These days, there have been many good dramas. First, the criminal investigation suspense drama "Who Is He" took the lead and reaped a wave of ratings. Immediately afterwards, the urban emotional drama "Homecoming" was broadcast again, and another wave of ratings was harvested. Of course, it was not until the start of the criminal investigation suspense drama "Echo" that it was found that this work directed by Feng Xiaogang was the most interesting.
01. The wonderful commonality of "Who Is He" and "Echo"
The biggest commonality of these two dramas is that they are both criminal investigation suspense dramas, and both focus on the question of "who is the murderer", creating a lot of suspense expansion space for the whole drama, giving people endless speculation and imagination. Therefore, it further attracted everyone's attention to the plot.
The second commonality is that the opening of the two dramas gives people a very shocking and terrifying feeling. "Who Is He" starts by focusing on the victim woman whose throat was slit, which is very terrifying. And with the development of the plot, the picture of Nie Xiaoyu being sexually assaulted in the rain immediately appeared. So from these few shots, it immediately attracted everyone's attention.
The same is true in Echoes. As soon as the TV series started, there was a picture of kidnapping women, and immediately after, Ran Dongdong (played by Song Jia) stepped forward and shot the gangsters to death. Such a shocking picture is also rare. I have seen similar criminal investigation dramas before, but it is rare for the police to be so close to the robbers and the police dare to shoot by surprise. Therefore, after such a picture came out, it directly gave everyone a very deep impression.
02. Look at the gap between the two dramas from the narrative style
Although "Who Is He" and "Echo" are both criminal investigation suspense dramas, the narrative styles of the two dramas are different, and the gap between the two dramas can also be seen.
In "Who Is He", the director's idea is to first fix the suspect, and then put more shots on how to find and supplement the suspect's evidence. Especially in this process, the personal ability of Wei Guoping (played by Zhang Yi), the captain of the third criminal police team, is more prominent. For example, in the direction of the investigation of the case, Wei Guoping insisted on starting from finding the source of the broken body, and found that his direction was correct; In the process of investigation, many times it was because Wei Guoping found clues from the details of the investigation that more evidence was locked.
In "Echo", after the police found the female corpse by the river from the beginning, Ran Dongdong led the team to start visiting, and conducted an investigation one by one around the various intimate relationships of the victims, and slowly sorted out the clues and grasped the evidence from the investigation process. And in the narrative process, "Echo" adopts more of a reminiscence-style technique, by constantly allowing the relevant people to recall the bits and pieces of contact with the victim, and stitching the ins and outs of the entire case.
In fact, judging from the narrative style of the two dramas, I think the impression of "Echo" to the outside world will seem more real.
Why do you say that. First of all, in "Who Is He", Xue Jiajian, the suspect in the shredding case, actually knew in advance that the police had found the school, so he mopped the ground with disinfectant water. That being the case, his insistence on going to class is enough to show that he is strong inside and able to pretend that nothing has happened. Otherwise, he wouldn't have gone to class.
However, when Xue Jiajian glanced downstairs and found that there were policemen, he turned around and ran suddenly. This is logically unjustifiable. Even if you are weak-minded, at such a critical moment, there will be no sudden run. Isn't this looking for death yourself? Because after all, the police have not completely suspected him.
So from this point of view, the drama "Who is He" is not real enough in terms of plot setting.
Back to "Echoes". After the woman's body was found by the river, the police first investigated the victim's parents, and then the relationship around her. This is also the most normal means of solving cases. And only in this way will it be easier to investigate the truth. The plot also seems more realistic.
03. From the focus of the narrative, the gap between the two dramas is seen
The drama "Who Is He", although there is a suspense weight in it, but on the whole, it gives the impression that the traces of praising the police through the lens are too obvious.
In this drama, there are several shots that focus on the hard work of the police in the process of investigating the case. For example, Wei Guoping led the team to the garbage transfer station to rummage bag by bag of garbage. It highlights the lofty image of the police who are not afraid of dirt, hardship and fatigue. However, in fact, in those days, it is believed that there were also police dogs. Didn't the police dog recognize it at once? Do you still use so much effort to find the broken corpses manually?
It's a bad place.
Second, deliberately preach the wisdom of Wei Guoping and not be afraid of dirt and smell. For example, Wei Guoping went to the sewer to smash the corpse. It's not that you can't use such lenses. But judging from the investigation of the case, these shots always give people the feeling of deliberately promoting the protagonist's love of labor. It doesn't make much sense.
In "Echoes", there are no shots like this.
Third, the same subordinates faced their superiors, and Wei Guoping dared to embarrass Professor Wu and Director Gu in public in front of the overall senior management. And twice he left without saying a word. That's too presumptuous. Is this a police style? You are just a good person, in a special group like the police, the first thing is to obey orders. Could it be that Wei Guoping, who became the captain of the criminal police squadron, did not even have this common sense?
On the other hand, looking at Ran Dongdong in "Echoes," every time the higher authorities organized and held a case scheduling meeting, they directly pointed the direction and put forward requirements, and then asked Ran Dongdong to quickly grasp the implementation of the work. And every time, Ran Dongdong answered very crisply and resolutely.
Therefore, as soon as "Who Is He" and "Echo" are compared, the gap between the two dramas comes out.