| Author of Huxiu Youth Culture Group
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丨Zhazha County
"" new born " is unfinished!" The last episode of
has just been aired. It is the first suspenseful episode this year that is full of popular features. The TV series "Rebirth" was criticized and became a hot search topic.
is completely different from the compact and exciting first seven episodes. Starting from the eighth episode, the plot disfigures and slides towards boredom and mediocrity. It seems that it is another lame drama that has stumbled on the balance of review, wasting the expectations of viewers who have followed it since its launch.
But will a powerful drama with the theme of fraud really end so easily? Or perhaps, this inconsistent ending is the most successful deception in the entire film.
(The following content contains spoilers, please read with caution)
If you look at the director's name, you will know what story "Rebirth" is probably going to tell.
applied for the Olympics, directed " the beneficiary " and " all-or-nothing ", and is "far ahead" on the domestic anti-fraud track.
"Rebirth" is, as expected, centered on the word "liar". Five strangers were invited to attend the funeral of the same person, and then fell into Agatha's "Snowstorm Villa"-style dilemma.
A small island isolated overseas, with no transportation and no signal. Everyone had to follow the butler's instructions and tell their stories with the funeral hero "Feike". After the story is finished, the butler will read Feike's will and send everyone away.
I don’t know if I don’t tell you, but I will be shocked when I tell you. The five people discovered that they knew five completely different Feikes.
5 different WeChat accounts and 5 different identities. The only thing in common is that they all seemed to have been severely deceived by Fei Ke.
In front of the coal boss Chen Shufa, Fei was his son-in-law.
Brother Dahai is a high-achieving student. His father is an official from the Department of Earth and Mines. He is a well-matched family member. He is considerate and gentle to his daughter. He is like a son-in-law who can't be found even with a lantern.
One day, Fei Ke suddenly disappeared and defrauded him of 40 million yuan, causing his daughter Chen Jiajia to commit suicide due to depression.
In front of Cheng Hao, the vice president of the fund company, Fei is a "little kid".
A graduate of Chengjiang University's Department of Materials, he is a newcomer who has just entered the financial industry. He is smart and motivated, and he is knowledgeable and knowledgeable. He can take care of housework at home and is very dignified when he goes out. Cheng Hao acquiesces to him and moves into his mansion.
fee can take away 20 million yuan from him.
In front of Su Qian, the financial company of the pharmaceutical company, Fei is a hot young lover.
A graduate of the Mathematics Department of Chengjiang University, a rich young investor, full of youthful vitality and full of passion for love.
Fee not only defrauded her of her love and body, but also defrauded her of all her savings and temporarily misappropriated 10 million public funds.
In front of Zhang Xuaner, a salesperson at a plastic surgery salon, Fei Ke was her first love and ex-boyfriend.
is a senior in the Department of Information and Computing Science of Chengjiang University. He is a suave and a son of senior officials. He is not only good at studying, but also has a wide network of contacts.
Fei Ke didn't defraud her of her money, but he defrauded her of her "youth": for Fei Ke, she had plastic surgery, accompanied her to drinks, and mixed in society. Finally, she gave up the dance she once loved and interrupted her studies.
After everyone's stories were told, everyone compared the timeline and found out that there were no high-ranking disciples, no young and rich people, and only one resource transfer master:
Chen Shufa first met Fei Ke in a prime location. High-end large flat floor. The luxury car keys naturally scattered on the table and the tea leaves as a national gift that were not for sale inadvertently took out, all made him believe in Feike's "identity" even more. As everyone knows, the flat floor belongs to Cheng Hao, the luxury car belongs to Cheng Hao, and even the tea was given to Cheng Hao by others. Fei Ke just chose a day when Cheng Hao was on a business trip to borrow flowers and offer them to Buddha.
html You can invite Chen Shufa to visit the investment project for 0 fee. He went to the pharmaceutical company where Su Qian worked. It was like being in a deserted place because he had Su Qian's work badge.He is also Chen Shufa's son-in-law, Su Qian's boyfriend, and Cheng Hao's little brother.
The energy of the deceived person is fully "activated" in the hands of this time management master. He uses one person's resources to skillfully leverage the resources of another person, and moves freely in the gap between greed and fear.
It has been a long time since such a charming image of a liar appeared on domestic TV screens: steady, elegant, and at ease, giving everyone 100% focus and consideration, just like the most perfect lover in everyone's fantasy.
Such a handsome young man who can be both salty and sweet, who can attack and defend, makes the audience unable to help but be willing to fall: I don’t hate Fei Ke for cheating money, but I hate that I haven’t earned enough, and I can’t let him cheat me alone. . The first 6 episodes of
can be said to be a biography of a genius liar. But when the fifth invitee He Shan spoke next, the script turned to the second page where everyone changed.
