On a field of wild ice, several half-grown children were suspicious of coach Wu Qinghong's promise of Walkman prizes and began a skating competition...
The opening few minutes of the TV series "Beyond" create the atmosphere of the late 1980s with a true and believable atmosphere.
Zheng Kaixin, 16, in 1989, and Chen Mian, who was 16 in 2014, echoed in two narrative time and space.
The stories of short-track speed skaters and coaches in the two time and space are thus calmly contrasted and alternated in turn.
Light up the Relay of Life and Faith
As a thematic creation, the intention of "Beyond" is far-reaching - to expound the spirit of the Winter Olympics and show the home and country feelings of athletes are the must-have meanings in the title.
At the same time, in the change of the times, the intergenerational inheritance of the spirit of sports and the adherence and relay of each generation to the faith make the work an excellent work with deep spiritual feelings to observe and enter the hearts of the people.
The vivid and full group of athletes and coaches is like an important harvest of "Beyond".
Zheng Kaixin's initial arrogance and crooked temptation to get rich made him a "street slipper".
His physical strength and skill skills have allowed him to surpass ordinary athletes to become a good athlete.
The road to winning the championship is not very long, but his awareness and transformation are long and difficult.
Wu Qinghong, a coach with grace and feelings, has a profound and profound influence on him.
Coach Wu used righteousness and a sense of honor to light up a teenager's heart lamp.
At the same time, Coach Wu further infected the middle-aged Kaixin with his calm and indifferent, able to flex and stretch.
Let the middle-aged Kaixin understand the master's love and faith from life, and illuminate the road of faith in life for more children.
The work skillfully integrates the grand theme of "Strong Country Road, Winter Olympics, and Chinese Dream" into the story of individual spiritual growth.
It tells the story of one life igniting another life and opening the ship of life.
And this is also a moving inheritance of generations of coaches and athletes to relay their faith and abide by ideals.
Vivid interpretation of the spirit of competitive transcendence
The spiritual meaning of "Transcendence" is rich and timeless, and the transcendent spirit of competitive sports is always accompanied by individual growth.
The play's interpretation of the transcendent spirit is as vivid and multi-dimensional and complex and profound as a prism.
For example, Chen Jingye in the past time and space, he is the captain and the eldest brother, but the knockout and selection matches have always been fierce confrontation and competition.
He believes that "there are no friends on the field, only opponents".
However, the sense of collective honor allowed him to agree with the coach's instructions at a critical moment:
"I let you not for you, but for our team, our country."
The protagonist Chen Mian's sports career is the best interpretation of constantly surpassing himself and moving towards a higher goal.
Her struggle powerfully explains the transcendent spirit of competitive sports:
It is necessary not only to transcend the limitations of talent, skills, and physical fitness, but also to overcome psychological vulnerability and physical pain.
As shown in the play, although Chen Mian has a father who is an athlete, she is by no means a talented sports child star, and she was abandoned by her father from an early age when she was considered insufficient talent.
Since then, with a wave of love and tenacity, she has fought all the way, overcoming obstacles, surpassing shortcomings, and doing various targeted training to improve physical fitness and endurance...
Until the World Series.
Two eras, ordinary athletes, the level view of creators...
All of this allows the work to transcend the dry preaching that a grand given theme might fall into, and to present a lustrous and moving artistic brilliance.
The two time and space echo each other
Documentary fiction complements each other
"Beyond" adopts a dual-time narrative and is boldly innovative in structure.
At the same time, the form properly serves the expression of the spiritual emotions of the work, and the form and content are harmonious and harmonious.
The dual-time narrative not only broadens the perspective of expression and the depth of field of the times, but also strengthens the comparison of social change in the past and present.
Although the stories of the two time and space are interspersed back and forth, the plot lines, beginnings and turns of different time and space are clear and natural.
This artistic effect benefits from the director's attention to grasping the plot connection between past time and space and present time and space and the emotional undercurrent of the characters.
so that it is either naturally extended or contrasted or contrasted or contrasted,
Forming the lyrical color and philosophical charm that appears from time to time in the work,
It has effectively improved the aesthetic level of the work.
The wonderful setting of "Beyond" is also reflected in the fact that the main creative team adds an interview with real-life athletes, former athletes, and coaches at the end of each episode.
And each interview highlights the relevant topic.
For example, if the athletes are retired in the play, the interview topic at the end is "retirement" as the core.
This is a complementary or contrasting relationship with the story of the episode.
The true feelings of the athletes in the documentary interviews, such as the helplessness to stop because of "not seeing the hope of practicing", the sadness and regret of leaving the coaches and teammates, are real and natural, and further strengthen and confirm the performance content of the series.
Of course, the character building in "Beyond" is also imperfect.
The twins in the past time and space - Chen Jingye and Zheng Kaixin's brotherhood, mustard, heart knot, and different training concepts after becoming coaches are all very vivid.
In contrast, the character of Xiangbei in real time and space was originally very critical, and the long-term competitive relationship between Chen Mian and her gave a strong dramatic tension between the characters.
However, the excavation of this character in the work is relatively weak, and the meaning of Chen Mian is stronger, but it is not as distinctive as Luo Zhujun, Hou Jie, Duo Duo and other characters.
But the flaws do not hide Yu, "Beyond" the interpretation of the spirit of the Winter Olympics, the shaping of the image of athletes and coaches is very successful, timeless and moving.
Commentator: Dai Qing