author | Beibei
editor | mia
In recent years, suspense film and television works have attracted much attention. Hidden human nature, dusty unsolved cases, long waits, and acquaintance society are all regarded as important elements and integrated into suspense works, winning many awards. Audience love and praise. Recently, Youku's "White Night Theater" launched a new work " new ". The play begins with the death of the protagonist Fei Ke. Through the narration of five "scam victims" at the memorial service, Fei Ke's life is unfolded in a puzzle style. , tells a Rashomon story about human nature.
"New Life" currently airs 5 episodes, almost every episode has a twist. According to the storyline in "Rebirth", the male protagonist was obviously offline in the first episode, but in later episodes it was discovered that the deceased male protagonist was paying his former victims. This unexpected plot can't help but arouse the curiosity of the audience. Is the male protagonist Fei Ke dead? What secret is he hiding? Why use different identities and images to reach different people? Just like the hot comment on Douban said: Intelligent Brain will recognize the role of Fei Ke, he can move between different scams with ease.
It is reported that the director and screenwriter of "Rebirth" won the Olympic bid last year and won the summer box office champion " or ". After half a year, what kind of market will this suspense drama "Rebirth" with anti-fraud elements have? Performance? Before Youku's "White Night Theater", " dim fire " has launched its first shot. Can it continue the popularity of the theater? As a social mystery suspense drama with anti-fraud elements, how can you differentiate yourself in your Olympic bid? Here we take a closer look.
"High EQ" criminals vs. imperfect victims, how can a suspense drama not reduce intelligence?
In "Rebirth", Fei Ke can have multiple characters wandering around different people. He is the young and promising son-in-law of wealthy businessman Chen Shufa; Cheng Hao is a sincere and reliable industry junior; Su Qian is a handsome and romantic sweetheart; Zhang Xuan In the eyes of He Shan, he is a veteran in love; in He Shan's eyes, he is a childhood sweetheart who suddenly visits. Fei Ke takes advantage of the subjective cognitive limitations of different people to make people fall into the trap step by step without knowing it. It can be said to be a rare "high IQ crime" in domestic suspense dramas.
fee can use the resources of financial executive Cheng Hao to go to a charity auction to pursue the rich second generation Chen Jiajia, portray himself as a highly educated turtle, and then use Cheng Hao's house to impress his future father-in-law Chen Shufa. Chen Jiajia thinks that Fei can pursue It's him, but he doesn't know that his real purpose is his father.
Is it so easy to deceive a rich girl who grew up in fine clothes? When Fei Ke handled Chen Jiajia, he grasped the details and emotions in place. First of all, Fei Ke pays attention to detailed descriptions in casual conversations. He does not boast about his high degree from Columbia University, but describes his life insights. This can be seen in the third episode of Fei Ke’s communication with financial executive Cheng Hao. After finding the "certificate", the audience suddenly realized that his forged character had real material, and they also understood why he could be so detailed.
Secondly, he continued to provide emotional value to Chen Jiajia, and even retreated to make progress. Fei Ke told Chen Jiajia: "If your father is dissatisfied with me, I can break up with you." This play of hard to get directly played on Chen Jiajia. Not only did Chen Jiajia not break up. , and even had a showdown with his father. In fact, in psychology, there is a principle of smaller interests, that is, in an intimate relationship, whoever shows no concern will easily gain dominance. Fei Ke gets what he wants step by step through Chen Jiajia's emotional dependence.
It's not a big deal to take advantage of a rich girl who has just entered the society. Fei Ke won the recognition of the rich girl's father and defrauded a self-made rich generation of 40 million. His tricks can be described as "one-upmanship".
First of all, Fei Ke knew that if he wanted to deceive the rich generation and entrepreneur boss, he would definitely not be able to rely on the output of emotional value. He had to identify the most vulnerable link in the chain of human nature. Chen Shufa's weakness was that he had a history of non-compliance in business. at. Because of non-compliance, wealthy businessmen are afraid of becoming officials based on superficial logic. Fei Ke took advantage of this and used Cheng Hao's resources to create an image of a second-generation official for Chen Shufa, which successfully aroused Chen Shufa's greed and made him feel that it was profitable to get into this good in-laws.At this time, Chen Shufa did not know that all the gifts given by fate had already been secretly marked with prices.
Just a few months after Fei Ke and Chen Jiajia got married, Fei Ke defrauded Chen Shufa of 40 million? Why Fei Ke was able to gain Chen Shufa's trust in a short period of time is actually related to Chen Shufa's subconscious bias of "preferring boys over girls". When Chen Shufa and Fei Ke's mother were having dinner, they said that they hoped that Chen Jiajia would "give birth to a boy in the future, and the boy would be successful!" It can be seen from various details that Fei Ke greatly satisfied Chen Shufa's psychological needs, playing golf with him, eating, drinking, and having fun, and helping him with his affairs. Regarding business matters, Chen Shufa quickly treated Fei Ke as his own son, trusting him even more than his own daughter.
It is worth mentioning that when bids for the Olympic Games, the construction method of dissolving the victim and the perpetrator makes the character image richer. Justice and evil are not simply reflected in one character. The perpetrator and the victim are no longer The flat construction eliminates the black and white construction model between characters. As the plot continues to unfold, the victim Chen Shufa had an ulterior secret in his early business life, and tried to use his daughter's marriage to consolidate his business territory. The victim becomes the perpetrator, which further enhances the suspense of the character.
