In 2017, the popularity of two suspense films, White Night Pursuit and Undocumented Crime, proved that good suspense films do not lack a market in China. In the years since, suspense dramas have been filmed one after another, but there are very few fine works.
After the hidden corners and the silent truth, the Mist Theater seemed to collapse. From the octagonal pavilion fog to the fatal wish, out of a punch, who is the murderer is only a little boost to the mist theater.
At the beginning of this year, the Mist Theater released a big move, starring Liao Fan, Chen Feiyu, Lu Xiaolin and Su Ke. The drama of gold panning is adapted from the former Tianya hot post "1986 Gold Rush Horror", and the perspective is novel and focuses on the special group of the last century - gold diggers.
Greed in the four wooden fields
Gold has been a symbol of wealth since ancient times. People die for money, birds die for food, and all the gold diggers come to Shikiba just to pursue a carnival of sudden wealth.
The arrival of a man seemed incompatible with Shikiba, and his white and tender skin was not a laborer at all. Sure enough, Chen Baojin lost the election, but with the one-handed gold panning technique, he broke into the gold field.
People here can work together to pan for gold, but each has a ghost in mind. Chen Baojin did not come here for wealth, but wanted to find his missing brother.
The topic of gold panning has always been a hot topic for European and American dramas, because he can fully display the most primitive desires and naked greed of human beings.
In the late 1980s in China, there was also a gold rush, and a large number of farmers put down their hoes in the fields and rushed to the gold fields.
The background of this TV series is taken from this, and the story takes place in the K country of the last century. In order to prevent the emergence of smuggling, K issued gold mining permits to gold mining companies, and they managed gold mining.
In The Four Wood Fields, there are two Jin bosses, one is Wu Jianchao, played by Liao Fan, and the other is Lao Shan, played by Su Ke. Behind the four wooden fields, there is also a smuggling force - owls.
There are three main ways for gold diggers to sell the placer gold they have found, one is to sell it to the company at a very low price, the other is to sell it to the owl at a high price, and the third is to take it away from the gold market.
The latter two approaches are fraught with risks, but there are still people who enjoy it. In order to prevent the smuggling of placer gold, the gold panning company has its own guard team, checking every day off work to check whether the gold miners have hidden the placer gold.
Once caught, they are punished and left, or lose their lives. Judging from the first four episodes, the whole story has two lines, one is the line where Chen Baojin is looking for his brother, and the other is this mysterious owl.
The gold digger wants to sell the owl to place gold, there is no way but to wait for the owl to issue the card, so the owl holds all the initiative in the transaction.
Before the owl appeared, the situation of smuggling in the golden field was serious, but after the owl appeared, the smugglers seemed to disappear overnight.
Instead, one corpse after another appeared by the river, stimulating the gold prospectors at all times.
Conflict hides in the dark
In the first 4 episodes, the main direction lies in the ambush pen and the introduction background, but only from these 4 episodes you can see the conflict behind it. In the first episode, Wu Jianchao and Lao Shan discuss whether to merge the river section together, which is actually the river section that Lao Shan wants to annex Wu Jianchao.
Among the two men, a woman appeared, that is, Ah Qiu. In this greedy gold field, it is not easy for a woman to get a foothold, let alone take a child.
But Ah Qiu, however, successfully wandered between the two men and became the Qiu Sister in everyone's mouth. Because Wu Jianchao and Ah Qiu have an intimate scene, we unconsciously guess that Ah Qiu is Wu Jianchao's woman.
The fact is not so simple, when Wu Jianchao proposed to stop and take Ah Qiu back to China. Ah Qiu showed hesitation, she did not want to go back, but said: It is better that you transfer the river section to Lao Shan and give me money.
Ah Qiu interpreted the appearance of each person in the four wooden fields who were pregnant with a ghost fetus to the end, and you can't think of what everyone was thinking in their hearts.
Ah Qiu is the head of the old shan mine, and her root is in the old shan. Lao Shan also knows about her relationship with Wu Jianchao, so Ah Qiu may have been sent by Lao Shan to deliberately approach Wu Jianchao, or Ah Qiu did not want to put the treasure on a person.
Ah Qiu's son was kidnapped, and Lao Shan's performance hinted that his relationship with Ah Qiu was not simple. In order to find Batur, the old shan kept mentioning the bounty, and it was as anxious as if his own son had lost it.
After kidnapping Batur, Magdeburg went to Sister Qiu to ask for money. During their conversation, Magdeburg says that the owl has killed all his men and suspects that the old shan is an owl.
In fact, this suspicion is not unfounded, Lao Shan this person has ambition, fierce heart, the high probability is the "golden boss" in the darkness of the four wooden fields.
There are two forces in the four wooden fields, and the possibility of Wu Jianchao is not very large, he must be decent, so the villain can only be the old shan.
Actor strength
Liao Fan's acting skills naturally needless to say, in Wu Jianchao's body, I once again experienced the tension of what is male hormones. The appearance that Wu Jianchao should have in the early stage is both good and evil, and Liao Fan fully played this role.
Su Ke's role as Lao Shan is really eye-catching, and he was loved by everyone with the role of Dajiang in the black storm before. Inside the gold rush, Su Ke became a fierce gold boss again, and every expression was a drama.
Especially when he called the placer gold, he felt that this role was bad and bad, not blindly fierce.
Ah Qiu, played by Lu Xiaolin, is a rare or even the only female character who appears in the play, and every line is full of deep meaning. There is no less mysterious color in her, especially the relationship between her and two men, which is not easy to portray at all.
I think Lu Xiaolin has always been one of the underrated actresses, and she is not the first time she has appeared in suspense dramas, having previously starred in the white night chase and the secret truth.
Chen Baojin, played by Chen Feiyu, is also relatively outstanding, and his acting skills can be said to be decent. When it comes to Chen Feiyu, everyone may have the first impression of Chen Kaige's son, but as a young actor, he has also filmed a lot of scenes.
From these four episodes, Chen Feiyu's acting skills are qualified.
epilogue
Whether it is from the texture or the theme, this drama is a good drama worth watching.