8 episodes aired, first for 4 consecutive days! Zhang Yi acted as a police addicted, but it became a new benchmark for domestic criminal investigation dramas

Text | Ling Hu Boguang

Director Bao Chengzhi, Zhang Yi , Chen Yustrontia , Ding Yongdai , Yu Haoming , Zhao Yang , Liu Guanlin , Zheng Jingjing , Qi Kui , Shi Liang , Fan Lei , Xu Fangyi , Liu Xianda to star in the criminal investigation drama "Who is He" has exploded again.

Not only is the quality and reputation very good, as long as everyone who has watched the drama is all praised.

The excellent quality and reputation of "Who Is He" have also exchanged for the enthusiasm of the audience, and since the start of this drama on Yangba, the ratings in the first four days have been 1.1237%, 1.1885%, 1.3260%, and 1.5078%, and the ratings are rising. In the first three days, the evening grade was the first gold, the entire evening grade was the second, and in the four days, it finally overtook the top and won the championship.

At the same time, the popularity of the network is also bursting, and the popularity exceeded 10,000 in two days after the broadcast, and the real-time popularity of each platform was the first. It can be said that as soon as this Zhang Yi made a move, sure enough, the "glory" of domestic dramas returned. All this proves that the domestic criminal investigation drama "Who is He" has exploded, so why is this drama good?

According to my understanding of domestic criminal investigation dramas. "Who Is He" has 3 major breakthroughs for domestic criminal investigation dramas. They are almost perfectly integrated, and if they can be improved in the middle and late stages, this drama will become a new benchmark for Chinese criminal investigation dramas in the new era, leading the times.

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"Who Is He" is one of the new benchmarks of domestic criminal investigation dramas: the legendary adaptation of real cases attracts the audience, and the fast-paced and strong reversal suspense retains the audience; Finally, there is the solid detail and delicate production level; The audience was supported by consensus, resonance and strong empathy.

Zhang Yi's male protagonist Wei Guoping has been 8 episodes so far, and although the case and characters are complex, they are handled extremely well.

At the beginning of 1988, there was a serial murder case of women being sexually assaulted and cut throats in Ningjiang City, or Wei Guoping of the newcomer criminal police, and Chen Shanhe of the "Guard Section Shuangxiong" were good brothers, the two went on patrol at night, bumped into the suspect assaulting the heroine, and went to pursue the suspect's good brother Chen Shanhe died.

The murderer disappeared after committing the crime after 1992, until the shredded corpse case appeared in 1996, and Wei Guoping's previous history was explained in no more than ten minutes, and the main topic of 1996 was introduced.

To be honest, the background design and character shaping of the opening scene of this show are very classical.

To put it ugly, it is a bit old-fashioned, at the beginning the protagonist is still a fledgling policeman, and a murderer commits a shocking crime. The protagonist and the murderer had a frontal conflict and caused the death of a good brother, but due to the technology and various reasons at the time, the murderer went unpunished and became an unsolved case.

The protagonist is trapped in great grief and self-blame, and becoming a police captain with time is bound to solve this unsolved case. A few years later, the same shocking case appeared, and the protagonist went to investigate and felt through the clues that the murderer of the year had returned-

Isn't this quite routine? But "Who Is He" has three points to break the common sense of domestic criminal investigation dramas, making it not a criminal investigation drama in the general sense.

First, the legendary adaptation of real cases, which immediately attracted the audience.

Until the broadcast of "Who Is He", the audience knows that the adapted real cases include the "Silver Case", and the "Nanda Crushed Corpse Case" that has unfortunately not been solved until now. These two cases are both sensational cases in reality, inherently hugely topical, and have a strong appeal to the audience.

The second is the suspense of the fast pace and strong reversal, which immediately retains a large audience. How well is the pace of the show handled?

Now aired to episode 8, the screenwriter continues to throw various cases into the main line, causing the protagonists to run detours all the time, which also attracts the audience.

For example, by the time the broken body was found in episode 3, the protagonists went to the garbage dump to find the body, and the master of the motor factory who Wei Guoping and the worker next to him said whether to talk about Sister Tang, and the master of the motor factory said not to cause trouble to the police.

I believe that many viewers are thinking when they see this: Hey, this must be the deceased.

