Author | Zhou Enze
On an ordinary winter morning, Yang Yuan's 9-year-old son, Yang Mo, disappeared bizarrely in the corridor of a residential building... With the exciting story of the disappearance in the corridor and the multi-faceted portrayal of social humanity, the film has ended recently. The suspense drama "Gone Child" once again set off a suspense fever.
"The Disappearing Child" is adapted from a high-scoring mystery novel, adding children's perspectives to the plot, showing the various forms of ordinary families with overlapping suspense lines and life-oriented narrative techniques, arousing the audience's feelings about the original family, parent-child Multiple tortures of social issues such as relationships and women living alone.
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Three cases, four groups of families, start the "script kill" puzzle solving
Who is the child? Why disappear out of thin air? Where does it disappear? "Gone Child" begins with a disappearance case, involving various intersections between mysterious people and key time and space. The overall story line of does not have thrilling and exciting lane chases, nor does it lay out turbulent light and dark battles, but completes the narrative in the life scenes of the family and neighborhood.
In the early morning of the winter solstice, nine-year-old son Yang Mo disappeared mysteriously in his own corridor, breaking the peaceful life of Yang Yuan and his wife Tao Fang, a resident of Qinglanyuan Community 401, and everything was inseparable from his neighbors. Yuan Wu, an "overaged child", was infected with the bad habit of gambling. After facing the sudden death of his father, he chose to hide the body to defraud the pension. Yuan Wu's landlord, Lin Chuping, is a single woman who was raped by a stranger who broke into her bedroom one night. 302 Resident Xu Enhuai and Yang Yuan's family have close contacts, and although he and his father Xu Anzheng depend on each other for life, they each have their own secrets, and there are gaps.
"The Disappearing Child" takes Yang Mo's disappearance as the main line, connecting the other two clues of Yuan Wu and Lin Chuping. Looking closely at the three cases in a building, Yang Mo's case was the mysterious "disappearance" of the child, Lin Chuping's case was the criminal's mysterious "appearance", Yuan Wu's case was the "invisibility" of the father's body in the house, three. The cases are intertwined, and the four groups of families are connected, which finally leads to the secret of this building. In the story, everyone's experiences are like ripples on a calm lake, and their trajectories overlap to form a life drama about the good and evil of human nature.
"Gone Child" continues the story frame of the original "Sea Anemone", combining suspense and characters in a similar way to script killing. At the beginning of the investigation, no one was completely innocent, and everyone had a motive for committing the crime. Only when the key evidence surfaced could the ins and outs of the case be completely pieced together. The case of Yang Mo's disappearance is full of doubts and the truth is confusing. Even the most trusted parents cannot completely rule out the suspicion. The marriage crisis of Yang Mo's parents makes the audience have to doubt the possibility of deliberately hiding their children, especially when it is discovered that Yang Yuan is stealing to buy a ticket. when I brought my son home. The policeman Zhang Ye brought his own "microscope" and started a round of evidence search like a script killing a player, excluding suspects from various clues and finding out the real culprit behind the scenes.
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First-person monologue, complete a love redemption
In addition to setting suspense, "Gone Child" pays special attention to the emotional connection of the characters, fully revealing their complex and changing inner world, and enhancing the sense of reality of each character. Specific to the film and television adaptation, in the play, the cause and effect of the whole story is explained through the back-and-forth timeline, the first view switching and inner monologue of the main characters of , which in turn shape the characters' distinct character traits and character relationships.
Each episode of "The Disappearing Child" begins with a character's self-report, and uses different perspectives to piece together the time "puzzle" before and after Yang Mo's disappearance. The seemingly scattered off-site information connects key clues little by little, forming a mutual influence A network of relationships that intersect with destiny.
Yuan Wu was originally a graduate of a famous university with perfect marks in mathematics, but unfortunately suffered from neurosis , and was addicted to gambling, causing his wife and children to be separated and destitute. A person who ruins a good hand will only make more mistakes with one mistake. Such a gloomy life fills the suspenseful atmosphere of the whole drama, and people can't help but speculate that Yuan Wu is suspected of committing the crime. However, the conversation with the proprietress made him realize the expectations of his parents for him, and seeing Yang Mo's innocence reminded him of the happy time with his parents when he was a child. The intentional or unintentional warmth of the people around him gave him the power to save himself. to make the right choice. The trauma of the landlord Lin Chuping is also gradually healed under the care of love. The relationship with her colleague Wu Jun has changed from suspicion to trust, walking hand in hand.
A large amount of emotional foreshadowing makes "Gone Child" not stop at suspense, but closer to life captures the audience with delicate and mindful acting skills. Added rationale for their respective behavioral shifts.
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reflects the original family and parent-child relationship issues, triggering realistic torture
" chicken ", doting, sexual assault, middle-aged anxiety... "The Disappearing Child" will integrate the current hot topics of suspense into the plot. The three clues of Yang Mo's disappearance, Yuan Wu's defrauding of his pension, and Lin Chuping's late-night attack carry reflections on the real context of the original family, parent-child relationship, and self-examination. Yang Mo, Xu Enhuai, and Yuan Wu grew up in three different families, but none of them had anything to do with happiness. The audience of looked at the life dilemma of everyone in the play like holding binoculars, whether it was full of chicken feathers, or painful and helpless, no matter whether it was resonant or not, they would always extend their own understanding.
Yang Mo's parents, Yang Yuan and Tao Fang, are not only tired of their livelihood and family, but they are always quarreling over the way their children are educated, and they are even on the verge of divorce. Yang Mo, who suffers from ADHD, wants to keep pets, quit hobby classes, and go out to travel, all of which are ignored by his parents. All his wishes are to get the care of his family; Busy with work and absent from his own growth. From a single-parent family, she is especially envious of the noisy Yang Mo family, unlike herself who always sits in the corridor alone; Yuan Wu, who has been taking care of everything by her parents since childhood, is a doting "giant baby". Loss of independence makes it difficult to integrate into society like other adults. Several groups of families have their own problems, and the parent-child relationship and educational methods involved especially echo the social reality, which can arouse the audience's extensive thinking. The main creative team deliberately looked for the real old community, and added a bit of life quality through many detailed designs. The compact and chaotic pyrotechnic atmosphere of Yang Yuan's house and the empty and tidy furnishings of Xu Enhuai's house also form a sharp environmental contrast, setting off the two completely different daily states and inner miniatures.
As a 12-episode short play, "The Disappearing Child" clearly lays out multiple clues and suspense, multiple groups of characters and families, and emotional connections with each other, and successfully answered the key question of "how did the child disappear" . Behind the suspense narrative that is close to life, through the shaping of various characters, it conveys the torture of social issues such as family education, middle-aged dilemma, and disadvantaged groups, which shows its true power and society in many suspense dramas of the same type. value.
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