The suspense drama "Echo" starring Song Jia and Wang Yang premiered, and I couldn't stop chasing 4 episodes in a row. Criminal investigation + emotional suspense + social topics + human nature exploration, the plot is too interesting; The picture texture is strong, comparable to movies; The actors' acting skills are all online, attracting the audience to follow the drama, and they can't stop.
01 The plot is intertwined, criminal investigation case solving + emotional suspense + marriage truth, which makes people want to watch
At the beginning of the story of "Echo", it is the female criminal policeman Ran Dongdong, played by Song Jia, who successfully rescues the hostages.
Facing the crazy gangster holding a knife to the girl's neck, Ran Dongdong calmly stepped forward, saying that he wanted to exchange hostages and touch his clothes to prove that he was not carrying a weapon. But at the moment when his colleagues were covering, he pulled out a gun, fired, killed the gangsters, successfully rescued the hostages, and in one go, sister sassy, well done!
This is the first time Ran Dongdong has shot at a living person. She was calm and calm on the surface, but she was actually greatly shocked in her heart.
But when Ran Dongdong returned home, she was greeted not by the thoughtful comfort of her husband Mudafu, but by her husband's questioning.
The husband watched the video of Ran Dongdong killing the gangster on the Internet, and questioned whether Ran Dongdong should fire the two shots in the back, he said that your first shot has accurately hit the suspect, you can save the hostage, why do you have to fire two more shots, the suspect also has the right to live, you are not a judge, you cannot sentence the suspect to death.
It can be seen from this detail that the middle-aged couple of Ran Dongdong and Mu Dafu have always had differences in ideological views, and the ways and perspectives of the two are completely different.
And Mudaf was not attentive enough to his wife. It can also be seen that the university professor Mudav is a more real person.
Immediately after, the "Big Pit Case" occurred. The body of the deceased Xia Bingqing was found by fishing people.
When Ran Dongdong and his colleagues solved the investigation case, they unexpectedly found that Mudaf had actually entered and exited the same hotel as Xia Bingqing at the same time. It was also found that Mudaf had two room opening records in that hotel.
Therefore, of course, Mudaf also became the object of suspicion of his wife Ran Dongdong. It also sowed a crisis in their marriage.
Or rather, their marriage has already had problems.
Ideas and concepts are inconsistent, living habits are inconsistent, and there is no love and trust for each other.
A "big pit case" opened two suspense:
First, who killed Xia Bingqing.
The second is why Mu Dafu went to the hotel to open a room, whether he betrayed the marriage, and whether he and Xia Bingqing had a relationship.
Around the investigation of the people around Xia Bingqing, the tragedy caused by a native family slowly unfolded.
Xia Bingqing's father, who accidentally hit Lao Li while driving, was disabled, and because he didn't want to go to jail, he chose to settle it privately with the family of the person who was hit.
As a result, endless troubles have begun, and their home has become the ATM and debt collection base of the old Li family, like a bottomless pit that will never be filled.
In order to save money, his father asked Xia Bingqing to give up going to college and study nursing instead, so that he could graduate as soon as possible to earn money. In order to earn more money, Xia Bingqing resigned and applied for a job at a high-paying health care center.
From this, I met Xu Shanchuan, the owner of the health care center. It also opened Xia Bingqing's confusing and sad life.
The beautiful Xia Bingqing was raped by Xu Shanchuan, but Xu Shanchuan told her that he liked her. And, want to keep her.
Xia Bingqing, who originally refused, because his parents quarreled over the debt again, and agreed to Xu Shanchuan's request for support in tears, and has since become Xu Shanchuan's lover.
She was brainwashed by Xu Shanchuan, thinking that Xu Shanchuan really had no feelings with his wife, thinking that he would really divorce and marry her.
Until she met Xu Shanchuan's wife Shen Xiaoying, she knew that Xu Shanchuan's lover was not just him.
The men around Xia Bingqing were not only Xu Shanchuan.
Wu Wenchao, the small owner of the bookstore, is Xia Bingqing's friend and admirer, and he is honest on the surface, is he telling the truth?
And Wang Chuan, Liu Qing, Xu Haitao, these men, what is the relationship with Xia Bingqing?
Including Shen Xiaoying, it seems that these people around Xia Bingqing have the possibility of killing Xia Bingqing, so who is the murderer?
