"The Long Season" opened with a score of 9.0 and ended with 9.5, successfully entering the top 5 strongest dramas in domestic entertainment in the past 5 years (the other 4 parts are "The Silent Truth" in 2020, "The Age of Awakening" and "Mountains and Seas" in 2021, and "Daughter of the Mountain" in 2022).
At first, I glanced at the background of the episode and said that it happened at the end of the last century in the old factory area of the northeast, and I was not very interested at that time, and even a little giggling:
"Undocumented Crime", "Moses on the Plain", "Double Detective"... Conan traveled to the northeast, homicides everywhere?
If it weren't for the director's filming of "Hidden Corner", it might have crossed it out.
All the way to the finale, I recalled it, put the suspense drama in the background of the northeast, maybe I can take this temperament of bitter pleasure like Fan Debiao properly.
Is it funny?
"The Long Season" itself is not a brain-burning crime film, it is the story of a middle-aged man who embarks on the road of pursuing the murderer again 18 years after the death of his biological son.
Fan Wei plays the protagonist of the chase, Wang Xiang, an ordinary taxi driver.
18 years ago, he helped the horse team solve the case, but not only did he not make a contribution, but his son Wang Yang was also involved in the case (and finally died); After 18 years, he found a retired horse team, as well as a brother-in-law who had always had bad luck but especially liked everything. The three decide not to report the crime first, and join forces to become a Maori detective agency to find the mysterious man whose back looks a lot like the murderer.
I originally wanted to hold back my laughter halfway through watching the play, but it was really not bad for Fan Wei, because everyone else besides him was also very funny, and everyone had their own fun.
Because the train driver Master Wang did not want to be laid off, he tried to give the criminal police a "supernumerary reference" for the shredded corpse case that occurred in the old factory area, but he was disgusted by the corpse and vomited, and invented the special constitution of "seasonal nausea in the wind".
In the blink of an eye, the retired horse team was dancing in the tumultuous Latin, and I couldn't wait to find a dress to put on Chen Minghao.
Teacher Chen simply grasped the essence of dancing in those middle-aged and competitive retirees: the dance partner is not important, the standard is not important, the important thing is to come up with a demeanor that although the hair seam is getting wider and wider, my chest is still as firm as it was back then.
Regardless of whether the chest is chest muscles or fat, shake up.
Qin Hao's brother-in-law Gong Biao and Master Wang and his cousin (that is, his future wife) drove a black car in the steel factory dormitory, and there was a bag of books for self-defense on their chests, which was called ↓
I estimate that Xin Shuang has to use "Ma Dashuai" as a bedtime reading to dig out that the nightclub is also called "Victoria", enter the KTV point "Where Peach Blossoms Bloom", Ma Desheng + Gong Biao = Debiao such a rotten terrier, the doorman is still the one in Victoria.
Friends who can get the black humor of the Northeast should soon understand that Sherlock Holmes, Maron Delansheng, Freud Biao, one instigated, one mad, one Lai, and the pride in their names, do not have much to do with it.
I believe that there are several friends with such characteristics around you. Substitution, such three are not two tigers, happy by nature, or stunned, they want to join forces to investigate the truth of a past incident, then the shadow and damage caused by this matter to the three people is by no means so superficial and ridiculous.
Do you deserve it?
Among the suspects in this case, the past of the people directly involved is a history book composed of blood and tears.
[Here are heavy spoilers!!! 】
The truth of the shredding case is that the Hong Kong businessman teamed up with a drinking girl to violate Shen Mo, a female college student who was violated by her adoptive father since she was a child, so Shen used medical knowledge to kill two people in a row, and with the help of his dumb brother and boyfriend (that is, Master Wang's son), he threw the corpse, and disguised himself as a victim + the illusion of Hong Kong businessman and the escort girl running away, and returned to kill his adoptive father and mother many years later, and was discovered by Master Wang.
