In recent years, Netflix has continued to exert efforts in the Asian market.
Japanese dramas and Korean dramas have frequently appeared, and Taiwanese dramas have gradually emerged many dark horses such as "The Dreamer" and "Who is the Victim".
Nowadays, Netflix has launched a new Taiwan drama, and it has just exploded again.
"The First Light"
Looking at the production, it cost NT$250 million (about 57 million yuan), which is the most invested series in Taiwan in Netflix's history.
Look at Cass again: Starring: Lin Xinru, Yang Jinhua, Yang Youning, Feng Xiaoyue, Zhang Xuanrui, Liu Pinyan, Xie Qiongyan, Xie Xinying, Guo Xuefu;
Special appearances: Huo Jianhua, Zheng Yuanchang, Wu Kangren, Xu Guanghan, Wang Baijie, Li Liren, Xiu Jiekai, Wen Shenghao, Ren Rongxuan, Zhang Guangchen, Jiang Yirong...
This lineup can be said to be a collection of half of the Taiwanese artists, and it can also be regarded as a long time to see.
Among them, Lin Xinru is not only a starring actor, but also a producer.
In fact, she seems to surprise the audience every time she appears.
However, the most controversial and interesting part of this drama is the profession of the protagonists:
Accompany the drinking girl. All along, the escort girl in film and television works has always been marginalized, often as a tool to promote the plot, and rarely appears as a protagonist.
This time, "The Beginning of the Lantern" took the sword to the side, focusing on this special group, and I have to say that it is very bold. Various labels make the drama unaired first, and when it really starts, it will live up to expectations, and the current 8.0 points of 2W people on Douban are evaluated.
The story takes place in Taipei in 1988, when a group of college student photography enthusiasts sneak into a forest reserve to shoot. Just when several people were playing and playing, they suddenly found a hand buried in the soil!
Police rushed to the scene, and after investigation, the deceased was a woman. There were electrical marks on the back of the head that had been hit by a blunt object, apparently he had killed him.
There was no documentation around the body, only a matchbox with light characters.
Hikari is a Japanese-style tavern.
When it comes to Japanese taverns, we have to mention the background of the era at that time. In 1988, Japan's economic crisis had not yet arrived. Taiwan and Japan have close economic ties, and under the prosperity has also derived a unique "Tiaotong culture".
The Japanese word for "Jotsu" is an alley, and there are many Japanese bars in the alley.
Sang, the mother who runs the bar, chats with the drinking girl to relieve the boredom, provides spiritual comfort, and takes the opportunity to sell alcohol for a living.
Among them, Linsen North Road in Taipei City is a gathering area for Japanese people, and a number of Japanese-style taverns have sprung up here.
Hikari is one of the most popular Japanese-style taverns here.
Inside the tavern there are two mothers, Sang.
Rose, Luo Yunong, fierce, capable and poisonous tongue has a soft heart under the appearance;
Su, Su Qingyi, gentle and quiet, sophisticated and sleek, can be well navigated between various guests.
These two are not only the bosses, but also the best friends and girlfriends who have been with them for many years, and they have worked together to bring the light business to life.
In addition, there are four other escort ladies in the tavern.
Aji, the oldest and saddled with foreign debt, hovers on the verge of being eliminated but is bent on getting rich by lottery;
Aiko, the youngest college student, young and beautiful, likes to bully and rob customers;
Lily, gao leng drag sister, one second in the light to accompany the guest to make money, the next second to spend money to raise cattle;
Hanako once stabbed her boyfriend for domestic violence and ended up in jail.
Later, in order to make a living, he went to the sea for a long time before Yu Guang settled down.
Each of the six escorts may have been deceased, and each could have been a murderer.
After laying a bright line of suspenseful murder, "The First Light" did not directly show the audience the process of solving the police case. Instead, it tells the story that happened three months before the crime in a flashback way, and deeply understands each person's past, so as to set up suspense and give the audience unlimited imagination.
Three months before the incident, the six escort girls all encountered more or less emotional setbacks.
Adhi's guest is about to return to Japan and completely ignores the confession she wants to join;
Lily's boyfriend is always hot and cold, and the only thing he needs her is to help him sell drugs;
The big boy in the same class who loves her son only regards her as a friend, but he falls in love with Su's mother at first sight...
Sue and Rose, on the other hand, are caught in an anxious love triangle.
Rose has a screenwriter boyfriend Jiang Han who has been in love for a long time, they met in light, Rose fell into Jiang Han's talent, and Jiang Han also admired Rose's beauty.
However, Jiang Han is a proper scumbag, who has been spending Rose's money during his love affair, and often uses writing scripts as an excuse to play missing.
After writing the finale, I turned my head and hooked up with the female star.
After being discovered by Rose, she had no remorse, and only a fluttering "I don't love" cut off the two people.
This is not the end, after breaking up with Rose, he found Sue in the name of paying her back, all kinds of pampering her, and finally directly "started to exercise"...
Seeing this, is it not curious why Sue betrayed Rose?
In fact, before Rose and Jiang Han were together, Su had already had a crush on Jiang Han. It was also the light tavern she brought Ton Han, and as far as she was concerned, she was just a man who picked up Rose and didn't want.
It is said that the paper package can't hold the fire, and Su and Jiang Han's affairs are soon known to Rose.
Remember the male college student who fell in love with Sue at first sight? Unable to court, he began a series of acts of tailgating and secretly shooting, and the beloved son who liked him was not accustomed to being sad, so he simply stole the kissing photos of Su and Jiang Han that he took and gave them to Rose.
Next, it's a gorgeous drama of sisters tearing X...
This is also the place where many netizens criticize, a good drama of female group portraits, why do you want to add so many entangled emotional history, a lack of attention to make people feel that they have come to the eight o'clock file of dog blood.
Throughout the play, almost all the women are in love with the brain, and the men contribute a variety of scumbag images.
Jiang Han needless to say, with the greasy Appearance of Wenqing everywhere, cheating on his legs and rightly saying that he is "loving freedom";
Rose's husband, Wu Shaoqiang, committed a crime in the early years but let Rose go to jail for him, and disappeared directly during Rose's imprisonment. After Rose was released from prison, she refused to agree to sign the divorce and has been occupying Rose;
Male college students are obviously naïve, and sue has to like him, without self-awareness.
Behind the tailing of this kind of dirty things, can be done;
Lily's cowboy boyfriend is even more exquisite, saying that he loves her, but in fact, he lets Lily help sell drugs, and Dora alone covers for him...
No wonder the Douban group directly produced a scumbag evaluation list, if the six accompanying women are beautiful, then these scumbags are really scum of the indistinguishable ah!
Although I can't understand why they are all in love with the brain.
But from another point of view, perhaps it is precisely because they have been lingering in the social field for many years and are accustomed to seeing hypocrisy that they will always vaguely desire a true love.
At present, Netflix has directly renewed the "First Lantern" for three seasons. As far as the end of the first season is concerned, there is still a lot of suspense left for the audience.
In general, in addition to some dog blood in the emotional drama of "The First Lantern", the whole drama is actually quite good regardless of the plot rhythm, the light and shadow of the mirror, or the costume, the actor's acting skills.
Fans who like this type of drama can go to download and see.