China traditional culture pursued the murderer 12 years.

"Just because something you once owned was taken away doesn't mean that you will go back to the era without it." -Keigo Higashino.

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This sentence is meaningful, not only with the color of "never going back to the past", but also with the argument that "the future is unpredictable". This is probably the case with Lian Zhou, the protagonist in A Long Farewell.

Although the name is mild, it is actually a very "hard" suspense drama. Two things attract me. One is hunting, and the time span is 12 years. The other is a hero. The student who undertakes the task of "chasing the murderer" is a college graduate.

Students who haven't graduated, and 12? How is this done? This is why it is an interesting place in The Long Farewell.

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The story happened in a small town in the south. The murder of a female student involves many characters, and the protagonist Lian Zhou is one of them. He is the victim's boyfriend.

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On the one hand, he regrets that his girlfriend was killed, and he can't wait to catch the murderer. On the other hand, he began to blame the police for failing to catch him, so he finally decided to go to the ancient town to find clues himself.

The story begins with him, only because of the temperament of a teenager.

In order to change his weak body, he learned to fight from scratch; In order to stay in the ancient city for a long time, he rented a shabby house. In order to meet more people, he found a part-time job at a gas station and delivered gas door to door.

But do you think he has become "Batman for the poor"? That is wrong. The style of the play is tough and realistic, just like Zheng Yi, a policeman played by Yin Fang in Better Days, said, "You and I can't, but they are still teenagers." Give a reasonable explanation for the motivation of the previous "nonsense".

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Of course, Lian Zhou is not a teenager, this word is just a title, but he is not much better than those children aged 65,438+07 and 8. From graduating from high school to entering the university, although he is physically an adult, he has not been exposed to society in the relatively independent environment of the university. In the eyes of Michael's policeman, the hero is still a child.

The protagonist went to the ancient city with a mentality of "suspicious neighbors stealing axes", which made him investigate all the people he thought were suspicious, and thus led to the stories of the previous episodes, which were carried out in a tragic and scarred chase.

Being brave on a rainy night, I accidentally saved a middle-aged man who was down and out in an alley, and then investigated the missing female college students, even involving my roommate.

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The audience followed this young and amateur "detective" and witnessed his failures and injuries again and again, and witnessed the unknown stories hidden in the streets and in broad daylight, thus showing the audience all kinds of vivid bottom marginal figures.

This is the passion of a simple teenager. You beat me. As long as I don't die, I'll beat you all up if I have the chance. As for the rest, I won't consider it. This is of great benefit to the release of audience's emotions mentioned in the plot. There are a lot of grievances. Who doesn't want to vent it in person? Therefore, it also brings out the style and tonality of the play, which is realistic and tough.

Although the hero has a baby face, it is this sense of contrast that he wants.

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In addition, "growth" is also one of the themes in the first half of the play. After all, it is not enough to rely solely on resentment and obsession. Therefore, another aspect of the play's style is "tragic", because it is human nature to temper one's will in a fiasco. But it's not that your fighting spirit is getting stronger and stronger, and your thinking is getting more and more flexible. This is called growth.

However, unlike traditional crime works, the director did not deliberately pursue strong drama conflicts or create heroic images, but paid attention to depicting the mental journey of the characters. Therefore, under such conditions, it is particularly important to shape the role.

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Because in the beginning, Lian Zhou didn't have a complete world outlook structure. His world only had pure love and hate, just to avenge his girlfriend and do what he thought was right.

It can be seen that at the beginning of the story, all his motives seemed to be joking, but I didn't expect the incident to develop wrongly.

With his real participation in the case and related events, his world outlook is also expanding and improving bit by bit. He can gradually realize the influence of his actions on the development of the parties and events, gradually discover the unknown side of the world, and gradually learn the sense of responsibility and responsibility. He began to know how to cooperate with the police and began to follow the steps, not just by blood. He must protect others and himself. This is growth.

When we thought this pattern would run through, after the eighth episode, the play took a turn for the better, this time it was 12.

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As a teenager, it was because of his good memory that he magnified many things and saw the world in the way he thought was right. This is why Lian Zhou is such a one-track-minded "steel-toed doll".

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The advantage of growing up is "poor memory."

We have seen more cases, all of which have gone through too long a cycle, leading to time diluting everything at the beginning, such as the memory of killing.

