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After waiting for nearly 2 months, I finally waited for the "Mist Theater" to re-emerge.
On August 18, 271's "Mist Theater" aired its third work, "Very Witnessed", after "Ten Days Game" and "The Hidden Corner".
"Very Witnessed"
"Very Witnessed" is a suspense drama directed by Yang Miao and starring Song Yang, Yuan Wenkang, You Jingru and Jiao Gang.
As the suspense drama of the third part of the "Mist Theater" broadcast by the baton, the high-scoring "Hidden Corner" proofing was previously raised, and the audience's expectations for it were invisibly raised a lot.
Coupled with the fact that it has been "broken" for nearly 2 months before it appears, it is even more overwhelming to want to see.
However, after the first day of the update of the 2 episodes, the audience's feedback was not as good as expected. Not to mention the lack of heat, the Douban short evaluation area also has many 3-star and 4-star evaluations.
Some say that "the relationship between the characters is too chaotic, the lines are deliberate", and some say that "the story is cut very badly, and there is no feeling of suspense film". According to this view, it is conservatively estimated that the opening score may only be around 8 points.
It is also the masterpiece of "Mist Theater", how can it not be "Very Witnessed"?
Honestly, just from the hardware of the series, "Very Witnessed" is indeed worthy of our expectations.
The production team is a five-yuan culture that has produced a high-quality suspense drama "White Night Pursuit", and the script is also a rare original script in the "Mist Theater", and it is also a classic routine of suspense drama.
The protagonists Song Yang and Yuan Wenkang are both Mesozoic actors with both appearance and strength, and their acting skills do not have to worry at all. This is still the second cooperation between the two after "Bursting Into Silence", and the tacit understanding problem has also been solved.
Not only that, the cast also includes actor You Jingru, who has starred in "Gentleman Detective", Jiao Gang in "Memory Master", Li Jiuxiao and Song Ningfeng in "Send Me to Qingyun", and our "Zhou Team" Wang Takizheng and Du Zhiguo special starred.
A real full-length acting lineup!
However, although the acting skills are online, they still have a great impact on the perception.
The male protagonist Song Yang passively passed the upper lip because of the "well-known" reason, which made people look very uncomfortable. And there are many close-ups of Song Yang in the play, and the upper lip that does not move and is very thin is even more strange.
In fact, in addition to the "hidden beard" of the mountain peak stealing the limelight, simply from the play itself, "Very Witnessed" is not a suspense drama. At least the first two episodes are.
First of all, the sense of suspense is not in place, and the rhythm is broken, and some plots are even inexplicable;
The opening atmosphere of "Very Witnessed" is actually very good, rainy nights, red dresses, nervous hands, and "Farewell" that can be compared to "Little White Boat".
As soon as the picture and the sound came out, it was almost goosebumps to fall to the ground.
Later, a female corpse was found in the woods, and the deceased's name was Qin Fei.
Soon because the details of Qin Fei's murder were similar to those of the little white pigeon murder case twenty years ago, the city bureau decided to investigate the case together.
The juvenile Peak, who was involved in the Little White Pigeon case, grew up to be a policeman and returned to the small town, and began to investigate the case with the local criminal police Jiang Liu and others.
From here, the main characters begin to take turns.
First of all, Li Rui, the husband of the deceased Qin Fei, learned from his mouth that Qin Fei and the little white pigeon that died that year were classmates. On the day of the murder of the little white pigeon, they originally made an appointment to watch a movie, but the little white pigeon had to go beforehand, and the accident occurred.
Then there is Qin Fei's current girlfriend, Ye Xiaohe, who is not only Qin Fei's girlfriend, but also the daughter of Officer Ye who investigated the Xiaobai Pigeon case.
On the day of Qin Fei's accident, she and her boyfriend Zhou Yu were preparing to leave the town. Then Zhou Yu led out Zhou Yu's brother and the secret behind them.
On the other side of the investigation, there was the father of the little white pigeon and the owner of the noodle shop who has been appearing frequently.
The first episode ends with the introduction of the main characters, and in the second episode, the story begins to unfold from the characters, and the reversal and suspense rise linearly.
Under Ye Xiaohe's testimony, Li Rui's personality was subverted, and doubts began to emerge. At the same time, the story of Ye Xiaohe's body has also begun to be slowly dug up, and the "spiritual nature" of her boyfriend is also curious.
But I have to say that the foreshadowing is buried too deliberately, losing the pleasure of watching suspense dramas.
And because it gives way to the characters, many of the clues in the play are passed on through words.