The protagonist behind really found the missing female character of the motor factory, and they chased Nie Baohua's tiger all the way, and as a result, rescued the kidnapped female character, and found that she was neither a murderer nor a victim, and this case has nothing to do with the main line.

In the second case, the protagonist group found kindergarten teacher Ai Ying through missing persons, the character and the victim's name are only one word different, and she is wearing the same small red flower as the victim on her clothes in the photo. The police in the play and the audience are the same, they all think that this is the victim.

Her missing husband Yan Chunsheng is a butcher, works night shifts, the two have a bad relationship, and even kindergarten children see someone covered in blood, and you seem to be sure that this is the murderer. As a result, the police investigated step by step, and it turned out that Ai Ying killed the man, which was a "domestic violence anti-murder case".

Finally, the "medical school case" that has been broadcast to 8 episodes currently has the largest battle, the most games between the two sides, and may be related to the corpse crushing case and the eight-eight case.

The role of Xue Jiajian is really a high-IQ perverted criminal who plays it vividly, and everything seems to have nothing to do with him at the beginning of episode 8, but at the end the police find that it seems that the murderer is around him.

This in turn pushes the case to the protagonist group and the police in the play, and also pushes the mystery to the audience.

The pace of the TV series is fast, the editing is not messy, the story plot is intertwined, and the character shaping is orderly, which really makes the audience who follow the drama can't stop.

The most important thing is that the director and screenwriter are doing a good job of throwing suspense and supporting it with details.

Like a time jump to 1996, the picture shows the female character in red clothes and red umbrellas and red high heels, walking alone in the dark alley on a rainy night, and the scene where she buys red shoes in front, and then dragged into the darkness by the murderer who is following. The atmosphere of danger and tension is conveyed to the audience through the language of the lens.

Bo Guangjun also thought that this female character was the victim, and it turned out that she was a victim of Xue Jiajian's case.

The suspense design of "Who Is He", which puts the audience in the atmosphere scene and constantly reverses, is really too "immersive crime-solving" criminal investigation drama feeling.

In the end, all this is done with a lot of solid production details, and the restoration of the service road and various cultural details is also a must, like the dump filled out of sixty or seventy trucks of real domestic garbage dumps pulled by the prop group has been out of the circle.

The character of Xiaoya mentioned above, the red umbrella you feel randomly given by the camera, the bag that dropped; There are also character appearances and mothers buying wedding supplies, red high heels, etc., these are not waste shots, it is both a foreshadowing detail and an important clue for the police to find the victim.

In addition, such as medical records need to find a doctor to recognize, the police will take physical evidence and sign the parties and so on, various details of case handling, real life details, and plot logic foreshadowing are all full, which is simply the most real domestic criminal investigation/workplace drama in recent years.

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If this drama is only good at criminal investigation and solving cases, it will not be so explosive. Because any professional drama is too professional, it is often because the hardcore is more niche. This kind of blockbuster film and television drama usually has three characteristics: professional hardcore, profound expression, and finally a combination of the first two commercialities.

The former determines the depth, the middle determines the height, and the latter determines the breadth -

Needless to say, the professionalism of "Who Is He" is that such a fast-paced, constant suspense and reversal is actually very commercial; These coupled with the embellishment of comedy elements of life, this makes it very entertaining, really good-looking, not tired, and exciting.

However, if "Who Is He" is just like this, it will be a good criminal investigation drama, and it may still be a big hit, but it will not have such a height as it is now, and it may even become a benchmark for domestic criminal investigation dramas in the new era: at the level of expression, this drama intentionally or unintentionally involves the reform of China's police system at the end of the century, and the collision and integration of old and new police case-handling systems.

The old-school police officers represented by Wei Guoping are highly capable and experienced, but they are paranoid and somewhat irrational. Professor Wu (played by Shi Liang) is added to the play, and the protagonist sister Gu Kaiyan (played by Xu Fangyi), both of which are academic, technical, rational and progressive-

There is a strong conflict, collision and integration of the concepts of the two sides in handling cases.

I think one of the most exciting highlights of these episodes is the differences and differences between Gu Kaiyan and the guards in interrogation, and the screenwriter's secret performance of the collision brought about by the alternation of the old and new systems, and the convenience brought by the DNA testing of new technologies.

(Since the adaptation is "Silver Case", the final solution will fall to new technology, which is also the foreshadowing of the plot).

