Recently, my circle of friends was quickly disturbed by "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog". Some people think that "the people of the Xuan family are nagging", some people feel that "the case is advancing too slowly", and some people suggest that there is no hurry, "There are many foreshadowings, and good drama is behind." ”
The story goes, 19 years ago, a young girl was killed and the perpetrator went unpunished. For 19 years, the girl's family has never been able to get out of the shadows. In particular, the girl's brother saw that his daughter grew older and kept her more and more tightly. Family conflicts are intensifying day by day.
With the family members of each mind, to carry out a multi-year unsolved case, this year's Mist Theater is still so daring.
"Crazy" families: don't understand, don't take trauma lightly
Personally, I admire the courage of the Mist Theater. Last year, word of mouth was fully popular, and part of the credit was very eye-catching at the beginning. Either pushing the parents-in-law down the mountain or dragging the body to the subway.
It makes sense to guess that this successful experience is passed on this year. But "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" is not lazy. It seems to have made up its mind to walk around and see in its own way - to shoot suspense, not only to shoot the case, but also to shoot people.
Photograph people's emotions, relationships, shoot an innocent family that has suffered a crime, lost a loved one, and how to continue to survive in the midst of change. Using the case to tell people's feelings is also destined to make the audience who "watch the stimulus" feel empty.
It is not too late for the case to go online. In the first episode, there were two incidents at the beginning and one tail. 19 years ago, a female corpse was fished out of the river near the Octagonal Pavilion, 18-year-old XuanZhen. Who the perpetrators are has always been clueless.
19 years later, a male corpse was salvaged from the river, Zhu Shenghui, a rich second generation in his early 20s. The Zhu family and the Xuan family, two families that originally lived an ordinary life, were crushed overnight because of the murder and became stormy.
In the Zhu family, Zhu Wensheng, who has tens of millions of people in business, is no longer capable, and he cannot do anything about his son's death. It was the only son he was going to inherit from the family property. Now, once you have been stripped of your hands and feet, there is no point in how much money you make.
Wife Qiu Wenjing, beautiful and beautiful rich wife, sings and plays in the big villa every day, and everything is not worried. The loss of her son made her lose her sanity, and she went from the police station to the Xuan family, crying loudly.
The Zhu family and his wife, in an almost arbitrary and unreasonable way, vented the unbearable but had to suffer the pain of losing their son. The pain drives the more dignified and noble people to go crazy.
And such a day, for 19 years, every day has been like a haze shrouded in the Xuanjia family can not be dissipated. Sister Xuan Min, most of the time gentle and virtuous, but unable to have children, became a knife in her heart.
So much so that people were deceived, and the inability to give birth to children was attributed to "Xuanzhen's unjust soul has not been rested." In a very silly and terrible way, she comforted herself and relieved herself of the double pain of losing her sister and not having children.
Brother Xuan Liang looked very confused. But his "devil" heart is knotted in guilt. At that time, because the object missed to pick up Xuanzhen from school, it indirectly led to an accident for his sister. From then on, picking him up and going to school was a hurdle he couldn't get over.
So he made up for it in his daughter Nianmei. Especially when Nian Mei grew to Xuan Zhen's age and grew a face that looked very much like Xuan Zhen, anxiety began to increase. In addition to thundering and not moving to pick up and drop off his daughter, fighting for his daughter, ripping off, and living restlessly.
It wasn't that Xuan Liang didn't look like an adult, it was that the change that completely disrupted his position. Overprotecting his daughter would make his heart feel better. The Xuan family brothers and sisters all healed the post-traumatic sequelae left by Xuan Zhen to this family in a way that others could not understand.
Even Nian Mei was involved in it. The aunt used the excuse to take her to buy lipstick, and instead went to burn paper for Xuanzhen. Her father's unrelenting death gaze left her breathless. There are also people around you who constantly remind, "You look exactly like the dead Xuanzhen." ”
The flower girl wanted to be tied to a dead man for no reason, but what did she do wrong. Even her aunt and father had done something wrong. The innocent Xuan family was thus consumed, worn down, and devoured by the evil consequences sown by the prisoners.
Using the family's 19-year-old wounds that are difficult to heal to advance the case, and then using the case to explore a mutilated family relationship, this is a kind of daring of "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog". Dare to challenge the traditional suspense drama viewing perspective.
From the basic exercise of "how to commit crimes and why crimes", it was switched to the victim's family as the object of observation. Tell their stories and present their hearts. The biggest controversy in "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" at present is the "nerves" of all members.
But isn't that exactly where the value of this show lies? Fang Siqi once hoped that everyone would admit that there are some pains in the world that cannot be reconciled, and some pains that are devastating. There is also the mother of Jiang Ge that we know, and the loss of her daughter is her lifelong wound.
At the heart of the two cases is actually the fate of two families forced to embark on the road of fate due to an unusual accident, and everyone changes as a result. Maybe the hole in their hearts can't be filled, and they can only live in a broken state.
As bystanders, how can we easily ask them to cross that hurdle and live like normal people? Not to despise the trauma they have suffered, it is the humanistic care of "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" for the victims' families.
This is also the temperament of the Mist Theater, which not only lays out a fascinating story, but also pays attention to what the people in the story are. This kind of creation that does not avoid pain and leads the audience to look directly at the accident of life is like a sharp sword - the Mist Theater never engages in the set of warm swallowing, it is not afraid of the sharpness of performance.
