After 8 episodes of "Who is the Murderer", it looks good, not particularly stunning, but it is not extra crotch- and can be watched.
Criminal investigation suspense theme, the skin is always a small hook of suspense, the inside is the value measurement of the struggle between good and evil in the human heart, at present, inside and outside these two layers, "Who is the murderer" is presented quite well.
In other words, due to the substandard and too depressed performance of the Mist Theater this year, "Who is the Murderer" has been the most "watchable" of the three so far.
First, the contrast between effective suspense and impact.
Whether Shen Yu's father, Shen Haiyang, is the murderer of the Haizhou case is still unknown.
But whether he is or not, Shen Yu instigated others to illegally install surveillance, burglary, use the convenience of his position to interfere with the emotional state of others and even tamper with memories, one by one, full of lies and all disguises, afraid that he has already embarked on the road of breaking the law and committing crimes.
Even if the play is finally reversed and reinterpreted the content of "Shen Yu's control of the memory of the uncle who killed the chicken", I am afraid it will be difficult to completely clear her suspicion of violating the law.
Here's the interesting thing.
The first point is the contrast between the tone of the character and the actor.
Before watching the play, most viewers will default: 85 spent in this type of play is probably played in the role of "assisting in the judgment of the case", the victim and other roles, either police related, or victim related.
With such an idea, at the initial stage, Shu Xin Sauce was very skeptical: this psychologist did not seem to be closely related to the cold team and others, how could she effectively provide help in solving the case? To what extent can the play make this camp more reasonable?
After a few episodes, the truth (or smoke bombs) is released more and more, only to find that the message conveyed by the play (at least on the surface) is that Shen Yu is not here to help solve the case.
What she did basically belonged to the category of obstructing and interfering in solving cases.
Simply and crudely speaking, her rounding is about the same as belonging to the "villain camp".
Regardless of whether the final reversal of whitewashing, whether there is bitterness or not, the presentation of Shen Yu's role at this stage is very different from the common role of 85 Flowers, a little fresh.
The second point is the contrast between a well-behaved girl and a layer of lies.
The role of Shen Yu really began to shock me, it was the string of extreme operations that Shen Yu went to his father's unit when he was a teenager.
Well-behaved and cute and uncles greet each other, like a daily small gesture.
He told the doorman uncle to help dad get the lunch box, and after entering dad's office, he quickly disposed of all his belongings.
Then she went to the archives library, where the well-behaved and caretaker uncle offered to borrow books, taking advantage of the fact that the other party did not pay attention to pack all of her father's materials into garbage bags and quickly throw them downstairs from the window.
Then obediently greet and leave, raise the lunch box to the janitor uncle Yang, echo her excuse when she came (take the lunch box), and then help her father take a sick leave, the whole process is unusually smooth and frightening.
The crowd gave her great trust, one is that she is young and still a child;
The second is that she behaves well-behaved and typically "other people's children";
Third, the neighbors and neighbors have a cordial relationship, a dull life, and inability to associate with the most heinous things.
If Shen Yu's father kills someone and is on the run, she helps eliminate the traces of crime at a young age, and her thoughtfulness and involves evil deeds make people afraid.
If her father had been wronged, she was so independent and so powerful at such a young age, it would still make people sigh.
At the beginning of "Who is the Murderer", the first case directly involved by Shen Yu, the case of the dog owner's revenge on killing the dog abuser, Shen Yu's sense of control has been very obvious, and it has clearly shown different colors inside and outside many times.
But this difference is far less frightening and impactful than "young girls suspected of helping their fathers to kill people aftercare".
The third point is that there are two layers of suspense on the surface.
Is Shen Yu's father an unfortunate person who has been implicated or married, or is he the culprit and the evil killer? Was Uncle Chicken Killing framed by Shen Yu and "tampered with or even implanted with memory", or did he kill many people with a split personality and another self who did not remember the split?
The ultimate suspense of who is the murderer is effective, making people curious to seek the truth.
At the specific implementation level, Shen Yu's operation is also very interesting.
From Natsuki's psychiatrist, he was tricked into his medical records;
Visiting Natsuki's grandfather's residence, he lied to the neighbor uncle that he was Natsuki's girlfriend, saying that the two quarreled and contradicted Natsuki that he wanted to go back to his hometown, and successfully deceived the other party's trust.
Her barriers, one is the appearance of the Sleek style, the second is the "crooked use" of various professional abilities (to the chicken uncle), and the third is good at deceiving words.
At the end of the eighth episode, Natsuki makes an important phone call to hear her ask "Is Dad you", and confronts Shen Yu through medical treatment and dream expressions, and her emotions are out of control and her mentality is unbalanced, and she is successfully pinched by Shen Yu;
The story seems to be moving towards the "perfect doctor" (bad) control of the "problem solver" (good), which is a bit interesting.
Second, a brief chat about the actors and rhythms.
The story mode of "Who's the Murderer" is not special, and Natsuki's character setting is also very conventional.
What deserves special praise is Dong Zijian's performance.
Different from Shen Yu, Shen Yu's performance is mainly based on words and behavior, in other words, the role of Shen Yu has been basically completed in the script writing stage, as long as the actor does not pull too much crotch, even if the acting skills are very flat, the role can stand up.
The character of Natsuki is relatively flat in the text stage, and three key words are finished: PTSD, pain, and strong ability.
Under these three keywords, the specific dynamic paragraphs and story progress details are routine to a dull degree.
There are no special highlights in his case-solving process, but Dong Zijian's performance is too good.
All kinds of mental and physical pain, he came to the stage completely and thoroughly, the drama was fake, but the pain seemed to be real.
That is to say, he uses performance to prop up a highly typed role, so that the not-so-special "painful texture" has a special sense of substitution.
The first time the adult Xia Mu appeared, the first shot, Dong Zijian's eyes were a little frightened of me.
Every episode of illness since then, his performances, have been very real.
Watching him act, I feel so painful.
To put it simply, the role of Shen Yu is written more carefully, and the role of Xia Mu, Dong Zijian, plays well.
Relatively speaking, Xiao Yang seems to suffer a slight loss, the role of the captain is relatively routine, and at present, there is not much room for his performance.
(Did not say that Xiao Yang's acting skills are not good, on the contrary, he is very good in many past works)
But in the play, Xiao Yang and Dong Zijian play the part of the play, and the rhythm and texture are basically good.
Some content progress bars are too routine and easy to get tired;
In fact, if the role of Shen Yu changes the attributes such as gender, (if it is really made into a major suspect), it is just a common "Sven scum" and "high IQ crime type", which is still a common type.
However, in the past few years, there is almost no image of a "suspected female saboteur" that can be benchmarked in the entertainment criminal investigation theme.
If in the end, the play repeatedly finds a remedy and finds a reasonable and legal explanation for all the suspected criminal acts of Shen Yu, it is likely to greatly weaken the uniqueness of the character;
It is not to say that "the bad guy role is more three-dimensional than the good guy role", but only to give this view from the level of repetition; or to say, from the unfortunate "victim" and "implicated" to the "perpetrator", the tragic nature of the process itself is more worthy of attention.
Looking forward to follow-up.