"The five of us know each other, and they are five different Feikes."
As soon as this sentence came out, the suspenseful atmosphere was immediately filled, laying the biggest suspense in the whole drama of "生"!
fee but who is it?
Female reporter He Shan (played by Zhou Yiran) also wants to know this question.
One day, she suddenly received a call from her old classmate Fei Ke (Jing Boran).
The other party asked her if she could come to the airport to say a formal farewell and said she had something to give to her.
The female reporter hurried to the airport, and Fei Ke stood up to greet her.
However, something unexpected happened. Fei Ke suddenly fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth, breathing rapidly, his eyes full of panic, and the coffee in his hand spilled all over the floor.
It's not like an emergency, it's more like poisoning.
He Shan hurriedly called for help, but in the confusion, Fei Ke used his last strength to push a key into He Shan's hand.
Next, there is another reversal.
Feike was sent to the ambulance and soon discovered that the person who saved him was not the medical staff, but the vicious kidnappers.
They tied Feke's hands in the ambulance, covered his mouth, and injected an anesthetic needle.
came to the pier, packed the people into the suitcase, threw them on the speedboat, and the group of people drove away.
Feike was kidnapped.
Oh my god, what kind of drama has such a fierce opening?
And the next plot is even more shocking: Fei Ke is dead, do you believe it?
This question is like an awl, hitting the audience's heart!
Perhaps, as it is said in the play, everything in this world may be heard but not believed!
The previous plot scene comes from the 10-episode suspense drama "Rebirth" newly launched on Youku.
It’s White Night Theater again.
"The Dark Fire ", which is currently being broadcast on CCTV and has a good reputation, is the beginning of the latest "White Night Theater", which is the second part.
It seems that after the Mist Theater in Taochang and the X Theater in Goosechang, Pants has quietly launched an attack on suspense dramas. And, it’s coming with force.
is talking about this play. The director applied for the Olympic Games and his previous work was " All-or-Nothing ".
Actors include young and talented actors like Jing Boran and Zhou Yiran, as well as acting actors like Wang Yanhui and Huang Jue. The original work of
is the popular suspense novel "Feike's Dinner".
The story is the most familiar theme of the Olympic bid, acquaintance fraud.
After the show was launched, word-of-mouth immediately exploded. Next, it will be launched on Netflix (netflix) simultaneously on May 7.
seems to have something?
After watching three episodes in a row, I can no longer hide my excitement. I have only one feeling in my heart: suspense lovers, you must not miss it.
This feeling is the same as when I watched "The Long Season " starring Qin Hao and Fan Wei last year, and when I watched "White Night".
This is not to say that the quality of the series has reached the peak and caught up with the classics. It is a domestic suspense drama that has finally found a new path.
1: Less than 7 minutes into the story
, there is a memorial service. Feike is "dead".
He Shan, who watched Fei Ke frothing at the mouth and collapsed at the airport, received a letter with four strangers. The content was: Your friend Mr. Fei Ke unfortunately passed away due to illness. I hope you can come to his memorial service.
In this way, several strangers landed on an isolated island by boat and gathered in the single-family villa where Feike held a memorial service.
new reversal is coming soon.
A lawyer read out Feike's "last words" and asked everyone who came to mourn to tell their story with Feike. After everyone had finished telling, he could read out the will.
But He Shan, who was full of doubts about Fei Ke's death, did not follow the routine at all and directly opened Fei Ke's coffin.
is empty.
Everyone has been cheated, but Fei is still alive?
But the lawyer who just read out the "will" took the opportunity to escape and sealed all the exits of the villa. He used the walkie-talkie to inform the five people: As he said before, if you tell the past with Feike, you can see Feike. .
The five people who were sealed in the secret room were forced to open their memories of Feike.
These 5 people do have a complicated relationship with Fei Ke. Some are Fei Ke’s father-in-law and were defrauded of 40 million, and their daughter died. Some were defrauded of 20 million. There was also someone who was cheated of their relationship by him, and Fei Ke deceived him. After finishing them, they disappeared from the world.
