Text/Ma Qingyun
On October 29, the TV series "Hollow" can already be watched on the video platform for two episodes (the single episode lasts 100 minutes). This TV drama starring actors such as Shin Sung-rok and Lee Se-young is worth recommending because its narrative is very peculiar, its brain is wide open, and it is a "fantasy crossing" drama based on realism. Our previous fantasy crossing genre lacked the core of realism, but this "Hollow" did the opposite.
Let's start with our fantasy crossover drama in the general sense. In the past sense, a TV series, once labeled as fantasy crossing, basically belongs to the content of nonsense, and fundamentally lacks the factor of realism, not to mention what effective sociological connotations such plays can bear. Crossing and crossing, but male and female love. Because of this, fantasy crossover drama seems to have become synonymous with bad drama.
However, this just-launched "Hollow" has played a role in turning the tide on the fantasy crossing drama. Allow me to tell you about the opening story of This Hollow. At the beginning of the TV series, the male protagonist is the leader of a well-known construction group, who has become a director at a young age, directly accepts the leadership of the chairman, and is very appreciated by the chairman. As a result, he also suffered from the dissatisfaction of his directors at the same level. Obviously, the male protagonist is in the ascending period of his career and has lacked care for family life.
The wife of the male protagonist is a violin performance major, but because the male protagonist has a successful career, she becomes a full-time wife, at home with the nanny, taking care of her young daughter. The first twist in the story comes at a charity gala. The wife of the male protagonist took the stage to play the violin, and the male protagonist and the guests watched offstage. At this moment, the nanny took the child, but the child inexplicably disappeared. The police searched all the peripheral surveillance and found nothing.
The man and his wife began to post search notices. On the other hand, a civilian girl, the heroine of this TV series, has seen this little girl in the convenience store where she works. The two established contact, it was because the female owner lost her mobile phone, and when she called to look for it, she actually hit the male protagonist. The female protagonist asked for a mobile phone, the male protagonist asked for his daughter, and the two sides misunderstood. The female protagonist dials her mobile phone number, why does she receive the male protagonist? Later the plot gives the answer.
The kidnapper called and said he would be able to see the child in the early hours of the next morning. However, in the early hours of the next day, the "kidnappers" sent the child's severed finger. After modern scientific and technological analysis, the police finally concluded that the child was dead. The grief-stricken mother of the child eventually committed suicide by jumping into the river. The male protagonist who rushed to the scene was already desperate, and both the child and his wife died, and the corpse could not be found. At this moment, the male and female protagonists made the call again. And this call laid the foundation for the genre of "Hollow" fantasy crossover drama.
It turns out that the female protagonist and the male protagonist are not in one time. Although they live in the same city, the female protagonist's time is one month ahead of the male protagonist. The next plot mode of "Empty" is that the male protagonist helps him find the truth about the disappearance of the child by directing the female protagonist a month ago, and avoids the death of the child and his wife. The tone of this TV series is also officially clear, this kind of fantasy crossing is not a dog blood love story, but to find children and find the truth.
In order to establish its own realistic color, "Hollow" has a large narrative of the content of the couple looking for a child. Among these plots, the display of this content can be described as extremely real. At this time, allow me to compare the TV series "Dear, Where Are You" that Sister Qin Hailu just finished premiering. Qin Hailu's eldest sister and actor Wang Lei, in "Dear, Where Are You", are also losing children and looking for children, but this play is really a bit too much, and the rendering of emotions is too outward.
Excessive emotional release is easy to distort. Man is speechless in the face of top pain, not howling. In "Hollow", the male protagonist and his wife face the disappearance of their children, and the content presented by the director is closer to the truth. Including the final truth of the child's death, the mother fell to the ground and the father howled, but in post-production, only the howling action was seen, and the sound of howling could not be heard. This is actually a more clever way of "aphasia" editing, closer to reality. And more restrained, more emotionally lethal to the audience.
In the opening plot of "Hollow", efforts are made to present a sense of reality to the audience. Apparently, the TV series pursues a great realism. And the more realistic the show, the more successful it is. The fantasy crossings established by those mobile phones later are all in the service of finding children to find the truth. This emotional point is recognized by the audience. In the plot, the beginning is the suspenseful content of where the child went, which can be said to have satisfied the audience's appetite. Therefore, this "Empty Hole" has a very good foundation in terms of narrative ability.
Pulling the originally ungrounded fantasy through the content directly back to the dimension of reality is also a new narrative content created by "The Void". It turns out that the traversal theme can also have such a realistic temperature. This stone of his mountain, we should learn from.