Please allow me to start with a line that Gu Jiming said to Su Zhenzhen at the wedding in the finale of "Dislocation".
"Shakespeare said that love is harder to hide than killing."
At that moment, Gu Jiming's true feelings were revealed, he was really in love with Su Zhenzhen, and the next second, Jiang Guangming appeared and took him away on the charge of murder, leaving Su Zhenzhen in a wedding dress alone in tears.
She knew that Gu Jiming had killed someone, but she didn't know that in order to marry her, this man took his pregnant girlfriend Jiang Na to a barren mountain, and at the moment when she was imagining the future, he hugged her from behind, and then stabbed the woman who loved her to death.
This 15-episode suspense drama in the Fog Theater can be said to perfectly interpret the complexity of human nature.
I don't know how everyone feels after watching this drama, after watching the finale of 15 episodes, I am full of emotion, and I feel a little like a fish in my throat.
To be honest, I initially chased this drama because of Ma Yili.
From "Flowers" to "My Altay", and then to "Dislocation", this actress is addicted to acting with a good pixel face. And the actors who dare to act without makeup, and the plays that they act without makeup, always make people believe more.
In addition, producer Han Sanping is adapted from the work of Japan reasoning master Matsumoto Kiyohari.
17 years after "Struggle", Ma Yili and Tong Dawei cooperated again.
If you don't chase it, you can't do it However, I believe that many people, like me, will put a question mark in their hearts: Fog Theater, believe it or not?
As a result, after the series was broadcast, it became more and more violent, and the popularity near the end was close to 9,000, and the Fog Theater in 2024 really pulled back a game.
And the audience's word-of-mouth that boosted the popularity of the drama is also another recognition of this drama.
This time, the Misty Theater finally told a good story. A puppy to solve all the mysteries.
After finishing the remaining 4 episodes in one go, let's talk to you about this "Dislocation", why?
1. About the finale
Whether a suspense drama starts well or not, the creation of puzzles is crucial.
And whether a suspense drama ends well depends on whether the pit is filled in or not.
"Dislocation" fills in the pits, fills in the real thing, and solves 4 puzzles one by one.
The first: What is the truth about Zhang Qingyu's murder on a rainy night?
At the beginning of "Dislocation", it is a murder case on a rainy night.
Zhang Qing, a single woman, was robbed and assaulted, and finally was strangled by a rope and died at her home in an urban village.
The "murderer" was quickly caught, and it was a repairman who had been to her house during the day.
But he admitted to theft and trespassing, and refused to admit to murder. said that he finally tied Zhang Qing to the side of the bed with a dog leash and left, when she was still alive.
Police officer Shi Luo accidentally found a description in the novel "Black Rain", which meticulously restored the murder scene:
Details such as ramps, monochrome graffiti, cyan iron gates, and even power outages are all corresponding.
But the author Gu Jiming was not in Qinjiang that day, not him.
The real murderer was the second person to enter Zhang Qing's room that night.
Sun Bin in a black raincoat.
That is, the last ID card application that the heroine Jiang Guangming did before reinstating her status as a criminal policeman.
This suitor of Zhang Qing's college days was resentful when he couldn't catch up with people, and half of his face was burned by the factory fire. That night, he entered Zhang Qing's house masked and strangled Zhang Qing with a dog leash.
What made the incident suspenseful was the one who saw all this that night: the writer Tang Xun.
The second mystery: Why did Tang Xun see the murder scene and why did he flee in a hurry?
Jiang Guangming visited the residents near the scene of the crime and learned one thing.
A few days before the incident, a man was seen feeding Zhang Qing's dog.
He is Tang Xun, the real author of the first six pages of "Black Rain".
Tang Xun had a relationship with Zhang Qing and knew that she was the owner of the dog pepper.
This made Jiang Guangming and Shi Luo think that they had found a breakthrough in the case, but they didn't expect to find Tang Xun's wife to ask, Tang Xun had already died.
Strangely, Tang Xun was injured on the night Zhang Qing was killed, and he also took Zhang Qing's dog Huajiao and entered the seaside hotel to retreat and write.
He didn't kill Zhang Qing, why did he know the situation at the scene? What really happened that night?
