In 2023, " The Long Season " directed by Xin Shuang made domestic suspense famous again. The progress bar of 2024 is nearly half. If there is no unfinished problem, Qihua feels " The Dark Fire " directed by Yao Xiaofeng 》Enough to take over.
"Gloomy Fire" stars Tong Yao , Zhang Xincheng . Before the show started, the biggest gimmick was the "sister-brother love". The age difference between the lead actors brought with them a sense of taboo, but after it started, you will find that love is not The core of the story.
The sword hurts the body, but the words hurt the heart.
The story of "Gloomy Fire" takes place in a small town called Qingshui. The word Qingshui carries the meaning of clear and clean, and has the unsullied natural beauty. The Qingshui Town under the director's lens, the picture It is also as seductive to the eyes as a paradise.
But the natural scenery of the town is as beautiful as a fairyland, and the cultural scenery is like a pool of stagnant water. Under the clear water without waves, silt and rot are piled up everywhere. When the water ripples, you can see the bottom of the pool. No dirt Underneath, it was all dirt.
The heroine Nanya (played by Tong Yao) is recognized as the most beautiful woman in Qingshui Town. She has good looks, good figure, outstanding temperament and taste. She runs an independently designed and tailored clothing store in the town, and her aesthetic is very fashionable.
When she walked down the street, the audience seemed to be able to see the cold and charming Marlena in "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily". It was difficult not to be attracted by her, but the people who were attracted in the play were not. You must appreciate her beauty.
Beauty is sometimes a weapon, but in some circumstances, beauty may sometimes become a sin of origin." The acquaintance society is more prosperous, coveted by jackals, slandered by ordinary people, and countless malice constantly surrounds Nanya.
小小In Qingshui Town, there are all kinds of scandals about Nanya. Some people accuse her of having a chaotic relationship between men and women. Some people say that she is a slut who doesn't refuse anyone. Seven out of ten people are humiliating her, two are following the trend, and one is indifferent.
People, including the chattering aunt on the street.
The man eating melon seeds in the village.
Even the young man who is still studying:
Before the central case of the show, the Millennium Husband Murder, almost everyone in the town witnessed Nan. Nanya's husband Xu Yi was violent to her and she was beaten black and blue, which was the norm in Nanya's marriage.
Nanya also called the police countless times because of domestic violence and sexual intercourse, but in the end, the matter was ignored. After the case emerged, when the town residents were asked about their opinions on the matter, they often admitted that they had witnessed Nanya being beaten by Xu Yi, and at the same time attributed the question to
Why didn't Nanya leave? Others, just beat her?
Definitely not for no reason.
Even in the eyes of many people, Xu Yi is a "good man" because he has a better family background, is richer, and is willing to pay. Money was used to treat her daughter's illness, but Nanya had a bad reputation and gave birth to unhealthy children due to domestic violence. In the eyes of these people, Xu Yi was the one who suffered under Nanya's control
because he was in too much pain.
It's a big deal, but everyone just doesn't believe it.
Even Sister Guixiang, who is the kindest neighbor to Nanya, and her husband realize that the rumors about Nanya in the town are intentional, but they are also very worried. It's hard to treat Nanya without any grudges.
Guixiang's help to Nanya was not out of pure trust and understanding, but more out of kindness, sympathy for the weak, and kindness to the victims. In other words, she didn't It's ironic that Nanya will be called a "small town alien" for the sake of Nanya. Small town residents have always said that Nanya is a "husband", but almost no one can say a real truth about it, even for a long time. , people can't even name a "husband"
, the only two men named to have an affair with Nanya.
One is Nanya’s daughter’s attending doctor, who has repeatedly harassed Nanya’s daughter on the pretext of treating her. What makes the doctor so cowardly? Part of the reason is that he firmly believes that the rumors are true.
He believed that as long as he made a request, the "romantic" Nanya would respond.
The other is Xu Jian, the younger brother of Nanya’s husband Xu Yi.
Xu Yi once caught Nanya and Xu Jian "eloping at the station". He was "angry" and dragged Nanya to the town ancestral hall for public trial, angrily blaming Nanya for her misconduct and his grievances as a husband.
