"The Long Season" has attracted much attention from the beginning, and it was created by the original cast of "Hidden Corner", coupled with the configuration of powerful actors such as Fan Wei, Qin Hao and Chen Minghao, how to meet the expectations of the audience, and at the same time, how to stand out in the current suspense genre drama creation, and even achieve a new breakthrough, its pressure can be imagined.
And now that "The Long Season" has been broadcast for most of the episodes, the Douban score is 9.0, and it has soared to 9.2 points since it was broadcast, it can be said that "The Long Season" has withstood the high expectations of the audience, and also opened a new situation for the current suspense online drama creation.
This time in "The Long Season", in addition to maintaining the same exquisite production as "Hidden Corner", Xin Shuang paid more attention to the inner social and humanistic care, adding a warm sense of sadness. In the creation of suspense themes, it presents a sense of the vastness of time, and merges with the overall image creation, thus presenting a unique film texture in the current online drama creation.
For online dramas, changes such as production costs and viewing carriers make it difficult for them to have the exquisite and shocking power of movies. However, the internal texture of "The Long Season" is multi-layered and multi-directional, such as the impact of characters and story cores on the audience, and the attraction of audiovisual images to the audience, which is no less than the audience watching a wonderful movie in the theater.
For example, in "The Long Season", although its narrative seems to be soothing, with the intersection of three periods of time and space, the fog on each person begins to appear, and different character tensions are formed, such as father and son, husband and wife, colleagues, friends, etc., under the interaction, the heart that has passed the baptism of years is cut out, telling the audience about the past and present.
It can be seen that the so-called slowness of "The Long Season" is the sense of the times under the span of time, or the sense of twilight in the film's elderly "detective team" to trace the past, after all, the young and fresh lives in the film are long gone, and they can only piece together the memories of their existence in the aging body.
Therefore, the sense of tone of "The Long Season" changes with different periods of different characters. For example, in the past two periods of time and space, although a layer of warm colors has been added to emphasize memories, it also highlights the contrast of light and shadow, bright and gloomy, the undercurrent in the calm life, and the time white space brought by the intersection of time and space, not only assists in the shaping of suspense, but also alludes to many characters trapped in that unsolved case for many years.
In the current time and space, although the color is relatively cold, the picture is a little white, which visually brings the audience a hint of old age. At the same time, the change in the color of the film also hints at the wasted efforts made by the three protagonists over the years for their obsession in their hearts.
The scene transformation under the multi-time and space narrative very reflects the skill of the creator, in addition to the use of similar props or lines, and the same actions of the characters to imply the growth of the characters to achieve the scene switching effect, the most exciting is Wang Xiang, played by Fan Wei, switching between memory and reality, past and present scenes.
In the current time and space, Wang Xiang always imagines the scene of Wang Yang and his wife at home, and when the warm atmosphere is about to reach its peak, he quickly withdraws, thus emphasizing Wang Xiang's loneliness. At the same time, it also formed a sense of suspense in the contrast of time and space, making the audience curious about Wang Xiang's tortuous life after the case.
And in the two time and space, such as in the scene where Wang Yang was framed for stealing things, the father's plea to Xing Jianchun and his son's incomprehension formed a sad twist, and suddenly withdrew to the present, forming a sense of right and wrong, coupled with the appearance of the old Xing Jianchun, the subtle character tension and the changes of the years are all unspoken.
Therefore, "Long Season" has a strict mutual echo relationship in various aspects such as narrative rhythm, film tone processing, and scene transformation, so as to form its own unique time and space telling and emotional expression, and then achieve a different texture and refinement, which shows that the creators behind the story are polished everywhere.
Although "Long Season" and "Hidden Corner" both have a social vision and literary lyricism, it is obvious that in "The Long Season", it is more social and life-oriented, and the refreshing creative style or author's style is further highlighted, and in the banter and laughter, the multi-dimensional life is spied with the audience.
Life is one of the most prominent features of "The Long Season", with the northeast as the regional background, the speech characteristics of the lines and the character shaping make the audience naturally have a sense of closeness, as if like the people around them, struggling to compromise in life, but constantly wanting to control life and self.
The relationship between the characters is the focus of "The Long Season", which forms different contrasting relationships, which not only show the ups and downs of the plot, but also support the core expression of the plot.
Almost all different character relationships are centered on Wang Xiang. Wang Xiang and Gong Biao are most similar, although Wang Xiang acted out of an obsession with his son's death; Gong Biao was forced to get involved in muddy waters because his car was decked and Xiaolu was attacked.
