#TV Series Forerunner Essay # "The Forerunner" will soon have a big finale, in fact, the suspense of the ending is not big, that is, the two parties of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party have joined forces to get rid of Lu Yi and Pei Ruhai to protect the safety of the "Confession"! In fact, the biggest loophole in this drama is the setting of this "confession". The plot depicts this "Confession" that collects secret archives of agents from various countries, which is very important! There is a great taste of "confession" in the world, but, if you think about it carefully, it is very unreasonable, "confession" is authorized by the French board of directors to organize Fan Yiting, and even the name is from the French board of directors! But from the beginning to the end, the French board of directors does not seem to be too cold to this "confession", and there is no fragment in the plot that describes how much the French board attaches importance to this "confession"! Therefore, it was allowed to cause big waves at the Shanghai station in the chaotic war.
Theoretically, after Fan Yiting sorted out this set of information, he should be directly handed over to the French board of directors, and the French board of directors should deal with the agents inside, or the board of directors directly brought it to France to be dedicated to a higher management level, triggering a top-secret assassination activity, and also making the lurking agents panic, and the leaders of various countries also opened the protection agent security team, and it was definitely not left alone in the hands of Fan Yiting! In the plot, the people on the board of directors praised Fan Yiting for his great achievements and told Fan Yiting to protect them well! Of course, Fan Yiting didn't seem to have any interest in this set of precious materials, and directly threw them in the secret room and became moldy! This has triggered the tigers of the kuomintang, the communist party, and the japanese party, and they all want to get this set of information in hand!
And the importance of the "confession" is also seriously exaggerated! The reference significance of this "confession" actually makes people feel that the practicality is very low, and we know that it is in the era of chaos, not peacetime. Peacetime spies are in a relatively stable state, so it is easy to follow the information on the Confessions. But the chaotic war years are different, it can be said that every minute and every second is dying, the elimination of adultery is also the first task of all parties and factions, the mortality rate of the agents is very high, the plot of Ma Tianmu sighed that he joined in the past few years have held several meetings, each meeting has not exceeded four people, each meeting has a new face. It is enough to see the huge rate of personnel attrition!
Therefore, these 302 so-called heavy-level agents, how many of them are still alive is unknown, and they can't spend a lot of manpower and material resources every day to track down the whereabouts of these people, right? If you can't find it or don't look for it, it will prove that the "confession" is of little use, and it is easy to be confused by the misleading information of the "confession"! For example, Pei Ruhai knew that Wu Chongxin was a big man, and he was looking for Wu Chongxin every day, taking Wu Chongxin as the first target point, but people had long developed and cultivated a new batch of excellent underground parties like Ma Tianmu, Jiang Yunqing, and Shui Gen, and he himself only belonged to the behind-the-scenes operation, and later withdrew from Shanghai to recuperate. However, Pei Ruhai still believed that Wu Chongxin was the key, and indirectly misunderstood the judgment of the new situation!
The "Confessions" is too slow to update this aspect of information, which is also very deadly! Pei Ruhai has information on the "Confessions", but he is still the information of the underground party members on the communist side, but he has long betrayed the communist party! So the question is, if the Japanese get this confessional and see Pei Ruhai's information, will they suspect that all pei Ruhai's humiliation and burden is to steal information from the Communist Party? After all, such doubts are very reasonable! Ma Tianmu is such a setting in the play! In addition, including Ma Tianmu, these newly added excellent agents, the information is also a blank, and the "confession" that is not updated in time is really so important?
The most incomprehensible thing is the Japanese spy Lu Yi, she in Shanghai business close to the French Biel, has been lying on the bottom of the humiliation for seven years, that is to say, she has at least ten years of agent status, such an old agent actually has no information on the collection of "confessions" of agents from various countries (this confession is collected by Fan Yiting himself, if there is Lu Yi's information, others do not know Fan Yiting can not know? Therefore, in summary, it can be seen that the role of the "confession" is really not great. At least it failed to highlight the key role of the Confessions! For example, Fan Yiting personally collected this information, but he didn't know anything! I don't know anything about the agents in Shanghai!
Moreover, the fame of the Assassination Regiment of the Kuomintang Revival Society at that time can be said to be unknown to everyone in the industry, but this "confession" does not have any records! Some people may say that its starting point is more to grasp the key characters, and can provide a large piece. So Pei Ruhai was caught, right? He also surrendered to the enemy with a dead heart! But what does he know? Just know Wu Chongxin, not to mention Ma Tianmu, Jiang Yunjiang, Shi Dachuan, these new members, even Sister Jiang's old site inn does not know, but also Lu Yi's ventilation letter to know! Anyway, there doesn't seem to be a single point in the play that strongly proves the importance of the "Confession"!
