is, the greater the impact or negative impact it will have.

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 a beautiful place and worth fighting for.

Even if the truth of this world is dark and bad!

But there is something worthwhile!
Li Yi thought that he would like to find someone to discuss and share with others before the movie officially starts filming.

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, what do you think? What do you think of this story?" Li Yi smiled and put down a bunch of roasted potatoes.

"I really don't know how your brain grows. This story is more exciting than "The Invisible Guest"! The key point is that the beginning of this story is very conventional, but the direction of the whole film is very unconventional." Zhou Guo lamented 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 sure of this. In fact, there is a way to win Oscars. Although "Seven Deadly Sins" seems very 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 well, the box office and word-of-mouth will not be bad, but if it is about awards, it may not be so!
(End of this chapter)