Domestic dramas have produced too many flat "silly white sweet" heroines.
So much so that you ask me what kind of "evil girl" character I have, and it's hard to think of anyone for a while.
The arrifame one in Pawnshop No. 8.
Even though I have forgotten the plot many years later, I still remember that poster.
On the poster, Tianxin is dressed in a red cheongsam, which is separated from the pawnshop owner played by Du Dewei.
One black, one red.
Behind it is a silhouette of a behemoth-like pawnshop.
The chaotic dark world, the little red of Ah Jing, reflects not beauty and nobility, but the temptation and fall of life.
Recently, the new drama drama is famine, so it is turned out to be an old drama to watch.
Revisiting this classic Taiwan drama "Pawnshop No. 8" broadcast in 2003, one of the feelings is:
Beautiful women are often there, and evil women are hard to find.
And the villain will be the heroine, and the dark pawnshop of the dark pawnshop will be the era of the world view.
It's gone.
Childhood Shadows
The mystery has been passed down through the ages and exists in the fourth degree of space.
Pawnshop No. 8 has no way back, only points cannot be redeemed.
The eighth pawnshop can be pawned not only gold and silver jewelry, but also the deed of the big house.
One's limbs, internal organs, luck, chance, and even the joy, future, and soul of one's children.
As long as you want, you can be put on the scale platform and converted.
The pawnshop owner's name is Han Nuo, and he also has an assistant, called Ah Jing.
They have been running pawnshops for more than a hundred years, not aging, not dying, painless and loveless.
This is as it should be.
At least in the eyes of the real owner of the pawnshop, Kuroyo, he chose every pawnshop manager with the same intention.
However, the reason why people are human is that emotions cannot really be quantified and manipulated.
The bee ending of Han Nuo and Ah Jing is actually hinted at in the first episode.
The owner of the previous pawnshop, who made a cameo appearance by Zhou Huajian, angered The Black Shadow because he embezzled the pawn to save his lover.
The boss and his lover were burned to death in the fire.
From the first episode of "Pawnshop No. 8", it gives people a bath with the huge cruelty and horror that childhood cannot bear.
Later, Han Nuo, a rich young master in the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, was chosen as his successor.
Ffff leader Black Shadow invited people to join the group on the spot:
"I am the Lord of Darkness, I have chosen you, and you cannot disobey me. You are the person I like, and I have been watching over you all your life. ”
Han Nuo was very impressed, and then rejected him.
Since then, the black shadow has been possessed by Han Nuo's son and has done many evil deeds.
Some of the images are reminiscent of the eerie extent of childhood nightmares.
Newborn baby, mutant zombie psychic eyes (pit daddy ah this is!). )。
One second he was obedient and good, and the next second he was smiling at his father's back.
There is also Han Nuo's wife, who has lost her mind, and throws herself into the blue furnace.
Under the tremendous psychological pressure to protect his family, Han Nuo compromised with the demon and reluctantly became a lifelong worker.
Before working, I also lost the love of my life.
In exchange for his wife's happiness for a lifetime.
The first relationship ended, and the evil girl Ah Jing went online. By chance, she became Han Nuo's assistant.
The two share endless lifespan and endless boredom.
Evil Girl Argenne
Compared with Han Nuo, who was often soft-hearted and did loss-making business when he was doing business later.
Ah Jing is more like the one who truly "belongs to the darkness".
In the early stages, she did evil, starting with instinct.
Unlike Han Nuo, who was born rich and therefore kind, Ah Jing was born low, coming from a flood of refugees from famine and war.
And she was ugly, with a huge black birthmark on the left side of her face.
The appearance is at Han Nuo's wedding, on one side is the hero's grand wedding, and on the other side is the hungry heroine stealing food.
She was later sold to a brothel, and after years of being a rough handmaiden, she killed Fleur, the head of her own care.
Only then did he get the chance to be taken into the pawnshop by Han Nuo as an assistant.
Later, when she had everything she had ever dreamed of.
She is not doing evil for the sake of evil, but a rather deceptive snake and scorpion beauty.
For example, Liu Zhifang, a pawn played by Liu Xuehua, when she first walked into the pawnshop, she was an ordinary woman wearing black-rimmed glasses and loose clothes.
Ah Jing can easily identify the desires in the eyes of others and guide them:
"Want to be pretty?" You will definitely be more beautiful than me." ”
In order to become a model, Liu Zhifang quickly chose to pawn his own taste.
And that's just the beginning.
From the first time you walk into a pawnshop, it's like opening Pandora's box, and no one isn't addicted to getting instant desire satisfaction.
