"The Knife In the Snow" first attracted me to its narrative rhythm, although this is a masterpiece with many characters and a variety of clues, the screenwriter is not in a hurry to lay out the background, but in the eyes of the random flower fans, it firmly grasps the main line of Xu Fengnian, and first aims at the male protagonist's three years of wandering and the most depressed time, the Tangtang Bei Starling Shizi is chased and blocked for a sweet potato, instantly allowing the audience to substitute for it.
Suspense, like a sharp knife, plunged into this behemoth-like story, the full picture of the giant beast we can't see clearly, the only vein is xu Fengnian, watching him transform from a dirty outlaw into a white-clad prince, the result is a seemingly unlearned and unskilled clumsy, and can actually be offered by xu Xiao, the father of the great achievements, as a small ancestor, this seemingly ridiculous opening has satisfied the appetite of the viewers.
Suddenly someone stabbed Feng Nian, unveiling only a little girl ginger mud, the strange thing is that Feng Nian not only does not ask about the crime but cares for it; the later assassinations are one after another, from the Qinglou Hua Kui to the Lin family to explore the flowers, murderous, each pregnant with a ghost fetus, put into which costume drama should be the end of the beheading, but finally they are all taken in by Feng Nian.
It turned out that the drunkard's intention was not in the wine, there was a hidden mystery between the chess pieces and the chess pieces, Jiang Ni and Hua Kui carried the hatred of the Chu state being destroyed, although there were many stories, everyone would think that there was an inner ghost in the North Starling, and the result was that it could not be found everywhere, who expected that there were masters of the distant layout - the King of Qingzhou Jing'an - involved the Lin family and the Chu State Yu Party, getting rid of Xu Fengnian was a fatal blow to the Northern Starling, in addition to not being able to take the opportunity to subvert the Lin family and seize the financial power in their hands.
But you have your zhang liang plan, and I also have my ladder over the wall. Xu Xiao saw the tricks and dismantled the tricks, and installed a Fan girl disguised as a doorman Shu Shy next to Lin Tanhua, and gradually led Lin Tanhua to achieve the purpose of fengnian, such as discovering the identity of the dead soldier of the blue bird. However, there are also nested big moves in addition to small moves, and even the King of Jing'an has a Northern Starling person around him, and through years of painstaking management, the Lin family's financial power will also be taken over by him.
The plot is reversed every minute, at the beginning Xu Fengnian tried to test the Northern Starling army with a bitter meat plan on Chu Lushan, but he did not expect to be debunked by Chen Zhibao for a second, which led to the tit-for-tat between the two people, and the situation in the Northern Starling was evident; later Fengnian went to Wudang Mountain, and was embarrassed by the Sui Zhu Princess who came to visit, and the leading old servant around her looked arrogant, in fact, it was Xu Xiao's pre-buried dark son, just in order to plant the eyes and ears of the Northern Starling in the imperial family. And Wudang Mountain is not a fuel-saving lamp, in order to resist the Dragon tiger mountain supported by the royal family, the previous head of the sect Wang Chonglou said that he stood on the side of the North Starling, and the latter head of the teaching HongXue elephant pretended to be attached to Princess Sui Zhu, and survived left and right.
It's a suspenseful drama! Ancient Mission Impossible! Hooking people to keep looking down, every time Xu Fengnian is forced into danger, he will encounter new people and things - such as the white fox face that makes the double knife, the old Kui locked at the bottom of the lake, Li Chungang who is closed under the listening tide pavilion, the Wang Chonglou who passes the Big Yellow Court to Fengnian and so on - brings a turnaround, but this turning point is actually part of the layout in the story, the universe of "The Sword Line in the Snow" is too vast, and the details are tightly sewn, we just follow Xu Fengnian's line in the blind man touching the elephant, while experiencing the stimulation of the reversal of the cool drama, Rip apart more corners of the story and immerse yourself in this colorful and mysterious fantasy world.
But for a TV series, the most important thing is the characters. As Xu Fengnian's master Li Yishan said: Playing chess is not only about the chess game, but also on the plan hidden in the heart of the chess player. Those plot reversals are small reversals, and the reversals of the characters are the big reversals.
Xu Xiao, the absurd father who seems to dot on his son, is actually so far-sighted, but when you think that he is just blindly ruthless and the plots and tricks are exhausted, he has moved out the ancestors of the ancestors who once died on the battlefield, and the inheritance of the Xu family is ultimately for the peace of the world.
However, even so, Xu Fengnian still did not recognize his father, and he was bent on finding a third way, and he could do great things without killing people. No one could persuade him, and Feng Nian, who was hiding under the cloak of cunning, had to convince himself in order to truly take over the North Starling.
At first, I thought he would compromise, grow up, and become another Xu Xiao, but through so many smoke clouds of power struggles and national hatred, the last thing he wanted to protect was to protect people's justice and the righteousness of the world, and he had to reunite his family.
In general costume dramas, they like to render fathers and sons fighting for brothers to fight each other, but "The Sword in the Snow" depicts a more complex reality of power struggle: often it is not the father and son brothers who want to fight, but the people below who hope to fight through the people above; Feng Nian is not rebellious for rebellion, he is both united and rebellious to his father, and the key is to focus on the overall situation; even if he gets the throne, it is not necessarily a good thing, if he is not intellectually enough like Huang Man'er, he will be vacated by the courtiers and reduced to a puppet.
Everything is changing, and the cunning children can become both civilized and martial, kill and decide, and finally decide to support the overall situation of the North Starling; what remains unchanged is the love and righteousness that Feng Nian has always adhered to, and only by holding the power himself can he achieve what he wants, and can he have both.
Coupled with the bravery of the close-fitting groom Lao Huang to fight for 30 years, and finally died of exhaustion, fengnian finally decided to learn martial arts. Lao Huang turned into a sword nine yellow, and the world-matched Wang Xianzhi could hardly resist, why couldn't Feng Nian shoulder his responsibilities?
This is not only the dilemma of a Northern Starling Shizi, but also a choice that each of us ordinary people will face; so although there are still all kinds of flaws in "The Sword in the Snow", in the end, I was conquered by the screenwriter's portrayal of the unpredictable humanity. Just want to see! Want to chase!
"In the Snow" sweeps away the simple and rough habits of male frequency novels, not casually opening goldfingers, but shooting out an inherent tension and potential energy of the story, through the successful shaping of Xu Fengnian's heart, as if it alludes to the legendary law of attraction: as long as you want, the things you want will be attracted to you. Every plot twist is the grass snake gray line stretching for thousands of miles, the whole drama is an organism, a ring buckled a ring, endless, many of the characters who appear on the scene are not only tools of several forces game, but each has its own mind planning, life goals, everyone is alive, never black and white, just like Xu Fengnian to explore the third way, I think "Snow In the Sword Line" also found a new way for the costume Xuanxia drama.