The overall content of "The Forerunner" is very good, but using the importance of "confession" to make the focus of the whole play makes people feel that the overall sense is not rigorous enough, and even because of the importance of forcibly fastening the "confession", the plot is a bit awkward! The most ingenious setting in the plot is the sudden rebellion, Pei Ruhai's rebellion leads to Chen Lie's sacrifice, and Yu Duxing's rebellion leads to serious casualties in the Revival Society! Pei Ruhai's second rebellion led to the assassination of Jiang's sister inn, Guo Baokai's rebellion led to the murder of Shi Dachuan, and Chen Xiangli's rebellion caused the Fan family to fall into a quagmire. Every rebellion here is wonderful, he is sudden, and then he is like a sharp knife stabbing back.
Of course, in the face of these rebellions, whether it is the Communists or the Kuomintang, their soldiers will cover up the defensive counterattack of the water is also evocative. In particular, the plot of debunking Lu Yi's identity is cleverly connected with the plot of Jiang's sister's assassination, and Ma Tianmu did not immediately unlock this secret, but experienced a very long time, under the constant intersection of various events, put together, and after Shuigen was recognized by the organization to join the underground party organization, the two found out that Lu Yi may be a big agent who had been hidden for many years. Because at that time, Ma Tianmu informed Wu Chongxin that only Shui Gen and Lu Yi knew that Shui Gen had already passed the test, and Lu Yi was full of doubts!
Lu Yi also had a variety of fortuitous behaviors in the previous several incidents, including the Bier incident Fan Yaluo was expelled from the school, Lu Yi donated money to become a school director to help Fan Yaluo, in fact, here the old fox Fan Yiting once doubted, he questioned Lu Yi, when Biel just died, the commercial bank was heavily indebted and just breathed a sigh of relief under The rescue of Fan Yiting, not rich and there is no spare money to donate! Lu Yi's explanation is also quite reluctant, saying that she likes children very much, and she can't have children, so she hopes to use donations to help the children, this reason is estimated that even she herself does not believe it, right? Because even if you donate more money, the children will not call her "Mom", right? Wouldn't it be more reasonable to really like a child to adopt one! But Fan Yiting chose to believe that it may be that people look beautiful and say everything makes sense!
Then, naturally, Lu Yi, who was injured in order to protect Fan Yaluo in the assassination of Lu Youxiang, approached Fan Yiting again, passing through Fan Yaluo many times, the two of them, a dead husband and a dead wife, a dry wood and a fire, finally came together, but these coincidences were just too coincidental, so Ma Tianmu reasoned out the whole context, Lu Yi had a problem! Of course, there must also be a motive, and the motivation is to steal the important "confession"! These contents can be said to make the whole drama very exciting, but these contents have nothing to do with the "confessions" that the whole drama has been mentioning! That is to say, in addition to letting everyone know that the "confession" is very important, the "confession" in other aspects almost does not play a little role!
There is no "confession" of various mysteries to be broken, there is no "confession", the Kuomintang, the Japanese army also knows what Wu Chongxin looks like! Without the "Confession" Sakai Eiichi also knew that Mr. Yu Ruhai was a great agent with strong skills! Fan Yiting, who did not have a "confession", also knew that Tang Xianping was the leader of the Shanghai station of the Revival Society, and the boss was Director Dai! Without the "Confession" Ma Tianmu, he could also infer that Lu Yi was a spy! Without the "Confession" Jiang Yunqing, he could also judge that Chen Hengli had betrayed Fan Yiting! Therefore, "Confessions" can be said to be the biggest strange setting in the whole show! All kinds of wonderful plots forced to buckle the "confession" but made it a little slightly deformed!
Directed by Gong Zhaohui and starring Zhang Luyi, Nie Yuan, Han Xue, Guo Xiaoting, Cao Weiyu, Huo Qing, etc., the spy drama "The Forerunner" is based on the novel "Party Group" and tells the story of the early 1930s when underground party member Ma Tianmu and Tang Xianping, a classmate of the secret service organization "Revival Society", engaged in a wonderful contest. In the original work, Tang Xianping was released in 1975, but Ma Tianmu died suddenly in prison! The last shot of the original work is Tang Xianping looking at a black-and-white photo on the wall, and the young Ma Tianmu in the photo is always full of smiles!
If the TV drama version does not use the setting of "Confession", "The Forerunner" will be another story, because such a story content, the ending can be more open-ended, but also support a variety of unexpected endings, and the use of "Confession" also makes people feel the director's intention, that is, through the "Confession" to unite several fragmented gangs at that time and fight against Japan together! After all, family affairs belong to family affairs, and the invasion of foreign Kou is another matter, no matter how much Tang Xianping hates the Communist Party, he also unconditionally supports the war! And although Fan Yiting of the French Concession was an old traitor, he was not willing to casually go with Pei Ruhai to the Japanese! When everyone still has the adherence to the bottom line, how to make them wake up, fight with heart to heart, and use "confessions" as the introduction is indeed a good way!
In general, although there are some small flaws in the structure of "The Forerunner", the quality and intention of the whole play are very wonderful, and it also makes people see that if a country is divided, then anyone can bully us without spending a soldier, and the Japanese army in the play is more to take advantage of the internal contradictions between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and kill each other, and the country's stronger united front is the best choice! Finally, I also hope that Taiwan can return to the embrace of the motherland as soon as possible!