As the typhoon passed, a large tree on the outskirts of the city was uprooted, revealing the corpse of a young woman. In the course of their investigation, the police were shocked to realize that the unsolved cases of the past had a creepy commonality: the victims were all girls, young and beautiful, with similar appearances, who died dressed in red and were buried in double graves. When a large number of details are connected, the truth gradually surfaces.
A few years ago, the writer Nado was shocked to hear about this real case, and he was impressed by the modus operandi of the "double burial tomb" in the case: "This is a plot that I sat in the study and racked my brains and could not think of." ”
The perpetrator of this case is short, thin, and usually reticent, looking a bit student. The friend who talked about this case sighed to Nado: "It's really a leopard." Like Gao Chengyong in the Silver Serial Murder Case and Wu Xieyu in the Peking University Students' Mother Murder Case, they all have an "honest" appearance.
The beginnings of many vicious cases are similar and simple, and the cause of this case is the same: the first love man and woman come to the bustling metropolis, enter the factory to work, the beautiful woman is tempted to run to the scene to do things, the man is angry and unwilling, and the heart is gradually distorted.
February 20, 2018, Yichun, Heilongjiang, northeast old industrial base. /Visual China
In the real case, the murderer never killed his ex-girlfriend, but only ran to the city when he missed it, and looked at it from a distance. The ex-girlfriend has a supreme position in his world. In the face of innocent girls who look like ex-girlfriends, the murderer wantsonly plunders their lives; in the face of ex-girlfriends, he is extremely inferior, as the book says, "Serial murderers are often accompanied by serious psychological distortions, they have their own set of logic."
Compared with the story of his new book "I Have Been here in the world", Nado feels that "the real world is much more absurd than the novel."
Even if it is weak, it is necessary to retain the light of redemption
Many of the plots in the recent hit "Sweeping The Black Storm" are adapted from real cases, exposing the darkness of the real world. This is also the feeling that Nado pursues when writing, the story background of his novels is basically set in Shanghai, which is the city he is most familiar with, "I have a bottom in my heart when I write, and I want to make my novel have a strong connection with the real world."
Many of the plots in the recent hit "Sweeping The Black Storm" are adapted from real cases, exposing the darkness of the real world. /TV Series "Sweeping The Black Storm"
But sometimes the real details are too full and the characters are too strong, which will affect his construction of the world in the novel. Nado confessed: "When the truth is too powerful, I will be bound by the real world and it will be difficult to enter the heart of the characters." After listening to the story of the joint burial tomb, Nado had been thinking about which angle to start from, and later, he decided to use the real case as a background to write a story "many years later" - that is, "I Came here on earth".
Many years later, xu Feng, the murderer in "I Came here in the world", took over because of an incident. So who's going to do this switch that makes him stop? And what trigger made him continue to commit murder? To this end, Nado designed the character of Miriam.
The heroine, Miriam, is the original impulse of Nado to create "I Have Been here in the World", and he wants to see a woman's performance in a desperate situation. "When a woman makes a huge sacrifice and finds that everything is in vain, and the world around her begins to collapse, how can she continue to live in this collapsed world?" These are the things that Nado wants to explore.
Night view of Shanghai. The story of Naduo's novel is basically set in Shanghai, which is the city he is most familiar with. /Visual China
In the novel, Miriam regards her husband Xu Feng as a god because he once saved her from fire and water. After marriage, she lived meekly and well-behaved under the discipline of her husband, and there was a set of templates for her hair style, dress style, and even the songs she listened to and the movies she watched. After 6 years of marriage, Miriam began to be anxious and wanted to have a child. I heard a friend say that men like freshness and can't stay the same, so Miriam cut off her long hair.
What Mi Lian didn't know was that when this scissors went down, Xu Feng's heart would not be able to stay at all. His suppressed evil thoughts were blown out like a muffled thunder on the flat earth, and the old days awoke from the abyss of darkness, and the murderous Xu Feng returned.
