As soon as "The First Lantern" began to air, it quickly became popular, and the popularity of word-of-mouth continued to ferment, squeezing out "The Minister of Hell" to the top of the Netflix Taiwan Chart. The mainland frequently searched, relying on strength to obtain the audience's tap water, Douban scored 8 points. This result is really good.
The wind and moon place where several women are mixed, each has a story and a twist. Love and money, fame and lust, are inseparable. The whole drama is set in 1988 Taipei Linsen North Road "Tiaotong Culture", "Tiaotong" in Japanese means "alley", the ladies who work here do not serve guests by undressing and bringing out the scene, and it is a basic skill to observe color.
The web series "The Beginning of the Lantern" has a total of 24 episodes, which are broadcast in the form of 8 episodes per quarter, and the first season has now ended. Accidents fell from the sky, the victims died tragically, from the first episode to the eighth episode, who was the victim? Who is the murderer?
1 6 women with strong personalities
The female characters in this drama are basically from the "Hikari" Japanese-style hotel, where they are ladies who are responsible for drinking and accompanying guests.
Luo Yunong (Lin Xinru) is the second shareholder of this Japanese hotel (Mama Sang) and is responsible for managing the daily operation of the hotel, and everyone also calls her Rose Mama.
Although she is over 40 years old, she still has charm. Rose was imprisoned for her husband in her early years, and after her release, she was called by a friend to run the hotel together.
The person who invited Rose to work with her was her childhood friend Su Qingyi (Yang Jinhua). Su Qingyi has been helping to take care of her son during Luo Yunong's imprisonment, and the relationship between the two is very good.
Su is also the majority shareholder of this hotel, with a gentle temperament, generous conversation, and is the white moonlight in the hearts of many people.
If the life of these two people is still relatively rich and carefree, then their young ladies have their own difficulties.
Hanako (also known as Li Shuhua, played by Liu Pinyan) is sentenced to prison after accidentally killing her ex-boyfriend, where she meets Luo Yunong. After being released from prison, she came to the hotel run by Luo Yunong as a wine escort, and met the police officer who went to handle the case in the hotel, and the two had feelings for each other.
Just when she thinks Hanako can live the life she wants, she encounters a pestering prostitute (who has gone astray in her early years and becomes a prostitute). Bravely chasing after love, she instantly became broken.
Lily (Xie Xinying) is a demented woman who is obsessed with courtship, who is alone and indifferent in the hotel. Her so-called boyfriend Henry (Wang Baijie) just wants to use her to buy and sell white powder, she can see it clearly, but she does not want to admit it, willing to take risks and walk a tightrope for love.
Compared with these sisters who have worked for many years, only the identity of Aizi (Guo Xuefu) is different, she is still a student in school, because of the worship of gold, she hides her family from the hotel to accompany the wine. Aizi is a little young and reckless, and she is not safe enough to do things, because of love and hatred, she and Su Qingyi have also formed a bond.
Compared with them, Ji Manru (Xie Qiongyan) is more anxious about money and age. She is chased by loan sharks day by day, no longer youthful and beautiful, and it is time to retire in a few years, anxious to find a reliance for the rest of her life.
I think the reason why she is still working as a wine girl as she gets older, in addition to not having a skill, is also because the guests who come to visit are relatively rich, and they may be able to meet her true destiny here.
At the beginning of the film, a female corpse found in the mountains is introduced, and the stories of these people are unfolded in a flashback. The plot does not explicitly point out the identity of the victim to the audience, but points the general direction to the ladies in the hotel, and the victims are among them.
The key is a pair of red heels that they all have.
2 Trapped by love or chasing fame and profit? Who were the victims?
Every year on Luo Yunong's birthday, the store will hold an event to celebrate Luo Yunong's birthday, and invite guests from all walks of life to participate.
This year, Luo Yunong came up with a creative way: let the sisters in the store all wear the same red high heels and let the guests guess.
The victim was killed because of love?
The sisters turned their faces, just for one love word - Luo Yunong & Su Qingyi
Luo Yunong and Su Qingyi both regard each other as the most important person in their lives, until Jiang Han (Feng Xiaoyue) appears, breaking this situation, so that the sisters turn against each other.
Jiang Han is a screenwriter, and Luo Yunong was originally a pair of lovers, and he would disappear whenever he handed in the manuscript. Luo Yunong couldn't stand that he had heard nothing for several days, and Jiang Han couldn't stand Luo Yunong's "step by step" anymore, and the two broke up after a big fight.
Before they were together, Jiang Han and Su Qingyi met several times, and the two met several times in the library, and the humorous and funny style of behavior made Su Qingyi fall in love with him uncontrollably. Only before Su Qingyi revealed his heart to Luo Yunong, Luo Yunong had already taken the lead in being with him.
