In terms of designing a suspense atmosphere, "The Long Season" is really good.
A story spans three time and space, 1997, 1998 and 2016, and the plots of the three time and space are interspersed back and forth.
The "one" case sets up multiple fogs, making the audience unconsciously fall into repeated thinking but never get the point.
Of course, the mystery will eventually be revealed, and by two-thirds of the way through the plot of "The Long Season", many clues have gradually become clear, and it can roughly solve seventy percent of the suspense.
First, it was not Shen Mo who was crushed
Shen Mo is not dead at all, and it is not her who is crushed, which is probably the easiest suspense to be cracked, for two reasons:
First, "The Long Season" repeatedly gave clues, all pointing the victim of the 1998 Huagang crushed corpse case to Shen Mo.
Shen Mo is a missing person, the school has reported it, and she has a reason for disappearing, private photos have been posted, and her personal image has been destroyed, which is equivalent to social death.
The victim of the shredding case was a woman, and the police found Shen Mo's university meal card in the bag next to the corpse.
The victim's broken limb had four knuckle horizontal lines, and coincidentally, Shen Mo also had four lines on his little finger.
From the analysis of the production effect of film and television dramas, if a suspense drama gives too many clues with very obvious direction, then you can basically conclude that this is a smokescreen deliberately designed by the director and screenwriter.
From the analysis of criminal psychology, the murderers have made the case to the point of shredding the corpse, in addition to venting anger, they also have to cover up the identity of the victim, how can they leave obvious clues such as meal cards to the police, that is not a toss.
The second is Shen Mo's mentality, after being severely beaten and insulted by Uncle Shen Dongliang, Shen Mo chose not to swallow his anger, but to fight back angrily.
Shen Mo's counterattack was strong, and she asked Fu Weijun and Sui Dong to find Shen Dongliang's son Shen Hui and directly broke Shen Hui's arm.
Shen Mo, who is so ruthless, is unlikely to be crushed by others, but she is more likely to break others.
Therefore, most viewers will judge that Shen Mo is not dead at all, but she is indeed missing, and some people deliberately want the police to identify the victim of the broken body as Shen Mo.
Second, who are the victims
The victims are definitely not Shen Dongliang and Shen Hui, they both appeared in 2016, and Shen Hui is the "little prince of chance" who hit people in the deck Gong Biao's taxi.
According to the plot reasoning of "The Long Season", the female victim of the crushed corpse is most likely Miss Victoria Escort Yin Hong.
Shen Mo helped Yin Hong, and the relationship between the two was once good, but under the influence of financial temptation and jealousy, Yin Hong betrayed Shen Mo, gave her medicine and "offered" to Hong Kong businessman Lu Zong.
In addition, Yin Hong also hurt Fu Weijun, although it was not her fault, it was not bad to directly let Fu Weijun die to her, but this would also make Fu Weijun suffer psychological damage to a certain extent.
Also, Yin Hong's mother has passed away, and if she disappears, with her professional identity, it is estimated that there will be no one to report the crime.
Yin Hong's ending reasoning is as follows:
Shen Mo killed Yin Hong with the help of Fu Weijun and Sui Dong to take revenge, and then Shen Mo, a college student studying medicine, crushed the body, Fu Weijun was responsible for throwing the body on a motorcycle, and Yin Hong's body was disguised as Shen Mo.
Afterwards, Fu Weijun was caught by the police, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to prison, and died of illness in prison eighteen years later.
Shen Mo has since evaporated in the world.
Third, there is also a victim
It is worth mentioning that if there is only one victim in this case, Yin Hong, then what happened to the bloody protective clothing that Wang Xiang found from under Wang Yang's bed?
Wang Yang's reaction after seeing the shredded corpse case was fear, but he didn't seem to be in pain, proving that he probably knew that the victim was not Shen Mo, then he must also be an insider of the case, or he was also an accomplice.
Therefore, Fu Weijun left a note for Wang Yang and asked him to flee with him.
