Less than 10 hours after the 11th episode of "The Long Season" was launched, the Douban score of this drama rose from 9.2 to 9.3, the first ten episodes of the meticulous foreshadowing began to summarize the bombing, countless diving fans stayed up late to post articles, each expressing their opinions, chatting happily, domestic crime dramas have not been so lively for a long time...
"Long Season" was created by the original cast of "Hidden Corner", directed by director Xin Shuang, and actors such as Qin Hao and Liu Lin also returned to star. This drama focuses on Northeast characteristics, the whole story also has the background of the 98 Northeast layoff tide, the crew let the actor Fan Wei, who is deeply cultivated in the Northeast, play the protagonist (play core), and specially invited Ban Yu, one of the three masters of the Northeast Renaissance, to do literary planning.
Since director Xin Shuang is a fan of "Ma Dashuai", there are tributes to the soul of the Northeast - Fan Debiao everywhere in the play, and the whole drama can be regarded as a passionate collision between the "Van Debiao universe" and "hidden corners".
What kind of sparks did the two generations of gods in the south and the north make?
Next, let's enter the "long season" together.
One: The belated truth - eighteen years of unchanging autumn
"The Long Season" uses a case of shredded corpses as the introduction, and uses three timelines of 1997/1998/2016 to reveal the secret past of the small northeast city - Birch Forest.
At first glance at this drama, you will have the illusion that this is a suspenseful detective drama, which was the case with "Who Is He" and "Thirteen Years of Dust" some time ago, and the audience will automatically focus on the "detective case", especially the investigation process.
Like after the opening shredded corpse case, the protagonist Wang Xiang wants to save his job through meritorious service, and the "laid-off crisis" prompts the audience to pay special attention to the investigation process and look forward to the moment of solving the crisis.
However, when Chief Xing's urine bag is revealed, we gradually find that the focus of the story is not to tell how Wang Xiang solved the laid-off crisis (how to solve the case), but to show the impermanent fate of that generation.
The "truth" that the characters in the play find by solving the case is not the murderer, but a reason for "relief", they are trapped in a certain state and cannot extricate themselves, what traps them is the fetters of family affection, the shackles of the times, and the mockery of fate, they cannot obtain the "truth", the inner depression cannot be released, and life will be stagnant forever.
The title of the film is "Long Season", the protagonists in the play cannot get out of the haze of the year for various reasons, and Wang Xiang fell into a long grief due to the unknown death of his son; Gong Biao lost his job due to broken dreams of love, and began a life all the way down; Captain Ma offended the leader because of his angular personality, was excluded from the system, and did not even leave a retirement certificate ...
They are all trapped in the autumn of life, without the hope of spring, without the enthusiasm of summer, and without the determination of winter, because there is still the truth to be sought, and there are unresolved knots in their hearts, and they can only live without embarrassment or embarrassment.
The most important topic in the play is Wang Yang's poem:
Snap your fingers, he says / Let's snap our fingers in resonance / Distant things will be shattered / The people in front of you don't know at this time / Whistle a whistle, I say / You blow an oblique whistle / Like a piece of iron and then a needle / The arc of the magnetic pole brushes through the green glass / Drink a glass of water, and look at the river too / Calm when calm, when not calm / We missed a step / A small tear dripped on the stone / It will not dry up for a long time / Amber it is formed throughout the season / Lumpy flow, concrete light / Behind it is something far away...
At one time, they were all screws of the collective, when the times quietly changed, people who broke away from the collective could only face the snapping of fate's fingers alone, stepping into the long season alone, until they looked back eighteen years later, only to find that all the light of life had long dissipated in the moment of snapping their fingers, leaving a condensed tear...
Two: The sorrow of the times - the faces of the Northeast beings struggling to survive
Compared with the previous masterpiece "Hidden Corner", "Long Season" is not the kind of story with a strong plot and strong narrative, and its most touching places are all concentrated on the plump and three-dimensional group portraits of characters.
The series begins with a traveling train, a hopeful scene, and after the story begins, it gradually turns into a cold reality, and the more it goes on, the more painful it gets.
The shattered corpse and the disintegrated birch steel are a set of contrasting images, and the series uses the shredded corpse case to see through the video about the collapsed birch steel, and the birch steel reflects the wave of layoffs that swept the northeast in 98.
There is a plot in the play: Wang Xiang went to Victoria to pick up his son from work on a rainy night, he saw a group of escort girls from work and their husbands at the back door, here the episode made a deletion, in fact, Wang Xiang saw his colleague with his son to pick up Qiaoyun, he left quickly, and then made up his mind to send his son into the factory and completely stay away from the nightclub.
This scene is a true portrayal of the wave of layoffs in those years, those families who lost their jobs and lacked livelihood skills had to take the unspeakable road, many husbands drove their wives to nightclubs to work every day, and they silently squatted at the back door waiting for their wives to leave work, but if there is another way to make a living, who would be willing to do that!
There is a plot in the play that best reflects the relationship between the individual and the times:
When Luo Meisu enlightened his son Wang Yang, he said that our generation is used to being arranged, like a circle on the body, staying inside, stepping on the line is afraid.
The wave of layoffs from state-owned enterprises means that the circle is gone, and without the protection of the collective, individuals have to meet the brilliance of life alone.
It is precisely under the extreme conditions of the wave of layoffs that the desire and darkness of human nature are stimulated and breeded, pulling those ordinary people to sink like a butterfly effect:
The honest model worker who drives the train has been repeatedly rectified because of unfavorable accidents, and his family is ruined; College students in the 90s worked hard to pursue love, but they were involved in the vortex of the factory director and their lover, and their future was ruined; The policeman who insisted on justice and was unwilling to compromise was scolded by his younger brother that year, and he had nowhere to cry after holding his breath and crying.
