19 Knife torture and murder of husband, is the motive really because of domestic violence?
After "Six Groups of Serious Cases", there has not been such an exciting female lead criminal investigation drama for a long time, and this time I finally saw the feeling of "Six Groups of Serious Cases" - "True Detective of Lies".
"True Detective of Lies" cut directly from the case at the beginning, through a social news to explain the background of the case, in 2018, a murder case occurred in Bincheng, the main criminal Zhou Ruojun killed her husband Zhu Xiaodong because she could not bear the long-term domestic violence of her husband, and was sentenced to five years in prison in the first instance.
The criminal suspect Zhou Ruojun and her first husband had a daughter, and after the divorce, Zhou Ruojun was forced to agree to help her ex-husband resist half of the debt in order to get custody of her daughter, and then Zhou Ruojun took her daughter to marry her second husband, Zhu Xiaodong.
Domestic violence, 19 knives of cruel torture, female crime... At this point, the case seems to have a motive, a tool for committing a crime, and a criminal suspect, and the closure of the case is just around the corner, but the truth is only the tip of the iceberg...
As a criminal investigation short drama with only 16 episodes, "True Detective of Lies" is different from the drama of "Six Groups of Serious Cases" and other crime-solving dramas, it is known as the first female lie detector criminal investigation short drama in China, cutting from the lie detector link into the case, focusing on micro-expressions, technical lie detection and cracking cases, so that the full picture of the work of female lie detectors is presented.
Yu Nan, playing the female lie detector Ling Ran in "True Detective of Lies".
At this time, back to the Zhou Ruojun case, before the second-instance judgment, the parents of the victim Zhu Xiaodong did not accept the results of the first-instance judgment, crying that the son who was tortured and killed was really too miserable, if Zhou Ruojun was passionate about killing, one knife was enough, and 19 knives should just prove that Zhou Ruojun was deliberately killing.
Female lie detector Ling Ran accidentally discovered that Zhou Ruojun and a thief Who had just been caught, Zhang Yi, had a subtle reaction to the micro-expressions and body movements on their faces when they met at the police station, and immediately determined that there was a hidden plot in this case, so they began to test lies for Zhou Ruojun.
As a result, all the professional skills such as the working status of the lie detector, the lie detector equipment, and the lie detector are displayed in front of the audience.
Through the lie detector test of Zhou Ruojun and Zhang Yi, Ling Ran found the clue, so he and Chen Hu, a policeman played by Xing Jiadong, began to re-investigate the case.
Finally found that the original deceased Zhu Xiaodong sexually assaulted Zhou Ruojun's daughter before he died, and perverted to take his own evil deeds as an ornamental collection, Zhang Yi is Zhou Ruojun's high school lover, in order to help Zhou Ruojun find the relevant images taken by Zhu Xiaodong, the two subdued Zhu Xiaodong and threatened to abuse him, eventually causing his death, Zhu Xiaodong finally did not tell the whereabouts of the camera, so Zhang Yi will return to the killing scene to find the camera, thus being treated as a thief by the police.
In order to protect her daughter, Zhou Ruojun chose to abuse and kill her husband; in order to protect her daughter, Zhou Ruojun deliberately created a motive for domestic violence, did not want the police to find out about her daughter's body, and sacrificed herself to save her daughter's life.
Domestic violence, sexual assault, female crimes - these social hot topics have aroused great concern in the first case of "True Detective of Lies", and it is very rare to portray positively in the current domestic dramas.
At the end of this case, expert guidance suggestions were also specially introduced to give the audience relevant science popularization and guidance, and this small detail can see the social care and responsibility of the drama party.
On the night of the premiere of "True Detective of Lies", the heat exploded, and the amount of topics reached the top, ranking first in the provincial satellite TV of the six networks in the same period. Zhou Ruojun's tearful words to Ling Ran about protecting his daughter in the lie detector room have become a "golden sentence" that resonates with the audience:
"The snake does not molt only when it is pregnant, because it has a child, and it thinks that this is the end of this life, even if it does not have feet..."
Although the premiere opened well, everyone's curiosity and interest in female lie detectors soared, but the subject of polygraph solving is actually not new. The 2009 word-of-mouth American drama "Lie to me" ("Don't Lie to Me", also translated as "A Thousand Lies"), has already let us see the magic of detecting lies and solving cases through suspects' micro-expressions and body language.
In "Lie to me", Dr. Carl Letterman, the male protagonist played by Tim Ross, does not need a lie detector or even a voice, but only relies on subtle expression changes and body words to judge whether a person is lying or not, thus restoring the truth of the incident.
