It has become a popular track in domestic dramas.
"The Disappearing Child" has become a dark horse in this year's suspenseful short drama with its intricate plot and deep insight into family emotions.
"The Disappearing Child" is adapted from the high-scoring novel "Sea Anemone" first published on Douban by the cutting-edge suspense novelist Bei Kebang. It tells the story of the redemption and redemption between a group of children who have long lacked the company of their original family and their parents. s story. The story of
begins in the early morning of a winter. Yang Yuan ( Tong Dawei ), who lives in Room 401 of a certain community, waits in the car downstairs for Yang Mo, who is about to go to elementary school, and finally finds that his son has disappeared in the corridor.
At the same time, Yuan Wu ( Wei Chen ), the tenant of Unit 303 next door, was hurriedly walking around at home.
He graduated from a famous university. He had a good job, had a marriage and a daughter, but he lost his money because of gambling. After his mother died, he suffered from neurosis , and he played a good hand of cards.
To this end, his father sold the property to pay off his gambling debts. The two left their hometown to rent a house and lived on their father's pension.
's father's biggest wish for Yuan Wu is that he can forget the past and start a new life. However, Yuan Wu lived as a walking corpse, decadent and cowardly, unable to find a job, he lingered in the chess and card room every day, until one day his father died suddenly.
In order to continue to receive his father's pension, Yuan Wu hid his father's body in a huge fish tank. After finding a gap in the bathroom wall of the rental house, he decided to build his father into the wall...
borrowed Yuan Wu's story and brought out the The third protagonist of this play, she is Yuan Wu's landlord - Lin Chuping (played by Yu Wenwen) who lives in room 303.
Lin Chuping has a secret that she can't tell anyone, that is, she was sexually assaulted by a strange man in her sleep. After that, she moved out of the community and rented the house to Yuan Wu and his son at a low price.
Due to her reputation, she chose to hide this matter and investigate it secretly with her brother, which also made this a lingering nightmare for her.
After Yang Yuan disappeared, his parents quickly called the police. During the police investigation, the fourth main character of the play, Xu Enhuai (Liu Qiqi), a junior high school student living in Room 302 and downstairs from Yang Yuan's house, and her father Xu Anzheng appeared.
It is understood that Yang Mo has no friends, and usually likes to play with Xu Enhuai, who is three years older than him.
The little girl is from a single-parent family. Her parents divorced a few years ago, and her father is too busy to take care of her. As a result, Xu Enhuai, who lacks the care of others, is very envious of Yang Mo Neng having a warm and happy family. She often thinks: If I were the daughter of this family How nice.
The four character lines are intertwined with each other to complete the final thriller, which has many social meanings.
For example, Yang Mo's sudden disappearance was actually because the child lived in a family where his parents quarreled all the year round and could not feel happiness, so he longed to escape. This is similar to Xu Enhuai being neglected by his father and unable to feel the warmth of his family all the year round, both of which have certain characteristics. The practical significance is that children's education is the top priority, and parents should pay attention to it.
For example, a large part of Yuan Wu's decadent personality comes from the doting of his parents since he was a child. His mother had to arrange everything for him properly, and did not give Yuan Wu a free and relaxed environment for growing up. Even going to college had to be done by himself. As a result, Yuan Wu did not have the opportunity to make friends, and he did not develop a good social skills.
It is worth mentioning that Wei Chen contributed a lotThe superb and accurate performance interprets a decadent middle-aged man just right. This is too different from his usual image on the Internet. Wei Chen on the Internet is always sunny, clean and warm.
Wei Chen said that he had worked hard and was very lucky to play this role. In order to visually present a thin and sick Yuan Wu, he deliberately reduced his appetite and lost 20 pounds before joining the group.
Judging from the stills, this middle-aged man with dark circles as big as a bucket and looking listless is startling. To be honest, I didn't recognize it at first glance as the former popular idol Wei Chen. The biggest advantage of
"Gone Child" is that it builds a real daily life.
Whether it is an old-fashioned building in the camera or an ordinary middle-aged couple, whether it is a child like Yang Mo and Xu Enhuai who were neglected by their parents, or a marginal person like Yuan Wu who is divorced from society, everyone can live in ordinary life. Find its living prototype.
So when the child disappeared in the corridor, Yuan Wu built his father into the wall to collect the pension, everyone would not find it strange or even exaggerated, and it also allowed the drama to naturally create a down-to-earth atmosphere. Thriller.
As for the topic of "female sexual assault" embodied by Lin Chuping, there are many in the society, and even the hot searches in recent days have been such news.
's scenes, characters, everything is very everyday, and the fact that it derives from it is heart-wrenching, because the characters it portrays are all "real murderers" who seem harmless to humans and animals but have a huge dark side of human nature.
It can be said that the original "Sea Anemone" is an uncompromisingly good story, so with this good story as the foundation, "Gone Child" will not be too bad, but it is not without regret. The biggest regret of
is that there is a problem with the director's narration. From the very beginning, he tried his best to create a sense of blurred and chaotic suspense, and kept telling the audience with shaking shots, jumping clips, and close-ups of the characters' panicked expressions: It's a thriller and suspense drama, there may be a secret here, it's really too much.
What's even more unfortunate is that each episode begins with a new character's perspective to tell the story, which is really rare in other domestic dramas, but it also leads to repeated episodes in the episodes. The most obvious thing about
is that at least 40% of the content of the first four episodes overlaps, which is the biggest flaw for suspense dramas.
This is quite a test of patience for audiences who are eager to see new story clues. According to observation, the initial score of this play is not high. The reason why many netizens give low scores is that there is a lot of repetition and no new content.
But fortunately, after 6 episodes, the director found its rhythm again, the plot unfolded normally, the characters' personalities became clear, and the overall color improved a lot.
In short, Douban's score of 7.7 is a good result, but it is much worse than the previous hit "The Hidden Corner", but you should be happy, the domestic social reasoning suspense is still on the way. You always have to eat in one bite. It takes a long time. As long as you keep diligent, miracles will happen again.
