Fei Ke died. This time, it's really dead.
watched the finale of "New Life". I have mixed feelings, it is dark and difficult to see, and there is no rain or rain or sunshine.
The last time I watched the finale, I had such mixed feelings, and I watched "The Silent Truth" starring Liao Fan and Bai Yu.
I want to start with the classic lines of "All or Nothing", another work of the director's Olympic bid-
"Man has two hearts, one is greedy and the other is unwilling."
The desires in the depths of human nature are at the root of all deceptions.
And Fei Ke deceived so many people, and in the end, it was actually himself who deceived.
And this domestic suspense drama "scam", the Olympic bid was deceived beautifully.
This game was originally a bit big.
Deceitful in deception, five-doppelganger, parasitic upper class......
The story is hard enough, and it is not only the second shot of the pants "White Night Theater". It was also launched on Netflix at the same time, and the quality was favored by Netflix early on.
But the director of the Olympic bid just ran out of a super box office dark horse in the film industry, turned around and entered the TV circle, and plunged into the big pit of suspense dramas.
starring, or Jing Boran, who has performed mediocre in recent years.
Can this drama really deceive the audience?
When the series came to the finale, the answer to this question was already obvious, the audience who bid for the Olympics, Jing Boran, pants and the drama all won the bet.
And the Rashomon puzzle in the play, which spanned several years, finally ushered in the end.
When I saw that everyone escaped death, only Fei Ke died quietly, and the only one who shed tears for him was Cheng Hao, who was deceived by him, and I felt like I was blocked in a piece, and I couldn't calm down for a long time.
Fei Ke's ending was unexpected and reasonable.
And regardless of whether this ending is unfinished or not, domestic suspense dramas are finally reborn.
1: About the ending
In the last episode of "New Life", the plot did not reverse again.
Everyone is moving towards a domestic finale-style finale step by step.
The first is to uncover the truth that Fei Ke was reported for the substitute exam that year: who reported Fei Ke.
Until this episode, most viewers, like me, thought that He Shan had reported Fei Ke.
But it doesn't seem to be. Who, exactly, is that?
The answer is: no one. Or rather, it was Fei Ke who reported himself.
When he crossed out his name on the exam paper, he had already completed reporting himself.
But, don't rush to conclusions just yet, see the end.
Next, there is the real identity of the fake lawyer: a young driver who falls in love with Chen Jiajia.
For me, this idol drama-style reversal plot of the pure love God of War driver falling in love with the brutal lady is not exciting, but the story is still successfully connected.
The mastermind behind the kidnapping of Fei Ke is Chen Shufa, but he can't control the outcome of the incident.
When all the truth was revealed, Fei Ke was ready to return to the shore with everyone to surrender, but fate still played a joke on him.
The yacht lost control in the storm, and Chen Shufa, who fell into madness, rushed to the control room, trying to capsize the yacht.
Storms, showers, and bumps, He Shan was shaken off the boat and fell into the water.
Fei Ke, who had already grabbed the railing, jumped into the water desperately, and used all his strength to hold He Shan up, but he used all his strength to sink into the water, and when he was rescued, the doctor was powerless to return to the sky.
Fei Ke's ending is regrettable.
But looking at Jing Boran at the last moment, he was so relieved, like a new life.
It turns out that this is the origin of the title of the play.
Death is salvation, and salvation is rebirth.
And all the lawbreakers in the play are handcuffed. Especially Mr. Qiang, he is going to go in for transformation again.
At this point, everything seems to fall into place.
Fei Ke is not just making up a fake identity, "carrying" some lies, and having five WeChat accounts, Fei Ke's great thing is that he will play the psychology of fraud to perfection.
He will give some mixed information in the character design, which is impossible to see through and touch. And Fei Ke in the pull of human nature is true and false.
Even like the substitute exam back then, perhaps deep down, he always wanted to be exposed.
IS THERE ANY SCAMMER WHO WOULD NAME HIMSELF FEI KE, FAKE?
Fei Ke became the last Fei Ke, and it was indispensable to add bricks and tiles to the follow-up "victims".
In the end, Fei Ke killed Fei Ke.
However, pay attention to this Weibo that directed the finale of the Olympic bid.
The story ends in the final draft of He Shan's novel.
It's not journalism, it's fiction.
Think about it again, it's scary.
This drama uses the entire second half to tell us that our memories are not credible, so is it possible that the reversal of the entire second half is just He Shan's "one-sided words"?
In her pen, Fei Ke went to the end because he was willing to fall.
The deceived are all wicked, and they are to blame.
She never felt sorry for Li Zerui, the examination room did not report him, and the university did not debunk him.
But what if all this is just He Shan's memory?
Does that mean that this Rashomon will never have an ending.