People's years of humiliation towards Nanya finally got a "real hammer". Everyone was extremely excited. They attacked and tore Nanya's clothes crazily, wanting to give this "daughter" the greatest humiliation.
Even if the attitude of Xu Yi and his group is very strange, even if even young people can see that Xu Yi and his group are acting, so what?
All the doubts are not as exciting as a rumor that has been spread for many years and is now confirmed. It is not as exciting as a beautiful woman who has attracted the eyes of men in the whole town and made men covet her and women jealous being stepped into the mud.
This plot is also one of the most impactful scenes in the whole drama.
The crazy crowd and the helpless Nanya, the ugly Xu Yi and Zhou Luo who knew the truth but was unable to intervene, the beautiful Qingshui Town and the ancestral hall representing the legacy of feudalism are in sharp contrast. The evil of human nature is vividly portrayed.
Swords hurt the body, but words kill.
If her husband's domestic violence and the insult from her family of origin are the knife inserted into Nanya, then the words of everyone in Qingshui Town are the cage that traps her. As far as the ears can see, malice grows, and as far as the eyes can see, Darkness abounds.
Desire, Love
If you simply interpret the title of the drama "Dark Fire", it should mean a faint fire in the dark. For Nanya, the young and hot male protagonist Zhou Luo (played by Zhang Xincheng) may mean that. A dim fire?
He was once the pride of the town. He was the top scorer in the college entrance examination and a student in a prestigious school. Almost all the residents of the town came to the entrance banquet hosted by his parents. Such Zhou Luo was once synonymous with "Phoenix from the town".
One day, Zhou Luo, the proud son of heaven, was expelled from the university. He refused to tell the real reason for his expulsion, and the school's handling of it was also ambiguous. So, the legend of public opinion created by words came again.
Improper private life, style problems, etc...
Similar experiences in public opinion made Zhou Luo feel pity for Nanya, but he was really attracted to her. Objectively speaking, the key is the word "sex", which comes from The primitive desires and impulses of young people.
Nanya's beauty, taste, and temperament hit Zhou Luo's aesthetics everywhere. From fantasy to unbearable heat, it may only take a simple conversation, a simple encounter, and a hot poem.
Seeing this, many viewers may subconsciously think, is a taboo and romantic love coming?
A kind-hearted young man who is not understood vs. a pitiful and beautiful woman who has always been oppressed.
What a wonderful bipolar redemption?
But after the provocative scenes, "Dark Fire" took the lead in breaking the audience's love brain.
or in other words, broke the "pure love" brain that domestic dramas are so fond of.
The way the screenwriter exposed the male protagonist's charming thoughts was to make him unable to control his inner desires in front of Nanya and to try to do something wrong. After being disgusted and rejected by Nanya, he blurted out the dirty thoughts in his heart:
Even he himself Suffering from public opinion, even if he sympathizes with Nanya's experience, even if he appreciates Nanya's taste, subconsciously, he also believes in people's slander against Nanya.
When he saw that Nanya liked "explicit" poems, he imagined that she was debauched. When he saw that Nanya was harassed by other men, he imagined that she "enjoyed it". Under the influence of prejudice, the suppressed desires became... Intuitively exposed.
Even if he found out that the poem Nanya read was not the pornographic poem he imagined, his apology was also touched by himself. He subconsciously felt that a woman like Nanya who hurts her every day should be forgiven if he is willing to apologize.
Zhou Luo's love for Nanya truly transformed from sex to love. He began to want to truly understand Nanya as a person, instead of understanding the Nanya in other people's mouths, fantasizing about her beauty, and peeking into her life.
This kind of love does not conform to the "pure love" promoted by many film and television dramas, because the male protagonist's initial impulse towards women comes from sex, not love, and because such a male protagonist is imperfect.
He has had dirty thoughts, and he has the dark side of human nature.
But such a persona is actually very real.
The ancients said: "There is no saint in terms of deeds and heart." No one can always be bright and selfless in his heart, especially desire. The key lies in whether we can "be motivated by emotion and stop by etiquette."
begins with Zhou Luo, who is in love, and is closer to real human nature.
's love from sympathy to understanding is not inferior to pure heartbeat, and it is more in line with the suspense tone of "Dark Fire". The most important thing is that it does not overwhelm the protagonist, no matter the scene or the background color introduced.
