The second season of "The First Lantern" is still read in one breath; after watching it, it is still unfinished.
Overall, there are many highlights of the second season: the time span is larger, with a large number of flashbacks reviewing the growth of Luo and Su; the story line is richer and more chaotic; new important characters have appeared one after another, the relationship between the characters has become more complicated, and the plot direction is more confusing.
But as a suspense drama, its suspense setting is still the most worth exploring. Here, the courage to interpret 2 points:
1. Who is the murderer? 2. Is Sue an evil woman?
01 Who is the murderer?
If the theme of the first season is "Who is the dead", then the theme of the second and even third seasons can be summarized as: who is the murderer?
According to the clues in the play, the most obvious answer at present is:
Hanako kills, Ada throws the body.
In the last episode of the second season, after Jiang Han returned home after taking notes, he opened the tape recorder but heard the voice of the murderer.
It is almost certain that he took Ada's tape recorder by mistake.
There is a detail in the play that when Jiang Han left the police station, he collided with Ada who had just entered the door:
Subsequently, the police told him to take something himself, but he did not look closely, and took it and left.
In the first season, Ada happened to have the same up-and-down tape recorder.
When Jiang Han met Luo, Ada was likely to report the news because of Hanako, or after finding out that the tape recorder had been mistakenly taken by Jiang Han, he followed all the way and waited for the opportunity to kill him.
Because Ada killed Jiang Han, most fans of the show believed that the voice on the tape recorder was Hanako.
Could Hanako have killed Sue by mistake? Not without possibility. When Hanako is stimulated, she is prone to impulsive things. Previously, she was in prison because she stabbed her ex-boyfriend. If Sue had deliberately provoked her, she would have probably killed Sue on impulse.
Could Ada help Hanako throw away her body? It is also not impossible, one is that he likes Hanako. The second is guilty of Hanako.
When he was dating Hanako earlier, he watched Hanako being kidnapped. After Hanako is raped, he decides he is responsible.
Another possibility is that Ada is a black cop.
He goes to the Hikari Hotel and assists in the dumping of the body, not after Hanako killed Sue by mistake, but took the initiative to find Sue, hoping to find the drugs before Sue left.
There is no shortage of evidence for this speculation. When Wen Ge was temporarily living in the police station, he claimed to have "a house and a car" in a conversation with Wen Ge.
The boss who has worked for many years has no house and no car, Ada is a young rookie policeman, where is the house and car?
If Ada is a black policeman, then everything makes sense, and he has the conditions, the motives, and the courage to throw away the body.
Is it really Ada and Hanako?
Don't forget, the biggest urine nature of this show is that when you think someone is the murderer, it often means that he is going to get rid of the suspicion.
Let's look at other possibilities.
Let's start with the first question: Who saw Sue the night she died?
Those who are sure to have met are: Rose, He Yu'en, Jiang Han, and Ah Ji. Among these people, Rose will not, Aji will not dare, Jiang Han is dead, and the probability can be ruled out.
As for He Yuen, in the last episode of the first season, he learned that after Aiko dropped out of school, he went to Su Xingshi with hatred and remorse to ask for his guilt, and there was a possibility that he had killed Su by mistake. Therefore, he deliberately put the blame on Luo's head through the media.
Those who are likely to meet and clash are: Aiko, Lily, and Hanako.
Let's start with Aiko. At the end of the first season, Aiko's mother goes to the police station to report that Aiko is missing. Is it possible that:
Aiko looks for Sue to settle the account, mistakenly killing or mistakenly thinking that she killed Sue, so she hides, and may even panic, and enters the baby's den that is being renovated opposite the light.
Let's talk about lilies. After learning that Sue was dead, Lily looked shocked and said, "I obviously only talked to her the day before yesterday..."
After work, Lily went to look for Henry with a complicated face. Then everything is shot, and she recalls what Henry said when the two were dating:
If she (Sue) goes to report us, drug trafficking is a death sentence.
It is a bold guess that Lily will probably wait for everyone to leave and return to the Light Hotel to find Sue and want to return the drugs, but when she leaves, Sue is still alive. Because of this, her expression when she saw Henry was full of horror and suspicion, suspecting that Henry had killed Sue.
The female voice that Jiang Han heard in the tape recorder could not rule out one person: Yaya.
Yaya is harmless on the surface, but what if she sells drugs? Then many things have a reasonable explanation. Moreover, she is in charge of the front desk and sits on the "geographical advantage" of drug trafficking.
I can't imagine how many people took turns to come to her on the night Sue was killed, and how tired and heartbroken she was, it must have been the longest night in her life.
The second question is, who has the possibility and conditions to dump the body?
To bury a body in the mountains on a typhoon day, two conditions need to be met: at least one young and strong male;
There are 3 people who meet these two conditions: Ada, Henry, and Ge Jian.
That is to say, the murderer is very hanako + Ada, the possibility is too much, and there may even be more than 2 people.
