Seeing the word "White Night", Sir was already excited.
is not "Chasing the Murderer in the White Night", but Youku's latest "White Night Theater":
Faint fire
After chasing the first four episodes, it is certain that this suspense drama is a surprise this year.
Especially the current puppets, ancient puppets, and mother-in-law and daughter-in-law dramas are piled up, and domestic dramas should also change their taste.
As soon as I look at the main creative team, it makes people feel "stable".
Director Yao Xiaofeng, another masterpiece after "The Wind Chaser".
starring Tong Yao, Zhang Xincheng, Ye Zuxin, and their acting skills are reassuring.
And what about the story?
In the town that has always been calm, on the joyful Chinese New Year's Eve, there are changes:
A car suddenly burst into flames.
By the time it was extinguished, the body had been burned to the ground.
Good news, there was no one in the car.
Bad news, someone died.
Strangely, in the first episode, the "murderer" has already appeared.
But is it possible that simple?
01
Everyone has an answer
In fact, when I first started watching it, Sir was surprised.
This case is too simple, isn't it...... How to suspense and how to chase the murderer?
After looking at it for a while, I'm sorry, Sir just spoke too loudly.
I thought the case was clear and clear, but it turned out to be so much confusing.
Let's take a look at what's going on.
The suspect Nanya (played by Tong Yao) suffered from domestic violence by her husband Xu Yi (played by Liu Junxiao) all year round.
He beat and scolded her at every turn.
The slap was not enough, so he launched a ruthless attack and threw anything on her when he saw it.
On the night of the millennium New Year's Eve, Xu Yi couldn't help but say something to Nanya, pinching her neck hard, forcing Nanya to retreat step by step.
The feeling of suffocation came up, and there was no way back behind her, Nanya was in a hurry and panic, and touched a knife, and she picked it up......
Poke it up?
If the case is only here, then Sir has even thought of the news headline, "A woman killed her husband because she couldn't bear domestic violence", which is excessive defense and is suspected of intentional injury.
But Nanya didn't do this, she just wanted to scare Xu Yi away.
The knife was accidentally hit by Xu Yi himself when he fell.
There is also an eyewitness Zhou Luo (played by Zhang Xincheng), who testified about all this, saying that it was Xu Yi who fell on the tip of the knife in the process of chasing Nanya.
The case changed from "excessive defense" to "legitimate defense", and the legal responsibility that Nanya had to face was much lighter.
Everyone in the town knew about Xu Yi's domestic violence, Nanya took the initiative to report the case and surrendered, and there were eyewitnesses to provide testimony.
It seems that the case can be decided.
The policeman Lin Fanglu (played by Ye Zuxin), who investigated the case, found something suspicious: Zhou Luo lied.
Zhou Luo saw that after the incident happened, he had an hour and a half and disappeared.
He told everyone that he was frightened and went home to rest.
But in reality, it's not at home.
You weren't home at all that night
Why did you lie to the police
Why did he lie, and the look in his eyes when he mentioned Nanya didn't look like innocent......
Mistress, accomplice, or, mastermind?
Press the table first.
This testimony is false, and on the other hand, Nanya's domestic violence medical record in the hospital has been artificially erased.
Even with the scars on her body, she couldn't prove that she had no choice but to pick up a knife and defend herself under the fear of long-term domestic violence.
Who the hell is erasing the hospital records, and you have to put Nanya to death.
A doctor who is rejected for pleasure, or an ex-girlfriend who turns against him?
Remember the car that caught fire on Chinese New Year's Eve?
The owner of the car was Xu Yi, who was killed that night.
As a big boss, Xu Yi, in addition to domestic violence, does not seem to be a clean way to make money, and he also participated in the "Bridge Case" that caused trouble by cutting corners.
So it was the enemy in the business field who set fire to the car?
Or are they?
Zhou Luo's figure flashed by the burning car.
Zhou Luo's classmates were nervous at the mention of the car, and they walked around the car looking for something missing.
What does this murder and the burned vehicle have to do with this group of students?
Even Lin Fanglu, who returned to the town to investigate the case, there was a story between him and Nanya......