A Xia Bingqing, who fell into the quagmire of life because she was killed by her original family and was torn between many men, faced with police questioning, everyone related to her was telling a set of lies to clear themselves.
And when Ran Dongdong found that her husband was also lying, suspected of betraying herself and her marriage, her heart began to collapse, the pressure of work, the environment of facing some victims and lies all day, her husband's suspected betrayal, all this squeeze, made Ran Dongdong suffer from mild depression.
In fact, "Echo" is not strictly a criminal investigation suspense drama, but a family emotional suspense drama. It is just a process of solving a homicide case to focus on revealing the crisis and collapse between middle-aged couples, as well as the complexity, subtlety and unfathomable nature of human nature.
In the face of life and others, everyone has many faces and words. In the face of police questioning or interrogation, everyone weaves a perfect set of lies, which wrap the truth of the matter and make the case more confusing.
Rashomon, everywhere.
02 The acting skills of all the members of the play are online, and in the first 4 episodes, Song Jia, Wu You, and Zhu Yuchen performed the best
This time, director Feng Xiaogang did not disappoint the audience.
Although it is emotional suspense, the taste of criminal investigation is not so strong, but the plot is very gripping, coupled with the actor's performance, it can attract the audience, involuntarily immersed in the atmosphere of the plot, unconsciously chasing down.
In "Echo", many well-known actors gathered, all familiar faces, and none of them pulled their crotches.
As the leading actor, Song Jia's acting skills did not disappoint us.
Female criminal policemen, in ordinary criminal investigation dramas, are often tough and free, a cold face, a violent temper, only obsessed with solving the case, and nothing else.
But "Echo" carefully depicts and portrays the inner world and emotional world of a female criminal policeman.
She will be vulnerable, she will hesitate, she will be gloomy, she will break down and be sad, she will hate the bad guys, and she will sympathize with the victims and their families.
When Ran Dongdong faced the hostage shooting, when she questioned her husband after the shooting, when she interrogated the cunning suspect, when she faced the victim's family, when she heard that her husband and Xia Bingqing appeared in the same hotel, when she asked Mudaf what he was doing in the room and her husband refused to answer, when the couple lay on the double bed back-to-back trust collapsed and were silent, Song Jia interpreted the state and psychology in these different environments and scenes very accurately and in place.
There is also another heroine in the first 4 episodes, Xia Bingqing, and actor Wu You also performed very well.
Dissatisfaction and hatred, disappointment and sadness for his parents, intertwined with love and hatred for Xu Shanchuan, disdain and constant collapse and division by PUA, touched by Wu Wenchao's small warm action of covering his clothes, to force Xu Shanchuan's wife to give way, but was discouraged and unwilling when he was crushed by Shen Xiaoying's four or two pounds, Wu You showed it delicately and vividly.
There is also Zhu Yuchen, who plays Xu Shanchuan, who also lives up to expectations. Xu Shanchuan's hypocrite characteristics, cold reason in his heart, lecherous and shameless, back-beating, brainwashing his wife and lover, make people feel his nausea and horror.
Wang Yang and Bao Bell are also suitable for the role, and their acting skills are in place.
Looking at the plot trailer, later, there is also the female writer Peizhen played by Dong Jie who wants to appear, she likes Mudaf and is suspected of having an ambiguous relationship with Mudaf.
And Zhang Jiayi, who made a cameo appearance in the play, played Peizhen's husband.
There is a plot in the trailer, it seems that Ran Dongdong learned that her husband "cheated on" Peizhen, so he found Peizhen's husband and prepared for the two of them to also cheat once to take revenge on their respective spouses.
Zhang Jiayi and Song Jia will stage a quasi-passion scene in the play. The reason why the word "quasi" is used is because in the end they finally restrained themselves.
Think of Song Jia and Zhang Jiayi, playing a fake couple in "Cliff", and Song Jia and Wang Yang playing a half-way couple in "The World", this time in "Echo", these two pairs actually got together. I can't help but admire that Feng Xiaogang will indeed find actors.
If a pure criminal investigation drama like "Who Is He" is compared to "hard suspense", "Echo" is undoubtedly a "soft suspense".
For audiences who simply like to solve cases, they may not like the theme of emotional suspense very much. But in fact, if you think about it, emotions and human nature are not the biggest suspense in life, so if the emotional suspense drama is filmed well, it is also a must.
So, have you chased "Echo", do you think it is good or not, welcome to leave a message in the comment area to discuss.
(Text/First Dewdrop)