Sharp temperament: a misty theater that wraps people and life with a suspenseful shell
It's unbelievable to think about. In the field of domestic dramas, the concept of "XX theater" is not new. Ten years ago, satellite TV had already played this card. But the real nonsense is iQiyi's Mist Theater.
In 2017, "Undocumented Crime" seemed to be a test of iQiyi's launch of suspense web dramas, and the splash was huge. After that, the "Icebreaker Action" and the web drama "Detective Chinatown", which also exploded word of mouth, confirmed again and again that iQiyi was engaged in suspense.
The official establishment of the "Mist Theater" was signed last year. As soon as it started, it dominated the screen all summer. The first shot, "The Hidden Corner", directly exploded the field. From the climbing stem to the script, acting skills including BGM, "The Hidden Corner" successfully broke the circle.
This break directly laid the overall image of the Mist Theater: a suspenseful story, the core of humanity. The winning step of "The Hidden Corner" is still a bold and unique perspective. Taking children as the main line, paying attention to the spiritual world of children, not weakening, not contempt, which is very uncommon in the inherent gameplay. Fresh will also play, even the actor Zhang Songwen got the script is amazed, "The lead actor is a child, this is very remarkable." ”
New things are played, the operation of the relatively normal drama, the fog theater has also greatly brightened a hand. Strictly speaking, "The Silent Truth" is very main theme, and the character of Jiang Yang is very wei Guangzheng. This is much more difficult than the sword to go sideways.
Once the audience cannot be infected, the whole thing is fake. In addition to casting and performance is the key, the depth and refinement of the story are particularly demanding. Until now, I see that Bai Yu can still think of Jiang Yang, and I have the urge to cry.
A promising prosecutor who almost dedicated his life to self-destruction in order to overturn the case of the classmates he met in Pingshui. The hero's purity, nobility, beauty but fatalistic tragedy are shown in Jiang Yang's body.
Starting with a hunting curiosity and ending with touching feelings, last year chased the mist theater, and the emotions were opened and released. Even in cognition, a new world has been opened: ah domestic suspense dramas, can also do more than suspense dramas.
To this year, "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" continues to depict the plot on the background of suspense, and uses the case to promote the sharp temperament of the character's life. Let people know at a glance, well, that it is the mist theater itself. For example, as mentioned earlier, the "poison" of the perspective selection and the dare to express emotions, which is very foggy theater.
More intuitive, or its picture and lens. You should be familiar with the tone of the picture of the Mist Theater, advanced, cinematic. So how can "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" also rank in the top three of this part.
After all, it is the famous filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai and Hua Zhen as the director, and Lu Yifan as the combination of photography, they probably came to shoot a super long version of the movie. The first filming was very absolute, rooted in Shaoxing for nearly three months. Choosing Jiangnan Water Town to shoot suspense, this is probably the first time.
Really is to dare. Before the drama came out, who could have imagined that the literary and peaceful Jiangnan town could be closely related to the suspenseful case. A major element in water. Always rainy weather, wet street surfaces, cases that happen in the river.
It was damp, damp, and foggy, making some kind of indescribable secret, like a snake slipping by, cold and frightening. Mixed with arch bridges, old houses, deep alleys, and gravel roads, the ambiguous atmosphere makes people pores open.
There is also the octagonal pavilion that serves as the eye of the play. The ancient charm of the pavilion is exposed in a modern time and space, and the contrast and conflict seem to be an ulterior secret of its own. I also like the flower guide's saying, "That's the place where you want to say goodbye." “
I can choose the scene, and I have to be able to shoot. In the Mist Theater, a scene that I will never forget is Zhang Dongsheng's wife taking medicine from the lower bag and not knowing, swimming. On the vast and blue surface of the sea, a woman who was about to die was swimming.
There are many powerful shots in "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog". For example, in the first scene of the whole play, in the dark green woods, a girl in a red and white school uniform is running. The picture is blurred, shaking, shaking red with a desperate beauty. Instantly full of suspense.
For example, this time-space switch. Xuanzhu returns to the room where she was a child, and the camera pushes out against her gaze, and then shakes back, and the room changes back to the way it was from many years ago. Xuanzhen is still there, and life is still beautiful.
There are also a few close-ups of the sky that are also very memorable. After zhu Shenghui's case, the sky above the octagonal pavilion was a scarlet with teeth dancing claws.
Xuanzhu returns home, and some unpleasant memories of her and Xuanzhen are recalled. The sky is cloudy.
The police have some eyebrows, and the two cases are likely to be committed by the same person. The sky hung a round of morning light, and the fog began to clear.
The change in the sky coincides with the direction of the case. This full and profound lens language, throughout the "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" and also through the Mist Theater, is a kind of Peugeot that the Mist Theater has been stylized, and it is its highly recognizable face.
A good-looking skin bag must be needed, and an interesting soul cannot be lacking. The soul holds up the label of the Mist Theater. That is, to make a shell of suspense, what is loaded inside is a person after all. Thoughtful children, heroes who feed tigers with their bodies, fragmented Xuanjia, etc., are all people under the shell of suspense.
The Theater of Mists, in the end, is still about human life and everything that happens. It is said that each individual is related to the murder, but all the individuals together constitute life itself. The growth of children is life, and heroic sacrifice is life.
The six members of the Xuan family, marriage, childbirth, study, birth, old age, illness and death are all life. Murder and life, with people, with love, with each other. This kind of neo-realistic suspense, perhaps, is the reason why the Mist Theater has grown a sharp temperament.