Reporter He Shan obviously knows more than others. She throws out key evidence one after another and asks the victims whether they are really as innocent as they say.
It turned out that they were either greedy, conceited or full of lust. Rather than Fei Ke deliberately approaching, it was better to say that they rushed to swallow the fishhook because they "wanted something".
It turns out that Fei Ke became the son-in-law of the Chen family not because Chen Jiajia wanted to marry him, but because Chen Shufa coveted his "identity" and forced the daughter he loved to get married. Cheng Hao is ambitious, Su Qian is lonely and unbearable, and Zhang Xuan loves vanity. Everyone is both a victim and an "accomplice" in the tragedy.
fee is no longer the "high-level pure fraud warrior" who plays with all the good people, and has lost the aura of myth. He doesn't have any superb deception skills, nor does he have any identity that he can rely on. He just happens to appear next to people full of lust, is hurt by them, is used by them, and then turns around and makes a huge difference with a slight push.
All living beings suffer, and deception arises from the mind. What the film wants to say seems to be the old saying: a fly doesn't bite a seamless egg. In the first six episodes of
, everyone can be deceived by talking about fees. In the seventh episode, everyone is told about "cheating" Feike. The audience was fooled back and forth, and it was a Rashomon-style "good deception".
Seeing that suspense expectations are high, the last three episodes must be another climax and reversal. Unexpectedly, a "scam legend" suddenly turns to the legal channel without logic.
"It should be the law that punishes him, not lynching."
"We are not going to let Feike go, but hand him over to the law."
At this big gathering where everyone has their own agenda, when reporter He Shan suddenly When these words were spoken righteously, the audience laughed in anger. The sudden change in style is like the ending credits of "Fight Club."
If the first 7 episodes are an exquisite suspense feast, then the last 3 episodes are like changing a screenwriter to complete a political mission.
tells the story in two episodes. The reason why Fei Ke became Fei Ke was not because he was a born criminal or a fraudster, but because his native family was unfortunate and society did not give him a chance. The last episode of
talks about the liar Fei Ke repenting and dying to save He Shan, and all the other criminals were brought to justice.
is bright, correct, and lackluster, and the light of righteousness shines on the pit of the plot. The audience couldn't calm down for a long time after watching it. It was not shocking, but infuriating:
"This is a scam drama, right? The immersive experience has been deceived."
"I just finished watching the ending. I feel ok every minute and every second. There is time, wait, you have to reverse...
In the last 10 minutes, it’s okay, there is still a chance, you see, He Shan is not that simple
In the last 1 minute, He Shan will definitely write in the dark corner The real truth, with a wicked smile on the corner of the mouth, the whole picture began to reverse, and every detail was fueled by her...
Then nothing happened, and I was just like Li Zetian the day he heard the college entrance examination scores, and finally waited for Wenzong0 ."
Numerous feelings of disobedience swirled in my mind: Is it possible to go astray just because of a miserable childhood? Why did Fei Ke, who had cheated his whole life, suddenly want to change his ways? In a drama with all the villains, why did He Shan remain alone, from beginning to end? Like a detective NPC?
If the story ends here, then "New Life" will undoubtedly be unfinished.
But is it really that simple? In every fraud case, we will be warned repeatedly: If one If everyone knows about the violation, then there must be something wrong with it.
Never underestimate everyone's IQ, which is the ultimate weapon to defeat the scam.
This time, "The New Life" seemed to have a bad ending. The key to the hidden ending "true end".
The details of the solution are hidden in the sense of contradiction in the main film: Why is it that all the characters in the drama are evil, but only He Shan is clean from beginning to end? Because the writer of the story is He Shan.
History is a little girl who can be dressed up by anyone, and the final interpretation of the story lies in the hands of the writer of the story.
Various clues have already hinted that He Shan's reversal is the whole story. The most hidden mechanism.
The plot begins with He Shan receiving a call from Fei Ke and ends with He Shan typing the last word "(End)" on the computer. From the beginning to the end, the audience thinks they are watching from God's perspective. Everything is told from the perspective of He Shan.
Another small detail once again supports this point. After He Shan typed the word "(End)", a few lines of subtitles explaining the characters' future talks flashed on the screen. Then, the screen The two different "ends" of the film are officially announced. The first time is the end of He Shan's narration, and the second time is the real ending of the drama.
When telling the story with Feike, he lied and beautified himself intentionally or unintentionally. So did He Shan distort and beautify the facts in the story?
The most obvious flaw is in the ending of the episode. , she and Fei Ke once wrote their vows to enter college together with chalk on the rooftop of the school, but in the flashback at the end of the film, the wall where the chalk words were supposed to be written was actually empty.
