Mystery of the Dangerous City – Jiran (@ericgoodboy)

I watched the Spanish horror film Infiesto (Chinese translation is “The Mystery of the Dangerous City”) on Netflix. What attracted me was the background of the new crown virus in the early stage of the European pandemic. The hero and heroine are both professional. policemen. A girl was kidnapped in the city. Moreover, the criminal is suspected to be a serial killer. Many girls may have been killed, but the government ordered the city to be close. Both have to investigate the case and save people at a critical time of life and death. This is really a police story with the characteristics of the times.

The atmosphere of this film is very dark. As well as fighting wits with the murderers hiding in the dark, the hero and heroine also have to face the effect of the epidemic of the century. In addition, the internal story of the case is quite complex. In addition to the serial killer, there are descriptions of sadism and cult organizations. It is anticlimactic, but it has strong stamina, and the setting is unexpected when revealed. the plot is really twisted and strange.

The weakness of the film is that the investigation process is not careful enough. Sometimes when two people go to a certain place and casually ask people for information about the person involved in the case, they always accepting each other’s words without hesitation (without considering the strangers in front of them. maybe the murderer), I don’t know if the Europeans are really that honest, or if the scriptwriter’s arrangement is too naive. In addition, the effect of the epidemic was not fully used, and the hero and heroine insisted on not wearing masks after the city closed, which really broke the anti-epidemic atmosphere at the time and wasted’ this unique theme that could be played.