2: About "New Life"
When I first watched "New Life", I didn't care at first, I watched a lot of suspense dramas with the same theme in the past two years, and I always felt that the follow-up dramas could no longer replicate the success of "The Long Season".
Unexpectedly, the process of chasing the drama really made the Olympic bid "deceived".
The first is structural "deception".
In the first five episodes, the Olympic bid repeatedly used the cross-editing technique of "victim narrative" and "Fei Ke angle narrative".
The purpose is to muddy the waters.
At the beginning of the story, Fei Ke faked his death.
The memorial service was held on a small island in the sea, and only five people were invited to attend, none of whom knew each other.
When discovered, Fei Ke has five different identities and personalities.
They decided to find out the truth, so everyone told the story of Fei Ke.
Up to this point, the story is like five versions of a memoir that intersect with each other, spelling out "a liar's story".
It wasn't until episodes 6 and 7 that the reversal appeared, and everyone's testimony was broken.
The truth of the story is revealed: this is not so much a confession as a deceitful Rashomon.
The Easter egg at the end of the Olympic bid mentions the sequential timeline of "New Life": Episode 8 starts - watch Episode 9 - Watch 18 minutes later in Episode 5 - Watch Episode 6 - Episode 3 and 4 - Watch the first 20 minutes of Episode 10 - 25 minutes later in Episode 1 - Episode 2 - The first half of Episode 5 - The first half of Episode 1 - Episode 7 - The second half of Episode 10.
Looking at it this way, it may be more clear.
But if it is only filmed at this level, the director's bid for the Olympics is still just a show off.
The best shot of the Olympic bid was an emotional scam of the audience.
The process of the audience chasing the drama is actually to follow the people in the play with emotion.
At the beginning of the story, it is five episodes and five victim perspectives, and Fei Ke is a person who lives in everyone's puzzle.
It's natural for viewers to feel compassion for each victim.
But in the last few episodes, the story actually returned to Fei Ke's perspective, when the true faces of these victims were gradually exposed, the audience quickly put away their sympathy and began to have two emotions: one is the victim, "the poor must have something to hate".
The second is that there will be pity for Fei Ke, a hateful person.
This is the director's most powerful deception in the Olympic bid.
He led the audience to deceive himself.
After watching the whole drama, the plot rhythm is tight, and it never drags on the mud and water. Several key conflict nodes are also very well rendered. And some of the small details in the play are also very real.
Especially in the game between Fei Ke and Chen Shufa, the little fox vs. the old fox, from the details of the parents' house purchase, the details of the tea ceremony, to the background of the children of fictitious high-ranking officials, not a single button will not match.
And the fee can be answered like a stream.
The suspense drama is "it's easy to dig a pit and it's hard to fill the pit", and at the end, the audience found all kinds of pits buried in the number of episodes, such as Su Qian said that the last money was not transferred to Fei Ke, but another account.
Although there are also individual pits, they have not been filled, such as what Zhang Xuan is doing.
But in general, this is already a domestic suspense drama, and there are few flaws.
It can also be seen from many details in the play that the director of the Olympic bid, after two consecutive anti-fraud works, should already be the director and screenwriter who knows the most about fraud in China.
Otherwise, it will be difficult to shoot as silky as in the play, and use all kinds of deception and fraud psychology perfectly.
3: About the actor's acting skills
"New Life" has just started, and there should be a lot of discussion about the casting of actors in the play, especially Jing Boran.
However, as the plot progresses, the actors conquer the audience with their excellent performances.
The most stable is Wang Yanhui.
The role of Chen Shufa is the one with the most reversals among the victims in the play.
From the irritable nouveau riche at the beginning, to the sad father of "my daughter was killed by him", to the plot reversal later, becoming the mastermind behind everything and the profit-seeking thug who sent his daughter into the wolf's mouth for business.
In the last episode, he fell into madness again and wanted everyone to die together.
Wang Yanhui not only performed the endless arrogance of the role, but also played an arrogant gambler who lost red-eyed, so he did not hesitate to use his daughter's happiness as a bargaining chip to cling to the golden beetle son-in-law, and finally fell into a cocoon.
The most affectionate actor is Huang Jue.
Huang Jue's performance is getting better. At the beginning, he just acted calmly and naturally, and played the style of a financial tycoon, but later Fei Ke gradually began to show his stuffing, but he did it again and again for Fei Ke, and his emotional transformation was silky and silky.
When Fei Ke died in the finale, even He Shan, who he saved, had almost no emotion, only Cheng Hao burst into tears, and suddenly felt like he was in the water.
Well acted.
The biggest acting surprise is Peng Yang.
She is beautiful and her acting skills are good, but in the past, either the role was not light, the play was not good, or the play was okay, the role was too light, in short, the audience couldn't see her.
