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Zijin Chen is one of the most popular authors of reasoning and detection novels in recent years, 3 suspense dramas - "Undocumented Crime", "Silent Truth" and "Hidden Corner" are derived from his original novels, also known as the "suspense reasoning trilogy", after the hit so far "zero bad reviews", and has become an insurmountable suspense drama representative work.
Indeed, as a best-selling author of suspense, reasoning, and detective novels, Zijin Chen is a magical being, and the suspense drama adapted from his works has also created one "myth" after another, which is so arrogant!
"Undocumented Crime" is very different from the previous suspense drama, most of the similar works in the past have the cracker as the protagonist, and the show opened with the criminal as the protagonist, staged a "pre-publicized murder case" - the suspense of the main line was thrown at the beginning, who is the murderer of the Snowman case?
When the murderer of the Snowman case has clearly emerged, and then a new side suspense is born - who was the murderer who killed Luo Wen's wife and daughter? Through the setting of this compound suspense, the audience is always attracted by the interesting plot and immersed in suspense.
"Undocumented Crimes" adopts a two-line parallel narrative mode, one line shows the process of police investigation with Yan Liang as the mainstay, paying attention to the details and clues. The other line revolves around the process of the escape of the suspects of the perpetrators, mainly Zhu Huiru and Guo Yu.
While Yan Liang is reasoning about how the case happened on the spot, Luo Wen is teaching Zhu Huiru and Guo Yu how to lie, solving the case while laying out, bringing more complicated feelings to the audience.
"The Silent Truth" is a rare good work, the drama adopts the "three-line narrative" approach: the police yan liang took over the Jiangyang case; the procurator Jiang Yang investigated the drowning death of the volunteer teacher Hou Guiping; the volunteer teacher Hou Guiping secretly investigated the female student who was sexually assaulted but drowned on charges of rape.
The "three-line narrative" structure allows the whole play to advance the story in parallel in three time and space, so that the suspense is interlaced in multiple time and space, which enhances the suspense of the series, and the three lines that are finally presented each have a complete logical context and story process. Three lines are superimposed, the case is in the case, and then this onion-peeling style narrative structure is used to uncover one by one, so that each episode of "The Silent Truth" has suspense and maintains the suspense until the final finale.
The play also makes a lot of use of the technique of similarity transition, connecting time and space through time, space or similarity in plot and action, so that the three lines can have the effect of carrying up and down and echoing each other.
"The Hidden Corner", which was once widely discussed on social media, is also very special, the drama focuses on the four protagonists - Zhang Dongsheng, Zhu Chaoyang, Yan Liang, Pupu, and the audience also found that the four protagonists have one thing in common: the broken family.
Zhang Dongsheng frequently kills in order to save the family that has long been broken; Zhu Chaoyang, a single-parent family, wanders in the suffocating mother's love and the mutilated father's love, and he longs for the return of the warm family.
Pupu, who wants to treat her brother, the family is the central motivation of her behavior, and constantly promotes the development of the whole event.
Yan Liang, who escaped from the welfare home, was eager to find his father and repeatedly took risks.
"The Hidden Corner" starts from the family, traces the psychological state and behavior logic of the characters, and incorporates the family narrative into the entire suspense story, and "The Hidden Corner" has become the first "family suspense drama" in China.
The drama reveals profoundly the theme of social reality and becomes a classic work, pushing the domestic suspense drama to a new stage.
Zijin Chen's trilogy seems to lead the audience to the deeper depths of the thick fog, and in the world of suspense dramas where the fog is getting thicker, more darkness and evil are waiting for the righteous to expose and overcome.
These 3 masterpieces are all network dramas, which also brings a lot of enlightenment to the development of network dramas.
The popularity of web dramas, or the important reason for liking to watch dramas through the Internet is the high degree of autonomy and selectivity, as well as the fast pace of the narrative, constantly attracting the attention of the audience, the climax of multiple stories appearing in a short period of time, grasping the audience's attention, and bringing a steady stream of tension and excitement.
The three suspense dramas based on Zijin Chen's original novels have also opened up a new starting point for suspense dramas, which will surely bring a lot of experience for the development of suspense dramas in the future.