According to the information provided by the third-party film and television data platform, the urban suspense love "soft sci-fi" TV series "Off the Rails" starring Liu Haocun and Lin Yi is currently ranked 5th on the popularity list of online TV series on the air. The trailer of the show before the start of the broadcast attracted a lot of audience expectations, related topics were on the top of the hot search, and the discussion on social platforms continued to riseAt the same time, "Off the Rails" is also the first TV series work of Liu Haocun, who has starred in many movies, which has aroused the expectations of many audiences. Someone ridiculed: "Looking forward to the performance of 'movie coffee'." However, after the broadcast, the reputation and popularity of the show were not satisfactory, especially the plot "detached from reality" was criticized by many people. Some viewers couldn't help but joke about the title of "Off the Rails": "Don't mean 'off the track of reality'." ”
The audience is "derailed" in the suspended plot
The TV series "Derailment" is adapted from the popular Internet ** of the same name, with the help of the soft sci-fi setting of the parallel world, the story tells the story of Jiang Xiaoyuan, who has a wealthy family, and suddenly "crosses" into Jiang Xiaoyuan, a working girl with the same name and surname, after experiencing a car accident. In the process of regaining her original identity, she fell in love with Qi Lian, a "familiar stranger", and established their own business together.
Judging from the story of "Derailment" itself, there were originally a lot of potential inspirational elements, such as the original high-minded and commanding rich girl who suddenly crossed over into an ordinary family, had to run for life, and even stared at the hamburgers that others dropped on the ground when she was strapped for money, and then experienced a part-time job later, and met and fell in love with her boyfriend, etc., which could have deduced a lot of wonderful plots, such as the change of mentality of indulging in luxury and fun, finding the true meaning of life from the ordinary, etc. Plus what is the "Lighthouse Project" displayed in the mysterious mobile phone?How to get the different selves in the parallel world back to the original track?All kinds of suspense elements have filled the audience's expectations before the show starts.
However, the expected setting of the TV series "Derailed" has repeatedly "derailed" and failed to translate into audience satisfaction. "It's a collection of cliché plots. A netizen wrote such a comment in the plot area.
The show has given many audiences a "crit" from the very beginning, and many "bad stalks" from film and television dramas many years ago have been brought to the audience: a rich girl from a wealthy family suffered emotional betrayal between her boyfriend and her best friend;The male protagonist is always in a suit and leather shoes, and always "encounters" the heroine after the hero saves the beauty plot, and the heroine has an inexplicable natural hostility towards the male protagonist with his own filter.
There are also many debatable points about the three views of the characters in the play. For example, although the heroine treats people and things domineeringly, she is also a "silly white sweet" who is beautiful and kind, and unconditionally pays her heart and money to treat her girlfriends and boyfriends;And the girlfriends and boyfriends from ordinary family backgrounds are the negative image of the heroine who betrays and "sucks blood". The actor's "middle two" performance also made the audience jaw-dropping in many places: a bad student with a record of fighting, sitting in the police station, said to the police in a domineering manner: "Then you are questioning me for lying?"No wonder netizens frequently complained in the barrage: "I didn't expect to see this kind of plot and dialogue in 2023." ”
Thinking about reality should not be too "free".
Wang Hongwei, a professor at the directing department of Beijing Film Academy, believes that the special value of soft science fiction film and television dramas lies in helping directors make in-depth explorations in image expression and present the possibility of philosophical thinking. In one world, it is a rich girl, and in another parallel world, it is an ordinary woman, and the worldview of the same person has changed in different environments, so is it the living environment that has shaped different personalities?Which one is the real self?Through the strong setting of soft science fiction, film and television literature could have been extended to many topics that are difficult to develop in realistic themes.
It should be seen that after the first episode of the overly concentrated slots, the subsequent episodes of "Off the Rails" have shown many highlights. For example, when Liu Haocun played the role of a rich lady, the audience complained that she performed "like a primary school student wearing adult clothes", but she "got grounded" after crossing into Jiang Xiaoyuan, a working girl from an ordinary family, and the barrage's evaluation of her began to pick up, and there were several crying scenes that tested her acting skills "distressing".
It's a pity that there is a lack of in-depth thinking that allows the characters to "cut" from one mode to the next. For example, Jiang Xiaoyuan, a rich girl, is arrogant and condescending in her heart, but after crossing over to Jiang Xiaoyuan, a working girl, just because of financial constraints, she naturally and calmly integrated into the work of the cashier in a black Internet café and the little girl in a shampoo shop.
Industry insiders bluntly said that a good theme needs to be carried together by the realistic life details, exquisite artistic interpretation, and wonderful character expressions in film and television works, so that it can be authentic and credible and make the audience empathize, and then be willing to think about the work and explore the social significance of the play for the second time. With the help of the setting of the time loop, the former hit TV series "The Beginning" tells the story background and character of many passengers on the bus under the main plot of "Stop **";The movie "Space Exploration Editorial Department" accurately restores the persistence and pursuit of "folk scientists" who were "left behind" in the nineties of the last century. These well-known works all have soft sci-fi colors, and all of them have made great efforts to express high-quality reality, so that the audience does not "play". From this point of view, "Off the Rails" still needs to get back on the right track of "grip".
Author: Wei Zhong.
Text: Wei Zhongtu: "Derailment" stills Editor: Xu Yang Responsible Editor: Li Ting.
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