On December 7, the TV series "The Depths of the Murder" was officially announced, and from December 8th, iQiyi will exclusively launch the broadcast. This TV series starred young actors such as Ma Sichao and Liu Yitong. The cast, screenwriter and director lineup cannot be called famous. It stands to reason that there is no need to pay too much attention to such a part of the account drama works. However, the finalized promotional content of the show, because it focuses on "crimes against women", is worth mentioning.
The finalized publicity content of "The Depths of the Murder" is as follows:
The girl's suicide is suspicious, the disappearance of the kindergarten teacher in the dark night is really hard to find, and the popular actress was tragically dumped in the wilderness ......The serial murders in Xia Cheng are frequent, and the clues of the unsolved case came out again five years ago, and the evil truth hidden in the depths of the dark night will one day be exposed to the sun!
Girls, kindergarten teachers and popular actresses are all women, obviously, in the finalized copywriting content of this TV series, the audience has been clearly informed that many of the crimes in this TV series are aimed at women. In the finalized trailer of the show, there are also some scenes of crimes against women. This is a work in which the highlights and narrative ethics "coexist".
In fact, since the end of the last century, domestic dramas with the theme of criminal investigation have found a shortcut to creation, that is, to focus on those crimes against women. The disappearance of a girl, the kidnapping of a popular female star, and the encounter of a beautiful woman walking at night were all very important gimmicks in this kind of crime-themed TV series back then. And the real origin of this gimmick was many Hong Kong police dramas back then.
In the 80s and 90s of the last century, a large number of Hong Kong-made police films and police dramas had no restrictions on narrative ethics, and they were always exciting. Therefore, among the works of this kind of theme, there were once many works that needed to be graded in order to be **. This kind of work, looking at it now, should make female audiences sick.
At the end of the last century, domestic crime-themed film and television dramas also had the meaning of learning Xi Hong Kong films and Hong Kong dramas, and a large number of crimes against women appeared. At that time, the new phenomenon of this crime drama had aroused the attention and criticism of the industry. I remember that the content of the drama reviews was not very much on the Internet, but was posted in newspapers. At that time, there was already a big discussion about this kind of subject.
The final result of the discussion is that this kind of subject matter should be more cautious in terms of narrative, and it should not be too gimmicky and break through the bottom line of narrative ethics. For example, in this "Deep Murder", in the finalized trailer, there is a shot that lowers the brightness, which is **taken off from his legs. This shot, my feeling is, there really isn't any need to cut it into the trailer.
Criminal content aimed at women is prone to a large number of gimmicks, and it is easy to hook up with fans and drama fans**. This is, of course, a shortcut to crime storytelling. However, this shortcut also faces ethical doubts. In particular, it is very important to note that criminal content against women can easily lead to a false demonstration effect and affect social stability. When I say this, many young viewers may disagree, because our current social security is much better, and this worry may be unnecessary.
However, in the 80s and 90s of the last century, especially in some remote villages and other places, the broadcast of such film and television dramas did play a wrong role for many young people, and finally made them embark on the road of crime. In particular, this kind of criminal content against women is easy to directly bring a group of young male viewers. This kind of content is often wrapped in large-scale pictures and line content.
Based on this, I am worried about the narrative ethics of the TV series "The Depths of the Murder". Of course, I hope that after the play is launched, my worries will be dispelled. In the early years, we had many similar themes and liked to focus on the process of crime. This is patently false. For such a TV series, we should focus on showing the process of criminal investigation, the process of justice triumphing over **, rather than the process of crime. I think "Murder Deep" should be able to achieve that. (Wen Ma Qingyun).