Audiences who like to watch crime suspense movies, I believe that everyone does not know the name of director Cao Baoping. Everyone must have watched his " The Sun Burns the Heart", " The Chaser Also " and "Walking through the Angry Sea". Have or heard of it.
Now, the first ruthless drama of the year produced by Cao Baoping is here! It is the 16-episode online drama " Bianshui Past Events ".
The director of "Bianshui Past" is one of the directors of the famous time-space cycle online drama " begins " produced by Noon Sunshine in 2022.
"Once Upon a Time on the Edge of Water" premiered for 4 episodes. I watched it all in one go. It was fun, but I felt a little tired, because each episode of the show is about an hour long, so you can watch it to your heart's content in one sitting.
The story of "The Past on the Bianshui" takes place in a no-no zone in Southeast Asia, called Sanbiangpo, which should correspond to the Golden Triangle.
Domestic young Shen Xing (played by Guo Qilin ) comes here to find his uncle Shen Jiandong (played by You Yongzhi), and wants to follow his uncle in his career.
Shen Xing was raised by his uncle, so this uncle is almost equivalent to his father.
As soon as Shen Xing arrived, he met his uncle who was in big trouble.
My uncle’s project contractor suddenly disappeared. My uncle could not get the money and could not pay the workers. So my uncle drove alone and took the risk to find the contractor to ask for money. As a result, there was a war there and my uncle could not come back for the time being.
Shen Xing, who is kind and happy with success, in order to allow the workers to receive their wages in time to go home for the New Year, he took it upon himself to use all the construction machinery and equipment of his uncle's company as collateral and borrowed 1.2 million yuan from Brother Bazi to provide The workers were paid their wages and promised to repay 1.32 million in one month.
But Brother Bazi came early to press for debts. Shen Xing had no choice but to take Ang Tun's car to find his uncle, but in fact he fell into Ang Tun's trap.
Ang Tun had long wanted to kill Dan Tuo (played by Jiang Qilin) who was under Uncle Guai ( Ng Zhenyu ), so he had thought ahead and asked Shen Xing to help him. But because it was Dantuo's younger brother Maungba who was negotiating with him that day, the person who died became Maungba, and Shen Xing was framed as the murderer of Maungba.
Finally, Shen Xing took the initiative to find Uncle Guai, but was stabbed by Uncle Guai and thrown into the water.
Uncle Guai appears to be ruthless, but in reality he is merciful.
Later, because Shen Xing was threatened with death, he refused to drag Dan Tuo into the water. Uncle Guai admired Shen Xing's kindness and loyalty and praised him for "not selling people with a gun in front of him."
Dantuo originally wanted to sell Shen Xing, but after hearing Uncle Guai talk about Shen Xing’s loyalty, he also decided to keep Shen Xing.
Uncle Guai promised that he would repay all the loan sharks owed by Shen Xing on behalf of Shen Xing. The condition was that Shen Xing would pay off the debt with work until the debt was paid off in three years, and then he would be freed.
From then on, Shen Xing became a "running around" driver.
The so-called "bianshui" are people who traffic drugs or transport daily necessities for drug dealers.
Uncle Guai has a principle. He only does business of delivering daily necessities to drug dealers and does not touch drugs.
So, under the guidance of Dan Tuo, Shen Xing began to run on the edge of the water, and began his thrilling and wonderful three-slope adventure.
Each episode of "Bianshui Past" has a theme, including "Henghuo", "Bianshui", "Open Stone", "Puppet Show", "Pigeon Blood Red", "Cow", "Slaughter", "Tapir", etc. The audience can follow Shen Xing, adventure, curiosity and experience All kinds of weird people and things about monsters, monsters, monsters and the Golden Triangle.
"Once Upon a Time on the Bianshui" is worthy of being produced by Cao Baoping. The picture is of movie quality, and the details of life and characters in it are very rough and true to real life. Of course, the original violence and gore in Cao Baoping's movies are also indispensable. element.
Moreover, the play can be said to have brought together dozens of "ruthless" actors from domestic entertainment, plus Wu Zhenyu, one of Hong Kong's "Four Villains".
These ruthless actors, including Li Xiaochuan, Zhao Jun, Jiang Qiming, Song Jiateng, Liu Yang, Gan Yuchen, Zhou Zhengjie, Wang Xiaomu, Wang Haitao, Yin Ziwei, etc., can be said to have gathered all the actors in major film and television dramas. A ruthless character actor.
There are also decent actors and veteran actors like You Yongzhi, and prime supporting actors in movies like Wang Xun.
Guo Qilin, who plays the male lead, looks much thinner than in " Celebrating More Than Years 2". His image is much more refreshing and neat, and he looks more pleasing to the eye.
After watching 4 episodes, I feel that Guo Qilin's acting skills are really good, and his image is originally more suitable for this kind of little character with a bit of joy and cleverness.
Guo Qilin brought to life the character of Shen Xing, who is kind and affectionate, curious and ignorant, quick to adapt, but also prone to being clever.
I believe everyone has watched a lot of anti-drug dramas about the Golden Triangle. Most of them show everything from the perspective of God or the police. Like "Once Upon a Time on the Edge of Water", you can look at and discover this from the perspective of a civilian. Dramas like this one, which depict the appearance of all living beings in a place called Sanbiangpo, are really novel and rare.
This "Once Upon a Time on the Edge of Water" is not like those crime movies set in a Southeast Asian country in the past two years. It only pursues the so-called suspense and reversal, and just wants to catch people's attention, but loses the story itself. Realistic logic basis.
"Past by Bianshui" allows us to follow Shen Xing's footsteps and eyes to discover, experience, explore, feel, and think about the strangeness of this foreign and dangerous environment and the various situations in the world, the good and evil of human nature, and how people feel. It is particularly real, delicate and fresh, with a wonderful balance of adventure and life flow.
This is a truly good work of realism, a groundbreaking new short suspense series type for domestic entertainment.Without further ado, let’s watch the show together!
(Text/First Drop of Dew)