Su Qingyi could only bury this feeling deep in her heart until she knew that they had broken up.
Partial Jiang Han is a scumbag who likes the new and hates the old, and after breaking up with Luo Yunong, he began to tangle with Su Qingyi.
Jiang Han's repeated temptations made her unable to control her emotions any longer, and she fell into it without hesitation. They start dating, like a normal couple.
Although they have broken up, Luo Yunong has not had an old love for him, and she has been kept in the dark and received photos of the two dating on her birthday. The sisters of yesteryear had a big fight in the hotel and turned against each other completely.
Abandoning it and love can not be - Su Qingyi & Aizi
The person who let Luo Yunong see the photo of Su Qingyi and Jiang Han dating was the lady Aiko in the store. The reason why Ai Zi wants to be "nosy" and try to break the relationship between Su Qingyi and Jiang Han to the outside world is for another person, He Yuen (Zhang Xuanrui).
College student He Yu'en and Su Qingyi had a brief love affair, the two broke up due to personality incompatibility, after the breakup He Yuen used a lot of immature ways to try to save: ordered an expensive sea and land dinner in the restaurant; went to the store to order wine and fool around; drunk on the side of the road in front of the store.
He Yu'en's actions were all seen by AiZi. The two were classmates in the same class, and although Aiko had not expressed her heart to him explicitly, she could see that Aiko was intentional with him.
Seeing that he was doing things for the sake of his own anger, Aizi was angry at him, and second, he was jealous, so he stole the photos of He Yu'en taking their date and stuffed them in other photos for Luo Yunong to see, causing their relationship to break down.
For the happiness of the second half of life, the competition is endless - Su Qingyi & Aji
Such a prodigal prince as Jiang Han would never have a moment of stability. The time with Su Qingyi was not long, and as soon as the freshness passed, he mentioned breaking up.
Su Qingyi, on this side, let go of her years of feelings with her sisters, thought she had thrown herself into the arms of true love, and was told that she was inferior to her sisters before she came. Every word was enough to crush her, and in the ashes of all thoughts, she committed suicide. Fortunately, she was found early and she was rescued.
Maybe it's guilt, maybe she no longer has hope for love, and she just wants to find stability at the moment, she agrees to the marriage proposal of Mr. Nakamura (Michihisa Kaga) and wants to return to Japan with him.
Mr. Nakamura is a regular customer in the shop, gentle and elegant, and a very trustworthy person for life. Su Qingyi knew this, and Ah Ji, who was suffering from the second half of his life, naturally knew it well.
She took the initiative to give hugs, ran far away to cook for Mr. Nakamura, and even used medicine to have a relationship with him. But all this did not help, and she did not get what she wanted in the end, only in exchange for a humiliation from Su Qingyi.
Men and women, noisy and noisy, you fight for me, can not escape a "love" word.
The victims were killed because of profit?
Touching direct interests, the most deadly? --Su Qingyi & Lily
In addition to emotional disputes, there are also other conflicts of interest in the play.
The boyfriend of Lily mentioned earlier is a drug dealer in the night market. Although the store is explicitly forbidden, Lily secretly hides white powder in the store for her boyfriend in an attempt to trade in the store.
Unfortunately, the lily trade was caught by Su Qingyi at the moment, and she had long sensed that it was not right, she searched Lily's locker, and the white powder had already been confiscated by her.
Touching Lily and Henry's cake, yan can not be angry. Whether it is to try to retrieve it or retaliate afterwards, it is predictable.
Speaking of which, in fact, the victims are already about to come out. At the end of the first season, the audience still does not know what the victim died for, only that she was injured by a blunt object, dragged to the mountains and thrown to the body, and it is determined that he killed her.
From "Who is the victim" to "Who is the murderer", "The First Light" guides the audience step by step. The suspense of the plot is not heavy, more through the information of the deceased and the scene investigation, flashbacks lead to the story of each character, gradually laying the groundwork.
We should focus not only on the murderers and victims, but also on the various female characters and the stories behind them who are mixed up in the "Light" hotel.
Even now, life is not satisfactory, carrying the shackles of poverty and moral shackles, they still try to break free from this obstacle and gain a little freedom. You can see them struggling in the torrent of life, but they will not lose their instinctive pursuit and hope for love, hoping to change the unbearable past; hoping to meet a good person and spend their lives with him.
Of course, there are also the life experiences of the lower-level women of that era, their love, hate, jealousy, betrayal... Although the character plot occasionally has some dog blood, the image is also vividly portrayed.
The first season of "The First Light" has laid the line between the victim and the murderer so long, I hope that the next two seasons can also play well.