I want to say that this is an excellent work, but it is not yet a masterpiece. But as far as a suspense drama is concerned, it is indeed full of sincerity, which greatly satisfied the audience's appetite for solving puzzles.
advantage:
1. An amazing sense of suspense
Amazing! It was my first feeling when I saw the initial plot setting.
The cross-sea bridge across the two countries was turned off within a few seconds. When the lights came on again, a female corpse was lying on the bridge, and her body just crossed the border. The most strange thing is , Her body was also cut off in the middle.
Then reverse and reverse:
The two corpses above and below do not belong to the same person.
The second half of the body has been frozen for a year. Did this murderer plan the murder a year ago?
After the murderer announced the voice statement, a voice actor admitted that he recorded it. What is even more bizarre is that the audio was recorded three years ago, and the case was reversed again. It turned out that the murderer had already started the layout three years ago.
Next are five social statements, about social justice, about special groups (prostitutes, homeless people, mental illness, immigrants, and child labor),
Not everyone is equal before the law.
If you follow this plot, the theme is undoubtedly very high, comparable to the "Seven Deadly Sins".
2. The role setting of the hero and heroine is also very clever
The hostess, a Swedish police officer, a workaholic, has a low EQ but a very high IQ, she is dedicated to doing things, but she doesn’t understand the world, she doesn’t lie, and she doesn’t know what to say on what occasion. There is a boss who is willing to cover her and protect her from the worldly troubles of these people.
The male protagonist has a human touch and a sense of responsibility as a policeman. There is a boss who hopes he can help clean up the mess of the Danish police.
It is the pairing of these two people that makes things more fun, and the chat between the two is often the humorous point of the show:
"It's all your fault. You sent the wallet to let my wife know that I was cheating."
"So your trouble is not that you cheated, but that your wife knows you cheated, right?"
(Watching the male protagonist languish under the questioning of the honest female protagonist poking at the core of the question, it is really uncontrollable.)
After that, on the one hand, under the influence of the male lead, the heroine gradually began to have a human touch. On the other hand, the male lead also adapted to the female lead’s rigid rules.
shortcoming:
1. What did not make this show finally reach the height of "The Seven Deadly Sins"? I think it should be the end. The current five cases have elevated the theme of the whole drama. When a suspense drama is positioned as a drama that showcases deep-seated problems in society, audiences often look forward to the murderer’s growth experience or encounter. Regarding what kind of social injustice, we have preset a position, it must be a big social problem, which has an impact on him, and it has caused him to have such a distorted psychology, and then he will continue to kill people in an attempt to expose these problems to the society. .
In the end, the mystery was revealed. His wife cheated on his friend, the male protagonist. When he took his son away, he encountered a car accident on the bridge. The car crashed and killed him. He also lost his job. My inner thought at the time was: this is it? Is this the reason for the cliché? Then why are you killing so many people with twists and turns? What did those dozen homeless people do wrong again? Are you going to kill them? Did the mental patient provoke you again? If your wife cheated, wouldn't it be good for you to run to the adulterer to get revenge? Why make such a big game? Big brother?
Have you noticed where the problem is? The starting point of the murderer’s motives for killing is too light. This starting point can explain his subsequent acts of kidnapping the male protagonist’s wife and killing the male protagonist’s son, but it is really difficult to logically explain why he wanted to make a big picture and point out five social problems. . The tragedy that happened to him was largely caused by accidental (wife derailment) rather than the inevitability caused by social problems. So most of your drama is talking about social problems like talking about loneliness, so that the audience has a kind of loneliness. The powerlessness of hitting cotton. This is also the reason why I can only give four stars. The ending is really clichéd.
2. At first, I felt a little confused when I watched the drama, probably because of the large number of characters, the hard to remember names, and the huge number of story lines. I personally think that there are too many auxiliary lines that serve the main line (solving cases), and they are too detailed, which weakens the sense of existence of the main line in the first few episodes and gives people a sense of chaos. Some auxiliary lines can be explained in a more compact rhythm, simple plot, and do not need to be displayed in every aspect. There are mainly five: social workers, vagrant girls (later mixed with social work lines), girls abandoned by their parents, rich women, The male protagonist killed an immigrant colleague by accident because of law enforcement.
I understand the reason why the screenwriters told their stories in all aspects at the beginning. One is that the screenwriter wants to make every character be made of flesh and blood, even if it is only a supporting role; the other is because as a suspense drama, it uses more auxiliary lines and supporting roles. It is also a good way to confuse the audience's sight. When watching the barrage at station B, I almost guessed the murderer. This is probably the reason why the screenwriter created so many characters and wrote so many auxiliary lines.
However, too much writing on the auxiliary line will really weaken the sense of existence of the main line, especially when the auxiliary line is ended inexplicably without explanation, the audience will be more confused. For example, the rich woman has too much ink on her body. From the beginning of the struggle in the hospital, to her wearing a wig, the relationship line with the male protagonist was even more inexplicable, and in the end, the inexplicable and unexplained relationship did not appear. Even if she used the rules to grab a heart at first, she didn't explain the follow-up, it was really a failure.
In general, it is an excellent suspense work. As a person who reads a lot of suspense films and knows all kinds of plot settings, I think the suspense threshold for the high point that can stimulate me is already very high, but this work is still very successful to surprise me, even in the end The ending is not great, it's still worth seeing!
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