Text: Classmate Wang next door
Recently, the topic of "female fugitive Lao Rongzhi was arrested" was on the hot search. At the end of the 1990s, her name was well known, nicknamed "Beauty Snake".
The case she committed with her boyfriend Fa Ziying shocked the whole country and was the childhood shadow of countless netizens.
Lao Rongzhi and Fa Ziying would lock the men they had seduced in an iron cage and strangle their necks with wire.
Speaking of this Lao Rongzhi, it was once the prototype of the two heroines of the TV series "Red Spider", Ma Qian and Milan, and also the prototype of the story of the human skin cage chapter in "Forensic Qin Ming".
After the news was issued, fans of "Red Spider" left a message in Baidu Tieba saying: Milan (the character in the play) was caught in Xiamen, and this time there was a result.
At that time, the Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Department also participated in the production of "Red Spider", and some cases were inspired by "Red Spider".
Peach Factory's eyes can't help but return to the aesthetic explosion of the eighties and nineties, introducing this "Red Spider" to everyone.
This film has a profound portrayal of women's criminal psychology and the background of the times, and you must be amazed by what you have seen.
Promotional poster for the TV series "Red Spider"
The stories in "Red Spider" are all based on real cases that occurred in the 1990s, and criminologist Professor Kang Shuhua pointed out in an article:
After the reform and opening up, China's female crimes have undergone obvious changes compared with the past, not only in terms of numbers, but also in terms of increasingly diversified types of crimes, and the means are more cunning and hidden.
Perhaps the producers are feeling the changes of the times and the fragmentation and corrosion of human nature by the expansion of materialism, and then invest in the filming of such a pseudo-documentary TV series about women's crimes.
90s street scene
First of all, the director of the play is well versed in the aesthetic framework of binary opposition, and the opening film uses a montage technique to flash back the hairy spider and the twisted body of the woman.
For example, in the previous scene, a spider crawls by quickly, and the next shot turns to a long-haired beauty with half-exposed shoulders. This means of direct metaphor highlights the film's strong realist style.
Along with the eye-shaking visual experience, the sound effect part of the opening film is even more amazing, the harsh alarm bells, women's screams and men's cursing are mixed together...
Make sure you're drawn to it at first glance and never get sleepy when you listen to it.
After successfully creating a tense and intense atmosphere, don't worry, the main film has not yet begun, but a thick monologue of a middle-aged man, with a red letter on a black background to point out the main idea:
This is the true story of ten women who went to ruin and were severely punished by the law. It profoundly warns people to adhere to noble character, responsibility in life, conscience of society, and healthy life at all times.
How can such concise and concise words not make people feel awe!
Intimidating camera stitching with opening introduction
Different from the clichéd American drama setting of "Criminal Minds", which is a story per episode, "Red Spider" uses two episodes to tell a story, and pays great attention to the setting of suspense and the speed of plot advancement.
The highly restored plot is skillfully integrated with the inner monologue after the criminal is captured, and a button is left at the end of each episode to attract the audience, which can be described as the traditional narrative technique of the music art.
In terms of plot, the cases selected by the play have their own characteristics, and each story has its own characteristics under the main tone of "cruelty and desolation".
There are traditional Chinese ethical narratives, such as those things that have to be said between sister-in-law and uncle, and various social chaos that has emerged with the tide of economic development, and there are many shame play and SM elements, which meet the diverse needs of the audience.
For example, there is an episode that left an extremely deep impression on Wang.
A simple and cute little nurse is seduced by a golden alopecia areata, and then embarks on the road of no return of being a second mother, murdering the original match, and killing people and goods.
It is undeniable that the social nature of its subject matter, the spectacle of its killing methods, and its profound reflectiveness are still thought-provoking to this day.
There should be crying here
Secondly, it is necessary to give special praise to the actors of the play, from the protagonist to the supporting role, from the criminal to the police, almost all the acting skills are online, the performance is natural and not contrived, the dialect and Mandarin are seamlessly switched, the role is three-dimensional and not rigid, and the body language expression is in place.
Take the aforementioned Uncle Duojin, on the one hand, he will play the obscene energy of the color fan to the fullest, on the other hand, he will also show the patience of middle-aged men and the confusion in the face of new and old love without exaggeration.
And the female protagonists of the show, yes, the female prisoners, they are so good!
Not only exquisite acting, but also the white skin and beauty, waist and legs long, and beautiful with personality, characteristics, never the same, never out of line, is the normal aesthetic standard we once had, neither need to study in Korea, nor do you have to flaunt yourself as a mixed-race of eight countries.
The actor performs naturally
Finally, let's talk about the inherent cultural meaning of the play. In the period from the 1990s to the beginning of this century, the door of the country gradually opened, social problems abounded, and the government carried out various types of crackdowns accordingly.
At that time, radio and television were also particularly inclusive, so a large number of documentary and pseudo-documentary crime films emerged, such as "9.18 Major Case Documentary", "Jinan 7.9 Major Case Investigation Documentary", "Criminal File Insider" and so on.
The public can see the current situation of society through TV dramas, while the rest of the imagination is handed over to the more vigorous stall literature.
A list of documentary and pseudo-documentary crime films from the 1990s
The theme of "Red Spider" is female crime, which is a certain psychology of Chinese men.
Since ancient times, they have a unique sense of excitement about the combination of women and crime, from Pan Jinlian to Cabbage, from "Ten Tortures of the Manchu Qing Dynasty" to "3D Meat Futon"...
There is nothing more exciting and imaginative than watching a beautiful woman being tortured, and of course this woman is more perfect if she seems to be weak and really snake-hearted.
In addition, the name of the play is also very good.
Judging from the natural attributes of the red spider, it is cruel to others, but it can pay for its own children, which does not reflect the understanding and sympathy for criminal women?
From the perspective of cultural attributes, the "ochre clothes" worn by criminals in ancient times were red, and in Western culture, red also had the meaning of cruelty, bloodshed, and danger. When Chinese and Western cultures mingled, there was an accurate and evocative name such as the red-light district.
In this way, what the name "Red Spider" represents, you can understand without becoming an old driver.
The cultural meaning of the red spider is cruel, bloody, and dangerous
Finally, of course, I would like to mention the super-good ending song, "Let Me Rejoice and Make Me Worry" sung by Chinese soul singer Zhou Huajian.
As the ending song slowly sounds, there are no longer terrifying spiders on the screen, but a scene of emotional entanglement, almost like a fashion family idol emotional drama.
This has to admire the profound skills of the producers, directors, and screenwriters of the play to learn from China and the West, so that we can see such a work of conscience.
So compared to "Red Question Mark" and "Red Scorpion", I just like "Red Spider" more, and this week I went to sing K, starting with "The Old Driver Takes Me" and ending with "Let Me Rejoice and Make Me Worry", which is so willful.
Stay in the watch, the memories go on