I haven't had a good Japanese drama in a long time.
With the arrival of 2022, the winter Japanese drama program is also in full swing.
Among them, there are both the unruly theme "Starting at 40", which Neon is best at, and the criminal investigation BL drama "Contract X Covenant - Dangerous Partner" that grabs the traffic password, as well as "Two People Who Can't Fall in Love" who tries to discuss the relationship between men and women in a different way, and there is no shortage of big productions "News Reporter" that join forces with Netflix.
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The theme can be said to be diverse, but at present, the winter Japanese drama seems to be less than expected as expected, and the quality is uneven.
Among the new dramas, Fuji TV's blockbuster monthly drama "Don't Say Reasoning" seems to have withstood the heat that attracted much attention before the start of the broadcast, giving a bright performance.
The broadcast of the first episode not only won super high ratings in The local area, but also achieved a high score of 8.7 on the domestic Douban. It seems that Sugata Shoki, who has just announced the marriage news, is still a proper labor model, and it can be said that it is a new generation of Japanese drama quality assurance.
In addition to soda as the male protagonist, there are many highlights of this drama on the card division.
You can see Kenichi Endo's "father-son meeting" since 2015's "King of the People", as well as ito Sally, a professional in the supporting role, finally served as the first daughter of the moon, and Huang Maoying's appearance is close to the K-pop handsome guy and other surprises, it can be said that in the choice of actors, it is already not looking for a way.
In fact, at first glance, this "Don't Say Reasoning" seems to be a routine that criminal investigation dramas have already played a rotten routine - high-IQ nerd participates in police cases.
The male protagonist Played by Soda Jiu Nengzhen also has several unique labels for this kind of image, such as isolated living, talking physique, high IQ and so on.
It's easy to think of familiar images like Sherlock and Sherlock.
But unlike traditional criminal investigation dramas, "Wordless Reasoning" is adapted from Yumi Tamura's manga of the same name, and although this 2019 explosive work is based on solving cases, it is a proper girl comic style.
So the whole drama also has a different texture, it seems that the ambition is not to be killed and injured countless big scenes, or screaming and reasoning about the case.
It is the cold humor in the small pattern, the daily nonsense moments, and even the heavy benguet reasoning has a flowing sense of agility.
For example, in the first episode, in the course of more than an hour, it firmly grasped a small case and the small space of the interrogation room, and quickly cut into the core of the story.
Kuno-no-ching, a male student who is doing curry while talking to himself in front of an explosion, is suddenly taken away by the police and accused of being a suspect in a murder in the park.
Eyewitnesses, crime tools, and classmate relationships with the victims, triple evidence nailed him firmly to the interrogation room, waiting for a confession.
The subsequent plot reversal almost relied on the one-on-one interrogation of "Jiu Neng rectification vs police officers" to complete.
This gives the audience a sense of presence, the opportunity to examine how an ordinary college student can turn over the case for himself by lip service when his movement is restricted.
But its direction is not the same as that of the same kind of high-IQ people.
Although Kuno is the absolute protagonist of the story, he is always in a wandering outsider position, which has a taste of relict and independent.
He is more like an "atypical nerd", living a warm solitary life, likes cooking and green plants, understands politeness and refinement, and regularly goes to beauty salons and art exhibitions, which is definitely not a strange coffee.
It is such a college student who lives his own small life, but he is often accidentally involved in an event that has nothing to do with him, so he has to give some statements from a third party.
And these statements, compared with the high-IQ reasoning that ordinary people can't reach, are more like a small Lever of Archimedes flying from the sky, which has pried the whole big case.
For example, when the police said that an eyewitness had seen him at the scene of the crime, he asked the police, Are you familiar with the witnesses? Just trust him unconditionally?
Or on the way to see the exhibition, he saw that he was late but encountered a carjacking, and the robber asked him to pay for it quickly, but he asked slowly: Can it be finished before three o'clock?
These nonsensical rhetorical questions are also the difference between this image and most of the high-IQ solvers, and the key words he throws out are not distant conclusions, but a way of thinking that ordinary people can empathize with, unbelievable and reasonable.
Therefore, the first episode seems to be developing the plot with the resolution of the case as the driving force, but what really ferments is the strong effect of the "whole" philosophy.
