After "Crazy", Zhang Yi played the criminal police again.
The popular criminal investigation suspense drama "Who Is He" relies on major cases such as "Silver Serial Murder Case" and "Nanda Crushed Corpse Case" to unfold the story, constantly throwing out tense and exciting suspense "hooks", making the audience want to chase the drama.
PART.
01
"Who Is He" starts in 1988, in the process of chasing down a serial throat-cut murderer on a rainy night, Zhang Yi's young criminal guard Wei Guoping witnessed his comrades being stabbed and sealed by the murderer.
Eight years later, when a horrific corpse case occurred in Ningjiang City, Wei Guoping had grown into a full-fledged criminal police captain, with a keen sense of smell and investigation, always able to sort out intricate clues, and always able to see through the other party's heart at a glance in conversation.
Wei Guoping's biggest character characteristic is persistence, obsessed with the police's mission to arrest murderers. At the beginning of the series, Zhang Yi's tenacious portrayal of Wei Guoping's "unbreakable" detection of the murder case is very moving, whether it is Wei Guoping's whole person sinking into a dirty sewer to find corpses, or leading the team to rummage day and night in the garbage mountain to find clues to the case, the picture is so real that it is not suitable for the audience to chase the drama when eating.
The service road and the atmosphere of the era in the play are also filmed with texture, truly reproducing the era without high-tech means, and the criminal police solve the case completely by solid personal ability and will.
In the confrontation with police expert Professor Wu's case-handling ideas, Wei Guoping, who has rich experience in actual combat, has repeatedly won, allowing the case to be solved again and again.
PART.
02
"Who is He" is here, and the protagonist Wei Guoping seems to be the kind of omnipotent detective master.
However, the other side of Wei Guoping's incomparable attachment is his self-loss.
The self-blame for the death of his comrades and the murderer who cut his throat have been at large, which has become an inextricable knot in Wei Guoping's heart, and he has been insomnia and neurasthenia for a long time, and every time he mentions the case of cutting his throat, his chest will hurt.
When the throat cutting plot appeared in the "shredded corpse case", Wei Guoping, who fell into obsession, ignored the doubts of his colleagues and determined that the arrested suspect was the culprit of the "throat cutting case" that year, but the fingerprint identification results made Wei Guoping lower his head, and the previous achievements in the detection of the case were lost.
This is a rare protagonist "overturning" in criminal investigation dramas, "Who is He" buried a psychological dark line for Wei Guoping, and after 8 episodes of foreshadowing, it broke the highlight of Wei Guoping's "strongman".
In the play, in the criminal investigation business class, Professor Wu's explanation of "malice" wakes up the dreamer: the presumption of guilt is the malice in the hearts of the case-handling personnel, and the bravery of the police lies not only in fighting for himself, but also in whether he dares to face his heart, dare to break his own thinking pattern, dare to overthrow himself and deny himself.
This scene in "Who Is He" corresponds to the first overhaul of the Criminal Procedure Law in 1996, and vividly interprets the profound jurisprudence that establishes the principle of the presumption of innocence.
Wei Guoping, who went all the way to paranoia in the hunt for murderers, finally saw his inner demons, saw his selfishness, saw his "malice", and understood what kind of fairness and justice he should pursue as a police officer.
Awakening, guilt and remorse, self-containment... Zhang Yi gathered all of Wei Guoping's emotions into a silent tear during the performance.
This scene in "Who Is He" is comparable to the classic Gao Qiqiang rooftop blackening in "Crazy", the protagonist completes a new life, and the murder story goes to a turn.
PART.
03
Compared with the criminal investigation melodrama with solving the case as the main line, "Who Is He" focuses on character portrayal, and the plot does not hesitate to sacrifice the protagonist's halo and slow down the pace of the story, but also allows the characters to complete the inner growth of "seeing themselves", which is rare in domestic suspense genre works.
After the popularity of "Crazy", how to make positive characters brilliant has become a topic of endless debate in public opinion, "Who Is He" and "Crazy" are both Zhang Yi as a criminal policeman, and it will be enlightening to compare them together.
If Wei Guoping in "Who Is He" is a person with flaws and weaknesses, then An Xin in "Crazy" is the perfect fighter.
An Xin's perfection is from beginning to end, the character is stereotyped, the character has no room for growth, and it is on a contour line from appearance to ending. The work is obsessed with creating an An Xin without selfishness, thus giving up the inner excavation of the characters, and the audience cannot see An Xin's inner conflict and struggle in the choice in the play, which is also the biggest difference between An Xin and Gao Qiqiang in character shaping.
The charm of the character comes from the real three-dimensional, and the excessive pursuit of the perfection of the positive character will make the character flattened and become a symbolic existence.
Human nature is subtle, good and evil coexist, even a person who pursues selflessness will have selfishness.
Just like Wei Guoping in "Who Is He", there will even be unconscious "malice", and the presentation of people's hearts will greatly increase the charm of the character, and Wei Guoping's "imperfection" will make the character unique.
Instead of creating a perfect warrior without selfishness, it is better to create a person who defeats selfishness, which will make the audience feel more real and credible and resonate.
Reporter of this issue: Qiu Wei
Editor of this issue: Jin Liwei
Executive Producer: Jia Wei