Preface
Although "Flowers" will be broadcast in the last few days of 2023, the limelight in 2024 is really big.
As soon as it started broadcasting, it was entrenched in the first place on the popularity list, which is worthy of Wong Kar-wai's work that has been polished for many years.
Of course, the broadcast of "Flowers" was not all praised, and some viewers complained: "Period dramas are filmed the same as Republic of China dramas." ”
Of course, such a complaint is not groundless, it may be that the prosperity of Shanghai presented in "Flowers" far exceeds the audience's imagination.
However, the period drama that meets the audience's imagination is here!
It is "The Years of the Great River Like a Song"!
As the last ending chapter of the "Big River" series, it also tells the story of the 90s of the 20th century, and it has achieved a good score of 1.5 in the first broadcast.
The road to counterattack is difficult
The main story of "Big River" unfolds from three characters, and at the same time, the three of them represent the development of three kinds of enterprises.
Song Yunhui, who passed the college entrance examination, is the director of a state-owned factory, and he is bent on attracting foreign capital and making Donghai transform.
Lei Dongbao, who is not stingy in the village, runs a collective enterprise, putting the interests of the collective and the villagers first, so that the farmers can adapt to the changes of the times.
Yang Xun, who is under pressure at home, has become a self-employed person, representing the development process of private enterprises.
From the creation of these three characters, "Big River" is already half of the success.
In fact, after the end of the second part, the audience knew that the counterattack of the three protagonists had collapsed.
Seeing that Donghai was going to have a joint venture, Song Yunhui, the factory director, was delegated.
Lei Dongbao worked hard for the benefit of the villagers, but finally sent himself to prison.
Yang Xun's career obviously looks good, but he is facing a dead end because of false accounts, and to make matters worse, Yang Xun's mother also passed away.
Three people are facing the blow of life, can they still stand up, and how do they stand up?
As the protagonists, the audience knows that their lives will not be depressed, but will regain control of their lives at the next corner.
However, the regret is here, they have no foreknowledge of their life.
This also requires actors to show the helplessness, pain, confusion, and stagnation of the characters at the moment, so that the audience can understand the characters.
In the story of the new season, even if Song Yunhui is sent down, he is still the Song Yunhui who admits death.
Song Yunhui, who was assigned to the pesticide factory, did not fall to the bottom of his life, but the next pesticide poisoning incident made him unable to even be the factory director.
Pesticide kills people, which is the first major event Song Yunhui faces after taking office, and it is also a process that allows him to better understand the pesticide factory.
By investigating the reasons for the excessive phosphorus content in pesticides, Song Yunhui learned about the problems in the factory and his employees.
Therefore, after knowing the hidden feelings of the employees, it will seem that he is not humane enough to bring people to justice according to the rules.
Moreover, there is a fateful coincidence at this moment, and the inspection team has found a perfect reason that can be explained to everyone.
So, will Song Yunhui stick to the end?
However, the reason why Song Yunhui is Song Yunhui is not because of his quality of admitting death and sticking to his original intention?
Could it be that Song Yunhui will really cover up for personal gain?
Such a question remained in the hearts of every audience, and everyone was faintly worried, will he also become what he once hated?
Unlike Song Yunhui's self-internal struggle, Lei Dongbao faced pressure and threats from his superiors.
Lei Dongbao, who returned again, ran the Thunder Wire Cluster in a hurry.
However, his career did not develop smoothly as he imagined, but was full of loopholes!
Few of his own people have the same heart as him, just thinking about digging money out of the collective.
The partner is also a set in front of him and a set behind him, and he is concerned about the things he once went to prison.
Even the superiors took a fancy to the "cornucopia" run by Lei Dongbao, and directly sent a party secretary over, planning to "go to Lei Dongbaohua".
Such a difficult hellish start seems to tell the audience that the protagonists' lives can fall to a lower point.
