Allow me to start with a few lines from the opening lines of the whole play.
Come, let's go, let's go, those who come from the south, those who go north, those who come to Jiamusi, those who go to Hegang, those who spin cotton, those who factory, those who go to work immediately, those who go to the countryside, those who cut in line, those who don't find a unit on the way back, those who speculate, those who turn upside down, those who steal and break the law, are all honest......”
The finale of "South to North" is over.
At this moment, words are hard to express my feelings.
The drama "South to North" can be said to perfectly interpret the artistic conception of life coming from south to north.
After watching the finale of the 39 episodes, I was filled with emotion and couldn't hide my excitement. I have a lot to say in my heart.
If you don't blow it or black it, this finale makes me shed more tears than the finale of the 2023 New Year's drama "Hurricane", or even the 2022 New Year's drama "The World".
Especially the scene of Uncle Ma's sacrifice, I cried so much that my eyes were blurry now typing.
In my opinion, "South to North", like "The World", is an extremely high-quality period drama.
CCTV is close to the finale, with an average rating of 3 and a peak of 4, which can be regarded as the audience's recognition of this drama.
After watching the finale, looking back at the previous plot, it is even more interesting.
Tonight, we don't ask about the west or the east, but the north and the south.
In the last episode of "South to North", when Uncle Ma was dying, he endured the pain and reluctantly, looked at the apprentice and son-in-law with tears on his face, and reluctantly swallowed his last breath.
I'm sorry, I can't hold back.
This ending was too unexpected.
Because of the first two episodes, director Zheng Xiaolong actually filmed a feeling of confidence.
When the master and apprentice were transferred to serve as criminal policemen to solve serial murders and arrest drug dealers, the plot tended to be urgent and thrilling, but the audience was right.
As far as Jia Jinlong is concerned, he can't escape Uncle Ma's nose.
Before Ma Kui went from taking care of the old blind man with a keen sense of smell to worshiping him as a teacher, he seemed to be idle, but it turned out to be a thousand miles away, which came in handy at the critical moment.
Jia Jinlong shouldn't have let his guard down on the pair of masters and apprentices, let them get into his car, took them to drink on his own, and called a few of his subordinates to accompany him.
As a result, Ma Kui sniffed out the smell of them - drug dealers, a gang.
Then Ma Kui deliberately leaked "intelligence" and opened his net to fish.
Sure enough, four caught two.
If Jia Jinlong wants to escape, there is only one way left - the railway.
At night, the train arrived at the station, the passengers got on the train, and Ma Kui's master and apprentice also began to investigate, and it was not difficult to find someone.
The question is, once you find people, you can't move them?
This is probably the best thrilling action scene I've seen in recent years, from the camera setting, character performances to atmosphere creation, even surpassing those pure criminal investigation dramas.
From the two sides gathering momentum to Jia Jinlong's gang taking hostages, the two sides confronted each other.
The story is finally introduced into the finale-
From here, I burst into tears three times.
The first time was the sacrifice of Ma Kui.
Ma Kui offered to exchange himself for the hostages, but Wang Xin took the initiative to replace the master.
Next, Wang Xin showed what it means to attack the heart.
On the surface, he gossiped with Jia Jinlong, but in fact, he said it to his two subordinates.
Jia Jinlong was ironclad, but two of his subordinates quickly coaxed, one of them just wanted to surrender, Jia Jinlong picked up his gun and killed one of them.
The other completely collapsed, and without saying a word, he put down his gun and surrendered-
When the opportunity came, Wang Xin immediately grabbed the gun and fought with Jia Jinlong, and Ma Kui rushed up to help.
In an instant, the three of them scuffled into one place.
The gun, surrendered, Jia Jinlong, was controlled.
But Ma Kui did not get up, but lay downward. Wang Xin is still ridiculing - "Master, are you flashing your waist again, why are you rushing so hard?"
But when he picked up Ma Kui, he immediately panicked - what was inserted in Uncle Ma's chest was a dagger that was bright and dangling.
Many viewers didn't understand this piece: Jia Jinlong's two hands were not controlled, why did he have an extra dagger, and why did the dagger stick into Ma Kui's body again?
And why, judging from Jia Jinlong's last expression, is it a trace of conscience?
In fact, the answer is very simple, because Jia Jinlong found out that the dagger was not killed by Ma Kui, but by Wang Xin, who killed his sworn brother.
And Uncle Ma probably saw his movements and took the initiative to block it with his body, so this knife was firmly inserted in Uncle Ma's chest, and it was inserted so deeply.
It's a pity that Uncle Ma has experienced ups and downs in his life, and finally smoothed out the feud between the two families, fulfilled the younger generations, and taught the apprentices, but in the end he fell under the knife of the drug dealer, when Wang Xin shouted helplessly, Ma Kui had no choice but to close his eyes, and I was about to cry.
