When you watch Korean dramas, have you found a thing?
Koreans, I really love mobile phones!
(No wonder, a big manufacturer that makes mobile phones supports 20% of GDP))
4 years ago, their blockbuster drama "Signal", the police relied on walkie-talkies to solve cases across time and space.
Opened a small but new genre in the Korean drama suspense category.
△ The screenwriter revealed that the second script is already being written and is expected to be broadcast in the first half of next year
This type of course fires.
After all, mobile phones are closely related to you and me, and its security anxiety can make up endless stories.
Sir tweeted a few days ago that one of the November films was broadcast by Netflix. The name is simple and straightforward, it is called "Telephone".
It is also across time and space, and it is also a thriller.
It hasn't aired yet, and I'll look back at sir and say it again.
And today's "mobile phone new drama", Douban score is quite high, 8.7.
South Korean netizens have also liked it.
△ The picture translation was transferred from the Douban netizen @XZ
If an analogy were not made, Sir would say:
This is "Signal" + "Time to Love" -
Void/time-lapse
Kairos/Kairos
Before telling the story, Sir wanted to ask a question:
Mobile phones, do we make us more fulfilling, or more empty?
After all, although it makes full use of your fragmented time and makes you live a very "full", this fullness is often not really "satisfied" for you.
You can think about it and answer again, but this drama should be about the latter -
Use the phone, empty people.
01
Magical setting
Two people who are wounded inside, because of a mobile phone, there is a connection (beyond time).
Sad Man No. 1, male protagonist Kim Seo-jin (played by Shin Sung-rok).
He should be full of gratitude for his tall life—the youngest director of the company, dressed in a suit and leather, looking a little capable, and recognized by the leadership.
The family is even more impeccable, and the wife is beautiful and talented.
There is also a cute daughter, a little baby who comforts his busy life.
But this gratitude soon turned into excitement.
One day, the little baby went missing.
Jin Ruizhen couldn't understand why, why his daughter who was still dressed beautifully and naughty at him that night.
When we meet again...
How can it be left with only...
What about a broken little finger?
Police said the DNA matched and, according to tests, the daughter was no longer alive.
Immediately after, his life was another big stimulus.
The wife, who could not bear the pain, jumped into the river.
Two critical hits in two or three days.
For an instant, this feeling of sadness, helplessness, and no way out.
He became an empty man.
Who to change, life is difficult to reverse, right?
But then in front of Jin Ruizhen, there was a turnaround, oh no, mobile phone.
He found himself with a magical phone that could connect to the past.
There are two sides of the story -
Sad Man No. 2, the heroine Han Aili (played by Li Shirong).
My father died early, the family had no mines, and I worked hard.
Working in a convenience store, if there are benefits in life, it should be this handsome colleague, occasionally touching each other, sending a few small sugars to the ordinary life.
△ Pay attention to this handsome guy, Jiang Shengrun, it is said that there are quite a few fans now
She has no problem with the ordinary life, but the ordinary life has an opinion on her —
The dependent mother has a bad heart and has to undergo expensive surgery.
Is there enough money? inadequate.
What if it is not enough? What else can I do, save it.
The good news and the bad news arrived almost at the same time:
The right heart, waiting;
But the hospitalized mother, missing.
Sorry, the bad news is another...
The seemingly harmless little handsome guy actually used the excuse of helping to find his mother and swept away the 30 million yuan (equivalent to about 17w) that she had saved for a long time in her card.
She also became an empty person.
You know, her turnaround is about to come.
Her mobile phone can talk to the future (and just match the previous male protagonist).
The connection of time and space actually solves the problem of two worlds.
The man thought that if he could change the past, maybe his family would be saved!
The woman thought that if she could foresee the future, maybe her mother would be saved!
Of course, the benefits don't stop there...
This spoiler's life, don't be too cool to open and hang.
For example, the male protagonist will call the female protagonist from the future:
Hey, the second prize in horse racing wants to be in the right place? The winning number is...
A vote of 40 million, perfectly solved the cost of surgery.
△ Yes, why is it the second prize? This may be the male protagonist's careful machine...
For another example, the heroine finally caught the little handsome guy who rolled up her money, but one accidentally clashed and went to prison.
The male protagonist used his mobile phone to help her get out of prison.
Okay, all kinds of life difficulties, 1 minute, a phone call to get it.
You may have experienced something cool.
But don't forget the core words of the story:
empty.
Can the happiness brought by mobile phones really change the emptiness in the hearts of two people?
02
Real hollowness
You know? The Law of Korean Drama ——
After watching episode 8, because the first 8 episodes are generally prime time.
Sir only saw episode 2, the pace is slightly slower, but the foreshadowing is also buried in place.
As Sir said earlier, the male protagonist became an empty person.
But the upheaval of life when his wife and daughter went missing is actually just a superficial "hollow" on his surface.
As the suspense progresses, you'll discover something else.
More than one oh, visually there are now two holes.
The following slight spoilers, use with caution -
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The first void, the workplace void.
At the beginning of the film, the male protagonist dreams of the collapse of the building.
What does the hollow of the flat ground indicate?
Yes, he was engaged in construction, and this kind of landslide heralded the tofu slag project.
