I. Introduction to the film

"Tropical Past" is a crime drama film produced by Ning Hao and directed by Wen, starring Yan and Wang Yanhui, Zhang Yu and Jiang, Wang, Wang and Deng Fei.

The film tells the story of a murder case that was covered up by darkness due to power failure on a hot summer night in the late 1990s. The three men were involved in it, and their fate changed from then on, opening up a 20-year entanglement.

The film was released in Chinese mainland on June 2nd, 20021.

Second, the plot brief introduction

On a hot summer night in the south, young Wang Xueming (Eddie Peng Yuyan Yuyan) had an accident. Her husband suddenly disappeared, and she sought the help of police officer Chen, but she didn't know that she was the next "target" of others.

Officer Chen (Wang Yanhui) is in charge of the disappearance of Lao Liang. He found that the development of things was far beyond his control. This group of people who don't know that their fate has been quietly changed are trying to peek at the truth of that night, but the memory of this summer night is like a confusing puzzle, which is more and more confusing.

Third, film evaluation.

Tropical Past begins with the personal memories of the protagonist Wang Xueming before he was released from prison. Through his narration, the audience saw the guilty "good man" struggling in doomed failure and hopelessness. Personal recollection is highly subjective, and it is a complex narrative mode that relies on subjective narrative perspective and adopts flashback, flashback and other nonlinear time structures.

In fact, it is a common narrative convention in film noir, which is in sharp contrast with the traditional Hollywood omniscient and objective narrative mode and continuous and complete narrative process. The subjective perspective of emphasizing subjectivity is a typical feature of modernist narrative art. By giving up the "guarantee" of narrative discourse, we express our doubts, reflections and criticisms on modern industrial civilization.

Shortly after the opening of the film, several sets of scenes and paragraphs are connected by overlapping and fusion. This "old-fashioned" editing method is even more incompatible with the modernist style of the film.

Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Tropical Past