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Good dramas come one after another, and my brain can’t change them.
bids farewell to "Flowers" and welcomes "Black Soil without Words", seamlessly connecting.
However, compared to "Flowers", the title "Black Earth Silent" is a bit too casual and funny. Who wouldn't think of the white clouds and black soil in the Spring Festival Gala after watching it? You're a criminal investigation drama, it's such a serious and brain-burning thing, why are you doing this funny thing?
So initially, I was not looking forward to it. After seeing three updated episodes, I will help you identify it.
This is incredible, domestic suspense drama, it has to be you, x theater.
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Last year, x theater only produced three dramas. Both Zhihu and Douban ratings unanimously ranked two of them among the top ten domestic dramas.
’s popularity has directly overwhelmed iQiyi’s Mist Theater.
The young are formidable.
At the beginning of 2024, "Black Soil Silence" comes again.
Last year's x theater's "The Long Season" and "Under the City" have several common features:
First: short
are short dramas of twelve episodes, which is shorter than the 16 episodes of the Korean drama miniseries. The drama-watching front won’t be too long and won’t be too hard.
To be honest, although there are many things that can be discussed in "Flowers", 30 episodes are really too long to follow. 12 episodes is a very comfortable pace for me.
For modern people whose rhythm is controlled by short videos, is it more friendly to join dramas?
Second: The pace is fast
Nowadays, the directors and screenwriters of domestic criminal investigation dramas have made great progress, and they know how to adapt to American dramas and TV dramas. Studying Korean dramas is no longer an era when you can’t get to the point after talking for a long time, and you don’t know what you are doing after a long time of research.
has learned how to solve the murder case for you at the beginning of every drama, and the main investigators who know how to solve the case for you as soon as the case is investigated. At the same time, they will set up a team that can be called upon and can fight, and there are some evenly matched ones. , a villain full of the sense of the times.
For example, the trio of investigators in "The Long Season" who have been persistent for many years and refuse to stop, or the little turtle who has been plotting revenge for many years and refuses to stop in "Under the City".
No matter villain or decent, they are not vegetarians.
The police do not overwhelm them, and the villains do not use their wits. They commit crimes with their IQs and use their brains to investigate cases.
greatly respects the audience's IQ. This is the capital that can lure suspense fans away from American and Korean dramas.
Third: The reversal is reasonable
The most important thing in a suspense drama is that the last reversal is reasonable. The rationality of
comes from all the layout and character preparation in the early stage.
"The Long Season" and "Under the City" both did this very well.
After watching the finale, the biggest feeling the audience felt was sighing.
This kind of lamentation is the truth mixed with the sense of the times. This is what many suspense Korean and American dramas lack, and it is the unique charm of x theater.
Based on the above three reasons, although the title "Black Earth Silence" is really interesting and interesting to readers, I still watched three episodes. After watching the three episodes of
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, I can see that it has completely inherited the first two advantages of last year's two hit movies of X Theater. Whether the third advantage has been inherited or not, we won't know until the finale, so we can't say nonsense. In a quarter of the length of
, the plot basically unfolds. I will briefly summarize it for you.
First of all, structurally, "Black Soil Silence" is a multi-line narrative.
In order to help the audience sort out the time switching, the TV series clearly displays the time switching on the public screen. As long as you are not using your mobile phone during the time switching, you will not miss it.
This also reduces the difficulty of understanding the drama and the threshold for watching the drama, which is still very considerate.
But, you know what this big number reminds me of?
"Who is He", which opened high and went low last year. The numbers in
's "Who is He" are also very clear and specific.
hopes not to follow the old path of "Who is He".
When will suspense dramas stop having timelines etched on their faces? It means both the director and the audience have grown up.
A timeline shows Yang Si, played by Hu Jun, who robbed to establish his power, got married and was imprisoned. After being released from prison, he was caught in a murder case.
Obviously, as soon as the name Hu Jun comes out, you know that he is the male protagonist.
Hu Jun's acting skills have never let me down.
Another timeline is the story of Hu Jun’s marriage to a widow with a child, and the widow’s child Yang Xuesong.
Yang Xuesong didn't have a father when he was a child, so he regarded Hu Jun as his father. As a result, Hu Jun was imprisoned for more than ten years. His mother went out to work, and no one cared about him. He dropped out of school and ran to Internet cafes every day to work in the streets without reading any books.
When Yang Xuesong was a prowler on the street, he often committed roadblocks and robberies. When he saw injustice on the road, he rescued the female student Chen Xiaoming from the second-generation rich man, and the two became close.
The girl is really beautiful, she looks like Jing Tian, no wonder she attracts attention.
So the street kid competes with the second-generation rich man to snatch the female student, and then the street kid Yang Xuesong wins the heart of the female student with his handsome face and his true temperament when facing injustice.
But soon, the female students realized that street gangsters had no money, so they followed the second generation of rich people, and then they followed the elders of the second generation of rich people, the real rich people.
Then, the female student moved into a golden house in the rich company's company, and the rich man gave her parents a house to live in.
Then, the female student died in the wealthy company’s car parked in the parking lot. The wealthy man and his security guard also died in their company building that day.
Yang Xuesong is missing. Yang Xuesong's stepfather Yang Si was arrested.
The third line is the story of the wealthy ex-wife played by my aunt Deng Jiajia.
Both the local tycoons and Deng Jiajia control part of the local land resources, and they are both involved in the local removal of counties and changes to districts.
If the first two lines are small stories about small people, Deng Jiajia's line connects large sums of money, business wars and land battles.
The fourth line is the life and death line of Yan Hongqiao, the victim of the case. This line should have interests entangled with the third line, and emotional entanglements with the second line.
The fifth line starts at the beginning of the TV series and is the line of solving the crime from the perspective of the audience.
The reason why I organized it like this is not to spoil the finale. I haven’t watched the finale. I want to let friends who have not watched the show clearly understand the ins and outs of this case.
What I said is basically a synopsis of the plot, which was mixed in with the stories of the first three episodes and sorted out by the random jumping of the timeline.
The real excitement of this drama is mainly the investigation line.
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The garbage mountain in "Who is He" became famous last year. Everyone thought that Zhang Yi was very clever and diligent in investigating the case. It's a pity that it was unfinished. Sorry, I said it again as a screenwriter. Who is wasting me with an unfinished drama? Time, I will remember him forever.
In "Black Soil Silence", the police chief played by Chen Jianbin made me see a policeman who takes off his mythical coat, is down-to-earth, and investigates cases in a down-to-earth manner. I particularly like this character.
He is not a god, but he made me feel the working style and persistence of our police uncle, which is very real.
This kind of reality, that is, the feeling given to me by x theater, is that it is the same as last year. Sure enough, it is the same theater and the same selection criteria for dramas.
As for the rivalry between Chen Jianbin and Hu Jun, I recommend watching it a second time, it is very interesting.
Although this drama has only been released for three episodes, it is only the beginning. As long as the fast pace is maintained in the follow-up, the young detective apprentices with different personalities keep their acting skills online, and the reversal of the case setting should not be seen through so quickly. Bet on one 8 points, x theater will have a good start in 2024.
If you like it, please follow me and I will follow up and analyze it.
This article only improves the previous situation.
I am serious about suspense dramas.
January 12, 2024
in Hong Kong
