The author of this article: Chuan Meimei
After chasing "The Long Season" in one breath, the images of the three Northeast masters who have been entrenched in their hearts for a long time: a model worker train driver named Wang Xiang; Ma Desheng Criminal Police Captain; Gong Biao, a college student in the nineties, is known as Biaozi.
These three northeastern men used to be well-known people in the big enterprise of Huagang Steel, not to mention the powerful ones. In the end, one is half crazy, one is beaten to death by the hammer of life, the widow and widow are in a row, and almost commit suicide by lying on the rails. The youngest reserve cadre of the factory office with the highest culture and the most promising has also ended up killing himself with a wife, which is extremely embarrassing.
A friend he knew claimed that his car could be sold for 150,000 yuan, and Biao Zi calculated that it was 30,000 cheaper than the market price of 180,000, so he paid his wife's 150,000 yuan to open a beauty shop in advance. I didn't think that his wife Liru (played by Wang Jiajia) knew about it, and she didn't want to divorce. The family's chicken feathers made him anxious, and people from the police station informed him that his 357 license plate car had hit someone and hit and run. His newly purchased car was detained by the police station, and he said that he could only pick it up after finding out, and he was very depressed, and how to argue with the police was useless.
Then there was a shredded corpse case in the Wang Xiang community, a certain mother-in-law who picked up garbage picked up a human snakeskin bag in the garbage can, she was scared stupid, there was a small section of a woman's little finger in the bag, according to the preliminary forensic identification, it was a missing college student named Shen Mo (played by Li Gengxi). Then, Xiaolianghe around the birch steel mill found broken corpse bags, which were inseparable from the workers of the birch steel mill. This suspense drama, the plot has ups and downs, the relationship between the characters is complicated, and there are basically three lines: Wang Xiang and his wife Meisu's son Wang Yang's family; Shen Mo and the uncle and the eldest lady's family; The origin of the dumb Fu Weijun and Shen Mo's sisters and brothers. The director's refreshing novel and peculiar narrative technique strung together the shredded corpse case 18 years ago and the deck car case in 2016, presenting the fate of the generation of Northeast Birch Steel Mill in front of the audience, giving people a new experience of chasing dramas.
The last time I was addicted to chasing "Crazy" in early spring in March, I was creepy by the two killers in that show; This time, the adverb I gave to the play was "the chill slowly born under the vast starry sky of the northeast". After watching the end of the 12 episodes, I was bathed in the warm sunshine of early summer, and my teeth were still chattering - cold teeth. As praised by netizens: This is a masterpiece of magical realism by Northeast writers and directors. The screenwriter and director one dared to write, the other dared to shoot, served!
To be honest, I felt that the pace was so slow when I watched episodes 1 or 2, but after 6 episodes, the episodes were wonderful, and you still couldn't guess who the murderer was halfway through the episodes, and you were dragged by the director's strong story control ability, until the last 12 episodes were finished, you were still a little confused. But you were absolutely shocked, this drama is actually working shaping the characters. Under the tide of the times, the sad fate of the little people is impressive and teary-eyed. I am most praised by the three Northeast masters———
Wang Xiang (played by Fan Wei)
At the age of eighteen, he replaced his father to work in Huagang Steel, drove a train in the factory, excelled in business, lectured morality to colleagues, had a sense of responsibility for work, worked conscientiously for many years, and was rated as a model worker.
But at home he is a macho tyrant, and his wife and children must revolve around him. His wife (played by Lin Xiaojie) has a heart attack and is equipped with a stent and has to serve him every day. The fritters he bought for breakfast were not on the plate, and he had to count two sentences, and the son he cared about the most had to obey him. But times changed, he was laid off and drove a taxi. The son (played by Liu Yitie) did not go to college after graduating from high school, went to work in a Victoria nightclub, worked as a waiter, and did not dare to tell him. One day he went to a nightclub to block his son, saw him nodding and serving tea and water, he counted his son, this is also a serious job?
He naively wanted to help the police investigate the case, hoping that if he could solve the case and catch the murderer, he might not be laid off if he was praised. But after checking that his son was dead, the horse team was cold to him, and his son became a murder suspect.
When he had an important situation and wanted to report to the horse team, he could not find the horse team, and then the horse team asked him to identify the body, it was his dear son, he was grief-stricken, he could not figure out, how could his son kill someone. When he saw off his son and the co-workers came to the house to eat tofu rice and left, his mood was on the verge of collapse. The disaster is not alone, the wife uses a roll of wool to find short-sightedness, he seems to have come to an end in life, he went to the rails.
God has eyes, this track where he is lying on the rail, the train did not come, he suddenly heard the cry of the baby, there was a call of "daddy" in the sky, heaven took pity on him, he got his adopted son North, and his life had a head.