What's even more strange is that when they put together a familiar Feike like a jigsaw puzzle, they soon discovered that Feike in everyone's memory was different, and there were even five avatars on their mobile phones.
Audiences also quickly discovered that Fei Ke had a unique false personality for everyone he faced.
This is a werewolf killing game in which one person has five identities. Fei Ke wears multiple identities and deceives bosses, mature women, and rich girls.
Although the first three episodes used cross-narrative techniques of forward narration and flashback, "New Life" is not only dense in information, but also complex but not confusing.
This is due to a clear main line -
fee But is this person still alive? Who is Feike and what has he done?
Around this main line, the audience follows the five people who were deceived by Fei Ke and entered the game together.
There are three most basic suspense: First, Fei Ke seems to be conducting a series of acquaintance fraud, so the question is, is there some internal connection between these five people?
Secondly, why did Feike's lawyer lock five people together? What does he want to get from the memories of these five people? Are there any bright wolves among these people?
Third, Feike's death, was it a poor boy who used a false identity to get involved in the upper class, defrauded huge amounts of money and then faked his death, or was he really poisoned? Where are the fees now? Was the person who attacked him present at the scene? The story of
is complicated and confusing. The first three episodes are like a 120-minute suspense movie, which directly increases the suspense. After watching the first episode, I still want to watch the second episode.
To find out how Fei Ke masterfully manipulates human loopholes and implements sophisticated information gap scams, there is only one way to start with the people who have been deceived.
One of them is Chen Shufa (played by Wang Yanhui), a coal boss who was defrauded of 40 million yuan.
Fei But in this scam, he was the one who was deceived the most.
Others, some lost 20 million, and some were deceived and extorted information.
But not only was he deceived out of 40 million, but his daughter also lost her life.
And Fei Ke deceived him, and the deception was the most complicated. Instead of going straight to the point, he first pretended to be a business school returnee elite, took the charity evening letter sent to Cheng Hao by others, and deceived Chen Shufa's daughter at the evening party.
then used retreat as an opportunity to advance, saying that Chen Shufa despised him and could break up at any time, thus deceiving the rich lady to death.
When the story progressed to meeting his father-in-law, he seemed to inadvertently reveal the identity of his "parents" high-ranking officials at the dinner table,
and took his future father-in-law to visit "his" luxurious office and mansion, as well as the mysterious background behind " relation".
Of course, this is all fake.
After all this was completed, he stood in the wedding hall wearing a crisp suit and stretched out his hand elegantly to the bride. He also asked Chen Shufa to put up a pole and beg him to let him invest money and place a buying and selling order.
It wasn't until he disappeared from the world and Chen Shufa's daughter died that he discovered that he couldn't enter the so-called gorgeous office. The so-called father of Fei Ke, a high-ranking official, has no son at all.
This old fox has been cunning all his life, and he was deceived this time.
Second, the paragraph about Cheng Hao (played by Huang Jue), a financial tycoon who was defrauded of 20 million yuan.
This paragraph is also the most darkly humorous paragraph in the first three episodes.
Cheng Hao, a financial tycoon, was really deceived by Fei Ke.
This scam started with an "accidental encounter" on a plane. After attracting the other party to actively add WeChat, Fei Ke gradually entered the world of this financial tycoon through various methods such as staying overnight.
succeeded in seducing the other party again and boarded the pirate ship of Mousecang. Compared with Chen Shufa, Chen Shufa took the initiative to give him 40 million, and used Cheng Hao's 20 million, using a more subtle method: accumulating less makes more, relying on so-called inside information in the financial industry, first gaining trust, and then using the money to gain his own Account, operating the mouse warehouse for Cheng Hao.
Then the familiar thing disappeared without a trace. Cheng Hao not only lured the wolf into the house, but because what he did was shady, he could only suffer the loss of being dumb.
Third, He Shan
He Shan is the only one among the invited people who has not been deceived by Fei Ke.
can find from her perspective that Fei Ke has many identities, but his true identity is actually that he holds multiple accounts, five different personas, and tailors five sets of fraud plans for five victims. Time management guru.
