This year's "May Day" holiday is expected to reach 240 million people traveling - how many zeros are there?
But.
I believe that there are still a group of friends who refuse to fit closely with the crowd early, but choose to praise every friend circle who bravely jumps into the sea of people in the middle of the night.
Then open Tencent Video and experience the same level of "Thai pants spicy" appeal.
Yes, and the 2023 Golden Monday broke the record.
There are also the highest scoring episodes of Douban in 2023:
Long season
The first work of Tencent Video [X Theater].
Douban opened with a score of 9.0, and Sir woke up today and rose another 0.1, all the way up to 9.5.
Director Xin Shuang followed "Hidden Corner" three years ago, plunged headlong into the cornfield of the fictional northeastern city of birchwood, dragged out the wheel of fate of two generations, spinning, replicating, illusory and profound.
Many viewers were shocked by Qin Hao, who even his wife Yi Nengjing could not recognize, plus Fan Wei and Chen Minghao, who also had the same acting skills.
There is also a "bad boy" trio with a clean temperament and explosive literary and artistic combat effectiveness.
The subject, is the Elderly Detective Corps? Cruel Youth Story? Northeast Renaissance?
The main line of the story is the crusoe of moving flowers and broken corpses? The dark glory of killing sexual abusers?
All of them, but none of them are accurate.
From the beginning of the broadcast, the poisoned rice chasing an episode every day urged in the background, talked, and plated.
Sir can only be patient, and did not release pixel-level full detail interpretation until today's finale.
Responsibly speaking, there are some details that you probably didn't expect, playing so deep and so big.
This is an unconventional review.
Each part will be guided by the details of the play, merging similar items.
What are you waiting for, start.
(This article involves spoilers, it is recommended to collect this article first, and then come to the details after watching the drama)
01
Titanic
Cameron's love blockbuster "Titanic" was released in Chinese mainland on April 3, 1998, and this American blockbuster has also become the most central symbol of "The Long Season".
In the autumn of the small northeastern city of Birch Forest, Wang Xiang (played by Fan Wei) has a line:
How is this season so long, going through so many things, it feels like a lifetime.
Until the first snowflakes fall in the last scene, dust returns to dust, earth to earth...
All the pain, sorrow, discord and unwillingness of the characters are also diluted, moisturized and buried by the gentle snowflakes.
It is likely that because Birch Forest is a small place, the most handsome in the city is Birch Steel, so the introduction of blockbusters is delayed in the local release, and pirated VCDs are also released.
"The second generation of steel" Wang Yang (played by Liu Yitie) and Shen Mo (played by Li Gengxi), a freshman of Hua Medicine mixed with a mysterious, pure, and shy temperament, formed a heavy bond at first sight, and the place where the two officially dated was the cinema to watch "Titanic".
However, Wang Yang made an appointment, and Shen Mo watched the whole film alone in the cinema with a little anxiety.
The audience focused on reviewing two scenes with Shen Mo's perspective.
In the first scene, Rose feels suffocated by the hypocrisy of old money.
Although she lived in a luxurious first-class cabin, she wore a belt that could break her ribs, and she was not fundamentally different from the poor people who could not see the light under the ship.
She was granted to men by her mother as a "plaything" of money games, so she felt that it was better to die, and impulsively planned to jump into the icy deep sea in the middle of the night, and was saved by Jack, who came out to breathe.
As a result, the classic line of film history was produced, "You jump, I jump".
The same plot was reproduced by Wang Yang and Shen Mo:
Shen Mo couldn't tell how he was imprisoned under the lewd power of Uncle Shen Dongliang, and the perverted uncle also pretended to give small actions such as lace princess dresses, pianos, and nail clipping as spoiled gifts.
Wang Yang confessed that he was frustrated, so he really jumped into the river to clear his mind.
In the second scene, Jack is immersed in biting seawater and Rose lies on a plank.
The two make a final goodbye, and in the end, Jack exchanges his life for life, and the two let the loved one live.
And this scene also foreshadowed the true fate of Wang Yang and Shen Mo.
Why is it that one minute, Wang Yang became a colleague of a nightclub because he met his beloved girl, happily taking a bath, looking at the mirror, and the next minute he was like a water ghost who had just crawled out, shivering in the gloomy light?
Why would Wang Xiang shout at the Xiaoliang River to the river that is so dark that he can only feel, I miss you, son?
Wang Xiang's place is the biting river.
He chose to let Shen Mo live.
