"Hurricane" is over. Although there are more or less regrets in the plot after 26 episodes, it cannot be denied that it is a good series on the whole, leaving behind classic screen images such as An Xin and Gao Qiqiang. This article wants to rewrite An Xin.
Gao Qiqiang is the reason why many audiences fell into "Hurricane" in the first place. The industrious little man went to the initial depravity, which aroused the sympathy of many audiences. However, when the plot progressed to the middle, many people's sympathy for Gao Qiqiang disappeared, because Gao Qiqiang transformed into a real demon. He kills, robs, and commits all kinds of crimes. It is no longer persecution from the outside world, but the evil he does on his own initiative. He is not worthy to find any excuses for himself.
Gao Qiqiang (played by Zhang Songwen)
In the middle and later stages of the plot, it is An Xin who always touches the hearts of the audience. In fact, if Cyclonus had been told from his point of view from the start, it would have been another Silent Truth. An Xin made people think of Jiang Yang again and again.
At the beginning of the plot, in 2021, the anti-crime and anti-evil guidance team came to Jinghai City, and asked An Xin (played by Zhang Yi), who is the chief of the Publicity Section of the Public Security Bureau, to ask questions. The audience was somewhat surprised: Why are people in their 40s An Xin, looks so old? His back is slightly bent, his face is full of vicissitudes, and his head is covered with white hair. His answers to questions are also somewhat "smooth". The audience guessed what An Xin might have experienced. But at this time, the audience faced the vicissitudes of An Xin, and there was no disturbance in their hearts.
An Xin (played by Zhang Yi)
As the plot continues to advance, when the audience sees An Xin in 2000, An Xin in 2006, and compares it with An Xin in 2021, we will know what An Xin has experienced. In 2000, just like the fledgling prosecutor Jiang Yang, he was young, vigorous, enthusiastic, unyielding, aggressive and full of sense of justice. And just as Jiang Yang lost everything after being imprisoned, An Xin, who insisted on justice, has been losing what he cherished for 20 years.
An Xin 20 years ago was full of vigor
He lost his revered master Cao Chuang, his closest comrade-in-arms Li Xiang, and his apprentice Lu Han who was as honest as him.
He lost those colleagues who once had the same original intentions as him. Under coercion and lure, they were dragged into the water, and they went to the opposite of Anxin and the law. Such as Zhang Biao, such as Yang Jian.
He lost his beloved girl, Meng Yu, and his love.
In order to protect his beloved girl, An Xin broke up with her
He lost the indomitable Geng Jie when he was young. Because he encountered too many obstacles, he had to learn to endure and try to pretend.
He lost that unthinking kindness. Twenty years ago, he helped Gao Qiqiang out of compassion, but An Xin never expected that his kindness made him unintentionally become Gao Qiqiang's first "protective umbrella". He will still extend a helping hand and show kindness to others, but he may have looked forward and backward.
Gao Qiqiang thought that the kind-hearted An Xin would still lend a helping hand
He lost his youth, lost his great future, lost the ordinary happiness that ordinary people have...
In 20 years, how many people can survive this long and lonely persistence?
What's more cruel is that some people don't even have the chance to stick to it - because they lost their lives early for sticking to justice. For example, Tan Siyan, a civil servant of the city government who insisted on reporting, was killed and his body was mixed in a cement mixer; for example, An Xin's apprentice Lu Han, after An Xin was transferred from the criminal police detachment, he insisted on investigating and "disappeared"... …
Lu Han, a son of a poor family, is gone, which makes people feel uneasy
"Not everyone has personal protection." The reason why An Xin is "luckier" than them is because after being a martyr, An Xin also has her own "background".
An Xin's "background" protected him
An Changlin, who raised him, used to be the permanent deputy director of the Public Security Bureau, and was later promoted to the secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of Jinghai City; Meng Dehai, who watched him grow up and treated him like half his son, was once the director of the Public Security Bureau. , and later served as the director of the Standing Committee of the Jinghai City People's Congress... An Xin's background made the evil forces respect him.
