On the evening of December 6, Zheng Kai, Lin Feng and Zhang Guoli starred in the new drama "Also Ordinary" premiered on satellite TV. The suspense theme and detective story have successfully attracted the attention of many audiences.
The story takes place in the fictional city of Linghai, and the protagonists are the newly recruited criminal police officer Ji Fan (Zheng Kai), sheriff Xiong Zhennan, Ji Fan's brother Ji Ping (Lin Feng) and father Ji Tingshan (Zhang Guoguo).
The opening chapter is high energy: a vicious murder case occurs on the closed and safe subway, which makes people panic; A day later, there was a case of a sculpture hiding a corpse in the art gallery, and the killer's method was extremely cruel.
After comparing the modus operandi and the scene of the crime, the police led by Ji Ping and Xiong Zhennan basically determined that the two cases were committed by the same person and were extremely brutal serial murder cases.
During the investigation, Ji Ping discovers that the serial murder case is inextricably linked to an old case 27 years ago, and that the murderer is likely to be a "brother and father who spends time together day and night". From here, the case gradually developed in an unpredictable direction...
Judging from the three episodes that have been broadcast so far, "Also Ordinary" is a standard "suspense theme commercial cool drama". The subway kills people, the sculpture hides the corpse, and the modus operandi is terrifying and high-energy to catch the audience's attention in an instant.
At the same time, during the investigation, Ji Fan's speculation that "the murderer decided the killing method according to the 18-layer hell theory" is also very interesting: from the subway killing and skinning hell, to the sculpture wrapped corpse iceberg hell, and then to the volcanic hell that is about to occur in the next case, the scale is greatly pleasing to the audience's appetite.
On the other side, there are the secrets hidden by Ji Fan's brother and father. The director of the first episode tells the audience that his brother Ji Ping is the murderer, and the third episode reveals that the seemingly amiable father Ji Tingshan is likely to be the main villain of the show. Unlike other suspense dramas, let the audience guess the murderer, but the identity of the murderer is thrown out at the beginning.
Watching the "cat and mouse game between the police and the murderer" from the perspective of God is more interesting, and stripping away the cocoon to find the "murderer's reason for committing the crime" has also become the biggest highlight of the series.
But at the same time, "Also Ordinary" also has a very fatal problem, that is, the story is a police suspense drama, but it adopts the form of a commercial cool drama. Focusing only on pleasure and not on reality and logic directly leads to the story becoming pompous.
The first episode of the subway murder case is full of gimmicks, but the modus operandi is very illogical when you think about it.
How to commit crimes at crowded morning rush hour scenes? How does the murderer leave a crime warning signal on the glass of a subway car when it is heavily guarded?
It was only in the crowd that he had seen the murderer in a hurry, and Ji Fan accurately deduced that the person he had seen before was the murderer after the murder. Without any evidence or foreshadowing, the earth-shattering inference that the murderer used transfiguration is thrown.
In the play, Ji Fan's person is set to be a high-IQ doctor, but there is really no need to use this "protagonist's aura" way to show IQ. In real life, solving cases pays attention to clues and logic, but "Also Ordinary" is not presented in this piece, from the beginning to the end is Ji Fan's personal inference, and it is difficult to convince the audience by relying on intuition.
In the suspense drama of the real crime investigation, the police of the serious crime group are often busy, have no time to eat and have no time to take care of themselves, and hurriedly put on a sweatshirt T-shirt and begin to run to the scene to investigate and collect evidence.
In contrast, the depiction of the group portrait of the police life in "Also Ordinary": Ji Fan has plenty of time to eat breakfast at home before going to work every day; on-site investigation and evidence collection is a very hard process, but Xiong Zhennan is not suitable for stepping on high heels and wearing exquisite makeup.
Even in the process of investigation, Ji Fan Xiong Zhennan also had to seize the time to stage a happy and bitter fight, and the dog blood love drama that was thrilling after the hero saved the United States...
As the first action suspense crime film and television drama approved by the Ministry of Public Security in China, these plot settings in "Also Ordinary" are extremely ironic and pompous.
Finally, there is the acting skills of zheng kai, Lin Feng and Zhang Guoguo, who are highly anticipated by the public. Zheng Kai has too many variety shows, so that when he converts from a variety show café to an actor again, he can still see a lot of "shadows on variety shows". Giggling when dealing with bosses, not rushing when going out to arrest criminals, sometimes pretending to be cool and deep and cute... What is presented is not the state of the actors, but the state of recording the variety show, which greatly reduces the authenticity of the whole story.
In stark contrast, Lin Feng and Zhang Guoli have the wonderful acting skills of the two major factions. In the first two episodes of the premiere, there was a plot in which Ji Ping, played by Lin Feng, was detained in the police station. Across the iron fence, Ji Fan asked Ji Fan what Ji Ping was doing at the time of the crime, and Ji Ping said that he was not at the scene, showing an unpredictable smile after Ji Fan left.
A single shot sets up JiPin's "mysterious" person: Why did he commit a crime, for whom did he commit a crime? Obviously, this will become a major attraction in the story of "Also Ordinary".
In the first three episodes of the premiere, Zhang Guoli played Ji Tingshan for a short time, but he perfectly portrayed the image of a kind father and the opposite of the "sinister and cunning" image. It seems that Ji Tingshan is a businessman who only seeks money, but in fact, it is also directly related to the murder, and even there is a huge umbrella in the police station to protect Ji Yanshan. This role is the biggest villain in "Also Ordinary", so that the audience is very much looking forward to the wonderful interpretation of Zhang Guoli in the follow-up plot.
In summary, from the perspective of cool drama, "Also Ordinary" is wonderful and high-energy, with many suspense branches and each character having its own secrets. However, from the perspective of criminal investigation themes, "Also Ordinary" is undoubtedly an exaggerated and rotten drama, and there is no logic in solving the case. It can only be said that the radish greens have their own love