"The Boy Who Can't See a Shadow" has opened up a very new crime-solving track, and all the solving of the puzzle relies on the suspect's surrender. Before
there was Xiaoqi , then there was Lao Du and his son, and then there was Jin Yan. Everyone held a surrender number plate and said, "I, I, I did it."
This is not to say that the suspense attribute is weak. The first few episodes set up suspense at the beginning and have many attractive little hooks. In the middle, the puzzles are basically solved and the cards are revealed (if there is no big twist in the last four episodes), the follow-up will still be The entanglement between family affection and human nature.
Rather than focusing so much on "original suspense" as the core magic weapon of the play, it is better to say that it pays more attention to the human feelings under the surface of suspense, father and son, mother and daughter, blood relations and accidents, which are quite interesting.
comes and expands.
1. Lao Du and his son: the crime and punishment of the evil son of a poor family
These two fathers and sons are a typical sad old father and "evil son".
Lao Du, who works hard repairing cars on the street and treats guests warmly at home, is a bit sad about being lonely all year round and longing for a son in the world, and a bit down-to-earth working hard and living in a humble house.
is like a very familiar microcosm of a generation.
When Lao Du came on stage, he showed up at Wang Shuai's mother's stall and visited in the name of buying washing powder; they were two people who "wanted to get together" and had been acting as family members of the victim for several years. They were close to each other, but in fact, he had been hiding his murderous hatred from her.
(Even though Lao Du didn't know the specific situation three years ago, he also knew that his son was absconding in fear of crime rather than missing.)
You see, this "not telling" bloody thing gives the sad honest man a slightly different look. arc.
In the tenth episode, Lao Du tried to take the blame for his son and arranged for him to abscond from the country, but he couldn't bear his conscience, so he surrendered himself and tried to pretend to be "criminal for murder";
On the other hand, the son couldn't bear that his father would be imprisoned for the rest of his life, and finally Tell the truth about the murder.
’s son was idle and still owed loan sharks. He secretly took photos of Bian Jie’s sister’s back in the shower. During the dispute, he accidentally killed Wang Shuai. He then threatened Bian Jie, “You have to go under the knife like me. We are all grasshoppers on the same rope.” He was thinking that he could blame Bian Jie if there was a chance in the future.
The young man made one wrong step, lived on the edge, lived a bad life, had a ferocious mind, and behaved violently.
was discriminated against since he was a child because of his six fingers. He grew up in harm's way and failed to learn other methods, so he repaid the harm to the world at an early age.
In the end, he was influenced by his father's love and told the truth out of the love in his heart. He chose the latter between "Dad went to jail for me" and "I deserved it".
The evil boy still has not lost the last bit of conscience and humanity, and still cares about his old father. The mood setting is a bit stiff, the pace is also a bit slow, and some of the lines are too explicit, but the father and son are still embarrassing.
The old father is lonely and has nothing but flesh and blood, and is willing to feed his evil son like a poisonous wolf;
The evil son is ferocious and has no scruples, and finally turns back for the sake of family love. Is this rounding off the butcher's knife?
If their story doesn't have any twists in the future, it will be a cold yet warm story about crime and punishment.
2, Lao Jin and his daughter: Misplaced relatives and enemies
12 The wind of surrender has hit the Jin family. After Lao Du and his son competed for the only "surrender quota" for each family, Jin Yan also embarked on the "surrender" journey. 101” road (bushi).
The most depressing thing about her story is that the so-called "source of evil" in the relationship between the siblings is a misunderstanding that does not exist at all; it was an accident when she pushed Bian Jie and caused his head to hit a nail, which is the core "evil" of the conflict. The certificate is even more coveted by others.
The secretly photographed photo that was an important trigger of the conflict was indeed not taken by Bian Jie.
Bian Jie had just been coerced by Du Yi to hurt someone, and ran away in a hurry. He was confused and explained, "It's really not me," and was accidentally pushed to a nail on the wall, bleeding profusely.