As a simple outsider, he was forced to be brought into the police station, but he "saw" the other side of the police officers who came and went in front of him, and gradually established a two-sided group portrait.
For example, the only female police officer, Feng Luguang, on the one hand, looks like the most useless mascot, punching bag, and miscellaneous in the police station, and her self-worth is on the verge of collapse every moment due to the suppression of male colleagues.
But on the other hand, through the whole observation, she has to admit that she has retained the ability to think independently in the situation of being estranged from the collective.
The dedicated sheriff Xue, who was a model workaholic in the industry, can turn his face around and be an egoist who uses his job to escape his marital responsibilities.
Even the children of rich families who seem to be frivolous and omnipotent may be put in an awkward situation by the "face project" established by money and subject to others.
You will find that the so-called reversal of this drama does not come from the facts of the case, but from the hearts of the people.
It is the multi-faceted nature of each person that constantly rubs and rotates through the male protagonist's whole stroke, affecting the direction of the story.
Therefore, the title of the play, "Reasoning Without Words", points directly to the unique intention of this drama that is different from most criminal investigation themes.
The outfit with its exploding head and standard horn button coat and plaid scarf is not unkindly gifted.
What he is talking about and trying to solve is not strictly speaking reasoning, but a kind of observation, that is, standing in an unprecedented position to look at the people, things, and things in front of him.
This is already a "superpower" for most people, because everyone's self-interested instinct will always have a perspective limitation that cannot be felt.
And the fatigue of empathizing with the other can lead us to easily blind us when we recognize something, and replace our own independent thinking with the conclusions of others once and for all.
Like the two phrases that appeared in the first episode: "Women are vulnerable" and "Loose generations are not OK"
These conventional matching relationships are like some kind of imperceptible cocoon, wrapping up your mind and gradually reducing it to an either-or binary.
The difference between Jiu Neng and The difference is that he discovered that the code of human society is actually idealistic, and every time you change your position to observe the world, you will get a new "truth".
In fact, "there are countless truths, but there is only one truth", the problem is that most people are reluctant to be "convenient" in the first person and think from the perspective of a third party.
Just like the police officer in the play, helping his wife to do a lot of housework, the other party is not appreciative, he has no choice but to come to Jiu Neng to complain.
Citing an example, he said that when watching a PROFESSIONAL Baseball game, players often miss the game because of family trivia such as their sons' parent-teacher meetings and wedding anniversaries.
Whenever this happens, the Japanese commentator will comment humorously: "It seems that the player's wife must be terrible." ”
In the whole view, a short comment exposes a certain limitation, which is the difference between rights and obligations.
When a player regards taking leave for the sake of his family as his right, there are always people who put themselves in a passive position, only as an obligation.
Over time, this diametrically opposed attitude will one day turn against oneself, because obligations will only make the family and themselves a burden to each other, and rights will make the two a benign return.
In this way, whenever the character opens a cognitive blind spot inspired by the whole, the event will become more and more clear like a flood.
So, the highlight of the show is that it gives reasoning an unprecedented everydayness and human touch, and it seems to be not only about a case, but also about the way each of us live and think.
The so-called "reasoning" of this play is actually questioning, questioning the commonplace mindsets, and it is also training, training our brains to be lazy and push ourselves and others.
And the long-term disconnection, his peculiar focus, super empathy and outspoken iron mouth bring a unique sense of personality.
Compared with solving a case, it is rather a bunch of unique and incisive insights, which come from the concentration of the whole set of details, the respect and observation of people, and the most important thing is his cherishing and love for daily life.
Of course, for many fans of the original, the unique texture of "Reasoning Without Words" comes largely from the message and atmosphere conveyed by the original comic.
In contrast, from the perspective of the first episode, the image of the drama version of Jiu Neng is too omniscient and omnipotent compared to the manga, losing the texture of being an ordinary person, which makes the show show many unsatisfactory places if you want to look at it from the perspective of pure reasoning.
However, with the first episode of the male protagonist and the group portrait standing, heavy characters such as Ying Tai and Munwaki Mai appeared, and the story was about to unfold. We can also continue to wait and see.
I believe that with the blessing of the texture of the high-quality original, the drama version will not go high and low, and interested friends can also hurry up and catch up!