Since 2017's "White Night Pursuit", China's criminal investigation dramas seem to have suddenly opened the second vein of Ren Dou, and excellent repertoire has emerged in an endless stream, one after another, making the audience dizzy -
For example, "Rebirth", while opening the "White Night Universe", once again raised the audience's expectations for the second part of "White Night Pursuit".
Although the play itself has some flaws, the flaws are not hidden, and it is still worth watching.
Although "The Silent Truth" is not as exciting as ordinary crime dramas, the nested plot of layers and layers of reversals can firmly grasp the audience, and finally Jiang Yang chooses to use suicide to become the "whistleblower" of the truth, shocking people's hearts.
"Wolf Hunter" Pi Ge just said not long ago, although it is a short and concise story, but because of the performance of Qin Hao, a film emperor-level actor, and the excellent photography techniques and laying skills of the main creator, such a criminal investigation story that takes place in the northwest frontier has more of a fatalistic jianghu flavor.
Today, Pigo found another drama.
It's the same as all the previous crime dramas, but it's not the same as them.
This drama is only 16 episodes, 5 days online, and the hit is close to the second place "Ideal and China"——
"True Detective lies"
Don't panic, Pigo did not type a typo, the "true" of "lie true detective" is not the "detective" of criminal investigation, but the "true" of true and false, because this drama has led to a special profession in the public security system - lie detector.
Looking at the poster, is there any sense of oppression?
The five police officers, all staring at the "you" off-screen, all you have to do is answer "yes or no."
Sitting in front of you, Ling Ran (Yu Nan) is a celebrity of the entire police system, and the whole story also revolves around her lie detector work.
Let's first briefly understand the story -
Who killed her husband?
At night, inside the house.
A barefoot woman, foot by foot, searches for space to walk on the cluttered ground.
The camera slowly pulls up, and there is blood on her feet, blood on her pants, and a lot of blood on her abdomen.
Then, the camera freezes, she's a murderer.
This woman, named Zhou Ruojun (Cui Baoyue), has just killed her husband Zhu Xiaodong in an extremely cruel way – stabbing him 19 times.
Such a big case is highly valued by the Public Security Bureau and the media. But after the case was decided, the controversy was very large.
Because of years of domestic violence, Zhou Ruojun was only sentenced to 5 years.
On this fact, the two sides have their own opinions, and the lawyer believes that Zhou Ruojun is a passionate killing that cannot be tolerated after suffering domestic violence.
Zhou Ruojun's defense was her boss, because she already worked in this law firm.
But this apparently did not satisfy Zhu Xiaodong's parents, who cried in front of the camera and appealed.
It turned out that Zhou Ruojun and Zhu Xiaodong were married for the second time, before marriage, Zhou Ruojun took a daughter, the new family composed of three people was not complete, Zhu Xiaodong did not work and loved to drink, not only perennial domestic violence between the mother and daughter, but also the relationship with the outside wine escort lady was unclear.
After the incident got bigger, the pressure came to the police.
The court asked the procuratorate to provide new evidence, and the procuratorate gave the task of finding evidence to the police.
Coincidentally, on this day, criminal police officer Chen Hu (Xing Jiadong) caught a thief near the scene of the crime. The thief and Zhou Ruojun, who was interrogated, met in the corridor.
Ling Ran just took a look and knew that these two people must know each other, so he arrested the thief and prepared to dig something out.
It turned out that from the micro-movements of the two, she observed the "escape reaction" and deduced that the two people should know each other.
Sure enough, in the subsequent lie detector test, the caught thief Zhang Yiwei admitted that he and Zhou Ruojun were college classmates.
But in the confessions of the two, Ling Ran found that this case was not just a matter of killing people with passion.
Later, Ling Ran visited Zhu Xiaodong's home, and his parents had a lot of criticism of Zhou Ruojun, saying that after marrying Zhou Ruojun, Zhu Xiaodong began to drink and domestic violence.
Ling Ran's student Qin Xinyi (Wang Wei) finds that Zhu's father is a little ashamed when he mentions his son, as if his son has humiliated himself.
