Monsoon Theater "The Disappearing Child" has ended. Halfway through, I read the author's original book "Sea Anemone". Before reading
, I deliberately went to Baidu and wiki and encyclopedia to search for sea anemones, and the information I got was: a predator that looks like a flower. The implication is that it is a beautiful but dangerous creature that is good at camouflage.
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Yuan Wu's home TV is the sea anemone
Interestingly, the word "sea anemone" never appears in the whole book. But when you read the whole book, you feel that the author is very cunning, giving you clues from the first moment you open the book.
Next, I will combine the original work to sort out the first six episodes of the TV series. It contains important clues of , which may be missed by you.
Tip: After read these clues, the truth is about to come out. It is recommended that if you mind the spoilers, you might as well continue to watch the drama with doubts and watch it later.
Three story lines:
I personally like the beginning of the TV series, and I was attracted by the whole thing. The self-narration of the three protagonists, coupled with the mixed editing of the subsequent stories, creates a suspenseful and eerie atmosphere, and bluntly shows that there are three story lines.
The first story line is that a child named Yang Mo disappeared in his own corridor, which is the "disappearing child" line. The story line in the original book also has this name, and it also serves as the beginning. It is worth noting that the timeline of this story starts later than the other two stories. This line is a open line , which happened in the present time, and the whole story that the police intervened by this line. The author took this thread to raise the first big question in the whole article: Where did the children go?
The protagonist of the second story is Yuan Wu, a highly educated mother-boy/gambler. The first scene of this story line in the play is that Yuan Wu meets a strange man (the landlady's older brother) in the corridor. Yuan Wu feels nervous and scared. At first glance, he has done something wrong for fear of being discovered. After that, the time flashed back, and the story of Yuan Wu began to be told in flashbacks and interludes - abnormal maternal love, gambling, divorce, unemployment, and marginalization. The sudden death of my father made things worse again... In short, it was sad and hateful.
is different from the other two protagonists who are looking for the truth, Yuan Wu's dilemma is how to bury the status quo .
Viewers/readers all know that Yuan Wuzang's father must be related to the other two cases, but they don't know how it is related. That's why, while sweating for him, at the same time wanting to expose him as soon as possible, so that we can get closer to the truth. Personally, I think he should be the most afraid of the police besides the murderer. Hahaha. The third story line of
is the landlady played by Yu Wan, who fainted in her home half a year ago and was violated. The landlady has been unable to get out of the shadows for half a year, and has been conducting private investigations with her brother. This line is also told in flashbacks and interludes, and part of the content is first explained from Yuan Wu's perspective, and then transferred to the landlord's perspective to complete it, which leads to some repeated content in the TV series... This thread leaves the audience with questions: Who is the murderer of who violated the landlady?
Timeline & Event Links:
Okay, I have finished the rough story line, now let’s talk about the timeline and relationship of these three lines (only the nodes that I think are important)
Half a year ago, the landlady was violated ( Story 3 begins)
Four months ago, Yuan Wu and his father moved into the landlady's house. (Intersection of 2 and 3)
Six days before Yang Mo disappeared, the puppy "Snort" got lost. First, he ran to the vegetable market and passed by Yuan Wu. After Yuan Wu returned home, the landlady came to collect the house and rent out the car accident, claiming that As if hit something (snoring). (Intersection of 1, 2, 3)
After dinner on the same day, Yuan Wu's father died suddenly (2 officially started)
was still the same day, Yuan Wu lost his mind, went out to the chess and card room in a daze, and ran into Yang Mo looking for a dog (1, 2)
It was still the same day, Yuan Wu came home from the chess and card room, and had the idea of hiding something. Continue to receive father's pension (the original account is very clear).
Five days before Yang Mo disappeared, Yuan Wu found an empty wall in the bathroom and chose it as a hiding place. When he was buying tiles, he met Xu Anzheng (1, 2) Mo (1, 2)
Yang Mo disappeared before 4? One day, the landlord's brother was repairing the water heater. Yuan Wu was worried that his father would be discovered, so he went to the landlord to explain, and crashed the landlord to investigate another incident (Yuan knew that someone had entered the house, and he was even more suspicious) (2, 3)
Yang Mo is missing (beginning 1) , the police intervened and found that Yang Mo had appeared at Xujia 302. Enhuai explained the agreement between the children, Xu Anzheng was suspected by the policewoman.
As of the sixth episode, on the surface, the intersection of lines 2 and 3 seems to be more, just because it happened in the same place and the lease relationship, the case itself seems to have no connection. The intersection of 2, 3 and main line 1 seems to have no deeper connection except for a few encounters in the same community.
But of course the audience knows it's impossible and the three cases must be more closely related! So I couldn't bear to read the original book. After knowing the ending, I found that the author started to leave foreshadowing very early.
important clues (spoiler alert): There are three very, very important clues in the
TV series 1-6. The pictures are below for you, you can reason on your own.
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Yuan Wu/Landlady's house number. Note that this is not the opposite of Xu's house.
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站在床边 看着。 The old man is an alcoholic. your product. The different settings of
and the original work:
finally want to say that the original work is different from the TV series in several settings, as well as some personal views (only represent individuals, only up to the sixth episode).
1. does not have the dog "snoring" in the original book. This setting in the drama should be to connect the three lines, reminding the audience that the relationship behind the three events is not as simple as it seems. The three stories in the original work are actually related very early, but if you don't see the end, you won't find it. In the early stage, you will feel that the three events are parallel, and it seems that there is not much connection.
2. In the original book, there is no bathtub leaking, is dealing with the uncle downstairs, this part is a bit baffling to me, I don't know what is the purpose of the director's arrangement? Probation Yuan Wu, let his conscience find out? ?
3. The reason why Yuan Wu didn't hit 120. In the original work of , the author directly explained Yuan Wu's thoughts in order to impersonate his father's pension, which is 4,500 yuan per month (2000 hahaha is less in the play), and the introduction on Douban is also written in the same way. However, from the perspective of 1-6, the director did not express this point, but made the audience feel that Yuan Wu was worried that if he hit "120", he would lose his father completely like his mother did. I see a lot of netizens have this settingI'm confused, and I don't know if the plot will be added later.
4. Image of policewoman Zhang Ye. In terms of character characteristics, the play is still very similar to the original work. Zhang Ye pays special attention to details, is sensitive to intuition, somewhat strong, and has first-class logical reasoning ability. But I don't quite understand why she is arranged for a personal confession in the play, just like the other three protagonists. Zhang Ye's characters are relatively flat in the original work. Personally, I think they are tools for promoting the plot. I don't know if she will also design a turning point for her role in the later stage of the play. I look forward to it... The front desk of the
5. chess and card room. The idea of to hide his father, Yuan Shi was inspired after listening to Xiaohong's words at the front desk about hiding cards. In the original book, Xiaohong had more contact with Yuan Wu later, and said that he should be an upright person. To a certain extent, Xiaohong's words have a certain guiding effect on Yuan Wu's decision-making. After losing his mother and his father's sudden death, the role of Xiaohong replaced his mother and inadvertently guided him to make some decisions, which also had an impact on the transformation he made later.
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put a big injustice Yuan Wu to the end. Bye-Bye.
