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Recently, there is a thriller that is currently being screened in North America.

This movie is actually quite funny. If you only look at the movie itself, you won’t think it’s particularly good. However, if you know the story behind the scenes of the movie, you will find that this movie is quite amazing.

This is M. Night Shyamalan's new filmtrap》。

Shyamalan is one of my favorite horror film directors. His horror films may not only be scary, but more about his scripts, especially the very exciting reversals. The films like "The Sixth Sense", "The Village", "Unbreakable" and "The Omen" back then, really have all kinds of strange ideas and reversals in each one.

But in recent years, most of his new films are not that good.

Including this time's "Trap", you see, although Douban has not scored much, it is only 6.0 points. IMDb also only has 6.2 points.

The Rotten Tomatoes score of 170 media outlets only gave it a 55% freshness rating, or 5.5 points, which is not even the passing line of 6 points.

In short, judging from the reviews alone, this is indeed an ordinary, barely passable conventional thriller.

《trapWhat kind of story does "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" tell?

To use Shyamalan's own description, if "The Silence of the Lambs" took place at a Taylor Swift concert, what would happen?

That’s probably the story.

Josh Hartnett plays a very scary serial killer.

However, in normal times, he is a kind and family-oriented father, and he loves his son and daughter very much.

His daughter is a famous singerLady RavenThis was the time when he accompanied his daughter to a Lady Raven concert.

On the surface, this is just a normal concert, like the ones you have attended before.

Crazy fans, hard-working performances. Of course, as an old father, Josh doesn't quite understand this. However, he loves his daughter very much and is still trying to accompany her to realize her dream.

But at the same time, he found that this concert was a little strange.

Because there are a lot of police officers on the scene, and the security is very strict.

Then, he found out that this was actually a "trap" because the police already knew that he was coming to watch the concert. Although they didn't know what he looked like, the police were trying various ways to find this evil serial killer at the concert.

This is a typical cat and mouse game.

The police sent a large number of police forces to catch the killer at the concert, and they also had experienced criminal profilers to help.

At the same time, Josh Hartnett plays a super smart killer who hides himself in various ways along the way to escape pursuit.

The unique thing about this film is that we have been following Josh Hartnett's point of view since the beginning, and he has always shown that he loves his daughter very much. Therefore, it is easy for the audience to empathize with this character and hope that he can successfully escape from this big chase.

Especially the character played by Josh Hartnett is very unique. No matter how evil and cold-blooded the police say he is, in the film, he often shows another side of him.

At least, he really loves his daughter.

During this pursuit, if he wanted to run away, it should have been easy for him, but he still had to take care of his daughter and missed many opportunities.

In short, the film is saying in various ways that no matter how evil he is to outsiders, he truly loves his daughter.

Yes, this is a movie about the relationship between father and daughter.

So, don’t worry about the external crime and thriller elements. The core is actually a story about the love between a father and daughter, and a story about how a serial killer can love his daughter very much.

In fact, because of this setting, the plot began to collapse in the second half, and there were even many parts that didn't make sense or were out of control.

It's quite unreasonable, isn't it?

But if you want to know the behind-the-scenes of the film, it actually makes sense.

Another feature of the film "Trap" is that most of the plot takes place at a concert in a stadium.

The entire background is the concert of the pop star Lady Raven. She really sings one song after another, stringing together the whole story.

The person who plays Lady Raven is calledSharek Shyamalan。

Yes, she is Shyamalan’s daughter.

She is a singer and has released some songs, although they are not very popular. Moreover, I checked and found that she often writes songs for her father's movies or TV series.

This time in "Trap", she is going to play a famous female star and hold a concert, so she specially wrote an original soundtrack album.

It also made her enjoy singing.

When Shyamalan talked to the media about the origin of "The Trap", he also mentioned that this was the idea that he came up with while chatting with his daughter, and then this movie came into being.

Therefore, it is only reasonable for her daughter to play the female star and take charge of the entire album.

Of course, it's hard not to see the film as Shyamalan's attempt to promote his daughter.

Because neither her performance nor all the songs she performed in it were memorable, and you didn't really believe that she could really become a pop star.

But from Shyamalan's perspective, it all makes sense.

This is a movie that praises daughters. The movie also tells a story about how much a father loves his daughter. It is full of true feelings and they resonate with each other. It is very good.

Other than that, there's really nothing to talk about.

All I can say is that Shyamalan really loves his daughter.

In fact, this film was invested and filmed by his own company. Therefore, even when the film was being filmed, the actors and writers' unions were on strike, because he was a small company, it was not affected by the strike and he could continue filming.

This detail also shows that Shyamalan is in true love.

Speaking of Shyamalan's daughter, there is another horror movie this year called "Mysterious Peeping”, I believe many friends have read it.

The director of this film is calledIshana Shyamalan, well, this is Shyamalan's other daughter.

Although this movie's Douban score is not very high, I think it's actually okay, and the plot has a bit of Shyamalan's feel.

Moreover, in "Trap", the name of "Mysterious Peeping" also appeared.

Yes, Shyamalan loves each of his daughters.

Including when Shyamalan talked about why he chose Josh Hartnett as the leading actor, Shyamalan said that he had three daughters, and Josh Hartnett said that he also had three daughters. The two hit it off and began to work together.

Anyway, when you understand the story behind the scenes, everything makes sense, including why the film is not so good.

However, as an aside, there was indeed such an activity in the United States where the police set up a trap to capture fugitives at an event, which was another source of inspiration for Shyamalan to write this story.

"On December 15, 1985, the U.S. Department of Justice and police departments worked together to arrest 101 wanted criminals at the Washington Convention Center through an event hosted by a fictitious television company with free tickets."

Of course, we can also do this, just invite Jacky Cheung to open the concert.

Um.