The premiere ratings are not low, and Zhou Xun and Liu Yijun's new drama has taken a new path for female suspense dramas

Women's dramas, how to shoot?

As far as my experience of watching the drama is concerned, there are three mature genres.

The first is an urban female group drama.

Representative works are "Thirty Only" and "Ode to Joy", and Liu Tao's new drama "Be Your Own Light" is also of this type.

There used to be one fire, but more bottlenecks began to appear.

The second is a costume light comedy.

In the early years, the Hong Kong drama "Miao Cuihua", the mainland's "On the Wrong Flower Palanquin Married to Lang", to these years' "Menghualu".

This type, if you shoot well, it is a hit, but it is not easy to shoot well.

The third is a female suspense drama.

For example, in the first half of the year, Feng Xiaogang's "Echo", Zhou Xun previously filmed "Imperfect Her", but compared with the first two types, this type is the most difficult to shoot and the most difficult to explode.

Because whether it is a suspense drama or a female drama, it is a technical job with very high requirements for typification, and only by shooting this genre into the phenomenal texture of the top American drama like "Big Little Lies" will you have a chance to get out of the circle.

The audience is very picky about female suspense dramas.

But a newly launched drama is likely to complete a breakthrough for female suspense dramas.

If you don't sell it, it is "Imperfect Victim" jointly launched by Oriental and Beijing TV last night.

Premiere ratings, satellite TV first.

This drama is not small.

Director Yang Yang, many people know that she made "Menghualu", in fact, she is also the director of "Heart Technique", "Proof of Memory" and "Will Night".

There are almost no types of Chinese dramas that she can't pry, and the themes that others can play, such as ancient dolls, she shoots better, and the medical dramas and fantasy dramas that others can't play, she can play.

Actors, Zhou Xun, Liu Yijun, as well as Chen Shu, Dong Jie, Lin Yun and other six golden flowers, the lineup is definitely tough enough.

The theme directly addresses the theme of women's assault, refracts the hot social events, and explores the in-depth topics.

Suspense, popularization of law, queen + old drama bone + powerful actress.

Will it be different from the female suspense dramas of the past?

The actress's face changed. Under Yang Yang's lens, the actresses have natural makeup, and almost no one uses filters, which makes people feel comfortable to see.

But the deeper change is that there are things going on in the story.

It carries the soul of a suspense drama and tells a story, but it has a bit of a movie flavor. The confusing case clues and intricate character relationships were played into an acting feast by a group of acting schools.

Whether it is a suspense drama ceiling, I dare not say, but I can be sure that this is a new road that has never been traveled by a female suspense drama before.

01, the beginning is a female mystery case, suspense, fast pace, acting explosion, people can't stop

Women's dramas generally have a soothing unfolding at the beginning.

Or a sunny morning breakfast, or a brisk pace to work.

But "Imperfect Victim" is simple and crude, and its opening story can be summarized in two words: report the crime.

A thunderstorm night, the private residence of a listed company CEO.

A young woman curled up in a bathtub, panicked.

When her phone rang, she picked it up and saw a text that terrified her: I'm downstairs.

The girl looked back, and her terrified look was reflected on the glass window of the building by lightning.

At this time, the young man under the building made a report call, and the content of the report was that the boss of the listed company had successfully completed an infringement.

The call came out, three big dramas, and soon they were staged.

The first big scene: interrogation.

The police quickly arrived, arrested people, questioned,

Ask the victim Zhao Xun (Lin Yun) if he has been violated?

But Zhao Xun's eyes were terrified, his eyes flickered, and he neither said yes nor no.

The police had to take the two back to the police station for questioning.

The policewoman Yan Ming quickly began to inquire, and it was obvious that Zhao Xun herself was still blinded, and she repeated "first physical examination and then record".

Medical examination, that is, medical examination.

Yan Ming prepared food and milk for Zhao Xun, and then began to interrogate like a family routine, but when asked the key point, Zhao Xun cried bitterly, denying that he was violated.

There are no victims in the case, and the person can only be released. But Yan Ming left a sentence: releasing people does not mean the end of the investigation.

