Finally! Finally saw a suspense drama that can break through the ceiling in the domestic drama market!
"The Long Season" was crowned a god in a battle, and Douban can still score as high as 9.5 points with 190,000 scores, who else?
In fact, originally I didn't have much expectations for this drama, after all, although the actors are well-known, they are not very popular.
And the publicity is not strong enough, the title of the play is quite literary and fresh, who would have thought that the more you look at it, the more you go up.
When he saw Shen Mo, played by Zhang Jingchu, come back for revenge after 18 years, holding his eldest lady and asking calmly, goosebumps suddenly rose.
Wang Xiang's choice also makes people see the brilliance of human nature.
That red sweater is still gone forever, maybe this is the last thing Wang Yang can do for Shen Mo.
Obviously, the end of everyone has been revealed, and the truth of the case has also come out, but this heart is empty.
It can only be said that the stamina is too great, and it touches people's hearts from the plot to the actors.
It is difficult to see such a wonderful suspense drama, especially in the current situation of endless bad dramas, it seems that the director Xin Shuang is a suspense drama ghost.
So why on earth can "The Long Season" be a god?
Why can people not calm their hearts after reading it?
The three highlights in the play are enough for Chinese directors to learn for a while.
The texture of life is rich, and the group portraits of the characters are grounded
Why does the drama "The Long Season" arouse a strong inner resonance among the audience? There are only three words for this reason: grounding.
At first glance, this drama is not like a suspense drama, but more like a life drama.
In the 90s, ordinary working-class families like Wang Xiang lived in small houses allocated by units.
Is it true enough to complain all day because medical expenses are not reimbursed?
The retired old lady picks up garbage every day, and when she encounters a passerby with a big temper, she has to be complained twice, is it familiar?
and a poor woman like Li Qiaoyun, whose husband and children were sick, and had to come out as a drinking girl.
There is also Gong Biao, divorced in middle age, won the lottery but suffered a car accident, and finally took nothing away.
Not to mention the silence that struggled with the aggression of his adoptive father.
How many suspense dramas can do this kind of real fate and character shaping?
Feng Xiaogang also brought the audience a suspense drama "Echo" that seems to have a texture of life this year.
But in the play, either the professor cheated on the female writer, or the rich man is looking for a mistress, and the feelings of all members are broken, what is there except dog blood?
Not to look at the plot, but to look at life, to see life and fate through the characters, this is the bright spot of "The Long Season".
The suspense atmosphere does not rely on the picture, and it is very scary to think about it
A good suspense story doesn't actually use those dark and dark pictures and the ghost of the woman in red to create the atmosphere.
Like "Who is the Murderer" no matter how scary it is at the beginning, it is useless, and as the plot develops, the content becomes more and more boring or for nothing.
There is also "Who is He", the eye-catching design of disgusting scenes of scooping up corpses in sewers and looking for corpses in garbage trucks is just a momentary suspense, not enough to poke the heart.
Being able to create a suspenseful atmosphere without relying on sound effects and pictures, but being shocked by the plot in the process of chasing the drama, thinking carefully is terrifying, which is called suspense.
And this happens to be a refreshing masterpiece.
In "Hidden Corner", he asked Qin Hao to successfully let the audience into the play with the sentence "Do you see if I still have a chance".
And in this new drama, Xin Shuang put a big move at the end of the first episode.
Wang Xiang grabbed Wang Yang, who was drenched in wetness, and nervously chanted, "Dad must give you an explanation."
As a result, as soon as the camera turned the next day, Wang Yang's posthumous photo was hanging on the wall.
There was no need for an eerie filter at all, and this scene made my scalp tingle.
There is also Shen Mo was pulled by the uncle with his small hand to cut his nails, because he was disobedient and was pressed on the bed by the uncle to draw a belt.
There is no large-scale picture, but the audience understands what pain Silence has experienced since childhood.
In addition, the parallel narrative technique of three timelines can also fill this sense of suspense.
From suspecting that it was silent who was crushed to speculating that silence replaced Yin Hong.
I think many viewers are like me, one second they are confused, the next second they suddenly realize, and then they are cold, and they are shocked by these strung clues.
In fact, most of the shots in this new drama are bright and warm.
Even when silently killing Yin Hong, the picture was extremely clear, and even the blood that hit her face was clear.
Isn't that suspenseful? Obviously, it is more intuitive to feel this fear.
The core is profound, intriguing, and the ending sublimation is too wonderful
I still remember that "Who Is He" The early stage of the play was very popular, and the plot was mysterious.
However, in the end, even the murderer of the shredded corpse case was not found, and the evidence of the serial murder case was already in the hands of the heroine, that is, it was not given to the police.
This ending seems to be lonely, and it also led to the collapse of word of mouth from 8.2 points all the way to 5.9 points.
Is it that suspense dramas are destined to be "tigers and snakes"?
"The Long Season" slapped its face hard, and suspense dramas in the past rarely scored 9.0 points.
Not to mention that as the finale approached, word of mouth rose all the way to 9.5 points.
And the finale of the play is the last "weapon" to break the ceiling of the suspense drama.
How energetic a reversal of the ending is? Not really.
The murderer was silent, and Wang Yang drowned in order to save her, in fact, the audience had already guessed.
But why do people have tears on their faces?
The sense of sadness, this is my biggest feeling after watching the ending.
"How is this autumn so long? It's like a lifetime."
Wang Xiang spent more than ten years looking for the truth, a truth that no one believes.
It turns out that Wang Xiang is right, Wang Yang can't commit suicide, but he was not killed, he was just killed by his own kindness.
Kindness ruined his family, but kindness saved his father.
At the station, because Wang Bei picked up a life, and now because of Wang Bei's call, Wang Xiang has sobered up again.
At the end, he sees himself 18 years ago, running and shouting "Look ahead, don't look back".
It is a farewell to the past, and it is also a reminder to everyone that even if there are regrets and grievances, life should also look forward.
With the background music of "Looking Back", it can't help but make people's throats hurt.
A tragic song about fate was presented to the audience in this way.
Not only that, the old horse who adheres to the police mission, and Gong Biao, who has an unsatisfactory life,
One wrong step and one wrong step, the silence forced by fate to the corner, and Fu Weijun, who gave up his life for family affection, both appear at the end of the film.
They are either angry or embarrassed.
"A grain of sand of the times, falling on everyone's shoulders is a mountain"
It is too appropriate to use this sentence to describe the fate of each character in "The Long Season", and the sublimation of the ending makes people find that even for Netflix, this show is no less.
All in all, Chinese directors! I beg you to learn how to make suspense dramas by the director of "The Long Season", it is impossible to achieve a breakthrough by always resting on your laurels.
From the quality to the picture, to the plot and character shaping, every point of interest is poked at the audience's heart, looking forward to the next work can bring the audience a greater surprise, so do you think "The Long Season" is worth 9.5 points?