When it comes to good domestic dramas, "The Hidden Corner" is inevitable.
The play begins with a murder.
Mathematics teacher Zhang Dongsheng, played by Qin Hao, took the opportunity to pretend to be traveling with his parents-in-law, and suddenly pushed the two of them off the cliff to their death at the top of the mountain.
Zhang Dongsheng is a son-in-law with no status in the family, and his wife's relationship is broken. Once divorced, he will almost throw out the family. He planned the murder, his pride bruised over the years and his resentment driving him to take advantage of his wife's family fortune.
However, this scene was accidentally recorded by three children with a digital camera, and the two sides immediately started the game.
The two corpses happened to be Xia's keys, and the two families were involved in a series of murders. The two protagonists, Zhu Chaoyang and Zhang Dongsheng, are mirror images of each other. After the latter kills someone, Zhu Chaoyang can immediately copy and clean himself up through the latter's hands.
In a sense, Zhang Dongsheng is the "secret corner" in Zhu Chaoyang's heart.
The adult world is full of calculation and indifference, further forcing children to prepare for murder. By portraying these evils, the play reflects the great harm that adult society brings to children. Children break the law and even kill people, but the knives in their hands are handed over by adults. Zhu Chaoyang used fairy tale-like lies to tell false "facts" to the police and completely realized his "get rid of crime". He chooses to sacrifice "everyone else" to protect his own path forward in life.
Perhaps due to censorship, the show's overall portrayal of child characters appears to be both gentle and cruel, but Tsang believes this is a good way of expressing it.
Zhang Dongsheng takes you to climb mountains
It can be said that "Hidden Corner" is the most influential online drama in 2020. The show was launched on June 16, 2020, with only 12 episodes. The first half was a sensation and had almost no competitors.
Qin Hao is famous again. His famous saying "Do you think I still have a chance?" has been imitated and become a hot topic on the Internet.
The play is adapted from the online novel "Bad Boy".
This series is set in the millennium, with the simplicity, humidity and sultry heat of Zhanjiang City as the background. The overall style is literary, but it also appears to be very vital because it embodies the sense of time in various details.
The addition of these regional elements that do not exist in the original work makes it more grounded.
The pace of this story is so good that you can't stop. There is foreshadowing in every episode, and the length of each episode is different, which makes the story exciting.
In fact, throughout the whole play, it is mainly reflected in two aspects.
Rhythm, in addition to the visual impact and psychological cognitive level of the audience, this series has done quite well.
Whether it is Qin Hao's Zhang Dongsheng, Zhang Songwen's Zhang Yongping, or the scenes with the children, the characters are all meticulous and meticulous. The characterization, because it's the malice of a child, has a natural appeal to it.
There is a character motivation, character background and behavioral logic. This is also the key to Xin Shuang's 12-episode TV series of varying lengths that fascinates the audience.
The motivation for Zhang Dongsheng's character is that his wife is having an affair and wants a divorce, but he is unwilling. So he killed his in-laws, took away the property of his parents who had always looked down on him, and finally killed his wife. This role doesn't make much money. When he is middle-aged, he still works as a cram school teacher with no professional title, barely making ends meet.
Among the three main child actors, Zhu Chaoyang also has an extremely detailed character foundation.
There is a certain causal relationship between the formation of Zhu Chaoyang’s character and the occurrence of bad behaviors.
The person who hurt Zhu Chaoyang the most was his father, Zhu Yongping.
After Zhu Yongping reorganized his family, he was extremely indifferent to his son.
He made no secret of his daughter's partiality and doting in front of his son, but did not cause serious emotional harm to Zhu Chaoyang, who longed for father's love.
Bai Yunyu agreed to take his son to the mall to buy clothes, but he received a call from his wife on the way, and the wife offered to take her daughter with him.
Obviously Ke Xin declined politely. Zhu Yongping’s choice was for his wife, his son Zhu Chaoyang and the clay figurine, at the expense of his son’s poor companionship.
"The Hidden Corner" is a film about cold family affection, perverted love, broken families, and the hidden selfishness torn between the three.
Her sincerity, passion and delicate approach were also parodied in the second season of Let an Actor Play Your Role.