In the TV series "Cliff", Zhou Yi often gives the audience the impression that he seems to be alone.
He is different from Zheng Yaoxian, the wise and brave "sixth brother" in "Kite", because he has a group of brothers who are loyal to him.
Take Song Xiao'an, for example, who ended his undercover mission and was about to leave Chongqing for Taiwan, but was betrayed and identified by the sixth brother at the docks. Despite this, he did not have any suspicions in the end, but mistakenly thought that he was sacrificing to cover the sixth brother.
In addition, the sixth brother's proud protégé Gongshu is also a cunning person, and his strategies are endless, which makes the local public security department feel helpless. In the end, he was still pointed at the back of his head with a gun by the sixth brother, and after being imprisoned, people couldn't believe that the sixth brother betrayed the military commander.
In contrast, Zhou Yi behaves more like a lone ranger.
The people around him, either competitors like Gao Bin, were eyeing him, or novices like Gu Qiuyan not only couldn't help, but even tightened their hind legs.
It is no exaggeration to say that Zhou Yi relied on his extreme caution and calmness at many critical moments in order to successfully escape in these brutal games.
When faced with too much isolation and insufficient strength, Zhou Yi also considered expanding his influence, including plotting against Liu Kui, Chunsan, and even several people, including Ren Changchun.
However, the end result is very obvious, and it all ends in failure.
*The reason behind this group is that this group of people does not embody the kind of faith that Zhou Yi expects to see!
01, Liu Kui, a butcher who has lost his humanity and faith.
In the play, Zhou Yi shows strong self-control and deep affection for the martyrs.
When the situation becomes more urgent and dangerous, he prefers to remain calm and composed, and in critical moments, he will also try to suppress his emotions, following the most basic survival principles of being an undercover agent: ruthlessness and cruelty.
Although Zhou Yi is arrogant and indifferent on the surface, his heart is actually full of pain, and sometimes he can even be misunderstood by his own people.
As a veteran ground worker in our party's high-ranking local positions, he not only witnessed this scene, but even tortured and killed his comrades-in-arms with his own hands, and he had a strong antipathy to the job itself.
In fact, even an experienced undercover agent like Zheng Yaoxian, years of undercover experience have left him deeply confused about his true identity.
He was occasionally confused, unsure whether he was called the "Sixth Commander of the Army" or the "Kite".
Under this kind of pervasive mental pressure, Zhou Yi's motivation for survival mainly comes from his beliefs and human nature!
Therefore, he also took these key factors into account when examining those who wanted to rebel.
After Zhou Yi completed a secret mission for nearly two years and returned to Harbin, the first thing he met was Lu Ming and Liu Kui, who came to greet him.
It can be seen from the subsequent scenes that Lu Ming was very dissatisfied with Zhou Yi's promotion and being valued, and Zhou Yi's return limited his progress to a certain extent.
Moreover, Lu Ming's scheming is even deeper than Liu Kui.
Therefore, the slightly rugged Liu Kui became the preferred candidate for Zhou Yi's counterpolicy plan, and he also made full use of his position advantages to conduct a series of investigations and analyses on Liu Kui.
However, the situation is not optimistic, Liu Kui not only began to have faith, he did not even leave basic humanity. He disguised himself as a staff member of the National Police Agency, which was enough to satisfy his arrogant and immoral behavior.
On the train to pick up Zhou Yi, Professor Jin touched Liu Kui's sensitive point just because he scolded "dog spy", and even if he borrowed Lu Ming's handcuffs, he had to interrogate people.
Liu Kui has an irritable and reckless personality, his sharpness cannot be concealed, he is the kind of person who always likes to stir up trouble in his free time, and he follows a simple and rough way of handling affairs.
I still remember a scene where the National Police Agency's camera caught a radio station, so Gao Bin ordered his men to monitor a building with the intention of capturing everyone in one fell swoop.
In the face of their behavior, Liu Kui seemed very disdainful:
According to my advice, the senior section chief always wants a bigger goal, and he copies a goal before making a decision. My experience tells me that if you use too long a line to catch a big fish, the fish will run away!”
still remembers that time, in order to recover the anti-union medicine that was taken away by the bandit Sanjiang Hao, Zhou Yi decided to lead his subordinates to seize Sanjiang Hao's umbrella Guan Dashuai and destroy the casino he operated.
