Now many TV series are often seventy or eighty episodes, an episode of 40 minutes, first a pre-plot summary, and then insert a point of advertising in the middle, the real dry goods are less than 30 minutes, and the male and female protagonists can give you more than ten episodes of nonsense, and it is a waste of time to watch at 2 times the speed.
This phenomenon has long caused dissatisfaction among the majority of audiences, and in 2020, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television issued relevant regulations to oppose the "water injection" plot, advocate that TV dramas do not exceed 40 episodes, and encourage the creation of less than 30 episodes.
iQiyi has launched the mini-drama column "Mist Theater", which focuses on suspense and solving cases: "Ten Days Game", "Hidden Corners", "Extraordinary Witness", "In the Doom" and "The Silent Truth".
These dramas are only about 12 episodes, each episode is about 50 minutes long, which is very similar to American dramas, bringing a new experience to the audience, of which "The Hidden Corner" and "The Silent Truth" have received excellent reputation.
In September 2020, Mango Station, as the brother of the TV station, did not leave behind, launching the "Mango Monsoon" program, which also focuses on this short and concise column drama, with each episode lasting 55 to 70 minutes.
On May 24, 2021, the first drama of "Mango Monsoon", "Wolf Hunter", was broadcast, and Qin Hao and Yin Fang joined forces to perform a story of border rangers chasing poachers, which gained a good reputation.
On June 21, Mango Stage took advantage of the chase and launched the second drama of the series.
This is the criminal investigation short drama "Lie True Detective" starring Yu Nan and Xing Jiadong.
After the first episode of the show was broadcast, it reached 180 million times, and has exceeded 370 million times so far, which is undoubtedly a popular drama.
This is Yu Nan's first starring in a TV series, and it is also the first criminal investigation drama in China to tell the story of a female lie detector, and Yu Nan is partnered by her old classmate Xing Jiadong.
Yu Nan and Xing Jiadong are both 95-level classmates, and "True Detective lies" turned out to be the first time that the two had cooperated in more than 20 years after graduation.
This drama can be called the Chinese version of "lie to me", which cleverly uses lie detectors and micro-expressions in the detection of cases.
In the past criminal investigation dramas, the lie detector was often used as a "mirror", and whenever the case could not be advanced, the lie detector came out, and the suspect immediately appeared in its original form.
In this play, the real working state of the lie detector is presented to the audience, and the lie detector is by no means a magic spell, but a mental game.
Yu Nan played a heroic lie detector in the play, walking with the wind, and in the first episode, she conducted a lie detector test on the suspect.
In order to play a good lie detector, Yu Nan followed the female lie detector to Shandong Gaomi to handle the case, during the roadshow she said that this role in the play needs a strong psychological quality, and in the play Yu Nan interpreted the professionalism of the lie detector very well.
During the lie detector test, Yu Nan asked the suspect many questions, and she asked the suspect to only answer yes or no.
The lie detector on the side recorded the suspect's mental fluctuation curve, as long as the suspect lied, her fluctuation curve was exposed.
Here Yu Nan used two very professional techniques.
The first trick is to ask a whole bunch of repetitive questions.
Chen Hu, the leader of the serious case team next to him, was anxious and complained: "Isn't it over with one buckle and one detention and one question?" ”
In fact, this is a roundabout tactic, so that the suspect let down his guard and then tell the real idea.
The second trick is that Yu Nan directly told the suspect the principle of the lie detector.
It seems to be a taboo of interrogation, but in fact it is an attempt to get away with it.
The assistant outside the interrogation room explained the logic behind it: the more the suspect knew, the more he wanted to resist, the more accurate he was.
Sure enough, when the suspect was asked about his boyfriend, the curve suddenly fluctuated greatly, so the detective team immediately determined a new direction of investigation.
An interrogation scene made the personalities of several characters come out at once.
Yu Nan played the lie detector Ling Ran, the name with Ling Li, can be described as a "sa" between the hands and feet, driven by her, the rhythm of the whole play is fast, and the drama is full of tension.
Chen Hu, the leader of the serious case team played by Xing Jiadong, is a fierce man, and it can be seen from the interrogation scene that he is straight forward, or the atmosphere in the group is responsible, which is in stark contrast to Ling Ran.
And the assistant Qin Xinyi played by actor Wang Wei is a kind and kind-hearted assistant with numb movements, it is said that Wang Wei tried three times just to try the role in order to win this role, and finally performed the style of just graduating with her acting skills.
And the suspect Zhou Ruojun, with a look of wanting to talk and stopping, makes a simple husband killing case confusing.