The answer is that at the moment when Zhang Qing was killed, the puppy Huajiao yelled in the rainy night because he was afraid, and Tang Xun, who couldn't find inspiration to go out for a walk late at night, heard the dog barking and followed the sound to the vicinity of Zhang Qing's house. It happened to be found that Zhang Qing was being killed.
He wanted to call the police, but dropped his mobile phone in a hurry, and was seen by the murderer Sun Bin.
The other party wanted to destroy Tang Xun, but Tang Xun had to fight with Sun Bin with all his might.
Accidentally pushed him into the river.
Tang Xun thought Sun Bin was dead.
In order to avoid stains on his life, in the early morning of the next day, Tang Xun retired from the hotel room and drove away overnight with peppercorns.
He locked himself in his hotel room and couldn't help but write the story of that night, but a huge sense of guilt caused his condition to deteriorate dramatically, and he eventually died.
This is also the reason why Tang Xun's wife Yang Hui held Tang Xun's manuscript and did not dare to expose the plagiarist for a while.
She heard this experience before Tang Xun died,
wants to protect his reputation from being tainted, but because of this, he inadvertently achieves a plagiarist: Gu Jiming.
The third mystery has also been solved: What is the secret of Gu Jiming's writing "Black Rain"?
Gu Jiming became popular because of "Black Rain", and he also entered the police's sight.
The scenes in the book are impossible to write without being there.
The reason why he was able to get out of the police questioning was because he really did not come to Qinjiang City on the day Zhang Qing was killed.
But Jiang Guangming knew that he had a problem, and even speculated that the real creator of "Black Rain" should be Tang Xun.
So the question is, how did Gu Jiming write this work?
The key to the answer is: Gu Jiming's ex-girlfriend, Jiang Na, a hotel waiter who has been missing for a long time.
She loves literature, she received Tang Xun, who came to the hotel to write behind closed doors, and when she was cleaning her idol Tang Xun's room, she found a six-page manuscript, and at the request of her boyfriend Gu Jiming, she transcribed the text and handed it to him.
Although it is only six pages, Gu Jiming expands on this basis to a whole novel, "Black Rain". When Jiang Na found out, she went to the publishing house to stop Gu Jiming from publishing the novel.
But this begs another question: why didn't Jiang Na tell the truth? Where the hell did she go?
This is the fourth and final mystery: what is the truth about Jiang Na's disappearance?
The answer is cruel: Jiang Na was killed by Gu Jiming.
The two have long developed into a couple because of magazine contributions, and the opening of the series has been foreshadowed.
First, the intermediary helped Gu Jiming's fiancée Su Zhenzhen find a shop to open a ceramic museum and find a pedestrian street, but Gu Jiming was very excited to refuse, because the "Red Star Hotel" on the pedestrian street is where Gu Jiming and Jiang Na have been dating for a long time.
The second is that Gu Jiming deleted the submission record from a year ago on the computer on the pretext of visiting the old leader, taking advantage of the other party's drunkenness, and this submission record is Jiang Na's.
But why did Gu Jiming kill Jiang Na, who was pregnant with his own child?
One is that Jiang Na disagrees with him publishing "Black Rain", and the other is because Su Zhenzhen.
Gu Jiming accidentally encountered Su Zhenzhen, the daughter of the president of the publishing house, who was in a car accident, rescued her, and took advantage of her car accident with disabled legs, Gu Jiming took advantage of the situation to enter Su Zhenzhen's heart.
The novel "Black Rain" is both a stepping stone to prove his talent and a product of this relationship: with Su Zhenzhen's connections, the novel is finally published.
Originally, Gu Jiming could jump into the dragon gate as long as he broke up with Jiang Na, but it happened that Jiang Na found out that she was pregnant.
Gu Jiming didn't dare to break up with Jiang Na, because Jiang Na knew her secret, and she didn't dare to let Su Zhenzhen know everything, otherwise her son-in-law wouldn't be able to do it, and the path of being a writer would be blocked.
Then the easiest way is to let Jiang Na, who is an orphan, disappear completely.
He said that he would take Jiang Na to a friend's house to settle the baby, asked her to leave the hotel on leave, and then took her up the mountain.
But there is a providence in the dark, when Jiang Na got out of the car on the road to relieve herself, the two accidentally met the puppy pepper that Jiang Na had brought.
The puppy's new owner, a peasant woman, saw Gu Jiming and Jiang Na and left her phone number.
