Author: Clouds in Coffee
Statement: Original article, reprinting is prohibited, plagiarism must be investigated!
Compared with the first three films, "Criminal Investigation 4" can be regarded as a complete "big change", but the lineup is strong - Louis Koo, Xuan Xuan, Chen Jinhong, Li Shanshan, Charmaine She, etc.
A drama, filmed to the fourth, it is almost difficult to escape the situation of comprehensive complaints, only "Criminal Investigation", in the fourth part, although there are many negative voices, but it still does not prevent it from being a classic.
Perhaps, the biggest inappropriateness is that it should not be used under the name of "Criminal Investigation" to depict such a long-lasting and difficult feeling.
If "Criminal Investigation 4" was taken out separately and changed to a different title, wouldn't it be much better?
After all, I have to admit that the cases in "Criminal Investigation 4" are indeed much weaker than the first three, and those cases are more like catalysts to promote the strong and sad feelings of several protagonists in the play.
It can be said that the "Criminal Investigation" series has witnessed my growth at different stages, and every few years when I look at it, I have different highlights and thoughts.
Of course, many of the cases in the "Criminal Investigation" series are borrowed and plagiarized from novels, but most of the suspenseful detective dramas are plagiarized, and it is not that plagiarizing classics can become classics.
I think a big reason is that in the TVB "Criminal Investigation" series, the relationship between the characters and the background of the times that determine the development of the main drama are still original, and only the case part is plagiarized, and the case promotes the development of the main drama, and the secondary creation is natural.
As a result, most of the cases in "Criminal Investigation" are often involved in the protagonist.
They themselves or their relatives and friends are often suspects or victims.
It is also logical that the hero and heroine will have to face the test of life and death or the dilemma of love and righteousness with high frequency, and once they have withstood the test, their relationship will be greatly pushed forward.
At the same time, the times are also a factor that cannot be ignored.
The 80s and 90s of the last century were an era of extreme insecurity for Hong Kong people.
The Sino-British negotiations in the 80s and the financial crisis in the 90s caused a large number of Hong Kong people to emigrate overseas, so you can see the characteristics of the times in the series.
"Criminal Investigation 1" pointed out that Zhang Dayong has a rich father who has settled in a foreign country; At the end of "Criminal Investigation 2", after Zhang Dayong and Gao Jie got married, Gao Jie's mother and sister also immigrated to Canada.
As a result, many of the people involved in the story have no relatives in Hong Kong.
If the murderer has a heart, after these lonely victims are killed, it often takes a long time for the police to start detecting, which increases the difficulty of detection and makes the plot become ups and downs.
Liang Jianxiong, the policeman in "Criminal Politics 4", is a gambling bachelor, his wife divorced him and settled abroad, and the only person who has a close relationship with him is his named brother-in-law Xu Fei.
Therefore, during the time of his disappearance, colleagues in the police department thought that he was just traveling abroad and did not treat it as a criminal case.
Of course, the success of the series cannot only depend on the "level of plagiarism" of the creators, but also the excellent performance of the actors.
The main characters of almost every film have distinct personalities and are easy to remember.
As a criminal investigation drama, among TVB's many well-conceived police and gangster films, the case of "Criminal Investigation 4" may not be outstanding, but the six people and four relationships in it have made the audience difficult to let go.
Over the years, two real, delicate and helpless love triangles like those depicted in "Criminal Investigation 4" are really rare.
Six vivid urban men and women, four past emotions that once held hands.
Coming and going, dividing and merging, some leaving, some staying, some persevering, some fulfilling, some becoming landscapes, some turning into memories.
To this day, there are still many drama fans arguing, Xu Fei's favorite is Wu Qiaojun or Liang Qianqian, and Jiang Zishan's favorite is Wen Wanlan or Tang Xinru.
Perhaps there will never be a standard answer to either question.
But it is undeniable that twenty-five years have passed, and "Criminal Investigation 4" is still an eternal pain in the hearts of many Feijun fans, and it is also an eternal classic.
I can't tell the difference, if I let it go, will I be unhappy, I have chosen, and I will not want to look back.
The lonely back in the wind, evoking a sigh, has no answer.
Fifty episodes of the story, I remember the first time I watched it, I was hunched in front of the screen all night long, indulging in the plot all night long, suffering from gains and losses.
It seems that there has never been a drama, like "Criminal Investigation 4", which reveals so much helplessness and sadness.
The stories of those who choose and are chosen, love and not love, hate and not hate.
Those forgotten and remembered, the unreal and the real, those mottled memories, the sad and soulful music.
They are like dotted flowers, scattered in the corners of the whole play, tempting you into the depths of your feelings, and then you can't struggle out.
Maybe I still sigh at the unfairness of many things occasionally, but it is precisely because of the unsatisfactory ending that I will like it for a longer time, and I will be in those stories for a long time.
Xu Fei, Wu Qiaojun, Liang Qianqian; Jiang Zishan, Wen Wanlan, Tang Xinru, these people, who are you most like?
Love is a disease.
The most different thing about it is that whether you love or not is not about what a person wants to say or do, but what you can't control when you are deeply in love.
It can be said that everyone in love has done stupid things.
In the final analysis, love is a feeling that cannot be controlled, and if a person can still be free in the face of love, it is not love.
Among the four relationships, six people, and two triangular relationships in the play, none of them is a winner.
For twenty-five years, that imperfect ending has always left us with a question: which is more painful, life and death?
Maybe every "Criminal Investigation 4" fan has his own ending in his heart.
may be a pair of Jiang Zishan, who lost his wife, and Wu Qiaojun, who lost his fiancé;
Perhaps Liang Qianqian, who sacrificed too much, and Xu Fei, who had become mature, were considerate and tolerant to each other and went to the end;
Perhaps after everyone healed each other's pain, Jiang Zishan and Wen Wanlan, who were already in love, were reunited;
Or maybe after a while, Qianqian and Xu Fei found that they could never go back to the past, and Xu Fei and Qiaojun finally got together......
If this drama ends in forty-five episodes, all the good things will be fixed at the wedding of Jiang Zishan and Tang Xinru.
At that moment, Xu Fei retrieved the wedding ring that had been lost and put it firmly on Wu Qiaojun's ring finger.
All misunderstandings have come to an end, and on that day, Qiaojun will be the happiest Mrs. Xu.
At that moment, Tang Xinru took the sincere blessings sent by her former rival and best friend Wen Wanlan, and wore a holy wedding dress to her happy destination as she wished.
TVB's usual happy ending, how good.
However, after complaining countless times that the screenwriter smashed this originally happy ending, I also have to admit that I remember it because of regret.
Watching this drama for the third time, I feel even more deeply that what makes me remember this drama is not only the lingering love and the tangled and helpless love triangle, but the brilliance of human nature reflected in this drama.
This is also an element that is extremely lacking in today's film and television dramas.
And a good drama that can shock people's hearts and resonate with the audience just needs to have this kind of charm.
As the lyrics of the theme song of this drama "Ten Thousand Miles of Sunshine":
Reveal the true feelings of every human nature, such as sunshine.
In any case, the ending given by the screenwriter is there, we can sigh, we can sigh, and even have no expectations, I hope they can all be well.
~Unfinished waiting~
(All pictures are from the Internet)
Author: Clouds in Coffee
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