Eventually, Kwan Dashuai's background was so strong that the governor's office directly inquired about the National Police Agency's Director-General White, much to Gao Bin's distress.
Liu Kui was very dissatisfied with this situation, and he began to say bluntly: "Even a bully at the dock can't deal with it, how can the dignity of our police department be maintained?"”
In his point of view, once the decision is made, the first thing to do is to arrest that person, and if he really gets the confession of Guan Dashuai and the common bandits, it depends on who dares to intercede for him
If there is no evidence, what is it?When will our secret service need evidence?
However, compared with Zhou Yi, Lu Ming and others, Gao Bin was more inclined to trust the outspoken Liu Kui, and he even thought that he knew him better than Liu Kui.
Therefore, Gao Bin took advantage of the security bureau's torture of Liu Kui in an attempt to deceive the undercover Communist Party agents next to him.
However, he was only one step short of the game and failed to compete with Zhou Yiyi.
However, Gao Bin's behavior completely pushed Liu Kui in front of Zhou Yi, making him understand that except for Zhou Yi in the police department, no one else really existed, and they all wanted to put him to death when he was **.
Zhou Yi had considered plotting rebellion and educating Liu Kui, but subsequent observations showed that Liu Kui was not suitable for him.
The crimes committed by Liu Kui and his extreme actions have reached such shocking proportions that even his biological mother could not bear them:
Engaging in this profession sometimes violates the bottom line of morality, and good people have long since passed away. We survive because we are filled with coldness and malice in our hearts. Five years ago, I killed someone, I couldn't sleep for half a month, and I wanted to vomit whenever I thought about it, but now, it's easier for me to kill someone than to kill a pig. My mother told me that our group was destined for hell. ”
In the western restaurant, he said to Zhou Yi affectionately: "If a person has no sympathy and pity for his kind, then he is not far from hell, very happy, we are all such people!."”
From his actions, we can clearly feel that he has not only lost sympathy and pity, but also deprived him of his faith and humanity, and he has long become a victim of the Japanese puppet forces, and can neither use interests nor justice to envelop him!
For a devil like Liu Kui, who was cultivated by the puppet Manchu regime, the concept of civilization and the legal system put forward by Zhou Yi actually has no practical application value.
02, Ren Changchun is a smart person who is confused by power and desire.
Next, what may be countered by Zhou Yi is the audience's expectations for him, but the final ending is Ren Changchun, who is full of tragedy.
In the work "Cliff", Ren Changchun is undoubtedly a very different villain.
Although he was an intelligent man, his origins were not illustrious.
His family was mainly agricultural, and despite the fact that his parents were very frugal, they still wanted to raise him to make a name for himself in society.
Eventually, he entered the Police Academy and became a police officer at the Butou Police Station after graduation.
During the eight years from the outbreak of the "September 18 Incident" to 1939, they were deliberately educated by the Japanese and pseudo-Japanese, and this period had a profound impact on the growth of a generation of young people, making their outlook on life, morality, and world outlook change.
Ren Changchun grew up in this environment, and as a member of the lowest strata of society, their family belonged to a social class that was often bullied and exploited.
For him, becoming a police officer in the puppet Manchurian regime is a way to ensure that his family will no longer be bullied.
Of course, at the beginning, Ren Changchun still maintained his kind nature.
He cherishes his position as a police officer in Port Tau and holds himself to very high standards and high expectations.
At that moment, Gu Qiuyan and Sun Yuejian were intercepted by him for examination, and his actions and words appeared to be very polite, and he was always faithful to his duties.
Although Gu Qiuyan decided to move out of Zhou Yi when she had nothing to do, in the eyes of the grassroots police, this Buddha statue was almost equivalent to the Big Buddha. However, Ren Changchun still resolutely refused to let him go without showing any documents.
He was suspicious of the suitcase that Sun Yuejian was carrying, and he was well aware of the possible consequences of offending his boss.
