Northeastern-style suspense dramas have continued one after another in recent years.
For example, "Double Detective", "Coward", "Ligong - Old Events in the Northeast", "Moses on the Plain", etc., have achieved a good reputation, and it can be said that with Chongqing-style suspense dramas, two major factions in the north and south have been formed.
These two regions have a natural suspense style, with their own thick, magical, depressing, and ruined atmosphere, which is highly consistent with the plot story of suspense dramas and has become a popular filming location or story location for directors.
Now another northeast wind suspense drama is online.
It's The Long Season.
After 5 episodes, Douban opened a high score of 9.0, and then rose to 9.1 overnight.
Today, the number of ratings has exceeded 15,000, with a five-star positive rating of 64.6% and a four-star rating of 28.4%, which means that the positive rating is as high as 93%, while the negative rating is only 1.5%.
Such a rating and scoring pattern is undoubtedly against the sky, and the proportion like this in recent years is really rare.
After three years, following "Silent Truth", the suspense drama once again played a king bomb.
Coincidentally, "The Long Season" and the hit "Hidden Corner" are the same director, and they are basically the original cast.
"Hidden Corner" focuses on three children, and now "Long Season" focuses on three middle-aged and elderly people, and it is "Iron Triangle". Of course, from the perspective of the time span of the story, it is larger than "Hidden Corner", and the points and areas involved in nature are also more and wider, which can tell the relationship between people and the world, and the relationship between people and destiny in more detail.
Official media commented on the play and said directly, ""The Long Season" focuses on life suspense. The quality of life broadens the dimension of suspense. ”
In one sentence, the true meaning of the play is revealed.
"Different from the previous suspenseful genre dramas set in the northeast, "The Long Season" brings poetic expression with lyrical and romantic audiovisual language, while the shaping of the life texture full of the pyrotechnics of the times broadens the new dimension of suspense dramas - several protagonists re-examine old cases, not only exploring those hidden hidden in the depths of people's hearts, but also looking back at their lives and the changing times."
This passage undoubtedly points out the main theme of the play.
This is completely different from the previous Northeast style suspense dramas, although it is a suspense drama, but the main thing is not suspense, of course, you can't abandon suspense. Instead, under the flow of life, suspense is used as an incision, interpreting various emotional entanglements between people, as well as the unknown secrets behind each character, and also presenting the acrostic joys and sorrows under the changes of the times.
Two eras, three story lines.
From the first episode, the show has deliberately guided the audience through the narrative of the chapter back body, which is a story with three time and space.
Under the background of the wave of layoffs, the "shredded corpse case" and "Wang Yang's death incident" occurred one after another, and the life trajectory of Huagang model worker and train driver Wang Xiang was completely changed.
Eighteen years later, Wang Xiang, who had reached old age, was involved in the "deck case" again, which suddenly made the case of eighteen years ago surface again, and the two eras were naturally linked together.
Under the fog, the play does not focus on detective cases, but pulls out a character behind these cases and events, depicting the survival of people in two eras, and this is the life of the play.
From street scenes to language lines, the strong northeast flavor makes the play even more full of fireworks. The naturally intimate Northeast dialect suddenly brings the audience into the life scene of the Northeast, we are not watching a suspense drama, we are watching a stage drama of Northeast life.
Of course, everything is inseparable from the excellent performances of the actors.
Fan Wei, Qin Hao, Chen Minghao, the elderly makeup of the three people in the 10s of the 21st century is amazing, and their life-oriented performance makes people unable to see any traces of performance. They are the people in the play, no longer actors. And they are all Northeasterners, which allows them to return to themselves and find the most comfortable way to perform.
So alive, so full, like a grandpa and uncle walking on the street.
The actors' accurate shaping and presentation of the characters makes the quality of life of the play come to the fore.
Although it has a narrative spanning nearly twenty years, the texture of life supported by real pyrotechnics makes the play have a larger dimension of discussion and a deeper focus, not only individuals and groups, but the relationship between people and fate, individuals and the era.
"The play presents a sense of detail in all aspects of life. Audiovisual language enables poetic expression. ”
The suspense drama of the northeast wind is often a sense of slaughter of heavy snow, cold, and extreme cold, but obviously the northeast not only has cold winters, but also four seasons. Undoubtedly, "Long Season" allows us to see another side of the Northeast, depicting the warm, bright and romantic autumn of the Northeast with film-level audiovisual language.
Under the whole warm color, it is not all murder, suspense, strife, but also warmth and coldness.
From the color tone, the play began to give humanistic care. Specific to the plot in the play, the most moving scene at present is everyone's care for Xing San'er. Hanging the urine bag, he was pushed to the ground by Wang Xiang, and when he found the urine bag, the iron triangle was stunned, and then he saw Wang Xiang say "Jianchun, what's going on, don't cry, you tell us who 357 sold to, we are not difficult for you", which suddenly made people's noses sour.
After that, Wang Xiang even had to give Xing San'er money.
Although Xing San'er is hateful, as a person, he has his own dignity and deserves to be respected and cared for.
And for the show, the poetic expression of the language in the lens begins from the first shot of the first episode.
The opening shot slowly pans up from the cornfield, and the middle-aged Wang Xiang enters the camera in a smoke-breathing train. When the camera pans to the sky and slowly pans down—trains and railroads are gone, and the elderly Wang Xiang drives a taxi past a cornfield.
Things are neither people nor people.
The changes of the times, the passing of the years, are finally imprinted on Wang Xiang's body, an era will eventually pass, and a generation will eventually grow old.
Of course, not to mention the soundtrack of the play, it is very intentional and full of form, forming a unique poetic soundtrack style of "The Long Season", which complements the development of the plot.
""The Long Season" uses a unique audiovisual language to integrate pyrotechnics and poetry into the narrative, broadening a new dimension for the suspense theme, and also guiding the audience of the suspense drama from tense sensory stimulation to emotional resonance."
Watching "The Long Season", we are not watching suspense and solving cases, because these are irrelevant at this moment, but through these events, we can see how an era, an individual, evolved in the long river of years, and finally projected onto ourselves.
As the ending subtitles scroll, it dawns on us that we are also them and will become them.