Yangcheng Evening News reporter Ai Xiuyu

  From the explosion of "Chasing the Murderer in the White Night" and "The Hidden Corner", to the emergence of "The Wind in Longxi" and "The Beginning"... In recent years, suspense dramas have become popular tracks in domestic dramas.

Recently, another word-of-mouth domestic suspense drama has been launched - directed by Zhao Xiaoou and Zhao Xiaoxi, and starring Tong Dawei, Wei Chen, Yu Wenwen and Li Sheng, the suspense drama "Gone Child" is being broadcast on Hunan Satellite TV and Mango TV.

  On an ordinary winter morning, Yang Yuan's 9-year-old son Momo bizarrely disappeared in the corridor of a residential building... Once "The Disappeared Child" was broadcast, with the exciting plot of the disappearance in the corridor and the multi-faceted portrayal of social humanity, he gained It has been hotly debated by many netizens.

On the second day of the broadcast, the show won the first place in the provincial satellite TV of Liuwang at the same time, and also appeared on the Maoyan TV drama list, Guduo popularity index list, Douban real-time popular book video and other authoritative data media lists.

At present, "Gone Child" has a score of 7.7 points on Douban, and more than 69.7% of the audience gave it a rating of 4 or more stars, making it the best among recent suspense dramas.

  So, what advantages did "Gone Child" rely on to make a breakthrough in the "roll-in-roll" track of the suspense drama?

  Adaptation: Based on the original book with high scores

  Create "everyday horror", there are undercurrents in a quiet life

  In order for a suspense drama to look good, it must first have a full and "standable" story.

"The Disappearing Child" is adapted from the novel "Sea Anemone" by Beikebang, and continues the story frame and main plot of the original novel, without the risk of "magic change".

  The original novel with a score of 8.6 on Douban provides a solid story framework and a flesh-and-blood plot for "Gone Child": On a seemingly ordinary winter solstice morning, Yang Yuan's 9-year-old son Momo disappeared without a trace in the stairwell, and the police The investigation found that he had infiltrated a neighbor's house just before his disappearance, and the suspicious neighbor had a strong alibi and was operating an escape room magic like a remote control.

On the other side of the unit, Yuan Wu's father died suddenly after drinking. In order to falsely claim his pension, Yuan Wu decided to hide his father's body in the rental house. During this time, he suffered from neurosis and encountered the fear of hallucinations and reality. Inadvertently touches on another mystery.

Half a year ago, Lin Chuping, a female white-collar worker living alone, woke up in her own home and found that she had been raped in her sleep, but the murderer had no clue, only an ether handkerchief left on the windowsill...

  These seemingly unrelated people and things overlap each other in different time and space, and the invisible hand presses the start button at the moment when Momo disappears. The gears of the characters' destiny interlock and interact with each other, and the story is slow. Slowly open... make the episode full of highlights.

  In the play, the ordinary people and things such as the ordinary old-fashioned community, the daily life of junk, the middle-aged couple who are noisy, the neighbors who love to "eat melons" and other commonplace people and things, disappear with children, and deceive the preservation of corpses. The plots are mixed together, creating a temperament of "everyday thriller" and "social suspense drama".

It is also this "pretending to be calm" that makes the story's answer more attractive - the undercurrent under the calm water is the most turbulent, and the dark side of human nature hidden behind daily life is even more chilling.

  In addition, in order to adapt to the audience's fast-paced viewing habits, "The Disappearing Child" adopts a very different style from the original in its narrative style: the novel "Sea Anemone" focuses on a restrained thriller; From the very beginning, the use of shaking shots, jumping clips, close-ups of characters' expressions and atmospheric rumble soundtracks fully enriches the blurred and complex sense of suspense, allowing the audience to enter the play in a second.

  Actor: Challenging Contrast

  Tong Dawei became a passive father, Wei Chen turned into a poor tenant

  The surprise of the lineup is another highlight of "Gone Child": there are not only powerful actors of the Mesozoic generation like Tong Dawei, Wei Chen, a "fast man" who has successfully transformed into an actor, but also "Little Swallow" Li Sheng, "Sister Riding the Wind and Waves" Li Si Danni and Yu Wenwen joined.

  It is worth mentioning that, despite the different lengths of acting experience, most of the leading actors in "Gone Child" are newcomers who have appeared in suspenseful themes for the first time, and the characters with a large sense of contrast are challenged by all members, which fills the suspenseful atmosphere.

Yang Yuan, played by Tong Dawei, is an ordinary father who strives to balance work and family. However, the frequent quarrels with his wife Tao Fang also make him very tired. The bizarre disappearance of his child Momo has completely inspired Yang Yuan's collapse Come out, take off the shell of forbearance and weakness, go to the edge of losing control again and again, and finding the child seems to have become the only belief in his life.

  In order to highlight the tired daily life of this ordinary middle-aged man, the makeup artist specially enhanced Tong Dawei's bags under the eyes and swollen face during the shooting. This man with greasy hair and a cheap thermal underwear lounging around at home was caught by work. Chasing, being scolded by his wife, being blamed by his children... Passive everywhere.

