In recent years, spy war and anti-special dramas have become a popular theme of domestic TV dramas, not only showing the major historical events before and after the founding of New China, but also showing the heroic deeds and noble spirit of countless revolutionary martyrs. However, due to the saturation of the market and the dilemma of creation, some spy war anti-special dramas have also appeared similarity, mediocrity, exaggeration and other problems, making the audience feel aesthetic fatigue and disappointment. In this context, a spy war anti-special drama "Night and Dawn" produced by iQiyi, directed by Huang Nan and Li Cai, written by Weng Liangping, and starring Chen Zheyuan, Nie Yuan, Xing Fei, and Yao Anna is about to land on CCTV, which has attracted widespread attention and expectations.
The play is set in Shanghai from 1943 to 1949, and tells the story of Lu Zhengyang, an underground member of the Communist Party of China, and Lin Shaobai, an old policeman, on the anti-special front, showing their process from confrontation to trust, from friction to cooperation, from life and death to creating brilliance together. The play not only has a wonderful plot, but also a strong cast, which can be said to be the new king bomb in the spy war drama, which is worth the audience's expectation.
Night and Dawn takes place in Shanghai from 1943 to 1949, a turbulent era in which the struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the brutality of the Japanese and the traitors, and the rivalry between the enemy and the underground party members were all staged in the city. In such an environment, two men with very different personalities, Lu Zhengyang and Lin Shaobai, met because of a ** case. Lu Zhengyang is an underground member of the Communist Party of China, brave and strategic, and does not hesitate to sacrifice everything for the revolutionary cause.
Lin Shaobai is an old policeman, with a ghostly personality, integrity and enthusiasm, and has the title of "Shanghai Know-it-all". In the first confrontation, the two showed their skills and tested each other, but they also left a deep impression. Six years later, after the liberation of Shanghai, Lu Zhengyang became a backbone of the anti-special front of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau. The two became partners and successively cracked the "vault robbery case," "counterfeit money case," and "latent radio case" planned by Zheng Lanting, a veteran agent of the Shanghai Special Station of the Secret Bureau, and completely thwarted the conspiracy of the enemy agents hiding in the shadows.
In the process of handling the case, Lu Zhengyang and Lin Shaobai went from continuous friction to gradually building trust, until they became comrades-in-arms who shared life and death. They not only cooperate with each other in work, but also care for each other in life, and even have some subtle emotions. However, their road to love is not smooth, and they not only have to face the pursuit and plotting of the enemy, but also their own psychological and moral struggles. Whether they can usher in the dawn in the dark night becomes the focus of the audience's attention.
"Night and Dawn" is an innovative spy war anti-special drama, which not only has a tense rhythm and rich changes in the plot, but also has a distinct personality and profound connotation in the characters. The screenwriter of the play, Weng Liangping, has created classic spy war dramas such as "Latent" and "Dark War", and he also showed his deep insight and keen grasp of history and human nature in this play. He not only restored the historical background before and after the liberation of Shanghai, but also created a group of flesh-and-blood characters, allowing the audience to feel their emotions and psychology. The directors of the play, Huang Nan and Li Cai, are also veterans of spy war dramas, and they used superb shooting skills and meticulous picture processing in this play to create a depressing and intense atmosphere, making the audience feel as if they were in that turbulent era.