A national drama.
You are 24 hours in the background urging, tap water more and more than a day of the national drama.
Even many netizens directly "put a big word": better than "The Beginning".
Sir has no intention of stepping on it.
But this drama is really angry - almost zero publicity, Douban opening score is still 7.9, the same as "Beginning".
Well, write and write.
2022 "New Year's Suspense"
"Jiang Zhao Dawn"
The poster begins to lay out:
Inside is not people, but photos.
Ma Sichun.
White guest.
Two photographs in police evidence bags.
The former is dressed in a simple shirt with panic and inquiry in his eyes; the latter simply blurs his mouth and nose, leaving only a pair of eyes to look at you.
There is also a full flood of water vapor.
Wet and cold, hazy trance...
Everything echoes the foreshadowing at the top:
"A story passing through darkness".
Not to enter, not to cross, but to "pass by".
What do you mean?
Sir only hinted:
Inside and outside the play, every bystander is also a witness.
01
Video script kills
The first two episodes of "Jiang Zhao" are high-energy throughout the whole process, opening with a murder case of "all evil people".
Corpses on the shore.
Found by passers-by, but did not show his face, only to see a short-haired man dressed in black.
who?
Anyone can.
Time was turned back before the crime, and the figures slowly appeared.
A couple.
The heroine Li Xiaonan (Ma Sichun) is a real estate agent who sells and lives with her husband Su Rui (Liu Kai) in a dark and cramped rental house.
She works as an agent during the day and sells fried noodles at night.
She shares the same desire as most workers – to buy a house, to make a down payment and to start a new life.
But Su Rui was different.
In front of people, gentle and considerate "model husband".
After people, there are many problems.
The work is not solid, working under the wife's mother-in-law, feeling inferior; plus good gambling, owing an ass of usury.
Always thinking of getting rich overnight, the sky is a windfall.
midnight.
Li Xiaonan was asleep, and Su Rui picked up her mobile phone lightly...
Want to check the post?
Don't be naïve.
Su Rui finished reading the phone and put it back on.
Li Xiaonan, who was next to him, suddenly had an asthma attack, and the whole person seemed to be drowning and breathless.
Critical junctures.
Her husband, Su Rui, did not find the medicine for a while and a half, so Li Xiaonan had no choice but to roll off the bed with her hands and feet and take out the spare medicine bottle that she had secretly hidden.
A delay.
A Tibetan medicine.
I'm sure you can see that these two mouths are not right.
Not only them, after the opening corpse appears, there is a vague empty mirror:
The camera rises from the shore and overlooks the entire river.
The river surface jumps with daylight, reflecting the whole city and the people scattered in it.
Then stitch together six key characters with a montage.
The identities are:
"Brother-in-law" Liang Heyu (yuan Wenkang), the boss of the real estate group, whose deceased wife is Li Xiaonan's sister Li Huanan;
The sisters' mother (Shi Ke), and the noodle boss Mai Shu (Dong Xiangrong), who pursues his mother;
Li Xiaonan's colleague Yu Hong (Zhang Yao), the "demolition of the second generation" in the eyes of others, Su Rui's underground lover;
Su Rui's creditor Brother Hu (Played by Zhang Benyu), the not-so-clever Big Brother jianghu;
Finally, there is the mysterious male protagonist Wang Cheng (played by Bai Ke).
Appeared in the scene to create an opportunity to "meet" Xiaonan, claiming to be an old high school classmate.
In fact:
He had been secretly following the couple early in the morning, and seemed to have long been aware that the two were catty.
Why did it appear just before the crime?
As the plot goes deeper into the audience, it is discovered that everyone has a motive to kill.
For love, for wealth, for revenge...
Even, for love.
Who is the murderer?
"Jiang Zhao Dawn" not only has a suspenseful script like a script foundation, but also uses a first-person player-like audiovisual language.
A multi-line narrative that tells a story from the perspective of each character, a time and space, revealing several clues.
ultimately.
Gather everyone into the main line with a new round of montages, staring at you as if provocatively:
You see, I'm like a murderer aren't I?
02
National drama microscope
What are the essential elements of a good suspense drama?
