After watching the second case of " Chinatown Detective 2", I found that it was too early to criticize.
was not wrong, but it was too early. After the first case of
was aired, it received poor reviews and a lot of controversy. Lin Mo, the male protagonist of
, was questioned for being severely mentally retarded, and his identity was quickly exposed as soon as he went online.
The brief stories of various people have been questioned, and they are scattered and cliched.
The reason for the crime of the big boss behind the scenes is even more mixed between the pathological factors of "sickness" and the psychological category of "evil thoughts". It is vague, heavy, and has no sharp texture.
attempts to cover up the relatively empty and thin story with a startling "suspenseful horror" atmosphere. The first episode of
's premiere had such an overwhelming style that Shu Xin-chan had no intention of watching the second episode. She simply clicked on episode 5 with the intention of accumulating material for making complaints. Ah, there is something interesting.
Fans from all walks of life posted comments in various comment areas such as "The second case is good" and "It starts to be good from episode 5". This classic fan-style fraud is "it will be good after episode x", which is never worth it. trust. But when it comes to "Detective Chinatown 2" specifically, it is indeed true.
, let’s talk about it.
(The following content contains spoilers)
One, suffering without support: the emotional prison of high bondage and low sense of gain
The drama filmed the death of Amin, and did not even film the scene of the old mother crying in grief, but filmed another scene. She waited unknowingly and happily in a space.
recalled "I love you" with a smile on her face and looked forward to a better life. It was probably the first time in her life that she heard her son's words of "I love you". She didn't know what kind of poison these words contained, a traditional oriental old mother , instead of replying "I love you too", wave your hand to reassure the child.
You see, there is one death in life, one movement and one silence, one sadness and one joy. The old mother still doesn’t know that Jiao Er has become a pile of flesh, is heavily in debt, and kills people with resentment and hatred. The juxtaposition of “not knowing” is obviously more impactful than crying. force.
Several details are very impressive.
After Amin was fired, his old mother walked down the stairs with him. Among the crowd of young people who were busy going to work, only this one old and one young went in the opposite direction. They were out of place and miserable.
At the small food stall, the son in his prime is sitting still, and the old mother is busy doing business with her hunched waist. It is a typical picture of a loving mother and a sweet child.
In the end, the son turned back to kill others, leaving the old mother alone at the bus stop. In the relatively bright urban modules, there are usually no traces of elderly people like Amin's mother, and this kind of disconnection and abruptness is precisely the concrete level of the old being homeless.
Mrs. Huang next door worked hard all her life, got sick as she got older, and had no money for medical treatment. Under the pressure of life, her daughter had no time, no clues, no way to manage and maintain her relationship. In the nether world, flesh and blood are separated, Huang Po cooks porridge in a cold pot in a deserted playground, and even dies miserably to take the blame. She is a miserable old man who has no one to rely on and no place to go.
Acha's father-daughter relationship is rigid. The daughter who was bullied at school does not understand her father's behavior of bowing to a family that looks like they are either rich or wealthy (ordering her to apologize and beating her); she has a father but seems not to have one. A lonely child with no one to rely on. In the
story, neither A Ming, Huang Po, nor Xiao Cha can obtain a positive sense of emotional gain, and fall into a sweet trap step by step.
ran away from the true relatives of "high difficulty and true heart" and headed towards the abyss of hell of "low difficulty and true badness".
Meditation will specifically target traumatized people, old, young, miserable, and sick; they will play with the pain points and weaknesses of human nature in the palm of their hands, and do evil things in the name of comfort, which is completely unconscionable.
also changed from a victim to a perpetrator, but the degree and nature of their actions were very different.
A Ming originally sought justice for his fellow villagers, but he was frustrated and hit a wall. The admiring female anchor cannot distinguish the boundary between reward and emotional needs; the female anchor who is desperate and is about to get happily married jumps down and commits binding and murder in the name of love.
Ashin enjoys the false sense of value of controlling other people's destinies. In her own god-making deception, she keeps talking about mysteries but rounds it off and thinks she is a goddess.
