It's cold, how long have you not been to the theater? Today I would like to recommend a web drama that can gain a strong theater experience without entering the theater, "Criminal-Interrogation Room" from Netflix
The play not only has a strong stage style, but also has a very hot topic, involving many hot news such as "domestic violence", "sexual assault", "immigrants die in a container truck in a foreign country", and it also includes adult crushes and sisters. The brother-in-law, office sister-in-law love, male subordinates secretly love female boss and other elements.
A lot of things are vulgar when you say it. When I say this, does it seem to be a bit bloody? Actually not. Strictly speaking, this is a police "bandit" drama. The plot is an interrogation showdown between a police detective and a suspect in a secret room. The above elements are only embellishments and adjustments. And in the viewing process, the direct expressiveness of the actors will be much more important than the indirect storytelling.
When most of the suspenseful police and gangster American dramas are obsessed with a large number of special effects such as location shooting, highway madness, gunfights, explosions, etc., the drama went uncharacteristically and deleted the location and put all the conflicts in a secret room, eliminating the need for redundancy. Of lay out.
At the same time, the sense of secret room between the small rooms creates a sense of urgency from the inside to the outside for the story, which is a common practice in stage plays. It can be said that it is quite advanced to see the feeling of stage play in web dramas. This is completely different from the feeling that NT Live gives people. NT Live is a video of a stage play, and the actor's energy that the audience feels through the screen is actually excessive. While watching Criminal, the audience will not feel a strong drama, but the sense of space in the secret room is very stage-style.
The suspect who wanted to escape and the police who wanted to advance deeper together wrestled, turning the narrow back room into an alternative cat-and-mouse game arena. Whether for justice or truth, they can only use their intelligence to catch each other. In this confined space, the actors use excellent line skills and expression tension to advance the plot, so that layers of suspense are pushed aside, and in the end, they often surprise the audience and present different endings, which is very enjoyable.
This ingenious approach that runs counter to the mainstream police drama market and does subtraction instead of addition is also full of theatrical style. Friends who have studied stage design know the aesthetic concept of "less is more" and "minimalist style". Because the space on the stage is limited, no matter how complicated you make it, it will not be comparable to TV dramas. It is better to use the principle of refraction to refract the world on a square-inch stage. This is also an aesthetic and creative technique that is ubiquitous from splashing ink landscapes, imprints, cursive script, Zen painting and Ming poetry.
Criminal, contrary to the normal state of TV dramas, adopts this aesthetic style of "subtraction", which eliminates the chaos and reduces the audience's attention to a large number of special effects and redundant information, and only leaves the essence to the audience, which can be said to be very exciting Refreshing.
"Interrogation Room" is composed of 12 stories surrounding the four different countries of Britain, France, Germany and Spain, four different languages and different cultural roles, through four groups of actors, in front of the truth of the crime. A cat and mouse game. And in the end, while finding out the truth, it also aroused strong emotional resonance, which made people feel that there was tenderness in the tension, and justice in the cruelty.
In my opinion, this show can be regarded as a representative work of Netflix's global muscle show. Because no TV station can maintain such a sophisticated level of production like NF has blossomed globally. Even the traditional TV stations that have made fine and beautiful dramas for decades can't do it like this. In recent years, drama fans have felt this way more and more. NF is no longer a small online film and television drama production platform. It has surpassed many established TV channels, recruiting troops and conquering the world, just like Apple that dominated the mobile phone market in the past, and it is no longer the one that sells mp3s. The small player manufacturer.
NF's drama closely follows hot topics, such as the topic of "domestic violence", one episode in Germany and another episode in Britain. However, they are not directly involved, presupposing a position for moral judgment. Rather, he took a different approach, cut it from the side, and told a story other than the domestic violence story familiar to the public. It is essentially a suspense drama, not a clichéd realistic moral trial drama.
Several other hotspots are similar, often behind the surging crowd of blind people, there is a reversal plot waiting for you. Including the cognition of police detectives is often subverted. But the plot is not reversed for the sake of reversal, but unexpected and in human nature. Every time they watch a movie, the audience will be sighed: the truth has never been so simple, and the conclusion should never be too early. The viewers who rushed to express their opinions on the hot news and got slapped in the face are expected to be seriously uncomfortable watching this drama.
Many screenwriters with single-cell thinking in our country can also study hard and write what they don’t want to be “popular”. They also feel that they reflect the times and have their own conscience. Art and reality are not the same after all. Putting the real world on the screen and stage is a lazy and boring approach. It requires a lot of processing and re-production.
Although the shell of "Interrogation Room" is taken from hot news, the plot is condensed and rich, the process is ups and downs, and the reversal can always be unexpected. Two or three actors just sat like that, using very little body language and dense lines to make the atmosphere tense and intense, making the audience hold their breath, waiting for the fog to unravel, without feeling that the scene is fixed and unchanging. dull.
This is a test of the skill of the screenwriters and actors. It can be said to be a huge difference from those bad dramas that are not enough for music and stage beauty.
This drama has three episodes for each country, a total of 12 episodes, one episode is 40 minutes, each episode talks about a case, it is quite short and concise, whenever you want to watch an episode, you can click to watch it, don’t worry if you don’t have time to chase everything. Don't dare to start the drama, and don't worry about not watching it before, to see if one of the episodes is understandable, it will not be affected at all.
Let me say it one last time, just click on an episode, just like watching a wonderful drama. And there is no need to make a special trip to the theater to wait for the show to begin. You can watch one episode on your commute on the subway.
So, don’t worry that you don’t have time for 996, and don’t worry that the weather is too cold and you don’t want to go out, and you are bored and don’t know how to pass the time. Go to Renren TV, download this show and try it.
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