How long has it been since I watched such a fierce national drama?
A snowy night.
The girl suspected of being raped and killed was a corpse on the side of the building, unclothed.
The other side.
Men with unclear faces, tied up, stabbed to death, hung with slaughtered pigs...
After a decade of unresolved cases, clues gradually surfaced.
What kind of shocking truth is behind it?
Today we will break through the fog together -
The Coward
This drama is adapted from Zheng Zhi's original novel "Raw Swallow".
The original work is known as the "light of domestic suspense novels".
Because it not only tells the bloody crime story of the northeast, but also writes through the suffering of the underclass and the pain of the times.
Just like the title of the book "Raw Swallow", the author interprets it as——
"Only suffering is treated equally, and no one can be allowed to chew and swallow slowly."
The script was adapted by Zheng Zhi himself.
Heavy realistic topics, but from the flying youth years.
In 1999, the tide of the era of sending the old to the new was at the forefront.
Four middle school students with very different personalities did not anticipate the unfairness of fate at that time.
The male protagonist, Qin Li, is a mathematical genius who is introverted and taciturn.
His hair is small.
Serving people for righteousness also has a literary talent that surpasses their peers.
Feng Xuejiao, a girl who often mixes with them.
The personality is greatly grinning, and it is the atmosphere in the foursome.
There is also Huang Shu, who transferred from art school.
She treats everyone with kindness, and in Wang's evaluation: beautiful is only her least worthy advantage.
The friendship between them, simple and pure.
He will spend all his pocket money and buy a basketball that the other party has in mind.
When his partner is bullied by his classmates, he will not hesitate to stand up for him regardless of the consequences of being punished.
Even if some people are talked about by the whole school because of the scandal of their parents.
They still ignore the outside world's pointing and pointing, and declare with great fanfare long live friendship.
Wang Also stood excitedly on the table.
Recite Dickinson's poems as passionately as an idealist:
"If only I could save a heart from being broken
I didn't live in vain."
But the creation of people.
This beauty not only did not continue, but also went in the complete opposite direction -
More than a decade later, Qin Li did not become a mathematical elite.
Instead, I did auto mechanic.
He was deaf in the ears, dependent on hearing aids, and had terrible scars on his face.
It has become a vulnerable group that is bullied.
Alone all year round, the eyes have long been dimmed.
Wang Wei, who was full of spirit at that time, and Feng Xuejiao, who was like a little sun.
All became cold and alienated.
The words also revealed a debt to the old friendship, and even some guilt.
"We're sorry For Qin Li."
"I don't want to miss the past."
The most lamentable is Huang Shu.
Once dancing like a peacock on the stage, she has become a cold corpse.
In the winter of 2001, Huang Shu's body was found next to a rotten building.
Suspected of being sexually assaulted, but there are pesticide residues in the stomach.
Even more bizarre was the scarlet notch on her abdomen.
The shape turned out to be the symbol of the previous foursome.
Who is the murderer?
What really happened that year that made the foursome's strong friendship be written off?
This is the biggest suspense of this drama.
As the saying goes, tragedy is the tearing of beautiful things to people.
The parallel narrative of multiple timelines amplifies the sadness of things being human.
The great changes between the foursome and the past have written a cruel story of youth.
And when we dissect their respective experiences, we find that:
Fate has not taken a sharp turn, but has long since been quietly rewritten.
There is a metaphor buried in the play, that is, Qin Li's QQ name is "Domino".
Hints at the domino effect of fate.
And the starting point of this domino is the original family.
For Qin Li and Huang Shu, the original family is the original sin they bear.
Qin Li's father was sentenced to death for robbery and murder.
Huang Shu's mother suffered from mental illness and did not have much cultural knowledge.
In order to get her daughter into a better school, she earns money by the side door.
As a result, he mistakenly entered a pyramid scheme and was wanted by the police.
Even if Qin Li's mathematical talent is outstanding, Huang Shu's personality is perfect.
In the eyes of their classmates, they are still just "murderer's sons" and "psychotic daughters".
If you don't do anything wrong, you will be humiliated by splitting your head and covering your face.
Just like Li Dazhi, the sister of the murderer in "The Distance Between Us and Evil".
No matter how careful she is to survive in the workplace.
When his identity is revealed, all efforts are in vain.
Original sin is always a sharp blade hanging over their heads, and it is necessary to fight against them with a lifetime.
The Distance Between Us and Evil
Qin Li and Huang Shu, who are also burdened with original sin, redeem each other in this unfair world.
As far as they are surrounded, they are as close to each other.
They became each other's torches, defending themselves against the cold of the world.
Just as Qin Li said: If people see stars in the darkest time, they don't need other light.
They build their own small communities to rebel against the fall of social rules.
Qin Li had his own way of dealing with the world.
As small as his hairstyle did not conform to school rules, he stood at the school door and cut off his sideburns.
So old that he was bullied by his classmates, he could endure it, and resisted if he couldn't bear it.
In any case, I will not shake my inner perseverance.
He also built an exclusive study room for Huang Shu to help her make up lessons.
I believe that I can change my destiny by working hard.
Unfortunately, fate did not respond to their desires and efforts.
Due to his family's situation, Qin Li's ear water imbalance has not been completely cured.
During an Olympiad exam that was about his future, he was dizzy and vomited on the spot.