This woman, who became a regular in the pawnshop, pawned her affection for the second time in exchange for the opportunity to study in France.
The third time, she wanted to pawn fertility in exchange for financing the brand.
After being rejected by Han Nuo.
Liu Zhifang was very confused, and Ah Jing's eyes slipped and turned, so he quietly made suggestions: "Take your child as a pawn." ”
Hanno is a slightly complicated and struggling man.
From becoming the boss, his ultimate goal of "luring the holy soul to fall" of Black Shadow was superficial flattery and inner resistance.
He was willing to lure people into the pawnshop, but he was also full of compassion for the poor people.
Ah Jing, on the other hand, was delicate and beautiful, with a deceptive happy mask, so that one by one the visitors were willing to offer their most precious possessions.
"I remember you had a daughter, so I pawned her life."
Liu Zhifang hesitated: "Can I pawn her?" ”
Ah Jing followed the temptation: "Of course, your possessions, of course, you can make the most of it, your daughter's life is what you give, you have power, as long as you want." ”
The evil of Ah Jing is a kind of demonic coldness.
She just didn't care, everyone in the world had nothing to do with her, whether it was life or death, whether it was misery or happiness, she all showed an ignorant indifference.
Just like the evil female killer "Little Pervert" in "Kill Eve".
She kills because she is bored: the world is boring, and the human beings who live in the world are boring.
She loves to kill people, just as she loves fashion, just a way to resist the emptiness and boredom of life.
Ah Jing also pursues beauty and fashion.
There are all kinds of beautiful little suspenders in the play.
Little Black Dress:
There is also a classic cheongsam outfit:
All let her image exude a Raphaelite beauty, and evil at the same time innocent.
Exaggerated pouting, a childish smile, and a wrinkled playful little nose, placed on Ah Jing, super perverted and cute.
It is so much so beloved that it is often forgotten that she is the "daughter of the devil", the heroine of the villain.
Such a person as Ah Jing actually does not need to be "whitewashed".
Because she is not a one-sided person with a "vicious female match" face that is now loved by domestic dramas, but has the vividness and integrity of being a person.
There is a subtle evil in her, and there is also a flash of love for her boss.
She is purely evil and loves simplicity.
However, the tragedy of their love, under such a worldview setting, is also doomed.
Efforts to resist desire may fail, but it is still worth trying.
Materialistic foam
Although "Pawnshop No. 8" portrays the male and female protagonists with villain elements, it is not a three-dimensional injustice.
There are all kinds of magical pawns in this world, most of which are about the satisfaction of human desires.
The black shadow in the play emphasizes more than once: "The greedy desire of human beings will never change, which allows the eighth pawnshop to exist." ”
Han Nuo also had a wish: "I hope that your material requirements can satisfy your eternal emptiness." ”
Desire itself is not a bad thing.
But the evil of pawnshop number eight is that it is a shortcut that gives people the possibility of instant satisfaction of their desires.
Once you get used to the instantaneous availability of happiness, wealth, status, and fame.
Accustomed to overdrafting and offsetting family affection, love, friendship, and even their own physical health, the happiness and future of their children.
Even if he had more, it would be difficult to truly attain the happiness of peace of mind.
This drama (the first one) is adapted from the novel of The Hong Kong female writer Shen Xue in the 90s, and to some extent, it is also an echo of the atmosphere of the times.
Again, it is reminiscent of the materialistic bubble era in Japan in the 1980s. Even, point to the present.
Materialism and consumerism prevail, materialism is supreme, and emotions are hard to find.
"Pawnshop No. 8", whether it is each small unit story or the main line, eventually returns to the emotional connection between people.
The mother who wanted to be her daughter's life finally pawned her eyes and returned to family affection.
Han Nuo, who pawned the love, finally used the love of others and fell in love with Ah Jing.
Everyone is a fragile individual who is thrown into a lonely world, who goes into a pawnshop and speaks out their wishes, perhaps not badly.
But the moment when desire is satisfied, it is the moment of repayment.
So much so that these lonely people forget that no matter how prosperous material is, it is cold.
And the emotional relationship between people and people, even if it is impossible to clearly calculate the investment and return, is a magnificent universe that connects people and the world.
"Pawnshop No. 8" tells so many unit stories and reflects on the endless evil of desire.
However, such a series with rich connotations and a dark world view has broken off a cliff in today's decaying film and television environment.
The "evil girl" heroine like Ah Jing, among the "three views of the right" one-water little white flower heroine, is simply the only clear stream in 20 years.
And now even the evil three-dimensional rich female partner is difficult to see.
It can be said that reality is a chaotic whirlpool, and the new future is far away, and perhaps it can only go back to re-brush the old drama.