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The third suspense story: "A Murder Case Made in Heaven".

In 1950, the famous Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's work "Rashomon" was released. This film, adapted from Ryunosuke Akutagawa's mystery novel "In the Bamboo Grove", not only won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1951, but is still ranked among the top 100 best films and the 20 best films in Japanese history to this day.

Starting from this movie, the word "Rashomon" has been used to describe the situation in which different characters, due to their different purposes and circumstances, tell completely different versions of the same event... In other words, each party to the event has their own story, and the truth is confusing, and only the final reasoning and logic can help to unravel the mystery and see the truth.

Over the years, there have not been many movies that dare to use a similar approach, because the aura of "Rashomon" is too strong, and it is not easy to achieve a new breakthrough. However, Bollywood's attempt this time is still very commendable. This "The Day After Tomorrow" does interpret a stunning "Rashomon"-like case tracking story in its own way, and has a very sighing ending.

The original title of "ITTEFAQ" is "Coincidence", which means "coincidence" in English. In fact, this film formed a mystery because of a coincidence, and made the whole case develop in a direction that seemed reasonable, and finally confused almost everyone.

A handsome and famous writer was suspected and investigated by the police because his wife died inexplicably in his hotel room. He fled in panic and hid in a lawyer's home in the heavy rain. But when the lawyer's wife rushed into the rain to bring the police back home, the lawyer had fallen to the ground and died. The glass coffee table in the room was broken into pieces, and there were traces of a fight in the room. The writer stood at the scene with a blank look on his face...

Thus, the two cases are linked:

Did the writer kill his wife?

Did the writer kill the lawyer?

Although he was surrounded by a bunch of cowardly subordinates, the shrewd and capable sheriff still began to use his brains to investigate the truth of the case.

If the testimonies of all parties were consistent, things would be easy to handle, but this case is a "Rashomon". The story described by the writer and the story described by the lawyer's wife are completely opposite versions:

The story described by the writer is that the lawyer's wife had been behaving suspiciously and had deliberately kept him in the room, pretending to help him. In the end, she and her lover actually killed the lawyer that night, and then took the opportunity to frame the writer.

The story described by the wife was that the writer came in and took her hostage. When the lawyer came back, the writer killed the lawyer during the scuffle. The wife took advantage of the chaos to escape downstairs and found the police.

Normally, the victim's confession is more credible in any situation. However, the lawyer's wife's confession was full of loopholes. Moreover, there were drinking cups left in the house from the lawyer's wife and the writer, as well as bloodstains from a fourth person present. The sheriff couldn't help but wonder who was lying.

In addition, during the investigation, it was discovered that the writer seemed to have another problem: his best-selling book was based on a case of a girl being raped, but he was extremely immoral and deliberately exposed the girl's true identity to attract media attention, which resulted in the girl being overwhelmed and committing suicide.

What does this question have to do with the death of the writer’s wife and the death of the lawyer?

Of course, the writer has status and is handsome. Even the sheriff’s wife is his fan and said, “A man as handsome as him can’t be a bad guy…”

The tearful writer portrayed the story with great emotion and details, and his love for his wife was reflected everywhere, which made the sheriff suspect that he was framed.

The turning point came when a few photos that were not completely burned in the trash can turned out to be photos of the lawyer's wife and the lawyer's friend having an affair. They were obviously taken by a detective commissioned by the lawyer. Moreover, the lawyer returned home at around 7 o'clock that night and was not discovered by the security guard at the door when he left.

The autopsy report, which was very favorable to the writer, proved that the writer's wife died of a normal heart attack, and the writer wanted to escape because he was frightened by the provocative language of the police.

Finally, the lawyer's wife was suspected of colluding with her lover to murder the lawyer and took the opportunity to frame the writer. At the last critical moment, the sheriff remembered that there was no mud on the lawyer's shoes when he died, which meant that he did not go home at 11 o'clock. Only at that time could he have run into the fugitive writer and had a fight. Therefore, the conclusion was that the lawyer's wife and lover murdered the lawyer, and the writer's wife also died of natural causes, so the writer was acquitted.

On the banks of the Ganges, the writer cremated his wife, and everything became clear.

However, all this was just an illusion. Was it really such a coincidence that the writer's escape would encounter such a coincidence that he would run into the crime scene at the lawyer's house? A terrifying escape would actually involve another murder?

The truth is:

The writer knew that his wife had heart disease since childhood and needed to take medicine every day, so when he knew that his wife was going to harm him, he cleverly secretly tripled the dose of medicine for his wife, causing her to die from an overdose of medicine, but it looked like a normal heart attack.

On the night when the writer's wife was murdered, the writer learned from his wife's cell phone that the lawyer had another piece of evidence to prosecute him, so he fled from the police and planned to deal with the lawyer overnight.

Unfortunately, that night the lawyer discovered that his wife was having an affair with his friend, and a fight broke out.

While the writer was threatening the lawyer's wife, he accidentally discovered evidence of the lawyer's wife's infidelity with her friend. So he took advantage of the situation and set up a trap to kill the lawyer when she returned home. He also carefully replaced the lawyer's muddy shoes, and then pretended to be innocent, deliberately leading the police to the point of view that the lawyer's wife was lying.

Because the lawyer's wife had cheated on her husband, she had to conceal the whole process and could not make up for many of her statements. As a result, she was suspected by the police and eventually fell into the writer's trap.

There is only one explanation for all "Rashomon"-like situations, that is, every party involved has his own ulterior motives and secrets, and therefore tries to combine the truth with the most favorable aspect for himself, rather than showing the truth itself.

Therefore, everyone has his or her own weaknesses, and sometimes good and evil are just a matter of thought. This is exactly the original intention of Hei Zeming's "Rashomon".

Of course, "The Day After Tomorrow" did not reach the height of "Rashomon" back then. From the plot alone, it revealed a complicated and difficult to distinguish true and false incident. However, it was also the weakness of human nature that allowed a meticulous murderer to find an opportunity to take advantage of.

Someone said: "What is more terrible than murder is lying, and what is more dangerous than weakness is denial..."

Perhaps, as long as humanity exists, we will never be able to avoid scenes like "Rashomon". And everyone has their own "little secrets", which may also be an indispensable part of life. The only thing is whether you can really keep this secret in your heart forever.

The whole story is highly suspenseful and brain-burning, stimulating the senses, so Xia Haoyang also brought him over.