Do you really understand "Tang Detective 3"? Ten questions to help you solve the mystery

The Spring Festival holiday is over, and the Spring Festival stalls in full swing have also come to an end. At present, the box office during the Spring Festival holiday has exceeded 7 billion, helping China's total box office in 2021 to exceed 10 billion, and Chinese movies have a "good start". Among them, the movie "Detective Chinatown 3" written and directed by Chen Sicheng has grossed more than 3.4 billion at the box office, becoming the box office champion during the Spring Festival holiday. It can be said that this is the "most suitable family blockbuster for the Spring Festival" voted by more than 70 million viewers.

And the discussion sparked by "Detective Chinatown 3" has not subsided. In addition to the comedy family fun, Tokyo style, and visual effects, many viewers also raised various questions about the movie's plot, detective details, characters, themes, historical background, etc.

Standing at the end of the Spring Festival, the official Weibo of "Tang Detective" specially made a summary response to collect everyone's opinions and suggestions.

Compared with the first two parts, "Tang Detective 3", the third part of the series, is indeed more complicated in many aspects:

The film length is longer and the characters appear more There are many movies, the linkage is wider, and the themes are more expanded...

A Spring Festival family movie has such a carrying capacity, so the audience has more questions about it than before.

In order to let everyone better understand this movie, we have specially prepared the following "Q&A" on some of the questions that the audience is most concerned about or confused about.

The following contains spoilers, it is recommended to watch the movie before reading! The following contains spoilers, it is recommended to watch the movie before reading! The following contains spoilers, it is recommended to watch the movie before reading!

1. The identity of Qin Feng’s father?

"Tang Detective 1" once explained Qin Feng's life experience in a few words: his father was in prison and his mother died young. At that time, Sinuo asked Qin Feng: "Is he a bad person?"

In response to this question, Qin Feng gave an ambiguous answer: "Good or bad, it depends on how you interpret it." It wasn't until "Tang Detective 3" was released that Qin Feng's father, played by Zhang Guoqiang, finally revealed his mysterious side.

At the beginning of the film, Qin Feng had a dream about his father - his father asked young Qin Feng to guard the door of the bank and help him count how many people walked through the door.

While counting people, Qin Feng was deeply attracted by the game arcade on the roadside. As a result, when the camera turned back, Qin Feng's father was taken out of the bank by the police.

Later, in the movie, Qin Feng was asked by Q to count people on the streets of Shibuya, and the other party said jokingly: "How many people can you help dad count?"

This This sentence quickly aroused Qin Feng's vigilance: "Who are you and why do you know about me?"

Through these two echoing plots, we can have two guesses. First, is Qin Feng’s father a good person or a bad person?

He is likely to be unjustly imprisoned like Qin Feng in "Tang Detective 3".

The second is the relationship between Qin Feng’s father and Q. There are two possibilities why Q repeated what Qin Feng's father said to Qin Feng. Either Qin Feng's father had been in contact with Q for a long time, or Q had specially investigated Qin Feng and learned the ins and outs of Qin's father's arrest.

Some fans have boldly speculated that Qin Feng’s father may be the veteran of the Q organization, and all cases are just tests for Qin Feng.

Various phenomena imply that after Qin's father appears, the "Tang Detective" series will play a big game next, and it is indispensable to further reveal the relationship between father and son.

2. Why is Q an organization?

Regarding this issue, in fact, Chen Sicheng had already given clues in advance in the online drama "Detective Chinatown".

The web drama "Detective Chinatown" was launched on New Year's Day last year, while "Detective Chinatown 3" was supposed to be released during the Spring Festival last year. The two are closely related.

Unfortunately, "Tang Detective 3" was postponed for one year due to the epidemic, missing the best time for the movie and drama linkage, causing the audience's memory to be blurred.

The first *** of the web drama is told in three units. At the end of "The Name of the Rose" (the second unit of the web drama), there are two scenes: In one scene, detective Lin Mo saw Q, who ranks first in the world's famous detective rankings, recalled the scene when his mother was killed when he was a child. At that time, the murderer happened to have a Q tattoo on his wrist;

Another scene is After the femme fatale Ivy fled to London, she revealed a tattoo of a washed-out Q letter behind her ear.

