Maybe a lot of drama critics will analyze the suspense laying of this drama or the narrative tricks. I think this drama is not only an excellent suspense drama, but also a "chicken soup drama" that explores life.
Why do you say that?
Through several groups of characters and their relationships, this play throws out an interesting proposition: How do you say goodbye to the past? When an unbearable label is affixed to you, how do you start over?
And this proposition gives the answer at the end of the story.
The male protagonist Matt was labelled as a murderer because of manslaughter. He wanted to remove the label and reconcile with the parents of the deceased. He wanted to live a new life with his wife, but he fell into a hatred puzzle. middle;
Matt’s wife Olivia killed someone because she was a prostitute. In order to remove the label, she disguised her death and changed her identity, but she was still disturbed by people and things in the past;
The female police officer, Lorena, bears the label of a police father who committed suicide by fear of crime. She grew up alone in the monastery and still chose the profession of the police. She became upright and seemed to want to make up for her father in order to obtain spiritual comfort, but I found that it is too difficult to be a good policeman in such an environment;
Facing the past, Matt chooses to start again, Olivia chooses to cover up, and Lorena chooses to face the bleak. These three lines and the characters' motives constitute the theme of the whole story.
Around these three themes, more conflicting and antagonistic characters have been extended.
Matt (say goodbye to the past, start over) VS Dennis' father (trapped in the hatred of the past, unable to withdraw, set up a frame)
Olivia (covering the past, living in lies) VS Mickey (lost in the past by a good sister, regret, depravity, hatred)
Lorena (Remedy the past, face it bravely) VS Aguilla (Erase the past and face her daughter as a good father)
These three groups of binary oppositional relationships between characters support the whole story puzzle and theme.
The beginning and the end of the story begin with Matt’s cause and end with Matt’s fruit. The story of Matt’s wife Olivia is wrapped in the middle. At the same time, the clues of Lorena’s investigation supplement the blind corners of the whole story. The structure of the whole story is very neat and ingenious.
Of course, the ingenuity of this story is not only the narrative structure, but also the exploration of the theme in multiple dimensions.
1. Once you did one thing wrong and hurt others, now you want to make up for it? Or live in regret forever?
Digging deeply under the theme of "Farewell to the Past", we see that Matt and Olivia have once again become a dualistic relationship. Matt hopes to make up for it in a way, so he sometimes becomes "Daniel." ", comforting Daniel's mother. I think the most wonderful character in this story is Daniel's mother. She played such role-playing games with Matt in order to get rid of the pain of losing a child; and Olivia Because she wanted to bid farewell to the past, she felt deeply guilty for the two sisters and her daughter.
Of course, this story gives the answer through the ending of the two: that is, the husband and wife need to be honest and trustworthy, and they need to hand over their past to each other unreservedly, and let the other party help you carry it together. This is true love. So at the end of the story, they each completed their self-reconciliation.
2. If others have hurt you, would you choose to live in hatred or to reconcile?
Regarding the victim, we saw the duality of Daniel’s parents. At the same time, they are husband and wife, so the relationship between the two of them is more twisted. One chooses reconciliation, one chooses hatred, and the other victim, Mickey, is the character’s inner heart. It’s more complicated. She wanted to forgive at first because of her deep relationship with Olivia’s sisters, but thought that all her miserable experiences were given by Olivia, and she was not trusted and respected, so evil grew out of the courage and planned. The key link in the puzzle.
At the same time, it can be seen from the ending of the victim that the answer given in this play is: let go of hatred, obsession will only destroy oneself. People trapped in hatred have no future and no life.
3. This world has some unbearable past. There is a group of forces that hope it never happened. Will you be a scavenger and bravely stand up and expose it?
If the above two questions are about individuals, then this question is about individuals and the external environment, which is wider and wider. The typical representative of this problem is Lorena, who witnessed her father's suicide when she was a child. Although it is not explained in the play, I guess that her father might have carried a scapegoat for the high-level staff and became a black policeman who committed suicide in fear of crime. As she grows older, she increasingly wants to understand the cause of her father’s death. As a male-dominated national violence agency, she is a unique existence. She is not afraid of power and pressure, resolutely dared to expose those high-ranking celebrities. The history of lewdness shows her willpower. The opponents are the investigators of the Special Crimes Division represented by Aguilla. They have no bottom line. In addition to helping the high-level "wipe their butts", they also want to maintain the current tall image of their family members. To die, the sooner you die.
Let 's look back and forth at the proposition of the play just put forward: How do you say goodbye to the past? When an unbearable label is affixed to you, how do you start over?
For the male protagonist Matt, he has chicken soup made from three flavors of "chicken essence" to soothe:
Blindly is the forgiveness of Daniel's mother;
Blindly is the unreserved love of his wife Olivia;
Blindly, Lorena does not put labels at will, and objectively judges the quality of others;
The three women rescued the man, let him rein in the cliff, and turned his head back to shore.
So the essence of this drama is a proper healing "chicken soup drama"!
Use the worst side of human nature to tell the story of the hope of the stars in human nature.
ps:
By the way, post the lines in the original ending film, which give the answer and exit of " how to say goodbye to the past "——
You will learn to look to the future without harm in the past
You will find a cure for the pain that you think will never go away
In order to seek liberation, you must open a path you never thought of
Disconnect a little bit from the past and help those who want to start again
You will let go of everything, you will consider everything you can be
You will decide to do your best to embrace the new life
Until I feel you have everything you want
Everything you have fought for for so many years
Then you will know that you don’t need anything else to be happy
Maybe you just buried something in your heart! ! !
I like this dark egg. People cannot always live in chicken soup. Where there is sunshine, there must be shadows. The evil of human nature is always inadvertently. Those evils are just like the unbearable past. How can they be affected? Forgetting everything, how could it be uprooted, we can only get along with it, let it lie quietly in a corner, try not to wake it...
This is the brilliant part of the show. Without this easter egg, the show will lose a lot of points, otherwise it will be like the ending of "Skyscrapers". Everyone’s evil before will be reversed to everyone’s in an instant. Goodness, either black or white, clearly distinguished, this will greatly reduce the credibility of the entire story and the characters.
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