In recent years, crime suspense dramas seem to have become the new darling of netizens, whether it is the "Crazy Race" that opens the new year or the brain-burning and high-energy "Who is He".
All have reached the level of national drama chasing.
Recently, Ben Bend has also followed the popularity of a murder chasing drama.
"The Imitator"
The drama is adapted from the novel "Imitator" by Miyuki Miyabe, the "Queen of Japanese Reasoning", which has sold more than three million copies in Japan.
As early as 2016, Xiao Ri filmed this work.
It's a pity that it's unremarkable.
After eight years, Netflix Bully + Wanwan cooperated again to remake this novel.
The production team of "Our Distance from Evil".
Wu Kangren + Ke Jiajia, Lin Xinru + Yao Chunyao.
Early in the morning, a woman walks her dog in the park.
Suddenly, the dog desperately pulled the owner to a red gift box and barked manically at the box.
The woman opened the box curiously.
Frightened, stride back.
Inside the box was a woman's severed hand.
Soon, the police brought the severed hand back to the police station for forensic evaluation.
However, due to the time background in the 90s, various detection technologies are not yet developed, and it can only be judged that the thumb of the corpse palm is dislocated.
The scars, the medical examiner said, appear to have appeared in a murder of Jiang Yuping three years ago.
And the male protagonist Guo Xiaoqi prosecutor (played by Wu Kangren) also keenly found that Tian Mou, the murderer of Jiang Yuping's murder who is serving, is also full of doubts.
After Tian killed Jiang Yuping, he turned himself in, but the police found that Jiang Yuping's body had been painstakingly disposed of.
Since you plan to turn yourself in, why bother to dispose of the corpse?
There is obviously a contradiction between the two.
The next day, Guo Xiaoqi went to visit Tian.
He deliberately read the confession in front of the other party, and as a result, Tian Yiyi continued the rest of the confession without saying a word.
It's as if deliberately memorized.
Could it be that Tian was apologizing for others or that he had other accomplices and was at large?
Just when Guo Xiaoqi was puzzled, an old man reported that his granddaughter Xiaojun had disappeared.
Guo Xiaoqi took him to identify the broken palm, but the old man denied it.
The old man was worried, and after returning home, he went home to pray for his granddaughter in the ancestral hall.
Solution: It is difficult to find people.
What he didn't know, however, was that his granddaughter and he were only a car away.
The murderer arrogantly drove a red van to the door of the old man's house, deliberately letting Xiaojun see his grandfather, making a noise and luring the old man over.
Xiaojun saw her grandfather approaching the window and hit the car wall more violently, hoping that her grandfather could save her.
Unfortunately, what she didn't know was that since the murderer dared to bring her to his door, he must have done everything right.
The window of the van is one-way, Xiaojun can see his grandfather, but his grandfather can't see Xiaojun.
When Grandpa wanted to get closer to see the inside of the car, the murderer slowly drove the car away.
This departure made Xiaojun and his grandfather separated forever.
At night, my grandfather suddenly received a call from the murderer.
The murderer talked to his grandfather in a processed voice, and he demanded that his grandfather must go to school on the crowded street and barked until 12 midnight before he would let his grandfather see Xiaojun.
For Xiaojun, even if he was humiliated, his grandfather couldn't care less.
He began to crawl and bark on the street, but even though passers-by stopped him and his palms were worn out, he persisted until 12 o'clock.
However, goose, there is no reason to get cheap by trading with the devil.
When he got home, his grandfather found a red gift box on the table.
Inside the box is Xiaojun's bloody underwear.
Grandpa's heart is like a knife, hoping to talk to the murderer through the show and let the murderer return Xiaojun to himself.
The murderer finally "discovered his conscience" and returned Xiaojun to him.
The next day, the cleaners found Xiaojun's body hanging on a cross in front of the church.
However, the rampant murderer did not give everyone extra time to grieve.
Another girl was tied up, Tongmei, the daughter of Guo Xiaoqi's colleague.
The murderer's demands this time were even more excessive, and he asked his colleagues to publicly admit on the show that he was a useless person.
Be sincere, maybe you will release his daughter.
For the sake of his daughter, although the colleague hated the murderer, he was still moved, and he only wanted his daughter to be safe.
But judging from Xiaojun's murder, the murderer is an extremely cruel and perverted person, and he will not let Tongmei go at all.
And to let colleagues admit their "incompetence" on the show is undoubtedly hitting the police in the face.
The colleague was persuaded by Guo Xiaoqi and the police chief.
The murderer did not see his colleagues on the show, and the next day put Tong Mei's belongings in the red van, deliberately so that the police could find out
Only then did the colleague remember that he had seen the red van not long ago.
The van stayed beside him for a long, long time.
At that time, his daughter Tongmei, like Xiaojun, watched her family outside, but she couldn't be saved...
The whole episode in one breath is indeed more tense than the Japanese version of the plot, but a lot of the content is actually superficial, just focusing on the performance-style plot.
For example, in the Japanese version of "Xiaojun's Murder Case", the murderer just asked his grandfather to kneel in the show, while the Taiwan version let his grandfather go to school on the street and barked, like the latter, which is more insulting and performative.
Moreover, after the director put several smoke bombs to confuse the audience, he obviously hung the audience's taste, but the result was a big disappointment.
The perverted murderer who plotted everything, the way he was finally discovered was actually to blow himself up...
It feels like the protagonist in the play has played with the whole episode and finally tells you that it is just a dream.
It's a bit rotten.
However, the social discussion of the "victim guilt theory" is quite impressive.
In the murder of Xiaojun, my grandfather went on the show to ask the murderer to return his granddaughter to him, and the online audience not only did not rebuke the murderer's perversion, but targeted Xiaojun:
"The police have been checking nightclubs, indicating that it is your granddaughter who runs to that kind of place by herself, it is her own problem, and if you want me to say, your granddaughter deserves it."
It even rose to the family level, blaming my grandfather for not educating Xiaojun well.
Very one-sided stigmatization of victims.
After a certain vicious incident, if the victims are vulnerable groups, there will always be people who put them in the spearhead and strike accurately, obviously doing something wrong, but they will be degraded every time.
"Unruly", "not three, not four", "deserve to be deceived"...
Although the plot is warm and dragged on for ten episodes, this part, I think is the most bright part of the entire drama, and it hit my heart.
At the very least, it will be filmed from the reality of life, such as the recent Zhang Jike incident in full swing.
There are too many people who gossip like this.