But he also understood that in the context of that particular era, if he could catch a member of the Communist Party at the same time, his reputation would definitely be greatly enhanced, and his career would flourish.
Therefore, he is willing to take risks, which is both his duty and driven by profit.
In the end, Zhou Yi personally went to the police station to ask for personnel, and Ren Changchun only allowed them to leave after obtaining the approval of the director and asking Zhou Yi to sign.
However, in the same situation, six years later, he met Ren Changchun, who was also Sun Yuejian and the suitcase, and although Ren Changchun had already joined Zhou Yi's team, he effortlessly let him go and used this incident to show friendship to Zhou Yi.
Therefore, the strong thirst for power makes the possibility of Ren Changchun being rebelled gradually reduced.
When Zhou Yi first started, he became interested in this budding young man and took advantage of the opportunity of the interview to conduct an in-depth investigation of him.
After learning about Ren Changchun's family background, I was also attracted by the wisdom of this young man, but I did not see a shadow of faith in him.
Zhou Yi asked him a question:
I've met you before, and the first time I saw you, I thought you were smart, but in this industry, it's not enough to be smart, you also need courage and faith. Loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor, this is not faith, what is your faith?”
Faced with this question, Ren Changchun couldn't give an answer, so he had to respond: "I have never thought about this question before, I will go back and think about it, and then give you the answer tomorrow." ”
However, in Zhou Yi's view, he argues that the beliefs that come up after careful consideration are not true beliefs, and that true beliefs are based on a deep understanding of society.
Despite this, he still decided to include Ren Changchun under his command and included him in the special task force, so his expectations for Ren Changchun do not seem to be high.
Despite this, under Gao Bin's strong interference, Ren Changchun still chose that path that defied common sense.
At the scene of the execution of Zhang Pingjun and the others, Ren Changchun witnessed his own life being taken by a single bullet, and his nervousness reached a level of stiffness and helplessness.
The head of the secret service, Gao Bin, did not miss the opportunity to train this new member:
Haven't you tried the Killing Ring yet?This is not possible, you must successfully pass this level.
Okay, the rest of the tasks are up to you, let the younger generation try their skills. ”
Therefore, Ren Changchun had to shoot the first shot, and to his shock, it turned out to be his compatriots who were killed by him, these are the same Chinese, all revolutionaries with strong beliefs, and they are all stained with the blood of communists.
What's even more shocking is that it was Zhang Pingjun and his girlfriend Yuan Yuan who died under his gun, which also indicates that he may be shot by Gu Qiuyan in the future.
For Ren Changchun, who has only killed chickens before, this is his first killing, and its impact is extremely far-reaching.
Although he has won high praise from Gao Bin for this, his heart is full of fear, loss, and uneasiness.
He finally understood what Zhou Yi said to him on the day he reported to the police department: "Maybe cultivating the land is the best job in this world." If my parents knew I was killing someone, they probably wouldn't think much of it.
Undoubtedly, every attempt was accompanied by a second attempt, followed by numerous conflicts. After the first shot, Ren Changchun completely became a member of Gao Bin's team.
Following Gao Bin's strategy, he disguised himself as a member of the Anti-United Nations by delivering medicines, not only transporting medicines containing bacteria and viruses to the mountain, but also planning to make contact with the hidden agents on the mountain.
However, Zhou Yi allows Xiao Dong to successfully sabotage their plot and reveal the true identity of Lao Qiu, an undercover agent on the mountain.
According to common sense, it is difficult for Ren Changchun to survive this operation, but he bravely risked his life to return, and was deeply moved by Zhou Yi's behavior of sending money to his family, and devoted himself wholeheartedly to it, and gave his life without hesitation.
The incident of Sun Yuejian** brought Ren Changchun a fate that seemed destined to be eliminated.
Ren Changchun, as the only person in the police department who has seen Sun Yuejian and understands the relationship between Zhou Yi and them, he is like a time bomb against Zhou Yi, whenever he sees Sun Yuejian, it will trigger **.
Therefore, even if he regarded Zhou Yi as his brother, Gu Qiuyan's shot could still lead to his tragic fate.