Ross in "Titanic" survived by luck, and if he was reborn after arrival, he only remembered his true self when he died, and the youngest and most beautiful soul had long been buried in the deep sea with Jack.
This also coincides with Shen Mo's life in the second half.
Hua Gang, who was panicked because of the laid-off list, suddenly appeared in the case of shredding the corpse, and the severed finger with special fingerprints was mixed into the corpse, thus leading the police to conclude that this is the victim Shen Mo, and the perverted uncle also recognized the body.
But when many netizens chased more than half, they had already guessed that the body was someone else.
"Titanic" is certainly an important hint.
Wang Yang and Shen Mo are bitter officials, and their lives penetrate each other.
In the scene where the two meet to watch the train, the bag Wang Yang carries is the color of Shen Mo's clothes, red;
And the bag on Shen Mo's back, in turn, is the color of Wang Yang's clothes, denim blue.
Wang Yang also read a poem he wrote:
Snap your fingers, he said
We snap our fingers with a resonance
Distant things will be shattered
The people in front of him did not know at this time
Whistle, I said
You blow a slanted whistle
Like a piece of iron, then a needle
The arc of the magnetic pole flicks through the green glass
Have a glass of water and take a look at the river
Calm when calm, not calm
We missed a step
A small tear dripped on the stone
It will not dry up for a long time
It is said that this poem was written by Ban Yu, a literary planner and writer from Northeast China.
It actually hints at the fate of the two, of course, you can't literally think that "shattered" is "crushed corpse", but two messages:
The first is the life and death consensus of the two young men;
The second is that they really achieved the concealment, so the murders that occurred during the two-year alternation in 1997 and 1998 did not usher in a day of injustice until 2016.
In fact, there is also a poem about what happened to Wang Yang, if he died, why.
It was Wang Xiang who found it in his son's room, and a small book was full of poems that Wang Yang liked, including one that mentioned that his death would fail his father and make his mother cry.
All in all, it can be said that Wang Yang is a sensual and kind young man.
Jack shows Rose the table tap dance where the poor entertain themselves, and also paints a portrait of Rose, which is romantic;
Wang Yang also read poems to Shen Mo, gave his own pot wrapped meat, and taught the girl to use the bottom of the bottle to see the colorful fireworks of the steelmaking furnace.
Jack remained in the deep sea, forever young and handsome.
And Wang Yang remained forever on the bed of the Xiaoliang River in 1998, wet and forever separated from his parents who loved him deeply.
"Titanic" is a movie that belongs to Wang Yang & Shen Mo, but Sir thinks it also belongs to other people in the play.
The audience should remember the various reactions of people when the giant ship that claims to never sink is about to capsize, some people are panicking and exposing their inferior roots, fishing in troubled waters, and some people are ignorant and confused...
Letting the impending tragedy crush them, there are still people who decide to maintain the last decency and play the last song.
Similarly, the Huagang people represented by Wang Xiang and Gong Biao (played by Qin Hao) are also experiencing the sudden stop and capsizing of the historical giant ship.
Love is indeed fragile in the face of a more pathetic and huge "epic".
02
Red sweater
The first scene takes place in 1997.
In the middle of a green cornfield, the old-fashioned steam train roared through, and the train driver Wang Xiang confidently repeated his most comfortable operation, not realizing it:
This year, many changes will happen to Hua Lin, Hong Kong businessmen will come, will roll away the assets of the state-owned factories, and he also brings the most naked desire game:
What is the difference between humans and animals?
Hong Kong businessmen say that people who take off their clothes are no different from animals.
Regarding undressing, it is the domino that causes the mystery and determination in Shen Mo's character.
In the video hall of the deaf brother Fu Weijun, there are posters of Hong Kong movie Puzzle Boy, which also echoes the times.
At that time, Wang Xiang could not think of it, nor could he see it, he felt that he was the most qualified old man in Hua Gang, and he was the orthodox bloodline inheritance of this land.
The train hula-la drove forward, the camera panned to the sky, and Wang Xiang in 2016 was already white-headed, a taxi driver full of market wisdom.
The son around him changed from Wang Yang to his adopted son Xiaobei (played by Shi Pengyuan), and this old man's path to be a father has changed, no longer boasting of majesty, no longer being a good teacher, no longer forcing his son to take the road he has planned, and being the most red and seedling worker.
Xiaobei wanted to learn to draw, so he planned to accompany him to Beijing for the exam, and only when he was alone at home would he release his pathos and face the wet Wang Yang.
One thing remains constant:
I like to wear red sweaters the most, even if they are jumpers.
