Text/Scarlett
In fact, originally knowing that she was the screenwriter of "The Secret Forest", Scarlett still had a little expectation, although the actors in it were not first-line big names.
Later, when I thought about it carefully, this matter was full of strangeness.
Think about it, Lee So-yeon, who won the Best Screenplay Award at the Hundred Thoughts Awards, the first cooperation was Cho Seung-woo, a top Korean celebrity and a Hollywood café like Bae Doona, why is the "Grid" (Defense Network) that I want to introduce today, whether director or actor, directly descends from the cliff? Don't Korean screenwriters have a say in casting?
Is it because "Life" is written so poorly?
However, what is even more speechless than the director and actor's coffee position is that this time Lee So-yeon's screenwriter actually challenged South Korea's worst science fiction theme!
I reckon this mental journey might look like this:
Because "The Secret Forest" has indeed reached the ceiling of the Korean prosecution suspense theme, and the medical theme of "life" has tried to fail, all relying on Cao Seung-woo's acting skills, so this time I want to re-try the suspense theme, and I don't want to go the old way, so I challenge the science fiction theme that Koreans have repeatedly lost.
Unfortunately, judging from the first episode, it basically failed.
The shortcomings are summarized as follows, and the little friends see if I have exaggerated.
01
Is the setting of this big cover stolen?
To be honest, I had to be shocked to see the setting at the beginning to make a cover for the earth and block the solar wind. Isn't this the brain hole of a traffic artist who was sprayed on Weibo last year to apologize?
At that time, this traffic artist said that he wanted China to make a cover for the Japanese nuclear power plant, so that the area could be closed off for the purpose of protecting the earth.
Maybe everyone puts the hood in a different position, but this idea, is not the honey juice similar? I can't laugh anymore when I see it, family.
02
The special effects screen is really cool and handsome
In fact, from the beginning of the TV series, the special effects are still good. One look at Disney is a big price. All kinds of space graphics are cool and handsome and high-tech.
After watching it, you have to sigh, since the American streaming media came to South Korea, the width of the Korean TV drama field has been opened, not only expanding the story scene from South Korea to the world, but also often impacting the whole universe.
03
The way of storytelling goes back ten thousand miles
However, the grandeur of the scene does not save the screenwriter's brain hole. Although the cool and handsome space scenes often make Koreans very happy, the core of the story of the package is hollow and boring in the grand scene, which is much worse than the traditional Korean idol drama and the current main suspense drama.
For example, last year' Netflix launched "Silent Sea" at Christmas. The special effects can be said to be excellent, which I have never doubted the level of Korea.
However, the story, whether it is suspenseful or sensational, whether it is logic or imagination, has been criticized, and it has also fallen into various plagiarism allegations.
The combination of the rich Netflix + South Korean first-line movies Liu Kong and Pei Doona can't win south Korean high-quality science fiction dramas, so what about Disney, which owns Marvel this time? Can you save the weakness of Korean dramas?
Judging from Disney's second Korean drama, it is clear that the first episode was filmed inexplicably.
As we all know, the biggest advantage of Korean suspense miniseries is that they are short and fast. (No connotation, no association)
Even if it is 16 episodes long, it will quickly create conflicts in the first episode and grab the attention of the audience. Then, the protagonists appear one after another, and there is a small climax at the end of the first episode.
This is still the practice of 16 episodes.
The Secret Forest itself, for example, is an example of this success.
The shorter 10 or 8 episodes, usually in one episode, show the main story and conflict, such as last year's very successful hit, "Someday" starring Kim So-hyun.
But, let's look at the show.
The first ten minutes will be a wave of special effects to show off. Tell everyone that the Korean dramas invested by Disney are different from the general (yao) (jing) (jian) (huo), and have the strength of a scientific and technological blockbuster.
Then there's the shredding of scenes from different times. Let's start with a few pictures of the heroine and the male protagonist as children, and then cut to the current timeline to tell a murder case.
As we talk, we return to the picture of the male and female protagonists when they were young. In a few minutes, it's back to the current story of time.
To be honest, the experience was very bad.
If you're like Netflix, you can release all 10 episodes at a time, but the problem is that you don't explain anything clearly one episode a week, and one episode ends. What do you use to entice the audience to wait a week? Guess the puzzle?
04
The first episode of plot speculation
So, I thought about the first episode before and after, and the story was probably like this:
Years ago, the Earth was about to suffer a space catastrophe, and then someone managed to make a cover, like wearing an armor for the Earth to block the attack of space.
This person is probably the woman who disappeared out of thin air after years of helping the murderer escape the police.
At the same time, the heroine witnesses the imminent arrival of the catastrophe in the playground and disappears. The male protagonist witnesses the same scene outside the window of his home.
Years later, the hood was attacked again, and a group of authorities in charge of it, mainly Koreans, (those foreign faces were all tools to show Korea's protection of the earth.) Fixed this cover.
Then, the female manager inside must have some secret. What she said was right, probably the woman who disappeared out of thin air. Maybe that's the story of crossing over to save the planet.
The male protagonist works in this authority and encounters a murder at the same time. He has been spying on his boss, and the purpose may be related to his own background, his mother, and how it is, the first episode did not say.
The heroine intersects with the male protagonist because of the murder, and at the same time intersects with the disappearing woman because of the pursuit of the criminal.
Then, the first episode ends.
After watching my plot review, you tell me, where is the attraction?
The so-called science fiction + suspense setting really did not let the plot get any exciting sublimation.
The biggest highlight of the first episode of this drama is the director's honey love for various details, close-ups of various small details, and then the big main line is fragmented.
For the time being, it is predicted that this drama will pounce. Whether you are in love or not, it doesn't matter, South Korea still don't shoot science fiction, really, Korean dramas shoot science fiction, even the suspense dramas they are good at can be messed up.
2022/2/18 in Hong Kong