Meticulous logical lines;
A metaphor for the high-minded reality;
Or is it a portrayal of humanity in three points?
In recent years, various remakes of "painting zijin Chen is not an anti-dog", as well as the "child's drama narrative" of the tiger's head and tail, have explained a truth to the audience:
Good suspense work.
While talking about the main line, it is also necessary to extend the branches of reality and human nature in addition to suspense.
How to extend?
Performance is the base.
This point "JiangZhao Dawn" is above the passing line.
Starring Ma Sichun, Queen of the Golden Horse Film; Bai Ke, Wanhe Tianyi Popularity King.
The supporting characters are also brilliant enough.
Zhang Yao, the "Bei Bei" in "Li Chun", Shi Ke, the old drama bone, and Zhang Benyu, the "Qi Leshan" who attracted countless fans in "Fame and Fame".
The only thing that may be born in the eyes may be Su Rui's actor, Liu Kai.
But just look at the domestic violence scene in one shot
He was released to be comparable to "Anjiahe".
And that's not all.
In addition to acting, two things are needed.
One is clever enough lens language to support a "hanging" word.
Second, the solid narrative trajectory paves a good layer of "doubt" for logic.
Let's look at the former first.
Lots of back-shifting focus lenses.
The iron window shaped like a spider's web : the embarrassment of Li Xiaonan and Su Rui's living environment;
The spider with its teeth and claws - Yu Hong's menacing anger;
And gorgeous lamps and lanterns, surrounded by a solid prison.
Isn't it the fragility and the sadness that has nowhere to escape under yu's crazy appearance?
No need for a line.
But it can explain the character's dilemma, motivation and feelings in a second.
The character arc has such a lens support, "hanging" up.
What about doubts?
Two words, details.
Character details:
Su Rui's "good husband" design.
Obviously, it is to pick up the wife to commute to work, accompany the wife out of the stall, look forward and backward, and hand over water to wipe the sweat.
The camera can be turned to two people alone.
After closing the stall, Li Xiaonan pulled the bulky cart by himself, while Su Rui behind him took care of himself and played with his mobile phone.
After returning home, Li Xiaonan was busy calculating income and expenditure, but Su Rui hid and teased the lizard.
True spoiled wife or fake coping.
glance.
Say it later.
Domestic violence is abhorrent.
But the force of running to his wife's sore spot was even more frightening—he knew that XiaoNan was most afraid of water.
The supporting characters are even less sloppy.
In the eyes of colleagues, yu Hong, the "demolition of the second generation", returned home to the window and was a booming railway.
It's not wrong to split the second generation.
But all those possessions were given to his brother, a "Voldemort" who had no choice but to do so.
A detail that conflicts with the label leads to the collapse of the "rich woman" and the emptiness of her heart.
She was never rich.
Material, with spiritual.
Falling in love with Su Rui, who pretends to be affectionate, is simply logical.
Likes to wear a mask
Run in a flower feather coat
△ Scumbag exclusive BGM
Ming foreshadowing pen.
Dark accent.
First base yourself on people, and then weave lies.
With these meticulous stacks and constructions, a "Rashomon" story has enough persuasiveness and interlocking progression.
There is also the most easily overlooked - the Way of Service.
Maybe it has something to do with our movie-watching habits and the long-term aesthetic bombardment of national dramas.
At first glance, "Jiang Zhao" is by no means a gorgeous domestic drama, with no skin filter, no Wangjiang flat layer and couture suit.
But the service of "Jiang Zhao" is not cheap.
Xiaonan's fried noodle stall: Behind the stalls are plastic stools with trash cans, waist bags and wipes, and the stall's signature operation of using old mineral water bottles to fill various sauces.
Xiaonan's rental house: Corresponding to selling fried noodles at night, the corners are stuffed with various environmentally friendly lunch boxes and cheap napkins, all of which are used for stalls.
And Yu Hong's rental house is another scene: unmarried women living alone, although the house is old, or carefully decorated, there are small light strings and leopard wallpaper, and there are various wine bottles on the windowsill, and long-term borrowing wine to dispel sorrows;
summary:
What kind of people, what kind of clothes to wear, what kind of house to live in.