If Lian Zui. The settings of childhood sweethearts at the beginning are all empty, so how credible is He Shan's story? The reason why many plots in the third episode of
are abrupt is because they may all come from lies: Does Fei Ke really have feelings for He Shan? Did he really die voluntarily saving her? And, does He Shan really have no reporting fee to take the exam?
The answer may be yes, or it may be that it all stems from He Shan's "obscenity".
Based on the original novel "Feike's Dinner", He Shan is the two sides of "Feike".
She is Feike's high school classmate, but they are not familiar with each other, especially Feike who doesn't think her existence is special.
"She is like the scattered poplar flowers in spring. Once he catches a glimpse of them, he doesn't know where they have fallen. He doesn't care about her existence."
The only special thing about He Shan is that she knows Fei Ke thoroughly. Because of his professional relationship, he had interacted with several people Fei Ke had deceived, but he had never exposed Fei Ke's lies to these people.
Over the years, she had met him on different occasions and heard different people talking about him. He came in and out of her life, as familiar as a neighbor across the door. She was used to it, and she had been watching this man's performance indifferently, watching how he pretended and how hard he worked to climb up.
did this because she, like Feike, was unwilling to accept and cursed mediocrity, and longed to get ahead. However, Fei Keng acted out those malicious fantasies with amazing shamelessness and courage, while He Shan stopped at mediocrity.
She chose to remain silent about all his evil deeds simply because she was curious about where he would end up. Everything he did was beyond her reach. If she had Feike's courage and shamelessness, she would definitely do the same thing.
In a sense, Feike is like another version of herself, born ordinary, but able to break through that barrier in the end. In a sense, Feike's success today was also created by her. She is the hero behind the scenes, the genius who directs all the good shows. How could she snuff out this unreconciled desire and talent from the very beginning—the qualities they both shared?
As a result, maintenance fees became He Shan's instinct, and speaking kindly for him was like speaking kindly for herself.
In the original work, out of similar intuition, Fei Ke had an insight into He Shan's mind, and developed goodwill towards this fellow traveler when he was dying of a terminal illness. So he called everyone together and told their stories in front of He Shan. This was Fei Ke's gift to He Shan, a good story.
There is no better gift for a reporter who longs for fame.
The "New Life" series has added many original plots, but He Shan has obviously retained the essence of the original work.
Hints about He Shan’s identity run throughout.
Looking at the main narrative timeline, the first person to lie in the whole drama is He Shan.
On the rooftop, she said to Fei Ke, who was still called Li Zerui at that time: "I told a white lie for the right purpose."
The opening scene is composed of a puzzle of faces of the main characters. The last puzzle portrait is not the protagonist Fei Ke, but He Shan.
Ever since she received a call from Feike at the beginning of the episode, her voice recorder was turned on from the beginning to the end.
In her narration, she seemed to have feelings for Fei Ke, but in fact she never reached out to save Fei Ke's life. After
Fei Ke was expelled from school due to the incident of taking a substitute exam, she ignored him. When Feike was in trouble at the steakhouse, she didn't help. When the senior student of the Financial Club questioned Fei Ke for pretending to be a student, she sat silently among the students of the Financial Club.
The only time the help fee can cover the list of mountaineering students is not so much concern, but more like hoping that he can lie for a longer time.
Many viewers complained that Zhou, who plays He Shan, is still the actor with the least satisfactory acting skills in this drama. She had a pale little face and interrogated others expressionlessly. She didn't look like a real person, but more like a stereotyped NPC who presided over the process in a script.
This may be intentional - she is not a flesh-and-blood He Shan, but a beautified and flawless He Shan hidden behind layers of words, an alienated "observer".
She never reported Fei Ke for the exam, nor did she cover up the scam for Fei Ke. She had no dark thoughts, and she never secretly laughed at the powerful people in the scam.
Because everything is a story written by her, a requiem for her kind.
In the easter egg of "Rebirth", Zhou Yiran responded positively to the interview camera:
"(He Shan) is not an NPC. It just makes everyone think that I am an NPC, but in fact I am the final boss. Because the story is in my writing, You can write whatever you want. "
The collapse in the second half of the story is the collapse of truth and logic. The flaws have already been secretly exposed, waiting for the keen audience to question.
Everyone has pros and cons, and everyone will be reversed, but He Shan's reverse is the thought palace that the brain regurgitates after the plot ends.
The whole play does not have a self-narrative perspective, so there is less evidence for verification and falsification. What the truth is will only exist in the imagination of the audience.
The only thing that is certain is that "Rebirth" is not a bad ending, but a script-killing game with a hidden ending played with the audience.
It's just that the hint was buried too deep and hidden too far, so much so that it almost escaped and got a scolding.
In any case, under the general trend of suspense and seriousness, I am still happy to see such a series. Simply tell a wonderful story and be naughty once in a while.
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