This is the process by which a real master of the working class becomes a marginal social person of individual labor, the humble image of ordinary people who run at the bottom all day long. The changes in his personal life reflect the great changes in the country's two-decade planned economy to market economy. From train drivers who eat collective cauldrons of rice and glory, to self-employed lowly people.
He has a dual personality trait, both intelligent and confused, noble and mean, warm and rough. That's right, times have changed a person, he can't understand that his son does such a "waiter" job, he recognizes the entry into the birch steel mill as a decent worker.
Ma Desheng (played by Chen Minghao)
He is a senior criminal police captain of the Ma team, with clear thinking and keen insight and action ability to handle cases. With his professionalism as a police officer, loyalty to the people and human love, he analyzed that Shen Dongliang (played by Hou Yansong), the adoptive father of the missing female college student Shen Mo (played by Li Gengxi), had problems, and he deduced that he sexually assaulted Shen Mo and took nude photos to frame girls. He beat the animal, and he found details of Shen Dongliang's warm bottle on the nude photo. Even if he was dismissed and retired early, the plot of the case in his heart still grew tenaciously.
Eighteen years have passed, and as a former criminal police officer, he suffered a stroke and was concerned about the shredded corpse case that had not been solved before. He was sober for a while, confused for a while, and when he was sober, he talked about the essence of the case, that the nude photo was deliberately taken secretly, and that the girl was the object of insults and damage. Even his former colleague Li Qun and current bureau chief have to admire his professionalism and case-handling ability.
However, the reality is that he confronted the leader, justice exploded, fat beat Shen Dongliang was reported, he lost the opportunity for promotion, and left the police post early. Today, he is an outstanding Latin dancer in the retirement association. When his friend Wang Xiang found him and mentioned the case of the broken corpse back then, he was immediately revived with enthusiasm, and for a moment there was chaos in time and space, clamoring to go to the police station to check the file. What a lovely and awe-inspiring old criminal policeman, touching.
Gong Biao (played by Qin Hao)
A pathetic idealist, a faithful guardian of love. When he was young, he took a fancy to Huang Liru (played by Wang Jiajia), a nurse at the Birch Steel Mill Hospital, and he entrusted his brother-in-law Wang Xiang to help him chase him, and finally chased him. How did he know that the latter regarded him as a takeover man, and he overheard the conversation between the director of the factory and Liru, and understood that they had a leg.
It happened that the factory held a meeting that day, and the director was singing on the rostrum, ready to announce the list of layoffs, and he was indignant and hit the director in front of everyone, scolding him for breaking his shoes. As a result, he was beaten and became the first person to be laid off, and he was supposed to be promoted to be the workshop director.
But he was very righteous, he later married the love of his heart, Huang Liru, but Liru could not have a baby after the abortion, but for twenty years he kept his lover and loved her as always. When his wife did beauty to help people open their eyelids and had an accident, he did not blame her and took out 100,000 to calm the situation. He had never won a lottery ticket, and that day in the taxi he heard the number on the radio that was the one he had bought, and he flipped it over. He had just promised his wife a divorce, and she wished her a happy life, even if he didn't mind her new partner. He loves single-mindedly and persistently, he is a complete idealist, and he has unreservedly invested all his deep affection for career and love.
But fate treated him so thinly, he won the jackpot, and at the same time he had a car accident, and all the property behind him belonged to his legal wife Huang Liru, of course, he was not blessed.
So there was the scene at the funeral home, where his wife came to see him for the last time, and there was no chance to scold him again, and then make a bowl of boiled noodles for him. She said I don't cry, didn't you say that I smile to look good? Wang Xiang heard her heart-rending cry outside the door, and together with this beautiful woman's previous confession that she had attached to the powerful and looked down on him, she finally knew that only Biaozi in this world loved her the most, but it was a pity that it was too late.
As director Xin Shuang said: I want to change the story from a case to a relationship between people and the world triggered by a case, and a relationship between people and people. The shredded corpse case is rubbed into the trivial matters of the ordinary people of the Birch Steel Factory, which is shiny and fascinating.
"The Long Season" is very creative, it does not directly present bloody murder horror scenes, but puts the perspective of the story on a group of old people, in the daily life of the workers of the birch steel mill of the group. They lived through a time when material abundance was not so abundant and lived a uniform life. But suddenly one day, the world began to change, began to accelerate, they stumbled to catch up with time, trying to accept the mutated fashion, but they were so out of place.
But time is forever passing, and it changes everyone. The birch steel man who was pushed away by the tide of the times was passive, embarrassed, and confused, but he lived tenaciously, and finally lived out the thickness of life, precipitating the true self of good and evil.
The line at the end of "Look forward, don't look back" and the rumbling wheels of the train perfectly echo the beginning.
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