The second big drama: media exposure.

And at the moment when Chenggong and Zhao Xun walked out of the company's door with the police, more than a dozen hidden cameras and cameras had clearly filmed the appearance of Chenggong.

The boss of the video website who has been transfused by the group quickly received a call: send or not?

Hair, may offend the gold owner, do not send, miss a wave of top stream.

The decision was made quickly: Fate. But to declare that I don't know.

Soon, the media exposed, public opinion fermented, and the night after successfully being investigated in the police station, the company was already on the cusp.

A public opinion war soon unfolded, and the vice president played by Dong Jie soon arrived, and ordered by phone: the whole network deleted the video.

But to remove the roots of the guillotine, how easy is it.

The third big scene: Successfully fight back.

At the same time as he was successfully questioned, Lin Kan, a barrister played by Zhou Xun, quickly arrived, questioned, fished people, and made strategies while eating breakfast.

How to fight?

The first step is to dig up the whistleblower.

Since the police will not leak the informant's phone, start with the media, and at the same time call up the building surveillance video to find out the clues of the whistleblower.

The second step is to hold a general meeting of shareholders internally to stabilize shareholders.

At the cost of 8% equity, let his wife post a document, try to prove that the situation is stronger than Jinjian, and stabilize the market.

Then negotiate with Zhao Xun's father, who came to the door, and asked to meet with Zhao Xun, put forward conditions, send him abroad, and stabilize the victim.

It seems that the big picture is decided?

However, the biggest variable happened here: all the successful counterattacks were based on Zhao Xun's denial of being violated and the police not filing a case.

But what if Zhao Xun suddenly reversed his confession and said that he had been violated?

Unsurprisingly, the accident happened, and Zhao Xun called the police again 5 days later.

Lin Lu, played by Zhou Xun, accepted a successful commission and began to overturn the victim's criminal charges with his excellent professionalism and pre-investigation.

An opening, full of suspense, the violated girl, the mysterious informant played by Guan Yunpeng, the tearing of interests of all parties, enterprises, media, lawyers, police, each has its own position.

A mystery case, a multi-party game.

The story is in suspense, completely rolled out:

Is this a fairy jumping game, or is it really a female victim? What is success hiding? What is Zhao Xun afraid of?

Under the filming of female director Yang Yang, the story finally conveys those women who can empathize, the vague inferiority of male superiors, the obscure compulsion, the unspeakable humiliation, the helpless enduring, and the painful self-deception.

Obviously, the series has a temperament that other dramas do not have.

It has a calm wit fight, a super fast story rhythm, a pattern of various forces fighting each other, and the wisdom of women hidden in it.

And Zhou Xun, Chen Shu and a group of the best middle-aged actresses, against Liu Yijun, can be said to be a good show.

A key detail to keep you out for is a key detail, or rather, the biggest bug that seems to be the first 4 episodes: why was Zhao Xun brought back to the apartment drunk wearing a dress, but the white top and jeans on the side of the bed after the police came?

What a bug? Other directors' plays, I believe, Yang Yang's plays, I don't believe.

If it's not a bug, it can only be: the director set the game for the audience, you think you guessed everything, but in fact the mystery has just begun.

It is this unfolding full of suspense that allows the audience to find the motivation to continue watching the drama and the addictive feeling of wanting to stop in the refreshing feeling of the genre elements.

This is a female suspense drama.

02, Zhou Xun's sense of story, Liu Yijun's twisted force field, Chen Shu's sassiness, this acting skill is amazing!

The strength of "Imperfect Victim" not only comes from the perception, but also from its immortal lineup far beyond other dramas.

In the first 4 episodes, there are five powerful people.

Let's start with Zhou Xun.

From "April Days on Earth" in the early years, to "Daming Palace Words" and "Orange is Red", to the spy war movie "Wind", Zhou Xun has always been regarded as the most talented actress in China.

But no matter how good the actor is, it will be limited by the script, and in recent years, Zhou Xun's acting performance is only stable, and the audience is not satisfied with her own high level.