Later, they visited the law firm where Zhou Ruojun worked and found that sometimes, the law firm would take on some young lady dispute cases.
After interrogating Zhu Xiaodong's young lady lover, Ling Ran learned that it was Zhou Ruojun who introduced this young lady to her husband.
Help your husband pimp, this kind of thing is the first time to see. And this lady also happens to be a client of their law firm.
Knowing such a hidden situation, Ling Ran had no choice but to interrogate Zhou Ruojun again.
Zhou Ruojun just insisted that it had nothing to do with Zhang Yiwei.
In mid-2017, when Zhou Ruojun introduced Miss and her husband to know each other, there had been no sex between the husband and wife for a long time.
Curiously, before the end of 2016, Zhu Xiaodong never seemed to have domestic violence against Zhou Ruojun.
That is, it is not his nature. Ling Ran retrieved Zhou Ruojun's online records before this point in time and found that they were all searches for legal provisions.
Ling Ran had a speculation: all this was planned by Zhou Ruojun.
And this is not a case of passionate murder, but a deliberate murder.
Passionate murder and deliberate murder sentencing are completely different, but for this, Zhou Ruojun fully admitted and was very calm.
And Zhou Ruojun's sentence "Sometimes telling a lie may save a person's life" seems to have another hidden feeling.
Time is tight, if the investigation is not stepped up, Zhou Ruojun may be directly sentenced to death in the second trial.
So Ling Ran went to work again, she went to the school where Zhu Xiaodong had worked before, and found that he had been dismissed for an ulterior reason.
After an autopsy, the forensic doctor also found that Zhu Xiaodong had 19 knives in his body, which could not be completed by a woman.
What was the reason why Zhou Ruojun wanted to murder her husband?
Should this person named Zhu Xiaodong die? Pigo does not spoil, leaving everyone to unravel the mystery for themselves.
At present, the show has been updated for 12 episodes, and some viewers have commented that brushing 12 episodes in one breath is the only new drama that has not fast-forward recently watched the movie.
Why this drama will be sought after by the audience, there are three aspects in which Pigo has watched:
The first aspect: "incision", not a person, nor a thing, unlike other criminal investigation dramas
As a criminal investigation drama, "True Detective lies" has a completely different temperament from other suspense crime dramas, and it is also this cold temperament that gives it the general texture of American dramas.
Although many dramas have been ripped off as "American drama texture", this texture is never just talk.
"True Detective lies" does not pursue the stimulation of giving the audience adrenaline glands, and the biggest "action" content of the first two episodes is just to catch a thief.
It stimulates, in the brain, but also in the psyche.
The incision is something we are particularly prone to care about when watching criminal investigation dramas. The so-called incision is also called angle, which refers to the perspective through which the TV series brings the audience to the scene.
"White Night Pursuit" is exactly the same as the identity transformation of the two brothers.
"Rebirth" is the "714 shooting case" in which Qin Chi was wronged.
"The Wolf Hunter" is the death of Zhao Cheng.
These incisions are either things (cases) or people. But "True Detective lies" is different,
Its real incision is a confession, but also psychological.
The form of the drama is no different from other criminal investigation dramas, and there is a consistent main line of cases, connecting the small cases that occur around the central characters one by one.
However, almost all cases are from the perspective of the truth or falsity of the confessions of the people involved in the case or the suspects, and they are stripped away little by little to lead the audience to uncover the mystery.
The second aspect: the heroine's thorny edges and corners
"Lie true detective", the core is in a real word.
What is valuable is that the drama does not focus on the police station and the criminal case, but expands to society, family and human nature.
The British "Daily Mail" once did a survey, a person has to tell an average of 4 lies a day, nearly 1500 lies a year, and as many as 90,000 lies in a lifetime.
Seeing no, "lying" is a way of life. But in criminal cases, it is particularly important to judge whether a person is lying.
Ling Ran is a person who can't tolerate a single lie.
