Douban ratings are relatively objective, and here we are talking about probability not individuality, but as of now, 35,599 people have rated Silent Witness with an average score of 5.7, ranging from 1 to 5 stars. Interestingly, the most important ratings are 3 stars at 45.8%, 1 and 2 stars at 32%, and 4 and 5 stars at 22%.
The story is a cat-and-mouse game that takes place between a few limited people in a closed space, which is an innovation of Hong Kong films. The performances of the three main characters are not controversial, with Zhang Jiahui acting online as usual, and Ren Xianqi giving a passing performance.
Why does a basically identical evaluation lead to a completely different rating? Some people think that the plot should take up the most important part, some think that innovation should take up more points, some value the performance of the characters, some focus on the connotation of ideas, some value the feeling of the scene in the theater more, and some think that fun is good and not to be taken seriously.
The difference in the rating of Silent Witness is that each person thinks that the plot is not given the same weight in the film’s rating system. So the review points are the same, but the rating scores are completely different.
What a plot, killing people to find a bullet, not convincing, 1 star. Fights for no reason, falls asleep in the theater, 2 stars. The plot is flawed, but it’s rare for a Hong Kong film to be innovative in its genre. 4 stars. A few of the actors are working hard, especially Yang Zi, who is really serious about “fighting”, and Ren Xian Qi’s choking part is really choking, 4 stars. A forensic scientist on Douban.com wrote an article called “Look at it from a professional point of view”, 5 stars, he has a different point of view, he thinks this film is very professional in terms of forensic work, from the beginning of the heart weighing, the cause of death, to several professional tools into the scene, to the real physiological performance of Yang Zi being choked, the conclusion is “the crew is very attentive! “.
It’s like a thousand Hamlet’s for every thousand viewers.
My rating for the film is 4 stars. I also acknowledge that the plot is important and that the plot is flawed. However, I think the plot, Zhang Jiahui, and Ren Xianqi can be given 3 stars, and I would add 1 star for Yang Zi’s performance in terms of Hong Kong film innovation.
Relatively speaking, I value the film’s innovative performance more. Recently, there have been a lot of claims that “Hong Kong films are dead”, including my own article about the serious homogenization of Hong Kong film genres. So much of the freshness and imagination is lost. The audience already knows where to applaud, where people will die, and how it will end.
Silent Witness has many unexpected points. The completely restricted space, the few trapped people, the cat-and-mouse game, there are many precedents in international cinema, but in the end it is still an innovation of Hong Kong films.
Let’s talk about some of the big structural and small design innovations. The identity of the forensic scientist is designed in such a way that both sides have to be equally powerful, unlike here where Zhang Jiahui is a weak doctor and Yang Zi is an intern who has only studied in the police academy; the contrast between the police officers who break in is also innovative. It was not easy to come to an outsider towing a corpse, at least to appear in the rescue of a little turn of events, the results of the “two” is so real that netizens have said do not and drink people colleagues; Uncle Jin so hard to climb the iron gate, anyhow have to climb over it, but who knows Ren Xianqi big foot shake and fall to the ground; there is the brother doing hygiene In the past, the director of the movie, Ouyang Jing, has always had a role to play in the existence of a person, but who knows that the role of this little brother is to be “funny and desperate” and to be killed directly after confronting the enemy.
Which is stronger, Zhang Jiahui or Yang Zi? It should be a movie star. In terms of intelligence, intelligence quotient, professionalism and sophistication, Yang Zi is a flower vase. But the old medical doctor was so fancy that it was Yang Zi who rescued the master after being tied up with his hands and feet. Who is the one who is dragging their feet? If it weren’t for Uncle Jin and Master Zhang, Yang Zi would have come out long ago.
What was that last explosion scene for, to blow yourself up? In fact, I think this is the interesting part of the film, Yang Zi in the beginning of the design of the “bomb”, just to make a bomb, and then want to lure Ren Xian Qi over, but the specific can not be the right time and the right place just blow up Ren Xian Qi, Yang Zi did not take into account, killing amateur Zhang Jiahui also did not calculate the right time, in the end, it is not the right place, but the bomb is not the right time. Make yourself fly out of the window ……
In fact, you have to judge for yourself whether the movie is good or not. Everyone will have their own standards of evaluation, rather than waiting for someone else to tell you, you should go into the theater yourself.
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