"Criminal Minds" (Chang'er)--Comparison with "Poyun" and "Silent Reading"

(2019.03.07)

This is the second longest review I've ever written. It's not because I have the same special feelings for this piece as it is in the devil's way, but through the comments on this piece, I put forward my general impression of the tanmei novels that I have read recently about reasoning or criminal investigation. In fact, I have seen this a long time ago, but because the radio drama was about to come out, I reviewed it for the second time. Of course, I felt more than just watching it once.

Let me tell you what you think about this work. The central idea of this story is the "moral dilemma" in the last case of "Wu Fu". The more in-depth questions about this proposition are in chapters 272 and 273, and the answer given by the author is in chapter 289. The last case has a lot of very deep moral dilemmas and is brilliantly written.

Each case in it involves a different field. "One Sand" first talks about Lin Chen's psychology, "Double Journey" talks about traffic management and undercover police officers, "Three Graves" talks about deep web and campus culture, and "Four Tones" is In entertainment and diplomacy, the three stories of "Wu Fu" are disease, pharmacy and philosophy. Although it is mainly a philosophical dialectical of human nature, the background of these cases is very wide, and they all have their own specialties. The author obviously read many and complicated reference materials before writing, which is quite admirable. The scope of coverage can be as wide as this, the things written are organized and well-founded, and the author's own opinions are expressed in detail. Now that online articles (especially Danmei articles) are the trend of the fast food industry, it is quite The hard-working author has indeed made this article extraordinary.

The overall tone of this piece is actually quite gloomy and depressing. It was not until the last case of Wufu and Lin Chen who started to fight back that the turning point of keeping the cloud open and seeing the bright moon (because the work is very long, the time point of this turning point) slightly late). For a serious criminal investigation drama, if it were not purely solving a case like Sherlock Holmes, but combined with the story behind the protagonist, it would be more or less heavy; but when watching Silent Reading and Poyun, the feelings of the two protagonists developed in the heavy plot. It is quite a comfortable adjustment, and the abuse will not be too much; but the interaction between the two protagonists seems to be quite sweet on the surface, but there will be no sense of adjustment, because Lin Chen's encounter in the book is too cruel, although it is for the sake of His big collapse after taking the medicine is a stumbling block, but every story has someone who died in front of him. Such a cute character, but every case he handles will suffer a serious psychological blow, which makes people feel too heavy. Then Xing Conglian felt aggrieved and heartbroken, (inexplicably) and Lin Chen, who was temporarily insane because of the drug, the very violent first night, it looked very sad (but Xing Conglian is definitely not a scumbag, strong There is a reason for the above, although I can't understand why his sadness leads to roughness on the bed...), the reader will only feel distressed and will not feel pressure. Although there is no suspense and no hindrance between the two (the poor guy Huang Ze is not even a cannon fodder), and there are Xing Cong and even domineering possessiveness as embellishment, it is still difficult to say that watching their emotional drama can relieve the pressure. . If it is a reader oriented to "it doesn't matter if the protagonist's feelings are sweet", this article is actually not a good choice. But because I like abuse and also like this pair, the worse Lin Chen is abused, the better I see hahaha~

Because I like this article very much, and I respect the author of this article very much. This is a topical and in-depth article; in order to thank the author, I will give serious and sincere feedback (= Tucao).

Feedback 1: Comparison with other works

The first is that many authors may not want to see it, which is to compare it with other texts. The comparison objects are the two “Silent Reading” and “Broken Clouds” that I have been “reviewing” recently, which are also very well received, especially silent reading. Silent reading is similar to this pattern, with a huge mainline structure. It is about a dark industrial chain and the struggle between the victims who are harmed by this industrial chain. Like this work, it discusses collective consciousness and two opposing ideas (which can also be simplified as The struggle between collective goodwill and collective malice); but the ending is different, this is still the traditional sense of evil, and silent reading, in addition to the plot of evil, also guides readers to see the two different developments of the victim's family : One was constantly incited and burned because of the hatred in his heart, and was eventually eliminated along with the big boss. The other was under Fei Du's hands, and he was reborn as Fei Du untied his knot. The description of the victim's family was relatively in-depth. Let me tell you my conclusion first, this is very fascinating, because there are not many danmei novels that can explore human nature in such a deep way, and I agree with the general "good-looking" evaluation on the Internet; but unfortunately, there has been a silent reading before it. Because the structure of silent reading is more complete and more reasonable, the ending of this article is too ambitious (to maintain world peace), and it feels slightly inferior.

