When it comes to the well-known Mesozoic actors in South Korea, we have to mention Lee Dong Wook, who is famous for his fairy beauty.
In 2005, the starring role in "My Girl" exploded, and the role of Xue Gongcan became the standard for countless young girls to choose a mate; in 2016, the Yin Cao messenger played in "Lonely and Brilliant God: Ghosts" refreshed the new height of cuteness, and the sadistic love between Sunny and Sunny earned enough tears from the audience.
In 2019, "Others Are Hell" became a phenomenon-level hit, and the image of the all-staff villain setting + crazy killer character was addictive. Recently starred in the new drama "Evil and Madness" is a challenge to the "two-sided personality" of the fine police personnel, bringing the audience a high-spirited story of fighting evil with evil, and once it is online, it scored a good score of 8.2 points.
First, the dark suspense story
In "Evil and Madness", Lee Dong-wook plays a policeman who has been crawling all the way from the bottom and finally has the opportunity to be promoted to the head of the serious crime team, and is a hypocritical city servant.
The opening scene begins with an excitement of the interrogation of the fellow police officer Kim, who asks him why he killed his companion, Police Officer Zhuo Minshui. It seems to be to seek justice for the deceased Zhuo Minshui policeman, but in fact it is a show for the police chief. Because the chief of the bureau once had a personal grudge with the interrogated Jin policeman, and Liu Xiuyue was trying to please his boss and did not care about the existence of the bottom line, a few camera shots were set up to stand firmly.
However, the world is unpredictable, and a related household was killed in the process of promotion, resulting in the quota that originally belonged to Liu Xiuyue to fly. In order to regain the quota, Liu Xiuyue reached a cooperation with the extremely powerful metropolitan congressman through the matchmaking of her superiors: Liu Xiuyue helped the metropolitan congressman to deal with the disaster of "beating the police" caused by her brother so as not to affect the political election, and the metropolitan congressman guaranteed Liu Xiuyue's promotion.
From here, the story of "Evil and Madness" officially entered the high-energy stage, and the two-line narrative of the police beating up the brother of the Metropolitan Congressman and the disappearance of the drug addicted woman Zheng Jiu'e were closely linked.
The beaten policeman, named Wu Jingtai, was maliciously attacked by his brother, who was also a policeman, when he was investigating the reason for Zheng Jiu'e's disappearance, and obviously did not let Wu Jingtai continue to investigate. When dealing with this case, Liu Xiuyue had actually found something wrong, but in the end she chose to ignore it for the sake of fame and power.
At this time, it is the turn of the mysterious man K to appear. Each appearance is a hilarious form of "pain flatTening Liu Xiuyue", accusing Liu Xiuyue of ignoring justice and aiding abuse.
Yoo So-wook is forced by the mysterious person K to find the truth of the case together, and the high-energy unit stories such as the high-level political councilor taking the life of the people, the metropolitan councilor colluding with drug dealers to profit, and the existence of a drug dealer umbrella in the police station continues to unfold, and the police in the black Korean government black system are once again bold and daring to shoot.
In addition to the unit story genre, the entire story of "Evil and Madness" is linked together by the same story line: the woman killed by the parliamentarian, Zheng Jie'e, is the anti-drug informant of the police who died Zhuo Minshui at the beginning of the chapter; the Jin policeman who is accused of killing Zhuo Minshui police is not a good person, and has long reached a deep cooperative relationship with the Metropolitan Councilor and the drug trafficking group behind him, and even the death of Zhuo Minshui policeman is inseparable.
In the case of many characters, the series did not give the audience a sense of confusion. Instead, through a multi-line narrative, the characters appear one after another, and the pace is very fast. After all the characters appeared, they closed the net little by little, followed by the perspective of Liu Xiuyue and the mysterious person K to track down the truth, stringing all these clues together, and finally revealing the mystery with a sense of mystery.
Second, nonsense absurd comedy
When the first episode was premiered, the audience thought that the mysterious person K, who always appeared suddenly, was a certain enthusiastic citizen of South Korea, who hated Yoo So-wook's attitude of "bowing to power", so he repeatedly squashed Yoo So-wook and forced him to investigate the case with him.
It was not until the last 5 minutes of the second episode that the screenwriter finally understood that the original hypocritical city servant Liu Xiuyue and the mysterious person K were the same person.