The escort girl wanted to help Hong Kong businessmen invade Shen Mo, on the one hand, she was jealous that "female college students are more popular", and on the other hand, it was for money.
When she was a child, she worked with her single mother to make money by pushing a pan-frying flour stall, and in order to save money to buy a privately filled gas canister, the gas canister exploded, and her mother had no money to treat severe burns, so she committed suicide by taking poison. Shen Mo treated her as a friend, and she backhanded Shen Mo drunk and sent him to the bed of a Hong Kong businessman.
And the accomplice of the corpse, Shen Mo's younger brother Xiao Dumb, due to physical defects, his uncle was unwilling to adopt, so he separated from Shen Mo. After the family that adopted the little dumb had their own child, the little mute could only make a living on his own and became a ruthless street fighter.
In a world where there is no sound and no expression, the escort who wants to eat hot wontons that night is the only first love he has ever loved. But after being rejected by the escort, he passively accepted the fact that his sister packed the girl he liked into several plastic bags, and found the small hairpin he gave her in a bag of minced meat.
The poor, the disabled, the violated girls, hurt each other.
The mastermind Shen Mo lost his parents when he was a child, was adopted and violated by his uncle, and when he grew up, he was threatened by his uncle with nude photos and betrayed by friends to local tycoons. She expected love from normal men, but she did not dare to accept Wang Yang's unsolicited tolerance.
She originally planned to kill the escort girl and the Hong Kong businessman, so she jumped into the river to find death, but Wang Yang went into the water to save her and sacrificed herself, so she had to spare her life - she must live to be worthy of Wang Yang's efforts.
Are they born to choose sin? No, each of them, halfway through, thought about changing and reversing their fate.
The escort said that she had worked a lot of jobs and wanted to live a good life through labor; The little mute once opened a video store, which was shabby but also a legitimate job; Shen Mo is a work-study student and wants to get rid of his uncle's control.
People want to live a decent life, and they have to go through a lot of hardships in the middle; But fate wants you to fall, to overturn, to make you fall. Some people's roads are very bumpy, and it is really too easy to step on a thunder that blows themselves up to cloud nine.
Shen Mo did go to work in a nightclub, and because she went to work in a nightclub, she met the person who violated herself, but you won't think she deserves it; The little mute is indeed a law of the jungle and repeatedly hurts people, and eventually he was imprisoned for assisting in throwing corpses, but you don't think he deserves it.
The escort girl has a bad intention, in a sense, she is dead in a sense, but it is difficult to make people conclude that they deserve to die or live. For money, for love, for healing wounds, for dignity, their dreams don't sound so difficult to achieve, but they can't be realized.
Their lives, like the feather that the escort pulled from the white bedding, seemed pure and dreamy, but in fact it was as light as a feather, and no one cared where it disappeared. What's more cruel is that the bottom and bottom often compete in a knockout like a way that hurts each other.
In contrast to the three young people were the thousands of workers in the steel mills, or in other words, all those who could not break free from their fate on their own.
Is it good to cry?
Wang Xiang's profession as a train driver is interesting: the dust rolled up by the train spreads for a long time, the horn is also very long, and it runs a long time in terms of the efficiency of today's transportation.
Painful memories are always long compared to pleasure. If it is a collective memory, it is even longer.
The background of the story is that at the end of the 90s, large enterprises were experiencing a wave of layoffs. Master Wang, who has worked in the steel mill since his father's generation, is also a model worker of the unit, but he was put on the list of laid-offs.
He tried hard to keep his job, so he endured the nausea and wanted to make a contribution to the police force, so that he could escape the fate of losing his job.
At that time, what did it mean to be laid off? When a group of people reach middle age, low-level laborers who have no other survival skills than the work in the factory, layoffs often mean that there is nowhere to go - to start a small business, more people sell bud rice on the road than they buy.
He didn't want to stand at the door of a nightclub on a late autumn winter night, waiting for his wife who went to accompany him to "get off work"; He didn't want his son to be like those idle gangsters, with nothing to do every day, mixed up on the pool table and small broken doors.