Grandma was deceived to death, and Ah Cha was deceived into harming her relatives. Their attributes of being manipulated are obvious; while Axin's attributes of a controller are obvious. She enjoys the joy of being a god while being vicious as a devil.
Rather than saying that she is the specific person who protects the secret, it is better to say that she is the source of the illusion that supports her "being a god".
You see, some people turn from victims to perpetrators without knowing it, and some people turn from unfortunate people into evil spirits.
A big net, full of suffering.
is not simply black and white, it is full of complex and dark shadows of human nature.
2. Abnormal behavior and normal starting point, extreme behavior and common mentality
The sixth episode opens. Before the opening song, Huang Po’s independent small theater part, the first shot is her installing a light bulb.
A face full of vicissitudes of life, confusion, and hard work covered with wrinkles.
Her eyes were stung by the light. The discomfort was not only a natural physiological reaction to the light in a short-term special situation; it was also the impression of the character's tone: the pain of vicissitudes in the face of suffering.
The next scene shows her turning around and dragging the cart to work.
In a narrow alley, there is a solitary grandmother, with a trembling and hunched back in the dark sky.
I go shopping for groceries with an empty cart and stumble back with a full cart. There is always no one in the bumpy alleys.
The hardship of going out to work early in the morning, the cramped living conditions, and the loneliness are very concrete.
only lasted a few seconds and didn’t have a single line, but it was a life of hardship and hard work, and it was very impactful.
An old woman like Po Huang who lost her husband in her early years, suffered from cancer in her later years, and committed murder with a knife has a very low probability of appearing in life (just killing with a knife can screen out the vast majority).
But you won’t think that her suspension is unreal. On the contrary, it makes sense, and her familiarity and unreasonableness are both embarrassing.
She seems to be a collection of generations of hard-working women. Every wrinkle is written with wind and frost, and every inch of her bent back is engraved with the suffering of being crushed by life.
has many beautiful qualities. He has been hardworking and tenacious throughout his life and endured many hardships for decades. It is not easy to raise a child with just a few wontons.
However, she is so unreasonable.
was unable to pay the high medical bills, but turned around and threw all his money into fraudulent and brainwashing meditation sessions; his limited horizons and knowledge did not allow him to understand the dangerous truth behind tranquilizers, narcotics, hallucinogens and "mysteries make me feel good".
I am confused on key issues and cannot distinguish between a real relative who speaks evil words and a real evil person who talks sweet words but is full of swords.
She has a kind side, and she shares the same love with Ah Cha; but she is also coerced and tricked into doing evil, and is ordered to harm Lin Mo. She cannot get rid of it, and the wound on her hand is very shallow (of course, because she is really outmatched in physical strength), Her Tom Yum soup may not be without some genuine warmth.
One of the highlights of the drama is that Huang Po arrived at the crime scene at an abnormal time. The first layer of
is a layer of reasoning. The kind old woman kills with a sword, and the plot is reversed.
The second level is that she has a lingering conscience and is uneasy about taking action. A group of people were brainwashed to commit mass murder, and Huang Po was deceived into a bloody murderous situation, and she may not have been uneasy as she was pretending to be confused. This lucky bag dropped at the scene, the ironic contrast between blessing and killing is very poignant.
The third layer, this is a little comfort that the old and the young who are keeping secrets in the big quagmire cannot express. At that time, everyone present did not understand that Huang Po was clamoring to comfort Ah Cha. There was something else besides the identity of the victim.
One is a miserable remnant in the world, busy and toiling all his life, proud and ignorant, intolerable and short-sighted, unfortunate and unbearable; the other has fallen into layers of tragedies before his life has even begun, and is lonely and weak. Being manipulated and taking one wrong step is already a cliff.
The emotional value of this suspense story is, to a certain extent, the universal human heart behind the strange cases and spectacles. Under the scarlet blood in the world of mortals, the monsters and men and women share a familiar and familiar face, and everyone is haunted by ghosts. The thought of life and death is warm and cold, which makes people sigh.
