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Peninsula Omnimedia reporter Wang Yue

Youku White Night Theater's new work "Past Events by the Water" was launched on August 16 and received rave reviews. The play uses realistic creative techniques, typified narratives, film texture, and a profound observation of human nature to construct a bizarre visual world and highlight the light of humanity through the adventures of small people.

Zhang Yuanhuan, general manager of Alibaba Entertainment's Yitian Studio and producer of "Bian Shui Past", said: "The drama is innovative in both genre expression and aesthetic style, creating a new world with extreme realism. From the description of the environment to the costumes and props, to the language design, every detail is real, allowing the audience to empathize and empathize."

"Border Water" tells the story of a young man named Shen Xing (played by Guo Qilin) ​​who accidentally drifts to a small border town. In the process of looking for his uncle, he meets the mysterious gangster Uncle Cai (played by Wu Zhenyu), and embarks on the dangerous journey to "Border Water". He still sticks to his kind nature in the face of countless temptations.

This drama is the first drama produced by the famous filmmaker Cao Baoping. The director of this drama is a representative of new directors. His first drama "Madhouse" was also broadcast on Youku. In Cao Baoping's view, "Border Water Past" is a new breakthrough in genre and drama. "Its spectacle, as well as its touch and exploration of human nature, make it more profound and complex."

The drama is 21 episodes long and contains 21 unit stories, including "The Disaster", "Border Water", "Opening Stone", and "Puppet Show". Almost every episode opens a new map. The narrative of the drama does not take a God's perspective, but leads the audience to follow the protagonist Shen Xing on an exotic adventure. "In the creation, I hope to create a sense of adventure so that the audience can immerse themselves in the drama and experience the fun and interaction." Director Suan said.

Through the artificial language "Bomo", the ingenious opening and ending credits, the accumulation of countless details in the scenes, and even the subtitle design in yellow-cyan retro font, efforts are made to create a sense of strangeness, so that the exotic adventures in the fictional world are full of realistic texture.

Industry experts highly praised the artistic quality and intention of the play. Dai Qing, professor of the School of Drama and Film at Communication University of China and secretary-general of the Audiovisual Committee of the Chinese Association of Literary and Art Critics, believes that the play has excellent image quality, the camera language has the feeling of a blockbuster movie, and the production level is quite high. Lv Fan, director of the Audio and Video Director's Office of the Peking University Media Integration Center, said that behind the fiction and construction, the play is concerned with how small people can stick to goodness and keep their original intentions in a treacherous environment. This "unchanging" human nature is even more prominent in the "great changes" of the plot.

"Border Water Past" is another blockbuster high-quality drama of Youku White Night Theater after "Pale Fire" and "New Life". In April this year, Youku Suspense Theater was upgraded to White Night Theater. "White Night" means "the long night will end and the truth will be revealed", allowing the audience to solve the mystery in the process of unraveling the mystery. White Night Theater explores deeper social issues, shows deeper human care, and provides a more immersive viewing experience on top of the typified lens language, which arouses the audience's resonance and empathy, thereby expanding new paths and new spaces for the refinement of Chinese dramas.