"The Hidden Corner": Do I still have a chance?

I stayed up late last night and finished watching this 12-episode, well-produced, suspenseful domestic drama "The Hidden Corner" with a score of 9.0 on Douban. The intuitive feeling is the shocking thing brought about by human nature!

After the finale aired, all kinds of "terrifying" drama reviews came in overwhelmingly. All-round analyzes of the drama were conducted, and they were roughly divided into two factions, "fairy tales and reality" ". Therefore, I will not introduce too much about the plot in this article. Let’s talk about the good and evil, crime and punishment behind it.

In the play, before Zhang Dongsheng attacked his father-in-law, mother-in-law, and his wife, he asked this question: Do I still have a chance?

In fact, he already had the answer in his heart, but he still wanted to ask, because this not only gave the other party a chance, but also gave himself a chance.

At first, I just felt that the copy was well written and showed Zhang Dongsheng’s inner struggle when facing a crime. But it wasn’t until I watched the last episode that I suddenly realized that in fact, this sentence not only belongs to Zhang Dongsheng alone, but to every character in the play, and even to you and me in reality!

Let’s first talk about these three “bad kids”, Zhu Chaoyang, Yan Liang, and Pu Pu.

Zhu Chaoyang, who gets first place in every exam, is considered a top student by his parents and teachers, but is considered prude and alien by his classmates.

Having lacked his father's love since childhood, he grew up under the knee of a very controlling mother. Under his mother's guidance, he only had the word "study" in his life.

As for his father, who already has a new family, his attitude towards him has always been full of indifference and perfunctoryness.

His long-term depressive and boring life has made him more mature than other children since he was a child, and also made him more sensible and obedient than ordinary people.

However, there was always a question in his heart: Do I still have a chance? Do I still have the chance to go back to the time when I was a child, with loving parents, a happy family, and my father taking him out to swim?

Because of this, Zhu Jingjing's death made him think that his opportunity had come.

But everyone who has seen it knows that even so, no one gave him this opportunity. His father's suspicion of Zhu Jingjing after his death made all his expectations come to nothing.

As for Yan Liang, judging from the entire plot, Yan Liang's mind is relatively simple.

In order to treat Pu Pu’s younger brother, he escaped from the orphanage with Pu Pu. He naively went to borrow money from someone, but was almost caught by the police. After getting the money, he wanted to copy a card and make Zhang Dongsheng pay for his actions, but Zhu Chaoyang tricked him.

Having witnessed his father being arrested since he was a child, and growing up in an environment like an orphanage, he was secretly asking himself: Do I still have a chance? Will he still have a chance to see his father? Does he still have a chance to become a different person from his father?

With the help of Lao Chen, he met his father, so he decided to report the murderer Zhang Dongsheng after helping Pupu get the money, and return to the orphanage obediently.

However, the thoughtful Zhu Chaoyang was afraid that his affairs would be leaked, so he gave him an empty card. And this empty card put Pupu in danger, and he once again stepped into the whirlpool of the entire incident!

Speaking of Pupu, what opportunity does she want?

From the perspective of the drama, a little girl has 300,000 yuan. In this comparison, her innocence is particularly obvious. What she asked is: Do I still have a chance? Can I still save my only relative in the world, my brother Xinxin?

As the promoter of the plot, Pu Pu plays an important role at every node in the entire story. Many people say she is very scheming, but she is not. At most, she matured prematurely due to the environment in which she grew up.

In my opinion, many of her behaviors actually represent a kind of innocence. For example, borrowing money, writing a warning letter, asking Zhu Jingjing to vent his anger on Zhu Chaoyang, trusting Zhang Dongsheng and other details.

The "scheming" speculated by many netizens is actually just a cautious approach to life.

However, after Zhu Chaoyang's "empty card plan" was exposed, due to an asthma attack, although Zhang Dongsheng felt compassion, he still hesitated the moment he heard the address. Although Pu Pu never appeared later, there are various signs that Pu Pu is dead.

Three people who seem to be different actually have an unknown side in their hearts. The intertwining of fate brought them short-term warmth. But in this story, none of them got the chance they expected!

In fact, the portrayal of Zhang Dongsheng in this TV series is quite perfect. We can clearly see the good and evil displayed in him, and we also witness his crime and punishment.

At the beginning of the first episode, there is the extremely popular "mountain climbing", which is also the "source of all evil" in the entire story. Going to climb mountains as some netizens joked? Don’t go! (End of the play)

Zhang Dongsheng is an off-staff mathematics teacher who teaches at the Children's Palace. Because he was the intruder, his father-in-law and mother-in-law didn't treat him very well. He was also not well-received in front of relatives and was often ridiculed.

