If there really is brain synchronization technology in the world please! Let me sync with Bill Gates! If you really can't synchronize your brain, in fact... I don't mind the wealth synchronization! (Mistaken) A Korean drama "Dr. Brain", which I didn't expect much and couldn't imagine a tight and exciting plot that made me deeply immersed, even the comics are very good!
Have you ever wondered how nice it would be if you could be as smart as anyone who is? (These seem to be the words I would have heard when I was a child when I was broken by my mother!) When I grow up and understand things, I often wonder how good it would be if my head was as shrewd as whoever was. (This seems to have seen the news of the triumphant return of a certain successful entrepreneur!) Although I don't know if this black technology will be realized in the future, today I will introduce this brain-opening medical thriller Korean drama "Dr. Brain Doctor".
"Dr. Brain" is the first Korean drama series launched by Apple TV+ on 11/4, a total of 6 episodes, the story is adapted from the popular Korean science fiction genre of the same name web comic; "Dr. Brain" web comic began in South Korea in August 2016, ended in April of the following year (a total of 32 episodes), the work rating is as high as 9.9 points, this year with the advent of the live-action version of the album, this year began the second season of serialization in November this year (although the Chinese version is currently only the first season). The plot of this drama tells the story of a genius scientist who is enthusiastic about studying brain memory and subconscious, who lost his family in an unfortunate accident and is unwilling to accept the truth, regardless of all bioethics, will analyze the memory from the brains of others through unrecognized technology to restore the case and expose the mysterious truth behind the accident.
Director Kim Ji-woon of this play said that after reading the manga, I think it is interesting to enter the setting of other people's brains, the manga as a whole feels very close to the film noir I like, in the style of emphasizing shadows and light and dark, the story focuses on the psychological changes of the plot and characters, which I like very much. At that time, I thought that directly bringing the atmosphere of this manga into the work should be very good.
After all, this is the plot of medical science and technology, in order to interpret the brain science research in the story more realistically, the director also specially invited Dr. Jung Jae-sheng, a South Korean brain science field, as the supervising producer (that is, he did not dare to scare the audience in front of the screen, so as not to be taken out and bombarded as unprofessional), and had a solid scientific foundation. There are details about the medical environment, brain research and scientific dialogue in the play, and some of the dialogue lines are also written by Dr. Zheng Zaisheng!
"Dr. Brain" seems to be an intricate and enigmatic sci-fi thriller, but it is actually a gripping emotional family drama. This is not only the first Korean original series of Apple TV+, but also the first time director Kim Ji-woon has directed a Korean drama, and it is indeed shot at a movie level, which is a highly recommended film!
This male protagonist has found a husband wearing a green hat in the Korean drama "The Wife Is Going to Go Out of the Wall This Week", or a warm uncle in "My Uncle" to the rich president of the world's hit movie "Parasitic High" who does not eat human fireworks and won the Screen Actors Guild Award, Lee Sun-kyun, whose charm can digest every different role, this time he plays the male protagonist in the play - Gao Shiyuan, a genius scientist who cannot feel emotions. Because of the technical development of the brain of the deceased, he often missed the opportunity to get along with his wife and children. Later, his wife and children had an accident during an unknown accident, and in order to solve the mystery of the accident, he would use his scientific talents to enter the brains of people involved in the accident, explore their memories, and experience all the feelings they had never experienced, so as to make up for his debt to his wife and children who never showed compassion.
Li Shanjun's role is autistic, so in the first half he must show "unable to feel the emotions of others", in short, it is expressionless facial paralysis acting, which is a difficult acting! Considering that Park Baojian also challenged such acting skills in the movie "Eternal Life War", I personally think that this is more difficult than pretending to be "Kang An"! In the second half, due to the relationship between the plot, Gao Shiyuan, played by Li Shanjun, began to change his brain through those brain synchronization experiments, and finally began to have emotional changes, he could feel the joy and sorrow, and the acting skills before and after the big test!
In addition to the male protagonist Lee Sun-kyun, "Dr. Brain" also gathered many heavyweight actors, such as "Tunnel" heroine Lee Yu-young, a while ago because of the gangster boss role in "In My Name" and popular Park Hee-hyun, and "Love Forced Landing" female second Xu Zhizhi. Li Yuying plays Caiyi, the wife of the male protagonist Shi Yuan. Both husband and wife are brain scientists and met because of their work. Park Hee-hoon plays private detective Lee Kang-moo, prompting Se-won to start a journey to find the murderer. And Xu Zhizhi is out of the style of the previous intellectual beauty, this time playing lieutenant Cui, the detective who is responsible for investigating the murder of Lin Junji, the action clip in the play can also see her martial arts skills! There is also a special cameo Ofe-hoo, is not the actor is a hard bottom acting!