Therefore, it is very special to meet Lian Zhou in Farewell. Originally, his wayward behavior made reality give him several social lessons and let him grow up gradually. However, just as he gradually accepted the social baptism and completed the transformation, his head was hit hard and he became a vegetable. It was not until 12 years later that he realized that things had changed. Only he "has not changed."

That's good. The age has increased and the times have changed, but the mentality is still 12 years ago. When everyone forgot the original case, only he was the high-spirited "teenager".

Therefore, the drama is not very prominent in the complexity of the case, that is, a "headless case", but in the story, a number of individual cases are intertwined, and the length of 12 years brings a sense of fatalism. 、

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Because 12 years ago, when he was chasing the murderer, he was involved in various social marginal existence and participated in one incident after another, which had a decisive impact on the incident. 12 years later, he woke up and "returned to his old job" and faced these people and things again after many years. The sense of shock brought by things is not human, so let him further reflect on what he has done and what different significance he has brought to his own life and that of others.

"Farewell" takes the male master Lian Zhou's coma as the watershed. With the development of the story, Yin Chao Lianzhou gradually grew from a young and frivolous teenager to a steady, calm and thoughtful adult.

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Don't forget, besides Lian Zhou, there are other main lines in the play, such as the policeman played by Michael and Yin Chao, the brother of the victim Yin Lu played by Purba Rgyal. The former, as a guiding force, standardized Lian Zhou's behavior with standard criminal investigation means, while the latter was imprisoned to save her sister and became Lian Zhou's supporting force after she was released from prison.

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This serial murder case, which spanned 12 years, changed the lives of many people involved in a period of time. Several people who have been bound by this case for more than 10 years, through this comparison, people are even more embarrassed about their own destiny.

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To put it bluntly, 12 years has passed, and the clues of the case have not faded, but have become closer under the impetus of this "mature teenager". The span of 12 years and the obsession with the original case interweave the relevant characters in a net of fate, forming a fatalistic causal chain with strong tragic color.

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The long farewell is limited by the expression of authenticity, and there are no detectives in the play, which is the characteristic of social reasoning works. In other words, even if the social reasoning works are like the thoughtful character Yukawa in Suspect X, his task is only to guide the audience to discover the people and things behind the case.

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In this play, they are just ordinary people driven by obsession.

So Farewell is a typical social reasoning work, which pays attention to the analysis and description of human nature. Therefore, the presentation is often full of life breath. Through the large-scale shoulder-shaking lens, you can feel the humid atmosphere of the southern town, and you can also feel it through the screen. Directors want to create a real world, and they are all living people.

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China people have a local complex, and this kind of environmental display rooted in the soil of primitive culture can naturally make the audience have a cordial realistic atmosphere, which creates an atmosphere of "killers are ordinary people around them".

In terms of plot structure, Farewell follows the creative principle of weak plot and strong connection, and is a common creative technique in social reasoning. Twenty-two stories are used to trace a case, and the people involved in the murder case are also involved in other cases. After the cases were interspersed, more and more characters were drawn, and these characters were woven into a big net. What is captured in the internet is our overall social environment, and the two sides are playing in a dilemma.

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And in order to strengthen the role, the story expresses the feelings of the characters more deeply, increases the weight of emotions in the story, and makes it a driving force to promote the development of the story. For example, Lian Zhou saved the girl on a rainy night. She adores each other and follows in Lian Zhou's footsteps. The ending was awkward.

Everything in the story reflects and shapes their hearts. Each character has distinct characteristics, such as loneliness, paranoia and passion for revenge; The police are considerate, meticulous and contradictory; And the cruelty, gloom and indifference of adults who commit crimes on rainy nights.

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It can be seen that the suspense in the play is just a container, but it is integrated into a richer and more textured social reality. Multi-line narrative, cross-influence, parallel advancement, under the entanglement of human nature and social stress response, the puzzle itself seems to become insignificant. Before and after 12, the situation is different. The shadow and subjective function of human nature itself are infinitely magnified. The closer to the truth, the more cruel it means. He can't go back to that childish period.

The driving force of all this is this consistent teenager around 12.

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Therefore, a wonderful suspense drama should be rooted in the soil of real society, with practical significance and personalized expression. A Farewell is not the type of mystery drama with strong plot that we thought, but it is neither urgent nor slow, and it is very calm. Tells a 22-episode story, with a time span of 12 years. The essence of the play is not to let the audience participate in a confusing process of solving crimes, but to bring the audience into the whirlpool of the story and feel the hearts of the characters in the play.

"Being a teenager after coming back" probably applies to the hero of the play.