The majestic chief of the security section, who suffered from uremia after losing his job, could only shrink into his former coat in an attempt to maintain the last decency; A nurse with high appearance and high emotional intelligence was abandoned by the factory director, lost her fertility, and ended up in social death; In order to treat their children, laid-off female workers opened their faces to accompany alcohol, but because they were old, no one cared, did not earn money, did not want to go home, and could only sing "Little Star" to their children with a crying voice on the phone.
It is so difficult for adults to make a living, and the situation for children is even more dangerous.
Yin Hong grew up in a single-parent family, her mother had no money to treat her illness and drink medicine to commit suicide, she fell into a happy scene where she consumed the goodness of human nature, did not hesitate to sell friends for money, fell into the darkness, and finally attracted the scourge of killing.
The parents of the silent sisters and brothers died of work injuries, the younger brother was deaf and dumb and was kicked by various kicks, and he was adopted and violated by the uncle, and finally survived to college, has the ability to earn money independently, and wants to be a regular business student with his younger brother, first the uncle's ghost is not dispersed, and he dies with nude photos, and then he was betrayed by his only friend, sexually assaulted by Hong Kong businessmen, and then the video hall was smashed, cutting off the only way to make a living...
In that era, mixed up were Song Yukun, the director of the Birch Steel Factory, who used the transformation of state-owned enterprises to make profits, and Lu Zhongwen, a speculative businessman from Hong Kong; is a policeman who never does much to do and is good at sharing worries for the top - Li Qun; Uncle Shen Dongliang, who was born as a cadre of a spinning mill, was good at camouflage, good at sociability, and good at using the power of his comrades-in-arms.
In reality, the mother of the famous singer Qu Wanting, Zhang Mingjie, is an extended and enlarged version of Song Yukun, who not only uses state-owned resources to enrich her own pockets, but also embezzles the resettlement funds of laid-off workers, and the anger and pain contained in this is not what a drama can tell, those bubbles crushed by the giant wheel of the times, only a "don't look back, look forward" wishes.
Three: Easter egg inventory - Van der Biao universe hits a hidden corner
The previous content is too heavy, and finally something interesting, the director Xin Shuang has had a fan addiction in this drama, leaving a very rich Easter egg:
Easter egg 1 pays tribute to Fan Debiao: As long as you shoot a Northeast drama, it is difficult not to be influenced by the soul character Fan Debiao, and Fan Wei's new drama "Ligong - Old Things in the Northeast" at the beginning of this year can be regarded as a derivative drama of the Fan Debiao universe.
"The Long Season" is no exception, whether it is the nickname of Gong Biao's "Biaozi", or the eye-catching "Guiying Beef Restaurant" in the community, as well as the bravado of various characters, all kinds of pretense X, everywhere reveals the shadow of Fan Debiao.
Both dramas have a Victoria nightclub, the doorman is still the same actor, facing the face of the frosty Wang Xiang, the doorman asked suspiciously: Have we met there? Brother Biao, who used to be in the limelight, could only answer with a smile: I recognized the wrong person.
The director also specially arranged Wang Xiang to sing "Where Peach Blossoms Bloom" again in the way of Brother Biao, and even Jiang Dawei couldn't be saved by the transfer.
Easter egg 2 pays tribute to Lou Ye: The movie that Gong Biao asked Liru to watch in the play is "Spring Breeze Drunken Night" directed by Lou Ye and starring Qin Hao. Because Yu Dafu has an article called "Spring Breeze Drunken Night", and the film is a story involving gay men, Gong Biao complained: The film was chosen wrong, and I thought it was Yu Dafu and Lin Huiyin, and the two masters were chopae...
The image style and marginal issues of many scenes in the series are very similar to Lou Ye, especially the clips of Shen Mo, Fu Weijun, and Wang Yang burning cars, which is simply a reproduction of the scene of "A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind".
Easter Egg 3 Tandem "Hidden Corner": The first two Easter eggs are just tributes, and the third is directly connected to the universe.
In the third episode, a gangster at the police station said to Gong Biao: Look at your eyes. This hooligan is called Wang Li, and Wang Li, the younger brother of Wang Yao in "Hidden Corner", is the same character, who was later stabbed to death by Zhang Dongsheng, played by Qin Hao, so it is familiar to the eyes.
According to the timeline, Wang Li committed crimes in the northeast and squatted in the class room for several years, and returned to his hometown in the south after coming out, and then the story of "hidden corner" happened.
Easter Egg 4 Poet A Yu: Wang Xiang found a book of poems in his son's desk and read a few words casually: Such a moment / Let me be buried before my father / Let my mother sing with an elegy / Sleep for me and for the four seasons on earth.
These poems are from the famous work of Heilongjiang poet A Qiao, "The Death of Ah Qiao", one of the top ten avant-garde poets of the 90s, who was quite influential in the poetry world, and served as the deputy editor of Songhuajiang Finance magazine and the director of the World Chinese Poets Association (Hong Kong).
Taiwanese singer doll, once had a cross-strait relationship with Ah Qiao, she needs to often fly back and forth between the two sides of the strait, huge expenses make herself very embarrassed, Li Zongsheng learned her love story, composed the famous song "Across the Ocean to See You".
Because Ah Yu often took leave to participate in poetry activities in various places, conflicts broke out with the leaders of the unit, and eventually resigned in anger (in fact, expulsion). Deprived of the shelter of his unit, he lacked means of livelihood and gradually embarked on the road of crime, and in 1997 he was executed for robbery and homicide.
The few poems quoted in the play hint at Wang Yang's fate and bury the poet's Easter eggs, which is a unique style of that era.
The above is an inventory review of "The Long Season", this drama has great stamina and rich details, welcome to leave a message to add.