There was often a misunderstanding in "suspense romance dramas" in the past.
The creators always seem to think that the domestic audience is "loveless and unhappy", and they wish that all of them would be filmed as "love stories" and regard suspense as the background of love. Even if they create suspense fans, they will not be able to please romantic dramas. pink. In the early days of
, the sister-brother romance gimmick that was often tied to "Gloomy Fire" once made Qihua worried that the drama would fall into a cliché curse. However, I was pleasantly surprised. 's suspenseful love this time did not appear to be a "fraudulent film." .
"Dark Fire" is really about suspense and supplemented by love. In fact, love is more like an atmosphere, an inducement, and an emotion in the plot. is an embellishment in the life of the heroine Nanya.
The rivalry between the protagonists is handled with a touch of restraint, which does not affect the suspense of the main line. However, in the restrained shots, the director still captured the tension between the two, which is subtle, but as hot as fire.
Suspense, murderer?
In suspense dramas, no matter what kind of social phenomenon or story concept the screenwriter wants to express, it must be told through cases. The story of "Dark Fire" begins with the Millennium New Year's Eve, when Nanya "suspected of accidentally killing her husband."
people were indeed killed by her.
is suspected to be an accident, which is a controversial point in the case.
Nanya said that she wanted to use Xu Yi's illegal evidence to negotiate a divorce with him, but the other party tried to kill her to silence her. When she resisted, Xu Yi accidentally slipped and hit the knife in Nanya's hand, and eventually died.
This process was caught by Zhou Luo who was sending Nanya's daughter home.
The controversy in the case is whether she was in self-defense or intentional homicide. Lao Chen (played by Tian Xiaojie) determined that it was intentional homicide. In addition to his prejudice against Nanya, Lao Chen made this judgment based on experience.
The reason is that victims of long-term domestic violence have great motivation to deliberately kill the perpetrators. In order to persuade young Lin Fanglu ( Ye Zuxin ), he specially found a real-life case.
But Lin Fanglu believed more in the closed loop of evidence. He started from the witness testimony, the motive of the murder, and the relationship between the various characters, and verified each clue layer by layer, and also showed the audience the story behind the case layer by layer.
Nanya was slandered and judged by the acquaintance society - her experience from the hell of her native family to a dark marriage - Nanya and Lin Fanglu's teenage love - Nanya and Zhou Luo's invisible bond.
also includes the perspectives of Chen Ling and other parties involved. The more in-depth the investigation, the more we can see the whole picture of Qingshui Town, or in other words, we can see the complex purpose behind a "simple" rumor, with all parties involved.
Whenever a perspective is revealed, the truth about the killing and killing seems to be unimportant, because compared with the case itself, the root cause of the case, The life of the victim who was bullied and had nowhere to escape, Even more shocking.
And her experience is closely related to many problems in reality.
Qingshui Town is a closed society of acquaintances, where swords can kill and words can kill. But outside of Qingshui Town, in the society of "strangers", will this problem be completely eradicated? not at all.
Otherwise, Zhou Luo would not have dropped out of school in embarrassment.
The issues revealed by the story and what the work wants to express are the biggest highlights of "Gloomy Fire".
However, the screenwriter and director’s narrative perspective, script, and lens polish have allowed this story to meet the best talent. The creative team is working hard on the suspense core and film and television art. In the plots that
has aired, not only has the logic of the case not collapsed, but it has also maintained a good suspense rhythm. The early explosive points always appear at the right moment, and the subsequent hooks are arranged one by one at the right places.
While the audience is shocked by the darkness of human nature, they can also get suspense and original brain-burning reasoning stimulation. The whole process of watching the drama is quite a good experience. These contents alone are enough for the drama to get a high score for suspense.
What's even more rare is that the director's artistic aesthetic is also a plus. Whether it is the contrast between the "clear" perspective of the Qingshui Town camera and the "dirty" perspective of the story, or the artistic conception of experiencing the inner emotions of the characters, it is very thought-provoking.
With a good perspective, a good story, and a dedicated creator, finally achieved the effect of "Gloomy Fire" beyond expectations. I hope that the subsequent plot will not collapse, making 2024 domestically suspenseful, and welcoming the work of the gods.
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