With this setting, the series quickly becomes nonsensical: Yoo So-wook wants to cover up the truth, but K wants to punish the evil, so he kicks the murderer in the face of everyone, and the scene is very hilarious.
K runs away every time after the disaster, so that Liu Xiuyue has to clean up the mess. From apologizing to the metropolitan councilor with a face, to going to the river at night to find evidence that can prove the crime of the metropolitan congressman, finding a wet body, coupled with Liu Xiuyue's helplessness to hold herself and sit by the river, saying to herself, "My life is finished and ruined", all the pictures reveal a sense of joy.
On this side, it is the love between Liu Xiuyue and the second personality K, who suddenly appeared in the elevator when K suddenly appeared "Do you miss me so much" line that made the audience laugh out of the abs; when K rode a motorcycle to force Liu Xiuyue to investigate the truth of the case, Liu Xiuyue "How can I walk backwards, walk backwards" The collapse of the thing is even more funny to say twice in a row.
The most interesting thing is to make K disappear, Liu Xiuyue willingly believes in the unreliable mind therapy method of the half-hanging psychiatrist, while making strange gestures while chanting "Only I am real that guy is an illusion", and the absurd atmosphere of nonsense is full.
On the other side, there is the "magical love triangle" between Yoo So-yue, the second personality K, and Yoo So-woo's ex-girlfriend Li Xiqian. Yoo So-wook has broken up with Lee Hee-chan, but K falls in love with Lee Hee-chan, who punishes the evil one at first sight. Every night K would secretly ride out to bring flowers to Li Xiqian while Liu Xiuyue was asleep; when Li Xiqian was mistaken for a murderer, he wrote childish love letters to comfort him one after another; every time he met Li Xiqian, he was extremely shy.
It seems to be a love triangle presented in the form of a dual personality, but in fact, it conveys the romantic love core of "people who like it will not only like it once", and at the same time, there are many comedic elements to support, and the whole viewing process is very comfortable.
Wickedness and madness
Finally, back to the original intention of the setting in "Evil and Madness" where the protagonist is a "two-sided personality". It is clear that this setting is borrowed from the movie "Fight Club", intending to complete the discussion of evil and madness in the process of leading the protagonist's crazy rules breaking in the second personality.
Liu Xiuyue undoubtedly represents "evil". He is fully aware of the dark crimes of powerful and political parliamentarians, but pretends not to see them; even in cases where justice is needed, as long as the other party gives enough money, he obediently sews his mouth. He nodded his head to his superiors, panicked and confessed his mistake when he was caught, and got rid of the image of a hypocritical and evil policeman.
The second personality K is synonymous with "madness." Introduce myself as the K of HIJK, crazy and cute. When he first took off his motorcycle helmet and appeared in front of the audience, he was accompanied by a high-burning line: I specially executed the hopeless scum, the last hero of the contemporary era, and the atmosphere was almost instantaneous. Every time Liu Xiuyue could not successfully deal with the criminals, K would appear just right, punching the criminals to the ground. Although it is said that it is to fight evil with violence, it seems that it is cool to take off.
In the first half of the story, it is the second personality K who forces Liu Xiuyue to track down the truth of the case, and there is an element of coercion in it. However, as the story continues to develop, the magnates are embarrassed by The adverse situations such as The family of Liu Xiuyue and the former girlfriend Li Xiqian being framed as a murderer, and Liu Xiuyue also begins to have the idea of confronting the powerful and the dark forces. Instead of saying that "people without strength can only kneel and apologize", Liu Xiuyue judged the situation, but completely reconciled with the second personality K and became both right and evil.
At this point, the intention of the drama "Evil and Madness" is clearly revealed. It is The high coolness of Liu Xiuyue when she punches and kicks the evil people, and it is also the irony and exposure that "justice under the power can only be recovered by violent means". Corruption in the system makes Liu Xiuyue have to do whatever it takes to climb to a higher position; at the same time, the inner justice has never been extinguished, so it splits into another reckless crazy personality.
Obviously, the main theme of this drama is the audience's favorite drama of fighting evil with evil, and it is also the most capable of filming the drama of satirizing the dark legal system of the government in South Korea, and the two complement each other. Coupled with the suspenseful crime-solving story that reverses in each episode, and the hilarious mode of getting along between Yoo So-yue and the second personality K, the coexistence of crime and comedy, and the proper blockbuster drama.