At that time, because of the popularity of "Lie to me", it stimulated a large number of viewers to show great interest in professional knowledge such as micro-expression recognition, setting off a wave of learning.
Then in 2010, TVB seized the hot opportunity to shoot the Hong Kong version of "Lie to me", known as "Mind Reader", starring Norma Lin, who is very familiar and loved by everyone.
"Mind Reader" has mostly reproduced "Lie to me" in terms of both the starring setting and the details of the lie detector, but because the crime-solving and criminal investigation theme in Hong Kong dramas has been very mature, it is still familiar with the Original Hong Kong flavor in the script and shooting methods.
Today's "True Detective of Lies" is more than 10 years later than "Lie to me" and "Mind Reader". So, can "True Detective Lie" gain the good reputation of "Lie to me" and "Mind Reader"?
Although it has only recently started broadcasting, the 16-episode "True Detective of Lies" has now been online for 12 episodes, which can be described as speeding. The first Zhou Ruojun case did play an eye-catching role, but from the perspective of the follow-up case reasoning and cracking plot, the current audience's evaluation is also focused on the fact that the script is too weak.
The drama solves the case from the perspective of a female polygrapher, the lead actor invites Yu Nan, and all the cases are adapted from the real cases - from these aspects, we can see the sincerity of the drama to enhance the texture of the play.
The cases selected by this drama are indeed very social topics, but after adaptation, the cases presented have become very suspenseful, and the details and level design are lacking.
For example, the characters of each case will explain the past in a very patterned manner as soon as they appear, when the suspect's lies are punctured, they will change their mouths, and when the case is investigated to a certain stage, there will be new evidence sent to the door, almost no need for the characters in the play to trigger, and the truth itself is pushing the whole story forward.
For the audience who have watched all kinds of suspenseful themes, the case detection process of this drama has no expected surprises. The audience's most comment on this is that it feels that this drama is a popular law column drama based on real cases.
Nowadays, the audience's tastes and aesthetics have become more and more mature, suspense should be attractive, reasoning should be dazzling logic, case digging pits should be filled, and the overall texture is advanced. If you just want to achieve the purpose of breaking out of the circle with a new profession like a "female polygraph detector", I am afraid that it will not be achieved.
When the audience watches a criminal investigation drama, on the one hand, they want to see the strangeness of the case, and on the other hand, they want to see the truth of human nature.
Although the theme of "white lies cannot save anyone, so I must defend the truth" is put forward in "True Detective of Lies", sublimating the social reasoning, but the drama fails to dig into human nature through the story behind the case.
Therefore, many viewers will feel aggrieved for the heroine Yu Nan, and everyone feels that her acting skills in this play have been wasted.
In the past two years, the top movie big coffee "Xia Fan" acting TV series is often complained that it is "face to the ground", and the final results are dismal, but Yu Nan does not need to worry, whether it is the big screen or the small screen, she switches freely.
"Lunar Eclipse", "Sting", "Double Eclipse", "Tuya's Marriage", "No Man's Land", "Detonator", "Daredevil 2", "Wolf Warrior 2" and other films have made Yu Nan already famous in the international film world, and the number of film queens won at major film festivals is as high as 12, whether it is a deep and introverted literary film or a domineering commercial film, Yu Nan can all hold perfectly, but because of the ultra-low exposure rate, so for actresses like Yu Nan, everyone will always feel very mysterious and very rare.
"True Detective lies" is not Yu Nan's first time to appear in a TV series, she has starred in the TV series "Oriental Wall Street", the supervising producer is Andy Lau, the male protagonist is Wu Zhenyu, the whole drama is only 5 episodes, and Douban has a good score of 8.3 points.
Starring in the TV series again, Yu Nan's play is still eye-catching, in "Lie True Detective", Yu Nan will be a female lie detector Ling Ran performed the painting style of the American drama, the temperament is capable and neat and full of the wisdom and courage of professional women, the emotion is delicate and deep but not easy to expose, and even when the bar seduces criminals, it can instantly become enchanting and sexy.
As a professional lie detector, when competing with the lie detector object intensely and realistically, Ling Ran is fast and accurate, able to quickly capture the doubts, but the expression does not have the slightest wave, in short, the Yu man who starred in the play Ling Ran is soft and rigid, beautiful and sassy, and shows the professionalism and neatness of the professional drama at the same time in the criminal investigation drama.
At present, "Lie True Detective" has not yet scored in Douban, and from the overall feedback of the audience's reputation, the freshness does exist, and the compactness of the rhythm of the episode is also online.
Although it is not perfect, it is still worthy of praise to be able to see such themes and performances in the current domestic dramas.
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