Is there anything more terrible than a husband cheating? some. Is there anything more terrible than a husband killing someone? some. Miriam suspects her husband of cheating and witnesses the whole process of her husband's murder during the stalking. From the moment she found out that her husband had killed people, Miriam had touched the hell of the pillow person, but the hell was too deep for her and her husband to touch the end for a while.
Screenwriter Shi Hang commented after reading the novel: "The fate of some people is regarded as depraved by the world, and Nado knows that this is just a fall." Falling is more unfortunate than falling. Of course, this story comes from love, but that much love cannot help, and the reader loves and heals. ”
Writer that much. /Courtesy of respondents
Miriam's journey from self-paralysis to awakening is described very movingly. At first, Miriam deceived herself - "It's okay, he just killed people, didn't love me"; later, she realized that she was completely living in lies, "she can't wake up, otherwise she will keep thinking about Xu Feng, thinking about Xu Feng in 6 years, 2000 days and 50,000 hours and billions of moments, every one of them is fake." In the meantime, the huge change made her powerless, "the heart seems to be pressed against a mountain, will not cry because of worry, do not feel that she is crying, she is just a rotten fruit that has been pressed out of the juice."
Nado likes to read Keigo Higashino's novels, because Keigo Higashino's novels always retain something warm, even if it is very faint, there must be light. In the process of writing this book, Nado kept thinking, who is The Light of Miriam? In the end, he chose the police lu Xiaowei.
Miriam once said to Lu Xiaowei, "You can't go into someone else's hell", but at the end, she touched Lu Xiaowei's heartbeat, as if "hearing the morning bell of Guanyin Temple". /Figure unsplash
This is the only comfort that Nado can provide to Miriam. Miriam once said to Lu Xiaowei, "You can't go into someone else's hell", but at the end, she touched Lu Xiaowei's heartbeat, as if "hearing the morning bell of Guanyin Temple". It's a moment of redemption, the light that chisels out of the character.
The "desolation" picked up is more of a sense of desolation
Nado is good at creating a situation, and the novel is full of cinematic sense. His story is interspersed with elaborate sets and scheduling, with long shots and close-ups switching back and forth. Every time you write a scene, you will sketch a specific scene in your mind. He tried to see it first and then reproduce it later. Therefore, the madness and self-esteem of the little people in his writings are depicted with great delicacy. As it is written in "I Have Come on Earth": "Everyone has his own suffering, the bright have their own humble places, and the humble people will have their own persistence and glory." ”
Everyone has their own suffering, the bright have their own humble places, and the humble people will have their own persistence and glory. /Figure unsplash
Nadeau's novels are rich and life-like, full of class disparities, the nets of life, and unfair fates. He tried to spy the truth of life from the bustling city and pay attention to the fate of the low-level characters, so he was called "human scavenger".
When it comes to this title, the "desolation" that I feel like I pick up is more of a sense of desolation. "Most people often feel that danger is far from life, but it's not, it's probably something terrible happening not far from us, maybe someone is dying in despair, it's a very desolate feeling," he said. ”
When creating, nado will keep a certain distance from the real case. When it comes to depicting the killer's extreme psychological state, he will try to leave blank space, like the director, with a medium focus lens to the murderer, so that the character sits there without saying a word.
Nado's new work "I've Been here on Earth" / Courtesy of the interviewee
"Sometimes you write too thoroughly, but you lose the space to read. The so-called 'transparency' is only the 'transparency' of the writer according to his own life experience and imagination. But everyone's worldview is different, the experience is not the same, and when you describe it directly, others may not agree. This requires giving the reader some space so that they can understand from their own point of view and will have different feelings. ”
In recent years, Nado has created two genres of work with very different styles: one is suspenseful soft science fiction that is curious about the outside world and full of imagination, the representative works are "Feeders Association" (based on which the Mist Theater's "Fatal Wish" to be broadcast) and the upcoming "Wasteland Returns"; the other is crime novels such as "I Came here on earth".
