The story begins with a seemingly simple taxi deck case. In the process of taxi driver Wang Xiang and brother-in-law Gong Biao jointly investigating the deck car, the unsolved case of dismembered body 18 years ago reappeared, and the death of Wang Xiang's son was related to this case.
Wang Xiang and Gong Biao decided to find out the truth, and invited Ma Desheng, a retired policeman who was investigating the case in those years, and the three old buddies embarked on a journey of life redemption. "The Long Season" combines suspense, light comedy elements and life texture, and has a unique narrative. In the broadcast story, the length of telling the crime and solving the case is very limited.
Surprisingly, with the development of the plot, the suspense story line has not accelerated, but has been slowing down. A lot of pen and ink in the play are about people, times and chicken feathers in life. This is not so much a suspense drama as a life drama.
Drama evaluation
The Long Season takes a different approach, from the perspective of three frustrated "old men" such as taxi driver Wang Xiang, brother-in-law Gong Biao and former captain of Interpol detachment Ma Desheng. Taking the seemingly routine deck crash as the incision, the shocking and confusing dismemberment case of 18 years ago was drawn.
Telling a generation and their lives from the perspective of the elderly, the time span is large enough, and it is also more impactful. Compared with the conventional suspense drama, it is more inclined to linear narrative and puts the logical chain in front of the audience.
The play adopts a three-line narrative of 1997, 1998, and 20 16, alternately using flashbacks and interpolation, creating suspense with the help of grass snake gray lines, which sometimes makes people secretly speculate, and sometimes makes people suddenly realize, refreshing the audience's experience of watching the play.