But behind them they all have an obsession that is close to rebirth or liberation, and they have an explanation for the past or themselves. In this way, we can get out of the long memory, no longer let the aging self have regrets, and truly live a breath.
Wang Xiang's caution contrasted sharply with Gong Biao's roughness. It's not so much a character reason as it is a scratch left by the era on the individual. The two represented different groups, Gong Biao was a rare college student at that time and an intellectual, while Wang Xiang prided himself as a model worker of the Birch Steel Mill and a train driver with high morale in the factory.
Now more than ten years later, the two have the appearance of having the same path, but the roads they have traveled are different after all, and they have also formed a contrast and collision of the current personalities. In the end, squeezed into a taxi, there was a kind of misfortune and a bumpy life. These two characters largely make up the texture of time in "The Long Season".
The relationship between husband and wife also appears many times in the film, and the relationship between Wang Xiang and his wife is a typical traditional family, seemingly stable but full of thorns because of the fate of Wang Xiang and Wang Yang. The relationship between Gong Biao and his wife is also fragmented and detached.
The contrast of this relationship points to a potential core: the connection between people and people, people and fate is so similar but helpless, each with its own misfortune, each with its own pain, and finally get together and huddle to keep warm, which shows a rare broad vision in the suspense type of plot.
In addition, in addition to serving the establishment of suspense, the father-son relationship also emphasizes the change in Wang Xiang's father's state of mind, the change of father's love is wordless and powerful, there is no line explanation, everything is in a subtle mood and atmosphere.
Wang Yang's curiosity and recklessness, Wang Bei's understanding and thoughtfulness, the two sons not only piece together the changes around Wang Xiang's eighteenth year, but also bring out the sadness of Wang Xiang's character.
The son finally became a filial and motivated good child who worked hard to study like Wang Xiang, but the son was no longer the same son. The family is no longer the original family, the people around him have died or aged, and Wang Xiang himself has reached the age of almost entering the soil, but he still can't get out of the confusion in his heart.
"The Long Season" is simply the form of comedy and the core of tragedy, and at the same time, in the framework of suspense, the actor's treatment of the characters is particularly important. In addition to the changes in the body, especially Qin Hao's body shape, what is more important is the transmission of emotions, how to present the effect of the big screen on the small screen.
In the plot, many emotional points either confront in silence or come to an abrupt end in turbulent emotions, thus bringing the audience into it. Shen Mo and his uncle are more common confrontations in silence, Shen Mo's deep and indifferent eyes and the micro-expression of the uncle's squinting eyes make the audience keenly aware of the darkness behind this family.
In the scene where Wang Xiang gives gifts to the factory director, Wang Xiang fled in a panic because he bumped into the factory director cheating, but the factory director chased him out. The ambiguous dialogue between the two and the abrupt silence interval directly pulled the audience into this awkward atmosphere of wanting to talk and stop, and the shrewdness of Fan Wei's eyes and the dullness of his expression not only highlighted Wang Xiang's character, but also at this time, the pillar-like father and the slaves of life were integrated.
Gong Biao, played by Qin Hao, can almost be said to be the only character in the whole film who presents emotions externally, and the dense lines and rough and ambitious image bear most of the laughter of the plot. It creates a sense of unreliability and fire to the audience.
And just when Gong Biao left Wang Xiang's house, knowing that Wang Bei would go to the exam, he directly took out money and stuffed it into Wang Xiang's arms. Qin Hao is still in a state of wind and fire at this time, the whole action is crisp, go out directly, is one of the few plots in the whole drama that is not fake politeness, the so-called relatives, buddies, years of hard work, all condensed in it.
The warmth and warmth of the human feelings between the elderly can reflect the heavy emotional strength, so that the audience can feel a change in history and times, and also imply a sense of powerlessness to huddle and warm.
Therefore, although "The Long Season" is a suspense drama, its vision is larger and deeper, and the changes in the lives of small people are presented under the interlacing of time and space, so that the audience is keenly aware of the inner magnificence and self-writing, and there will always be some of them emerging in us.
And the so-called long, not the longness of the season, but in the rotation of the seasons and the aging of the characters, the longevity of fate and the change of the years to affect people, so that the characters are trapped in the season of memory, unable to get out. Just like the cold wind and snow in the northeast, it leaves a ravines on the face.