"I've always been a very curious person, always thinking about what possibilities are in this world, what are the possibilities in this universe. I turned my curiosity about the whole outside world into the 'That Multi-HandBook' series. After about the age of 30, I began to have some internal curiosity, that is, curiosity about the human heart. So I started writing crime novels, through which I examined some changes in the human heart in extreme situations. "That's more said.
Mist Theater "Fatal Wish"
When he was a child, he liked to read Jin Yong's martial arts novels, Ni Kuang's "Wesley Series", and then read the works of European and American suspense novelists such as Dan Brown. Later, Natsuto came into contact with Keigo Higashino and found that although the story progressed relatively slowly, Japanese reasoning left room for "how people have come to this point" and "how people have deformed under the pressure of all sides, and how to embark on a rough and even evil path". After that, Nado's creation began to tilt in this direction, "I hope that my works can also stay in the reader's memory a little longer, a little intriguing."
Everything will return to chaos, but I have come on earth
Nado had been a civil servant at customs for a few years, an enviable job, but he didn't like life at a glance. In order to dispel his depression, he began to write novels, words like a cave where he could escape. After writing it, from the many feedback received, Nado gradually realized that maybe he could do text-related work, so he resigned.
In more than ten years of writing career, the most recognized point for himself is "always improving" and can continue to complete the transcendence of himself. "The world is propelled by human stars, and I am clearly not human. But I always felt that I had the talent to go down this road. ”
Keigo Higashino's best-selling novel White Night
A few years ago, Nado traveled to Europe to see masterpieces of the masters on display in the museum. He found that even if the authors of these masterpieces were already the top geniuses of their time, the works together could still distinguish between high and low. "It's the same as literary creation, where talent determines the apex. Many extremely talented writers, the first work directly left a name in literary history. But most writers still rely on continuous polishing to leave good works. But whoever can leave a work is a person with great talent. ”
Nado commented that he was a stubborn writer, and there was little interference from the outside world. He also cares about the outside world's evaluation of his work, but mainly to gain some emotional value from positive evaluation. "For me to take criticism seriously, I need to know the critic well and recognize his aesthetic. In this sense, the criticism I can most listen to comes from my wife. Even so, my wife would complain that I didn't listen to her, which shows how stubborn I was. ”
I have seen that the grass and trees are green. /Figure unsplash
Nado feels that he is silent, does not like to socialize, and is a typical Capricorn man. Before the age of 30, he was a rational to the point of near indifference. As a young man, because he had read too many science fiction novels, he felt that the universe was vast, the galaxy was so grand, and the disappearance of a person on Earth was not worth so sad.
The appearance of the wife opened a sensual door for Nado, and he decided to make a change. After the age of 30, those who are married and experience the death of their loved ones become more and more emotional and have stronger empathy. Sometimes when watching videos with his wife, he will have red eyes before the other party.
This ability to empathize will feed back into the creation of novels, and now the words he writes are full of stamina and can always stir up the most vulnerable places in people's hearts. Shi Hang once commented: "There is a kind of terror that is sharp-bladed, and there is another kind of terror that is a syringe, and the most that is held in the hand is the syringe, and his hand is very stable." ”
Everything will return to chaos, but I have come on earth. /Figure unsplash
"I have come in the human world" is interspersed with a large number of Zhang Guorong's songs, "In the mud and dust, happiness has several directions, a trace of dreamy wind and rain, the road is vast with people", but the singer is no longer in the human world. The book also mentions a painting that hangs in the tea room of Nado, and the little boy in the painting stays in the past time, he was once in this world, and now the trance is still there, but it will eventually disappear. Nado sighed, "Pick up a bunch of water and take a good look at it before it flows between your fingers, I think Miriam may occasionally have such a thought." ”
Everything will return to chaos, but I have come on earth.