Ding Yongdai played the feeling of dying and reluctant to give up too well.
Bai Jingting also completely entered the play, from the beginning when he was still joking with **, to the panic and disbelief when he found out that ** was stabbed, and then to the desperate collapse and crying at the end, the red face and the violent green tendons were all played appropriately.
I just want to say: screenwriter, you return my Uncle Ma!
The second time was to see Yao Er picking up fireworks.
Jia Jinlong** is undoubtedly facing the death penalty.
Niu Dali, who was refused to drink medicine by Yao Er and did not die, became a big boss 20 years later, and found a girlfriend who was 20 years younger than him.
But when he took his girlfriend to visit the night market proudly, he saw Yao Yuling, who was tortured by the years and had a face of frost, and took his son to set up a barbecue stall in the night market.
The flamboyant and beautiful, who likes bright colors, likes disco, and likes to buy clothes to dress up, is gone.
Some viewers said that Yao Er would not allow herself to be so sloppy, and if she wanted to sell barbecue, she would also dress up and sell barbecue beautifully.
I think it's more reasonable now, my friends underestimated the power of the years.
The lover of the year was speechless when he faced each other, and Yao Er turned around and left in embarrassment.
I didn't cry any of this, but when Yao Er picked up the fireworks by chance on the road, I couldn't hold back my tears.
Creation makes people, the fireworks, how can it not be like Yao Er herself, who once emitted such a short and brilliant light.
It's all gone. Jiang Yan's acting skills are really good. The actress turned out to be underrated all along.
The third time, it was Peng Mingjie played by Wang Jinsong who brought Lili's family to Ma Kui's grave.
Wang Jinsong should have thought that I didn't cry enough, and after some dialogue, my tears were loud again.
That kind of sincere friendship between confidants, who doesn't cry when they see it.
All the knots were untied in front of the tomb of Ma Kui.
Many years later, Wang Xin, who has become a Wang Bureau, finally caught the ** of the corpse crushing case, and settled a matter of the master and apprentice, but what helped him solve the case was the few hairs left by Ma Kuirang back then.
Peng Mingjie told the truth of the year and solved the misunderstanding between Ma Kui and Lili.
Everyone got a lot from Ma Kui, some were fatherly love, some were master-apprentice love, and some were brotherly love.
It seems that everyone has returned to one place, and everyone has completed the reunion because of Uncle Ma.
All misunderstandings were resolved.
All the regrets were made up.
People come and go from the south to the north, and from this cemetery, back to the life of the north and the south, only the deceased Ma Kui stays in this square inch of land, and can no longer go back and forth from the south to the north as he did back and forth.
Seeing the end, Uncle Ma's old friend played by Wang Jinsong had a vicissitudes of voice and full of emotion, and after reading the last sentence, his voice was hoarse and choked.
As soon as this plot came out, I don't know how everyone feels, I really feel a lot of emotion, except for life and death, life is a trivial matter.
When I first watched "South to North", I didn't care, I watched a lot of period dramas in the past two years, and I always felt that the follow-up dramas could no longer replicate the success of "The World".
Unexpectedly, this drama has taken another big road for period dramas.
Recalling the beginning of the story, it coincided with the beginning of the reform and opening up to set things right and renew Vientiane, and Ma Kui, a former policeman who had been unjustly imprisoned for ten years, came to a train chase at the beginning, and also formed a fate with Wang Xin.
Thinking about it now, the whole drama seems to be eloquent, but every wave is foreshadowing.
Especially after watching a few episodes, you will really get into the play, and the more you watch it, the more addicted you become, and the more you watch it, the more you feel good.
On this train, there are couples who turn their faces, habitual criminals like the old blind man played by Ni Dahong who evade tickets and get on the train, and traffickers who dare to let the police help find the abducted children.
It's really all a play.
After watching it for a long time, I found that the story actually has three clear story lines.
The first is the criminal investigation line.
At that time, there were mixed people on the trains, thieves and pickpockets were rampant, and child traffickers were even more organized to make waves.
Because of his lack of experience, Wang Xin even made the mistake of helping traffickers find children.
The whole play has ordinary cases of theft, as well as corpse dismemberment cases, abduction cases, and drug trafficking cases in the finale.
The line of criminal investigation does not seem to be there all the time, but there is no shortage of suspense and foreshadowing, and the climactic passage is even more exciting, which is worthy of Zheng Xiaolong + Gao Mantang's handwriting.
Although the space is limited, if you really want to compare, there is really no better criminal investigation drama in the past two years.
The second is the comedy line.
Ma Kui and Wang Xin, the master and apprentice, love and kill each other, and it is very interesting to talk about each other, and the love line between Yao Er and Niu Dali is also full of joy.
The other characters also have their own sense of joy, and they are lively and lively to watch the New Year.
