"Love at first sight" is sometimes deceptive.
Just like watching a TV series, the first episode may be very attractive, but the second episode starts to pull the crotch.
Conversely, the first episode may make you want to abandon the show, but after watching the second episode, you may be completely in the pit.
This is what I felt after watching "Goodbye, That Day".
Last night, I brushed 6 episodes (all 6 episodes) overnight, and at first I was confused, and then I found that the latest drama of "Mist Theater" was unexpectedly good!
This is mainly reflected in the following three points.
First, a strong lineup of creators
"Goodbye, That Day" is a "pilot film" by iQiyi's "2021 Mist Theater".
"Mist Theater" you should be no stranger, especially friends who have watched "The Hidden Corner", it was at that time that people found that the original web drama can also be like this - short and concise!
According to the "Network Transmission" news, this year's "Mist Theater" will launch 6 new dramas from October, namely "Who is the Murderer", "Gold Rush", "Fatal Wish", "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog", "Crime Hunting Atlas" and "Nightcrawler".
As a pilot film, "Goodbye, That Day" is like the trailer of these 6 new dramas, in order to arouse the appetite of the audience, the producers will definitely not be shoddy.
In fact, aside from the loud producer of "Mist Theater", from the perspective of director and actors, it is also worth your expectations.
The drama is directed by Huang Wei and starring Li Guangjie, Jiang Xin, Hu Jun, Li Gan, etc.
Let's start with director Huang Wei.
Huang Wei you may not have heard of it, but his history is extraordinary.
In 1995, Huang Wei stepped into the film and television industry and studied under Chi Xiaoning and Zhang Li.
In 2003, as a director of photography, he independently led the team to complete the TV series "Military Secrets", which was the hit drama of the year, with a Douban score of 8.1 points.
It can be said that since then, Huang Wei's film and television career has been hanging all the way, and he has participated in the production of works such as "No Thief in the World", "Chibi", "The Right Way in the World is Vicissitudes", "Good Guys", "White Deer Plain" and so on.
The most famous is the 2018 co-production of "Dajiang Dahe" with Kong Sheng, for which he won the Best Director Award at the 25th Shanghai TV Festival Magnolia Award.
With so many jade beads in front, I believe that "Goodbye, That Day" will not be worse.
As for the actors, it goes without saying that Li Guangjie, Jiang Xin, and Hu Jun are all proper and powerful actors.
Taken together, "Goodbye, That Day" is powerful in terms of creators.
II. Focus on the lives of persons released upon completion of their sentences
The most noteworthy thing about "Goodbye, That Day" is its focus on the life of "persons released from prison".
The drama mainly tells the positive energy story of the people's community police, which epitomizes the wishes of the whole party and helps the "people who have completed their sentences" to re-enter a new life with warmth and care.
This is a positive energy drama, but, from the specific content, the story theme of the play is profound, with strong vigilance and inspirational significance, while the plot is ups and downs, gripping.
This can be seen in the resumes of the three protagonists.
Hu Guanglai (Li Guangjie), in the 90s of the last century, he was a hot-blooded rock teenager, and he and the newly transferred community police husband security party wish (Hu Jun), sympathetic to the brother.
Unexpectedly, one day Hu Guanglai's sister Hu Fang was raped by hooligans, and Hu Guanglai lost his hand and killed the other party in anger, and was imprisoned and sentenced to a suspended death sentence.
Mei Xiang (Jiang Xin), the daughter of the whole party, once suffered from her husband's domestic violence, in the process of another domestic violence, Mei Xiang accidentally killed her husband and went to prison, after she was released from prison, she met all party members, recognized him as a dry father, and began to run a funeral shop called "Yunshang".
Wu Lei (Li Gan), a troubled teenager, was imprisoned for a fight, and then lost his hand and killed the whole party willing to escape, and finally proved that he was not the real murderer.
The above three people are all people who have been released from prison, and there are many problems, but they have all been taken care of by the whole party, so in the end, the three people have gathered together by chance.
I have to say that such a person is very strange and fresh to ordinary people.
For example, if I hadn't watched this drama, I couldn't believe it, because I had been in prison and couldn't find a job in a big city.
Even giving people "prostrating themselves as filial piety" is rejected!
However, the truth is so cruel.
Third, the first time to enter the funeral industry and the profession of mortician
In addition to focusing on the lives of those who have completed their sentences, "Goodbye, That Day" is another noteworthy thing that it shows for the first time the funeral industry in our country and the profession of mortician.
Many people may have watched the Japanese movie "The Mortician", or the Korean TV series "I Am a Relic Finisher", so they have a certain understanding of the funeral industry.
However, after all, it is a foreign, domestic mortician have you ever seen?
In "Goodbye, That Day", the three protagonists get together and engage in the funeral industry, and they are all morticians.
The play shows in great detail that they are reluctant to do the job at the beginning, to being forced to accept the job but being blinded and ridiculed by the world, and even experiencing the competition of their peers, and finally falling in love with the industry and the job.
The most impressive thing is that after Hu Guanglai became a mortician, he received a job, the deceased was a very beautiful girl before he died, liked to sing, but after death, his face was completely different, it was not good for plastic surgery, so many morticians were unwilling to take this job.
However, Hu Guanglai spared no effort to give the deceased a facelift, and finally the family members saw the complete appearance and bowed deeply to Hu Guanglai.
The funeral industry is discriminated against because of the national conditions, but it is indispensable, and in the play "Goodbye, That Day", the screenwriter cleverly let the released people engage in this industry because they can't find a job.
The end result is that it not only gives hope to the living, but also comforts the dead, and the theme of the play is sublimated.
Overall, whether "Goodbye, That Day" is a strong creative lineup, or focuses on the lives of those who have been released from prison, or shows china's funeral industry and the profession of a mortician for the first time, it is enough to show that this is a TV series worth chasing.
Well, Li Guangjie and Jiang Xin's new drama "Goodbye, That Day" is unexpectedly good-looking, focusing on those who have been released from prison, entering the profession of domestic mortician for the first time, have you seen it?