The web series Detective Chinatown 2 has changed, but it remains the same.
I'm sure many people have the same opinion as us, and one of the most anticipated domestic TV dramas at the beginning of the year was undoubtedly the online drama "Detective Chinatown 2".
Indeed, after a long wait, we finally arrived!!
Whether it is a theater or an online drama, this national-level IP has always brought us unprecedented surprises. Since "The Return of the Great Sage", we have seen more and more people join the "Minion Group", "Little White Group"...These people all look like a bunch of schoolchildren. Whenever you think they've played big enough, you'll be surprised to know that this group of people seems to be able to play even bigger! What the hell do they do?!
Since this is the case, I will not say more, and I have been pursuing it until now. What has been our experience with the show since it was launched?
In short, the web series Detective Chinatown 2 has changed, but it still stays the same.
Let's start by talking about those parts that remain the same.
The essence of man certainly remains the same.
Whether in front of the stage or behind the scenes, the members of the team are still the original Lin Mo Kiko Sasha; And the mysterious detectives, the mysterious detectives! Even when the president of the detective agency, Tang Ren, and the deputy director of Kun Tai, unexpectedly appeared.
Some people seem very reliable at first glance, while others exude a strong sense of humor at a glance. They all found what they needed with my help - Inspector Tang, he was an old friend of mine, a friend who made me feel close and full of anticipation! In short, the appearance of old friends quickly brought us back to the depths of the universe where Tang Tan was.
This feeling has not changed.
The first unit is called "Angel Sanatorium".
The detective is imprisoned in a mysterious sanatorium, removes his name, and collaborates with a group of crazy people.
And the pianist he had been looking for, a fellow detective, was mysteriously hanged in the cold bathroom on the first night.
This is the second unit, called "The Devil's Breath".
The lawyer mysteriously fell from the upper floor, stabbed to his body, and the cause of his death was tragic.
Around him, everyone who appeared to have criminal intent later passed away.
These clues point to a mysterious group known as the "Meditation Society".
In that place, you can find believers dressed in white, teachers who breathe wisdom from their mouths, and potions that are dangerous and hallucinating.
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These are all our expectations for the "Tang Detective" series, and they are also what we can see in the web series "Detective Chinatown 2".
This place still hides some shocking events, the most mysterious atmosphere, the most painful facts, and the metaphors hidden behind the truth.
Of course, the most important thing is the unique style shown in the "Tang Detective" series, or more accurately, we can also see it as a kind of "Tang Detective" aesthetic concept.
Sometimes, it displays a quality that is both elegant and malicious.
This is similar to the "piano melody" in the first unit, "Angel Sanatorium".
The melodious piano melody, like a river, flows quietly in the cold, cold sanatorium.
Melody is not only a code and a password, but also a creative source that stimulates Lin Mo's infinite imagination at critical moments.
It also represents a beauty of contrast. Its existence and meaning are like an "elegy". The most humane and caring works of art float in the cage of the most "deprivation of human nature". Every member of the sanatorium used the painful fate and tangled past they experienced to create an "angel song".
At times, it appears both vivid and mysterious.
In the movie "The Devil's Breath", Huang Po has the opportunity to make a bowl of Tom Yum Gong soup full of life and aroma herself, but unfortunately, she ends up with a hallucinogenic potion in a lucky bag.
The aroma of the food, and the taste of the memory. It could be the smell of the drug, or the smell of hallucinations, or the smell of desire.
Lin Mo is known as a detective, and his unique sense of smell allows him to find key clues in a variety of scents.
Although "Devil's Breath" may seem prosaic on the surface, it actually allows you to experience desire, fear, and deep desire.
Tom Yum Soup reveals the true meaning of life for you, it is full of warmth, vitality and heat; Tom Yum soup is cool and sweet, it is warm and warm. However, the medicine contained in the lucky bag has dangerous and sweet properties, and is a cold and inextricable trap.
