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"The Long Season" ushered in a 12-episode finale, and various suspense was solved one by one.
The murderer finally appeared, the case was solved, but the ending was deplorable, and a poem written by Wang Yang before his death left a long aftertaste.
"The Long One".
The last few sentences are:
A small tear drops on the stone / It will not dry up for a long time
The whole season knots it into an amber/lumpy flow, concrete glow
Behind it is something far away
This domestic suspense drama Douban scored 9 points, and the score continued to soar all the way, and the finale soared directly to 9.5 points!
This is a score scored by more than 100,000 people, and there are very few domestic dramas that have reached this score.
9.5 points, can be said to be the current highest score of domestic suspense dramas, "The Long Season" has been sealed as a god, although the word "god" seems to have been used rotten, but used on this drama, I believe no one will object.
Why?
Perhaps a sentence sent by starring Qin Hao can be quickly explained:
Suspense is the coat, fate is the core.
At the beginning of "The Long Season", the person hit from the deck car, but the hit person escaped by himself, which led to the suspense of the story.
At this time, the three male protagonists in the story appeared separately:
Gong Biao, played by Qin Hao, buys a deck car, and is hit by a decked taxi that leads to suspense.
Wang Xiang, played by Fan Wei, found clues related to the shredding of the steel factory and the death of his son Wang Yang.
Ma Desheng, the former criminal police captain played by Chen Minghao, was found by them and began a re-investigation without identity.
As a result, the timeline of the story goes back to 20 years ago, and the fate of the characters begins to be presented one by one from 20 years ago.
At first, everyone may still watch this drama with the mentality of watching a suspense drama, but after watching a few episodes, following the camera back to 20 years ago, slowly seeing the era, characters, fate, and the story of advancing through each other.
Change, influence, destiny.
Times changed the fate of steel mills.
The restructuring of the steel plant changed the fate of Wang Xiang, the train driver in the factory.
Going to a nightclub part-time changed the fate of the girl Shen Mo.
Shen Mo changed Wang Yang's fate.
Wang Yang's death changed the fate of Wang Xiang's family.
The director of the factory changed Gong Biao's fate.
The shredding case and the embezzlement case changed Ma Desheng's fate.
It seems to be a case that has traveled through 20 years, but it is actually the fate of all the people with whom it has various relationships under one case.
In "The Long Season", the suspense is presented in a reversed posture, the main line is the great evil of the murderer killing and crushing the corpse, but scattered throughout the show is actually all kinds of human evil:
Sexual assault, cheating, framing, bullying, lying, jealousy, selfishness, indifference...
The murderer in the play is not a villain who does nothing evil, but appears as a victim, making what he did even more embarrassing.
Also, the last snow, it was really beautiful.
This poetic snowflake falls beside each character, fluttering and scattering, like a fate that everyone seems to see, but cannot grasp.
In the heavy snow, people are so small, symbolizing all the injustices and snow, and the past will be buried by snowflakes.
Many people like "The Long Season" because it is not only a suspense drama, nor a cool drama, on the contrary, it is a very "unpleasant" drama.
The protagonists, all end in tragedy.
Gong Biao, who was "green" all his life, was still let down 20 years later, and finally had a car accident and left.
The horse captain, who solved the case, was robbed of the opportunity, took off his police uniform, and finally solved the case 20 years later, and also suffered a stroke.
What about Wang Xiang?
Is it really a bright ending?
At the end of "The Long Season", Wang Xiang saved Shen Mo with the sweater left by his son Wang Yang, the case was solved, and the truth of his son's death was finally ascertained.
Wang Xiang and Qiaoyun are together, and the adopted son Wang Bei who picked up has grown up and is also very contentious.
Finally, Wang Xiang, Qiaoyun, and Wang Bei sat in the car, passing by a cornfield, Wang Xiang asked for a small solution, and the car stopped on the side of the road and waited for him.
After that, Wang Xiang walked deep into the cornfield and saw in a daze a speeding train, the driver of which was himself 20 years ago.
You think that's how the story ends?
"The Long Season" actually has a hidden ending: Wang Xiang did not see himself 20 years ago in a daze, but fell into a cornfield.
Pay attention to this shot, when Wang Xiang walked forward, there was actually a fallen figure in the distance.
After the dust of the unsolved case 20 years ago settled, Wang Xiang also left this world one day. Later, the play presents him to see himself driving a train 20 years ago, which is an illusion.
This scene is so uncomfortable to watch.
Whether it is a bad person or a good person, it is impossible to escape a web of fate.
It is necessary to praise the director Xinxing, this time "The Long Season" is so successful, once again proving that his success in directing "Hidden Corner" 3 years ago is not accidental.
Director Xin Shuang's control of this drama is meticulous, and until the final ending, it is still quite detailed.
At the end of "The Long Season", Wang Xiang shouted to his 20-year-old self on the train:
Look ahead, don't look back.
However, in the blink of an eye, the story ended completely, and "The Long Season" lit up with subtitles, but the song at the end sounded:
"Looking Back".
So, should I not look back? Or is it time to look back?
Until the end of the story, director Xin Shuang is still poking our hearts with details.
If I can, I would like to give this show a score of 99, with 1 point left, so let's continue to savor the aftertaste in the long season.
Long season, the name of this play is so good, it seems like a dream.