But what if An Xin had no background? If he is Lu Han who lives with his mother? His end may be Jiang Yang, or Lu Han, but what he waits for is "not to file a case", and he will not even have a chance to live.
"Hurricane" triggers the audience's hatred of the evil forces, but this is not enough, we must further ask: why is An Xin so difficult? Why is it so hard to be nice?
First of all, we must reflect on the issue of "protective umbrella". The reason why the black and evil forces are lawless and growing stronger is due to the support of the umbrella behind them. They played a "power black deal" with the evil forces, provided the soil for the evil forces to survive, supported and condoned the development and growth of the evil forces, covered all kinds of evils of the evil forces, informed the evil forces, and retaliated Focus on the righteous forces against the evil forces.
As early as 2,000 years ago, the underworld forces in Jinghai City were backed by Zhao Lidong, then secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, and Zhao Lidong also had greater power in the province to back him up. At that time, An Xin had approached the truth time and time again in many gangster-related cases, but at critical moments, her actions always dropped the chain time and time again. Either the action leaked the secret, or the superior department delayed the time by making a report, or the procuratorate directly came to trouble An Xin...
As long as the protective umbrella exists, as long as the protective umbrella is always obstructing it, as long as the protective umbrella continues to dilute and hedge against the power of justice, it will be difficult for the evil forces to eradicate.
The even more shocking fact is that the actions of individual protection umbrellas are indistinguishable from the evil forces, but the power they hold in their hands is even more terrifying. Just like Zhao Lidong was worried that Tan Siyan and Li Xiang would report their crimes, so he suggested that Gao Qiqiang get rid of them. To kill with a knife is also to kill.
The powerful Zhao Lidong is more terrifying than the evil forces
To make it easier for the power of justice, we must eradicate the umbrella from the root, we must strengthen the supervision of public power, and lock power in a cage. Such correct words are easy to say, and the common people are eager for them to be put into place. Let the public power support justice, support An Xin, and support Gao Qiqiang, the fishmonger 20 years ago, so that the people will have a real sense of security in their hearts.
Second, we should reflect on the phenomenon of "inaction" by public power. Some people in power are obviously good people, but at critical times they failed to be the help of the just, and even objectively became the resistance of the just.
The typical manifestation in "Hurricane" is An Xin's two so-called "backers" - two elders An Changlin and Meng Dehai who watched him grow up. As early as 2000, they held a lot of power, and repeatedly found high-level officials in the investigation of some cases. They did not insist on investigating to the end, but they had doubts and did not take active actions, which objectively led to the conclusion of the case. The investigation stalled.
In the choice between self-interest and justice, they more or less compromised with the former. Sometimes, they consider the need for promotion, thinking that the position has been promoted, and with greater power, they can do things better. For example, before the arrest operation, An Changlin suggested to report to the municipal party committee first, so as not to affect the promotion. But when they have more power, they also have greater responsibilities. In order to fulfill their responsibilities, they choose to compromise again, just like Meng Dehai, who became the secretary of the district party committee, chose to cooperate with Gao Qiqiang's company for projects and GDP...
How much power do you need to make a difference?
In the ups and downs of the officialdom, they know how to "protect themselves wisely", know who should not be messed with, and worry that they will not be able to protect An Xin. They never thought that if they were on Anxin's side and on the side of justice from the beginning, maybe they could work together to bring down the evil forces, and there would be no lawless Goldman Sachs Group later, and Anxin would not be so It's so hard to be alone.
An Xin accompanied Meng Dehai to the Commission for Discipline Inspection and surrendered
Acting indiscriminately is a crime, and the harm of inaction cannot be underestimated. This is another profound warning from "Hurricane". In many cases, the power of justice is weak, just a weak candlelight in the dark night. If there are no people to pick up firewood, then the dim light will be easily extinguished, and the long night will always be difficult to see. In "The Silent Truth", if there were not so many people walking with Jiang Yang, then darkness would cover everything. In the past 20 years, An Xin has been walking almost alone. It is hard to imagine that without the arrival of the guidance team, he might have been so withered, like a broken candle.