Fractured narrative reveals the mystery. Why can suspense dramas allow audiences to break their defenses?
suspense dramas have returned to the audience's horizons after a period of silence. Many works such as "Start", "The Vanishing Child", "Moses on the Plain", and "Dark Fire" have won widespread attention. Today's suspense dramas have new explorations in suspense settings. The suspense plots of "Rebirth" are based on the exploration of human nature and real life. There is neither a deliberately "bloody thriller" nor a forced Decrease wisdom. Financial executive Cheng Hao is actually more difficult to deceive than the "nouveau riche" wealthy businessmen. He is highly educated, has a high IQ, and has been around for many years. Is it difficult to be fooled by the so-called information gap? How did Fei Ke impress Cheng Hao?
Watching the drama carefully, it is not difficult to find that Fei Ke appears as a prey every time he cheats. From beginning to end, Fei Ke always appeared as a weakling in front of financial executive Cheng Hao. When they met for the first time, Fei Ke created a chance encounter in the business class of the airplane and established himself as a graduate who had just changed careers, naive, green and a little humble. Fei Ke couldn't get a business class flight meal because of points upgrade. Cheng Hao stepped in to help him out. When the two met for the first time, Cheng Hao appeared as a "senior" and a "benefactor", while Fei Ke had no purpose. , so that Cheng Hao was able to quickly establish a good impression.
Fee Ke lied that the rental house was leaking and rented it to Cheng Hao's house. He was considerate and considerate, kept Cheng Hao's home in order, took on all the housework and ironed all the clothes without any regrets. In addition, as a fraudster with high emotional intelligence, Fei Ke is even more studious than ordinary people and knows a little bit about financial knowledge. He humbly learns from Cheng Hao and listens to his lectures, which satisfies Cheng Hao's side of being a teacher.
When Fei Ke wanted Chen Jiajia and his daughter to come to Cheng Hao’s house for dinner and Cheng Hao almost broke it, Fei Ke would show weakness and say, “My parents come from a small place and are relatively conservative. They can’t explain why I live with a man. Together, I want to make my parents think that I am as good as you." Cheng Hao instantly understood and sympathized with him. The image of the benefactor brought a strong sense of satisfaction to Cheng Hao, and he was always immersed in the superior person's sense of superiority.
When Cheng Hao thought that Fei Ke was an indispensable person in life, he relaxed his vigilance, and the two jointly opened a rat warehouse to make profits. Fei Ke ostensibly shouldered the risk of violation for Cheng Hao, but actually took out the money during Cheng Hao's business trip. Empty his 20 million principal.
What’s so clever about Feike’s deception is that the victims simply don’t dare to call the police after they know they’ve been deceived. Fei Ke has mastered the illegal business secrets of wealthy businessmen, and also knows that once Cheng Hao calls the police, his job will probably be lost due to illegal operations, and they can only choose to be dumb and eat Huanglian.
Fei Ke not only studies hard on financial knowledge, but also works hard on art.In order to make his eldest sister Su Qian fall in love, Fei Ke was willing to go to the art exhibition one day in advance and recite all the knowledge points to her. The wonderful thing is that Fei Ke also told Su Qian about this well-intentioned deception. For Su Qian, what moved her heart was not Fei Ke's talk in the art museum, but his sincerity in telling this story. In the end, Su Qian took the bait.
In "Rebirth", the human weaknesses of every ordinary person become the beginning of a scam. The high-end deception of high-intelligence crimes not only opened the audience's eyes, but also launched introspection. Compared with ordinary suspense films, "Rebirth" gives the audience a strong sense of immersion. There are many people like "victims" in life. They are easily deceived by their so-called "seeing is believing" and give scammers an opportunity to take advantage of them. opportunity. The wealthy businessman obviously had the opportunity to find out Feike's family background, so why did he make such a stupid mistake? Why do financial executives with anti-fraud awareness dare to operate illegally? Perhaps when they were getting along with Feike, Feike had always shown the image of continuous giving before giving the final fatal blow. People tend to relax their vigilance when accepting constant overtures.
"Rebirth" adopts the Blizzard Villa mode. Every other episode, new characters appear on the stage. The plots are interlocking and make people want to stop. In suspense dramas, the fractured narrative sequence can appropriately suspend suspense and stimulate the audience's curiosity. For example, "The Lost Children" uses flashbacks, interludes and other methods to cleverly interweave missing child cases, corpse hiding cases and sexual assault cases, giving new clues to different cases in multiple retracements, giving the audience a sense of Suspected omniscient perspective; "Coward" uses a three-line parallel narrative method to tell the story plots in three time and space in 1999, 2001 and 2011. The clever scene transitions give the audience an unexpected impression; in "Rebirth", in the first episode, the deceased young man Fei Ke becomes the Jackie Chan quick son-in-law that the wealthy businessman is proud of in the second episode, and in the third episode and In the fourth episode, different identities are unlocked, and the audience has high expectations for the unpredictable fate of the characters.
At the same time, the play truly reaches the level of social reasoning works. Feike seemed to have deceived everyone, but without exception, these victims were not willing to take the bait. The victims narrated their stories from their own perspectives. Did they lie during their narration? What other unknown sides are hidden in the story? This drama is worth continuing to explore.