In the past three years, Jin Yan didn't understand why Bian Jie did such a secret filming (and believed that he was not that kind of child), and lived in a long wait and guilt;
Only three years later did she know that she had indeed wronged her brother, and how could she feel so embarrassed? , Why should I be thankful for my sin, and why should I be ashamed?
Jin Yan and Bian Jie and Bian Meizhen are not related by blood, but they are family members in the true sense. Unfortunately, due to a strange combination of circumstances, they are separated by life and death, and the yin and yang of their siblings are separated.
In a sense, everyone in the play is "all evil", and no one is innocent.
Du has done a lot of bad things, Lao Du covers up, assists in absconding, and fakes surrender; Jin Yan accidentally hurts someone and commits perjury; Lao Jin is even involved in dangerous intentional homicides and poisons his wife all the time.
Xiao Qi was born in a den of thieves, Lao Wang In the trailer, Lao Jin was once pulled into the temptation of "I will help you find your lost son, and you will save my daughter" (this may not be true).
But most of the "evil people" in the story have evil deeds but no Shura intentions.
Especially Jin Yan Xiaoqi, rather than saying that their base color is black, it is better to say that they are drawn into the boundless fog and trapped in the turbulent waves.
had a bright heart, but he made a mistake in the dangerous shoal, and he was responsible for the crime, but he still had a bright moon in his heart.
But this is not the case with Jin Mantang’s character. It is known that his starting point in the storyline is still family love, but his deviated path is far wilder, darker and bloodier than others.
appears to be extremely kind, but in reality he is hypocritical and evil. In order to protect his daughter, he is suspected of killing his stepson and burying his body. He is also suspected of drugging his wife all year round to prevent her from recovering, leaving her in a state of unconscious living dead.
It was hard to tell for a while whether he was just an old father who would do whatever it took for his daughter, or whether he had his own Shura intention and performed the devil's song himself.
No matter which one it is, the two skins with strong contrast between good and evil, right and wrong, and black and white, are full of tension.
3. Lao Wang Xiaoqi: Father and son halfway, and the remaining survivors together
Lao Wang’s youngest son was lost, and he has been searching for it for many years without success;
Xiao Qi’s life experience is unknown, and he escaped from the den of thieves with a narrow escape.
After a trial and error between "soldiers and thieves", the two finally became the most compatible family.
were both lonely people before, but now they have become a warm and bright father and son.
There is no blood relationship, but there is the warmth of sharing the same destination.
The same goes for Xiaoqi, Bian Meizhen and Jin Yan. They started from the complicated situation of pretending to be family members and ended with the bond of "not blood relatives but better than family members".
are all poor people in this world who are bright and kind, but also have big shortcomings and big wounds.
Magnanimity meets each other with wounds, kindness embraces each other with tenderness.
(Although each had their own secrets at the beginning)
In the trailer, Lao Wang faces the same ultimate choice as Lao Jin: Should I do the wrong thing and get the right child?
That will probably be the ultimate torture of love and reason, the ultimate pain of the soul being torn in half between life and death.
In this sense, Lao Wang and Lao Jin may be a light and dark control group who are tit-for-tat and sympathetic to each other's pain points.
In the previous plot, Lao Wang, who lost his child, had a bowl of noodles, half-smiling, half-crying expressions, which made people moved. No matter how he faces it in the future, I believe Zhang Songwen will definitely There will be moving presentations. At the beginning of
, I joked that this was the "surrender 101 track." Rather than focusing on "active confession," it would be better to say that "The Boy Who Can't See a Shadow" focuses on a very unique story.
The boy who disappeared three years ago and the murder that was hidden three years later do not correspond to the "evil" of Shura Hell on earth, but correspond to the sadness of being drawn into the abyss despite having no intention of doing evil.
does not lock "he is a good guy/evil guy" in the factory settings, lock it with one click and never change it, but torture, pull, and test it in specific situations.
The separation between life and death is like a sea of blood, but there are relatives and old thoughts that are as warm as spring flowers.