It was the son's first gift, woven from foreign wool.
His mouth was tight, but like a treasure, he stacked it like precious rice paper.
All the most important moments about his son, he wore this red sweater, including seeing Wang Yang for the last time, including planning to commit suicide by lying on the rails and being aroused by a baby cry, he held his abandoned son and heard someone shouting in mid-air:
Father.
In the last episode, Wang Xiang put on the new red sweater given by Xiaobei and finally decided to live well in 2016.
The red sweater is Wang Xiang's spirit.
As long as he wears it, he feels that he can be a responsible father, can help his son control and even reverse his fate, and this sweater also pins on the deep blood relationship between Wang Xiang's father and son.
In addition to Wang Xiang wearing a red sweater in the play, there is another person who also wears a red sweater, that is, Shen Mo's uncle Shen Dongliang.
He felt that he was Shen Mo's spiritual and even physical father, enjoying absolute power, and he said to Shen Mo, you have to be obedient, you are the uncle alone.
The red sweater permeated him with the horror of patriarchy pushing to the extreme.
When the uncle blocked Shen Mo in the cinema, his shadow devoured the girl's shadow.
The red sweater was made of wool, and at that time in the birch forest, sweaters and sweaters became an important daily routine after autumn.
In the play, yarn is also related to two important characters.
One is Wang Yang's mother, Luo Meisu, who has a basic heart disease, who earns medicine money by making sweaters to supplement the family, and when she learned that her son was in a bad time, she committed suicide by hanging colorful wool on a heating pipe.
There is also Wang Xiang's brother-in-law, Gong Biao.
A cousin who fell in love with Romesu, a little nurse who had a personal affair with the factory director, became a takeover man, especially unhappy and beat the factory director, from a college student in the 90s assigned to the factory office to the first place on the list of laid-off workers.
If he wanted to maintain the dignity of a reader, he arrogantly wrapped a green woolen scarf around his neck and flattened it well.
Green scarf and green hat don't mean it?
In 2016, Gong Biao, who had diabetes, wrapped his big belly in a sweater with yellow, ridiculously flamboyant.
These sweaters become the character skin of these characters.
It is the autumn color of the birch forest.
It is also black humor and the last stubborn bloom before the winter topping.
03
Stents, insulin, and urine bags
In 1998, despite the shredding of corpses, the "bad boys" trio were in the water, one was identified by the police as fragments of flesh and blood, and the other was put in prison.
But life goes on, like a train going out.
Just like that strange and familiar Northeast style record, the purest Northeast dialect and the most authentic life flow exist in this suspense drama without violating at all.
What is the most frequent thing in the lines in the play?
disease, and mainly related to aging.
Whether Luo Meisu coaxed her husband or her son, she would talk about her heart.
She had severe coronary heart disease and had a stent, the price was as high as a Santana, and the factory did not reimburse her.
Gong Biao, a pretentious college student, also took a taxi with his cousin-in-law, his living habits were extremely poor, his face was spread with pigment, acne scars, he had diabetes, while shouting that his blood sugar was high but persuaded people to drink the most positive.
Faced with his wife who "can't have children", he turned his regrets to the pigeon.
Ma Desheng (played by Chen Minghao), who solved the case that year, looked the healthiest, could not find evidence of Shen Dongliang's sexual assault of Shen Mo, and was provoked by the other party and angered, beat the other party, and as a result, wrote the inspection and lost the police office, saying that he quit smoking and smoked when he was bored.
Because I saw too many bastards and didn't plan to have children, in the first two years of 2016, my wife died of cancer in a hospital bed.
He was attached to a dog, named Xiao Li — the surname of a young colleague who was familiar with the officialdom culture within the system.
He jumped rumba and could slam the old lady into the air, but his heart was still heavy and he couldn't let go.
He squatted with Wang Xiang and Gong Biao to guard a case of hitting people with a deck and entered the play.
Wang Xiang insisted that the person who was hit refused to speak and went to the hospital to see the injury, and must be the person who killed Wang Yang that year.
The trio gags to amuse the audience.
But some sadness is like the urgency to urinate frequently, and you can't stop it.
Gong Biao's blood sugar was high, Wang Xiang's prostate couldn't stand it, and Ma Desheng, and finally suffered a stroke due to a sudden cerebral infarction, half crazy and half devil.
These old people are not in good health, and in the process of solving the case, they also encountered Xing San'er, the chief of the security section who tripped Wang Xiang's father and son, and had a grudge.
