After 11 episodes, the score of "The Long Season" hit Douban 9.3, which not only did not end, but rose significantly.
The finale is still very stable, and the rating soared to 9.4 after the broadcast!
Come, let's say it from the beginning.
One, put it in a warm place
"The Long Season" always "uses different points and lines of the same thing" to repeatedly stab me.
It's not a simple and blunt repetition of paragraphs;
Instead, it really excavates and constructs the long-term damage attributes of tragedy in life, and really depicts the details with a sense of substitution.
12 concentrated machine section workers gathered at Wang Xiang's home to Zhang Luo Wang Yang's aftermath.
Quan Li and his colleagues held the photo and did not know where to put it, first eliminated the doorway: in and out (afraid that they would see sadness).
The kind of embarrassment and warmth that can't do anything about big tragedies, but knows the pain and heat for people in small details, is very specific.
Wang Xiang came back and said, "Put a warm place, Chaoyang."
The child spent the night in the icy river that was approaching winter.
Wet and cold swish.
It's still like death, it's very heart-wrenching.
Still not the kind of over-tonality that relies on background music to frantically incite it, Wang Xiang is painfully almost numb, very light and very softly said "warm".
People are no longer there, they are not conscious.
But in his heart, he was still afraid that the child would freeze.
This "warmth" is the same as in the sixth episode when he said to Xing San downstairs, "(did not move) for fear that Wang Yang will not find a home when he comes back".
I am afraid that the child will become a lonely ghost who cannot find a way home.
After losing his children and then losing his wife, the next scene of this ultimate tragedy is Wang Xiang holding two ID cards to cancel it.
It is a very process-oriented occasion to apply for documents.
The other person asks for name, relationship.
Wang Xiang answered one by one, Luo Meisu, husband and wife; Wang Yang, father and son.
Use the rationality and ruthlessness of the process to contrast sentient despair.
There is not a word of sorrow, but it writes the greatest sorrow in the world.
After this paragraph, the transition between 2016 and 2016 was from handling the "deregistration of the identity of the deceased" to Biaozi's final grooming.
Richly connected across time, the sense of tragedy of death and the sigh of Wang Xiang, a close bystander, are very poignant.
In the fire that followed the confrontation with Shen Mo, Wang Xiang took off the worn and precious red sweater that he had worn for twenty years.
It was a gift from his son after earning his first salary;
Today it is a relic of his son, and most likely the only gift he gave (along with poetry, kindness, etc., but the tangible one may be this one).
In order to save Shen Mo, the dress was finally burned out in the fire.
When Wang Xiang was lying on the rails, he heard the baby crying and rolling off the rails, and in a sense, he "restarted his life" because of the thought of saving people;
Now in the 2017 paragraph, Wang Bei hugs his fallen father on the river bridge.
Family, support each other, redeem each other, and depend on each other.
There are very few scenes of Wang Bei in the whole play, but I especially like this child.
A good child who knows pain and heat, perfect father-son relationship.
So much so that I once saw a lot of people in the comment area saying "Wang Bei is his own fantasy", ah, can we be less cruel?
At that time, Xuezhong rode with Qiaoyun and Qiaoyun in his arms and returned home from Victoria;
In 2017, Wang Xiang Wang Bei father and son packed up their things and asked Uncle Ma to go to the provincial city to compete in the down jacket he bought for him (hahaha horse team this dance is really more and more out of the dance)!
Qiaoyun entered the house and counted the two of them going to school like moving, a happy and warm family of three.
In episode 11, Wang Xiang's words in the car, "I hope she will be comfortable in the rest of her life", finally came true.
In the whirlpool of the times, they once had a bumpy fate, desperate and desperate, and now they have finally survived the long bitter autumn and winter.
In warm places.
Second, Ma Desheng and Biaozi.
The horse team disease center is difficult to solve.
When you wake up like a crazy demon, the first thing that matters most is the words on the kettle.
For so many years, unsolved unsolved cases probably tormented him day and night like a knife like poison.
