iQiyi’s Mist Theater launched a suspense drama with almost zero publicity. "The Boy Who Can't See the Shadow" is directed by
Zhou Quan and starring Zhang Songwen and Rong Zishan.
After "The Hidden Corner", Zhang Songwen and Rong Zishan once again collaborated to renew the "father-son relationship".
has a total of 16 episodes. This type of suspense drama focuses on being exquisite and compact in structure, telling a complete suspense story in a small volume.
There are three timelines in the film, and the narrative mainly revolves around two cases.
The first line begins in 1984. Wang Shitu (played by Zhang Songwen)'s son Doudou and Jin Manfu's stepson Bian Jie (played by Rong Zishan) studied in the same kindergarten. While playing hide-and-seek, Doudou and Bian Jie changed clothes, and then were abducted and disappeared.
This incident directly rewrote Wang Shitu's life. Soon after, his wife passed away, and Wang Shitu began a long process of searching for his son. The focus of handling the case turned to human trafficking. He was focused on finding his son and had no intention of promotion. .
The second line takes place in 1993. In this year, three teenagers, Bian Jie, Wang Shuai, and Du Yi, went to the game arcade to play games and disappeared since then.
After the disappearance of three teenagers, Wang Shitu advocated looking for clues about human traffickers, while Officer Qin believed that it was probably a homicide, and eventually ended up digging up the body of a dog in the woods.
The third line is in 1996. Bian Jie, who had disappeared for 3 years, suddenly appeared.
Bian Jie saw someone stealing the wallet of a mother who was taking her child to the doctor. His response was to steal the wallet from the thief's pocket and secretly return it to the child's mother. As a result, he was caught in the process of returning it. , misunderstanding him as a thief.
During the dispute, Bian Jie's uncle recognized him and took him to the police station. Soon Bian Jie's sister Jin Yan came to recognize her brother and saw the scars on Bian Jie's arms and took him home.
However, Wang Shitu, an old detective with a keen sense of smell, found that Bian Jie was very suspicious.
Several doubts about Bian Jie are laid out in the play.
Bian Jie can’t remember the past. He wore size 44 shoes three years ago and now wears size 43. He used to drink wine as water, but now he can’t drink. His eating habits are also very different.
When Wang Shitu suggested that Jin Manfu take a paternity test, Jin Manfu refused.
The strange thing is that Jin Manfu and Jin Yan obviously know that Bian Jie is fake, but for some reason, they would rather make mistakes.
Not long after, another teenager Du Yi who disappeared three years ago also came back. What he told about the situation after leaving the game arcade was exactly the same as what Bian Jie told.
But this paragraph is obviously a lie told by the fake Bian Jie. For what purpose does Du Yi cooperate with Bian Jie to complete the lie?
What is the real identity of fake Bianjie? Why did Jin Manfu and his daughter accept Bian Jie enthusiastically even though they knew he was fake?
htmlWhat happened to the disappearance of three teenagers 3 years ago? Is Doudou’s disappearance 12 years ago related to Jin Manfu?The drama is carefully laid out and full of suspense, making people eager to know the truth of the matter.
In addition to the suspense that fills the screen, what is even more touching in the play is the display of family affection.
In the past, a family of three was laughing and having a good time. The style of the painting has changed. Now Wang Shitu is eating noodles alone, desolate and lonely. His expression changes from a smile to a sad one. Looking at the two empty bowls of noodles opposite, but with no more relatives, Zhang Songwen seems to be crying. The expressions of smiling, crying and laughing are particularly touching.
After the fake Bian Jie appeared, Wang Shitu kept staring at him. They had a relationship between soldiers and thieves at first. Wang Shitu tried to expose the truth that he was pretending to be Bian Jie.
However, as Wang Shitu got along with Bian Jie, he found that Bian Jie was a child with a kind nature.
Although the identity is fake, the emotion is real. When Bian Jie realized that his identity was about to be exposed, he went to the accountant to pay a month's salary, not for running away, but to buy gifts for his family before leaving.
had already escaped, but when he heard the news that Bian Meizhen was lost because of his departure, he hurried back and helped find Bian's mother.
not only had true feelings for Bian Meizhen, Bian Jie also risked his life to protect his sister Jin Yan and saved Wang Shitu's life.
Wang Shitu began to trust this child, believing that he would not do bad things, and once defaulted to him living as Bian Jie.
Moreover, Bian Jie has some similarities with his son Doudou, such as loving to eat noodles and drinking nutritious soup base after eating noodles, which made Wang Shitu involuntarily project a kind of fatherly love on him.
The family line between Bian Jie and his mother Bian Meizhen is particularly touching.
Bian Meizhen was grieving the loss of her mother. Suddenly she heard the news that her son was missing. She was greatly stimulated. From then on, she suffered from mental problems and was often confused.
After her son was lost, she could not face the reality and often went to pick him up at the gate of his school under an umbrella. Her memory always stayed on the rainy night when her son disappeared.
After Bian Jie came back, he did not go directly to meet Bian Meizhen. Instead, he went around to the school and walked out of the teaching building, so that his mother, who had been waiting for him for many years, picked up her son who came home from school.
It can be seen that Fake Bianjie is not only kind-hearted and affectionate, but also thoughtful and considerate.
The suspense is just a shell, but the main theme of this drama is family love.
At the end of each episode, the missing persons notices played are for children who have disappeared due to human trafficking.
At first glance, I thought they were children. But upon closer inspection, many of them were born in the 1990s, and now they are adults in their thirties.
Family ties of flesh and blood were stripped away from each other. Since then, relatives have been separated, and the road to find them is long. Decades have passed, and they are still not reunited. Thinking about those human traffickers, it is really hateful.
"The Invisible Boy" takes missing children as the subject and suspenseful cases as the main line. It focuses on the core of family love, father and son, mother and son, years of searching, endless waiting, and protection of loved ones. The longing for home is delicately and affectionately depicted, all of which stir up the tear ducts of the viewer and make them shed tears.
