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At the Emmy Awards ceremony that ended in September, two dramas that Chengdu and I liked very much, "A Nightmare in the East City" and "Abandoned Soldier", won all the limited series except the best actor. awards. Among them, "Nightmare in the East City" won three awards for best female lead, best female supporting role and best male supporting role, while "Abandoned Soldier" won the most important limited series of the best drama. When we compare the two dramas, it is very interesting. Although they are all the most popular female themes at the moment, if "Nightmare in the East City" is about the self-salvation road of middle-aged failed women in a backward town; "Abandoned Soldier" is about the young people on the international stage. The self-deprecating journey of a successful woman.
The two heroines also have a knot in their hearts to be healed. In Dongcheng Nightmare, they are middle-aged and lost their children. , to repair this sense of loss and learn to reconcile with life.
"The Rear Wing Soldier"
【shortcoming】
1. Beth's character is too talented, and this kind of talent that is beyond the reach of the general public is naturally limited, so there is no deep empathy.
2. The scenes of addictive hallucinations are a little too beautiful, making Beth's inner demons appear a kind of arrogance close to "acting".
3. As a competitive work, about the rules and games of chess, the visual performance is not rich and diverse enough, and it is difficult to enter the game.
【advantage】
1. The emotional line is neat and tidy, it is a real heroine, and it is purely about the history of personal growth.
2. The emotional outlook is mature and three-dimensional, there are no scumbags or prostitutes. Every time her emotional relationship occurs, it is accompanied by her physical needs or spiritual needs. The screenwriter is not shy about "I want", showing a sincere desire to explore.
3. The last episode directly opened up the pattern. Under the international situation and the isolation state shrouded in the shadow of the epidemic, I was moved by echoes.
Derived topic: Beth and the janitor, and the relationship between Lennon and the primary school teacher in "My Gifted Girlfriend", do you still have contact with the former enlightenment teacher?
"Nightmare in the East City"
【advantage】
1. On the whole, it makes up for the shortcomings of "Abandoned Soldiers": grounded, anti-type, anti-climax, and anti-cool.
2. Character shaping: (1) The unconventional heroine shows the depression of a middle-aged woman who is in deep family, career and spiritual crisis, and shows it so bluntly and explicit, but allows you to see a trace of cuteness and vitality. ; (2) The vivid group play, like a spider web, unfolds Mel's family relationship and the interpersonal relationship of the town residents, and it is these habitual and secretive relationships that lead to the girl's death.
3. Story structure: (1) Mel, as the main line of the police chasing the murderer, and the sub-line of her struggling to unravel the knot are connected very naturally and organically, presenting a silent process of the disintegration of a family; (2) as Socialist reasoning, taking the murder case as the starting point, cut open the heart of the entire town. 4. Background setting: A declining town and a broken family form an intertextual relationship.
【shortcoming】
1. The setting of the murderer and the way to deal with the killing, although it got rid of the conventional routine, but accidentally entered another mode.
2. Even if Kate has abandoned her image in the play, she will still arrange for a young fresh meat to fall in love with her.
Derivative topic: the comparison between the rust belt of the United States and the northeastern region of China in criminal film and television works.
【Extended discussion】
From the fire of "Nightmare in the East City" and the removal of Renren's video, it is related to the copyright and traffic dispute between the official video platform and the wild subtitle group. - "I'm not proud of seeing pirated copies, but I'm ashamed of not being able to see genuine copies."
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[Some of the films mentioned in this issue]
Films: "Melrose", "It's All Right", "Send Me In The Sky", "My Gifted Girlfriend", "First Degree Fear", "Child Abuse Suspect", "American Beauty", "The Hunt", "Double Treasures Fighting the Devil", "The Virgin" "The Mountain", "Fireworks in the Day", "Undocumented Crime", "Double Detective", "The Mist Tracker", "The Coward" (adapted from the novel "Swallow"), "Flame on the Plain" (adapted from the novel "Moses on the Plain")
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