The whole case is full of fog.
But what is more confusing than the case is the human heart.
02
Evidence that no one cares about
Come up with a situational question.
If you hear something like this:
What is the first reaction of a domestic violence husband who is killed by his wife?
When the people in the town talked about Nanya, who was abused by the family, instead of sympathy, they said in unison: they deserve it.
Instead, he sympathized with the domestic violence man:
Hitting her is also deserved.
It's a matter of time before it's destroyed in the hands of this.
Why? Because Nanya is "bad".
In the process of investigating the case on Lin Fanglu, people in the town kept telling him:
Nanya is a vixen, water-based poplar, hooking up everywhere.
But who exactly did she cheat on.
I couldn't answer either.
It's just that if there are more people who say it, it becomes "true".
It turned out that long before the murder, there was already a "homicide case" that was publicized in advance and everyone participated:
The people of the town used their reputation as a knife to encircle and suppress Nanya.
They also know how important reputation is in a society of acquaintances who look down and don't look up.
Share two clips.
The first is the scene where Zhou Luo dropped out of school and returned home, and the family discussed whether to repeat the school.
If you go to repeat your studies, you will expose the matter of dropping out to the sun, and the young man's reputation will not be good;
If you don't repeat your studies, you will either stay at home all day long, or go to work in a factory, and you will have no future in the future.
Is fame important, or is future important?
They were stunned, and they couldn't immediately give up face for the future.
Although in the end, he chose to let Zhou Luo repeat it.
But the real considerations remain:
The future determines the face
The future is just a weapon to open the way for fame.
Another snippet.
A doctor in the hospital took the opportunity to do something to Nanya.
Nanya immediately refused sharply and said a word:
Otherwise, it will make you have a bad reputation
The doctor withdrew with a displeased face.
Hit the snake and hit the seven inches.
And "reputation" is the "seven inches" in the society of acquaintances.
It is also human nature to protect one's "seven inches" and value reputation.
It's just that once you use your reputation as a blade to attack others, it is a hidden evil of human nature.
Sometimes, it's a voyeurism.
When Zhou Luo returned home, he was also surrounded by all kinds of verbal violence in the name of speculation.
Something unseemly must have been done
I heard that it is to make other people's stomachs bigger
This kind of groundless speculation has reached the point of saying that what is white should also be called black.
His champion back then was fake
Sometimes, it is a psychology that does not look down on the good of others, turning jealousy into aggression.
Regarding the various criticisms encountered by Nanya, Zhou Luo's mother (played by Wang Qing) said in one sentence:
What about this woman?
One is good-looking
I don't want to be like others
It will inevitably provoke right and wrong
Yes, because she was different, Nanya was called "Pan Jinlian".
There is also a kind of evil that in order to hide his ugly desires, the evildoer first pours dirty water on others.
The doctor who harassed Nanya, during the interrogation, first brushed himself off, and then beat him up:
Nanya seduced me before
But I refused
He is well aware of the importance of his reputation, but he still kills with it.
What is frightening is that this kind of collective verbal violence is only reflected in reality in the play.
Do you still remember the mother who was maliciously commented on the news last year?
The child was hit and killed in school, and the mother rushed over in her work clothes after receiving the bad news, and sat at the scene crying bitterly.
But some netizens not only did not understand her pain of losing her child, but instead picked thorns from her clothes and attacked her for showing off and hype.
Ten days later, she chose to commit suicide by jumping off the building, and people around her said that "online public opinion has caused a certain amount of pressure".
And that pink-haired girl who was in her grandfather's hospital bed, smiling and sharing admission information with her grandfather?
Just because of her pink hair, she has labeled countless false and malicious labels on the Internet.
In the end, he suffered from major depression, and after trying to save himself for more than half a year, he committed suicide and left the world.
I can't understand how some people can harbor so much malice, and even the girl died and still attack unreasonably.
Strangers' evil words are like knives.
And the real and specific gossip of the people around you is an impenetrable wall.
There is no escape, and the more you rush, the more your head breaks and the more you bleed.
03
Unwitting accomplices
When Lin Fanglu first arrived, he was told:
The town hasn't had a single homicide in years.
