Hsi Chin Mansion, produced by TVB, scored 8.5 points in Douban in the first half of the year. The play is very interesting and gimmicky in setting.
Selena Li and Chen Shancong played two roles in their previous lives-Coco, a dancer, and Liu Xuhui, a policeman in1969, and Alex, a flight attendant and Xiao Weiming, a security guard in this life-2019. Coco always dreams of the future in his life, and Xiao Weiming always dreams of the past in his life, so the plot is interspersed in 1969 and 20 19.
Another setting is that the "Golden Night Building" is a place full of supernatural legends. Not only Tian Mi and Liu Xuhui, Leo Liu and Xiao Weiming lived in this building in their previous lives, but also puzzling things will happen to everyone in this building. Because this legend is so wonderful and unique, even a company has made a game based on it, called Fantasy Mansion-the beginning and the following plots of this drama will also be based on this game, and the customs clearance methods and plots of the game have also become the supplements of the previous episodes of this TV series.
At the same time, no matter whether it is 1969 or 20 19, the same person and cat live in Jinye Building: Brother Lin () and Grandpa Lin (Liu Jiang) in their early twenties, and the long-lived black cat "Liangbao".
The entanglement between the hero and heroine is the main plot of the play. On this basis, this drama tells the stories of other residents in a group of buildings in the form of unit drama every two episodes. For example, the seventh and eighth episodes are called "Crow", which tells the story of a family of three; Episodes 15 and 16, entitled "The Beautiful Witch", tell the story of Yuki's sister's love and greed for beauty played by Kang Hua.
These unit stories focus on current issues in life and show the lives of ordinary people in Hong Kong. Most of the fashion dramas produced by TVB show the rich or middle class in Hong Kong, and there are few such dramas focusing on the lives of ordinary people in the middle and lower classes, which is why Jin Xiao Mansion is so popular.
For example, in Crow, a family of three lives in a small room of about 10 square meters. Xiaohui, played by Gao Haining, is bent on letting his son Dongdong (played by Zheng Yaoxuan) go to a famous school. She not only drugged herself to engage in pyramid schemes, but also put great pressure on her husband A Guang (played by Chen Jiahui) and Dongdong until Dongdong was taken away by the crow essence. This story is full of negative temperament-no matter how hard you try, people who lose at the starting line have no chance to stand out. (Xiao Weiming also talked about social reality. Even after graduating from college, life is very hard. )
The story of "Wa" tells the estrangement between parents and adult children, and the loneliness of parents. Wen Qing, played by Deng Peiyi, and sex doll Mary exchange souls.
There are also online celebrities who pretend to be celebrities in A-style clothes, office workers who are constantly looking for excitement in one-night stands and so on. These stories have exposed the life and mental outlook of many Hong Kong people in a TV series (in fact, it is similar to our life), which makes people full. But what is interesting for Hong Kong people is that even though the subject matter is heavy, the temperament and interpretation of TV dramas are optimistic and relaxed. Instead of indulging in gloom and negativity, they look for new opportunities in desperate places. This may also be the reason why Hong Kong, as an immigrant city, is full of people who have left their homes, but it is full of vitality.
On the basis of interesting settings, the play also puts forward philosophical concepts. Or the story of "crow". After Dongdong was taken away by the crow elves, no one in the building remembered that Dongdong had ever existed. Everyone's memory becomes that Xiaohui and A Guang have no children. Even though many people were very familiar with Dongdong before, this plot was used to put forward the concept of "Mandela Effect".
When Jin Xiao Tower was involved in this concept, it also played some tricks on the spot. For example, the poster on the wall of the first shot is "Los Angeles". When people don't remember Dongdong, the word on the poster becomes "Los Angeles". This comes from a true anecdote. Los Angeles, the earliest American city, was written as "Los Angelas", which comes from Latin and means "angel". Later, when people wrote it, they changed the word to "Los Angeles". It is also a typical case of the Mandela effect.
The application of fable, Mandela effect, butterfly effect, parallel space-time and other concepts in this play also makes this play look deeper.
As I said before, this drama is a unit drama, and every two episodes focus on a group of people who live in tonight's building. But it is precisely because of this form that this drama has a strong sense of fracture. Criminal Investigation Drama and medical drama are the most typical unit dramas, which change a person and a story every few episodes, such as TVB's detective investigation files and wonderful hands and kindness. The protagonists of these plays are very devoted, and both the police who solve the case and the doctors who treat the disease dominate the development of the story. However, in Jin Xiao Mansion, the protagonist's participation in each unit is very weak. Alex and Xiao Weiming are like bystanders or passers-by of each story, rather than participating in it. Their own story lines are parallel to these unit stories. The only hint is that all these people live in this building.
If the audience's watching expectation is to follow the two heroes and heroines to explore the causes, entanglements and development of their stories, then they don't need to watch anything except "Strange Dreams" in episode 9 and 10 and "Sleepwalking" in episode 19 and episode 20.
Personally, I watched "The Former Stalk" episode by episode, but after reading it, I felt too broken and couldn't see my satisfaction at one breath, so I was a little disappointed. However, if we look at it with the mentality of "urban legend" and "various life styles", the play is quite interesting.
It's done.