All of these show that Q is not an individual, but a transnational organization that has existed for many years.

They have committed one perfect crime after another around the world that is difficult to detect. The roundtable discussion at the end of "Tang Detective 3" just echoes this foreshadowing.

3. Why did Sinuo recommend Tang Ren?

In the movie, Tang Ren returned to Thailand and asked Sinuo for help. However, Sinuo, who was in the church, did not give a clear answer. Instead, he pushed Tang Ren and pushed Tang Ren off the stage. to the ground.

This unexpected push actually has two meanings. The first floor is for Q, indicating that she pushed Tang Ren away, refused to provide help to Qin Feng, and maintained a neutral position.

The other layer was for Tang Ren to see, reminding him that after pushing, the landing point of the human body is different from the natural fall.

This is how Tang Ren returned to Japan and conducted a placement experiment at the Dragon Q Pavilion to find evidence to clear Qin Feng's charges (without pushing Murata Akira away).

4. What is the relationship between Sinuo and Q?

Judging from the two details that appeared in "Tang Detective 3", Sinuo is likely to be the last person to reject the Q organization. In "Tang Detective 1", Sinuo once asked Qin Feng, "How does a piece of paper stand up?" Qin Feng folded the paper in half from the middle to make it stand up.

In "Tang Detective 3", Officer Tanaka, who invited Qin Feng to join the Q organization, also left such a standing piece of paper on the table. This piece of paper, folded into two sides, is a metaphor for the good and evil sides of human nature. Like Sinuo, it appeared twice in the movie "Tang Detective 1" and "Tang Detective 3". It obviously has a deep meaning, and it is a metaphor for the connection between Sinuo and Q - she has been in contact with Q and also Q may have been rejected.

However, Liu Wusi, one of the screenwriters of "Tang Detective 3", said in the behind-the-scenes documentary that Sinuo is currently not taking sides, and she is still the most curious character in the series.

5. The M?bius strip at the end?

After solving the case, Qin Feng received the M?bius strip given to him by Sinuo. This M?bius strip also has multiple meanings. First of all, it is a metaphor for the entanglement and chaos between good and evil. Secondly, it is intended to let Qin Feng find the answer from the source.

The origin of Qin Feng happened to be the moment when his father was arrested by the police in front of him. Starting from this, he determined to complete a perfect crime. Finally, its shape looks like a Q. Does it mean that Sinuo is telling Qin Feng that he is inseparable from Q and must face it.

6. Is the new detective character face-blind?

As mentioned before, because the original film-drama linkage was abruptly postponed by one year, and many viewers have not watched the "Tang Detective" web drama, they are not interested in the web drama characters appearing in the film. He looked confused.

So here, it is necessary for us to sort out the web drama version of the detective characters that appear in the film.

Lin Mo is the "Amo" ranked 4th in Crimaster's world famous detective rankings. He is nicknamed "Lin Hei Dog" and has an excellent sense of smell.

After the Bangkok gold medal murder case was concluded, Lin Mo was "accepted as a disciple" by Tang Ren.

After Tang Ren went to New York, Lin Mo stayed to help him manage the detective agency and fulfill Tang Ren's promise to "detect twenty cases" for the police department. So in "Tang Detective 3", when Tang Ren returned to Thailand, it was Lin Mo who drove to the pier to pick up the master and then sent him to see Sinuo.

Also appearing in the movie with Lin Mo is his old enemy Ivy.

Ivy is a rose with thorns, looking dangerous and charming. In the web drama, she pretended to be weak to get close to Lin Mo, and after the incident was revealed, she flew away, deceived Lin Mo and flew to London by herself.

In "Tang Detective 3", Ivy showed up at the round table at the end and confessed that she was a mysterious member of the Q organization.

Since the night scene of London appeared at the end of "Tang Detective 3", according to the direction of the first three parts, the next "Tang Detective 4" will be set in London, and Ivy is likely to have More scenes.

In addition to the two people mentioned above, the five great soul boys of the detective group also appeared in the movie.

The Five Soul Boys are a detective group composed of a Japanese chaebol son, a mafia daughter, and a political prince. They play e-sports and also like to investigate cases. They call themselves "the best team in the world, and the best in the world." "Detective Portfolio".

