The first realistic female suspense drama "JiangZhao Dawn" in 2022 is coming!
As a suspense drama focusing on women's plight and growth, what surprises will it bring to us?
As the sun sets, the world descends into chaos. A man is facing the setting sun, humming a little song and fishing for fish. At this moment, he vaguely found something in the water, fixed his eyes on a corpse, and the man quickly threw away the things in his hands and dialed the police.
Four days before the crime, Li Xiaonan (Ma Sichun) was looking at the house with joy, but he was helpless to be shy enough to pay the down payment. And her husband Su Rui (Liu Kai) is dressed properly for business negotiations, even if the object of negotiation is her brother-in-law, she still has not received cooperation, and even the 100,000 yuan used to win people's hearts has been returned.
Su Rui returned home to find paint on the door, which read "Debt repayment" written on it, and their lives were completely shrouded in darkness.
Li Xiaonan's work performance is not bad, often praised by her superiors, in the eyes of colleagues she not only has a decent job, but also married a good husband. Everyone knows that her husband and her colleague Yu Hong have an improper relationship between men and women, and Li Xiaonan not only has to endure betrayal, but also has to pay off debts for her husband.
This pillow man was like a vampire, not only wanting to suck away Li Xiaonan's money, but also wanting Li Xiaonan's life to defraud the bail. Li Xiaonan's asthma suddenly broke, Su Rui did not hurry to find medicine to deliberately delay time; Li Xiaonan wanted to borrow a car to travel, and Su Rui, who was originally impatient, simply made hands and feet on the brake pads to create a car accident; and deliberately added excessive cough medicine to the milk to achieve chronic wife killing.
And these actions of her husband, Li Xiaonan all looked at it, but it was only to see through it and not to say it. And Su Rui, who attempted to kill his wife, accidentally saw that the TV was reporting that the river was turbulent, and after falling into the river, the news of the fierceness was more than ji, and Su Rui had a new idea...
When night came, thunder burst out, Li Xiaonan and Su Rui paid homage to Twilight Nan by the river, who knew that Su Rui suddenly hugged her from behind and pushed her into the river. But the next day, Li Xiaonan appeared at home unscathed, and it was her husband Su Rui who was killed, and in the face of police questioning, Li Xiaonan's mother and daughter seemed to be hiding something.
During the investigation, Li Xiaonan deliberately concealed the fact that her husband was violent and cheating, did she have other hidden feelings? What really happened that night? Li Xiaonan carries the weight forward, but do you think she is a weak and bullied woman? She is completing a self-salvation.
This is not the first time Ma Sichun has starred in a suspense work. In 2018's "Clouds Made of Rain in the Wind", she played the rebellious girl Xiaonuo, who was full of despair because she witnessed domestic violence and power trade when she was a child.
At that time, 31-year-old Ma Sichun played an 18-year-old girl Xiaonuo without any sense of violation, she used her acting skills to shorten the age difference, a sense of youth and mystery girlishness. Today, Ma Sichun plays a married middle-aged woman, and she vividly interprets her strong and courageous appearance after experiencing vicissitudes.
For example: when Xiao San questioned her knowing that her husband was cheating but did not say that it was another conspiracy, Ma Sichun's eyes first tranced, and then he beat Xiao San with words, and after a conversation, he also sent a concern: "You are weak, don't get cold, go back early", the rank is high, and the judgment is high.
And when her husband committed domestic violence against her, although Ma Sichun showed fear on her face, she still said her true thoughts at this time: "Su Rui, I want to divorce you", even if she will endure greater torture after saying it.
Even in the past two years, Ma Sichun has often been criticized for her personal private life and body fortune, but she has to admit that she can still play acting skills. Because in this "JiangZhao Dawn", she plays a middle-aged woman who has been devastated by the wind and moon, and her fat physical characteristics have faded the briskness of a young girl, making the audience more credible to this role.
And Su Rui's actor Liu Kai also contributed good acting skills, especially when beating his wife Li Xiaonan, how many viewers instantly answered the shadow of childhood. Su Rui has more or less the figure of an abusive husband An Jiahe in "Don't Talk to Strangers". Many viewers said: "a daily marriage fear trick" and "too real", from these comments can feel the horror of this scumbag husband.
Actors often achieve each other, Ma Sichun and Liu Kai exchange acting skills, on the surface a peaceful but actually hidden killing machine. Although the male protagonist Bai Ke does not appear many times at present, he has gradually intersected in the lives of the two, and the relationship between enemies and friends has also become a point of view.
Generally speaking, most suspense dramas are based on hard-core male protagonists or double male protagonists, and most of the cases are brain-burning and highly reasoned, while confusing crime techniques and excessive reasoning are often more favored by men, which greatly loses female audiences.
"Jiang Zhao Dawn" breaks the inherent routine, focuses the perspective on the topic of "women's realistic survival dilemma", and intersects suspenseful detectives with delicate emotions to find a new breakthrough window in the suspense category.
This can be seen from the life of the heroine, real estate agent Li Xiaonan, as an ordinary woman, her biggest wish is to have a happy little family. However, her married life is not as perfect as in the eyes of outsiders, and how to break free from the predicament and obtain a safe life is the biggest problem in front of her. The entire series starts from this emotional contradiction, uses the ultimate audiovisual language to promote the sense of suspense, and evokes the empathy of the real female group.
In the play, Li Xiaonan has a psychological shadow on the water because of the death of her sister, and she can't even take a bath directly and needs her husband's help. As for the cause of the protagonist's inner fear, the director did not use a flat direct narrative, but advanced through the fragments of the heroine's memories.
In the eyes of Li Xiaonan's mother, her sister is better than Li Xiaonan in every way, and when Li Xiaonan returned home to borrow money to buy a house, her mother revealed her dissatisfaction with her marriage and the death of her eldest daughter is still difficult to accept. While sympathizing with the heroine, the audience can find resonance in it.
I believe that most ordinary women will encounter a series of problems such as family contempt chain and marriage difficulties. "Jiang Zhao Dawn" adds family lines and emotional lines to the brain-burning story, but in essence it is still not separated from the foundation of suspense dramas.
In addition, the parallel lines of shunshu and flashback are parallel, and "JiangZhao Dawn" is also exploring a new way of suspense drama. It breaks the traditional detective perspective and allocates part of the narrative focus to the process of exploring the dilemma of the heroine's life. The audience not only hopes that the heroine will achieve anti-killing in marriage and complete self-redemption, but also worry that the heroine's family will bear the murder.
The two threads with opposite narrative orders bring the audience a more complex and fresh viewing experience, and as for the direction in which the story will develop, we can only look for answers in the play.