In addition, it is also an extremely smart and solved super big case, why is the silent reading plot development more convincing to me. There is a reason for Fei Du to be targeted, and I can't accept the reason why Lin Chen was targeted in this book. Just because he represents the so-called righteous force in society, the evil forces are looking for him to carry it? I didn't investigate and investigate the people around him. If I were a dark force and found that there was a wealthy man with economic strength and a sense of justice around him, I would definitely give up this goal. In contrast, Fei Du was targeted because someone wanted him to have huge economic power behind him, and he showed the possibility of attracting both righteous and evil, and it was his perverted father who was the first to connect with others. , so both BOSS lock him, readers will feel more reasonable than this one. Also, the layout that finally ties together all the cases that happened in the story isn't as pretty as silent reading. BTW, regarding the arrangement of the plot structure and the foreshadowing, P is the first among the danmei authors I have seen, and no one can match it at present (although she is not my favorite author); this article can only say, I believe the author did his best.

As for Poyun and this one, the genre is actually different. Poyun's theme is simple and clear (revolving around a new type of drug such as blue gold), and I don't want to create a big pattern or explore in-depth social or philosophical issues. Basically, it should be Watching it as a Hollywood police and gangster film, there are just the right amount of brain-burning required by a typical mystery novel (this one and silent reading burn too much), as well as fighting and the love of the protagonist. There is no comparison between the two in terms of plot, but the background settings of the protagonists are a bit similar. For example, the backgrounds of the two attacks are similar - they are both wealthy generations with outrageous wealth but not doing their jobs properly. They will waste their hard-earned money (?) The promotion of the case has to rely on family bullying (?) from time to time. Basically, it is understandable to use his own money to investigate the case, but Xing Conglian's power has become a golden finger for catching criminals (the extradition of Li Jingtian in "Four Voices"), or the second in Wufu is Zhou Rui Pharmaceutical's. The story also uses the power of the family to buy the existence of a drug company that is about to go bankrupt, which I think is a bit too much to show off. I know that the author's arrangement of Xing Conglian's big moves to bully others (?) is intentional in the follow-up plot arrangement, but I hate the rich (hahaha), and in police and bandit dramas, I like to watch the protagonist's diligent handling of the case, Therefore, it is okay for a small civil servant to spend money as a scumbag child (?), but I don't like watching a small civil servant turn into a domineering president. In addition, the background of the two Shou is also very similar - the main intellectual responsibility, in the story, the identity is the consultant of the police force to which the attack belongs. In fact, the background settings of the two protagonists, this, Silent Reading and Poyun are almost the same (although the rich ones in Silent Reading are Shou), it is really understandable to be compared.

Another thing Poyun can compare with this one is the description of the scene. The layout of P is well written, but the description of this scene with Poyun is more pictorial than that of P. This film uses the perspectives of different people in different scenes at the same time to switch in a short period of time, and the scene switching at the climax of the plot will make readers stare intently and want to know the follow-up fishing effect as soon as possible; Poyun is a fighting scene. You will feel that someone is really fighting in front of you one by one, and the two works have a very strong sense of picture (Poyun won this again, Huai Da is really the master of writing police and bandit action scenes), and watching the film has the same effect. This is incomparable to silent reading.

Feedback 2: Tucao

In my opinion, to write a well-written criminal investigation drama, there are several elements that must be well controlled to solve a case. One is the protagonist's ingenuity, the second is evidence collection, and the third is the protagonist's luck. If all three are well controlled, it will be a story A good mystery novel. It is almost a law that the protagonist must be smart (although I personally like the down-to-earth way of handling cases by experienced but not particularly smart and capable criminal police officers from "The Sand Device", but this kind of look is boring and difficult to become popular among the public. To), otherwise why did Sherlock Holmes and Conan become popular for so long. As for Lin Chen's luck (whether good or bad), although it's a bit unacceptable because it's hard to explain, the author has been using Lin Chen's mouth to emphasize his bad luck from the very beginning. I feel fine with the vaccinations. What I don't like is the evidence collection. I have to say that as a mystery novel, I think Dynasty is the story's failure. His ability to hack the Internet is so superb that the protagonist's golden fingers are too wide, and the most difficult The work of evidence collection and data analysis is too simple. The Luo team was looking for the victims of the first 22 years in "Humbert Humbert". After all, people from the city bureau helped to find the paper materials for one night. If there is a dynasty, it may be done in five minutes. I think It reduces the fun of reading and reasoning.

