Chapter 80: Black Charm
The outbreak of the fourth case is vigorous, the murderer who calls himself the "light of the city" has taken the entire city hostage and enveloped the lives of the entire city into this extreme performance.
Ren Chuan's case was conducted through online voting, that is to say, Ren Chuan's death was not in the hands of the murderer at this time, but in the hands of the public.
This is a popular trial.
Or at a deeper level, it was a provocation to the police, a flout of the law.
The fourth case unfolded, and the police tried their best to stop it, but it ended quickly, and in a very tragic way, but this time, the high-IQ murderer who had been standing in the shadows showed his flaws.
The police made an urgent arrest but it was still too late, and the evidence had been destroyed.
Although some evidence was later found, it was still a stalemate, and even if the murderer collapsed for a while, it still ended up with nothing.
The murderer was clearly there, and then, swaggering, walked out of the police station.
A series of entanglements continue to deepen, and the murderer is also stimulated by these things, and everything has a tendency to gradually derail.
Mu Qing thought that at this time, the whole plot should belong to the calm before the storm.
The wind is calm, and everything is hidden under the illusion of the seemingly ordinary.
Jiang Ya's persecution, Fang Mu's struggle, and the departure and death of those close to them, these two confrontational people, one is a policeman and the other is a criminal, drive the whole story forward.
The twists and turns in the middle are not mentioned for the time being, what surprised Mu Qing was the final ending in this script.
Fang Mu, as the protagonist, died, although it is also a little different from the ending of the original book, but the ending of Fang Mu's death as the protagonist is completely different from what Mu Qing once understood.
In fact, Mu Qing didn't pay much attention to what kind of twists and turns in this movie before, but I also heard that some things seemed to have been deleted due to censorship, but Mu Qing still remembered the ending of this movie quite clearly.
The murderer Jiang Ya was imprisoned and tried by the law, while Fang Mu survived after being seriously injured, which can be regarded as a more common setting in most stories.
Happiness is complete.
And now this situation ......
Mu Qing looked at the script in his hand with a little distraction and thought about it carefully.
"It seems that this world has less severe restrictions on this kind of subject matter than in the previous life......" muttered to himself.
After all, they are two worlds, although there seems to be no difference in general, but in the end there are still changes in some places, and the development of film and television in these two worlds is such a situation.
Therefore, if the script is really shot according to such a setting, then this story should be better than the Nabu film works he has seen before.
Mu Qing shook his head suddenly, no longer thinking about this matter, after all, at this time, the crew didn't even turn on the film, and it was still uncertain what would happen in the future, so it was not easy to make a conclusion so quickly.
Mu Qing didn't want to let his side be full of expectations, and the reality directly gave him a tragic slap.
The so-called no hope, no disappointment, Mu Qing is now a fan of the original work, he really doesn't dare to think too much, and it is best to stand still.
Turning the pen, Mu Qing pulled through the notebook that he had just pushed to the side, sorted out his thoughts, and began to record some of his understanding and thoughts.
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Most of the existing movies with the theme of crime and solving crimes, but all of them can give people a deep impression, except for the extreme bloody scenes, almost all of them start from digging into the hearts of the characters, that is, a kind of excavation of human nature or a reflection of a certain phenomenon-level character.
Compared with police and bandit movies, crime movies pay more attention to the suspense and story tension brought about by the detection process of the case itself, as well as the protagonist's struggle against the evil forces that disrupt social order and endanger the peaceful life of the public, and at the same time expose the individual's need for adventure or security.
Therefore, crime movies are more attractive than "black charm".
Human beings always subconsciously have curiosity about some mysterious things, and for human beings themselves, those things that are completely untouchable in life, or can only be seen on the newspaper network, are so really "mysterious".
It's like a person who is obviously very timid, saying that he doesn't dare to watch those horror movies, but he is still more or less curious in his heart, even more curious than the bold, this is the attraction of "unknown events" beyond his own cognition.
And for the kind of cruel and inferior crimes that seem to be far away from life, it will inevitably arouse the curiosity of some people, or a kind of curiosity.
Under such a premise, the biggest difference between crime movies and traditional police movies is that on the basis of reality, the plot is exaggerated but not exaggerated to attract the audience's attention and attention.
