戏剧化结构中的现实主义和悬疑叙事——以网剧《漫长的季节》为例

Realism and Suspense Narrative in the Dramatic Structure:A Case Study of the Web Drama“The Long Season”

近几年,悬疑剧热播。2023年播出的网剧《漫长的季节》以1997年、1998年、2016年三个时间段为叙事线索,使用典型化的符号表达时代的变迁和人性的面相,包括20世纪90年代末国企改制的社会变迁、权力关系的变化、女性所处的“第二性”地位等,体现了鲜明的现实主义特点。剧作在寻找套牌车的“总悬念”之下,通过时空转场、音乐音响等视听手段来表达分悬念,强化了惊悚、恐怖和诡异的感觉,调动了观众的思维和推理能力。为此,该剧设计了戏剧化的结构,通过寻找套牌车这一贯穿剧作始终的线索,使现实主义和悬疑得到很好的融合,扩展了戏剧叙事的“一人一事”结构,从而具备了较大的信息空间。该剧恰当地使用东北方言强化了现实感、平衡悬疑的恐怖感,使用色彩呼应了剧作的主题、丰富了叙事的感性因素,为悬疑剧表达思想、吸引观众提供了优秀的例证。

Suspense dramas have been popular in recent years.Among them,web drama The Long Season broadcast in 2023 takes three slots of 1997,1998,and 2016 as narrative clues,and uses typical symbols to express the changes of the times and the face of human nature,including the social change,change of power relations,and women's“second sex”status,etc.in the reform of state-owned enterprises in the late 1990s,which reflects the distinct characteristics of realism.Under the“overall suspense”of searching for a fake-plate taxi,the drama expresses sub-suspense through time and space transitions,and audio-visual means such as music and sound,strengthening the feeling of horror,terror and weirdness,and mobilizing the audience's thinking and reasoning abilities.For this purpose,the drama designs a dramatic structure,makes realism and suspense well integrated,expands the“one person,one thing”structure of the dramatic narrative,and thus has a larger information space through the clue of looking for the fake-plate taxi that runs through the drama.The drama appropriately uses Northeastern dialect to enhance the sense of reality and balance the horror sense of suspense,employs colors to echo the theme of the drama and enriches the perceptual elements of the narrative,and provides an excellent example for the suspense drama to express ideas and attract the audience.