Although the Tang Detective series describes the case, its content is much more than that. It looks at a family, a group of people, and a city through the eyes of one person. It depicts the dividing line between good and evil in man, and between angels and demons. It contains the poetry of danger, as well as the metaphor of blood and roses.
In addition to the case itself, many subtleties seem to be real flesh, providing a rich basis for the plot. "Lin Mo Talks about the Case" is a story about the story behind the case. It takes us deep into the various stories, listening to Lin Mo's voice, and feeling Lin Mo's emotions.
This is precisely the most fascinating part of the Tang Detective series: we are not only chasing the truth of the facts, but also in-depth understanding of the truth, and sometimes even being "caught" by the truth.
Obviously, when you finish the first unit of the second season, you will realize that the online drama "Tang Detective 2" seems to be different from the previous version.
Some people may feel that the pace of the first unit seems to have become "slow".
Rather than calling it "slow-paced", it is more accurate to say that it is an exploration from ontological reasoning to social reasoning.
Although the fast pace often means sacrificing some of the characters' portrayals, when you ** the online drama "Tang Detective 2", you will have a deeper understanding of more characters and the stories behind them. The personalities and identities of the characters in the play are very clear, and the actors who come out of life can be restored to real life. None of the characters in the play are people who are being used as tools, but they all seem to be far and close to us. Their identity is a real and living person, and their fate is also tied to the person in real life. The rich group portrait descriptions also allow the audience to be more deeply immersed.
It also shows that when Lin Mo is trapped in the Angel Sanatorium, he is not only chasing the truth of the facts, but also connecting with every member of the sanatorium.
Although they may seem like dangerous "madmen" on the surface, in reality, each one has their own unique story hidden behind it.
In the course of the conversation between Lin Mo and An Song, he not only heard these stories, but also observed a phenomenon that seemed to be harmonious on the surface, but in fact there was an undercurrent. Lin Mo read "One Man's War", which was his first novel. He begins to reflect on the difference between a madman and a normal person, and gradually becomes aware of the depth and pain in human nature.
As a result, Lin Mo's personality has also changed.
When Lin Mo first stepped into the nursing home, he was just a detective with a high status, who didn't care about anyone but wanted to uncover the truth.
But he soon realizes that in this world, which is called a "madman", real-world logic is not feasible.
In order to reveal the true face of "madmen", we need to get to the bottom of the inner world of madmen and master how they speak.
From this point of view, "Angel Sanatorium" is not only a disaster for Lin Mo, but also a testimony to his personal growth.
Although some people feel that Lin Mo seems to have become "sluggish". Rather than calling him dull, it is better to think that Lin Mo has become "real".
In the first season, Lin Mo appeared as a "chemistry teacher by day and a scavenger by night", which seems to make the audience default to him as a hexagonal warrior.
However, at that moment, we can vaguely feel that he is almost unable to take care of himself in his daily life in private, and that he is easily deceived (whether in the face of his master Tang Ren or Cinnabar Mole Ivy), but in some specific cases, this does not seem so obvious due to the help of **.
In the second season, the creators deliberately put Lin Mo in a more dangerous environment, which also reflects a kind of "maturity" of the characters. In "I Am Not the God of Medicine", Lin Mo appeared in front of everyone as a patient, he was diagnosed with mental illness in the hospital, and his family did not believe that he could ** disease. He single-handedly broke into the sanatorium, which is why he has been repeatedly frustrated.
He can understand the content of the case, but he has difficulty penetrating people's hearts. Therefore, he needs to learn how to deal with failures and setbacks, but also how to deal with the incompetence of detectives.
He finds the key informant, Sakura, and hears a tragic story from her, hoping to save her from the nursing home. Thanks to his efforts, he finally succeeded in saving her from being consumed by death. But he did not anticipate that failure would eventually lead to death. He didn't know what he was wrong with, and he didn't know why he was doing it. He suffered a great loss because of his own mistakes. Here his life begins to end in a sense of significance. He knew his fault, he understood hers, he knew his own. He came to realize that he was just a detective, more of an ordinary person than a god.
