What are some good recent movies in the "Mystery" genre?
Sept 10, 2017 19:43:16 GMT
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Post by theravenking on Sept 10, 2017 19:43:16 GMT
It’s very old-fashioned, both in plot and in filmmaking, which I loved, and the build-up is lovely: complex, many-layered, yet instantly comprehensible, which is exactly how I like detective-stories. (None of the old “green tie” business, as Carr would call it.) The acting–from Ana Wagener and José Coronado in particular–is excellent, and the whole thing was first-class both as a mystery and as a film.
Flaws? Well, the against-time element is a bit underemployed. As one reviewer wrote, “We now and again get a shot of the stop watch, but otherwise the tension is not capitalised upon, which limits the urgency of solving the crime.") With that said, if they hadn’t included it, the hook would have been weakened in the very beginning–and, as that hook so rapidly draws us into a fine tale, I can understand the motive, even if the culmination is not as effective as we would wish.
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I loved the first false solution, which was not any kind of grand illusion but a simple way of managing the effect under pressure, and probably the way that a real-life locked-room puzzle would genuinely be effected. I tend not to like the subset of solutions under which the real answer falls, but this one was fine just because the exposition built up to it, and it seemed to follow through with the characters’ real personalities.
Indeed, in the end, one can certainly call this a locked-room mystery—butof a different sort than I expected, shall I say?
I certainly saw one or two twists coming, but the final one is a doozy and completely caught me by surprise. In an era when every twist seems to have been done a million times before, this one definitely surprised me.
Many thanks for the recommendation, theravenking .