After hitting the road again, Gu Jiming took Jiang Na all the way up the mountain, to a deserted hillside, where he attacked her and his children.
Only the mountains witnessed this murder.
Then he buried both the knife that stabbed Jiang Na and Jiang Na on the mountain.
Next, there is his ascension path.
He thought that all the people who knew his secret were dead, and it was impossible for anyone to know that the mountain was where Jiang Na was buried.
But he never expected that Jiang Guangming and Shi Luo followed the clues to find the neighborhood, and found the peasant woman who adopted the puppy pepper on the mountain.
The dog can't speak, but the peasant woman sees everything, and there are still Gu Jiming's fingerprints on the leash.
Gu Jiming did his best, but he never expected that the last person who leaked his secret was a puppy.
Unexpectedly, the story of his arrest is a suspense novel that he will never write in his life.
This wonderful idea is the result of Matsumoto Kiyohari's masterpiece, "Staggered Scenes".
When the Misty Theater was adapted, the name was changed to "Dislocation".
2. About "Dislocation"
The first time I watched "Dislocation", I didn't care about it at first, first, there have been a lot of suspense dramas in the Fog Theater in the past two years, and I always feel that the follow-up dramas can no longer replicate the success of "The Hidden Corner".
The second is the adaptation of the national drama to Japan, which basically did not win.
Unexpectedly, this "Dislocation" did it.
The series maintains the core setting of the original book, especially the core concept that the murder case is written into the book, but it has been localized, adding original characters such as Su Zhenzhen, and setting the female police officer who investigates the case as a role throughout.
Starting from the murder case of Zhang Qing on a rainy night, the truth of the case is like a matryoshka doll in Russia, one ring after another, and it is revealed step by step, first from the Zhang Qing case to the real murderer Gu Jiming of the Jiang Na case, and the crucial puppy peppercorn in the entire case.
Then the puppy led the writer Tang Xun, and then led to Jiang Na, the key character who transcribed Tang Xun's novel, and finally turned back to Jiming's side, and finally found out the peasant woman who saw Gu Jiming and Jiang Na from the clue of the puppy pepper.
Jiang Na's case has been solved, the mystery of plagiarism in "Black Rain" has been solved, and the remaining suspense of Zhang Qing's case has also been solved.
The story forms a perfect closed loop.
Watching the first few episodes, I was also worried that the foreshadowing and clues were arranged too obviously.
For example, at the reading party, when Shi Luo found that the description in the book was exactly the same as the crime scene, the author Gu Jiming eavesdropped not far away.
It is easy for the audience to guess that there is some hidden connection between Gu Jiming and Zhang Qing's murder.
If the audience is too easy to predict the direction of the story in advance, the story will lose the suspense it deserves.
But he never expected that Gu Jiming did have a problem, but the secret in his heart was not the murder of Zhang Qing at the beginning, but the murder that was not known at the time: Jiang Na's death.
That's why he still laughs, because he thinks it's seamless.
But the best thing about the suspense setting of "Dislocation" is precisely through a very small probability of accidental events, so that the life trajectories of multiple strangers unexpectedly intersect, and finally collide with the truth.
The whole decryption process, viewers who have not read the original book, it is difficult to guess until the last episode.
The suspense of "Dislocation" is not the traditional wave of unevenness rising again and again, but countless undercurrents surging at the same time, and the truth is waiting quietly underwater.
In the end, I really fulfilled the old saying: If you want people not to know, you can't do anything unless you do.
If Tang Xun's masterpiece novel did not describe the scene of Zhang Qing's murder, if Gu Jiming did not change the first six pages of "Black Rain" without changing a word, if Shi Luo, who participated in Zhang Qing's case, happened not to see "Black Rain", if Gu Jiming did not hit Huajiao on the day he killed Jiang Na, and if the dog ran out and did not hit Tang Xun that day, maybe everyone's fate would be rewritten.
But fate is so wonderful, all the coincidences are magically strung together.
Looking back at this drama, the plot rhythm can be called compact, there is foreshadowing along the way, and several key conflict nodes are also rendered meaningfully.
The finale of the last episode successfully points to the topic, paving all the previous plots and completely sublimating them.
In the end, Jiang Na's body was found, and the moment Gu Jiming was arrested and confessed everything, I had mixed feelings and endless sighs.
Human nature, such a strange and unpredictable thing.
