Although Netflix's large-scale suspense crime drama "The First Light" only aired for one season, the mysterious murder did not account for who was who, but it became a big hit in an instant. Lin Xinru, Yang Jinhua, Guo Xuefu, Feng Xiaoyue, and Yang Youning acted well, the narrative was very compact and smooth, and through the tragic story of the bar ladies, the ukiyo-e of the bar's happy scene was restored.
Luo Yunong, Su Qingyi two mothers Sang led the "light" Japanese hotel, the ladies share happiness and hardship, every scene, familiar with some of them died tragically one day, the story has the advantage of natural writing crime themes, so Netflix won the copyright with NT$300 million, the volume of 24 episodes divided into three seasons, the current Douban 8.1, but not finished.
It opens with a female corpse in the middle of nowhere, revealing her hand, and each episode hooks up with viewers who want to know the identity of the dead until the last episode of the first season. Who is she? Who is the murderer? Unfortunately, it can only be revealed in the third season.
Lin Xinru plays Luo Yunong / Rose, no longer as pure as Ziwei, completely gorgeous and dusty bar lady boss, she was unable to bear the previous domestic violence and attempted to kill people, after being released from prison, she opened a bar with her sister, living alone with her son, she was as fierce as fire, love and hate, the city taste is strong, but she was fascinated by the screenwriter Jiang Han, and almost fell out with her sisters.
Yang Jinhua plays Su Qingyi, who seems to be elegant and beautiful, as if he knows how to advance and retreat and knows how to measure up, but he is clever in his wrist and mysterious in temperament, which makes people always feel that the clouds are cloudy. She not only hooks up with Nakamura Masahiro, tries to get rid of the happy scene and marry into the rich, but also steals love with the screenwriter Jiang Han behind her sister's back, which is obviously a cunning.
Unfortunately, the screenwriter Jiang Han, played by Feng Xiaoyue, seems to be handsome and talented, but he is a scum scumbag who plays with women. Just like he avoided Lin Xinru at Yang Jinhua's house, he was even more resolute and decisive in getting rid of Yang Jinhua, and he also used his poisonous tongue to say "Zhen Zhen has words".
He cynically said: "There is no reason, I just don't love" "You are no different from them, you just hide deeper...", he also thought that if he wanted to be a wife, it must be Luo Yunong, just a few simple words, he explained the jealous nature hidden by Su's mother, she was locked in the bedroom and secretly cried and committed suicide!
Su Qingyi secretly hooked up with Jiang Han in front of him, was photographed by the student's love enemy, and was secretly stuffed to Luo Yunong by Wang Ailian because of jealousy, how can a good sister who once started a business together not be estranged? Looking at Lin Xinru pretending to be his birthday party, pointing at the mulberry and scolding the acacia to everyone, and then the two good sisters showdown, after the fight, they simply cried together, much like the silly white sweetness in the idol drama.
Later, Su Qingyi was eager to die for love, played loveless suicide, and in her bones she was not at all the mother Sang who saw through men in her 40s, but a stupid woman who irrationally pursued love. She was a literary and artistic young man who had been in and out of the library for a long time, good at flower arrangement, calligraphy, golf, and proficient in Japanese, but due to various life setbacks, she became a drinking girl.
The other three bar women, including Aji, a female gambler who came from a poor background and is still trapped in the happy scene, want to marry a Japanese and go ashore; there are sweet words for drug dealers to love lovers, and lilies who do not hesitate to try to sell drugs and hide drugs for them, there are love brain women who are addicted to male public relations shops, and there are female college students who go to the sea to find gold for vanity.
In "Immortal Sword 1" that year, Liu Pinyan, who played Li Shuhua, was kidnapped and raped by guests who had been in prostitution in the past, and she asked bitterly: "Am I only worth it like this, am I so dirty?" Later, she hid at home and was invited back to the bar by Lin Xinru, who truly "worked" but always hid from her family!
Ironically, after the suicide attempt, Su Qingyi quickly accepted the love of her emotionless old guest Nakamura, and laughed at Aji, who had a night of passion with Nakamura, who did not care about the man's cheating, and decided to marry into the Japanese tycoon. Instead, after everyone took a group photo, the next shot was Yang Jinhua lying in the autopsy room, and Lin Xinru was crying with pain...
Luo Yunong refused the repeated overtures of her ex-husband who returned to her hometown, but she did not expect that the good sister Su Qingyi wanted to marry the Japanese and went to the abyss of death in advance. Su Qingyi offended too many people at the party, whether it was a good sister who was a love enemy, or a bar girl who hid drugs, or a jealous student sister, a debt-owed mother, or an underworld figure outside, it was not unusual.
Huo Jianhua and Wu Kangren are about to make cameo appearances in the next two seasons, and I believe that in the "light" bar mixed with dragons and snakes, women are entangled in the vortex of alcohol and desire night and night, and there should be unexpected surprises. The director of "Broken Bureau" Lian Yiqi shot very smoothly, and the costume and photography were very exquisite, hoping that the mission would not be fulfilled in the future.
Back to "The Beginning of the Lantern", although this drama does not show some shots, the Taiwan drama is already large enough compared to the mainland drama. The drinking girls have beautiful faces, but they hide their unseen side, they are humiliated and hurt by money and desire again and again, contaminated with yellow gambling poison, and gradually unable to extricate themselves!
Just like Su Qingyi, who has a light of longing for hope in her heart, she pins her hope on men and love, and as a result, she is a moth to put out the fire, and the incense disappears and dies, which is intriguing. Hopefully, the last two seasons won't suck and see a wonderful ending.