Is it because there has been a lot of harmony here for a long time, everyone lives and works in peace and contentment, and there has never been a bad heart?
Perhaps, it is simply because people do not realize that they are hovering on the edge of good and evil.
People, in suspenseful murder cases, are incomparably important existences.
However, when suspenseful cases are combined with social issues, there is one place that is easy to worry about:
Will the people in the play become black and white opposites between good and evil?
Sir had such worries at first.
Chu Chu is a poor little white flower, a discerning detective, a little knight who charges into battle, and a violent and bad husband...... Oh, I can finish the plot in my brain.
But the further back you look.
The murder was just an outburst.
And "murder" has long been integrated into daily life.
"Faint Fire" blurs the line between innocence and crime, and the portrayal of characters jumps out of the box and is more three-dimensional and multi-dimensional.
Look at Nanya played by Tong Yao, who just appeared, weak and innocent.
I thought it was a pure white jasmine flower in the town, but in fact, it was a "black lotus" with revenge on the spot.
On the way home from grocery shopping, she heard the aunts who were cutting hairs on the street, and she walked by quietly.
One step, two steps, calculating that the distance was almost over, he deliberately let go of the fruit in the bag and let it fall.
Just a bend down to pick up fruit, she had already clamped the hem of her aunt's skirt to the gap in the leg of the chair.
The moment the aunt stood up, her skirt was pulled and slid down, revealing her appearance.
Nanya continued to walk her own path with three points of ridicule, three points of pleasure, and four points of coldness.
Zhou Luo, who exuded a youthful spirit, circled around Nanya, like a flower messenger.
But he also had his own careful thoughts, and he also became a part of verbal violence.
When his heart was pounding and he approached Nanya, but was refused, he didn't choose to speak:
What are you pretending to be innocent?
What kind of yellow poems are you watching
No wonder the people in town say you don't know how to check
Even if it is Zhou Luo's mother, one of the few people in the town who has helped Nanya, is willing to take care of Nanya's sick daughter for her.
But when her son was beaten, she immediately fought with Nanya, accusing Nanya of being "too good at seducing".
The characters in the play are not all good people, nor are they all evil, with ambiguity and ambiguity.
On the one hand, this can add suspense to the process of chasing the murderer, making it difficult for the audience to guess who the real murderer is at once.
On the other hand, it restores the multifaceted nature of people:
No one is perfect.
But we can change and grow.
Just like Zhou Luo, one of the main characters, he is in the transition period from adolescence to adulthood.
He's been watching a movie, Dead Poets Society.
He is like the boy in the movie, full of enthusiasm and confusion, and he is still groping for his own path in life.
He will have ignorant lust for the opposite sex:
△ "Faint Fire" in the picture above, "Death Poets Society" in the picture below
will also realize that after being impulsive, scratch your head and change your mistakes:
△ "Faint Fire" in the picture above, "Death Poets Society" in the picture below
In "Dead Poets Society", between teachers and students, a redemption about self and freedom is completed.
And in "Faint Fire", who and whom, is it a redemption? and what is it about?
Sir won't spoil it.
Sir wants to talk about a scene, a scene that appears in "Dead Poets Society", but can condense the connotation of "Faint Fire".
Teacher Keating (Robin Williams) jumped on the podium and asked the students in the audience:
Why am I standing here
The students in the audience were puzzled and stared at him with wide eyes.
It's to remind myself
We have to look at things differently at all times
From the stereotypical character setting, to the seemingly simple but actually complex unsolved case, and then from a murder case to open up the social picture, showing the horror of verbal violence.
This drama is reminding us to look at the world with a different eye.
Under this "self-revolution".
Originally, the faint fire was a sin fire that burned in the dark.
When people are aware of their own shallowness and prejudice, the faint fire can become the light that breaks through the night.
This is also a rare heterochromatic in domestic dramas.
It infects every watcher with darkness, telling you that the darkness and glimmer of light are present in people's hearts.
It's no longer just about identifying the killer.
More importantly, let's see our own faces.
You have the opportunity to choose who you become.
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