Text | Yi Jie (Zhou Guiyi)
Three young people from Bay Bay, code-named Hualien, Hsinchu and Taoyuan, came to Xiamen because of the kidnapping of missile expert Huang Deming.
Yin and yang, the mission failed, Hsinchu jumped into the sea, Hualien Taoyuan stayed in Xiazhou, pseudonym Ding Meixi, Li Tang, married and had children, began an 18-year life of hidden spies.
Eighteen years later, Hsinchu returned to Xiazhou again, this time, he became Ding Meixi's superior Li Tang, under the pseudonym Lin Yu.
The story of "The Rival" is told from here.
The following are plenty of spoilers, lots, lots
Both Guo Jingfei and Tan Zhuo covered their faces and sighed spoilers
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The goodness of "Opponent" lies in the extremely intense life experience, realism, that kind of immersive details, breaking the life of the bizarre cloud and crushing it, sending you to lick the foam in your mouth, the sharp detail of the scalpel.
There really are spies in peacetime, what is their job?
Seduce important scientific and technological personnel, install wiretaps, engage in approval documents, and steal documents.
But they also want to live, spies are also professions, everyone is a hit worker, the difference is that they are a little more bitter, too bitter.
I was so bitter that I wanted to make money by reporting myself.
The spies in the movie are in the sky, and their lives are speechless.
The funds are all advanced, and they can only be reimbursed at the end of the year, the funds have been delayed, and the superiors have also run away with the money.
The tooth of the mission was knocked out, and he was reluctant to make up for it, "It costs so much money to lose a tooth, and it is only how much it costs to lose a head."
Later, he was tested internally by the organization, pretending to be intimidated and tortured to suffocation by national security, and cruelly pulling teeth with his bare hands, and after he saw through it, he put forward a compensation request of "pay my teeth, one twenty-four thousand, I will give you the invoice."
The organization is at a loss, but it cannot be paid in vain, and it has to be close to the dentist for intelligence.
Taxi companies for new energy vehicles, there are government subsidies, but he also needs to pay a sum of money, Li Tang really did not, when the negotiation ended, he did not say a word to take a few bottles of mineral water on the table along the way (go home to his wife and children to drink).
Then, when no one was paying attention, he slammed into the trash can to vent.
Too poor, too poor, so that he was later murdered by Lin Yu, creating an accident car accident, the bullet screen is most concerned about the heartache is not him, is "finished calf, this car is also ruined."
Ding Meixi has hyperthyroidism, emotional ups and downs, it is no wonder, every day in life to tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, inattentive early love daughter, everything has to be supported by her.
She opened a small desk at home to earn some extra money, because the double reduction was reported, and she earned more than a deduction.
In order to covet a few more points of interest, she bought P2P, thunderstorm, and the spy was fooled by the scammers.
There are too many lies in life that need to be covered up, and the daughter in the rebellious period of youth often runs away from home, and she is anxious and hateful, kowtowing to the other party.
But their professionalism as spies is first-class.
Li Tang is far smarter than everyone thinks, playing various roles at any time, such as elevator workers, cleaners, and policemen.
In one detail, he expected that his brother-in-law who was a civil servant in Guoan would ask himself the lie of car repair arranged with the product, find a drink with the car friends in advance, and strengthen the non-existent time over and over again, so that the car friends believed in the "non-existent car repair" in their consciousness.
Ding Meixi accurately remembers all the details of things, the students' wounds are treated as perfectly as the doctors, the seduction never loses his hand, intuitively perceives all the changes in relationships, and grasps the clues to analyze the information.
The good of "Opponent" is the solidity of the script, landing, in the words of Nalan, a national security person in the play - too fine.
The details of the script on the criminal investigation are also very subtle.
There is a scene inside, Lin Yu is taken to the private room by Nalan pretending to be a tea room waiter in Guoan, Lin Yu throws a spoon on the ground, and Nalan does not make a professional response (the tea room is quiet, a little sound she should be alarmed), Lin Yu immediately recognized. Later, Naran said with chagrin, I didn't expect him to cut so fine.