Later, we found that there was always friction between the male owner and the foreman.
The foreman often repeatedly requested a delay in delivery on the grounds of weather and suppliers.
But in the next scene, the male protagonist patted the boss on the chest:
This month, I'm sure I'll get it done!
The work started under high pressure, paving the signal of danger in the life of the male host.
And the news broadcast on TV is also paving the way for the disaster lurking in the male protagonist... According to the news, the first cross-sea bridge in South Korea's history collapsed less than a month after its opening.
So the question comes - is the disaster of the daughter related to the shady scene of the developer?
The second void, the personality void.
The male protagonist started work at high pressure, laying the foundation for the workplace.
But wouldn't this kind of high pressure in his heart also create a high pressure on the family?
He would force his beautiful wife to play the violin to the leader.
"Let the big guys see my wife performing in person."
Influence is not the same."
He would scold his ignorant daughter for crying at the party.
The reason is that it is humiliating to do so well.
"How can you be so ignorant
What if it scares everyone?"
Even the disappearance of his daughter is related to his careless care.
Because he always stared at the leader's face (his wife performed on stage), he did not notice that his daughter quietly left the party scene.
Lust for profit, neglect of family affection, Tarzan pressed the top without self-knowledge...
The tragedy of the male protagonist is not without reason now.
Smart as you should guess, the daughter's disappearance must be a crime committed by an acquaintance with interests.
This brings us to the second question:
How are the lives of the female protagonist and the male protagonist related?
First, it was an encounter.
A month ago, the daughter of the male owner once went to the female owner's shop alone to buy ice cream.
She also said that I did not come by myself.
Later, we found out that it was not the parents who brought the child (it seems that the kidnapping of the child was premeditated).
Moreover, this acquaintance of the crime seems to have a very powerful background -
In the second episode, a strange and strong man inexplicably runs to "turn himself in".
He shouted, I killed people, because my daughter was also killed!
Who killed it?
He said that it was the male protagonist.
You know, there's something to be said for an active confession.
So, such a person with a background to buy murder, is it a high-level person? Or is it a hostile company?
That's it.
And looking down at the male protagonist, there are still doubts -
The two subordinates of the male protagonist, Chief Xu and Secretary Li.
One can speak well, be polite, and deal with police questioning without flaws.
A whole silence, staring at the photos of the male protagonist's family of three thoughtfully...
As subordinates, do they know anything inside?
Well, to find out these insiders, the male protagonist needs the help of one person, the female protagonist.
Because of the magic phone they accidentally acquired, the two of them were enough to cross a month's jet lag.
In other words—
The male protagonist in the future can affect the female protagonist in the past;
The past female protagonist may have helped the male protagonist before the crime and investigated the shady scene he was facing.
One phone, a few holes.
It connects various life choices at home and in the workplace.
I have to say that it once again hits the nail on the head of our reality.
03
Unchanging reality
Several settings about The Void.
In fact, it is in line with the consistent wind bone of Korean dramas -
No matter how magical, it must be close to reality.
In addition to the main setting, some details are also tilted towards reality.
For example, daily complaining about the inaction of the police.
The little girl went missing, and the police didn't care, walking slowly through the process.
Subordinates can't see it, and they have to stuff money to let the police do things.
But what is this called?
Don't take the initiative to find clues, just yawn, just wait for the kidnappers to call...
White, not white.
The male protagonist's tofu slag project is estimated to involve many "interest groups" from the government to the shopping mall in the future.
You may ask, why are you making up stories like this? Why can't you easily tell a story of a magic phone crossing, it seems to be quite funny?
Because.
South Koreans are increasingly convinced that by bashing reality, you can influence reality.
But they do not shout empty slogans, but are accustomed to solving specific problems "small" and "technically".
Commercial films are such a "technology".
Their film and television dramas will frequently connect (real or fictionalized according to the real) tragedies with the daily life of ordinary people, and the audience will of course concentrate on watching and connecting all aspects of their lives.
Thus genuinely caring about this country.
Let me give you an example.
In "The Voice of that Guy," which is based on a true-life case, a father often goes on TV to bash the police.
Soon, tragedy befell the people in the play.
The same child was kidnapped, and although the police went out, they exposed a bunch of institutional and technical shortcomings:
For example, being teased by kidnappers again and again, and even because of negligence, the camera is twisted, resulting in the loss of clues... Layman to burst.
But laymen, partial and love violent law enforcement, casually detain ordinary people.
Isn't it?
A specific case can always involve common practical problems.
Let's talk about a "routine" that Sir doesn't dislike.
The end of Korean film and television dramas is often not happy to give you a happy ending.
It wants to give you a failed ending than a happy ending. For example, in the film "That Guy", the murderer has never been caught (and the reality is the same).
Why?
Because of a failed ending, it is possible for the audience to wake up and pay attention.
Through the film, the audience does not get brainless appeasement.
Instead, he discovered the dark side of the sun-drenched world, and the thorns that he had to walk through in order to solve them.
Sir loves this "Korean flavor".
They seem to have some sad sense of fatalism, but they do not recognize fate.
They let the audience see the thorns clearly, and are also moved and driven by the protagonist's loneliness.
So one day in the future.
Only when we are brave will we become the courage of the collective.
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