Watching eight episodes in a row, the fear of being dominated by Canon… It is said that “The Beginning” is the first “exploded” of domestic online dramas in 2022, no one should refute it.
“The Beginning” is directed by Sun Molong, Liu Hongyuan, and Shun, written by Qiu Yujie, Shuan, Piaojun, Huang Kaiwen, and starring Bai Jingting, Zhao Jinmai, and Liu Yijun.
Two days after its launch, this time-looping short drama has exceeded 100 million views. As the popularity continues to rise, different views are gradually fermenting.
Director: Sun Molong / Liu Hongyuan / Lao Suan Screenwriter: Qiu Yujie / Lao Suan / Praying Jun / Huang Kaiwen Starring: Bai Jingting / Zhao Jinmai / Liu Yijun / Liu Tao / Huang Jue / more…
Genre: Drama Country/Region: Mainland China Language: Mandarin Chinese Premiere: 2022-01-11 (Mainland China)
Episodes: 15 Single Episode Duration: 45 minutes Also known as: The beginning of Reset Synopsis · · · · · The play is adapted from the novel of the same name by Prayers, which tells the story of game architect Xiao Heyun (Bai Jingting) and college student Li Shiqing (Zhao Jinmai) “resurrected from the dead” after encountering an explosion on a bus. During the period of the bus accident, he constantly went through a time loop, from getting off and saving himself to breaking barriers and fighting side by side, trying to prevent the explosion and find the truth.
Entered with the setting of time loop and generalized infinite flow, “The Beginning” was disliked by some genre drama fans. Netizens who have high expectations for the high-concept setting commented that it is not innovative enough, cool enough, and compact enough, so that the charm of some suspense mazes and countdown urgency has been weakened.
Douban_Copy_Copy.jpg© Provided by Wenhui Douban_Copy_Copy.jpg But from another point of view, the creators have replaced the realism issues they are better at with the difficulty of solving puzzles. Jialin, where the story takes place, is a fictional city, and time loop is also a supernatural concept, but when the play cuts the vein of realism with the blade of time loop type, it touches the heart of the heart with a touch of realism that sticks to the ground.” The breath of “people” has filled the empty room of the mind labyrinth.
And this has won it the reputation of “an excellent start for domestic online dramas in 2022”.
Without the surprising structure, the 15-episode web drama “The Beginning” is adapted from Jinjiang Literature City’s novel of the same name. It attracted attention as soon as it went online, because the original work had the time setting of the Mobius ring, and because the production Fang Noon Sunshine has been online for a long time. A genre that is popular in the online literature and has been played by American, British, Japanese, and Korean dramas, how to make new achievements in the hands of top students who create domestic dramas has attracted the attention of many people.
The main line of the story is clear: on a bus destined to explode, Li Shiqing, a female college student, and Xiao Heyun, a young game architect, enter a time loop. Time and time again, they wake up after the explosion in the car, only to find that the time has gone back to the time before the explosion. Watching a car of passengers with unknown fate, two young people try to find the truth and prevent the bombing before they reach the deadly river crossing bridge on Route 45. They made trial and error again and again, until the whole car escaped from their doomed doom.
Some netizens gradually refined the plot “the first two episodes exploded ten times”, but they also poked at the difficulties of creation – the same characters, similar scenes, and repeated restarts. Can the story resist aesthetic fatigue, the time cycle structure of domestic dramas Can you bring netizens’ experience of watching dramas to a new enclave?
After the first eight episodes, the first week of updates came to an end. There is suspense, a sense of urgency, and logic online, but some netizens still have higher expectations for it. Because compared with several overseas film and television works such as “Groundhog Day”, “Source Code” and “Butterfly Effect” that everyone has mentioned a lot, “The Beginning” does have less complex timeline structure and high-concept settings. The surprise is that it has become a “standard for testing IQ”. Sophisticated viewers can even predict who the murderer is from the details of the picture and the share of some close-ups. In contrast, the male and female protagonists who cannot understand the truth seem to be less brain-burning in “The Beginning”.
