Regarding immortality, human beings have endless imaginations.
From the Tang monks who are coveted by demons and ghosts, to the professors from the stars....
Today, JunJun introduces a Korean drama that is immortal and spans 600 years of revenge -
"Don't Kill" ★★★★
Recommended reason: Thriller fantasy drama
Duration: 45 minutes x 16 episodes
Bean cloves: 7.0
This drama Netflix invested as much as 40 billion won, based on the theme of the monster "unkillable" circulated in South Korea.
"Don't Kill" is a monster that is said to feed on iron, and it is invincible and fierce.
And the male protagonist with an immortal body in this drama "lives", cannot kill, cannot kill himself, cannot drink blood, and lives forever alone....
It became the last ghost creature to survive in the modern land.
For 600 years, he had been looking for someone—someone who could kill himself.
And it all started 600 years ago...
01.
6 million years ago, this land was inhabited by non-human creatures, ghosts.
They are like vampires, sucking human blood to sustain life.
Folklore has it that the most feared yokai of all the monsters is "unkillable".
When a boy is not born, he is cursed by the monster "unkillable".
This means that wherever he goes, he will attract "unkillables" to bring the killing to wherever he goes.
Even if the pregnant mother hanged herself, it did not prevent him from being born.
Fear, the father abandoned the boy when he was a few years old and fled.
Since then, the boy has been displaced and survives by picking up scraps.
He has no name, no family, no friends,
Alone bear the spurn and exclusion of the villagers.
Until one day, the people in the village died mysteriously one after another.
The deceased's internal organs were intact, but the blood in his body had been dried up.
An old man in the village predicted that "no one can kill" came, and soon the whole village would die.
The villagers unanimously decided to kill the boy.
Just as the villager's knife was slashing at the boy, a mysterious woman suddenly appeared and died for him.
The villagers are still unforgiving, and they are bound to kill the boy.
Immediately after, another general appeared, and he rescued the trembling boy.
The general took the boy away despite the villagers' obstruction and prophecies of his own calamity.
Since then, the general has become the boy's adoptive father, treating him as his own.
He named the boy "alive," which means to be born again.
After 17 years, "Live" Xiao is brave and good at war, strong in martial arts, and has the mission of eradicating ghosts.
However, when the ghost creature "Head Suppresser" was on the verge of death, he cursed the "living", and everyone around him would be punished.
The curses were fulfilled one by one.
His eldest son was blind in both eyes, his pupils were bleeding all day long, and his second daughter died prematurely.
"Live" is no longer close to his family because he is worried about the disaster and will not be close to his family.
However, the last ghost creature was not eradicated, that is, "unkillable".
"Live" decides to find the unkillable and break the curse.
During the search, he reunites with the mysterious woman who shielded him from the knife.
She wasn't old, she wasn't dead, she was "unkillable"!
"Alive" ordered the pursuit to stop, and planned to ask "unkillable" about the ins and outs.
However, overnight, the "living" wives and children were tragically killed by the "unkillable" poisoners, and their deaths were miserable.
The mysterious woman "Unkillable" also took the opportunity to assassinate "Live".
However, the woman seems to have suffered a regurgitation, "living" incarnation into an immortal body of the ghost,
The mysterious woman "unkillable" has become a human.
The resurrected "Alive" killed the mysterious woman with his own hands.
Since then, the "living" is immortal, and the mysterious woman who is a human being continues to undergo reincarnation.
02.
Time has come to modern times.
For hundreds of years, "living" is to fulfill the dying promise to the adoptive father,
Even if he endured hunger and torture, he never ate human blood.
"Living" can only end her life by repeatedly killing the soul of the mysterious woman until she really disappears.
The "living" who is bent on death has continued his pursuit for 600 years.
Once she reincarnated, he killed once.
In this life, the mysterious woman reincarnated into her sister Frost Face.
My sister stayed at home all day, chattering in her room, and the table was carved with things that were difficult to distinguish.
She was seen as a freak by her family.
Her sister has a face exactly like her sister's.
"Live" finally found out the whereabouts of his sister Frost Yan, and he found the door.
The sister found out that she was being followed, and took the opportunity to escape and return home....
The above is part of the plot of the first two episodes of the show.
The "living" with strong self-control is not carried away by the beast, and is not bloodthirsty or indiscriminate.
Although he showed killing, he still retained his righteous and good side.
The villagers, on the other hand, can mutilate unarmed children because of the uncertain curse.
Human beasts or "man-eating" villagers, which is more frightening?
Vampire motifs have been common in recent years.
Somewhat regrettably, the innovative breakthrough of the relevant settings in the play is not enough, which is easy to cause aesthetic fatigue of the public.
When she grew up, her sister became the heroine of the follow-up plot.
The direction between the male and female protagonists is still the love drama that Korean dramas have always been good at - killing and falling in love.
The plot is a bit old-fashioned and predictable, and the ratings will inevitably continue to decline.
Friendly tip: there is no shortage of bloody thriller scenes in the play, please bring your own ventilator!