If in a TV series, Duan Yihong, Zu Feng, Hao Lei, Wu Yue, Wen Zhengrong and other actors of the new generation in Chinese dramas are gathered, will you not hesitate to take a look?
If this TV series is a famous director who has won awards at A-level international film festivals such as Berlin and Cannes, would you be more looking forward to it and want to find out?
Well, tell you, the above conditions, the recently launched "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" can fully meet your requirements. This 12-episode suspense TV series, which was personally operated by Wang Xiaoshuai and gathered many domestic first-line actors such as Duan Yihong, Zu Feng, Hao Lei, etc., was satisfied with the audience's appetite before it started, so that less than 6 hours after the start of the broadcast, it successfully defeated the "National Day Light" "Meritorious Service", won the third place in the network hit list, and directly topped the two professional lists of Cat's Eye and Lighthouse two days later, which shows the audience's expectations and enthusiasm for the drama.
However, with such a high degree of attention, in the first time after the broadcast, Douban welcomed nearly 600 viewers with short comments. The vast majority of them are one-star and two-star, which is enough to show that "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" is obviously not "Silent Truth" 2.0, and at the same time, it also shows that the two-episode "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" really makes the audience not like it.
Don't think it's hard for this audience to bring. If you really calm down to watch this TV series, you will completely admire the acting skills of Duan Yihong and Zu Feng, one is the real criminal police officer of the criminal police brigade, and the other is the old father who loves his daughter. Of course, you may also lament the director's taste and standard for the similar documentary-style shooting method and film texture of the play. However, it is such a powerful combination that you still feel "lonely to see".
As far as the first two episodes of "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" are concerned, the Xuan family is the same as their surnames, and everyone has a mysterious serious illness, which is not only reflected in the great sadness brought to them by XuanZhen's death, but everyone's view of the family, life, people, and things is extremely strange, so that the current character settings can be described as "strange". The biggest attraction of the suspense drama, such as: the step-by-step plot, the small clues given at the right time, and the series of actions unfolded by the characters in the play according to the clues, etc. "The Mystery fog of the Octagonal Pavilion" did not let the audience get a glimpse of half a point.
As the vast majority of viewers said, after watching two episodes, they didn't understand anything. The director and screenwriter have thrown out countless "Why?" along the way. What's going on? ", the question, but never gave a positive answer, and even if it was given, it was only a ridiculous statement. It is no wonder that some viewers "regret" that they believed Wang Xiaoshuai. Seeing this, some people will surely ask, is this drama really so ugly? So let's start with the plot.
"Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" tells the story of the Xuan family living in a small town in the south with one son and three daughters. The eldest brother is Xuan Liang, played by Zu Feng, and the three younger sisters are Xuan Zhu played by Hao Lei, Xuan Min played by Wen Zhengrong, and Xuan Zhen, who was killed just after reaching the age of 18. Because this case was an "octagonal pavilion unsolved case" that could not be solved for nineteen years, Xuanzhen was killed in the octagonal pavilion at that time and thrown into the lotus pond, so that the Xuan family had been grumpy and could not live peacefully.
As far as the storyline is concerned, I think many people will think that the play will revolve around the death of his sister Xuanzhen, and uncover the cause of death behind it layer by layer. However, the director and screenwriter did not let the audience get their wishes, but jumped directly from the suspense case of nineteen years ago to the daughter of the eldest brother Xuan Liang, thus beginning to lead to the real case.
In other words, the plot shifts from a girl in red tracksuit pants running through the woods directly to a real-life high school campus. Mira plays a high school girl, Xuan Nianmei, and his father is Xuan Liang. There was nothing going on in class, what the director really wanted to shoot was that the bell rang after school, and Xuan Nianmei and Mu Ge, played by Tu Zhiying, went home from school together. Before I walked out of the school gate, I saw Zhu Shenghui, the rich second generation of the town, riding a motorcycle to block the door to find Nian Mei. In order to avoid the entanglement of the little gangster Zhu Shenghui, Xuan Nianmei and Mu Ge ran wildly in the streets and alleys, and launched a nearly 5-minute plot chase with Zhu Shenghui, who was riding a large motorcycle.
For the above content, as an audience, it can be said that it is quite clueless. Neither the relationship between Nian Mei and Zhu Shenghui was clearly stated, nor how they knew each other, the only thing that can be remembered is the camera that shakes in order to create tension throughout the whole process, and the conclusion on the bullet screen about whether the two girls are long-distance runners.
And just when Zhu Shenghui was racing on two legs with a big motorcycle and Nian Mei, his father Xuan Liang happened to see this scene and drove an electric car to follow him. Several people ran all the way to the Kun Opera Troupe, Zhu Shenghui just wanted to use his hands and feet on Nian Mei, and his father Xuan Liang arrived in time to beat Zhu Shenghui with a flying kick, thus attracting the kun opera troupe's gatekeeper uncle. In the Kun Theater, Zhou Yamei, a teacher played by Wu Yue, and Ding Julie, played by Xing Minshan, happened to witness this scene.
Not to mention that the two girls ran on the street for so long and no one cared, just to say that the appearance of the kun opera troupe uncle made the audience unbelievable. The two girls were entangled by the little, the uncle could not see, the adult came to beat people, and he appeared very timely. What is even more confusing is that after her father saved Xuan Nianmei and brought him home, Nian Mei was furious, claiming that her father was nosy and asked Xuan Liang why no one had come to kill him? As for her mother Xiuyuan, instead of stopping her daughter, she counted down Xuan Liang.
