Recently, a domestic drama has been on the hot search.
Its name is " bottom line ", I believe that friends who have been surfing the Internet should not be unfamiliar.
This is a drama with "adaptation of real cases" as its selling point. It contains many influential cases in recent years,
such as Jiang Ge's case, Wu Xieyu's mother murder case, , and Huo Lala Car jumping cases, etc.,
So when I heard the news that these cases were going to be adapted into TV series, I believe that many of my friends, like me, opened them with high expectations.
We look forward to seeing a good work that restores the truth and analyzes human nature, just like "The Furnace" and "Su Yuan". What about the result of
? "Bottom Line" not only screwed up, but even stepped on thunder everywhere.
With the update of the episode, the quarrel about this drama has become more and more, and the reason is actually very simple, summed up in two words:
magic change.
That's right, don't doubt your eyes, even real cases can't escape the fate of being altered by screenwriters.
Take the hot search a few days ago for example -
The bottom line adaptation of Wu Xieyu's case leads to dissatisfaction with the parties
Wu Xieyu is a name that everyone should be familiar with. He brutally killed his own a few years ago. biological mother.
Due to his status as a top student at Peking University, as well as bizarre and meticulous criminal techniques, and the escape process of drama, Wu Xieyu has become a controversial person under the influence of various factors.
What is his motive? Why did he kill his own mother?
These should be the questions everyone who follows the case wants to know.
But unfortunately, the case is still under trial until now, and
has not given any conclusions on these issues, so the truth is still a mystery.
In "Bottom Line", however, the screenwriter compiled a "cause" for Wu Xieyu's case in a very simple and rude way.
In the play, the male protagonist's mother is an extreme and controlling person.
grew up in an extremely suffocated native family, so he developed a serious anti-social personality, so when he harassed his colleagues and was fired, in order to avoid being abused by his mother, he chose to kill his mother.
. . .
This is very strange. It is obviously adapted from the Wu Xieyu case, but this plot obviously has nothing to do with the real case.
According to an interview with a reporter from Dahe Daily , after the broadcast of "Bottom Line", Wu Xieyu himself also knew that his case had been put on the big screen.
He said that although he hopes his case can bring some warning and educational effects to people, he does not want to see his mother being portrayed as a bad person.
The adaptation of "The Bottom Line" has obviously offended some of the parties involved in the case, and the same situation also appeared in the "cargo-la-la girl jumping incident" -
The car-la-la case driver asked the bottom line to stop broadcasting
How Bottom Line was adapted for the Lala case.
chose a rough actor with a fierce image to play the driver. He looked irritable and irritable, and he spoke vicious words to the girls in the car all the time.
The route he veered off, it was pitch black, there was no surveillance or street lights, and it took longer than the original route.
also found a bottle of mineral water containing banned drugs in the driver's car, and just a few days ago, he also searched the Internet for "how to make a person die".
All the details seem to imply to the audience: This is a sinister suspect with murderous tendencies.
Friends who have followed this case should have also discovered that the above plots do not exist in real cases, and the search records and mineral water are already excessive.
The fun of being a screenwriter is obviously not limited to this, he is also trying to make a 180-degree reversal.
Just after "Bottom Line" successfully portrayed this driver as a vicious criminal, he suddenly arranged for a terminally ill old father in the second half. The search records in front of
and the drugs in the car were also at this time. Finally got an explanation:
"His purpose is not to harm strangers, but he doesn't want to see his old father suffer from illness again"
? ? ?
is really confusing, as are the families of the parties involved.
For the above adaptations, the wife of the client responded like this:
"The bottom line is that if there is a story about the lala case, as the client's response, it's too fake! Too fake! It's really too fake! It's so true! There is no cure, make up and revise without regard to the facts, what is the purpose? Deviating from the reality of the plot is the hottest and bloodiest. My evaluation is meaningless. I call on a legal society to govern the country according to law, human nature and morality, never forget the original intention, and keep in mind the mission! "
In addition to causing the dissatisfaction of the parties involved in the case, these fictional plots also aroused strong dissatisfaction among netizens who are concerned about the case.
Everyone should remember how exaggerated the controversy over the Lala case on the Internet was.
Even though time has passed for so long, the debate about it has never stopped, but "The Bottom Line" has brought the matter back to the public eye again with such an outrageous adaptation, and the result can be imagined.
Brawl Brawl Endless brawl.
This is a pity to me because I believe these cases were not adapted that way in the first place.
I have always been a very supportive of the filming of real cases. There is no complicated reason for
, that is, the influence of film and television is infinite, and the successful adaptation has social significance.
It will help more people understand these real cases and see a more comprehensive society, and those tragedies that have been settled can become a wake-up call affecting the future at this time.
Obviously some screenwriters don't understand this.
No matter how dramatic the real case is, its ups and downs cannot be compared with the fictional plot.
If they want excitement, reversal, and a bloody plot, they can only put the most important "truth" aside.
(in the bottom line, Jiang Ge's mother wasAdapted as the husband of the murdered girl)
But this is obviously wrong.
is like the name of this show, I think the more serious the subject matter is, the more "bottom line" should be in mind.
does not easily draw conclusions for cases that have not been concluded, and does not add fuel to the parties' fabricated motives, and
does not deliberately interfere with the audience's judgment. I think this should be the minimum "bottom line" of adaptation cases.
Of course, I also saw some people say that "The Bottom Line" at least dares to shoot, compared to other water-infused dramas, it is already quite good.
I don't deny that. It is indeed a "dare to shoot" drama, and it can be regarded as a big step forward with the recent domestic drama.
But even so, I don't think its "dare to shoot" can be based on "magic change".
After all, "adaptation" is not the same as "shuffling", which will make real cases lose their original meaning.
is like the 12 Angry Men story that we've seen countless times.
The same case will turn into a completely different story in the eyes of different people.
No one is perfect, and no one can guarantee that they are absolutely correct, so we need to spread the facts over and over again, and different people need to analyze and discuss from different angles.
This means that "restore the truth" is more important than anything in these discussions, because it is difficult for us to avoid those subconscious biases in our hearts.
Go back and look at the fictional plots in "The Bottom Line", what do you mean?
I don't think it makes sense, but I think the screenwriter may think these bridges are meaningful.
Because this is her subjective speculation, it is her prejudice against these cases in her heart,
This is not true, and it is not prudent, and it is more likely to mislead those viewers who do not know these cases, let them make a judgment before making a judgment. Fall into the trap of prejudice.
Isn't this putting the cart before the horse?
In the final analysis, what we want to see is the full picture of the case, the real people and human nature, rather than a "story" full of subjective speculation and prejudice.
is a drama under the banner of "reality adaptation" and loses its "reality",
Then I think that such a dare to shoot is nothing more than a "bottomless" gimmick.