First, the collision of old and new concepts shows the impact of system reform and social environmental changes, which is the height.

To be honest, I saw that Barrage and many netizens didn't like episode 8, which proves that most viewers really like to watch fast-paced, exciting, and constantly reversing commercial dramas. Episode 8 is important for the entire first half of the show, and can even be the one that laid the groundwork.

This episode both ends the previous 3 fast-paced cases and introduces new cases of new characters such as Yu Haoming and King Jiji; It also summarized, blended and sublimated the dark line of the collision of old and new concepts.

Now many viewers don't like to think, scolding is too fake at every turn, have not thought about what the situation was in 1996, what was the case solved that year, it was difficult to catch such a suspect of multiple killings without transportation, and the year before the introduction of DNA technology "silver case" in China was introduced in 1987.

At that time, the domestic fingerprint technology was not all available, and it was very difficult to catch a suspect with a strong sense of anti-reconnaissance, and there was no monitoring at that time.

Therefore, the police methods of handling cases in those days were indeed fierce, and DNA technology was only introduced for a year, and how to find people's fingerprints was also available, and the police personnel in those days were not like now. If you check the "car bandit road blocker" and "laid-off tide", you will also find that the social security back then was not like now.

If you pay close attention to the details of the TV series, you will understand the state of society in China at the end of many centuries.

Second, the most exciting thing under the conflict of old and new concepts is the rich and distinct characters, and the display of different values from people.

It is precisely because of the introduction of new technologies and new concepts that we can find that the protagonist Wei Guoping reflects the helplessness and paranoia of the police in that era for this kind of unsolved case. A few shots make people feel his pain of being tortured to mental weakness because of his self-blamed personality, as well as the paranoia that must solve the case.

This criminal police captain male protagonist is imperfect, can make mistakes, and is even paranoid.

How to say it? The big hit drama next door before was not many viewers complaining that the villain character was well created and the character was very charming. The male protagonist played by Zhang Yi is not grounded, and the audience has not been complaining that the public officials of domestic dramas have long been unreal and ungrounded? No glamour?

Now to create a real and down-to-earth role of a public official, you think that the protagonist's imperfection is dark-

Wei Guoping, such an imperfect protagonist, after watching the drama, I can understand that this is the charm of the character, I watched the 7th episode barrage are scolding Wei Guoping, but at the end, Wei Guoping's heart is uncomfortable and the barrage cares together. If you think about it, the screenwriter is not very clever, and the plot and characters are firmly captured in your heart.

The other characters in this play are not tool people, and the master Gu Bureau and the three team members are very full. What is rare is that the policewomen who appeared, including the current murderer, are well portrayed.

Like how many people in the early stage substituted Wei Guoping and scolded Professor Wu and junior sister Gu Kaiyan, the result is that the people have strong business ability and their personalities are also distinctive, are your voices louder in the early stage.

ps: Chinese literary and artistic works are named with particular attention, and this play loves to engage in metaphors in the name, such as Ai Qing and the real victim Diao Aiqing who borrowed from the "Nanda Crushed Corpse Case", and the name of the junior sister is Gu Kaiyan, which does not understand what "Kaiyan" means.

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The acting skills of the actors of this drama are also highlights, Zhang Yi's acting skills and lines are really good, completely different from the previous role, you will not confuse the characters at all. There is no need to mention the old drama bones and the powerful people of the middle generation, even the new generation of actors do not have a "flow", it is really cool to watch.

Finally, this drama aired 8 episodes, the story plot and character shaping are quite complicated, as well as the emotional line of the heroine Nie Xiaoyu (played by Chen Yustront) and the male protagonist, the gangster line that did not unfold such as her brother Nie Baohua (played by Zhao Yang), and the possible grudge between "King Jiji" Wang Defa and the actor's sister Wei Xiaoxia who just appeared in episode 8.

The fast-paced characters are also very real and full, and the plot settings, shooting and actors are very powerful.

Now it is this case-solving line, plus his sister and the gangster's side have a lot of clues, but it is excusable, if only one case is told will definitely not be able to shoot 24 episodes, the audience will also be prone to aesthetic fatigue. Now it is very testing the ability of the director and screenwriter, if the middle and later stages can sort out the clues, sublimate the plot, characters and expressions.

I assert that "Who Is He" will definitely be a benchmark for domestic criminal investigation dramas in the new era.