Seeing this, I understand very well that the director's intention is to deliberately plan the pit, but the pit is quite difficult to understand. Shallow meaning shows that the father-daughter relationship is not good, and the daughter is in a rebellious period. The deep meaning is to show from the side that Xuan Liang has left a psychological shadow since his sister was killed nineteen years ago. One is not to trust the police, and the other is to overprotect the daughter and make the child feel stressed. But in terms of technique, it is really inappropriate to use the sexual harassment of small to elicit problems. What parent in real life would like their daughter to let the little bastard touch it? Xuan Liang's approach was obviously not wrong.
But the magical plot appeared, and the mother Xiuyuan and aunt Xuan Min were quite disapproving of Xuan Liang's going to school to pick up her daughter. He also claimed that his way was "perverted behavior". However, Xuan Min just finished scolding his brother for being perverted, and he pulled the matter to himself. She has been married to Yuan Fei, the criminal police captain played by Duan Yihong, for many years and has never had children. Therefore, I invited Daisen to see a doctor. Daxian claimed that the reason she could not give birth to a child was that Xuanzhen's soul could not rest in peace, and her niece Xuan Nianmei looked more and more like Xuanzhen, so she suspected that Xuan Nianmei was possessed by her dead aunt.
Yes, this is the handiwork of the great international director, from suspense to fantasy. Coupled with Wen Zhengrong's emaciated face and hollow eyes, it was almost like a virgin would jump out at any time. And the plot of this drama is more than this one.
And the god who laid the foundation for the drama to be a bad film began with the mobile phone given to Nian Mei by aunt Xuan Min. Because Xuan Liang quarreled with Xuan Min, he was angry at the child's new mobile phone and smashed the mobile phone, making Nian Mei very angry and ran out. And Xuan Liang, who had always looked at her very tightly, did not follow her. This gave Xuan Nianmei the opportunity to take the initiative to send a head. From here on, the old father who performed hard by Teacher Zu Feng, the half sentence left everywhere in the previous plot became a misunderstanding, and the real case relied on the small nature of high school student Xuan Nianmei.
Because of such a "little character", she ran to the vicinity of her classmate Muge's house and asked her to hurry down to accompany her. The wooden grid who received the call did not "immediately", but changed from the student uniform to the girl group show dress, drew a makeup, and combed a dirty braid out. Seeing Xuan Nianmei's conversation is not to ask her about the specific contradictions between her and her father, nor to comfort her, but to take her to the disco.
The result of bungee jumping is that Zhu Shenghui harassed Nian Mei again, and the disco monitoring of the whole process of the two quarrels became the clue that the police asked Nian Mei in the second episode. Second, it was the father Xuan Liang who remembered to come to find his daughter at night, and just saw her fall to the ground in the park, telling the people behind him not to follow him, so that he ran to the criminal police brigade to find his brother-in-law Yuan Fei to investigate. Third, the little gangster Zhu Shenghui died that night.
The above is basically the story told to the audience in the first episode of "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog". The characters appear quite richly, and almost all of the Xuan family members appear; there are also unsolved cases, that is, the death of zhu Shenghui, a small gangster. But as far as the plot is concerned, the fragmentation of the entire first episode of the story, the portrayal of the personalities of the characters, and the memories of the case nineteen years ago all make the plot intermittent, and it is like not watching it. The director threw out countless character branches, such as the teacher of the Kun opera troupe, the class teacher Tian of Nian Mei, and the little policeman Liu Xinli, but the whole story is in a state of "because of "no", so that the audience cannot reach empathy with the characters in the play, and only the word "chaos" can be described.
As for the second episode of Hao Lei played by Xuan Zhu, in the factory by the boss's wife as a little three broken head, neither resisting, but also expressionless performance, although in front of the face of the camera let people feel that "this person has a story", but after returning home, in the face of her own cooking, for her own medicine of the considerate husband, she ate with a look of disbelief, the face did not change color to say that she put her husband green, the head is the boss's wife to beat this extramarital affair section, if the follow-up plot does not provide major clues, it is difficult to understand, What is the use of this plot that is like swallowing 100 sweet potatoes?
To sum up, "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" really lost the enthusiasm of the audience, at least the effect presented in the first two episodes is so. And the rottenness of this drama also proves from the side that deceiving the audience with the dream back lineup is no longer the exclusive of S-class giant productions and traffic dramas, and the strength of actors can still shoot a garbage.
Of course, at present, the show has only been updated for two episodes, the content has yet to be deeply cultivated, and it is not easy to make up for it, but as far as a 12-episode light short drama is concerned, the failure of two episodes is enough to become a fatal injury. It is very understandable that the play wants to use elements such as father-daughter relationship, children's education, and brother-sister affection to piece together a painting of family ethics, and use fragmented fragments to create the tension of the suspense drama. However, these intentions are only mysteriously distorted by various deliberate close-ups, exaggerated performances by actors, and chaotic BGM.
When in 2021, the audience is besieged by 4 "pet" dramas a month, iQiyi's mist theater is like a dawn that makes many audiences who urgently need to break through with reason full of joy. After the network fryer, the social platform boiling, and the audience's "Xida Pu Ben", Wang Xiaoshuai actually came to "flicker" with such a "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog", which made the audience feel cold. But what disappointed the audience even more was that the Mist Theater, which had just started last year, would be so short-lived, and it can only be said that the audience still overestimated the internal entertainment and overestimated the domestic dramas.