But can people really stop the trend of the times?
The chief of the security section who is difficult to make it difficult for himself everywhere, because he is suffering from uremia, now he has to hang a urine bag and do some illegal and undisciplined reselling license plates outside. The factory has been closed for many years, and the workers are looking for their own way out.
Qiao Yun, a female colleague who struggled to lie back then, was married and had children in order to earn some extra money to subsidize the family, and her husband was waiting for her outside at night.
This is the epitome of many families at that time.
Steel mill beings, diligent, intelligent, brave, have skills that can be put together, they have done nothing wrong, and what greets them may be a downhill future.
Master Wang, who prides himself on being an activist and model worker, not only offended the factory director, but also lost his son and wife; Gong Biao, who was born as a college student, lost his ascent channel for love, and has no children in the foreseeable future; Ma Desheng, the criminal police captain with a head and a face, beat Shen Mo's uncle in anger, so he voluntarily resigned and removed his proud identity.
Hardship and ability did not protect Master Wang's family, intelligence and cleverness did not protect Gong Biao's future, and status and identity did not maintain the honor of Captain Ma.
Sometimes the so-called ideal or dream does not shine because it moves closer to it, but is swept into the torrent, and even what was owned in the past is burned together. Even if there is good luck, it is like coming on credit, and it will always be returned with interest.
This is also the main reason why "The Long Season" opens high and goes high:
People often think that misfortune is an accident, but perhaps misfortune is an irregular but balanced normalcy. When people are having a good time, they will feel that bad luck is far away from them, thinking that they have a strong ability to resist pressure and are a natural blessing, but in fact, when the tide of fate beats on them, they find that everyone is not too different.
Whether it is hard work, alertness, bravery, or having money and power for a while, these will not become an eternal talisman, and when it expires, you can't imagine that the shelf life will be so short.
Sister E's epilogue
There is a very interesting arrangement in "The Long Season", this drama has only 12 episodes, which is divided into 1234 chapters according to chapter back, and the third chapter is 11 episodes long, and the remaining 3 chapters combined have 1 episode.
Because that tragedy happened in the autumn, the autumn is extraordinarily long.
But autumn is also known as the golden season, and if the last glory of the employees of the big factory in the late 90s, it also reminds the audience that although the northeast is always gray and frosty in TV dramas now, it used to be brilliant.
Some viewers commented on this drama, which seems to be about murder, but it is actually about fate. Everyone wants to forget the pain, as if it never happened. But this kind of "looking forward and not looking back" comes at a price -
If in order to shake off the past, you become a treacherous person who sticks a knife at a friend like a wine girl, no matter how much you want to chase the footsteps of the times, you will only be crushed under the wheel by the torrent.
"The Long Season" is out of the ordination if it just talks about suffering. Those who can continue to live in 2016 without disease and disaster are like Qiaoyun, the sky can not be crushed when it falls, and the heavens are grass mustards, and they must shake out the triumphant song of fate.
The play spends a long time depicting two kinds of suffering: the suffering of being tortured to death by life, and the suffering of being tortured by life but still alive. But at the end of the story, the people who embrace tomorrow are without exception good at the optimistic and almost naïve psychology of Northeast culture that "living people can't let hard days die".
The odds of bad luck befalling everyone are equal, which is the premise of writing tragedy with joy. But because of this, it is important to remember: there is nothing worth remembering about the pain itself, don't let it strangle your throat.
There is no so-called "reconciliation with bad luck", keep your sanity in the midst of bad luck, do not make decisions that will make you doomed, keep a wisp of soul, support people's shells, and wait for the end of bad luck to go all the way forward, never look back
If you do nothing wrong, but rebel against bad luck and invite misfortune, remember that this fucking world is not worthy of you, not that you are not worthy of this world.
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Your little fairy sister E, the blue eagle who loves to watch dramas
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