With the previous working experience, it was easy for them to act like long time best friends. Both of them starred in the drama with Ruby Lin’s husband Wallace Huo. They first worked together in a drama called “Love Me If You Dare” (他来了，请闭眼) which was also a crime-investigation related drama. This is the second time time Wang Kai and Zhang Luyi worked together. As the team had to ensure that every single plot and content is approved by the author, the script went through 11 months and 33 versions before everything was confirmed as the amendments had to be translated back and forth into Japanese due to the language barrier.
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There will be an Indian television series coming and an American film in development.
“The Devotion of Suspect X” had been filmed in Japanese and Korean. This is the first time Keiho Higashino’s novel is being filmed in China and the third time it has been used on films. Unlike thriller films such as The Tenants Downstairs which make you feel bad, this provides a bitter-sweet ending which somehow make me leave the cinema with a conflicted sigh. I thought I knew it all, but the twist came in when I least expect and it hit hard, because those twists were relatable and thought-provoking. This is one of the few rare films where you can’t help but root for the killer, silently hoping that he gets away with the crime. It wasn’t difficult to feel the struggle and pain the character was feeling, even when there wasn’t a single word of dialogue. It provide pauses, it uses the actors’ expression as well as the surrounding and cinematography to tell the story instead. Nor does it try to do a Benedict-Cumberbatch-Sherlock-Holmes style by using special effects to key in numbers and words to bring across the message when Professor Tang was trying to solve the mystery. The film doesn’t try to do the stereotypical suspense-music-and-fast-cuts method to get your attention. Every glance, every twitch in the eye has a distinctive meaning.Messages were brought across clearly through the simplest yet impressive sequences and montages. The almost flawless story and plot made this a must-watch for any crime-thriller fans.ĭirector Alec Su was brilliant when it comes to getting the actors to perform without lines. Despite having several subplots, the individual stories were clear and memorable. It shifted the original focus of the secret pining admiration of the female lead, in this case Chen Jing (Ruby Lin) and Shi Hong (Zhang Luyi), to the dynamic interplay between childhood buddies Tang Chuan (Wang Kai) and Shi Hong (Zhang Luyi). What made me love this Chinese adaptation was how the screenwriter upped the game by switching around the order of the crime instead of revealing it in the chronological order. If you are a fan of Keigo Higashino’s novel, you will know that it’s not the first time the novel has been turned into a movie. Without too many spoilers, here’s why you will definitely enjoy this quality piece of work: It surprised me a good number of times in several aspects, and even managed to get the rare nod of approval from le action/thriller aficionado boyfriend. Both Peps and I’ve been watching a good number of crime thrillers for the past few months, and I was feeling remotely worn out.ĭirector Alec Su’s version of “The Devotion of Suspect X” managed to inject a breath of fresh air into the otherwise-clichéd-genre of crime thriller. Most of my friends will know that Ruby Lin is the ONLY asian female actress I looked up to and by in primary school, even my hotmail address was named after her! But putting that fangirl part of me aside, I gotta admit that I wasn’t really expecting too much before watching the movie.
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I was over the moon when I knew that this movie is coming to Singapore, because it’s been a long while since Ruby Lin’s filmography has touched local grounds. The Devotion of Suspect X 2017 (嫌疑人X的献身) Viewer Rating: 4.75/5 **** The Devotion of Suspect X 2017 (嫌疑人X的献身) Movie Review: A maths genius assists in a murder investigation, only to find that a longtime rival and friend from his early university days may be involved. The Devotion of Suspect X 2017 (嫌疑人X的献身) Movie Synopsisīased on the 2015 thriller novel by Keigo Higashino, which is also the third in his Detective Galileo series.
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