Staring into the mirror finally figured out the fatal point.
Dressed as "Northeast Wild Marlon Brando", he went to the police station, facing Zhen Xiao Li and looking for the dog Xiao Li under the full table;
Greeting Wang Xiang will avoid inside, Wang Xiang promised on his lips, and his butt only moved back a bench.
There are a lot of laughs after this period of great tragedy.
It's the consistent sense of humor of "The Long Season".
Those light comedy jokes, one is not deliberate, two is not low-level, and the third is not stiff.
It's also good to have character personality shaping and character relationship shaping.
Years of wrong cases have finally been solved, and the horse team can finally unload their demons.
Wang Xiang mentioned that "your uncle Ma went to the provincial city to compete in the down jacket he bought for you", a sentence with multiple important information points.
A horse team is now in good physical condition and can dance the old lady to the sky;
The second is that the mental condition of the horse team is also very good, and the heart demon has been solved;
The relationship between the three elders is still very good, and the horse team remembers to buy down jackets for Wang Bei when they go to the competition.
It should not be cheap to buy, otherwise Wang Xiang would not have specially instructed the child to travel thousands of miles to Beijing (of course, Uncle Ma's love is also an important factor).
From taking off back then to leaving only an autumn coat, leaving alone under grief and indignation, to now being truly happy as a dance king, Maron Delan Sheng, can be regarded as a happy ending in a sense, right?
It's a pity for Biaozi.
The end is so bleak.
Biaozi's life of "only lip service and no loss", career and material are very unsuccessful.
But Biao Zi has a good heart and gives sincerely;
Optimism, hopeless optimism;
It seems that the life that is constantly falling and greasy and sinking, maintaining goodness and optimism, is already a rare light in itself.
Selecting the best male and female protagonists and male and female partners from this drama alone may have a higher difficulty factor than the "death group" of the big year of the various award ceremonies.
They are all too good, exceptional.
In 11 episodes of KTV, the old three talked about life after a hot dance, and the old KTV song with background music was "Laugh at the Wind".
The words written by Huang Xiao that year, "Who doesn't have some unforgettable things", the lyrics perfectly fit the life path of several people.
Sighing is a precious emotion that resonates very well.
But it's hard to use.
It is particularly contrived, embarrassing, and oily.
And "The Long Season" was carefully laid out in the early stage, step by step, and only then did it have such a thunderous emotional power and such a moving.
Every character is wonderful.
The details of the character information also seem to have the possibility of digging deep and reversing.
I feel that a single character is suitable for pulling out and doing another spin-off drama.
Third, Shen Mo
In episode 12, the adult version of Shen Mo (played by Zhang Jingchu) appears.
There is almost no suspense, and the uncle lures her back to Songhe through Fu Weijun's ashes and drives a deck car to kill her;
She successfully counter-kills the uncle and finally takes revenge.
He was killed in the hospital again, ending the accumulated grudge with his aunt "you don't talk".
Previously, Uncle Shen cut the nails of the girl Shen Mo, the abnormal perverted texture, which was disgusting and creepy;
Now Shen Mo, as a junior, in the name of filial piety, sits on the side of the hospital bed and cuts his aunt's nails, and the grudge echoes right and wrong.
Shen Dongliang and Shen Mo's adoptive father and daughter who are related by blood, and Wang Xiang Wang Bei's adoptive father and son who are not related by blood, happen to be the control group of human skin and beasts and ideal human affection and harmonious human relations.
At the end of this episode, Wang Xiang Shen Mo confronted: I asked you if Wang Yang had killed anyone, and why did you kill Wang Yang.
Wang Xiang knew that Wang Yang would not kill people, but he wanted to listen to the ironclad evidence from the insiders of the parties.
It's like a cleansing record that has been waiting for decades.
"Shen Mo killed Wang Yang" is just an illusion, Shen Mo was in ashes and tried to commit suicide by jumping into the river.
Wang Yang died to save her.
