The main line of the film is that Chen Jing accidentally kills her ex-husband, and her neighbor Shi Hong (a middle school teacher) helps her escape from the police. During this process, Shi Hong's classmate Tang Chuan (an associate professor at the Police College) appeared, and they started fighting with each other.
At the beginning of the film, the lines are indexed step by step, and the details are assisted. The handling of details made me sit up and take notice of Alec Su.
When Shi Hong and Tang Chuan climbed the mountain, their conversation actually hinted at the beginning of the next link. Shi Hong said that he once fell into despair because he suddenly found himself trapped in mathematics all his life. No matter how hard he tried, he could not escape from this wall. This made him think of suicide. Tang Chuan said that he understood Shi Hong's feelings and thought that things would get better and he would get out of the predicament.
During their conversation, the picture focused on a stream, and a leaf kept spinning, just like a trapped Hong Shi, lonely and desperate.
"I think the best solution is not to go out, but to keep going." Shi Hong said that the leaves that had been spinning at this time suddenly flowed down the water.
His so-called continuation is to use all his strength to help Chen Jing get rid of suspicion.
There are many details like this, and the dialogue between two people usually indicates the next step of the plot.
A gifted mathematician, he packaged himself as a stalker. Stalking Chen Jing, sending her threatening letters, threatening her to break up with Long Kun, and even threatening to kill her daughter, all this is to protect Chen Jing's mother and daughter.
One story after another, Shi Hong fooled everyone with his high IQ. Just as the case was about to close, Tang Chuan discovered the truth and told Chen Jing.
A man and a woman stood kneeling, and the crying of two people opened the curtain for the ending.
My friend who went to the movies with me told me that she was crying badly and asked me if I was crying. She was surprised when I said no.
"Shi Hong's secret love is too difficult," she said. "Why aren't you touched at all?"
Because in my opinion, what Shi Hong did to Chen Jing was not for love, but for himself. Just like his monologue in prison, he did so many things for her, because Chen Jing saved his life, and he thanked her.
For Shi Hong, seeing Chen Jing's mother and daughter when he committed suicide rekindled his hope of life. What he wants to do is to protect them silently at all costs. Mathematics is Shi Hong's life, but Chen Jing's mother and daughter are his hopes to continue studying mathematics, and he will not allow his hopes to be dashed.
Of course, I think this is still a contest between him and Tang Chuan, a washing of values. From the film's crew, we can see that Tang Chuan is handsome and sunny, an associate professor in the police academy and a genius in physics. On the other hand, Shi Hong is always hunched over and always wears dark clothes. He is an unpopular middle school teacher.
In the whole play, two people have been fighting in the dark, and Shi Hong asked Tang Chuan a question to solve the problem. The loser dies and the winner starts a new life.
Only one of them is destined to exist. But Tang Chuan's personal values have changed. Before that, Tang Chuan never proved the problems, but this play by Shi Hong changed him. He still proved the four-color problem that he threatened not to prove before. When Shi Hong asked him if it was difficult, he said it was. It's not how difficult the problem is, but that this step he took is very difficult.
However, there are still some shortcomings in this drama, that is, the ending is handled too deliberately.
The lens began to lengthen, and the book "Four Colors Principle" in Tang Chuan's hand changed from vague to clear. Then, a light began to appear in the picture, and this light became stronger and stronger, so Tang Chuan walked all the way in this light. At first glance, it looks a bit like Altman, the embodiment of justice, who beat the monster to the bright road.
But in my mind, there is no distinction between good people and bad people in this play. Only the fall and rise of genius.