There is no doubt that in the end, Ren Changchun's behavior confirmed that Zhou Yi's decision was correct, and he believed that there was a 50% chance that he could win Ren Changchun's favor.
Ren Changchun's thirst for power and status is too strong.
Driven by such a mentality, he did not go home even after his shift, hoping to play a role in the major operation to capture Sun Yuejian and gain a share of the rewards and commendations.
This is similar to Gao Bin's previous situation, when he learned about the Communist Party**, he was desperate to return and achieve results.
He was full of gratitude and reverence for Zhou Yi, and whenever he thought of Sun Yuejian's two unusual behaviors, he would immediately disappear without a trace. His only thought was to call the senior section chief ** and report the situation so that he could make great achievements!
Therefore, although Ren Changchun seems to be a good helper for rebellion on the surface, in fact he has many reasons why he cannot fight for it. In the back of his heart, being able to give the family a better life is more important than anything else.
What he longed for, the resistance in the mountains could not provide.
His thirst for power and profit indicates that he will continue to grow and gradually evolve into a butcher like Liu Kui!
03, Chunsan, this is a real small character.
Ultimately, I would like to mention a real little character, and that is Haruzo.
Under Gao Bin's close watch, Zhou Yi succeeded in developing this eyeliner, who skillfully used his position to his advantage and hired a subordinate of his own.
Zhou Yi successfully rescued Chun San from Guan Dashuai's casino, and since then Chun San has wholeheartedly supported Zhou Yi and is determined to hug Zhou Yi tightly.
He followed Zhou Yi's plan to inquire about the hotel in order to attract the attention of the Secret Service Section, and was attacked for spying on Lao Qiu, all in order to spy on Professor Jin, who had a Kuomintang color.
However, Chun San strictly followed Zhou Yi's instructions from beginning to end, not only for money, but also for deep feelings, which was something that neither Liu Kui nor Ren Changchun could do.
However, Chun San also has his own limitations, if he is made to become the inside line of Zhou Yi, the captain of the special operations team, or let him become the target of the Communist Party's rebellion against Zhou Yi, it will be difficult for a strong man.
The first thing to be clear is that the predicament that Haruzo faces is worse than he has shown. His mother has been bedridden for two years, and if Harunzo makes any mistakes, then the old man will also lose his chance of survival.
The environment he was in was not suitable for a profession like Zhou Yi and the others who walked on the edge of a cliff.
Secondly, in Lao Wei's point of view, Chunsan, the bad elements of the dock, is destined to become a heinous target and will eventually be eliminated.
Before Zhou Yi returned, Chunsan had reported Communist members to the Japanese gendarmerie for money, which had a disastrous effect on Wei's underground activities.
Although Zhou Yi persuaded Lao Wei not to take action against Chun San for the time being, Lao Wei also made it clear that for people like Chun San, he would deal with it sooner or later.
Kindness towards the enemy is actually a disservice to one's own comrades.
Therefore, considering Chunsan's past behavior, it seems unlikely that the organization will accept him, and Zhou Yi has no choice but to gradually reduce his interactions with Chunsan, not to mention his rebellion.
In the end, Zhou Yi's every attempt was unsuccessful, and he could never find a suitable candidate in his hands, and he was always faced with the dilemma of being isolated.
In the operation to rescue Sun Yuejian and Ji Liankui, he once again showed the last hole card in his hand. This hole card is not only based on the affection of the past, but also to repay the kindness, but also to threaten Chen Jingyu, and finally got his cooperation.
After Sasha was taken away by Gao Bin, he had no choice but to use his life as gambling money and deal with Gao Bin, not only rescued Gu Qiuyan and her daughter, but also laid the last game.
This kind of sacrifice, which has nothing to do with love, although it is a noble and sacred expression, also carries a touch of tragedy!
At the moment when his life is about to come to an end, he earns the respect that the other party deserves and has the opportunity to wear a decent outfit before walking to the execution field.
However, only Liu Kui, who was not stingy, came to see him for the last time in person and presented him with a box of cigarettes to express all his affection.
However, he did put in a great effort to counter the issue, but unfortunately, his attempts ended in failure!