As if agreed upon, in the second half of the year, the male gods and goddesses of Korean dramas returned one by one.
Before there was a discussion of "Zhiyi Mountain" starring Quan Jixian, and the suspense + supernatural version of "Signal" set the whole process of high energy; After Song Huiqiao's "Now In The Hands" made a strong comeback, the premiere was full of 19 forbidden topics.
Recently, the crime suspense Korean drama "Someday" starring Kim So-hyun has also been launched. The first two episodes soared to 8.5, and the beginning was suspenseful and high-energy scale. Coupled with the sparks splashing around the scene with the powerful actor Che Shengyuan, it successfully attracted the attention of many audiences.
The story begins on an ordinary night when male college student Kim Hyun-so and his friends make an appointment to participate in the "Pool Villa Party". In order to save money for a taxi to the villa, Kim Hyun-so secretly drives away the taxi of his father, who is a driver, and accidentally picks up a beautiful girl in the process.
Hormonally, Kim Hyun-so gives up going to the party and chooses to stay with the girl. The two ran wildly down the street together, returned to the girl's house together to drink and kiss, and naturally spent a good night.
After waking up, Kim Hyun-so prepares to dress and leave, greeting the girl before leaving, but there is no response. Confused, Kim Hyun-so turns on the light to check the girl's status, and is shocked to find that the girl is not asleep, but has been stabbed to death...
As Kim So-hyun's return to the screen after a year, the quality of "Someday" can be described as very high.
The first episode of the opening chapter firmly attracted the audience's attention: the girl died innocently and tragically, the male college student became a murder suspect overnight, and the dramatic conflict was very strong.
After two episodes, the background of the story is basically laid out, and the relevant important story characters continue to appear.
The first is the criminal police officer Park Sang-bum, who is in charge of the case, which is the last person in charge of the case before his retirement, and it is also a "military order" that can be appreciated by the high-level, as long as Kim Hyun-so is successfully sentenced, he can get a broader development after retirement.
The second is Shin Chung-han, a justice lawyer in charge of defending Kim Hyun-so. Believe in the justice that is covered up, and do not believe in the misjudgment brought about by the so-called appearances. With a total of 117 pieces of evidence at the scene proving that Kim Hyun-so is the murderer, how can Shin Chung-han win justice for Kim Hyun-so? This will become the biggest attraction of the show.
In the series, these three main characters are played by Kim So-hyun, Cha Shengyuan, And Kim Hongbo, three powerful actors, who have no choice in acting skills, and when they play against each other, they are even more sparkled, allowing the audience to immerse themselves in the plot for a second.
For example, Kim so-hyun plays the male college student Kim Hyun-so's state before and after his arrest: from the panic and helplessness of finding out that the girl died at the beginning, to the nervous fear of being mistaken by the police for drunk driving, so he was brought back to the police station, and finally to the helpless crying when the police searched her body and found that she had the "most direct murder weapon that caused the girl's death". The emotions are progressively layered, and the image of the wronged male college students is vividly interpreted.
Another example is the helplessness of the lawyer Shin Chung-han played by Cha Shengyuan when he talks to Kim Hyun-so. Shin Chung-han, who has been in the judicial circles for many years, has long understood the judicial insider, so his tone and expression are very helpless, and he advises Kim Hyun-so to listen carefully to his own words, because only in this way can he have a chance to overturn the case.
"The police make up their stories, we make up our stories, and the judges choose the stories they think are most satisfied with." There are no good guys and no bad guys here, and everyone follows their own righteousness. ”
Lines such as these in the series are one after another, both overtly and covertly satirizing the deterioration and corruption of the judicial system.
From here, the story of "Someday" officially becomes thicker, completing the discussion from the suspenseful murder case to the "justice of justice".
It is reasonable to say that judicial justice should punish evil and promote good, but because of the private desires of judges, police, journalists, lawyers and other participants, judicial justice has gradually become a struggle for "personal interests".
In order to win the opportunity to take the upper position, the police officer in charge of the case, Park Sang-bum, intervened in witness testimony, asking the police officer who saw Kim Hyun-so at the scene of the crime to say that "Kim Hyun-so personally asked if the girl was dead". This is the police's deformed justice: because such testimony is good for the final outcome of the case in which he expects To have Kim Hyun-so arrested.
Without asking for verification, the reporter made a big fuss about Kim Hyun-so as the murderer, ignoring Kim Hyun-so's situation for news hits. Not only did he not realize his mistake, but he also vigorously argued for himself: "Even if I don't publish this report, others will post it." This is the so-called justice of journalists, and it is called the truth, but in fact this kind of behavior is no different from that of a murderer.
Even the prosecutor in the courtroom was full of selfishness, and without fully proving that Kim Hyun-so was the murderer, he used the sensational words of "the deceased was a woman who was stabbed 13 times" to incite the emotions of the same female judge.
The banner in the police station reads "Reliable Police, Safe Country" is also full of irony, constructing a real and contradictory judicial world, making the audience more and more look forward to the opportunity of Kim Hyun-so's reversal in the follow-up plot and the bloody struggle between the characters.
It is a little unfortunate that the localization of the story of "Someday" was not very successful. In the American social environment, one-night stands and Du smoking are very common things. But in South Korea, which belongs to Asia, this way of life is not common.
In the series, Kim Hyun-so buys ice cream without paying for it, eats the drugs given by the girl without any defense, in a sense, "being framed for stealing" also has its own reasons in it, and it does not deserve the audience's sympathy. But fortunately, Kim So-hyun's acting skills are amazing, to a certain extent to make up for the lack of human settings.
As long as the follow-up plot develops at this pace, there will definitely be the audience's favorite "multi-party interests circumventing confrontation" scene, let's wait and see