So, what role did Wang Yang play in this case?
To put it simply, it is highly likely that he killed Hong Kong businessman President Lu, even if he did not kill him, he participated in the destruction of corpses.
Hong Kong businessman Lu Zong's ending reasoning:
Hong Kong businessman Mr. Lu violated Shen Mo with the help of Yin Hong, and Wang Yang, who learned the news, went to Victoria Entertainment City to find Mr. Lu to settle the account, but was blocked.
Fu Weijun and Sui Dong's video hall was smashed by Xiao Feng, and there may be a reason why Fu Weijun sought revenge on President Lu, before Shen Mo was just verbally insulted by a drunken guest, Fu Weijun almost abolished that person.
If Fu Weijun knew that Hong Kong businessman Lu had violated Shen Mo, God knows what he would do.
Therefore, Wang Yang and Fu Weijun will most likely join forces to kill President Lu, while Wang Yang wears Wang Xiang's protective suit to take President Lu's body into the steel factory workshop, and then pushes it into a blast furnace full of molten iron.
Therefore, the workers in the steel plant workshop will say that they have encountered a "ghost", and that "ghost" should be Wang Yang.
In the same way, the body of Hong Kong businessman Mr. Lu was pushed into the blast furnace, and if no one reported the case, the police would not be able to investigate, then in the eyes of ordinary workers, this Hong Kong businessman "ran away".
Therefore, at the same time that the shredded corpse case was discovered, the workers of Huagang began to besiege the workshop director because of the stoppage of work caused by the "running away" of Hong Kong businessmen.
4. Unsolved mysteries
It is said that it is a seventy percent suspense, mainly because there are still several unsolved mysteries that cannot be verified and can only be reasoned.
Ma Desheng should not have lied, Fu Weijun must have died in prison, so who is the "hit person" that Wang Xiang has been tracking?
The driver who hit the person with the deck has been found, and the little prince Shen Hui is selected, he is the child who was broken by Fu Weijun and Sui Dong.
Shen Mo's uncle, Shen Hui's father, Shen Dongliang, was also found, and he appeared in a community.
We can boldly speculate that the person Shen Hui drove to hit was definitely not Fu Weijun, but Sui Dong.
Sui Dong is Fu Weijun's personal younger brother, and if Fu Weijun kills, I believe Sui Dong may also participate, at least as an insider, so he does not want to be known by the police even if he is hit.
Wang Xiang insisted that "the person who was hit" was Wang Yang's killer, while Ma Desheng insisted that Wang Yang committed suicide.
So, the question is, who killed Wang Yang? Or, is Wang Yang dead or not? This may be the ultimate suspense in "The Long Season".
The place where Wang Xiang mourned Wang Yang was the bridge, and the image of Wang Yang appearing in Wang Xiang's hallucination was drenched in water, which seemed to imply that Wang Yang drowned under the bridge.
Wang Yang did jump off that bridge, of course, he had good water nature, not only did he not drown, but he even saved Shen Mo, who also jumped into the river.
That is to say, under normal circumstances, it is difficult for Wang Yang to drown.
Therefore, we can boldly speculate on the ending of Wang Yang and Shen Mo:
Shen Mo forged the illusion of his own corpse being crushed after killing Yin Hong, Wang Yang also forged the illusion of his own drowning after killing Hong Kong businessman Lu Zong, Fu Weijun was caught by the police, and Shen Mo, Wang Yang and Sui Dong died incognito in the world.
In 2016, Fu Weijun died of illness in prison, and Sui Dong, who was a good buddy, secretly returned to deal with his aftermath, and was accidentally recognized by Shen Hui on the street, and then Shen Hui drove into Sui Dong.
Coincidentally, Shen Hui's decked car was Gong Biao's, Gong Biao pulled Wang Xiang in again, and Wang Xiang found Ma Desheng again, so the past eighteen years ago was brought up again.
Eventually, Wang Yang and Shen Mo were found by the police, and they will be punished by the law.
The long eighteen years are over.