"Memory Master" is a drama, crime, suspense, and thriller movie directed by Chen Zhengdao and starring Huang Bo, Duan Yihong, and Xu Jinglei. Below I will compile a review of the movie for you. Hope this helps.
Film review of "The Memory Master" (1): Wrong focus
The time and place in the movie are Asia in 2025. It may be because of the unrealized science fiction of memory surgery. stuff, so set the time to the future. But the buildings, cars, and the interior decoration style of the police station in the movie (I really want to complain about the place where prisoners are temporarily detained, it has a really good sense of design, but why should that place be designed like that? There seems to be no strong reason. There are also the dirty walls and windows in the interrogation room. Is this a metal industrial style?), including almost all the words that appear in it are in English? But almost most of them are Chinese (in the concert hall I saw foreigners), which made me doubt the place where the story took place? Where is this? When did this happen? So I think the director may want to set an imaginary location? Country T, a Almost everyone speaks Chinese, but the police station files are all recorded in English, and people write in traditional Chinese. Will such a setting make it easier to tell the story? Maybe it would make me feel a little picky to dwell on such a place, but I really care about the setting of this scene. I don’t understand movie aesthetics, I just think it looks like Weird.
I think the details are great. They are the kind of hints that the audience can find but will not easily discover the truth. For example, what appeared in Jiang Feng's memory: 1. Using a bench to reach the medicine bottle; 2. Being so scared that he peed his pants in the back seat of the car; 3. Wiping the mirror but couldn't see his face; 4. The fish flying out of his hand; 5. Li Xiaoyun skillfully rolled the window and opened the door. The first four points make the plot twist of later revealing that this is actually Jiang Hanqiang's childhood memory very reasonable. The fifth point shows that Li Xiaoyun does know Officer Shen.
At first I really thought that Chen Shanshan was the murderer and fell into a trap? But until the "fake memory" fragment of Chen Shanshan and Li Huilan appeared, I felt that things were not that simple. . The twist in the end is pretty good. Duan Yihong plays such a big boss? Shen Hanqiang is quite suitable, because his acting skills can still interpret such a complex character relatively well.
The theme of domestic violence, the suspenseful style, and the reversal of the plot are really good!
Finally, I would like to mention the sequence of continuous rooms and bathtubs in Jiang Feng’s memory , and the transition of characters from activity to sudden stillness, I think it’s great!
"Memory Master" film review (2): "Memory Master" has made Chinese suspense films progress
First of all, for a suspense film, the movie can still earn some brain cells from the audience. While watching the movie, I also heard many people whispering around me, predicting the murderer. The suspense is still worthy of recognition. Burning Brain did it, but in terms of plot and rhythm, suspense for the sake of suspense is a bit deliberate. There are too many reversals in the middle part, so it makes it seem like the story is not finished at the end, and the ending is too deliberate. In addition, there are actually many loopholes in the movie. For example, Huang Bo got his memory back because he wanted to divorce his wife, and since Duan Yihong entrusted this memory, why did he want to get it back? In the end, Duan Yihong had Huang Bo's Memory prevented him from shooting his wife to death. Based on this reasoning, why did Huang Bo not have any control over Duan Yihong's thoughts in the end? Instead, he was very witty. When I see Huang Bo wake up from the car, I always have the feeling that Duan Yihong will wake up, but the Huang Bo in the movie is still himself, but he and his wife are more affectionate.
"Memory Master" film review (3): spoilers, simple viewing experience
Overall, the film is really good. In addition to some blunt logic, the characters' behavior is not very reasonable when promoting the plot.
1. When Huang Bo wanted to take Xu Jinglei away, normal people would have said that she is a murderer and you should come with me. However, Huang Bo did not explain a word, even though he was affected by Duan Yihong’s memory. He should not forcefully take Xu Jinglei away without speaking clearly.
2. The apprentice whose IQ has always been offline came online very suddenly. When analyzing the relationship between the murderer and the victim, he was forced to come online and popularized the knowledge that their relationship may be best friends, deliberately leading our suspicions to Yang Zishan Come on.
3. Yang Zishan’s character creation is too weak. In the first half, she was completely deliberately played as a lesbian who is ambiguous with the victim. In fact, she is really just sympathetic, especially when she suddenly wants to go to listen to music. And when she was caught by Huang Bo, there was murder in her eyes. If the plot was forced to reverse in the end, she shouldn't have shown it so obviously here, making the exposure of the big boss very blunt.
4. Duan Yihong was obviously just a little boy who was hurt in childhood, so he killed his mother, so why would such a young child know the difference between painkillers and sleeping pills, and this was originally intended to lead to doubts From Yang Zishan. The sudden twist at the end makes this point also very hard.
5. Duan Yihong has been in office for so many years, but he only killed one woman, and in the end he had to blame Yang Zishan, who was completely unrelated. Does this fit with his motive for committing a crime?
In Halfway through the movie, my boyfriend told me that the boss was Yang Zishan, and I thought he was very smart at the time (mainly because we had reserved the theater to watch the show tonight, so it was okay to discuss it as much as we wanted). Later, the ending was reversed, and we both exclaimed in unison, Sure enough, the screenwriter is really great!
This drama is really suitable for use as an anti-domestic violence propaganda film. My whole body was shaking when I watched it. It was so scary. Later, the man asked me if I had any psychological shadow, and I suddenly remembered that I was actually another Duan Yihong, but it had been so long ago that my father and mother were not often together. After they became wiser, they no longer fought. It was completely I'm in a state where I don't even bother to say a word to the other person.
So this memory has faded in my mind. I have no idea how the shadow of childhood manifests itself in me. Maybe it’s because I don’t know what it’s like to grow up normally.
Film review of "The Memory Master" (4): Tell me how I feel