For example, Li Rui's alibi that night, as well as his car inexplicably appeared in other places, these major clues related to the case are directly said by the characters, less suspense drama should have the sense of reality.
It is worth saying that the end of the second episode is very brilliant.
First Li Rui disappeared, then ShanFeng found that Li Rui's home was unusual, the room had been rearranged, and the bed was strangely dressed, plus the street was covered with intimidating leaflets overnight, and the atmosphere was hung up.
By the end of the second episode, the suspense finally resembled that. But this is a suspense drama with a total of only 12 episodes, and the suspense feels that it is only at the end of the second episode, will it be too slow?
And although the first two episodes are mainly laying out the relationship between the characters, some of the plots are also very strange, even some inexplicable.
For example, when The mountain peak met the father of the little white pigeon, the father of the little white pigeon came up and scolded the mountain and asked him why he had moved away? Why did he ignore his daughter's innocence because of rumors?
Yes, it is true that Shanfeng was a witness to the little white pigeon case twenty years ago, but he was still an eleven-year-old child at the time, and he only lost the little white pigeon, and everyone said that he killed the victim with the murderer.
When The father of the little white pigeon saw him again twenty years later, he also looked like "it's all your fault", and said that I would pay attention to you if you came back early, and now I don't care about you.
So what if you were an eleven-year-old kid?
By the way, this part of the little white pigeon father said in the hospital and Ye Xiaohe rumored that he killed people is also very logical, I hope that the follow-up plot can give a reasonable explanation.
Moreover, the portrayal of the main characters is not in place, and the lines are too pretentious and appear to be mysterious
Judging from the character laying out in the first two episodes, there must be many characters involved in these two cases. This operation is also very common in suspense dramas, mainly to show the complex relationship between the characters, and then lead to the confusion of the case.
However, in the previous two episodes, the director still has the old problem mentioned before in terms of character portrayal, and the sense of suspense is insufficient. And rather than the sense of suspense, I feel that the director wants to take the route of "literary crime films".
Among the many characters who appeared in the first two episodes, there were no details that could support the characters, and basically they relied on dialogue to establish the characters. This practice is not wise to put in a suspense drama that requires logic, not to mention that the lines in the play are too "pretentious" and appear very mysterious.
For example, in the second episode, Zhou Yu and his brother and the dialogue with Ye Xiaohe, the lines when the two people met alone were all playing dumb puzzles, talking for ten minutes around the question of whether they could walk or not.
"You go", "I don't go, I can't go is my business", "The day of ghost debt collection has arrived", "Why didn't you go", "You know best in your own heart", "Who won't let you go?" ”
"Don't you want to leave?" "If I hadn't known you, I would have left a long time ago" "I don't want to go, I want to go clean"
These overly lyrical dialogues seem to have a meaning in each sentence, looking at it as an ambush pen, and when you think about it, you feel bored.
If it is placed in a crime movie like "The Party at South Station", it may be good, but in the play, it just aggravates the sense of "temperament".
Even the dialogue between the mountain peak and the river in the first episode is very "poetic", although the truth is correct, but the way it is expressed is really too deliberate, and there is a feeling that the protagonist does not speak human words.
After two episodes, except for the local police 3-person group, who appeared in the scene felt like "normal people", everyone else was more or less neurotic and looked too depressed.
Moreover, although it can be seen that these characters have ulterior secrets, they do not give traceable clues, and the progress depends on the conflict between the protagonists, and the solution to the conflict depends on the roar, which is too tiring to watch.
The last thing I want to say is that the biggest problem with the first two episodes of "Very Witnessed" is that the bedding is too long, and it took nearly 2 episodes to lay the groundwork, unless the follow-up plot is very powerful, it is easy to lose the audience.
And the editing of the first two episodes is also a big problem, the sparse editing caused the transition to come too suddenly, and there is no explanation for the sudden fainting of Officer Ye and Peak when they first met. And the filters are also too heavy.
In fact, having said so much, it can also be regarded as "the depth of love and the cut of responsibility".
"Very Witnessed" is a rare original script in the "Mist Theater", and in the suspense drama, we rarely see excellent original scripts, and this alone deserves our attention.
As far as the current two episodes are concerned, "Very Witnessed" follows the classic suspense film routine, which is not good or bad.
Just want to take the classic suspense route, you should put some effort into the suspense of the opening, if you want to rely on the last few minutes of the second episode to capture the audience, or too bold.
So, unfortunately, the start of "Very Witness" did not stand out like "The Hidden Corner".
But fortunately, from the end of the second episode, there is a momentum, as long as the follow-up plot does not collapse, it may be possible to come to a "low open high walk"?
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