Bosque Blanco y Negro (2024)

La tragica vida de Ding Yuxi, el policía suspendido

No puedo decir que amo esta serie, pero al menos te entretiene un rato. Por momentos la trama te puede ofrecer misterio policíaco pero en otros, simplemente sigue un guión muy predecible y repetitivo. Lo cual es común en series de acción, pero ojalá hubieran tenido más creatividad para enmascarlo. Es tan predecible la trama qué me pregunto si lo hicieron así a proposito, porque no había visto algo tan obvio desde Squid Game.

El personaje de Ding Yuxi está lejos de ser el policía resolvedor de crímenes que te quieren hacer creer y aunque probablemente este a finales de sus 20's, principios de sus 30's, como es el más joven en su casa lo tratan como a un adolescente (? Su personaje más bien es el de un joven maestro regañado por perder su arma (de lo cual no tuvo la culpa). Es un hermano menor, un cuñado y un amigo, pero como personaje propio es difícil de ver, ya que la trama se centra en sus relaciones y no en el mismo.

Las escenas de acción están bien coreografíadas y los efectos son lo suficientemente buenos para hacerlo creíble. Honestamente, el trabajo de los actores es lo que levanta a esta serie, si no fuera por ellos la hubiera abandonado hace mucho, porque la historia es demasiado simple, ciclica y aburrida. Le agradezco inmensamente a los actores por su buen trabajo, porque sin ellos la historia probablemente sería horrible.

Una de las cosas que más lamento es que parece que la policía no sabe hacer su trabajo. Wen Binbin siempre logra dar fácilmente con los culpables (a pesar de que esta suspendido) y no importa que en cada ocasión le avise a las autoridades, siempre se les escapa el delincuente. Literal el protagonista puede hacer el trabajo de todo un departamento de policías y en cada ocasión los delincuentes se escapan por la misma p*ta razón. La primera mitad de la serie se trata de ese juego del gato y el ratón entre el protagonista y los criminales sin llegar a ningún plot twist relevante. Hasta después del episodio 15 las cosas empiezas a tomar otro camino.

Debo quejarme por la muerte de la chica que le gustaba a Binbin, porque se muere por un disparo en el brazo ¡El brazo! y nunca se aclara para el resto de personajes como participó en los delitos. Binbin simplemente llora su muerte esperando que lo que le dijeron no sea cierto. Así como eso, hubieron varios huecos en la trama que usaron a su conveniencia pero que después abandonaron y nunca explicaron.

Si embargo, ojalá Ding Yuxi reciba un premio por tremenda actuación en el capitulo 11 y 23 (si recuerdo bien), porque hay tanto dolor y vulnerabilidad en su interpretación que es difícil de ver en actores chinos, quienes siempre tratan de lucir guapos y fuertes cuando lloran, al diablo con eso, los hombres que expresan sus sentimientos son sexys. DYX ha dejado una fuerte impresión en mi y ha levantado mis expectativas sobre lo que busco ver en un actor. Sobre su actuación no tengo ninguna queja, al contrario.

Si los dramas policiales y conflictos callejeros son lo tuyo, creo que te gustará un poco este drama. Si esperas romance o caras bonitas, bueno... quizás debas de buscar en otro lado. Cumple su función de entretener, pero eso es todo.

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Great Acting but the Storyline was a Choppy Mess & the gun was STOLEN not lost!

I only came about this series last minute because I had previously watched DYX in 4 costume dramas this year so wanted to see him in a totally different genre. Now he and the rest of the actors (some I've seen while others I haven't) did a phenomenal job at their characters but the script was just a choppy mess and I was so sick of them talking about the gun being lost and how he had to take responsibility when the dude was knocked out and the thing stolen off his person.

Pros: Honestly, just the acting of the actors; DYX did a wonderful job, just wish the script was strong. Every character was believable and did their part for as long as they were needed. DLE or as I called him the Hawaiian shirted gangster was literally the comic relief of the show. How everyone was able to convincingly speak in whichever dialect of mandarin that was, was very cool. Mastermind was truly cruel and used everyone to his advantage. The worst was NF; because he killed her father but made her believe he was her benefactor until right before she was shot by the SWAT team. He manipulated this poor girl her entire life into becoming a spy and assassin for him and then called it her atonement for what her father did. Losing LTY, then her, then Bao Ge (though that was inevitable) was hard. But the mastermind being very smart that he planned everything for something like 12 years and his actor played him well. Sad part was that LTY didn't like nor trust him from the beginning but no one believed him and than he was killed by the guy, that one hurt the most.

Cons: The storyline was a mess. Ok there's a mastermind that had ML's gun STOLEN but that was constantly referred to as a lost gun and he was suspended over it not to mention yelled at because all of these other cops SML included would somehow be super human if knocked over the head with a metal pipe and be able to retain his service pistol. That was a crock of shit. The cops themselves couldn't catch a bad guy red handed if he came to them on a silver platter which included whole departments, SWAT included. Meanwhile WBB (ML) and his best friend LTY were always in the path and somehow either slowed the person getting away down or caught him for said flailing cops.

Furthermore, no one could really tell when ML met NF; one moment you think they just got to know each other a little while ago and he just has a crush on her and then a few episodes later you find out he’s been in love with her since they were young. That’s what I mean by choppy and messy. There was absolutely no need for romance in this drama or even the slight possibility of it. And the way it was written, was screwed up as well.

For 26 or so episodes, the bad guys were running circles around the cops. They couldn’t put 2 + 2 together to save their lives. The flashbacks in the beginning were slowly necessary more or less to piece together who the mastermind was and why (he was of course right under their noses) but his why was just a self justification for the bad things his "nephew" did and why his sister and husband died. I also had problems with the way LTY and even NF died; they weren't given proper deaths; like ok killed, next scene. At least Bao Ge had a funeral but the main antagonist's death was a total copout happening in literally the last 5 minutes of the series with the reinstatement of WBB as an officer before stupid words about characters being charged (who cares, this was fake!) and role credits.

Would I recommend it? Honestly only for the acting because the storyline was just really dumb especially when you start to realize what's happening. It's a good in between anticipated dramas show but that's it. DYX did a good job; hope he gets better scripts for modern dramas in the future.

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