But this drama, Zhou Xun found his aura.

It can even be said that Zhou Xun, who is middle-aged, finally found another way to act, convincing all the audience.

Generally, the shaping of the role of a female lawyer is easy to become a model of Wei Guangzheng, but under Zhou Xun's interpretation, the role of Lin Lu is given a sense of professional chaos.

On the one hand, it is to act competently and boldly. Interviewing the parties, there is an unquestionable aura in the kind and polite tone.

But the objectivity of her profession often erupted into strong conflicts with her inner sensibility and intuition, making her often fall into a moment of hesitation and unbearability.

The profession taught her that lawyers must be accountable to their clients.

But as a woman, her intuition told her that success had always been hidden.

In the first four episodes, I only saw the emotional changes on Zhou Xun's face twice.

The first time was when she firmly asked Success if there was anything hidden from her.

Her expression has seen through everything.

Another time, it was Zhao Xun who was angry with her, but there was a trace of compassion in her eyes.

Some audience members said nothing, and Zhou Xun's performance was all details.

Acting skills that can be understood by the audience are good acting skills.

Speaking of Liu Yijun, I think he has demonstrated an ability to distort the force field.

The character of success, arrogant, arrogant, and has the "lost confidence" of a middle-aged successful man, who plays it, can not escape greasy.

But Liu Yijun, who surprised the audience all the way from "The Pretender" to "Langya List" to "The Beginning", can perform differently.

The audience wants to hate success, but when they see Liu Yijun, they can't hate it.

He is changeable and always available.

For example, this detail -

In the last second, he calmly thanked the police at the police station and asked them not to disclose the investigation situation.

The next second, hearing Lin Lu say that the situation had been exposed, the whole person immediately rose up in anger, muttering that he wanted to find out who was behind the scenes.

This series of micro-expressions vividly portrayed the complexity of this person.

Liu Yijun's acting skills penetrate into every subtle movement, expression, eyes, and even the details of shaking legs.

But to say that the opening scene surprised me the most, it was Chen Shu.

Xin Lu, played by her, is the only character who fears success, and the success of everyone's calm and relaxed is only to face this legal wife and suddenly become a chicken boy who obediently carries luggage.

Chen Shu didn't have many scenes at the beginning, but a negotiation and divorce scene with success, full of aura, disdain for success, despair of marriage, circle performance came, the aura was handsome and invincible.

In the face of the success of the embarrassment, she first faced each other coldly when the other party showed weakness, and then three or two sentences poked at the essence of the marriage between the two and put forward her own conditions.

Faced with the hat of successful "robbery", she said her reason for advocating 8% of the shares in one breath, so that the other party had nothing to say.

As the co-founder of the company, Xin Lu has to endure the harm caused by her husband's cheating many times as a full-time wife, and has long been completely desperate for success, as she said, between us, there is only business.

In the face of the successful negotiator, she did not even show anger from beginning to end.

One of the most remarkable details was the successful hug of her, but her hands were hanging in the air, because she did not want to touch the man in front of her at all.

This scene also proves how important a right role is to the actor, as long as Chen Shu is given such a good show, she can always shock the audience.

The other female characters are also outstanding.

Lin Yun's performance of the victim was originally unconvincing, but she acted beyond the audience's expectations.

In the first four episodes, she completely restored women's confusion in front of successful people, the ignorance of being violated and the self-contradiction after the incident.

Lin Yun plays well that this is not an uncontroversial victim, but an imperfect victim.

Lin Yun's method was very simple, that is, let Zhao Xun, from beginning to end, his eyes revealed a clear confusion.

But in the fourth episode, after experiencing the questioning, the angry rebuke of his parents and the reprimand of his admirers, Lin Yun's eyes can also see the gradual transformation of the characters and the gradually fullened content.

Yang Yang is too good at teasing actresses.

There is also Dong Jie playing this role, hand to hand.

In recent years, Dong Jie's acting skills can be said to be gradually getting better, Dong Jie without the blessing of filters in the play looks older, but he is still beautiful and moving, and every detail of his eyes is a play.