I would like to say that the script of "Opponent" itself seems to be a criminal investigation, and it is so finely cut.
But what inspired me the most was that in an almost absurd and real setting, you gained insight into more humanity that is incomprehensible in ordinary scenes.
Few domestic dramas completely portray the villain as the protagonist, and portray it so realistically that you are not hateful, but empathy and pity from the perspective of the opponent, and every episode of the bullet screen is a netizen brushing - "Turn yourself in, too painful." ”
Today's article does not want to cover all aspects, mainly want to talk about the villain.
First of all, do Ding Meixi and Li Tang have love in the end?
One of Ding Meixi's jobs is seduction, not to do some fake actions, but to really sleep with each other, and to record it as evidence to threaten each other.
This is a taboo for men, which is completely opposed to possessiveness in love.
Of course, Li Tang was in pain, so much so that in a design quarrel with a fake divorce for the national security personnel, he faked the real drama and said what he had said in his heart for more than ten years - "How are we normal?" Every time you finish sleeping with other men, with their hair on their backs, lying next to me, what do I think? ”
(Every time Ding Meixi went on a mission, Li Tang counted the condoms and understood it all, he knew it in his heart and was silent)
But Li Tang still sent him to the home of the seductress object, and massaged her shoulders and neck when she complained that she was too tired, and when she was distressed that the seduction object was difficult to engage, Li Tang said: "When we give birth to the second child, don't say this?" ”
Ding Meixi hated herself and brushed her teeth vigorously every time she finished doing such a thing, but the professional training she had received had made her regard this matter as a numbing action without any meaning.
I've had trouble understanding before, as far as a job goes?
Later, when she was discovered by Lin Yu that she had the heart to defect and was killed by the misfortune, I suddenly understood.
(This section of Tan Zhuo is so good, that kind of death hysterical fear, collapse, the use of the camera reminds me of many classic Korean movies.) I also understood what Tan Zhuo said, tired for this film to want to quit halfway, want to rest, emotional consumption is too intense, too negative)
Everyone is a pawn, life is the goal, love is too luxurious, the most important thing to love each other is to hope that the other party is alive, what is the desire of oneself, what is the friction of the flesh? Everything in front of life and death is a bruise.
Ding Meixi often shouted and woke up in nightmares, in which her first lesson in the special training class was to be raped, and Li Tang would put his arms around her and tell her that the boys' special training class was another suffering, helping her to calm her fears.
Ding Meixi has superb espionage skills, but she is a "vulgar" woman in life.
Buy fake LV shoes to support the façade (this pair of shoes almost exposed her), in the face of the rebellious daughter's emotions are always out of control and collapse, she can't survive and take care of her brother (whether there is blood) together, always ask Li Tang: "I talk to you, can you look at me." ”
Li Tang was always disliked by Ding Meixi and could not earn money, and was always asked by his daughter: "You haven't had enough of this day?" ”
But Li Tang is always the one who helps Ding Mei wipe her ass, she is in love with her daughter Li Xiaoman early, Li Tang tracks the child to pretend to monitor and does not tell her, afraid that she will lose control;
Her money was cheated by P2P, and Li Tang risked exposure to find the boss to get the money back, afraid that she would collapse.
(Li Tang almost died when he took the money, but when he gave Ding Meixi the money, he didn't say anything.) This is Li Tang, forever silent)
In order to help Ding Meixi wash away the suspicion of buying heart medicine and killing people, Li Tang even took medicine to make himself a heart attack.
Ding Meixi's love for Li Tang is a different kind, manifested in the fact that she manages the family with all her strength - "the money enters her like being welded to death by welding" .
The body is not single-minded, the mind is single-minded.
She looked at a bag and wandered in the cupboard for a long time every day, but the old lover of the past, today's leader Lin Yu secretly bought it and sent it to her, and she angrily refused: "Why do I have to accompany the chief to bed, do I want to put on makeup first?" ”
Heartache Li Tang's hardships.
When Li Tang collected money to buy her a small bag as a souvenir, she was so angry that she smashed the other party with the bag: "Have you inlaid your dentures?" Howling and crying.