There are many metaphors in the play, suggesting that he has a bad waist, his wife is cheating on him, and he wants a divorce. But his obsession is that in his world, he has nothing but his wife.

However, how can we force emotional matters?

Under multiple blows, his psychology gradually became distorted, and he killed his father-in-law, mother-in-law, and wife. However, every time before he kills someone, he always asks: Do I still have a chance? In fact, he already had the answer in his heart, so they must die.

Later, while dealing with the three children, he actually had only one thought in his heart: Do I still have a chance? Return to the Children's Palace to teach, not to be caught by the police, and to be safe and sound.

However, invisibly, he was played around by these three children, and later became Zhu Chaoyang's "tool", killing many people in a row. Yes, he is a murderer, but this does not mean that he Completely annihilated humanity.

For these children, he did not want to kill them, he just wanted to get the video and let everything go over quickly. Including when he told Pu Pu at KFC that he would come back to get enough toys.

But there is no way. Although Pupu's life hangs on a thread, he cannot let the police go to the home of his father-in-law and mother-in-law. The cat's behavior shows that there are still secrets there that have not yet surfaced. In addition, in the extras, the scene of Zhang Dongsheng eating KFC alone is actually enough to show that Pupu has left.

At that time, he may have known that he could not look back.

So in the end he died under the gun of the police and was defeated by reality. As for Zhu Chaoyang, he no longer has any worries, can be reborn, and can believe in fairy tales.

Therefore, his death is a kind of fulfillment, a sublimation of the theme, and also breaks the possibility of "the rising sun must rise in the east"!

Other characters cannot escape this question.

For Officer Chen, he always has regrets about the consequences of impartial law enforcement.

Therefore, he cared for Yan Liang in every possible way. After retiring, he decided to adopt Yan Liang. His question is: Do I still have a chance? To make up for the regrets of the past, Yan Liang can go on the right track and not make the same mistakes as his father.

In the finale, although he saved Yan Liang, Yan Liang also decided to become a policeman in the future. However, behind all the seemingly beautiful scenes, there is a great tragedy.

1. Lao Chen’s wound was bleeding when he went to save Yan Liang, but he was fine when he rescued him.

2. At Zhu Chaoyang’s opening ceremony, Yan Liang was dressed in white and entered the auditorium. Only Zhu Chaoyang could see him.

3. When Lao Chen was dancing in the square, Yan Liang whistled, but only Lao Chen could hear it.

The above three points actually implicitly express that in the end, both Lao Chen and Yan Liang are dead.

Therefore, Lao Chen’s expectations were also disappointed. Fortunately, his kindness influenced Yan Liang and did not let him leave with "badness".

As for Zhu Chaoyang's father, his inner struggle lies in the protection of his son after Zhu Jingjing's death.

Through the zipper sound in the recording, he actually knew that Zhu Jingjing’s death was related to Zhu Chaoyang, but he also knew that the reason why Zhu Chaoyang was like this was due to his long-term preference for one and the other. Zhu Chaoyang’s lack of fatherly love.

So he was thinking: Do I still have a chance? Let your son live well!

So when Wang Li bullied Zhu Chaoyang, he punched him directly and showed no mercy. At the same time, he also wanted to try his best to make up for the love he owed Zhu Chaoyang, and often took him swimming, all in order to complete the redemption.

Unfortunately, he was not able to witness Zhu Chaoyang's transformation. In the end, he and his wife both died at the hands of Zhang Dongsheng. On his deathbed, he said to Zhu Chaoyang to live well, which represented his The innermost thoughts.

Let’s talk about Zhu Chaoyang’s mother. She is an extremely tough woman. She lives with Zhu Chaoyang by herself and strictly disciplines him. She just hopes that one day, Zhu Chaoyang can live a good life when he grows up. But paranoid love will eventually have negative effects.

Her question is: Do I still have a chance? My son is my only one, I can never lose!

I pity the hearts of parents in the world, but sometimes, education must not be one-sided. No matter first place or second place. Compared to a child growing up healthily, it is nothing!

Eventually, friction arose between him and Zhu Chaoyang. Although the ending does not explain the future direction of her and Zhu Chaoyang, from the previous plot, it is not difficult to see that there is already a gap between the two.

Perhaps, as someone said: For lucky people, childhood can heal their lives, while for unfortunate people, childhood heals them throughout their lives.

Overall, this rare masterpiece makes people deeply moved. Things in the world are rarely black and white, and good and evil are just a matter of thoughts. Some opportunities need to be fought for by yourself. But more often than not, you have to learn to give yourself a chance. Sometimes, if you let yourself go, you will usher in a broader life!