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Who would have thought that 2021 is coming to an end, and there is still a good finale drama waiting.
This drama is quite low-key, there are not too many hot searches, but it is really solid and good-looking.
"The Opponent".
Douban opened a score of 8.1, and at present, more than 20,000 people are still stable at 8 points after scoring, because the publicity is too little, there is not much noise on the Internet, netizens initially talked about this drama, it is like digging up the treasure.
The four main actors Guo Jingfei, Tan Zhuo, Yan Bingyan, Ning Li, the real acting wang explosion lineup, all of them are powerful actors who walk the film and television circle with acting skills, and this time it proves that good actors are together, and the feeling of sparks splashing is too addictive.
"Opponent" is a spy drama with a simple name, a strong lineup, and a story that is even more eye-catching:
From the perspective of Li Tang and Ding Meixi, a pair of spy couples who have fled the mainland abroad, played by Guo Jingfei and Tan Zhuo, in front of them, Duan Yingjiu, the female leader of the NSA special case team played by Yan Bingyan, leads the team to closely investigate, and behind them there is Lin Yu, played by Ning Li, who is cold and cruel, and the line is pressing step by step, and a cat and mouse spy war drama is unfolding...
There are twists and turns of spy wars in the play, as well as layers of suspense and reversals, but it is not only this, but also makes the spy war drama into a middle-aged man facing a chicken feather life daily life.
When it comes to spy dramas, there are many classic spy dramas at home and abroad, and over the years, some high-quality spy dramas, including "Dark Calculation", "Latent" and "Kite", have always been talked about by the audience, and good spy dramas are often parallel to spy wars and human nature, and this "Opponent" is the same.
But "The Opponent" also has its uniqueness, and many previous spy dramas are different from the struggle during the war of resistance, this time the focus is on the current spy war, is a more rare and bold modern spy war drama, and the tentacles of spy war dramas have penetrated into modern daily life.
Husband and wife relationship, children's education, parental body, money, work, colleague relationship, changing times...
This is also the wonderful place of "Opponent", the male protagonist Guo Jingfei himself said that the spy drama is only the shell of this drama, and the essence is a drama about midlife crisis and human nature.
In "Opponent", in addition to being a spy, a spy is also a person, and he also has to face the impact of environmental changes and the coercion of real life. This point reminds people of another high-scoring spy war American drama, "American Spy Dream", "Opponent" and it is a bit similar.
In "Opponent", Li Tang and Ding Meixi, who are middle-aged, have various mid-life crises, coupled with meager funds and hidden changes between multiple identities, making the spy couple's life quite embarrassing.
Li Tang and Ding Meixi always fell into various contradictions and quarrels in the days of hiding and fear, and coupled with the fact that their unsuspecting daughters also grew up to enter a rebellious adolescence, they were even more headaches and more overwhelmed by the burden of life.
Guo Jingfei and Tan Zhuo, although it is the first time to cooperate, this time is really very in place, this time the two play the spy couple is very compatible, very sparkly.
Li Tang, played by Guo Jingfei, is ostensibly a taxi driver, who has been driving around for many years and has not earned any money, but has fallen into an occupational disease.
Guo Jingfei, the cunning side of Li Tang as a spy, as well as the nest of the head of the family, and the protection of his daughter as a father, are all vividly displayed, but when it comes to his greatest strength, the complexity of Li Tang's dual identity as a husband and partner is quite delicate.
On the one hand, he had to endure and accept his wife's use of her body as bait to do the task.
On the one hand, under the cooperation of more than ten years, they have children to be disguised as husband and wife, and in the day-to-day cooperation, they also have real feelings, but this feeling must be restrained, because their identities are all for the service of spy work.
Li Tang deeply knew that only by doing tasks and surviving could this relationship be maintained.
However, relying on false relationships to cover up doing illegal things, how can it not be a normal couple, not a normal family, so how can reality make him wish?
Even if he lost his teeth, Li Tang could only swallow it with the blood, and he could not break free from an invisible net. To borrow a classic line from Stephen Chow's movie "Journey to the West": You see that person, he is like a dog. And this is the fate of the spy.
This fate, which is doomed to tragedy, also happened to Ding Meixi, played by Tan Zhuo.
Her beauty, for so many years, has been just a tool for doing tasks, she is obviously a wife and mother, but she always has to sell her hue to get information.
Her public identity is that of a teacher and works seriously, but the "style" problem makes her always pointed out and has no place in school.
She also wanted to live a better life, but her and Li Tang's income was meager, the funds were not much and could not be in place in time, so people became obsessed with investment and financial management in middle age, and as a result, as a spy, they were deceived by others.
She is still a worried mother, and Li Tang gave birth to a daughter Li Xiaoman, the daughter entered puberty, more and more rebellious, she and all mothers did not care, and therefore often quarreled with her daughter.
What makes Li Tang and Ding Mei even more upset is their relationship, which is not only a partner, but also a husband and wife, but also the parents of the child.
Although everything is based on doing tasks, more than ten years of living together have also made them the most important people for each other. In the play, there is a scene of two people in the car, which is when they divorce each other, they tell each other.
Li Tangfei spent money to buy luxury goods for Ding Meixi, because she had not been willing to do so before, divorced and wanted to compensate her, feeling sad and mixed feelings about her years of wrongedness with her.
Ding Meixi told Li Tang to pay attention to his body, blaming him for spending money to buy her luxury goods, but not for his body, why not to mend his teeth.
This scene, people really have mixed feelings, and sure enough, good spy dramas always write about human nature to the extreme.
It is worth mentioning that some viewers have noticed the names of the male and female protagonists Li Tang and Ding Meixi in "The Opponent", which previously appeared in another spy drama "Mask" starring Zu Feng and Hou Yong in 2018, which was the name of Zu Feng's son playing Li Chunqiu and Hou Yong's name as Ding Zhanguo's daughter.
Of course, this is not all a coincidence, the screenwriter of "The Opponent", Wang Xiaogun, is also the screenwriter of "Mask", this "coincidence" design, you can see the screenwriter's ingenuity.
By the way, "Mask" is also quite good, that year in Douban got 7.9 points, but also a low-key high-scoring spy drama, Zu Feng and Hou Yong's acting skills, there is no need to say.
Ning Li has a lot of scenes this time, and this actor who played the killer Li Toyota from "Undocumented Crime" began to become popular is really a drama master.
This time, he played Li Tang and Ding Meixi's on-line Lin Yu, fierce in heart, old and treacherous, with a changeable identity, a changeable face, seeing people talking about people, seeing ghosts talking about ghosts, one second may be coldly assigned tasks, and the next second on another occasion he will immediately change into a disguised smiley face.
Yan Bingyan, a low-key film queen, played a role she had never played before: Duan Yingjiu, the female head of the National Security Bureau's special case team.
This is a middle-aged woman who can't take care of her small family for work, lacks concern for her husband and son, is careless, but is rigorous and sensitive to work, thoughtful, very brainy, and vigorous.
These four people touched together, it was simply amazing, and their eyes were full of drama.
In addition, many of the supporting characters in the film are very colorful, coupled with the thrilling twists and turns of the plot itself, as well as reversals, which makes people enjoy watching. Everything is in place, and it makes a good drama.
It is really a good drama that is not afraid of the deep alley and the heart, and the audience can see that "Opponent" is worth chasing.