In recent years, with the prosperity of online dramas, domestic suspense dramas have also ushered in a peak. The richness of genres, the innovation of narrative techniques, and the three-dimensional shaping of characters have all taken a big step forward in the past.
, especially in the narrative technique, broke the consistent style of turning around for many years. On the basis of the suspenseful adventure mode, the context chapter was reversed, and the final truth was often unexpected. Of course, this is one of the essential elements of an excellent suspense and reasoning drama.
"The Disappearing Child" is currently on the air
The most outstanding suspense drama in 2020 is " The Silent Truth ".
's "Silent Truth" tells the story of several tenacious soldiers in the judicial system. Although they were vilified and wronged, they still sacrificed their lives and pursued justice for the sake of justice in their hearts. At the beginning of the story, the actor Jiang Yang, played by Bai Yu and , has already been offline. When Jiang Yang was found, the body was curled up in the suitcase. The cause of death was suffocation. The suspect was a lawyer named Zhang Chao. During the interrogation, Zhang Chao bowed his head and pleaded guilty, but in the court trial he completely denied the murder, and gave sufficient evidence of 's alibi.
In fact, the protagonist Jiang Yang and his friends are a combination of the advantages of many people, and they are heroes with strong characteristics. But at the beginning of the story, people are presented with doubts about this character, followed by the testimony of one character after another. After things got closer to the truth step by step, Jiang Yang's image showed a big reversal. It can be said that the reversal of a series of characters is the core of the play. Jiang Yang is the bad guy, but the truth is the reversal of the good characters, the great reversal of Hou Guiping's characters, the great reversal of Zhang Chao, and the villain in society. The reversal of the level of personality constitutes a strong style of talking about the whole story of "The Silent Truth". This is a big improvement in the narrative style of domestic dramas that we are accustomed to.
"The Silent Truth"
and " Skyscraper " with a Rashomon structure.
The narrative strategy of the play is also very special. It consists of two episodes and one unit. In response to the death of the protagonist Meibao, the story starts from eight people and eight perspectives, and through these stories, the audience can slowly understand the life of Meibao. Security guard Xie Paul, designer Lin Dasen, his wife Li Moli, real estate agent Lin Mengyu and his lover Ding Xiaoling, everyone seems to have an unspeakable secret, telling the story between them and Zhong Meibao from different perspectives, True and false, lies are debunked one by one, and stories are reversed one by one. It was not until the appearance of his stepfather, Yan Yongyuan, that Meibao's tragic fate from childhood to adulthood began to surface. The final truth of
is that Zhong Meibao attempted murder and committed suicide, and the residents in the skyscraper fabricated lies and crossed the sea, hoping to convict Yan Yongyuan, the biggest villain in the show. But after the truth is revealed, all good people are guilty and cannot escape, but bad people suffer from lack of evidence and cannot be brought to justice. This is also the biggest issue that the show throws to the audience outside of suspense. Do we pursue procedural justice or result justice? At the end of the story, there was the last reversal. Yan Yongyuan really killed Zhong Meibao, and was recorded as strong evidence to arrest him and imprison him. In the end, everyone got the punishment they deserved. result. In addition, dramas such as " Chasing the Murder in the White Night " and "White Moonlight" have adopted a narrative mode that combines suspense and truth mode.
"Skyscraper"
In 2021, iQIYI Mist Theater will broadcast the IP adaptation drama " Who is the Murderer ". The adaptation of
's popular online article, and the large investment in 's production of 's fog theater, did not make this drama a complete victory. The crime suspense drama has always been the best show in the fog theater, and "Who is the Murderer" also continues to be produced at a high level, but the problem lies in the gap between the adaptation of the online text and the play. Because of the need to cater to mainstream values, the final broadcast of the finished film is very different from the original story. Although the adaptation still respects the story frame of the original work, the deleted part of "all villains" is indeed the exciting point and spiritual climax of the whole original plot. For example, the Rongcheng Homeland Case in the original novel was Shen Yu's masterpiece, and the Xiao Huajun case was also completed under the guidance of Shen Yu. And Xia Mu also killed the poachers. In the last scene, the whole team even killed a mess. However, these plots have been deleted for various reasons, and neither can restore the exciting and exciting stories in the original work, piece togetherThe plot of Minato is obviously anticlimactic and illogical, and ultimately failed to meet the audience's expectations for it, resulting in a bad trend of "who is the murderer" after its broadcast.
"Who is the Murderer"
Now our focus is on the suspenseful new drama "The Disappearing Child" that just started airing. Can
"Gone Child" tell a suspenseful story?
The mother watched the child go downstairs, while the father stopped and waited at the entrance of the corridor, but never saw the child appear. The child disappeared mysteriously in a short distance of the corridor. The residents in the neighborhood seemed to have secrets. Where did the child go? "Gone Child" is adapted from the novel IP "Sea Anemone". The original work is beyond reproach, so can the series be presented equally perfectly? Or go up and down like "Who is the Murderer"? We will wait and see.
