The highly anticipated Netflix new drama "Imitator", which aired 10 episodes at a time.
Remake successful works, with its own popularity.
The male protagonist Wu Kangren was once known as "never choosing the wrong work".
The highly acclaimed "Our Distance from Evil" and "The Cultivation of a Common Girl" and so on have become representative figures of the new high-scoring Taiwan drama.
The heroine Ke Jiajie is in the limelight with a "Want to See You".
Even Lin Xinru, who starred in a special role, has long left the idol drama track and changed the previous "romance heroine" mode in dramas such as "The Beginning of the Lights" and "Who is the Victim".
Turned around on another avenue and ran wildly for a long distance.
Interestingly, "Imitator", which started with a good score, fell in Douban after a few days of broadcasting, and is currently stable at 7.5 points.
Compared to the original version of 7.1 points, this result is very good.
It is a rare "remake higher score than the original" type.
However, if you compare Wu Kangren's previous series of 9 points + god-sealing works, this one is obviously still far away.
Where is this step away?
The texture is good, and the rhythm seems to be able to tighten a little.
It's not that "only 8 episodes of 24 episodes can be watched, and the rest are all filled with water", it is about 10 episodes that can shrink back to about 8 episodes of 7 episodes.
In part of the logical closed loop, the part that should be emphasized is covered up in the deliberate reversal, which is slightly ambiguous.
The necessity and expressiveness of the existence of some characters makes people a little puzzled.
But overall, the appearance is still good.
First, texture
Wu Kangren played by "Tortoise Maoqi", this kind of character who is dedicated to investigating cases, has a shadow of past pathos, and has a super high IQ with a halo, is completely a regular example dish of criminal investigation Benge.
On the one hand, Wu Kangren has a high degree of completion, sighing, sadness and despair, temptation and hesitation, and every expression sense of proportion is very online;
On the other hand, the character crosses the line with a "lynching" based on tragedy and despair.
The character that touched me the most in the whole film was that he was sad and desperate, hateful and disdainful, condescendingly looking down at Chen Heping, and finally shooting.
This kind of backshot shot is a typical "hero elevation angle", this elevation angle and extreme pathos, together constitute a very impactful sense of embarrassment.
Although it is a "lynching" without procedural justice and link legitimacy, it has a sense of justice and judgment from the perspective of right and wrong.
Subsequently, he teamed up to make a game and let Chen Heping blow himself up in the live broadcast.
The so-called "reversal" of the plot is actually very dull, but in this paragraph it is Wu Kangren's eyes, which is quite eye-catching.
The first half is disguised step by step to provoke him, and the second half is full of pity, coldness, despair, and all kinds of emotions.
Whether it is the solver or the murderer, the bitter master, most of the plays are presented with good texture.
Impressive pictures, such as Brother Yong's discovery of the body in a small park late at night.
The small slide where her daughter played as a child and was almost lost here is now the corpse chosen by the murderer after prying the secret in a frenzy.
The guilt of neglecting her daughter due to busy work, and the joy of father and daughter eating ice cream together in the past are now bloody and desolate.
How about pouring salt on wounds?
In the past, a girl from the Nanqing Palace was displayed on a cross, and then a female corpse appeared in the former amusement place late at night.
Brother Yong uncovered the cloth on the corpse, and rolled down with the severed head.
The action of "cutting off the head" is outside the preset situation;
And the head fell from the slide, the slide itself is a cute children's toy, rolling off the head at the door, the horror and contrast add a little bit of coldness and misery, sadness and pain.
At the same time, this section of Brother Yong's story will naturally make people subconsciously think that it is his daughter (if there is no reference information such as other versions), and the result will naturally have another layer of contrast.
Many episodes begin or end with a powerful past or secret.
For example, the young Chen Heping set fire to the past.
A little child actually wants to burn such a cute puppy.
Cruelty and viciousness, which are very inconsistent with age, nature and other factors, are very impactful.
Second, the power of pathos and tenacity
After watching the entire "Imitator", the character who was very impressed was the chairman of the grandfather.
Three points of pathos, three points of tenacity, three points of seeing everything in the world, and three points of wisdom that let him rain and wind.
Still strong, gentle and decent in misfortune, making people sour and warm.
Come, let's talk about misfortune first.
Chief Ma came on the scene, and his granddaughter, who depended on each other, was kidnapped.
The old man has only one daughter, and he also suffered a car accident after his granddaughter disappeared.
The gray-haired old man has to go around the street every day after work, and he also has to take care of his daughter lying on the hospital bed.
A very touching detail is that the old man helped his comatose daughter cut her nails and accidentally cut them, and there was a little blood.
There will be such small accidents, one is that the old man is old, the second is too tired, and the third is worried and distracted.
This is not painful or itchy blood to cut nails, not only the warmth of the warm care of the family, but also a little bitterness of vicissitudes.
At the same time, it also frantically cut off one of the victim's hands and painted bright red nail polish with the murderer's heart, forming a strong contrast between one death, one good and one evil.
In addition, it is worth mentioning the character's tough and gentle texture in the face of misfortune.
The murderer called, threatened his granddaughter's name, and ordered him to learn to bark and crawl on the street in the downtown area.
The old man was worried, so he had to do so.
It is not this poor old man who is so "ugly" under the public, but who has no dignity and despises it, but the murderer.
Chairman Ma was not a brainless person who allowed the other party to rub and knead round, and when he received the call, he quickly took out a notebook and wrote it down word for word.
What the other party said, how he said it, his tone broke the sentence, etc., every detail hides very important information.
In fact, it is precisely because he listened to the recording repeatedly and found that "the person who called me and the one who went to the TV station is not the same person", which provided important help for the drama to detect "there is a real mastermind behind the murderer".
