iQIYI Mist Theater recently launched a new work, which comes from the human suspense drama "Dislocation" starring Ma Yili and Tong Da. Unlike most of the previous Misty Theater productions, which focused on suspenseful reasoning elements, this time "Dislocation" focuses more on digging deep into the two sides of human nature. When the truth of the "novel murder case" gradually comes out, the true humanity wrapped in complex social motives is also revealed.
"Dislocation" tells the story of policewoman Jiang Guangming (played by Ma Yili) who found that the new work of writer Gu Jiming (played by Tong Dawei) and a "rainy night unsolved case" highly overlapped, and she led the rookie policeman Shi Luo (played by Gao Zhiting) in the process of peeling off the cocoon step by step, and gradually discovered that the people involved in the case were involved in the "case within the case". From the perspective of suspenseful reasoning alone, the case of "Dislocation" is not too complicated. The main plot line revolves around the rape and murder case in the urban village investigated by Jiang Guangming, and the elements of "novel murder" have been revealed at the beginning, and all kinds of signs are pointed to the well-known novel writer Gu Jiming, but just approaching the truth, the real murderer of the rape and murder case has thrown himself into the net.
This abrupt progress of the case broke the audience's original belief in the concept of "novel murder", and also made "Dislocation" jump out of a simple reasoning homicide crime drama and turn to portray subtle human nature. When Jiang Guangming was investigating the case, he accidentally discovered that the plot of the novel that highly overlapped with the murder scene may not have been written by Gu Jiming, but was related to a well-known writer who had died a year ago, and Jiang Na, the hotel waiter where the writer worked, had a lover relationship with Gu Jiming, and the story started a separate clue from then on. In the process of looking for Jiang Na, the story of how Gu Jiming, a top student majoring in literature, ambitiously planned to "get on top" and achieved fame with the help of his disabled wife, became the most brilliant part of the plot.
The story spends a lot of pen and ink to portray the appearance of Gu Jiming and his wife, and when looking back on the experience of the two of them meeting and knowing each other a year ago, the process is also full of the cruelty of real life. Gu Jiming, who has had excellent grades since he was a child and has gone smoothly, did not embark on the road to fame because he entered the publishing house, but was suppressed because he had no background. The play focuses on depicting the contempt and ridicule that Gu Jiming encountered when he was a nobody, laying the psychological foundation for the "blackening" of this originally kind and simple talent. Gu Jiming was maliciously insulted by the luxury car driver when he left the party, and the scene where he could only drive through the car window while crying bitterly became the "famous scene" of actor Tong Dawei in the play this time. Su Zhenzhen, the originally arrogant eldest lady, also experienced the warmth and coldness of human affection before and after the car accident, and the couple who took what they needed tested each other in their marriage, and in the details of various investigations and counter-investigations, the lack of true feelings and the indifference of human nature were reflected.
I have to say that in terms of the complexity of the case and the intensity of the reasoning and suspense, "Dislocation" cannot be regarded as a particularly outstanding work in recent years. Although there is a curious factor of "novel killing", the plot dominated by a single case does not have too many genre advantages for domestic drama audiences who have long been accustomed to watching all kinds of bizarre crimes. The creator of "Dislocation" may have made up his mind from the beginning and does not intend to rely on crime elements to attract audiences. The play uses a lot of pen and ink to focus on Gu Jiming's depraved process, focusing on the complex and incomprehensible human nature behind the crime, and depicting how the characters in the play have gone from the simple innocence at the beginning to the other side of evil, and even if the "bright" such as the criminal policeman Jiang Guangming is also facing the life problem of her husband's cheating, each character in it has a web of fate that is difficult to break by himself.
Gu Jiming's "blackening" is not created out of thin air, the pressure of life he faces is a portrayal of the cruel reality, and whether the "black-bellied" wife Su Zhenzhen is secretly arranged, and where the "white moonlight" Jiang Na finally returns, these clues are like a good "hook" created by the main creator, so that the audience is always affected by the story in addition to a sense of substitution, and pays attention to the choices of the characters in the play in the face of critical moments. The so-called "dislocation" actually depicts the life state of the characters in the play, and the final point of the story will also return to the guidance of positive values, as long as you can always maintain the purest original intention, and summon up the courage to return to the right path after the "dislocation", you can break the dilemma and find your true self, which is also the value expression brought by "Dislocation" beyond the type of crime.