(Of course, if you must think that Shen Mo is calculating and deceiving and calculating that he can live if he jumps and Wang Yang will die, then I can't stop you)
The cold moon is silent, and the stream is gurgling.
The river is cold and cold.
The boy jumped down and carried the stigma for several years (he kidnapped and threw the body but did not kill anyone, and Wang Xiang repeatedly stressed for many years that "my son will not kill or commit suicide").
Shen Mo fled away and lost his loved ones.
Looking back on the past, it was all desolate, probably living like a lonely soul and wild ghost.
Wang Yang is the late bright white moonlight, and Shen Mo is the living withered wandering soul.
The innocent girl was brutally humiliated, and paid such a terrible price for revenge and getting rid of evil spirits;
A few years later, Wang Xiang said, "If you don't say I'll hit the pier, you fly out of the windshield", and Shen Mo knew that "my life was given by Wang Yang".
If he can really die in Wang Xiang's hands, it will also be a kind of atonement and relief for Shen Mo.
But after Wang Xiang heard the truth, he still tried to rescue Shen Mo before the car was about to explode.
A few years ago, the horse team beat Shen Dongliang on the road, and Wang Xiang was still willing to rescue Shen Mo a few years later;
The former is the righteous indignation of the cruel humiliation of innocent young girls, and the latter is the goodness of the avenger's miserable deformation but "compassionate".
In order to save Shen Mo, Wang Xiang even took off the twenty-year-old red sweater mentioned above.
It is love, it is also a demon, it is remorse, it is a shackle.
In Shen Mo's desolate and bloody life, she finally chose to pull Wang Xiang to save her, and finally settled after several years of turning back.
In the past, rain and snow; Now I will return, and the grass will be followed.
Fourth, Fu Weijun
In the heavy snow in episode 12, Fu Weijun held Yin Hong's hairpin and tried to pick the blood stains on it.
Can't cut off.
Crying, angry.
Fu Weijun took the initiative to expose his sister's guilt, and smiled at his sister in the crowd after being arrested.
When he saw Li Qun who wanted to catch him, he laughed.
When he saw his sister who he couldn't recognize, he still smiled.
This cold-faced, murderous, and even violent blood-colored coat laughed, which was unbearable.
Life is desolate, and there is no one to rely on.
For the meager hope of survival, it is necessary to play with the bloody streets.
Fu Weijun was on the street to Zalu Wenzhong car tires, I was very puzzled: how far is this video hall?
Several people set fire to the car, and I wondered even more: In which corner is this?
If you think about it, the video hall is not small and has upstairs and downstairs, even if the local rent is extremely cheap in those years, with the pitiful life and meager source of income of Fu Weijun and Sui Dong, it is bound to be very difficult.
The location is extremely remote (or in some abandoned area) to make sense.
Fu Weijun's life is too desolate.
The world bullied him, humiliated him, bullied him, and he had to learn a little bloody "violence against violence" in order to survive.
The little kindness he once gave Yin Hong was a wonton that was separated in front of the chaos stall at Victoria's door.
(Episode 9 Easter Egg Content)
Yin Hong also gave him kindness, but eventually killed his sister when she was in the most difficult time.
The woman who spoke with a smile became a pile of minced meat in an instant.
Fu Weijun still chose to take the initiative to apologize for his sister.
On the one hand, this may be his inner sense of justice and guilt.
He felt sorry for his sister's misfortune and counterattack;
But he preferred to be imprisoned for life to atone for his sins;
On the other hand, it is also his best wishes for his sister, and finally and the most long-lasting protection.
Remove her worries and wish her to be born again with bright beauty.
A child who has been humiliated and abused by others for many years, regardless of right or wrong, still has a clear breeze and a smile in his heart.
Five, a string of yarn.
Let's talk about Romesso.
With her mother's labor, she condenses the excellent qualities of countless women of the previous generation that we are familiar with, and also permeates their self-suffering and self-neglect.
It is respectful, kind, and heartache.
