After 300 hot searches, a new top stream of Chinese opera was born.
The writer of this article is the writer @ 中中中中中中中中.
I am greedy and lazy, I don’t like labor, I just love movies.
In the last two weeks, many people around me have been watching an Amway domestic drama, The Beginning.
300+ Weibo hot searches, 200,000 people’s passionate scores, and 8.2 douban scores are all in full swing to discuss the plot trend.
It was the first drama of the year.
The Beginning is adapted from the novel of the same name by Prayer Jun and tells a story about the cycle of time.
After a bus exploded, Li Shiqing (Angel) found herself in a time cycle, going back to the minutes before the explosion.
After she pulled her neighbor Xiao Heyun (Bai Jingting) into the cycle, the two of them started time adventures again and again.
They want to save their own lives and the lives of the whole car, and they want to find out who set off the bomb in the car.
There are 15 episodes in the series, so far 13 episodes have been broadcast, and the protagonists have gone through 24 cycles.
The murderer is already in the light, and the rest is to see how the protagonist can minimize the damage and solve the bomb crisis. I believe how many people can’t wait to see the finale.
The opening year of "The Beginnings" is very surprising. It presents a concept of "infinite flow" which is not new now to the audience with new actors and new topics.
On the home page of the original novel "Beginnings", three keyword tags were posted, namely: infinite flow, Puzzle-solving Style and Confined Space.
Infinite flow, which is very close to the concept of time cycle, is a type of classification, which is common in bamboo slips and foreign dramas.
Baidu Encyclopedia’s definition of infinite flow is more general-
"All-encompassing, including infinite elements, including science, religion, mythology, history, reality, movies, animation, etc., and above them, there is a reasonable world outlook that includes all these."
But to be more precise, infinite flow refers to the samsara who keeps breaking through in the replica world, and completing the task is the way to settle down.
In this way, The Beginning can only be regarded as a branch of infinite flow: Time Loop.
Li Shiqing and Xiao Heyun don’t have much autonomy, but they are constantly pushed back to the time node when the bomb got on the bus by force majeure, and they read the files again and again.
There are not many choices in front of them, only getting off or not getting off: getting off means stealing half a day’s leisure and recycling tomorrow; Not getting off the bus means two choices: stop the explosion and still explode.
They tried one by one in several cycles, and it was difficult to find a satisfactory solution.
Although there are not many works of Time Loop series in China, if we look around the world, we will find that it has long been a mature drama mode.
Groundhog Day, a comedy, tells the story of a bored weatherman trapped in a groundhog celebration day, reminding us to live in the present with his great insight.
The horror category includes "Happy Death Day". The beautiful woman died on her birthday. She is constantly resurrecting to find the real murderer who killed herself in an attempt to jump out of the time cycle.
The suspense category includes Source Code. The pilot wakes up repeatedly on the train to look for hidden bombs, only for 8 minutes at a time, and all this is his brain performing the task of brainwave source code.
At the beginning of the broadcast of "Beginning", it also caused a small-scale questioning storm because of its frequent collision with "Source Code".
We can understand why different audiences have different views on The Beginning, which depends on everyone’s aesthetic psychological threshold.
If you have seen many Time Loop works on weekdays, you will feel that "Beginning" is playing in old terrier; If you are a younger generation audience who have little contact with this type before, you will taste many innovations in the beginning.
After all, in the popular domestic drama category, The Beginning is quite innovative and sincere.
Let’s look at the other two labels of the beginning: puzzle wind+confined space. When these two elements collide with each other, we can easily think of the reasoning works of the storm villa model.
However, chasing the murderer by reasoning is not the focus of the beginning at all.
Li Shiqing and Xiao Heyun, the protagonists, have not been portrayed as omnipotent salvation heroes, and their reasoning ability is not very good. Finding the murderer depends on trial and error again and again.
In the end, they finally found out who the murderer was. At this moment, more than half of the passengers in the car have been tried by them.
Xiaowan believes that the fire of Beginnings lies not in its imitation of mature models, nor in the deliberately inserted suspense detection line, but in the presentation of local social reality problems.
In other words, it doesn’t follow the science fiction school or the reasoning school, but the social sentiment school.
In 5~8 episodes, Li Shiqing and Xiao Heyun began to investigate the suspects on the bus. The drama opens God’s perspective and fills the background of passengers. Almost everyone has a story.
Liu Dan’s "malicious role" successfully came out of the circle.
Lu Di, an anime fan who is immersed in the second world, is the only person in the whole car who unconditionally believes in recycling theory. He is gearing up to circulate with the protagonist, thus becoming the savior in the animation he has seen.
He also promised that in case he didn’t enter the cycle, the protagonist could call him by calling out his nickname. At the critical moment of episode 10, Xiao Heyun successfully used his nickname to harvest an effective labor force.
This line symbolizes sincere idealism. Lu Di is not only like a middle school patient who didn’t grow up, but also has all the characteristics of a passionate protagonist. He reflects the innocence that the adult world can’t tolerate.
Passengers Ma Guoqiang and Lao Jiao both appeared as suspicious villains. Ma Guoqiang hit and run many years ago, carrying his life on his back and serving several years in prison.
But on the other hand, his elderly father went to the city to look for his son, and brought a whole bag of the sweetest watermelon in his hometown to his son who didn’t want to meet him.
Laojiao is the most common migrant worker in the city, living in someone else’s garage, just to send home the reward for doing odd jobs for her daughter to study. Lao Jiao’s suitcase is even stuffed with bulk sanitary napkins for her daughter.
The killers are not terrorists who have been flattened, and the secrets behind them are scary and bleak. Many times, the perpetrator’s last identity is the victim.
"Beginning" continues to outline the story behind the supporting roles until their images become more and more warm, so that every audience can easily associate with an acquaintance or passer-by in their lives.
The Noon Sunshine Company, which produced "The Beginning", happens to be very good at writing stories of sadness and joy at the bottom. For example, last year’s "Children of the Qiao Family" described the family story struggling on the edge of the city with great efforts.
In The Beginning, Noon Sunshine Company did the same thing, touching people’s hearts with the gripping stories of bus passengers, mobilizing the audience’s senses and memories, thus achieving emotional resonance.
While profiling the joys and sorrows of small people, it also faintly reflects the shadow of social news: the murderer who was violently attacked by the internet actually has another origin; Grab the driver’s steering wheel and be resisted by the whole car; Three-no sanitary napkins in bulk are the difficulties of many poor women …
Creators gradually build up the blood and flesh of society in accordance with the tendons and bones of realism.
Time Loop is just a loose condom, which can’t stand scrutiny. It can’t explain the mystery of parallel universe and standby time, but the beginning is not here, and the drama tries to expose some heavier facts and life.
"Beginning" held high the high concept setting, and gently placed it in various social situations. This is out of self-consideration, and it can also be regarded as a cautious attempt in the safe area.
However, The Beginning not only made a good start for the domestic drama market in the New Year, but also set a good example for the film and television of infinite flow’s novels.
Over time, maybe we can see better and bolder domestic dramas of the same type.
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