But the role of Su Qian was played by her to the core.
The two scenes are very exquisite, one is to see Fei Ke moved, three points are the shyness of the young woman, five points are the self-satisfaction of the hunter pretending to be the prey, and two points are faint guilt.
There was another scene, it was Fei Ke's identity that was already married, she smiled slightly and asked Fei Ke, what kind of expression is this.
With just one line, the character becomes a different person.
She's really underrated.
But to say that the counterattack was the most successful, Jing Boran.
His performance greatly exceeded my expectations, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a drama that refreshes cognition.
The role of Fick, a liar, is resonant of Leonardo in "Cat and Mouse Game", but it is more complex than the movie character.
After watching the whole drama, the characters created by Jing Boran look a little literate on the surface, but in fact, they are full of the sense of play of high-level liars in their bones.
As he used to perform, he put the Coke jar up.
Fei Ke treats everyone with a charming temperament, and when he lies to you, he is very affinity.
Until a certain moment, it seems that all the cards are suddenly put away, one expression, and betrays the heart.
For example, after defrauding the first money, Fei Ke received a call from Su Qian, paying attention to Jing Boran's expression control, and his emotional level can be called textbook.
For more than ten seconds of answering the phone, at first it was a sense of happiness and control that the plan had succeeded, but then his tone slowed down and his expression relaxed, with a kind of boredom and nothingness that won too easily.
But when he suddenly realized the greater value of this prey, he raised a small eyebrow, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
At this moment, Jing Boran performed to enjoy, how much money to cheat is just a number, the important thing is the process of the game.
It can be said that this scene made me confirm that Jing Boran is not only an actor, but also a good actor.
After "New Life", no one should underestimate him.
4: About domestic suspense
The drama "New Life" has opened a new window for domestic suspense.
In the past few years, do domestic suspense dramas have a feeling that they seem to have fallen into a certain pattern: in the 90s, the criminal investigation puzzle, broken shi or missing case, a mystery that spans the ages, there are always one or several ruthless people in the end, and the ending is nostalgic.
The routine is the same, the rest depends on the director's skills, the top is "The Long Season", and the acceptable but also has obvious flaws "Who is he" and "The Three Teams", again, substitute yourself.
All in all, the templates are pretty much the same.
But "New Life" is like a new life of domestic suspense dramas.
The reversal or "coolness" in the story is presented step by step through the description of the victim, and in the end, the audience finds that they were not deceived by the people in the play, but by the director.
This is also another clever part of the series: finally let the audience watch a suspense drama in which people in the play do not reduce their intelligence, and the main creator basically does not reduce their intelligence.
Of course, the most exciting thing is the theme of the story:
The so-called scams are all desires.
Every character in the play is both a victim and a perpetrator.
After watching the finale, I was thinking, if I hadn't met Fei Ke, would the lives of these five people be better than now?
Not necessarily.
Fei Ke just fanned a gust of wind that stirred their desires, and with a few slaps, the small flames that these people were already eager to try immediately ignited.
Without this gust of wind, Cheng Hao may also be dismissed for manipulating stocks; Chen Shufa may still sacrifice his daughter's happiness and force his daughter to marry another golden beetle son-in-law instead of a driver with a monthly salary of 8,000; Of course, Su Qian will not allow herself to live a well-behaved life, and other romantic lovers "Fei Ke" will always appear.
There is no shortage of "Fei Ke" in this world, there is no lack of greed, and there is no shortage of encounters between the two.
The wall is thousands of feet, and there is no desire to be rigid. But no one has no desire.
That's human nature.
Even He Shan, who was righteous and generous in the finale, finally revealed his true face in the hidden version of the ending of the director's Olympic bid, no one is completely innocent, everyone is a good person who lives in his memory.
The truth is always different from one person to another.
The Olympic bid did not please the audience, but led the audience to confront the dark side and self-contradiction of human nature.
also used Fei Ke's story to tell the audience: The art of deception is endlessly changing.
The way of deception, the heart is subtle.
This creative style of Hollywood black B-grade films has been reborn in the drama "New Life".
also made it a minority in national dramas.
When most domestic dramas are busy falling in love, or falling in love in the name of criminal investigation, suspense, and career.
Only in "New Life", all the love in the story is suspenseful.
When the story is no longer just a 30-second reversal, but a cruel presentation of complex human nature: human nature, as it is.
The domestic suspense drama really pushed open the window and let the wind outside the window blow in.
Everyone has Fei Ke around them, everyone is Cheng Hao, Chen Shufa, Su Qian, and everyone is He Shan who lives in their own world.
But not every Fei Ke will find out with the same conscience as the finale in the play, reality, compared to the best domestic suspense dramas, there is too much suspense.