Is it difficult?
At least it takes a lot of thought, but at present, the national drama is willing to do this, there are really not many.
But it is precisely this finely restored daily life and the silent character details that make all the ghost fetuses feel tangible and gradually entrenched into a dark web of human nature.
All the characters in the play are caught.
It also nets you and me.
03
Realistic magnifier
Douban on.
Screenwriter Cao Xiaotian said that "Jiang Zhao Dawn" is "a confession letter to women."
Sir also clearly felt it when watching.
The biggest difference between "Jiang Zhao Dawn" and other domestic suspense is the expression and empathy of the female perspective exclusively.
- No matter what identity, circumstances, relationships.
That's what Sir mentioned.
Good suspense is not only suspense.
"The Hidden Corner" We can see the malice in children's hearts;
"The Silent Truth" dares to point out the injustice of censorship and authority;
And "Jiang Zhao Dawn" is to tear open the mouth of the male gaze, pour all the emotional direction and sensibility into the story, and to some extent fill the complexity of the female role of the national drama.
Remember that classic dialogue in "Love Myth"?
In the portrayal of women, "Jiang Zhao Dawn" is obviously more grounded.
Don't ask for favors.
But be realistic.
Of course.
If there is only the output of gender issues, "Jiang Zhao" is bound to slide into another kind of flattering cliché.
What it really wants to present is the domestication of women.
Not just for individuals.
This domestication is more of a long-term, tacit, systematic repression.
In addition to Li's mother's love for Xiaonan, there is also a layer of selfishness that always compares her with her sister.
What are the comparison criteria?
Whether you marry well or not, whether your husband can make money, whether your social status is high or not...
Although there is an element of nostalgia for the deceased daughter, it also reflects the mother's instinct to be domesticated for a long time.
There is also Yu Hong's madness.
But all her attachments and desires come from the patriarchal preference of her original family;
In particular, this domestication is a two-way whipping:
On the one hand, use high demands to "kill";
On the one hand, there is no bottom line for wanton trampling.
The victim is repeatedly flogged, repeatedly praised, and repeatedly, gradually losing himself.
Don't think that this kind of thing is far away from us.
In fact.
At the moment, in this play, it is being staged.
In one word:
Ma Sichun, fat.
In the barrage:
In the comments:
If the figure in the previous "First Incense" was ridiculed, there is also a reason why the role does not match.
What about now?
Ma Sichun in "Jiang Zhao" is indeed different from the traditional Chinese drama heroine.
It's not the body that's different.
It's identity.
Xiao Nan is not the heroine of the open and cool drama, not the big beauty that makes all male characters fall in love at first sight, and it is not the beauty and tragedy of natural resources against the sky.
She is the ordinary woman we see every day in our lives.
Running for life, losing body management.
And if you go a little deeper:
Won't such a woman be abused by the family?
She was abused, cheated, rejected by her husband... Will it be sympathetic?
Okay, stop.
Sir couldn't bear to think about it.
Back to "Jiang Zhao", there is a scene in the play that is meaningful.
Remember xiaonan's greatest fear of water?
But Li's mother found a swimsuit in Xiaonan's closet, and a scene of a female figure swimming upstream appeared in the opening of the film.
This scene is both bloody and desperate.
Hot blood, can foresee Xiao Nan completed the counterattack of the big heroine, overcome fear and save himself;
Despair lay, and she could only rely on herself.
Why?
Again, that sentence:
She was just an ordinary, unfortunate woman.
Put it into reality?
Stop again.
As a domestic suspense drama, "Jiang Zhao" is by no means perfect, and there is still a lot of room for progress.
But it is good in that it abandons the preaching and slogans from above, and solidly presents the daily life of ordinary people, the tragedies of ordinary people, and even the difficult and desperate self-salvation of ordinary people.
Did she finally succeed?
The answer may not matter.
It allows the audience to see the more terrifying reality:
Countless people have passed through the darkness.
And most people are in the perspective of the sidelines who don't care about themselves.
Always pointing to the "darkness" and saying:
look at.
What a bright road.
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