I once thought that "Hidden Corner" was a rare masterpiece of life flow suspense drama, but when I saw "Long Season", I understood that sure enough, the spicy director must be rushing to the ceiling as soon as he made a move.
The first episode was conquered, the first thirty minutes, from the plot, picture composition, actor performance are capitalized: This still can't win you?
Douban scored 9.0 and had no moisture. A total of 12 episodes, high open and exploded, the finale was broadcast, the score rose to 9.5, worthy of a sentence, worth it.
I even asserted that this is the best domestic drama I have seen in ten years. 2023 If there is a "Renaissance", "The Long Season" counts as a deal.
The biggest feature of life stream works is that they allow living characters to crack the suspense and tell the truth of life.
"Hidden Corner" makes the audience unforgettable "bad boys", Zhang Dongsheng, who is afraid to take you up the mountain, and many parents reflect on whether they are better than the mother who urges her children to drink milk.
"The Long Season" trains the fate and times through the "birch forest", presenting the Shen Mo youth group, the middle-aged and elderly group represented by Wang Xiang, and the audience seems to walk through the cornfield when participating in the sadness and joy of the characters, thinking about the loss and hope in life.
Wang Xiang, the love of a good father, do you understand?
In reality, hundreds of millions of elderly people, in film and television dramas, they seem to be reduced to "scraps", so-and-so's evil mother-in-law, so-and-so's troublesome father...
"The Long Season" is different, giving Wang Xiang, played by Fan Wei, enough scenes to show the cut of an aging person in the long years.
The role of Wang Xiang reminds one thing that no one has a candle for a long time, and he has also had time to hold his head high.
Wang Xiang has two identities: Hua Gang's train driver and Wang Yang Wang Bei's father. Corresponding to two time periods, in 97/98, Wang Xiang, who was proud of his labor, faced a work crisis; In 2016, the elderly man who was consumed by life re-explored the truth about his own son.
Wang Xiang, who was around 1998, considered himself the leader of the engine section, and always said that the first sled soil of Birch Steel was the credit of his father. He has a little pride in his work, which is a middle-aged man's way of achieving balance between inside and outside with self-knowledge.
Wang Xiang's wife said to her son, "There has always been a circle in our generation, and we are in the circle step by step, and we are afraid to step on a line..."
In Wang Xiang's cognition, although he understands that his strength cannot do Xing San'er, he is also an indispensable member of Hua Gang's circle.
At this stage, his main focus was on solving the case and protecting the work.
Hua Gang "Watson", analyzing the case is not pure, doing his best, following Ma Desheng with a smile. However, in the face of his wife and children, he blew his beard and glared in three or two sentences, which was somewhat rough.
This family, he has the final say, especially for his son who is eager to go out and wander, Wang Xiang's answer is to draw a stable circle, hoping that Yang'er will enter the factory and repeat his path.
Like many families, father and son do not have time to have a peaceful dialogue, and the family relationship has broken due to a major turning point in life.
In the seventh episode, Wang Xiang mistakenly believes that Yang'er has made bad friends and committed a crime, and stiffly ties up the child. And Yang'er couldn't tell the truth to her relatives.
The father's "glory" and the son's secret collision is like a derailed train, and the old driver Wang Xiang cannot control it after all.
The train of the times skims Wang Yang's youth overture and Wang Xiang's mid-life crisis at great speed, and the extreme case occurs, leaving only a confused and sad father in a family.
After 18 years of changing seasons, another boy grew up sitting in the back seat of Wang Xiang's bicycle.
Wang Xiang was old, and he treated this son much softer, always saying "it's okay, it's okay", and tried his best to fulfill Wang Bei's desire to learn painting. In the past, he mocked Yang'er for not writing poetry, but now he is willing to admit his limitations and encourage Beifei to fly out of the circle of birch steel.
The gray hair is the trace of countless nights thinking about Wang Yang's death, Ma Desheng laughed at him, in fact, he couldn't let go of the guilt and longing for Yang'er.
This is a typical Chinese imperfect father. A lifetime of diligent and earth-shattering achievements, using his own experience to plan for his children, scolding loudly, drowning out unspeakable love.
It is clear that Wang Xiang believes that his son will not steal, but he personally breaks Yang'er's self-esteem in front of everyone, which further worsens the relationship between father and son.