Furthermore, just like a slang saying in the market, "Don't be afraid that hooligans will fight, but fear that hooligans are educated." Commissioner and other public power status.
From 2000 to 2021, "Hurricane" indirectly presents the development of the evil forces. In 2000, the black and evil forces represented by Xu Jiang belonged to the type of "uneducated" and "knowledge of fighting".
A little more "advanced" is the form of Uncle Tai, with a legally operated company acting as a cover, who is relatively comfortable in both black and white, and has a little bit of scheming and brains.
Gao Qiqiang in 2021 is an advanced version with more powerful underworld forces. It successfully "washed white", Gao Qiqiang became a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and used kindergartens and nursing homes to gain extensive contacts and a good reputation among public officials and retired veteran cadres; Concealment, harder to find, evading detection with various cloaks of legality; at the same time, the means of violence are grasped by both "hard violence" and "soft violence".
Therefore, the official document reminds, "Actively respond to the new trends and changes of the crimes of the underworld forces, resolutely curb the expansion of the underworld forces into the economic field, and resolutely prevent the underworld forces from penetrating into the political field."
Gao Qiqiang became a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
On one side is a "high IQ" criminal group that is constantly advancing, highly organized, and highly concealed, and on the other side is An Xin, who is weak and weak. Even if An Xin is the force of justice, he still feels like a mighty tree shaking from time to time. After Li Xiang's sacrifice in 2006, An Xin changed on the surface. He had to pretend that he had no fighting spirit and desires, so that he could protect the candle of justice in his heart from being extinguished.
Suffice it to say, it shared a similar narrative with The Silent Truth before the directing group arrived in Cyclonus. On the one hand, it presents the heroic personalities of righteous people represented by Jiang Yang and An Xin. They are righteous, kind, compassionate, unyielding, and have no hesitation. They burn themselves and cut through the darkness. But on the other hand, the series reveals the price of justice in an almost tragic style. It is the lives of Jiang Yang, Tan Siyan, and Lu Han, and it is An Xin's 20 years of hard work and a head of white hair. Sharp questions: Why is justice so difficult? Although the audience is full of admiration for Jiang Yang and An Xin, they can ask themselves: If the price of justice is so heavy, do ordinary people have the courage to stick to it?
An Xin, who lost her love and comrades in arms in 2006 and became a traffic policeman, was once overwhelmed with grief
Although "Hurricane" has many flaws subjectively and objectively in art, such as some logical loopholes, some characters are not uniformly portrayed before and after, or many mouth shapes caused by deletions and revisions do not match... But nothing can change its realism masterpiece In its true nature, it does not cover up or beautify the chronic diseases of reality, and it raises real problems.
It is true that if a society wants to keep hope forever, it must have people like Jiang Yang, An Xin, Tan Siyan, and Lu Han as the backbone to establish moral benchmarks and keep the fire of hope; but a hopeful society cannot always let An People like Xin are struggling to support and bear the pain. What we need is an institutional environment that makes it easy for good people and makes it difficult for bad people to move forward.
Yes, it must be easy for An Xin, it must be easy for righteous people, it must be easy for Tan Siyan and Lu Han who have no background, it must be easy for ordinary people to be a good person, and good people must be happier and more at ease than bad people ...This requires the political and legal system to always use the "difficulty of Anxin" as a breakthrough point to find out the crux and eradicate the problem.
I hope it won't be so difficult to be a good person in the future
In "Hurricane", the arrival of the steering group, the institutionalization and normalization of "sweeping black and evil", and the all-round supervision of public power without dead ends show the efforts to build a good system, Gao Qiqiang's downfall, and Zhao Lidong's downfall It is a major achievement of system construction.
I hope Anxin will not be so difficult in the future. This hope is the greatest consolation given to us at the end of the whole play.