All the preparations were in vain.
The great future of mathematical genius no longer belongs to him.
Former friends have also betrayed themselves and drifted apart on very different tracks.
He was left alone to resist, a path to the black.
Huang Shu, who was also unwilling to compromise, paid the price of her life.
She has been carefully guarding the dream of dance, singing about the painful life.
However, this dream was worthless in the eyes of her uncle, but instead he matched her and wanted her to become the secretary of the rich boss.
The bondage of the original family finally laid the groundwork for her tragedy.
Looking back at the poster of the series, you will find the deep meaning.
In the foursome, only Huang Shu is in the photo.
She was left in time forever.
It also freezes the most lonely and tragic appearance when fighting against fate.
In the play, huang Shu's treasured collection of Emily Dickinson's poems appears many times.
It is through this legendary female poet that she is a metaphor for the brave who refused to be assimilated by the rules all her life.
She refused the marriage contract because she did not want to be a vassal of others.
From the age of twenty-five, he isolated himself from his room and poured all the enthusiasm of his life into poetry.
"Quiet Passion"
But sadly.
Wang Wei, who hung dickinson's poems on his lips, became the opposite of the ideal.
His family was not wealthy, and once, after he was injured by a classmate, his father did not continue to investigate.
Instead, he accepted a settlement fee of 5,000 yuan.
This small detail was like sowing a seed in Wang Wei's heart.
Subtly he accepted that money and class are the rules by which society operates.
After that, I made friends with the second generation of rich students, and I also deepened this understanding.
Like many children who grow up in an environment with love and no money.
Affection is his weakness, and money is a part of what he has to consider.
Therefore, the young sharp fading is already doomed as soon as possible.
Even he, who was once proud and arrogant, later issued an exhortation to Qin Li:
Man cannot always be willful.
The former foursomes made their own compromises and choices.
The road of companionship also ended prematurely.
The play uses a series of clever metaphors to foreshadow their disintegration.
The collapse of the sculptures on campus symbolizes the rupture of friendship.
The details of Qin Li's "sending scissors" hint at the future "parting ways".
The poems that Wang Wei originally wrote were also written in a word.
Good and future are not the same thing.
Suffering is their eternal companion.
It's like a lot in "Deeper Than the Sea."
From an arrogant writer to an exhausted private investigator.
It took me around to wake up, and I still couldn't completely get rid of the rules that had been set.
Before I realized it, I had already lived the appearance of the most hated adult.
"Deeper Than the Sea"
The real cruel youth is not a dog blood drama that tears ×.
And it's what the foursome in the play experienced—
The dragon slayer boy eventually became a dragon.
In addition to the original family, the play also explores the influence of school and media on people in depth.
The presentation of the school's dereliction of duty is quite sharp and bold.
Once, in order to defend Qin Li, Wang Wei counterattacked a male classmate in the class.
Then he was surrounded by the other side.
Obviously, the male classmate bullied and abused first, but the school chose to play fifty boards each, and both of them remembered the big mistakes.
Such a confusing way of dealing with the public is an understatement in the mouth of the teacher: fair and unfair, can't tell me.
He was more concerned about the thousands of dollars he lost.
And the blackboard behind him happened to be written in the "Master's Saying": "The Master's Tao has not been passed on for a long time!" It is difficult to desire the confusion of others!"
The irony is palpable.
Similarly, after Qin Li failed the exam for physical reasons.
The teacher did not care about appeasement, but only fiercely accused him of wasting the school's quota.
In the office with the words "Cautious Words and Deeds", the teacher talked about rumors about the parents of the students.
He said that Huang Shu's mother had "brain problems" and that Qin Li's father was "like an outlaw".
It is these seemingly inconspicuous malice that slowly precipitate into pain that affects a child's life.
Qin Li suffered from campus bullying, and it was inseparable from the media's negligence.
Before his father was executed, he was interviewed by reporters with great fanfare.
Letters to his son were read aloud by reporters in front of the camera.
In order to sensationalize the effect, the son's school and identity were made public.
There is no scruple about hurting public opinion on the families of the perpetrators.
Transition from a brutal rite of passage to a grim reality.
The show surprisingly digs deeper into social issues.
Many fans of the original also said that they exceeded expectations.
It is both a cruel tale of youth.
It subverts the traditional youth narrative of the quiet years, and also breaks the youth type routine of dog blood suspension.
A mirror that makes youth a reality.
Prejudice, harassment, betrayal.
Violence, sexual assault, killing.
The misery of the previous generation and the struggle of the next generation are deep reflections rooted in social reality.
It is also a suspense drama that excavates the depths of human nature.
In the boom of suspense creation, you can still sink your heart and dig deep into the connotation, rather than just being satisfied with the strange story.
"Cowards" allows us to see the advanced momentum of Suspense 3.0.
There is no unprovoked evil in the play, nor is there a consistent good.
The tension of human nature itself is already the most real "suspense".
Therefore, we feel "offended" during the process of watching the play.
Forced to stare into the abyss, he found that he was not the brave Qin Li and Huang Shu.
It is the less brave Wang Wei and Feng Xuejiao.
After saying goodbye to youth, face the assimilation of rules and the teasing of fate.
How many people can still claim to be strong in life?
Perhaps, most people are cautious "cowards".
You can only silently guard the glimmer of humanity in an unattended corner.