After Yang Xun dealt with his mother's funeral, he originally wanted to take his younger brothers and sisters to live in the East China Sea, but his sister did not appreciate his kindness.
The younger sister accidentally broke her mother's last relic, and also let Yang Xun know the real reason for her mother's death.
It's all because of his blind expansion, so that debtors often come to the door, and my mother is so worried that she can't eat.
There is also the money that my sister prepared for her mother to see a doctor, which was also used by her mother to help Yang Xun, whose business failed.
Yang Xun's career breathed a sigh of relief, but his mother's stomach disease worsened and he passed away directly.
Yang Xun, who knelt in front of his mother's grave, was heartbroken, and even doubted whether what he was doing was right?
Shouldn't he stop?
The death of his mother brought Yang Xun's inner impact to be extremely shocking, and even affected the trajectory of his life in the second half of his life.
What kind of choices will the three of them make, and what kind of path will they take?
The grip of the plot is one thing, and the superb acting skills of the actors are another reason for the popularity of the plot.
The characters are full of empathy
Wang Kai, Yang Shuo, and Dong Zijian have accompanied their respective roles for more than five years.
During this period, not only the characters in the play are growing, they are also growing, and their interpretation of the characters has become more vivid.
Song Yunhui played by Wang Kai not only deducted this role from the book, but also successfully stayed in the hearts of the audience.
In the plot of the third season, although it is not told how Song Yunhui spent four months when he came to Pengyang Pesticide Factory, it can be seen from the small details after he was injured that the employees cared about him.
After being injured, Song Yunhui sat in Cao Gong's house, and Cao Gong's children took the initiative to come forward to care about whether his wound hurt.
Song Yunhui was stunned for a moment, and then replied, "It doesn't hurt."
Although there is a forced smile on his face, he smiles more reluctantly, and it is a smile that the audience will feel distressed when they see it.
After coming out of Cao Gong's house, Song Yunhui immediately met the employees of the factory to deliver medicine to him.
His tightly pursed lips were actually to suppress his emotion, and the smile on his head was full of the factory director-style elder.
Wang Kai's performance was eye-catching, and Yang Shuo's performance as the former "oil king" was even more amazing.
Yang Shuo's beard on his face unexpectedly fits Lei Dongbao's reckless and aggressive character.
In the plot where the county magistrate came to inspect, Yang Shuo's acting skills made the attention very empathetic.
Obviously, he is the director of the factory, but no one cares about it at all, so he can only watch his factory being carved up and taking power away from him.
Lei Dongbao's slightly frowning brows and the expression of staring down at the ground are indeed very in line with the situation of the characters.
However, even if he was ignored by the county magistrate, in the face of the secretary's apology, he had to skillfully round it.
There are not many shots, but Lei Dongbao's sadness is exhausted.
The three brothers can be said to have their own tears, and Yang Xun is also the same sadness.
Yang Xun faced his sister's request to split up, even though he was sad, he still tearfully agreed to his sister's request.
The moment Dong Zijian raised his head, the tears in his eyes were already unbearable, and the slightly trembling lips showed that his mood was fluctuating at the moment.
After his sister left, Yang Xun learned that his sister had worked as a tutor to earn money, and he also understood that his mother had misappropriated the money for his treatment.
When Dong Zijian recalled this period of the past, he was smiling because he thought of his mother's love.
But because of his behavior, which led to the indirect death of his mother, the tears in his eyes filled up again.
Even thinking that he didn't know anything about the situation at home, his laughter became sarcastic.
The acting skills of the three people are remarkable, and they also bring different emotional renderings to the audience.
Not to mention that there are countless excellent supporting roles in "The Years of the Great River", which has achieved this visual feast!
epilogue
"The Years of the Great River" has just been broadcast, but the plot is already extremely gripping.
Although it collided with "Flowers", its edge is also difficult to hide.
I just don't know if this season's "Big River" can surpass the first two seasons and get better results?
We'll see!