If you have to speculate, the answer of The Second Grade is:
Ge > Henry > Ada > He Yu En> Hanako = Aiko = Lily = Yaya.
A little bolder speculation is that the murderer should be male.
In the last episode, the women of the Light Hotel eat hot pot together at Luo's home, and they are happy and harmonious, which is a rare warm moment in the play.
Xiao Er believes that the creators are still warm to the women who are not very lucky in life of the Light Hotel, and they will most likely not be the real murderers - at most, some people mistakenly think that they killed Su.
02 Is Sue a Wicked Woman?
The second season actually looked better, but the rating dropped a lot, with 8.1 and 7.3 points in the two seasons, respectively.
How did it come to this?
Privately, many fans of the drama have difficulty accepting that Su is portrayed as an "evil girl" and gives a bad review.
Is Su Guo really a wicked woman? Xiao Er thinks not.
First, if the whole drama is painstakingly thought out, just to portray an "evil girl", then the sense of corruption of the drama fans is still secondary, and more importantly, it completely violates the original intention of this female drama.
Second, Su has a reason and motive for doing evil, but he does not have the nature of doing evil at all. Her various behaviors, except for "framing" Rochambard full of mysteries, are basically not excessive:
Being with Jiang Han was after Jiang and Luo broke up. What was done improperly was that he did not have the courage to speak out when Luo was heartbroken, or did not wait for Luo to slow down before being with Jiang Han.
Dumped He Yu'en entirely because he was not worthy of trust.
The so-called snatching nakamura from Aji's hands is impossible to talk about, it is clear that Nakamura first arrived at hiking and fell in love with Su.
Looking back at her various performances before she died, there was only despair and pain in her eyes, and there was never fierceness or viciousness, and there was no madness that she had to pull a personal cushion when she died.
Her various behaviors are more like a determination to die.
She specially wore the red high heels that Luo gave her on her birthday to add a little sense of ceremony to her death.
She gave the ring to Ah Ji, and although her words were torturous, her expression was full of pain.
After she provoked Luo, Luo picked up the ashtray and tried to hit her, but she didn't move.
When she was choked by Jiang Han's throat, she burst into tears and kissed Jiang Han frantically. There was no hatred in her expression, only pain to the point of numbness.
She seemed to be bent on death, as if death was a relief.
For her behavior, only Luo vaguely felt that there was a hidden feeling. Therefore, when Luo went to find Ma Tianhua, he said this sentence:
She must be trying to use you to do something, and you can choose to continue to believe in her, but I can tell you that no one in the world knows her better than I do.
This remark further increased the possibility that Sue's behavior had other hidden meanings.
She chose to say goodbye to everyone in such a bad way to make it easier for everyone to accept. As Jiang Han said when explaining the lines of the play:
"At that time they were protecting each other, so they couldn't say it explicitly."
Xiao Er even believes that Sue is not only not a bad girl, but also a kind person who has experienced countless tragedies and still carries love.
Sue's life is a life of countless tragedies linked together.
The seeds of tragedy had been planted since she was a child. For her, her mother is the source of all evil.
To review one detail:
When she was a child, Sue lived with her mother in her mother's lover's house. Once, Sue and Luo were dancing at home, and their mother and lover just happened to come home, and Sue was busy sorting out her clothes. After catching a glimpse of her lover's greedy look, Mom slapped Sue in the face.
This is a common mother-daughter female competition in Zhang Ailing's novels. In the play, Su's mother not only regards Su as a burden, but also as an "opponent".
When Sue was sexually assaulted by her mother's lover, her mother first pretended to sleep, and then "slut-shamed" Sue and drove this "opponent" out of the house.
Writing here, I can't help but sigh, the girl was sexually assaulted by her stepfather or mother's lover, the mother pretended not to know, this plot seems absurd, but there is no shortage of similar cases in reality, and it is not uncommon in film and television works, such as the Hong Kong film "Short Life" and the 2020 hit drama "Skyscraper".
In contrast, Luo also has the problem of the original family, but she is more fortunate not to have to send people under the fence, and even to play a small temper at home.
Luo also seems to have been kicked out of the house, but in fact he ran away from home despite discipline. What's more, there is a Wu Shaoqiang around her who really treats her.
And Sue hardly felt warmth at the best age of her life. Even if Luo took care of her in every way, she was inferior.
So that when Jiang Han and He Yu'en showed their love for her, she accepted them like a moth to the fire, and inevitably hurt one after another in her feelings.
However, did these pains in her life make her psychologically distorted?
Not really.
She still chooses to show the best in front of people, even for the sake of others at all times. There are a lot of details in the play that reflect her gentleness and kindness:
Lily wants to pay her salary in advance, Luo is not very happy, but she can't bear to refuse;
He Yu'en was drunk, she kindly sent it to the hotel, and after the hotel caught fire, she risked death to save He;
When he took Ziwei to buy cakes, he met Wen Ge and others, and after learning about the little policewoman's birthday, he specially gave her a box of cakes.
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How could such a warm person be a wicked woman?
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