Is ＂Sweeping the Black Storm＂ really that good？ Seven plot loopholes, Sun Honglei’s acting skills are controversial

Recently, the TV drama market is very lively, and the departments of Sweeping Black Storm, Ideal City, Children of the Qiao Family and I’m Fine in a Foreign Land are excellent, attracting audiences from all walks of life. Among them, especially "Sweeping the Black Storm" is highly topical and highly concerned, and has been on the hot search many times.

"Sweeping the Black Storm" is adapted from Sun Xiaoguo’s case, Hunan Wenliehong’s case, the case of burying a corpse in a playground and many other real cases that have aroused widespread concern in society. It is half the battle to shoot these sensational cases and meet the audience through censorship. This is a bold breakthrough in the theme and scale of the play, which is commendable.

However, after the wonderful opening of "Sweeping the Black Storm", with the development of the plot these days, some loopholes in the plot have gradually emerged, and the narrative rhythm seems to be a bit slow and messy. There have been many comments praising the play, so we won’t go into details, just want to talk about the fly in the ointment of the play.

The first two episodes of "Sweeping the Black Storm" are very attractive, and are described by netizens as "a god-like start": Xue Mei was killed and buried by a killer sent by Gao Mingyuan on the way to complain, Xue Mei turned out to be the mother of Gao Mingyuan’s little lover, Ma Shuai ate seafood and smoked cigars at the detention center, and Ma Shuai hurt his little finger in order not to be questioned by the police …

In the first two episodes, the story of the case and the relationship between the characters are skillfully explained, the narrative rhythm is well grasped, and the lines are also wonderful, especially the sentence "You buried her mother today" that Gao Mingyuan coldly said to the killer, which is chilling.

However, after three or four episodes, the narrative rhythm of the play began to drag on. On the one hand, the branch line of Huang Xi’s unannounced visit to Beauty Loan, nightclub and Lin Hao’s investigation is a bit presumptuous; On the other hand, Li Chengyang, played by Sun Honglei, kept flashing back the warm memories of himself and his master Lin Han, and the scenes of friendship days and Li Chengyang in Ma Shuai being threatened by Haige, and Li Lijuan, Ma Shuai’s widow, quarreled with each other. The director and screenwriter deliberately create suspense, and they are vague at the critical moment of the plot, which makes people look a little puzzling.

Moreover, the progress of the following ten episodes was relatively slow. I clearly knew that Gao Mingyuan was the villain’s big BOSS, but I didn’t know what happened 14 years ago. Why did Li Lijuan rush to realize it? In addition, there are some logical loopholes in the plot, which makes people feel anxious, unsatisfied and regrettable.

Vulnerability 1: Why did Ma Shuai hide in the detention center? It is said that it is to hide from the central supervision team for investigation. Wouldn’t it be safer to go abroad and hide for a while? As a result, it was more convenient for the supervision team to send He Yong for questioning when he entered the detention center. In the end, he lost his life by telling Li Chengyang that he would tell him what happened 14 years ago after he was released from prison, and he was sent to his head in vain.

Vulnerability 2: Gao Mingyuan is so powerful in Lvteng, and the important project of Yihe New Village, why didn’t he get it at first, but it fell into the hands of the new handsome company in Ma Shuai? Besides, Ma Shuai was Gao Mingyuan’s younger brother. Gao Mingyuan wanted the Yihe New Village project to talk to Ma Shuai directly. Why did he have to wait to kill Ma Shuai and put pressure on Li Chengyang through the leaders of the municipal government to get the project?

Vulnerability 3: The Central Supervision Team came to Lvteng City to eliminate evils and received a tip-off letter from Xue Mei. However, Xue Mei only knew that her husband Mai Zili didn’t come back after going out with Ma Shuai that year, and there was no evidence of the other party’s crime in his hand, only his own recorded tip-off video. Why did Gao Mingyuan send someone to kill Xue Mei in such a hurry? And Xue Mei’s disappearance, but let the central steering group pay more attention to the case, Gao Mingyuan is not self-defeating?

Vulnerability 4: Lin Hao, played by LAY, was framed and raped in a nightclub in Sun Xing just the day before, which caused such a big accident. Two days later, he swaggered to the nightclub to make an unannounced visit to investigate Sun Xing. Even Huang Xi thought he was too bold. Although Lin Hao said that he knew Sun Xing was not in the nightclub, so many staff members didn’t recognize him?

Vulnerability 5: Fourteen years ago, Gao Mingyuan and He Yun jointly framed and killed Lin Han, framed Li Chengyang as a "black policeman" and expelled Li Chengyang from the police force. After Li Chengyang defected to the new handsome company in Ma Shuai, he has been tracking down the real culprits behind the scenes for 10 years. With Gao Mingyuan’s miraculous powers, he could not have been ignorant. Otherwise, he would not have poisoned Li Chengyang immediately after Ma Shuai said that he would tell him the truth 14 years ago after he was released from prison.

The question is, why didn’t Gao Mingyuan find an opportunity to send someone to get rid of Li Chengyang in the 10 years since Li Chengyang pursued this matter? At that time, Li Chengyang was notorious as a "black policeman". Even if he was killed, it would not attract too many people’s attention, but he had to wait for the central supervision team to come to Lvteng City and take risks to poison Ma Shuai. Of course, Li Chengyang is the protagonist, and the TV series can’t be filmed after being killed by Gao Mingyuan early in the morning, but at least the screenwriter should have a more logical explanation.

Vulnerability 6: Huang Xi is He Yun’s niece and often goes to He Yun’s house. They are very close, and Lin Hao is He Yun’s adopted son. Why didn’t Huang Xi know Lin Hao before he made an unannounced visit to Beauty Loan?

Vulnerability 7: Mai Mengmeng (Mai Jia) is Xue Mei’s only daughter. After Xue Mei disappeared, why didn’t the Central Supervision Team ask Mai Mengmeng where her mother was? Even though I didn’t know Xue Mei had a daughter before, it was easy for the police to ask for such information. Why not do it?

It should be said that the casting of "Sweeping the Black Storm" is generally successful. Sun Honglei, WangZhifei, Liu Yijun, wuyue and Ning Li are all middle-aged actors with excellent acting skills. With them, the overall performance level of this TV series has reached a very high level.

WangZhifei’s fierce cunning and sharp eyes when he plays the villain Gao Mingyuan are frightening. His exquisite lines are what young actors need to study hard, which is in sharp contrast with LAY’s soft lines. The performances of wuyue and Ning Li are impressive; It is rare for Liu Yijun to play a positive role. Although he is not as brilliant as when he plays an anti-corner, he is still remarkable.

What is controversial is Sun Honglei’s acting in the play. Personally, compared with the performance state in Conquest, Latency and The Right Way on Earth is Vicissitudes, Sun Honglei’s acting skills in Sweeping the Black Storm have regressed, and there are some wonderful points in the interpretation of the role, but there are also some failures. proper limit doesn’t grasp it very well, especially he often laughs for no reason, which is not conducive to the shaping of the role of Li Chengyang.

As for LAY and Jiang Shuying, two popular young actors, we can see their efforts, but compared with the above-mentioned middle-aged powerful actors, their acting skills need to be further honed before they can create better roles.

Sweeping the Black Storm is a rare and excellent work, but to some extent, it won the audience’s extensive attention and strong topic effect by virtue of the breakthrough in theme and scale. However, there are still many defects in the story, characterization and actor performance, which makes it difficult to surpass the equivalent works of Black Hole.