The story began in the autumn of 1990, the male protagonist Gao Shiyuan (Played by Li Shanjun) is an autistic child, because the brain is born abnormal, the hippocampus is twice that of ordinary children, the amygdala is only a quarter of ordinary people, resulting in his natural curiosity and amazing memory, but lack of empathy, I specially Googled the "what is the hippocampus and amygdala", these two bodies are in the brain, the hippocampus is mainly responsible for the storage conversion and orientation of long-term memory and other functions, the amygdala can produce emotional motivation, thereby enhancing memory. Therefore, it means that the male protagonist Gao Shiyuan has a more amazing memory than ordinary people, but he can't empathize, so even if he witnesses his mother's sudden death in a traffic accident, he still doesn't feel any grief.
After Shiyuan grew up, because he was curious about his own brain structure, he focused on the study of relevant knowledge, became a brain neurologist, and developed a unique theory about brain wave transmission, through the interpretation of the "language" of brain waves, so as to understand other people's thoughts, ostensibly a major breakthrough in medical research, but involving "invading" the consciousness of others, moral and legal problems are difficult to solve, and the hospital stopped, Shiyuan did not think so. Se-won once had a wife and a son, named Daoyun, who also inherited his father's autism, but unfortunately died in a fire, and his wife was devastated. Gradually began to hallucinate, claiming to see his son, but I don't know if I chose to find a short because I missed my son too much, and I tried to commit suicide and fell into a coma. In order to investigate the cause of his son's death, Shi Yuan stepped up his research, originally only able to use the rat test experiment, actually ignored the objections of the hospital, sneaked into the morgue without authorization, found a body that died for no more than 36 hours, and then acted as a "white mouse" to personally conduct the human corpse brainwave exchange experiment, and the result was that he really "saw" the last memory of the deceased.
When he returns home, private investigator Lee Kang-moo (Park Hee-hoon) comes to the door to inquire about his wife Jung Chae-yee's relationship with a man named Lin Jun-ki, and Se-won says he does not know; the next day, it is the turn of a policewoman (Xu Jizhi) to inquire about the same problem, only to learn that Junji is dead, Chae-yeon is missing, and Se-won may become a suspect in the murder. The truth is that Cai Yi committed suicide after losing his son, and is now unconscious in the dungeon of Se-won's home, in order to find out the truth, he sneaks into Junji's memory and hears a mysterious girl say, "Daoyun is not dead." Coincidentally, Cai Yi had said the same thing before she fell unconscious, what was the mystery?
The plot rhythm of "Doctor Brain" is mastered brightly, and the first half of the first episode quickly explains the identities, backgrounds, personalities and positions of all the characters, and simply understands the basics first. The most interesting setting of the whole drama is that after synchronizing the memory of the deceased, Shiyuan also obtains the personality and even preferences of the other party before death, such as Shiyuan, who is a loner at all, and the company colleagues have not taken the initiative to deal with it for many years, until after synchronizing the quasi-base brain, they began to take the initiative to invite other colleagues to dinner, and the colleagues were dumbfounded, thinking that he was an alien?! I believe that this design should have an important impact on exposing the truth in the future. The experiment will also bring about quite a terrible sequelae, that is, shiyuan and the memory of the deceased overlap, resulting in a phantom sense of reality, so that he gradually can not distinguish between reality and false images, such as Shiyuan Mingming and his wife Caiyi dialogue, the woman suddenly disappeared into the sea of blood, and then appeared full of blood, the visual effect is quite shocking. "Doctor Brain" about the intertwining of reality and memory should be common in Hollywood movies, and Leonardo's "Full Start", or Hugh Jackman's "Remembrance", are the best examples. Although Kim Ji-woon is a Korean drama, it is well-made, the image is full of film oppression, and the plot is compact, which makes people want to watch, which is the first Korean drama for Apple TV+. However, it may be to eat Netflix saliva, the endding of the sixth episode is also a big foreshadowing of an open ending, the comics have already had a second season, and the second season of the TV series should not be excessive, but because the Apple TV + streaming service is a bit limited, the audience will be more limited!
Let's talk! Original manga now! I had a look at the first season of the manga on the Internet and felt good, so if you watched six episodes and thought it was good, you can also go back and chase the manga. Director Jin Zhiyun is actually attracted by the story setting of the manga, but when writing the script, he specially added many characters that were not in the original book to deepen the elements of suffering in Seyuan's life. What parts are not in the manga, in fact, it should be said that the series only uses the main axis and protagonist of the manga story, and others such as Shiyuan's wife and child, and the final boss are all original characters in the theater version.
In addition to continuing the plot in the comic, director Jin Zhiyun also expanded the linear narrative structure of solving the murder mystery one by one in the original book into a multi-layered plot, covering a series of mysterious accidents and disasters that occurred in Shi Yuan's house, making the overall story more suspenseful!