The third is the human affection line.
After watching it for a long time, I realized that the screenwriter showed the warmth and warmth of human feelings and the changes of the times through a story on a railway.
With the master and apprentice as clues, the stories of the train up and down are connected.
And in the end, everyone's story is actually human affection.
For example, Wang Xin didn't understand at the beginning, and he always thought that his ** would pay out of his own pocket to make up for the blind man's ticket.
Isn't that aiding and abetting?
After seeing it, I realized Uncle Ma's intention to do this.
Behind every traveler there are all kinds of emotions in the world, joys and sorrows. As a period drama, "South to North" is good in that it uses a train to tell the story of so many people.
The older generation of viewers watched the people in the railway compound watch black-and-white televisions, use the food stamps that are common to the planned economy, buy loose wine and pickles in state-run stores, ride Phoenix bicycles, and visit every household during the Spring Festival to pay New Year's greetings, and the simplicity of the acquaintance society is ...... everywhere
It's like I'm in a story, and I'm alive again.
Most of the plots of the play show the days of the older generation, and in the finale, after experiencing many joys and twists and turns, it gives a heartbreaking finale.
Although this plot is only 1 episode, it successfully points to the topic, paving all the previous plots and completely sublimating them.
The moment Mao Buyi's song sounded at the end, my heart was surging, I couldn't hide my excitement, I was speechless, and I shed tears of emotion.
For a while, all kinds of life pictures coming and going from south to north were surging in my mind. People often say that good film and television dramas can make the audience empathize instantly, and "South to North" has done it.
The initial feeling I got from South to North was that Zheng Xiaolong probably found half of the good actors in domestic entertainment.
However, as the plot progressed, I found that I had forgotten the actor's name and remembered the character's name instead.
The acting skills of the three actors amazed me.
The first is Hu Ke, who plays the role of Shi Niang.
Shi Niang has almost all the characteristics of the older generation of women, tenacity, dedication, kindness, and hard work. The husband was unjustly imprisoned, and he worked hard alone to pull his daughter to grow up, and he fell ill, and at the last moment he thought that his family could not be separated.
In the past, many viewers said that Sha Yi was his wife when they saw Hu Ke, but after watching this drama, I think Hu Ke is really a seriously underrated actress, and her acting skills are no worse than Sha Yi.
Especially that tired physical state, absolutely.
The second place is Jiang Yan.
In the past, I always thought that Kang Yeon was just a beautiful actress.
Unexpectedly, her acting skills are so outstanding.
The role of Yao Er can be called the most vivid female character in the whole play, from the fashionable spirit who loves stinky beauty at the beginning, to the little woman who looks arrogant and rich after marriage, and then to the orphans and widows who are destitute in their later years, especially the embarrassment that she desperately hides when she sees her ex when she sees her ex when she kebabs, the layering is too rich.
The audience's good impression of Yao Er, to a large extent, is also played by Jiang Yan, and the audience will fall in love with the role when she plays it vividly.
In the end, it was him-
plays our Uncle Ma, Ding Yongdai.
In fact, at the beginning, I was also worried, because of powerful supporting roles like Liu Jun, House Bin, Song Jiateng, and Wang Jinsong, each of whom performed very distinctively.
And Ma Kui's character design is somewhat similar to the old father of the Zhou family, I am afraid that Ding Yongdai's performance will not be much different.
I punched myself in the face.
Ding Yongdai's performance really exceeded my expectations.
First of all, the state of the whole person is relaxed, and the performance has a light and humorous personal style, and he is comfortable in acting in comedy.
Especially the scene where the whole family was organized to vote for Ma Yan's resignation, a father who canvassed for votes everywhere was absolutely stunned, and I laughed so much that I hammered the bed everywhere.
I didn't expect you to be such an Uncle Ma.
But there is another side to the character, one is the hand, which is like pliers, and the other is the eye, which is like the fiery eyes on the train.
As soon as these professional characteristics came out, Ma Kui immediately showed a difference between him and the old father of the Zhou family.
But Ding Yongdai still has a trick.
The love of the characters. Uncle Ma had a bumpy fate in his life, he sat in prison for ten years for Wang Yongge when he was young, lost his wife in middle age, and died just about to have a good life.
Such a sad role, but Ding Yongdai played a burst of anger.
No matter how much difficulty he encountered, no matter how much setback he suffered, Uncle Ma always looked forward in his eyes and did not flinch in the slightest.
Treat his lover and family,Amiable,Especially to daughter,There's a kind of cute temperament.。
For the apprentice, from the deliberate suppression, to the smoothing of his heart, to the training, and then to the secret joy after the apprentice has achieved something.
Ma Kui portrayed by Ding Yongdai is firm, righteous, kind, and a person of faith, who is cold on the outside and hot on the inside, and the advantages of the older generation are all on him.