Her character has an ambiguous relationship with success, and she is the only person in the whole show who is dedicated to successfully solving problems, but she must not accept the fact that this man is abusive all the time.

Her temperament is both rigid and thorny, put this character into the story, and the plot of the Asura field is better.

The policewoman played by Zhong Chuxi is also very good, the bright and beautiful woman on the red carpet, dressed simply and naturally, performed the sassiness of the policewoman, and also has natural sympathy for the victim.

Women involved, including female victims, police officers, lawyers, executives and powerful co-founders' wives, constitute a unique group portrait of women. Each role has played the greatest value under the direction of Yang Yang, and every scene is a fighting scene by the acting school, how can the play not be good.

03, the sense of film is at the bottom, women's issues are out of the circle, and women's suspense dramas are finally in Yang Yang's hands, and they have blazed a new path

Most female dramas have obvious routines.

There are conflicts and reconciliations, moving and sensational.

But "Imperfect Victim", with two obvious characteristics, is destined to be not a simple female drama.

The first is a strong sense of cinema.

Director Yang Yang is really good at shooting actresses, and everyone's face, body shape, and temperament are photographed with a very textured beauty, no outrageous filters, no terrible dermabrasion, makeup is completely in line with professional identity, you can feel the age of several middle-aged actresses, but think they are so beautiful.

What's even more powerful is the cinematic sense of the series everywhere.

In terms of plot settings, there is quite a bit of suspense movie style, especially the various Yang Yang's lens settings, which give a strong tension everywhere.

This sense of cinema is not a showmanship, but a real integration into the plot.

Let the whole drama rise and be full of dramatic tension.

The second is the issue of women's full inclusion.

The rise of women's themes in recent years is closely linked to social reality.

Society will focus more and more on women, and film and television dramas should have been a reflection of reality.

This drama integrates women's workplace harassment, domestic violence, online violence, mental PUA, etc., I think every working woman will empathize with the drinking table culture, workplace discrimination, and harassment under power oppression in the play.

Especially the role of Lin Yun, why didn't you dare to say it at first? Because of the unequal status of rights.

The unspeakable hidden of women in the story is what women have always wanted to say but can't tell, and finally a director filmed it.

It is worth praising for being able to speak up for women's protection from abuse.

What's more, the director is not limited to the subject matter itself, trapped by the topic, but always shaping people.

Shaping women.

Cracking human nature.

As Zhou Xun said in his post, "I have seen imperfect victims who have been weak and yielded when they experience some bad things." They examine their own imperfections and burst out bravery. ”

In terms of the structure of the play, "Imperfect Victim" is still a suspense drama with obvious dramatic style.

But the chain reaction triggered by a report, like a stage play, is full of drama and conflict.

Various characters take turns, and in a fierce conflict, the theme of the story is solved with the suspense.

There is a scene in the opening scene, which is impressive.

It is the financial owner who hired Lin Kan to fight the merger and acquisition lawsuit, first up and down at the banquet, and then prodded with words, and even said, "I am willing to support you for a lifetime."

In the end, of course, he was slapped in the face by Lin Lu on the spot and obediently sent 5 million in legal fees.

But successful women like Lin Lu, who seem to be "very difficult to mess with", can't avoid being drunk on the drinking bureau and harassed in the workplace, not to mention young female assistants like Zhao Xun.

The female dilemma is so common, two women with different identities, different experiences, and different ages face the same situation when entering the workplace, but this is the reality faced by women in the workplace, arrogant and greasy successful men are everywhere.

It is foreseeable that the next story will really enter the climax, Zhao Xun will sue and lose, Lin Lu will countersue according to the requirements of success and win.

But the reversal of the finale has been written in the title of the play: Imperfect Victim.

First, the victim is not perfect.

Second, imperfect victims are still victims.

So the final ending, unexpected, is also reasonable.

After watching more cookie-cutter female dramas and suspense dramas, I finally saw that dramas like "Imperfect Victims" can open a new path for both genres at the same time.

"Imperfect Victim" may bring a perfect ending to domestic female suspense dramas.