Man chang de ji jie

For the middle-aged people in the northeast of China, 1990s is an unforgettable era which is full of magic and trauma. The transformation and decline of industry deeply affected the society and every family's life. People lost their jobs and the crime rate became higher. All of them make the era an abundant source for Chinese literature, and the creation of this amazing tv drama.

Basically this is a crime drama, but this is more about the characters' personalities and life, which is familiar with true detective series. It's a brilliant and touching combination of 1990s China style and tough detective novel. The emotion and the connection between people in this drama are so powerful. If you are a fan of true detective, you may love this.

Finally a Chinese drama that is not being overated by its patriotism or some celebrity huge fan base .Scene will beautiful shot and change to bring u into it. Plot was twist naturally according to character personality and environment. Bgm was well select to bring yr emotion in for every Scene.

Every cast performance was suberb, most of the lines u can feel is not from script. The lines are grounded and natural excute by actor life experience. Nice story telling that give u the unexpected turn that shock u. Many golden moment that stuck in your mind even u finished watching it. Kudos to the makeup artist natural separate 20years difference to the same actor. Director sincerely want to bring the audience to his world and didn't play by market needs,Thanks to everyone and director seriously contribute their 101% in this show.

For those of you reading this epitaph, we don't know at this point that this is the whispering train whistling through the Möbius Ring rising and sinking after generations of crushing Then let's give a resonant ring. If there is no echo, the season will continue to be long, but be sure to turn back before moving forward.

I admire and marvel at the director's ability for pacing, and his artistic standards are amazingly high. I love his camera angles and techniques, and I love the soundtrack in this drama. The plot is well thought out and interesting in many places. The natural human condition of the Chinese people is captured with ease. And, of course, it's all thanks to the superbly cast actors and actresses. Except for Shen Mo, whose acting sometimes lacks an explosive power and seems a bit stilted compared to the rest of the cast.

Why is this season so long? Maybe this is the season of life.

I gave this 10 stars, for very specific reasons, both technical and artistic, which are detailed below.

This is a superb production; it honours the thriller genre, which has become a very sophisticated genre in recent years, but also brings its own spirit, at times lively and charming, at others very dark.

The story takes place in two eras: 2017, or 'now', and 1997; the visual recreation of the earlier period is meticulous, as well realised as a very good feature film; and the cultural and social fabric of that time, its complexities and contradictions, is beautifully evoked. Events are centred around the Hualin Steel Works, a huge factory, more like a small city with its own housing, hospital, and a large security force. The Steel Works is in steep financial decline; the middle-aged workers belong to the old China of Mao-style Communism ("I was a Model Worker!" says Wang Xiang), while the younger characters belong to the new China, still in its infancy. Economic fears, severe personal financial fears, and fear of what the future holds, pervade the community; corruption and crime are high, and, Wang Xiang, the hero of the story, struggles to be a good man in society where the costs of doing good are high, and where the community and many of those close to him have stopped believing in the morals of the past.

The narrative style is subtle, sophisticated and genuinely enthralling. The story unfolds slowly; the interwoven timelines blend gently, jumps in time at first catch you unawares. The story contains many minor characters, some of whom graduate to major characters; facts and details, hints and suggestions, are revealed here and there; a lot of guesswork and deduction is required of the viewer. Slowly the dark threads are drawn together. There is a thematic thread about 'fate', in the shape of forces outside personal control; and much of the cast consists of anti-heroes (those trying to do the right thing, but failing), and sympathetic villains (forced into wickedness by desperation), while the truly evil lurks for a long time in the shadows.

To aid with the viewer grappling with this perplexity and darkness, the script is generous with character comedy, particularly in the 'now' timeline, woven together with scenes of friendship and unresolved sadness.

The soundtrack is excellent; the show is visually cinematic; the acting is wonderful (Qin Hao, who plays Gong Biao, for example, executes one of the most convincing performances of aging 20 years that I have ever seen, so good that it was hard to believe he played both roles). My Chinese guide tells me the dialogue is also rich in idiom, accent and dialect.

In short, this is a brilliant and unique work of story-telling that both honours the genre and goes beyond it.

Every dust of the times falls on a person as a mountain.

I didn't really understand this sentence until I watched this TV series. This masterpiece, which I think is the best Chinese TV series I have seen, tells an absolute tragedy. A lost father, a frustrated husband and a retired policeman attempted to solve a mystery which had lasted for nearly 20 years. They were all trapped in the autumn in 1998. All the roles in it tried to fight against their fates, but found in vain eventually. When the mystery is solved, fate still remains in the Man chang de ji jie, which means a long season in English. This sense of powerlessness makes each of us relate it to ourselves.

I know many people like watching a nobody finally turn to a successful man through his hard-working and insistence. But most of the time it's not the reality. And most of us, the ordinary people, can't overcome this mountain of the times. We are trapped in this long autumn, until our faiths break down. However, we still see someone go forward.

Life is difficult. Sometimes it's like a elegy of fate. But never forget to sing a hymn to ordinary people. In the end of the series, a snow falls, declaring the approaching of winter. What a beautiful scene! We all like spring because it's the beginning of a new year, also the beginning of life. But not everyone is so fortunate to see it. So when the long autumn finally ends, when the first winter snow falls, why can't it be a new beginning for us? Eyes towards front, move forward, and do not look back. Sometimes the meaning of life is not break through our fates, but choose hope in the suffering of life.

We can all find ourselves in this TV series. It's more like a documentary about ordinary people, and also inspires them to move forward.