Observing every detective in the Tang Detective universe, whether it is Qin Feng, Tang Ren, or Noda Hao, they all seem to have had their own shortcomings and experienced the transformation from "god" to "human".
This time, Lin Mo finally became the round.
Changing from being a god to being a human being is not a fall, but a growth. In the process, he gradually learned how to use his wisdom and strength to solve life's problems. It was from this moment that he received the most crucial revelation he needed to be a detective.
He has come to realize that his job is not just to investigate cases, but more to investigate "people".
This also explains why, in the second half of "Angel Sanatorium", everyone is trying to find clues, but Lin Mo has always paid attention to the story of the mentally ill created by An Song.
Only when we truly understand people can we truly understand the case and gain insight into the true face of sentient beings.
When you fuse these two elements together, you'll realize that Angel Sanatorium isn't actually slow in pace and has a very important place in the series.
This represents Linmer's progress as a detective, as well as the series' exploration of the outside and its constant attempts at innovation.
When entering the second unit, "Devil's Breath", the growing Lin Mo encounters a more complex case and is drawn into a more convoluted and complex network.
Obviously, you'll notice the rhythm coming alive again.
We step into the puzzling rhythm of Tang Tan's classic works: the constantly emerging reversal plot, the approaching suspenseful atmosphere, and the kaleidoscope of colorful information content.
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For example, in the character of Amin in the fifth episode, we can observe the incompetence of a social animal, how he gradually retreats in the great waves of society, and finally succumbs to human nature.
The way the story is connected is also quite clever. At the end of the episode, you still feel sorry for Amin's lonely and painful mother, but in the next episode, you will meet another mother with the same heartache.
Huang Po was lying alone on the Ferris wheel, and when she saw the phantom of her granddaughter in the light of a flashlight, her heart still ached, even though she knew that it was just "the devil's breath", a hallucinogen's damage to her brain.
She was subjected to the cult and did a lot of irreparable acts, but her original intention was simply because she was a mother.
The Tranquility Society takes advantage of the fragile nature of human beings to ruthlessly exploit everyone at the bottom of society, turning their helping hand into a breeding ground for their own crimes.
When Lin Mo walks into the meditation meeting, you can also experience the chilling scene:
Everyone was dressed in pure white and had a loving smile on their faces. They all call you "family" in a very intimate way and express you in a uniform language, like a bunch of smiling zombies, everyone infected by the same virus.
Obviously, when I see this, I believe that many people will smile like me, and even want to shout loudly: Chen Guilin, you are **! Your voice is too loud, too bright!!
Indeed, this is really a coincidence, the hot topic on the New Year's theater online is "Eliminate the Three Evils Everywhere", and its core theme is also focused on "opposing evil cults".
What a wonderful synergy this is!
Perhaps in this context, whether it is an online drama or a theatrical movie, whether on the big screen or on the small screen, we can observe the more shocking scale and grander ambition of contemporary crime films.
The Devil's Breath is a work with "anti-cult" as the core, delving into the various aspects of human nature, showing a more complex, tangled and sad life story. Observe how those who desire salvation go astray into the wrong path of self-destruction.
Whether it's a sanatorium or a meditation club, they all show the grander vision of the online drama "Tang Detective 2": it tries to explore the era we live in and the era we live in through a series of intricate cases. It is not only a TV series, but also a major social event. The topics it had chosen for discussion had become broader and more relevant. It showcases the most intimate side of human nature through the telling and analysis of a series of stories. It touches everyone's heart deeply.
From this point of view, the difficulty of this play is indeed not small.
The courage to touch on such sensitive topics and to push the boundaries of what is possible, subject to scrutiny and environmental constraints, shows us how difficult it is to get a finished product like this today.
What is admirable is that after having such a high national base, the online drama "Tang Detective 2" still resolutely does not accept outdated models and security strategies, but chooses the path of innovation and breakthrough.
Whether it is in the topic of discussion, challenging social issues, or in the form, looking for more possibilities is very respectable.
Tang Tan Universe is preparing for a bigger chess game.
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