It is known that Romesu has long died, and Wang Xiang was a widower when the 2016 version was launched.
It is known that Romesu's death must be related to Wang Yang's unfortunate death.
Romesu is known to behave abnormally at his son's funeral banquet, and said "Don't hang pictures when I'm dead."
From far to near, from cause to time, almost everything is known.
But Romesu's death is still very impactful.
The camera gave the hanging string of wool, which made people particularly embarrassed.
Romesu is a typical image of the old mother of the previous generation.
A little broken mouth, a little spoiling children.
Centered on the husband and the child.
Even for heart surgery, there is an inexplicable sense of guilt that "I spent so much money in my family, how can this be good".
I failed to get the medicine, and I made a fuss with the person at the window for a little money and "I'll die to show you".
I didn't dare to be idle when I was not in good health, and I took over the job of sweaters with a very low income.
(Wang Xiang asked from forty to thirty she did not answer positively, only said that it was better than nothing)
Pick dishes for children, and drop the things on the table and put them in their own bowls;
In the play, she did not say the words "mother does not understand what mother has no ability", but her every bit expresses a kind of concession, self-effacing and even self-contemptuous "I am the second" engraved into her bones.
Always put your family ahead of you.
I always want to give something more for my child.
I can't wait to take out all the flesh and blood, afraid that this beloved is "too light".
At first, Wang Yang promised to go away with Shen Mo, and later he decided to take Shen Mo's guilt (before Yeqiao, he didn't know that Shen Mo even killed Yin Hong).
After lying to his mother "Mom, I'm hungry", "Mom, I want to eat a bowl of water and rice", "Mom, my quilt at night is a little thin", he temporarily locked his mother in the room and promised "I will definitely come back".
According to Wang Yang's own plan, is his "return" to come back to confess his guilt and go to prison (confess murder and throw a corpse, and even possibly the death penalty)?
Protecting Shen Mo and accompanying his family is a dilemma that cannot have both.
Wang Yang's death/sentence to life/eternal flight to the end of the world is the ultimate crit that the old mother cannot bear.
I don't know if I'm old, in episode 11, Shen Mo said twice on the rails and on the bridge "I only have Wang Yang" and "I only have you", and all I thought of was the old mother in Wang Yang's family.
The loving mother leaned on the door and hoped that Jiao'er had become a ghost under the spring.
The tears in the process of writing Romesu could not be stopped.
I hope that Romesu and these mothers can be happy and love themselves more.
epilogue
Looking back at the 12 episodes of "The Long Season", every link is online and overall very good.
Not a good idea to strip away the purely technical dimension of expressing the kernel.
It's like a table of home-cooked food.
Particularly homely and vivid.
You can put real superpowers in ordinary and inconspicuous details.
Do not show off, do not deliberately engage in "wow, look how good we are".
But the professional dimension is particularly strong, and the emotional dimension is particularly sincere.
Sacrifice the great move of the whole body, there is the power to change the color of the wind and clouds, the rain in the sky, the ghost cry at night.
Very real and specific.
There is a grainy and raw edge feeling of life.
Every character, every detail, is alive.
Life is like a play, and a play is like life.
"The Long Season" really filmed the drama like a dream, tears in the eyes of life.
The sunset is birch, the sunset is late, they have been displaced for decades, sorrow and hatred continue, and there is the desolation of the small people in the big era and the broken bones;
The years are like water, day and night, the old ones have constant twists and turns, and their lives are bumpy, but there are still little ants and little duckweeds who also have to stubbornly die of spirit, a breath, a breath.
Fathers and sons, siblings, couples, friends, lovers, half of their lives ups and downs and stumbles.
In the morning twilight, the ordinary sunrise and sunset, there is an unusual taste.
After chasing 12 episodes, it's not even like watching a drama, inexplicably like an old man entering my dream, a cup of turbid wine at night, and 3,000 drunken laughs with Jun.
At the end of the song, his face was full of tears.
Go ahead, don't look back.
To laugh.