Here again, we have to mention the innovation of "True Detective lies".
Although there are many kinds of criminal investigation dramas, they are divided into two categories.
One is the so-called Benguet reasoning, which pays more attention to the design of tricks, but once there are many tricks, it is naturally out of touch with the real world, because where are there so many coincidences in reality?
And Agatha has written the trick almost completely, and the road left for the younger generation is very narrow.
The second type is the so-called socialist reasoning, that is, it does not matter who the murderer is, the murderer's criminal motive is very important, and the novels of Keigo Higashino and Miyuki Miyabe follow this path, and "The Silent Truth" is also the leader of this type of drama.
"Lie Detective" is a typical social reasoning, the whole series of 16 episodes, each episode of 30 minutes, 8 hours of a total of 5 cases, each case is adapted from the real somewhat similar to the "Today's Statement" kind of criminal investigation program.
Since it is a real case, naturally there are many reversal plots and exquisite designs, and the whole drama pays more attention to reflecting some social problems with cases:
First of all, it is very bold in the choice of subject matter.
In the first case, the sensitive topic of child molestation was involved, which is very bold and rare in ordinary criminal investigation dramas.
A kind woman suddenly killed her second husband, according to the investigation, the husband often committed domestic violence against her before she died, so it is very simple to understand that the wife has been resentful for a long time, and finally killed people passionately.
However, when the detective team investigated, they found that there was something else behind it, and the suspect's remarks led to her daughter.
At this point, the audience with a certain amount of reading can almost guess the ending: it must be that the husband hurt her daughter, and she completed the killing of her husband in order to protect her daughter.
However, the director made this drama not to set up this puzzle, but to reveal the social phenomena behind it.
As the investigation progresses, we examine the social impact of this atrocity from multiple perspectives, including the victim's parents, school leaders, and the suspect's ex-boyfriend.
This way of stripping away the cocoon allows a very heavy social topic to slowly poke into the audience's heart and provoke us to think.
In the end, in order to protect the privacy of minors, the court adopted a closed trial method, which allowed us to see the humane side of China's judicial system.
The second is that it focuses on marginalized people.
This was made clear in the first case.
Zhou Ruojun, who killed her husband for a woman, said: "Only when the snake is pregnant, it will not molt, and at that time it will think, life is like this, because there is a child, there is no foot, and it is better to crawl on the ground for a lifetime." ”
This line is borrowed from Miyuki Miyabe's masterpiece novel "Train".
This novel tells the story of a Japanese woman who lives on a poor budget, becomes a kanu, and is finally abandoned by society, and the author has a feeling and writes down the theory of "pregnant snake molting".
While paying tribute to the classics, "True Detective lies" also implies that the whole drama focuses on the vulnerable groups in society.
In the first case, this poor mother, she has no voice channel, the only ex-boyfriend who can turn to help can only help her complete the husband-killing act, and she is also in the mud.
In the second case, the rich second generation chased the daughter unsuccessfully and knocked the woman to death, and a poor boy was forced to face the crime in order to buy a house and get married, and he was a tool man in the whole case.
In the third case, a nanny had an emotional entanglement with her employer and was finally forced to commit suicide, and she was also involuntarily.
The fourth case tells the story of the disillusionment of an unlucky woman who came to the city to work hard and was deceived by various people, and finally embarked on a desperate road.
These cases are not bizarre, and these little people are not criminal masters, but what this drama wants to show us is not how clever their criminal skills are, but how helpless they are when they stand in the city, and a single wind can make them fall into the abyss of doom.
Finally, and as we begin to emphasize, this is a rare drama with no nonsense, fast pace, and all dry goods.
There are no twists and turns in the play, directly into the theme of solving the case, generally two episodes are a case, watching Yu Nan walk with the wind, crisp and neat to solve the case, that is called a cool.
And the 5 cases seem to be independent, in fact, they all have a certain connection, just like the title of the play "Lie True Detective", each case starts from a lie, and Yu Nan leads the small partner to fake the truth, which perfectly shows the working state of the lie detector, and does not disperse.
And the character traits of several protagonists have also been explained in the gap between the cases, the mystery of Ling Ran's father's murder and the mystery of Chen Hu's divorce, which is the big suspense of the whole play.
The small suspense is covered with big suspense, the bright line and the dark line advance in tandem, and the whole drama is fascinating.
In short, "True Detective Lies" is a recent TV series worth watching, short and concise, fast-paced, fascinating, and recommended!
(Rotten Tomatoes Movie Editorial Department: Mu Yi)