Yue Guan doesn't like dramas that blindly expose the dark side of the country.
The reason is not that he cannot accept reality, but because he despises movies that explore the bad qualities of Chinese people and then go to the West to win awards.
There are many directors of literary and artistic films who follow this approach.
Their purpose is not really to film those dark things to help the country become a better place. They just cater to Westerners' abnormal understanding of the East so that they can get money and fame from their foreign fathers.
This kind of person is disgusting in Yue Guan's eyes.
Every country has its share of troubles. The more people there are, the more so. This is unavoidable.
It is of course possible to turn national issues into a drama, but if you only raise problems without giving solutions and just blindly criticize, this approach is essentially a higher-level troll.
The meaning is infinitely close to zero.
The advantage is that it can gain the support of some elites and the Holy Mother, and it can also gain reputation from Westerners.
In my previous life, people always praised Kimchi Country’s reality films for being extremely realistic and satirizing the government and society. What next
The director who made the movie won an award, and the actors who made the movie gained both fame and fortune. Many viewers followed suit and wondered whether Kimchi Country should look like a bear or a bear.
Even the money to make such movies is only made possible by the support of the consortium that is satirized in these movies.
A country that doesn't even have military autonomy is rotten from the bottom up. What's the use of mocking it in the movie
The key point is that they didn't dare to satirize Ugly Dad in the movie.
But they can cultivate many superior fans in our country. It seems that those who worship kimchi movies are superior to those who like to watch domestic movies.
That's magic.
Yue Guan has never seen this kind of film before, because he feels that as an actor, you don't have to think about national system issues or care about national affairs, you can just do your own job first.
Most celebrities are not literate people. With their level of education, they are actually not qualified to comment on public affairs.
But "Long Night" is different.
This is the play specified above.
Moreover, this play is not a criticism.
In "Long Night", the general environment is indeed dark enough, and the judicial system is also very imperfect, allowing the evildoers to go free. However, you can see that there are always people running for justice.
They are not just criticizing, shouting, or doing useless work.
Each of them is taking actions for justice in their hearts.
This is the value that Yue Guan admires: practice it personally!
They are willing to pay the price.
There are always people willing to help them.
After Hou Guiping is Jiang Yang, after Jiang Yang is Yan Liang, and behind Yan Liang are the police who support him.
"Long Night" is certainly not a drama that praises virtues, but it would be short-sighted to regard it only as a drama that criticizes reality.
After watching the twelve episodes of "The Long Night", Yang Xue felt deeply shocked.
She couldn't describe that feeling in words for a while.
In the last episode, there was a scene of Jiang Yang committing suicide.
Jiang Yang, played by Yue Guan, turned off the lights in the room, stretched his neck into the rope loop on the equipment that had been prepared, pressed the remote control switch of the equipment, and then threw the switch directly out of the window.
He closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, and the rope tightened.
Yue Guan performed this scene in person without using a substitute.
An actor cannot maintain his peak acting skills forever in a play. There are always a few scenes that require explosive power.
For example, the scene in "The Heart of the Burning Sun" in which Deng Chao is executed by lethal injection is a textbook level of acting. Deng Chao exploded with 200% of his strength. In normal acting, Deng Chao does not need to use such force.
In "The Long Night," most of Jiang Yang's scenes don't need this kind of explosive power. In the early moments when he was high-spirited and in the later moments when he was depressed, Yue Guan only had to use seven or eight points of his strength.
There are only a few scenes that require Yue Guan to use his full strength.
In one of the scenes, Jiang Yang lost his wallet and burst into tears.
In that scene, Yue Guan really burst into tears because he knew that Jiang Yang was really broken down at this moment.
Over the years, Jiang Yang has lost his youth, career, reputation, future, and family because of this case. He was already on the verge of collapse, and the loss of his wallet completely shattered his heart.
Even if there were only a few hundred dollars in his wallet, it was nothing compared to his previous losses.
But it’s never the last straw that breaks the camel’s back, it’s every straw.
Some people can survive the big storms of life, but they will be defeated by the little things in life.
That was the case in Jiangyang at that time.
Apart from that scene, the most difficult thing to act was the scene where Jiang Yang died.
In fact, Yue Guan didn't have the feeling he wanted to perform in this scene, and Chen Kaige didn't let him perform it because Jiang Yang committed suicide. If that process was performed, it would make the audience feel particularly terrifying.
So Chen Kaige just let the audience watch the beginning and then cut the scene.
Only the sound of the wire tightening and Yue Guan's cry were retained.
Even so, this shot has already made the audience feel a little chilly.
"Long Night" is indeed not a TV series that can make the audience feel too happy after watching it.
Fortunately, Chen Kaige's master-level directing skills somewhat distracted some of the audience's attention, and also made the quality of the finished product of "Long Night" better than "The Silent Truth" that Yue Guan watched in his previous life.
After Jiang Yang committed suicide, Chen Kaige switched the camera to other characters.
The trio of investigators who have been fighting side by side with Jiang Yang, forensic doctor Chen Mingzhang, and Zhu Wei, a former policeman who is now equally depressed, are far away in Zhang Chao's room, watching the lights in the room go out.
They stood there and waited for a long time, but the light never came on again.
Then Zhu Wei turned around and left without saying a word, disappearing into the dark night.
Chen Mingzhang sighed, got into his Mercedes-Benz, and drove to the bar.
At this time, Zhang Chao was lying in the Longcheng hotel, staring at the ceiling of the hotel room with his eyes open, and he stared like this all night.
And Li Jing was at home, looking through the photos taken by Jiang Yang and Zhang Chao in the past few months, and tears flowed silently.
Jiang Yang's wife Guo Hongxia put her children to sleep at Pingkang's home. She sat alone in the living room and watched TV in a daze all night. She didn't change the channel until snowflakes appeared on the TV.
Jiang Yang went to die.
All living beings are diverse.
The reason why light is valuable is because the cost of obtaining it is high.
As for the domestic drama, it has been a long time since the filming was so shocking.
And, it makes people sad.
"Yue Guan, "Long Night" was very good, but it was too good, so it is difficult to become popular." After a long time, Yang Xue sighed softly.
If she knew the show would be so depressing after watching it, maybe she wouldn't watch it.
But after watching it, she was glad that she had watched such a TV series.
This is really a complicated feeling.