He made a living selling decks, had important clues, and a urine bag was revealed in the push, and it turned out that he had uremia.
Together, these diseases point in one direction:
The old and sick birch steel and the people who live in it.
Illness is a metaphor, a relationship with the appearance of life, and the repressed pain and frustration are turned into lesions.
At the same time, these diseases can be seen as a painful emotional bond between people, and they have smoothed out all the noise of the mentality in the aging age and reached a hot "reconciliation".
Xing San'er came to Wang Xiang's house with stupid eggs, took the initiative to inform the clues, and mentioned that Wang Yang also choked on tears.
Biao Zi wants to give Xiao Beiqian who will go to Beijing to study immediately, as a red envelope.
Wang Xiang turned his head and stuffed it to Xing San'er, saying that dialysis costs money.
They only have themselves, and only them, the old guys help each other, and this day can go on.
What to do in the face of these ridiculous and complaining things, as the number one fan of the Northeast divine drama "Ma Dashuai", director Xin Shuang paid a tribute, let the case-solving old man group sing K embarrassing dance in KTV, Wang Xiang said that life is not satisfactory, and can talk to people no different.
By the way, Wang Xiang went to a nightclub to find his son, and the doorman who stopped him was "crossed" from "Ma Dashuai".
What is the spirit of "Ma Dashuai"? Four words:
"Love it".
Because the bones of the three old men are kind, just, persistent, and sensible.
They lived into 2016 with the disease, confident that one day they would receive a fair answer.
The appearance of these diseases in the lines is also the "smoke bomb" in the play, and according to common sense, it seems that they will all fold in it, but in fact they are not.
Romesso died of maternal love, not heart disease.
Gong Biao was suspected of cuckolding again, so he simply divorced the little nurse's wife and left the house, carrying only insulin.
He released the track carrier pigeons who hoped to make a fortune and let them fly in the autumn air of the birch forest.
So, he finally won the lottery jackpot, and the taxi flew off the viaduct while the numbers were right.
Captain Ma had a stroke, and he ran to the police station where he worked and asked the real Xiao Li to pour tea for himself, crazy.
He told an ancient story of "monks and fast catchers", and Xiao Li was spirited when he heard it, saying old brother, it's better for you to solve the case.
The stroke is over, the blood vessels are blocked, and the memory is suddenly clear.
What people are most afraid of is not disease, but that their hearts are like dead ashes, blown away by the winds of the times, and never seen again.
04
Look forward, don't look back
There is a long-standing saying in the industry that look at the strength of new directors do not look at the debut, because there may be some accidental blessings.
It's best to watch the second part, that's the most powerful.
Well, "The Long Season" proves that there is something in the director's sassiness.
I won't say if I pick actors.
In addition to the three people of the old man group who solved the case, they all have unexpected shapes and painting styles.
Picking supporting roles is also amazing, for example, Hou Yansong, the actor of the perverted uncle, was originally a drama winner who won the Plum Blossom Award, and his performance in the play made people's blood pressure rise, and the sense of perversion was like Mount Tai overwhelming.
Especially singing "Twinkle and Twinkle" to cut Shen Mo's nails, which middle-aged man does not carry his own nail clippers, nail clippers are cut fingernails, have a sense of privacy, look small and sharp, is a secret symbol of violence.
As the plot progresses, he also continues the netherworld soundtrack that he is good at in "Hidden Corner", or children's songs or rock or folk songs, pushing the atmosphere into the secret realm of the audience's emotions again and again.
Many netizens have taken the initiative to share stories in their memories on social platforms, such as about layoffs and domestic violence.
In addition to these, Xin Shuang also has two classics, masterful tricks.
The first is transitions.
Many seemingly abrupt transitions, but when you think about it, they are so subtle and so fit.
For example, Shen Mo is taking a medical professional class, and the teacher of course has to introduce various human body structures, which are detailed and detailed.
Transition Now:
The middle school student appeared in the game hall and was targeted by Fu Weijun and his buddies, setting up a game, catching turtles in the urn, and discounting the young man's arm, but without being crippled.
So accurate, it can only be taught by Shen Mo.
If you think about it again, people who can crush corpses and throw corpses in different places must understand the physiological structure of the human body.
The second is the mirror relationship.
Xin Shuang once said:
The mirror can reflect a person in the other direction, what he cannot face, we can use the mirror to take it, at that time is peeking into his heart.
Wang Yang felt the joy of love to look in the mirror, he felt the slaughter of death to look in the mirror, and finally he also became a photo paper in the mirror.