For 18 years, Wang Xiang asked the truth about his son's drowning, and it was also the result of his son's choice between relatives and dangerous lovers.
If that slap hadn't been slapped, wouldn't the story have been different? If he was willing to appreciate Yang'er's poems back then, would there be another continuation of the father-son relationship?
"The Long Season" does not want to criticize Wang Xiang, life has problems for every first-time parent, and the situation of each family is different, and it is lucky to find clues to reflect life from fictional stories.
This also corresponds to the director's own educational philosophy for children, without harming others, casually living according to his own wishes.
Shen Mo, fight against fate, cruel survival
"Hidden Corner" exposes that children can also be "bad", and this time the Shen Mo sisters and brothers reveal the cruel survival rules of the bitter teenager (female).
The sibling, who lost her parents at a young age, was adopted by a demon in human skin, disgusted with his brother's disability, and thrown into a welfare home, and the raised sister became the plaything of the uncle.
Obviously, "The Long Season" did not want to portray Shen Mo as an unfortunate silent.
She has a beautiful appearance, can play the piano, was admitted to the Medical University, and Shen Mo was originally tenaciously growing into the sun.
She tried to break free from the unhealthy uncle's house, was admitted to Hua Doctor, and planned to start a new life with Fu Weijun. It was the malice of superposition, and one hammer after another completely shattered the calm that Shen Mo disguised.
Uncle still comes to entangle and torture, classmates and teachers see her as dirt, fake friend Yin Hong, and rhetoric Boss Lu brings devastating damage.
She works hard and learns, and also releases goodwill in the bitter water, guarding the bottom line and not falling.
In the ninth episode, Shen Mo asked Yin Hong, have I hurt you?
She had kindly helped this girl who was also not favored by life, and sincerely asked Yin Hong if she could change jobs. But I never expected to be betrayed by her.
Hearing that Yin Hong did not have a trace of regret, and learned that the goodwill was used instead of nowhere to be placed, Shen Mo "blackened".
Is the beautiful girl good to die, or will she bear more danger?
Perhaps in the case of parental protection, beauty is the icing on the cake, and if the teacher can trust and protect her, she can still study with peace of mind.
And Shen Mo had to face the thoughts of adults possessing or jealous of her too early.
Why is Yin Hong willing to help Li Qiaoyun block wine, but it will harm Shen Mo?
Li Qiaoyun, who was probably decayed, reminded her of her mother who had worked hard all her life, and Shen Mo, who was purer than her at the same age, made her lose her conscience.
She said that she wanted to become Shen Mo. She didn't know that Shen Mo had worked hard to not get close to Mo Hei.
Why was Shen Mo violated by Boss Lu and didn't go to the right place and the right person for help?
Perhaps because the people she meets are always exposing the dark side of human nature.
There is a question in the play, "Do you know what is the difference between humans and animals?" ”
Boss Lu's answer is that people who take off their clothes are animals. The party who holds the money tends to primitive desires.
And Shen Mo gave a counterattack: "People have to pay for what they have done." Silent, she finally broke out, uncontrollable, and turned from a victim to a perpetrator.
Wang Yang came to persuade her, and Shen Mo felt only loneliness,
Although she encountered bad luck at the beginning of adulthood, it was still different, Wang Yang had parents she could rely on, and she had never trusted adults.
At that moment, she was selfish, almost really turned into Yin Hong, and lost another person who really loved her.
Helpless, all she can think of is that if she is not willing to be played by fate for a lifetime and wants to seek a way to survive, the only way is to fake her death and escape.
Sigh more, Fu Weijun and Wang Yang can't complete Shen Mo's "change of life", she is selfish, in fact, there are other choices.
It's a pity that Shen Mo didn't know that Ma Desheng's justice still existed, and couldn't help but teach Shen Dongliang a lesson for her.
"Long Season" is a letter to a girl like Shen Mo who has been in the shadows: fate is cruel, there must be another way to go out.
After watching 12 episodes, many places are worth "looking back again", and the post-80s generation expressed the world view of autumn temperament:
Who hasn't encountered a few unfair things in this life, remember, look forward, don't look back, go to the light, and try to be a good person.