Since this is not a story of Su Shuangwen, who is a silly white sweet or a golden finger, the protagonist climbed to the top of his life all the way, there are several points that are a bit out of tune with this type, and they have to be brought up here.

The first is too many coincidences. When Lin Chen encountered these cases, it's hard to say that it was because of the deliberate arrangement of someone behind them, many of which were coincidences, such as Three Graves and Four Sounds; but these cases were linked together in the end, which felt a bit inconsistent and deliberately overdone. Following this sense of incongruity, I don't understand that the author actually intended to string together five stories (actually seven), but the string was not successful. It seems that the story of Song Shengsheng is just trying to pull the insurance company in and pull it up. The first story, I don't quite understand the meaning. I think if that's the case, it's better not to collude and make each case independent.

The second is too many golden fingers. It may be that the author's focus is to discuss human nature, and the design of the case is complicated because of this. So much patience), needless to say Lin Chen's ingenuity (anyway, this is already the standard for fast-food reasoning dramas), other things like Xing Conglian's mythical family background as mentioned earlier, Dynasty's powerful hacking skills; overall Speaking of which, the golden finger that I can't stand the most is the convenience given by the police administrative unit to Lin Chen's unrestrained ideas. Wufu is the most outrageous. In order to catch the prisoner in the second story, he mobilized the city's police force to engage in inexplicable traffic control. ; In the last case, the gambling between Lin Chen and the dark forces was even more outrageous, and there was also a physical polling station with extremely cumbersome and complicated operations. How could Nima have such an enlightened administrative system! This door of convenience is also too wide and too bizarre. It's not impossible to have golden fingers. The most typical example is Shuangwen, which is going to be successful after rebirth. It doesn't matter if the golden finger is larger; but in this type of story, if it is too large, the author will obviously feel lazy. . In terms of such a magnificent and large-scale criminal investigation theme, it is hard to say that this is a flaw that can be ignored.

The last unacceptable point is that there is no clear attributable boss. Who is "they", the author deliberately left it blank. This is an uncommon way of writing, and it is also one of the biggest features of this article; but this is the theme of police and bandit reasoning. This kind of work does not have a clear role as the boss, and the front protagonist is wronged to give readers a sense of grievance. Where to vent? Author, you abused my brother Achen like this, but there is no big villain who can whip the corpse as a sandbag. Isn't my brother Achen very wronged!

There is a relatively small slot also spit out. I am not as optimistic as the author about the results of the votes of the residents of the three cities on the four criminals. The author uses the typical railroad puzzle (four people on one side and four people on one side, which side is selected when the joystick is turned) and a variant of the railroad problem (four people on one side and the person pulling the joystick on the other side only needs to push one person down the track on the other side, that is, The person who wants to pull the joystick simply pulls the lever, or kills himself, the investigation results are different) as a comment on the moral dilemma, but for the variant rail problem, everyone chooses with a bystander mentality, and the three Residents of a city vote, which is equivalent to asking the victim who is to be thrown away in the variant of the railroad problem to choose whether or not to be thrown away. Once this variant appears, the result should be different from the railroad problem, right? From the standpoint of human self-interest, I don't think the result of the vote will be to not execute the four criminals.

Finally, there is a small point that I really dislike. Either this work must be complained about, or a large number of women are set as murderers. The proportion of male and female murderers in many reasoning or police and bandit works is not much different, but actual statistics show that the number of women who are criminal defendants is only about 10% of that of men, and the proportion of women who commit crimes in major cases is at most 5% of men. Murderers are 1% of male murderers. The most poisonous thing to women's hearts is the excuses made up by traditional men when they make mistakes, the saying that "a woman is raped by a man is a woman who seduces a man", and it is also the result of over-interpretation because of its rarity. So stop putting gender equality in the balance of murderer sex ratios!

Overall, in my opinion, this article still has the level of system recommendation. Although there are many complaints in the front, but from another angle, because in addition to the emotional line, the focus of the work is on the discussion of human nature. The author of this part alone must Studying a lot of data still needs to make a conclusion, which is very brain-burning; so it seems understandable to ignore the typical reasoning elements of police and criminal investigation dramas and bring it in the way of golden fingers. So if you don't think of it as a work of reasoning, but as a philosophical novel that explores human nature, this is really good.

ps. When I see Lin Chen's name, I always think of one of the narrators and founders of Taiwan Bar, Lin Chen buchi~~ And when I see Li Jingtian, I think of Ji Jingtian, the king of "Ugly Doctor". Then, Dynasty Mahan, Zhang Long and Zhao Hu, so the captain of the punishment is Bao Qingtian...