On the evening of May 6, the TV series "Ordinary Road" was broadcast to episode 12. In the latest plot content, the male protagonist experienced the so-called Internet violence. Judging from the broadcast attitude of the play, this TV series wants to point the spearhead at "self-media", criticize "self-media" for bringing rhythm, scourge good people, and so on. However, based on the content of the plot, I think that this is the loophole of the play itself, and the rush to let the "self-media" back the pot is actually the filth of the screenwriter and director themselves.
In the plot content of "Ordinary Road", the male protagonist found a lewd man secretly photographing a strange woman on the subway. Then, the male protagonist saw righteousness and courage, chased the secretly photographed man on the subway, and chased the man in the corner, ordering him to delete the secretly taken photos. Later, the male protagonist left. Some women on the subway secretly took photos of the male protagonist and called him a good young man who saw righteousness and bravery.
But who knows, there will be a "reversal" later. After the male protagonist left, the lewd man fell to the ground because of congenital heart disease, was found by the employees on the subway, and was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. The mother of the obscene man faced the rescue of her son in the ICU, and determined that it was caused by the beating of the male protagonist. People with "hundreds of thousands of fans" began to fool the mother of the lewd man, exposed the matter on the Internet, and launched a public opinion offensive against the male protagonist. The male protagonist fell into the whirlpool of public opinion of beating others on the subway, causing others to be admitted to the ICU.
The next story is how the male protagonist and the people around the male protagonist are powerless to struggle in the whirlpool of public opinion. The place where the obscene man fell to the ground is a monitoring dead end, which is not enough to prove that the male protagonist did not make a move. The lewd man demanded 400,000 compensation. The mother of the male protagonist has already begun to prepare to sell the house in her hometown, etc.
If only based on the plot of "Ordinary Road", the audience may go with the rhythm of the play, thinking that these "self-media" are really too hateful, and without knowing the truth, they deliberately lead the rhythm, deliberately frame honest and kind people, and so on. It is this group of "self-media" people without conscience that has caused the dirt and dirt on the Internet, causing good people to be unable to prove their innocence. However, viewers with a little brain, seeing these contents in "Ordinary Road", will find a large number of loopholes in them.
At present, the biggest loophole in this matter is that the lewd male side can make a variety of online voices, why does the male protagonist who understands the law lose his voice on the Internet? In "Ordinary Road", there is a bridge, everyone is helping the male protagonist to find a way, and the male protagonist himself holds his notebook and replies to the criticism of netizens on the Internet. Some characters began to tell the male protagonist that it was useless to do this, and if you replied, netizens would scold you for ten sentences.
The screenwriter wrote this and the director filmed like this, obviously to define the Internet as a flood beast, and the netizens behind the Internet are all organisms that lack common sense and do not talk about rational thinking. In fact, will users on the Internet really be as mindless as in "Ordinary Road"? Many Internet hot events have disproved the current conclusions of this TV series.
Take an example. When celebrities' online rumors appear, we can often see that celebrities will authorize a law firm to issue a legally effective statement to respond positively to the rumor problem. When celebrity statements are released, Internet users will screen the content of the statements and rumors again. Many incidents on the Internet have proved that the statements and statements of the parties concerned are particularly important.
Therefore, in "Ordinary Road", the male protagonist himself is a legal practitioner, and beside him, there is a law firm of many powerful lawyers, in the face of this situation of rumors, don't they know that they should issue a statement in the name of the party to explain and clarify the real situation at that time? At least, in the plot, I don't see anyone in this law firm having this correct and basic idea.
In fact, as long as the male protagonist publishes a statement that restores the truth at that time, he can at least gain the sympathy and even support of half of Internet users. And the male protagonist has been hiding, has not issued a statement, and has always treated Internet users as a flood beast. Is this a problem for the male protagonist, or a problem for the screenwriter and director? This is obviously the problem of screenwriters and directors, and it is their narrow-mindedness in their creative thinking. Or, is this their intention to "plant" the so-called "self-media" users?
When we think about this plot in a rational way, we will find that there is no need to let this TV series bring rhythm, and it is determined that "self-media" users are bad and unconscionable. On the contrary, we might as well follow the chaotic narrative idea of the play to ask, since "self-media" is not good, then why is such an event that has formed the heat of online discussion topics without professional news media to intervene in reporting? Screenwriters and directors, how to fulfill this lie?
In fact, whether it is traditional media or so-called "self-media", most of them are very good, have industry ethics and legal standards, and strive to restore the truth when telling content and reporting content. The power of the media is to ask the truth. Asking the parties to speak out is one of the important ways to pursue the truth. Like in "Ordinary Road", the obscene man frequently speaks out, and the lawyer team is silent, I can only say that such a lawyer is too amateurish, and the lawyer's certificate is looking for false evidence, right?
The narrative of the TV series, the most afraid is this kind of single-line assumption. The loopholes in the narrative of "Ordinary Road" itself do not need to let the "self-media" back the pot. On the current Internet, everyone has long understood that a matter must listen to the simple truth of the statements of both parties. Some people say, you deceive the master and destroy the ancestor, I will teach you for free, you actually betrayed the master. The other party snapped the invoice for the tuition fees that were charged when the teacher accepted the apprenticeship. A good way to respond to rumors is if the person has something to say.
The way in which the parties "don't speak" in "Ordinary Road" is obviously a narrative behavior that lowers the IQ of all lawyers in this law firm. Seeking narrative smoothness by lowering the character's IQ is a pitiful thing in itself. Trying to say that "self-media" is bad through such a plot, it seems to be a little "bad" itself. If so, everything is afraid of two words, rationality. Let's all encourage together. (Text/Ma Qingyun)