They divorced for the task, and before Ding Meixi remarried, they told each other's words, and they couldn't finish talking.
For 18 years, they lived together, raising children, comforting each other, covering each other, and relying on each other for their lives.
But when she divorced, Ding Meixi asked Li Tang, have you ever loved me?
Li Tang said that it was never for the sake of the task.
"Children's love is a big taboo", this is where the heart is pierced, they dare not love, they are not worthy of love, they cannot love, and tell themselves not to admit love.
This job is to destroy people's desires, to be a pawn, under the discipline of extreme pressure, to walk a tightrope with life every day, not qualified to be a person, there is a human taste, there is a weakness, there is a weakness, there will be a weakness, it will die.
In the penultimate episode, Li Tang asked Ding Meixi out for the last time and explained the arrangement of surrendering himself.
He took all the problems on himself, leaving the opportunity for meritorious service to the other party, Ding Meixi completely collapsed, and kept shouting, Li Tang, Li Tang.
And Li Tang did not say in the end, I love you, the last thing he said to her with the Morse code was, don't be afraid.
I cried miserably, crying in front of the iPAD at two o'clock in the middle of the night.
Lin Yu had achieved the goal of destroying people's desires, so he was indeed more suitable than Li Tang, when he grasped the hand of the chess piece.
- Realizing that the leprosy in his left ear would become his own feature, he burned it with his own hands; in order to change his left-handed habits, he installed a door in his home that could only be opened with his right hand without electric shock, forcing himself to change.
- When he drank a lot, the only moment of relaxation was always faintly seeing his young lover, the only woman he had ever loved with his heart, Hualien, which is today's Ding Meixi. But realizing that the other party already had the heart to defect, when he killed her, he did not hesitate.
The most subversive and shocking scene of his three views was that in order to contain Li Tang, he poisoned Li Xiaoman.
Li Tang said, "Are you crazy, she is your biological daughter!" (This sentence is too informative, it is worth starting from this perspective and re-watching the drama "Opponent")
When Li Tang was very young, he had an illegitimate daughter named Xiaoting, who had not seen only letters for 18 years, and chose to come to Xiazhou to join him when he became an adult.
Lin Yu explained why she did not poison Xiaoting, but chose her own daughter Li Xiaoman——
"Will you still feel sorry for Xiaoting? I haven't seen her in 18 years, I'm not sure." Skin kissing is a relative, it has nothing to do with blood, and my feelings for Li Xiaoman are the same. ”
Is Lin Yu wrong, maybe the people who do big things are really a bit of a killer, regardless of men and women (here the friendship reminds you, you hope that the domineering president will cut through thorns and thorns to meet the Buddha and kill the Buddha, but only for your tenderness and consideration, this is basically anti-humanity, looking forward to knowing. ）
Li Tang just has a weak rib, raising Ding Meixi and Lin Yu's child Li Xiaoman, the two of them wake up in this kind of human fireworks day by day, hoping to live like people, but it is too late.
Li Tang and Ding Meixi, because they made a wrong decision at the beginning, their lives no longer need any leukemia, car accidents and other unexpected difficulties, no matter how hard they try, everything is logical, they still inevitably slide to the rout, there is no winner, no one survives.
That is the power of tragedy.
(This drama has a prototype, and the end of the spy is really tragic, so don't be a spy.) ）
The last time I saw the villain portrayed so humane, let them become the protagonist of the scene, I don't remember, the screenwriter Wang Xiaogun is awesome, the production and broadcast platform iQiyi is awesome, thanks to this good creative environment.
Finally, in this world, we ordinary ordinary people may be birds that can't fly when they stop on the ground.
When we look up at the starry sky and lament that fate is bad, there are still some people who live on the edge and lose the opportunity to live a normal life for various reasons, they are birds that choke on water one by one, sinking in the sea, that kind of unfreedom, deep despair, which we cannot imagine.
The joys and sorrows of the world never pass.
Ordinary is a blessing, ordinary is luck, cherish it.