Of course, when the play describes him as "still having style, decency and thinking execution in the midst of grief", it does not exaggerate his skills.
Chen Heping came to the door without speculation, and the follow-up was equivalent to exposure, and Chief Ma went to visit Guo Xiaoqi in prison and encourage him.
You see, this "ultimate real murderer is Chen Heping", not that it was sensed by Master Ma with his superpowers, but that the other party's own arrogance was exposed.
(The bug lies in the fact that with Chen Heping's crazy killing personality, since he exposed himself and since the other party was suspected of contemptuously rejecting him, wouldn't he not be a killer, wouldn't it be very inconsistent with his narcissistic maniac character of a sense of manipulation?) ）
The most tenacious point of Chairman Ma is that the white-haired man sending the black-haired person did not defeat him.
After witnessing his granddaughter's exceptibility on the cross, his credo remained "We must live well and not be broken by bad people."
The victims' families reproached the law enforcers for "why are you so incompetent, so wasteful, and so wasteful" and "why you can't catch the murderer until now?"
But in the face of the male protagonist's apology, Chief Ma is very sincere: People are not killed by you, don't blame you, you have worked very hard to solve the case.
In the horrific tragedy of identifying the corpse, several details are tearful.
Because they wanted to protect the scene of the dumping of the body, the law enforcement officers did not move the body, allowing her to be so pitiful and the corpse was on it.
The old man trembled and strove over to touch the child's face, her cut hair, which was out of line.
Da Chao wanted to block but was pulled by Guo Xiaoqi, he couldn't stop a dying person from walking towards the body of his loved ones who had been hard to get back.
Whether it is Chairman Ma saying "it's good to come back" or asking "can you let her down", it is embarrassing.
When the character was first launched, he looked superstitious about whether he could find his granddaughter Ma Zhu to ask for a signature.
But after learning that his granddaughter had been baptized by other religions (different from the family's faith and main business), he was still very gentle: we don't care about this, just be kind.
An ordinary old man in an ordinary alley, but with an unusual wisdom and vicissitudes, warmth and pathos like a strong wind and waves.
As straight as a pine stands, like a fog bag, and as much as the water in his mouth can carry everything.
Third, a few doubts
The heroine is set as a professional, and it is very appropriate to analyze the psychology of criminals.
But the play finally enters the "everyone knows that the criminal is him" Benge dropped, the normal procedure dropped, and the dramatized expression online module.
The female protagonist has successively gone online as the male protagonist's ex-girlfriend, the family of the wronged bitter master (false accomplice), and the victim.
And the professional abilities set for her are expressed in these identities, but they are also shallow.
The play seems to have the feeling of "giving a high setting, but scribbling before it is fully expanded", similar to "high setting but flat but not spread".
Yao Yaci, played by Lin Xinru, looks at the first half and the second half alone, and the drama function and character characteristics are clearly expressed, but when viewed together, the front and back halves are somewhat separated.
At first, it was like an attitude of "the old lady just wants the ratings".
One hand tacitly allowed subordinates to leak news, pretended to be angry, and the other hand took advantage of the situation to create public opinion conditions for inviting heavyweight guests.
Inviting Ma to the show, regardless of the despair and suffering of the victim's family, he handed him a bunch of unsympathetic questions of "Do you think she deserved to be killed".
It's okay to want to be the first or to write "there is a problem with the technique, but to defend the principle".
But this role, the front and back seem to be separated.
In the eyes of Xiaolu, the minutes became the ideal of news, the conscience of the industry, and the truth, goodness and beauty itself.
The hard turning and connection between the black and white layers inside and outside is very abrupt.
Of course, she refused to admit defeat to Chen Heping's tenacity to death, and "you are just a joke for changing scenes" was thrown on the ground, all of which were very powerful expressions.
The role of Lu Yanzhen once made me wonder about it.
Her functional nodes, one is to provide information as a friend in a case many years ago;
The second is in Shen Jiawen's case, as a reporter, he helped to investigate Shen's mother's past.
At the beginning, the picture of the two sighing in the air was very substitutionary.
But the subsequent scenes in addition to this seem to be dispensable, and the sense of existence value and impact are not strong.
For example, she sent medicine to the male protagonist.
The emotional line is not like the emotional line, and the main plot is not called the main plot.
She left the TV station and re-employed, once working beside Chen Heping, and the play also gives hints similar to "Chen Heping wants to kill her", making people think that the character must do at least something.
(I didn't mean to hope that she would be miserable)
As a result, it was flat.
From the perspective of character building, it is a naïve and kind conventional setting.
From the perspective of driving the plot, it is similar to NPCs
But there are not many scenes, and the body feeling is not much inferior to the scenes of the female one and the second woman.
Similarly, the group portrait presentation of the villain of the play has a similar problem.
On the whole, those who are extremely evil, those who are sick and are seduced and used, those who are guilty but also repentant, those who are innocent but shield "evil" friends, the depth is clear and the structure is rich.
(The previous article specifically wrote a group portrait of suspects)
(There is no praise for the villain, just the characterization technique)
Chen Heping's two skins, a disguise, a real ugly and perverted face, the contrast between the two, the expression of an extremely narcissistic and pathological personality, all have impact.
But after revealing this, much of the play is homogeneous and repetitive rendering.
The characters are typical enough, but with a typical (and routine) character, to support too long a progress bar, some parts still seem to be shriveled.
Of course, on the whole, the play is relatively thoughtful.
Even if it is not amazing, it has not completely dropped the chain, and I look forward to better performance in subsequent Chinese dramas.