Three, the relationship between all living beings under the water of the iceberg
Huang Po’s daughter settled accounts with the doctor, saying that she earned 100,000 yuan a year selling wontons, and spent 1 million yuan on surgery. If she could only live for two or three years, she would lose 60, 70, 70,000 yuan. Wan, an extremely cold-blooded passage.
Previously, her daughter and son-in-law quarreled over whether Huang Po should be driven away. Later, Lin Mo came to visit Huang Po several times and only saw Huang Po's daughter and granddaughter Tutu, but never saw the son-in-law once. Huang Po's daughter is obviously earning money to support the family on her own, and her son-in-law should have divorced later.
Huang Po’s daughter pretended to settle the score, but actually gave her savings to Huang Po.
's extremely cold words were closer to the son-in-law's extremely selfish, cold-blooded and utilitarian expression during the quarrel. Rather than saying that Mrs. Huang's daughter was saying what she really thought, it would be better to say that she was mechanically repeating her son-in-law's calculation that "the life of the old mother-in-law is worthless."
You see, this son-in-law who works as a door-to-door son-in-law at Huang Po’s wonton shop has an obvious family background and financial situation. As a door-to-door son-in-law, he also drove away his widowed mother-in-law. It goes without saying what his character is; he disappeared during the disaster. Traces, haha.
Life is not easy for Mrs. Huang's daughter. A young daughter and a sick mother can afford at most one. Abandoning anyone is like cutting off a part of yourself. Maybe the severity is different, but it doesn't really mean "your life is not worth the money" from the bottom of your heart.
But for this cheap son-in-law, it's different.
In a very short space, a few strokes depict the vivid colors of a family, just like a big net of the world under the suspense of icebergs on the water, an ukiyo-e of suffering, ups and downs of gratitude and resentment.
Another detail worth mentioning is the fruit that Mrs. Huang brought with her when she was discharged from the hospital. One pear and two apples that looked like different varieties and batches.
Normally when visiting patients, they will buy a fruit basket. If they think the fruit basket is expensive, they will buy fruits with "one pound of apples and one pound of oranges". I have never heard of "buying two apples and one pear".
So this fruit was most likely not brought by the visitor, but was given to her by other patients or nurses in the ward out of courtesy. She didn't even have a decent basket of fruit.
Of course, you can also think that these are the leftovers she ate, only three are left. No matter how you understand it, she was reluctant to leave behind this three-piece set of fruits of different colors when she was discharged from the hospital. This is a very concrete example of "difficulty and frugality".
She also did not prepare paper bags/plastic bags/reusable bags for fruit, or put the fruit in her bag, but just picked it up before leaving. This is also a sign of her lack of planning and organization in her work.
said angrily, "If you are poor, you will be cheap." He was holding only three fruits in his hand, and his character was particularly clear and three-dimensional.
In addition, a detail that I like very much is that Lin Mo Sasha asked Tutu to question him alone. Instead of saying "Tutu, come here alone", he said to a group of children who were playing, "Uncles selling ice cream, you have won the prize." "Everyone has an ice cream, hurry up and get it." Nuan Nuan gave Tutu one while hesitantly getting up slowly.
is obviously a lie to children, but it is warm.
If children don't understand, they are sometimes more cruel and direct than adults; if children understand, they obviously have no sense of propriety. So the two of them came with such cute words about winning the ice cream prize, which was warm and cute.
Comfortable Conclusion
This case begins with a murder scene. People wearing raincoats filed in late at night, brutally killed people, and then carried the body and threw it from the second floor in an extremely weird and ritualistic gesture. The discipline and ritual of the gang's crimes are mysterious and evil, which makes people hairy.
At the end of the story, one of Ou Yi's escape methods is to make everyone wear his mask. Countless Ou Yi's faces are used like a tide, and the overwhelming and pervasive sight of a terminal illness is very scary and intuitive.
As the deputy director celebrated his victory, Lin Mo concealed his achievements and fame, and then left his clothes after the incident. The play then imagined a fantasy picture of "if relatives communicate well and have a happy family", the ultimate destination of warmth and love is still there. Cliché, but still the right path.
It is easy to become a demon but difficult to become a god.
The right path in the world is subject to vicissitudes of life , but there must always be one breath and one thought.
