Abstract:

Keigo Higashino’s novel The Dedication of the Suspect  X was adapted and shot against the background of China, in which specific elements were not simply swamped into those catering to Chinese habits.  One thing worth mentioning is that in the Chinese version of The Dedication of the Suspect X, the killing of Fu Jian is presented  in the middle of the narrative rather than at the begining. The shift  marks the transfer of the main thread of narration from the original protagonists Yasukoand Ishigami to the opposition between film characters Tang Chuan on the bright side and Shi Hong on the secretive side. The opposition between the two reflects exactly the contrast between visibility in physics and visibility in mathematics. At the end of the story, Chen Jing’s confession and surrendering herself to the police produced another strong singularity—the pathos, opposing to that of Shi Hong’s calculation. So, the real tension in the story is that between Shi’s logos and Chen’s pathos. In either Higashino’s novel or Su Youpeng’s film, the scale tilts to  pathos.
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