Note: This article has some spoilers
Pre-on-demand viewing "Mist Tracking", silently opened Douban and added one more star. This 24-episode suspense drama tells a total of two cases, one case for every 12 episodes. After watching the first case, I felt it was OK, and the second case was more powerful; and when the two cases became a whole, the intention of the whole drama was also fully highlighted, and the momentum brought to the audience by the drama was slowly released. The self-written and directed by the post-80s director Yu Qing , something is there.
"Mist Tracking" poster
The just-passed 2020 is a year when suspense dramas explode. Compared with them, "Mist Tracking" has a stronger sense of realistic feeling. The police in the Criminal Police Detachment of the Public Security Bureau in a small tier 4 city portrayed in the play are more in line with the image of grassroots police officers in real life. Almost all the criminal police in the suspense drama were middle-aged and young, while in "Mist Tracking", there were old, middle-aged and young police officers. Few screenwriters will notice such details.
Moreover, the criminal police in this drama are not detectives. In the game of cat-catching and mouse between police and gangsters, they hardly gained the upper hand. This is also inconsistent with the common settings of police and gangster suspense dramas. In general suspense dramas, the characters of police officers are all high IQ, super reasoning skills, and crushing bandits at critical moments. Although the audience likes to watch the showdown between experts, out of the simple and righteous feeling of evil and not suppressing justice, the audience expects that the police will beat the gangsters, so that they will feel very pleasant.
If the audience watches "Mist Tracking" with a cool drama mentality, they will definitely return disappointed. Lin Yuhong, the criminal police captain played by Jiang Qinqin, not only did not have the halo of the protagonist, but even made some decisions that the audience made were criticized for being "not powerful". For example, when the gangster kidnapped the girl, on the way to save the girl, Lin Yuhong called the gangster and told him to turn back. But the bandits still killed the girl. Will her phone call speed up the bandits' murder? In the second case, the gangster kidnapped the little boy and deliberately created the illusion that the little boy had been destroyed. However, the police found out that the little boy was still alive. In order to let the gangsters appear, Lin Yuhong made the decision to announce to the media that the little boy was still alive. This move is quite dangerous: will the kidnappers rob their votes because of this?
Lin Yuhong (played by Jiang Qinqin)
Criminal police also needs to take risks, and criminal police may make mistakes-"Mist Tracking" does not shy away from this or beautify it. There are not so many detectives in reality, not so many discoveries that suddenly appear, nor so many inferences from the original works. They can only rely on the police's large amount of manpower and material resources to investigate and visit, eliminate doubts one by one, and allow the excavation of the case to advance little by little, and finally the truth will be revealed.
Zhou You plays the detective Zhao Wei and the screenwriter is very patient. Both cases are three-quarters away, and only then does it find out that the real murderer is, and the arrest of the murderer is often lost. When the final answer was revealed, the dull emotions accumulated by the audience instantly turned into heavy. "Mist Tracking" is more inclined to social reasoning. Compared with the fight between police and gangsters, it focuses more on exploring: Why do people commit crimes? Are there any social factors hidden behind it?
The first case is a father's revenge. In a talent show held in this small fourth-tier city, it is promised that the winning girls will develop in big cities. The girls all want to seize this rare opportunity to stand out. But seeing that victory was about to belong to Hu Yiting, the most outstanding one. The other four girls became jealous and hated. They drugged Hu Yiting to take indecent photos, hoping to force Hu Yiting to withdraw from the competition, and Hu Yiting was raped because of this. Hu Yiting, who was deeply hurt, jumped into the river and committed suicide. The talent show was suspended, and the girls avoided it when the police investigated the case, and no one was willing to tell the truth.
The father who wants to take revenge
What is ridiculous is that this talent show is also a scam, just to advertise the local pig feed factory. The girls who pursue their dreams spent huge amounts of money and had no way out, but the way ahead was Chenlou, Haishi. The girl who was taken into consideration was just a toy for local business tycoons.
The most beloved daughter was destroyed, the rich and powerful man covered up the truth, the desperate father wanted to take revenge alone, restore his daughter's innocence, and make the ugly truth public.But the revengeful father died of illness, and the truth he wanted to reveal was still annihilated. In the news report, he was just a mentally ill perverted murderer, and no one cared about his daughter's past injustice.
The truth in the news report is just the tip of the iceberg
The second case is the protection of a cousin. Yuan Xiaodong was also a good student with both good character and academic performance, but as a left-behind child, he encountered bullying from school gangsters and had to become one of them, and from then on the wrong path of life. After an accidental "killing", Yuan Xiaodong suddenly realized that he wanted to change his life and live a normal life. When he found that his beloved little cousin, five-year-old Yang Yang, seemed to be repeating his former fate, he had the idea of saving Yang Yang. It is precisely because he has soaked in the fallen hell that he desires so strongly that he desires self-salvation and redemption cousin.
Yuan Xiaodong's requirements are not high. He only hopes to find a happier family for Yang Yang and let Yang Yang grow up with the love and company of his new parents. He took Yang Yang away and created the illusion that Yang Yang was dead. He did not hesitate to use his own destruction to change Yang Yang's life's life.
He pointed his gun at himself. The police found Yang Yang. At this time, Yang Yang was playing happily in the amusement park, accompanied by his new parents. Yang Yang was taken back to his original home. A few days later, Lin Yuhong went to Yang Yang's house, and Yang Yang's mother went out to work again. Yang Yang sat alone on the sofa watching TV. He suddenly turned around and asked Lin Yuhong seriously, "Do you know where my cousin moved?"
Lin Yuhong was stunned. She quickly "escaped" from Yang Yang's house. In the fog, her hands tightly held the steering wheel, unable to help but choke and tears. She wiped away her tears and tried hard to see the direction clearly...
This is a clever ending, and the audience is like Lin Yuhong, heart-wrenching, conflicted and melancholy. Everything Yuan Xiaodong did was not allowed by law, but from Yang Yang's perspective, Yuan Xiaodong gave him the best protection. Isn’t the happiness of an amusement park better than watching TV alone? But Yuan Xiaodong was dead, and Yang Yang even lost his cousin's protection.
What is good for children?
"Mist Tracking" reaches depth in the heaviness. Although there are unreasonable aspects in the script, the gray scenes affect the viewing too much, and the aesthetic techniques are too single, it must be admitted that the reflections made by the series are not inferior to any suspense drama last year. The cases seem to be solved, but the social causes of the crime still exist.
Lin Yuhong can’t see the direction clearly in the fog, so how can the audience have the best solution?
Source: Pengpai News