However, more audiences are happy to see the shining point of the combination of time loop type and local narrative. When the hero and heroine are always going back and forth in vain, it is not so much that they are “in this mountain”, but rather that the creator chooses the former between focusing on people’s hearts and creating an extremely clever structure. They gave up part of the “difficulty of solving problems” and left the biggest suspense to the hearts of the people.
When Li Shiqing was alone in the cycle a few times before, why did only the reason for getting out of the car for sexual harassment work? On the 19th cycle, why did the driver hesitate to open the door?
In the second half of the plot, “The Beginning” needs to solve the puzzle of people’s hearts, and it needs to fill in the fundamental logic of the “time cycle”. Whether the two can be linked together will determine the final quality of the play.
The simple type shell is embedded with social observation, and the humanistic temperature is touching. Some people questioned that “The Beginning” was too bad, and it was difficult to meet the demand for brainstorming and visual effects. Just because of the honest storytelling method, some people are willing to act as tap water to recommend the show . Without the bells and whistles of the dazzling technical shell, “The Beginning” closely complements the creator’s social observation and humanistic observation in the simple genre coat.
No Catering.jpg© Provided by Wenhui No Catering.jpg Before the end of the time loop, the bomb detonation is quantitative. The long journey is 20 minutes and the shortest is a few minutes. The tug-of-war between human nature and conscience, as well as those hidden in the corners of society, are the variables that influence the outcome. The drama level of writing “people” comes to the realism that the creative team has always output steadily.
Compared with the original novel, which focuses on the protagonist’s puzzle-solving process in finding the truth, the drama version gives passers-by A, B, C, and ink.
A bus is the most ubiquitous form of transportation and can also be seen as a highly condensed cross-section of society. There are the old melon farmers who came to Jialin for the first time to deliver watermelons to their sons after being released from prison, and the mother-in-law who is in her sixtieth year but still needs to go out to dispense medicine for her elderly father. There are migrant workers who save money for their daughters to go to school, there are bloggers who shoot videos with their mobile phones all the time, there are boys who are hot-blooded and second graders who are not understood by their mothers… What kind of people are they, what kind of past and secrets do they carry? Where did they go at the crossroads of life? All these, the bright side of the play is that two young people save themselves and save others. Ordinary people who are gears to each other at the same time.
More than half of the plot, the past of a carload of people swept the social phenomenon and constantly supplemented the strength of the script.
There are sighs and reflections, such as bystanders who have little kindness but no great courage, such as how cyber violence happens.
But more than that, it is the unshakable conscience of the people who are like the capillaries of society: first aid medicine, watermelon, kittens, sanitary napkins, suitcases, etc., light up the inner purity of the little people under the abject exterior. A small fulcrum of support.
Li Shiqing and Xiao Heyun, one acted poorly, and the other had some adult concerns.
It’s human nature to be afraid of death, who doesn’t want to live in the sunshine. But knowing that they will suffer the most painful way to die, they will also face the fear of the last chance to escape. They still hold the belief to “try again”. The courage of young people has written through the precious kindness that can burst out infinite power in ordinary people.
Also in the trailer, the police officer Zhang Cheng gave an unequivocal answer, which is a solid shield that will ultimately save lives and maintain the safety of one party.
“The Beginning” doesn’t have much of the cool feeling of grouping dungeons to upgrade to do tasks, and there are still many logical chains waiting to be closed, but people with flesh and blood inside and outside the car and stories can reach the depths of empathy among all living beings. The barrage said, “Always cry for the warmth of the world”; on Weibo, someone enthusiastically confessed: “I like this story, perhaps because I also want to live in a world where kindness is not a disadvantage and efforts are rewarded in the end. .”
You finally escaped from a bus that was destined to explode. Will you go back alone?
If you receive a text message from a stranger that a car will explode, will the police immediately call the police?
“The Beginning” uses the human heart to progress layer by layer, and takes these two multiple-choice questions to show the light of the right path of human nature.
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