As a result, in such a movie, the story tension, the personality charm of the characters, and the portrayal of the dark side of real society have become the most attractive places for the audience.
Realistic crime events, crime scenes with strong texture, and black tragic fate constitute the unique charm of crime movies, which do not shy away from violence, and use the footage rendered with blood to make you feel the cruelty of the world and the evil of human nature in the most intuitive way.
It was like a scene we would never see in the current world.
Good and bad, good and evil, sin and redemption often oscillate between a single thought.
It's like wandering between light and darkness.
Where there is light, there is darkness, because even if the sun is shining, there will always be places that cannot shine, and only darkness can perfectly set off the brightness of the sun, just like there will be light in dark places, because without light, it is impossible to set off the depth of darkness.
So, what kind of story does "City Lights of Psychological Crime" tell as a crime movie?
When a serial murder case sets off a story of urban carnival and restlessness, it shows the crime and darkness of crime films, and unveils a bloody and realistic drama that will reflect on the ugliness of the media mimicry, and it is an online carnival and entertainment violence that engulfs the urban public.
When the innocent are no longer innocent, what will happen to everything?
Anyone who has watched the movie "The Seven Deadly Sins" knows that the so-called seven deadly sins are gluttony, greed, laziness, lust, arrogance, jealousy, and anger.
At the beginning of "City Lights", the four homicides that occurred one after another are also quite well-designed, the difference is that the focus behind "Seven Deadly Sins" is to sigh at the indifference of social feelings, while "City Lights of Psychological Crimes" hooks up a series of social hot issues such as teachers corporal punishment of students, children not supporting the elderly, and whether the elderly should be supported when they fall.
An unscrupulous teacher who causes a student to commit suicide because of corporal punishment, a rebel who expels his biological mother from the door because of greed for profit, a wicked person who obstructs the rescue passage because he wantonly parks his vehicle, and a lawyer who bends the law because he only cares about profits......
The four cases in the first half of the movie all have one thing in common, the behavior of the victims of the cases before their deaths are all acts that violate ethics and morals, and these are events rather than cases, so the police can't arrest them, and the law can't restrain them.
These are so-called "blind spots".
For example, when you open Weibo and browse hot news, such as the Jiang Ge case, the three-color case, various "cases" such as porcelain touching, as well as the above "incidents", and even "small things" such as queuing up to get plugged, square dancing to occupy the venue, whether to give up your seat on the bus or not, etc., can all be on the hot search.
These are all originated from those walking dead on the edge of light and darkness, the so-called "good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles", the reason why these negative news can be on the hot search is not that there are a lot of negative news, but that the public has a screening type in the process of receiving information, and they watch these news with emotions.
Because the public's hatred for this kind of character has been around for a long time, and the emotions in these negative events are also highly consistent: they are all on the side of the disadvantaged.
On the one hand, just like the indignant netizens in the movie, these "moral sinners" are condemned, and on the other hand, a pair of invisible hands are challenging the city's bottom line in the name of "justice".
When one day the public discovers that the virtual justice they call is "materialized" by a person called "City Light", the violence factors that have been hidden in people's hearts for a long time are all activated, releasing a terrifying and terrifying power.
Because in the hearts of the public, this serial killer who claims to be the "City Light" has done things that ordinary people dare to think but dare not do, and compared to bringing him to justice, the people killed by him are innocent.
The police have no way to take him, first, they can't find evidence, and second, because of the hero of public opinion, he has become the "dark knight" in the mouth of the public.
The debate between good and evil is losing the yardstick, and the murderer is no longer the one who hides in the dark and plays a cat-and-mouse game with the police, he can stand up openly, because behind him, the latter's countless supporters hidden behind the monitor - "keyboard man".
Just like Ren Chuan, the lawyer who defended the porcelain toucher in the "Old Man Touching Porcelain Case".
He is bound to a time bomb, voting on the Internet, deciding his life and death, "City Lights" is here, in addition to a big problem for the police, every mouse action is full of accomplices, and behind every monitor is an accomplice with a fierce light.
That's the contradiction.
The so-called law does not hold the public accountable, not to mention that these people have not really violated the current law, so they are even more unscrupulous.
And what kind of character is Jiang Ya in such a riot? Mu Qing asked himself such a question in his notebook.