3. About the actors
In addition to the wonderful plot, the performance of the actors in "Dislocation" is also very eye-catching.
The one who has attracted the most attention is definitely the heroine Ma Yili.
Ma Yili basically wore plainclothes and no police uniform throughout the play, but she performed the vigilance and scrutiny of a senior criminal policeman.
The calm but sharp eyes seem to be able to see through everyone, which is very immersive.
The most applaudable thing is the real sense of substitution of the characters.
Dressed in a small white T, awl pants, flat shoes, plus upturned hair tails, and a standing posture with pockets, as soon as the character appears, the casual and sophisticated character traits have come out.
Ma Yili's performance is natural and smooth, her lines are extremely life-like, and her rivalry with Gao Zhiting can be called smooth.
Her husband's cheating tormented her, the case was pressed on her body again, and all kinds of emotions hit her brain, but Ma Yili took it up, but she was at ease. At this time, the vicissitudes of time and fatigue on a face without makeup have become her advantage.
That's what a character should be.
No wonder netizens praised that the national drama finally came out with a living policewoman.
Good acting skills are 100 times stronger than those beautiful looks that are always full makeup and filters are turned on to distortion.
Second place: Tong Dawei
Tong Dawei's Gu Jiming is a bit like Qin Hao's Zhang Dongsheng in "Secret", harmless in front of people and blackened later, but far more inhumane than Zhang Dongsheng.
Naruto is as his name suggests, and he only cares about making himself a blockbuster, an absolute egoist, and a typical two-faced person.
Tong Dawei performed Gu Jiming's two-faced image, humbly begging for opportunities in front of industry bigwigs, pretending to be pitiful in front of Jiang Na, pretending to be a good gentleman in front of Su Zhenzhen, and pretending to be an inspirational writer in front of the public.
He had the past of killing Jiang Na in his heart, but he was able to say the word "I don't know" casually in front of the police.
Every time that gentle smile reveals a hint of coldness, it is creepy.
Third place: Lan Yingying
Lan Yingying is really acting.
After the story of Rose, she performed a Su Zhenzhen who was gentle and generous on the surface and supported her boyfriend.
Behind is a crazy critic with a strong desire to control, knowing that Gu Jiming plagiarized, but this game was chosen by herself, she couldn't afford to lose, and she had to pretend to the end.
Such a role is quite difficult to interpret, but Lan Yingying acted very well, especially the rivalry with Tong Dawei, and the literary drama felt like a spy war drama.
In addition, there are Wang Jinsong's Tang Xun, Gao Zhiting's Shi Luo, and Xu Baihui's Mrs. Tang Xun, whose performances also add a lot of color to the play.
4. About the future of fog theater and suspense dramas
It turns out that after "The Hidden Corner", the Fog Theater finally filmed a dark horse suspense drama.
The Fog Theater has been questioned a lot in recent years, but "The Hidden Corner" and "The Silent Truth", which exploded at the beginning, have become mountains that cannot be climbed in the future.
And the X theater of the goose factory, after contributing "The Long Season" and "Under the Prosperous City", also fell silent this year, and the result is that in 2024, domestic suspense dramas will be piled up, but almost all of them are thunder and rain.
Either it is to play tricks and pursue excessive brain-burning feelings; Either it is going to a bloody family drama, and the main dish of suspense is missing.
In the predicament, the Misty Theater finally broke the game.
In "Dislocation", compared with the large-scale cases in the past, the drama puts more ink behind the case.
For example, women who have been let down and victimized.
From beginning to end, Zhang Qing and Jiang Na were complete victims, especially Jiang Na, who was full of sincerity and dedication to Gu Jiming.
In the end, he died of Gu Jiming's extreme self-interest and ruthlessness.
Another example, a human Rashomon.
The key figures in the case, including Tang Xun and Yang Hui, are hiding their secrets, and the key to solving the case is actually to dig out everyone's inner position and motives.
But people's hearts are obscure, but dogs don't lie, so the key to solving the case in the end is the puppies that the two female victims, Zhang Qing and Jiang Na, have raised.
is still the same sentence, human nature, is really the biggest suspense.
And the word fog.
In fact, it is to put the suspense of human nature in the story.
Then condense the story into questions and throw them to the audience.
"Dislocation" finally regained the flavor that the Misty Theater should have, and when the story came out, the domestic suspense was finally no longer misplaced.