And it is this "passive" father figure that gives Tong Dawei the urge to create: "Yang Yuan impressed me that he is different, this father is very passive, whether in the play or in the novel, he does not Like the dads I've played in the past who can push the story forward. Yang Yuan is more of 'things happened, and he was pushed by things'."

  Yuan Wu, the "brick mover" played by Wei Chen, is a destitute tenant who graduated from a famous university and loved by his parents, but because of his addiction to gambling and suffering from neurosis, he "played a good hand to a pulp".

Wearing a suit and carrying a business handbag, he has sunken cheeks and protruding cheekbones, exuding an air of vulnerability, sensitivity and decadence, which is very different from the actor's bright image.

  In the play, Yuan Wu, who sometimes walks alone in the wilderness with a rattan chair on his back, sometimes frowns and looks out the window, and sometimes wields a hammer, chooses to hide his corpse in order to defraud his father's pension. In the follow-up plot, will he do A more bizarre move has become one of the suspense of the drama.

  In the phenomenon-level suspense drama "The Hidden Corner", the natural and smooth interpretation of the three post-00 young actors Rong Zishan, Shi Pengyuan and Wang Shengdi has become a highlight.

In "Gone Child", there are also outstanding post-00 actors-Xu Enhuai, played by Liu Qiqi, is always preoccupied, and there seem to be endless secrets hidden behind the expression of hesitant to speak. It's easy, a post-00 actor can actually perform the mysterious and unpredictable sense of the character in the play, as long as she appears, the suspenseful atmosphere of the play will be thickened."

  Purpose: focus on social reality

  Explore personal growth and family responsibilities through suspenseful appearances

  Using multi-line parallel narratives and suspenseful plots, "Gone Child" not only allows the audience to immerse themselves in the development of the story, but also implants a lot of content worthy of the audience's exploration, such as the educational atmosphere of the original family, the life safety of women living alone , the marginalization of "waste wood" youth and other social issues are all displayed in the play through the expression of the screenwriter.

  For example, Yang Mo, Xu Enhuai, and Yuan Wu reflect three different deformed family education models: "restraining freedom, lack of family affection, and excessive doting".

"Gone Child" strives to explore the deep issues of personal growth and family responsibility through the appearance of suspense: For Yang Mo, the love of his parents has become the shackles that make him lose his freedom, and his mother's "chicken baby" mentality makes Yang Mo Mo couldn't breathe under the huge pressure of homework and extracurricular classes, and his father Yang Yuan couldn't convince his strong wife, and his promise to take Yang Mo out to play has repeatedly failed.

For Xu Enhuai from a single-parent family, she is well-behaved and sensible and has excellent grades. She is the "child of someone else's family" in the adult population, but behind this contains a lot of helplessness to be forced to grow up. Due to the absence of her mother and the busyness and indifference of her father, She has formed a "pleasant personality" who has been short of family warmth for a long time, and she is more and more greedy for the warmth of family.

  Although Yuan Wu is an adult, his mind is still a "child" who has not grown up.

From going to college to getting married and having children, his mother who took care of everything made him lose the ability to communicate with others. After suffering from illness, he was unable to participate in ordinary social life.

And the root cause of all this is the long-term over-indulgence of his original family.

  In addition, as a social reasoning work, "Gone Child" shows the audience a multi-faceted perspective of humanity. Every flesh-and-blood character in the play seems to be able to find a prototype in real life.

Yang Yuan, Yuan Wu, Lin Chuping, Zhang Ye and other important roles, each with their own unique personality: Yang Yuan is weak on the outside but tough and responsible; Yuan Wu looks decent and filial but is cowardly and numb; Lin Chuping is weak and cowardly on the outside The heart is brave and strong... The characters in the play have their own difficulties and pressures, and their different attitudes towards life's problems also determine their future endings.

No wonder netizens sighed: "Everything happens for a reason, and every character is not easy", "There is no perfect person and there is no absolute bad person" "Character determines destiny"...

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  It is rare for a domestic drama to be realistic, suspenseful and social at the same time.

The performances of the actors are all good, and Li Sheng and Li Sidani are very eye-catching.

The downside is that there are too many repetitions in the backtracking, which can actually give the audience more confidence.

  Shanfeng does not speak: The biggest problem of domestic suspense dramas is that they are too convergent. The breakthrough point of this drama lies in the thunder in ordinary life. Maybe it is just on an ordinary morning that a child disappears, bringing people from Life is drawn into suspense, which makes people reflect. Maybe our life is part of suspense drama.

  momo: I have read the original book "Sea Anemone". The updated episodes have a smooth plot and a suspenseful feel. The original voice of the protagonist team is well received. The crew respects the audience very much, and the service is very grounded.

Needless to say, Tong Dawei has always been a good actor with acting skills online.

The biggest surprise was Wei Chen. After reading the novel, I thought for a long time, who could play a role like Yuan Wu, but I never thought that Wei Chen's role of Yuan Wu this time would subvert my impression of him.

In addition, he has lost weight in order to shape the role.

  Handsome Rabbit Sauce: It is a suspense drama that is very close to reality. I remember that the upstairs of our house is also standard for the Yang Mo family. The couple quarrel every day for their children, so the sense of substitution is stronger.

  (audience comments come from Douban)