In front of the suspect, she will always be the female criminal police officer who can tell whether she is lying through her limbs, expressions and micro-movements at a glance.
But in front of others, her pursuit of "truth" seems to be incompatible with the whole society.
Go to the house where the crime occurred to investigate, the house has been sold. She asked the buyer if he had found anything, and the buyer denied it, and then subconsciously asked," did something happen to the house?" ”
Ling Ran didn't hesitate to think, "Well, the murder! ”
Chen Hu, who was frightened, was stunned.
Sending her son to school, because she stayed up late to work and got up late, she taught her son to tell the truth.
As a result, my son complained: Every time I told the truth, the teacher thought I was lying.
But Ling Ran didn't think so: not everyone will want to believe you, you just do it yourself.
Seeing no, this "truth-seeking" attitude has become Ling Ran's character and has become a part of her life.
She doesn't let her son lie, and she doesn't lie herself.
When confronted with the question of her son's "lying or being expelled," her response was, "Let's change schools."
Maybe in her world, a school where the truth is not believed, is not worth her son's study.
But in the real world, the attitude of seeking "truth" in everything often touches a nose of ash.
Sometimes, whitewashed lies are more pleasing to others, more appeased, and more able to reduce conflict and ease contradictions.
In modern society, "white lies" are, to some extent, hailed as the embodiment of "high emotional intelligence".
On the contrary, the truth will be like a spike, leaving scars.
The third aspect: self-questioning and self-answering
In a realistic environment, truth-seeking or pragmatic?
"True Detective lies" not only throws this proposition to us, but also gives us its own solution.
After Zhou Ruojun's verdict was pronounced, Ling Ran walked up to her: "White lies cannot save anyone, so we must defend the truth." ”
In addition to the discussion of "true and false", the tentacles of "True Detective of Lies" also extend to the depths of human nature, those "non-criminal cases" that we do not understand.
The little nanny who works in the city, because she is pregnant with the old professor's child, conflicts with her greedy daughter and falls off the stairs.
The old father in the mountains came to identify the body with a sack on his back, and it was heartbreaking to watch him silently cover the exposed feet of his daughter, who was already a cold corpse.
He wanted revenge, but he couldn't beat people, he wanted to complain, but he couldn't complain.
In the end, the 10,000 yuan of funeral expenses given by the professor's family could only be scattered on the road as a rebellion.
Xiao Si, an apprentice who works in an auto repair shop, breaks up with his girlfriend who has been talking for many years, only because his father-in-law and mother-in-law forced him to have a marriage room.
So he took the risk and dealt with the vehicle that caused the accident for the boss, and as a result, he was put together and directly became a criminal suspect.
Finally, he fell from the building and died in the rescue.
Fatherless and motherless little sister Jiang Yali went to the city to work, her ID card was deceived to borrow usurious loans, and she was framed for cheating when she was pregnant with a child.
Looking for a clinic to see a doctor, the doctor cheated on buying fake drugs, and then kicked and beaten.
In the end, a man fell ill and died in a house converted from a container by the river. Until four months passed, when she became a dry corpse, no one could find her.
Pension problems, dowry problems, migrant workers in the city, housing problems... One by one, this pile has been displayed in the form of a case by "True Detective of Lies".
The death of the little nanny Miao Xiuli, the death of the car repair worker Xiao Si, and the death of the girl Jiang Yali, it seems that there is no murderer, but in fact, everyone is a murderer.
The hypocritical old professor who excuses himself with a mouth full of lies, the daughter of Grang's desk-style face, the girlfriend who pretends to be innocent, the liar who sells fake drugs...
Although the division of criminal responsibility into responsibility speaks of law, the world is always divided into good and evil.
On June 7, Cheng Minsheng, a professor at Henan University, said at the 2021 graduation ceremony: "Kindness wards off evil. ”
Truth, goodness and beauty are not empty words, but the pursuit of a good person's life.
Finally, the role of Ling Ran reminded Pig of the words in "The Melting Pot":
"We're fighting all the way, not to change the world, but not to let the world change us."
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