He is good at discerning the weaknesses of others, and can take advantage of everyone by relying on information gaps and time differences.
The whole fraud is obviously an interlocking game within a game.
The suspense and horror in the drama are laid out layer by layer.
From the first episode, a large number of characters and clues have been introduced. But the more the audience watches, the less clear they become.
These five victims are obviously internally related, but what is the internal relationship between these seemingly unrelated people?
What’s even more amazing is that after Chen Shufa told his memories, Fei Ke actually returned the money he cheated to him. Why?
The whole story is full of mystery.
But what is more confusing than serial scams is the human heart.
2: Perceptions
After watching the first three episodes, if you ask me what my most immediate impression is, I would describe it in three terms:
suspense, cinematic feeling, and immersion.
First of all, there is a strong sense of suspense.
The entire drama actually adopts a clever "island mode", or in other words, the Rainstorm Villa mode.
Everyone who was invited to the memorial service was actually trapped in a closed island villa.
What's more important is that everyone is trapped in the past of Fei Xing's deception, and they must work together to solve the mystery in order to break the situation. The classic feature of
is that it is more interactive with the audience.
Especially in the narrative of the director's Olympic bid, the time of the story is confused, or in other words, it is a deliberately disrupted building block.
It may not be until the last episode that the whole puzzle can be put together.
The source of pleasure for viewers is often not the so-called truth coming out, but personal participation in reasoning and judgment and understanding of the characters during the viewing process.
Secondly, the cool cinematic feel.
's first time directing a TV series after bidding for the Olympics, it feels to me like an extended version of a movie. The whole style is reminiscent of his " beneficiary " or "All or Nothing".
's Olympic bid will not show off his skills deliberately, but you can feel a strong artistic style from his smooth and smooth narrative rhythm and sharp and cold filmic language. Many of the pictures are breathtakingly beautiful, yet also carry danger and temptation.
The director is actually using the camera to weave a big web, and every clue is intertwined like a spider's thread, intertwined with each other, and inextricably linked.
Finally, there is an unconscious sense of immersion.
There are a total of 10 episodes in the drama, and the story pace is very vigorous.
The plot advances by leaps and bounds, like a fully pulled string, with a sense of tension that is about to break out, making the audience feel like they are in a suspenseful and terrifying Rainstorm Villa, unable to extricate themselves.
The advancement of each plot is like lightning in a storm, sudden, plunging the audience into a mysterious and constantly reversing world.
In this mystery, the identity of the core character Feike has become a mystery, and everyone is inextricably linked to him. One cannot help but think about his true identity and search for the truth.
unknowingly entered the game.
3: Acting skills
Any drama requires acting skills, but for suspense dramas, actors' acting skills are particularly important.
If the performance is good, it will be the icing on the cake. If the performance is not good, it will easily make people watch the drama.
In the first three episodes of "Rebirth", several main characters have appeared, and several actors have already shown their talents.
One, Jing Boran.
I think Jing Boran acted very well this time.
For a long time, Jing Boran was not regarded as an actor.
I didn’t expect that after a few years of silence, Jing Boran would give me the feeling of being completely reborn.
The impression that Jing Boran gave me is that he has a very upright image, and even has a sense of purity. To put it simply, at first glance, he looks like a good person.
I think this is also the reason why the Olympic bid asked him to play Fei Ke. As Huang Jue said in the play, Fei Ke has a charm that makes you feel like old friends at first sight.
The character Fei Ke is so versatile that he deceives everyone.
Jing Boran portrayed the characters in five different situations in a relatively delicate manner. When facing the coal boss, he highlighted the unfathomable side of his family background, and when facing the financial boss, he highlighted the pure, simple and trustworthy side.
Also, Jing Boran's eyes give people an extraordinary calmness. And this kind of calmness under the crisis is even more terrifying.
The second one is Wang Yanhui.
Do you still remember the interrogation scene in " The Burning Sun and the Heart "? It doesn't look like acting.
This time he played the role of Chen Shufa, the coal boss, and it also didn't look like an actor.