The leader, Noda Haoji, is Noda Hao’s younger brother. At the end of "Ghost Invitational" (the third unit of the online drama), they had dealt with Qin Feng in the hospital.

This time, in "Tang Detective 3", the role of the five soul boys is mainly to clear the way for Tang Ren and Qin Feng when they are in danger in Tokyo.

7. Music after Murata Akira’s fall

The confrontation scene between Qin Feng and Murata Akira (played by Shota Sometani) in the film takes place at the Dragon Q Hall, a place in Saitama Prefecture The huge underground drainage system that actually exists, with pillars nearly twenty meters high, is spectacular. The overall environment is like an underground palace, coupled with the darkness and dampness, it is a perfect location for a mystery and suspense movie (and it also happens to contain a "Q" letter).

Against this background, the English episode "On my way" that appeared when Murata Akira fell and Qin Feng was arrested captured many audiences.

"On my way" is sung by Saji, and his slightly hoarse voice perfectly matches the atmosphere of the plot, making it the highlight of the film. Saji has previously sang "Moment, or Possession" for the Tang Tan web drama, which is also a sound easter egg in the Tang Tan series.

8. What is the Japanese Pioneer Mission?

At the end of the movie, the life experience of Masaru Watanabe is revealed. It turns out that he was a war orphan abandoned by the Japanese pioneer group in Northeast China.

The pioneering group mentioned in the film is actually a special type of colonization. After the September 18th Incident, in order to occupy China in the true sense, Japan formulated the "Plan to Move One Million Agricultural Immigration Households to Manchuria" and sent a large number of Japanese people to Northeast China.

After Japan was defeated in 1945, the Japanese government promulgated the "Residential Residence Policy", cutting off the return of the Japanese pioneering mission.

In the movie, after the young Masaru Watanabe became an orphan, he was adopted by a Northeastern family.

It was not until the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan in the 1970s and 1980s that Watanabe returned to Japan smoothly through his father's connections, but only after abandoning his wife and daughter who were living in China.

Due to language barriers and different living habits, the second and third generation orphans left behind by the pioneer team are often ostracized after returning to Japan and find it difficult to integrate into mainstream Japanese society.

Anna Kobayashi, played by Masami Nagasawa, is a tragic example of orphaned children. Her mother (played by Janice Man) was unable to adapt to life in Japan after being abandoned, and was forced to sell her body because of extreme poverty.

"Tang Detective 3" uses a secret room murder case to interrogate and reflect on the historical issues left over from the war, allowing the issue of Japanese orphans hidden in the corners of history to reach the general audience through domestic commercial blockbusters sight.

9. The theme of peace and anti-war

A comedy + mystery Spring Festival movie, after clearing away the layers of fog, the theme turns to historical issues and the theme of peace and anti-war. Indeed It was unexpected, but also a surprise. To a great extent, it broadens the pattern and meaning of the "Tang Detective" series.

In fact, as early as the opening of "Tang Detective 3", the sentence "The journey of the great road, the world is for the common good" quoted from "The Book of Rites" hints at the film's concept of peace, love, and human beings breathing together** *The big theme of destiny.

At the beginning of each episode of the "Tang Detective" series, an ancient classic is quoted that "spoilers" the theme of the movie in advance.

"Tang Detective 1" is: One yin and one yang are called Tao, which is followed by goodness, and what is achieved is nature; "Tang Detective 2" is: Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, The three give birth to all things.

This is a clever combination of Chinese classical culture and the detective genre.

10. "Heal The World"

In the fireworks night scene at the end, we heard the familiar Michael Jackson's classic song "Heal The World", which is also based on the above theme. need.

"Heal The World" is a famous song composed by MJ in 1991. It has just turned 30 years ago this year, which is very memorable. At that time, MJ established a "Children's Foundation", and this song was written by him for children all over the world. It was praised by later generations as one of "the most beautiful songs in the world".

Through this song, we can feel MJ's call for "Love & Peace" and his borderless care for the poor.

The addition of this song at the end of the film just makes "Tang Detective 3" thematically echo the "Journey on the road, the world is for the common good" at the beginning of the film.

Okay, let’s stop here for the Q&A on “Tang Detective 3”.

Interested friends can take these answers and go to the theater for a second viewing. You will discover more aspects of "Tang Detective 3".