"Sauce Garden Blog·Unknown's Case" Douban score is only 5.9! Audience comments mixed

Jun 24 2025

  Today, the movie "Sauce Garden Lane·Unknown's Case" officially opened on the Douban platform, causing widespread discussion with a score of 5.9, and more than 85,000 viewers participated in the evaluation. Judging from the rating distribution, the reputation of the film is obviously polarized: 6.0% of the audience gave five stars, 18.8% gave four stars, 45.6% chose three stars, 21.6% gave two stars, and one star accounted for 8.0%.

Some viewers praised the audio-visual language and narrative details of the film. Some people commented: "The first time I felt such a strong sense of space oppression in a domestic movie, it is really not something that can be done in studio shooting. Even the supporting roles are in particular. Every corner of the picture is useful, and there is no redundant person." "The rhythm and lens language are all good. The lower part should be hit while the iron is hot."

Some people also believe that: "The stories told in the movie cannot support any side of the expression behind it, and it seems very floating." "A hodgepodge and empty plot."

  "Sauce Garden Lane·Unlock Case" was launched in theaters across the country on June 21, directed by Chen Kexin and co-written by Shi Ling, Jiang Feng and Shang Yang. The film brings together dozens of powerful actors including Zhang Ziyi, Wang Chuanjun, Yi Yang Qianxi, Mei Ting, Zhao Liying, Lei Jiayin, etc., and the lineup is luxurious. The film is adapted from the "Sauce Garden Killing a Husband", one of the four major cases in the Republic of China. The story focuses on a bloody case in the Shanghai Xinchang Road Sauce Garden in 1944: Zhan Zhou, who had been abused by her husband Zhan Yunying for a long time, killed her husband with a knife and dismembered her body in the middle of the night. Behind the case is the human struggle and social contradictions under the background of the times.

  At present, the controversy over the rating of the video is still fermenting. Supporters believe that its artistic exploration is worthy of recognition, while opponents question the sense of separation between story and expression. The audience has different opinions on this Douban score of 5.9: Some people think that "the score is low, and the details of the film and the performance of the actors are underestimated", while others say that "the score is reasonable and the empty story cannot be concealed by audio-visual skills." This in-depth discussion on artistic expression and narrative may be the "uncle case" left to the audience by "Sauce Garden Lane·Uncle Case".

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