After Ma Desheng suffered a stroke, Wang Xiang kindly cut his hair, and he immediately got inspiration as soon as he looked in the mirror: Is a person considered a monk by cutting his hair?
Therefore, the finger with special fingerprints and the meal card of Hua Doctor appeared in the corpse, is it considered Shen Mo?
A person can be dead, but he is alive, but he has stolen his identity.
Many viewers remember Xin Shuang because of "Hidden Corner", and he came to a little "after-sales service" in the new drama.
For example, Gong Biao's lines clearly cue the word "hidden corner", and his old partners Qin Hao, Liu Lin, and Shi Pengyuan also walked into the autumn.
Liu Lin's final destination in the play, an old wife who works in the school's academic office, plays an actor also from the "corner".
However, the "season" is again anti-"corner".
No longer like last time, at the beginning of the use of strong terriers to retain the audience, tell the audience who the murderer is, this time it is not until the last three episodes to reveal who the murderer of the broken corpse is, how many lives there are, and how Wang Yang died.
It seems that Xin Shuang followed a very traditional suspense path, but in fact he was not interested in this, and through the mixing and cutting of the 1997, 1998, and 2016 timelines, it was staggered forward.
Through clever camera transitions and non-linear narrative, this drama completely achieves respect for the characters, allowing their fate to be stunned with arbitrariness rarely seen in Chinese dramas, so the seemingly short season is suddenly stretched a lot.
Xin Shuang said through the mouth of Ma Desheng that he prefers the works of American novelist Raymond Chandler to classical detective stories such as Sherlock Holmes & Watson, of course, the most well-known is "The Long Goodbye".
There is a passage in the book:
"Time makes everything inferior and mediocre, devastated and wrinkled.
The tragedy of life is not an untimely death, but an increasing age and humility. ”
In the "season", all the old people who lived until 2016 felt the above situation.
Only Wang Yang did what he wanted to do, even if it was at a cost.
He became a poet of his time.
05
epilogue
Frankly speaking, this May Day Sir was a little surprised.
Because the biggest hit is not the usual theater five first file, but happened on the small screen.
Even more impressive:
"Explosion" is not simply traffic and word of mouth.
It is also from big to small, from grand to delicate, from swelling to deep expression of vitality.
"The Long Season" is an expensive drama, but its high price does not lie in the flashy, gimmicky, and audiovisual elements that satisfy the senses.
On the contrary, it wants to show the details of life that many dramas want to soften with filters at the moment.
It is the shocking skin texture on the actor's old age makeup, and it is also all the props in the character's living environment, which are not expensive, and they struggle to lie on the food and clothing line.
For example, the plywood dining table, the greasy exhaust fan, the corny color, the quilt where the cotton is not flattened, and so on.
It takes patience and courage to find these and make them appear in the right time and space.
"The Long Season" is a thick drama, but its heaviness is not the tragic sacrifices or uplifting victories in history books.
Instead, it takes the scale of human time and punches a resonant snapping finger that transcends time.
Almost all actors who appear in this show have to go through the "long season" and accept the image of "unbearable" aging, even if it is a cameo role.
A restaurant opened on a restaurant street in Huagang, and the second sister Xu (played by Ren Suxi), who found the broken corpse, was spicy and spicy and originally wanted to secretly have a tryst.
After getting old, he pulled double eyelids at the illegal beauty clinic opened by Gong Biao's daughter-in-law at home, and almost blinded.
Finally, "The Long Season" is a "rebellious" drama.
It's not just rebelling against the market and traffic that everyone is following the same trend.
More rebellious to yourself:
Before the episode aired, Sir noticed the small "Easter egg" on the poster.
Almost everyone showed their brightest smile, rich in color and highly saturated.
Only Fan Wei closed his eyes.
Many viewers followed the logic of "hidden corners":
Is Wang Xiang dead? Is it all a dream?
When Gong Biao divorced the little nurse, he said that so many years were like a dream.
But the audience will finally find that it turns out that this is a trick played by Xin Shuang on his past self.
What he really wants to say is that dreams always wake up, and the train driver with his eyes closed has been living in the nightmare of the past.
When the obsession is finally repaid, the next step is to open your eyes, move forward, and don't look back.
Turn around at this point.
The rest of us continue to get lost in the autumn of the birch forest town, turning back and forth in the poetic labyrinth of time and metaphor, sluggish, and then awakening.
Chinese opera finally uses a "long" literary way.
Left a group of viewers who were willing to stop.
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