No matter how you walk or sit on the sofa, you will feel like a coal boss.
Fei Ke "accidentally" shows his family background in a scene. The change in Wang Yanhui's eyes for half a second is simply amazing.
This is an unsympathetic character, but when talking about the loss of his daughter’s death, one can’t help but sympathize with him.
This is what I call good acting in suspense dramas.
The third one is Huang Jue.
Compared with the strong CEO who competes with Mr. Bao for the market in " Blossoms ", Huang Jue's interpretation this time highlights the elegance and calmness on the surface and the ambition in the heart of the financial tycoon Cheng Hao.
In recent years, Huang Jue's performances have become more and more natural, and he often makes a scene with just a small expression.
Especially the passage where Fei Ke talks about the ethics of financial practitioners, but actually gets involved unconsciously, is really wonderful.
It can be said that it was Huang Jue's acting skills that made the scene where Cheng Hao was deceived even more exciting.
Fourth, the week remains the same.
I think that from "Dali Jiao" in "The Sky of the Wind Dog", "Feng Xuejiao" in "The Coward", "Wang Xuehua" in " Our Days " to the female reporter He Shan this time, Zhou Still completed a role transformation.
went from a hot-tempered girl to a professional journalist with a cool temperament, calmness and self-control.
Her role has a close relationship with Fei Ke, and is also a clever move set by the director in the play. Only this role has the most overall perspective, and many truths may be revealed through this role.
I am optimistic that Zhou Yiran will become more popular with this role.
4: Rebirth of suspense dramas
Domestic suspense dramas need rebirth more than ever.
The most suspenseful domestic dramas in recent years are undoubtedly suspense dramas.
"White Night" and "The Hidden Corner" have become hits one after another, raising the audience's expectations infinitely.
Unfortunately, the few movies that were aired later fell down one after another.
Until last year, the refreshing "The Long Season" seemed to have brought domestic suspense dramas back to their peak.
The problem is that if you look closely, you will find that among the high-scoring domestic suspense dramas in recent years, Xin Shuang has produced two of them by himself.
The only convincing suspense masterpiece last year was his.
To put it bluntly, the bottleneck of domestic suspense dramas has become very obvious. It must be a bold and high-quality work like "The Long Season" to break the situation and create new life.
Whether "Rebirth" can become another masterpiece of suspense dramas, it is too early to say, but there are two new aspects of the drama that give people hope:
Firstly, the suspense of the story is solid.
The biggest problem with failed suspense dramas in recent years is that the stories cannot stand up to careful consideration.
Watching this drama, I had cautious expectations, but I was definitely "enjoyed" by it. The seemingly inconspicuous details in the opening of
will be echoed in the subsequent plot.
While creating suspense, it can also fill in the pits in time.
's key clue to solve the problem may be just an inconspicuous key, or a strange rule about handing over a mobile phone at a wedding.
Under the disrupted timeline, five lines advance simultaneously, giving the audience a sense of immersion like a puzzle.
The entire story network is woven more and more densely.
It is difficult to get close to the truth until the last moment.
Secondly, the theme of the series is "heartfelt".
The best suspense comes from reality and is hidden in people's hearts.
This drama, like "Dark Fire", is trying to explore more profound social issues and show deeper concern for human nature.
The male protagonist Fei Ke in the play has always been wandering on the edge of good and evil.
The story is actually a serial scam, trying to dig out the part of human nature exposed below the surface, the deepest hidden glacier.
A line in the play is meaningful: "If there is no greed and desire, how can scammers take advantage of it?"
Human nature is not black and white. Those who are deceived may not be good people, and those who deceive others may not only be evil.
As long as there is greed, there is no airtight wall when facing scammers.
Feike's scam may be so powerful because it releases what everyone desires most.
This is also a rare feature in domestic suspense dramas.
It is using Feike's scam to attract everyone into the game, telling you that no one can be deceived, unless you "want" to be deceived by your own inner desires.
It's no longer just about pointing out the answers to scams.
More importantly, let us see our real risks clearly.
There is money around everyone.
