On the Douban Korean historical film list, the feature film "Si Mourning" has long occupied the first position. Some people say: Only the deep influence of oriental traditional culture can shoot such a great work that shocks people's hearts. In the film, when Si Mourning Shizi was imprisoned, the scene where his young son Li Qi visited his father with water made countless viewers cry. "The heartache of the father and the king, the dying breath of the son of the world, the hoarseness of the grandson, a scene, three generations of a family, each heartbroken." Recently, a drama series telling the story of Li Qi's love and growth - "Sleeve Red Trim" resource was launched.
When the drama premiered in South Korea, it was not optimistic about the outside world. First, the lineup of episodes playing at the same time is too strong. They are Song Huiqiao's "Now In The Hands of Separation", Quan Jixian's "Zhiyi Mountain", and Li Ying'ai's "Gu Jingyi". Compared with these three top actresses, the main actors of "Red Sleeves" Li Junhao and Li Shirong can only be regarded as a young new generation. Li Junhao, the lead singer and lead dancer of the boy band 2PM, there are not many film and television drama works, but the stage expression is strong, the facial features are angular, and the figure is excellent. In the play, Li Junhao also showed off a good figure.
Li Shirong, born as a child star, played Xiao Jinying in "Da Chang Jin", and his representative works such as "Pain Doctor Che Yaohan", "Romantic Bakery", "Lakeside Hotel" and so on.
Lee Joon-ho and Lee Se-wing contributed to the performance of excellent standards in the play, and the two also won the MBC Acting Awards Best Couple Award, Best Actor Award, and Best Actress Award for the play. Before the series began broadcasting, the producers of the series waited for the premiere with the mood of "doing their best to obey the destiny". Who knows, after the show began broadcasting, the ratings rose from 5.7% to 19.4%, breaking the ratings record of MBC in the past 3 years. In terms of word of mouth, the drama has dominated the first place in the list of major topics on the Korean network for many consecutive weeks. Domestically, the drama Douban scored a high score of 8.4, far ahead of many historical dramas, and received high evaluations such as "Confucian classical tragedy", "absolute female drama", "digging depth within the limited scope of costume romance drama". In the douban praise, the fans' love for the drama is overflowing with words: Koreans can shoot a small word out of the feeling of Confucian classical tragedy, just like the absurdity and sadness of the grass and trees in "Si Mourning" that shed tears for me. It is neither a love drama nor a court drama, but a drama that wants to talk about a woman's life. Seeing a mixture of feelings, women are emotionally rich, but they should cherish themselves more. Good love is both destined and hard to fight, the heroine has not expressed her true feelings throughout her life, which is a little stubbornness and small willfulness that the screenwriter has placed on the role. Absolutely female drama. Absolutely exquisite and absolutely profound works, almost the best Korean dramas in the past year. The free soul and the imprisoned court, the instinct to love oneself and the inevitability of loving others are simply the epitome of modern marriage. 01 True Story Adaptation The series is based on the love story of the 22nd generation Wang Zhengzu Li Suan and Yi Concubine Chengshi. It tells the story of the ordinary palace maid Deren (Li Shirong), who grew up to be the highest grade of the inner woman, Zheng Yipin's biological mother, Yi Concubine Chengshi. His husband, Lee Woo (Lee Joon-ho), was the 22nd monarch of the Joseon Dynasty, the grandson of Lee Woo of Young-joo and the son of Lee Woo, the son of Lee Woo, the son of Lee Woo. In 2016, South Korean director Lee Hyun-yee filmed the movie "Si Mourning", which tells the story of his father Wang Yingzu who locked Si Mourning Shizi in a rice cabinet for eight days and starved to death. It embodies the individual tragedy caused by the three principles and five permanent thoughts under Confucian culture.
The story of "Red Trim on the Sleeves" follows immediately after "Mourning". The "red trim" in the film refers to the dark red trim on the cuffs of the palace maid's clothes. Such clothing means that they will be "the king's women" for the rest of their lives, and they cannot betray or refuse.
This also reflects the oppression of people by Confucian culture,one person must depend on the power of another person. The heroine, Deren, died early in her parents, entered the palace at the age of ten, and was talented and intelligent.
Shang Gong (the leader of the palace maids) saw that she was talented, so he summoned her to Wang Sun's East Palace and focused on cultivation. 02 Mutual Support The Korean National Law stipulates that "the son of a sinner may not inherit the throne." ”
Under pressure, Li Qi had to become an uncle and nephew with his father. In addition, Li Qi's grandfather Yingzu was short-tempered, moody, and suspicious. Yingzu would often punch and kick Li Qi because of small things, and afterwards he would cry and cry to express his love to his grandson. Li Qi lived with fear and trepidation every day. When Li Qi's grandmother, Concubine Li, died, Yingzu ordered that Li Qi should not be allowed to send a funeral for his grandmother. However, Li Qi grew up with his grandmother and had a deep affection for her grandmother. Reluctantly, he had to visit his grandmother alone late at night. On the way, Li Qi met Cheng De, who was ordered to guard the spirit of his grandmother. Two timid men marched forward together.
On the way, Li Qi wept bitterly and apologized to his grandmother, saying that he should not blame his grandmother for killing his father and making her sad. De appointed the red trim on the sleeve and wiped away his tears. When entering his grandmother's spiritual hall, Deren reminded Li Zhi to bring his shoes to his body and not to leave evidence for others. When Yingzu suddenly visits the Lingtang, Deren gives Li Qi cover and helps him escape. One day, when Deren was on duty, he heard that Li Qi had peeked at the forbidden book, so he quietly entered the study and tore up the ulterior content of the forbidden book, helping Li Qi escape the disaster. Unlike ordinary love dramas, young Deren has been trying to protect his lover. She always plays an important role in key moments. The palace girls in the play are very united and have the independent consciousness of modern women. Shanggong Zhao often taught the palace ladies: "Absolutely, you can't trust the king." "Our destiny is in our own hands."
In order to make the palace ladies stand out, the Zhao clan intended to cultivate Deren as a princess. But Deren knew that her and WangSun's status were not equal, and the harem was like the sea, and marrying Wangsun required self-dedication, and she rejected Zhao's proposal, saying: "I care about Shisun, but I care more about myself, and I will not push myself into pain." ”
03 The love line and the career line go hand in hand in addition to the love line, and the drama also focuses on depicting Li Qi's imperial growth line. The death of his father, the party strife in the imperial court, the suppression of his grandfather... The young Li Qi had suffered too many injuries prematurely, and the goal of supporting him to persevere was to become a generation of Ming Jun. The king has supreme power, and it is even more necessary to balance the forces of all sides. In the environment of growing up in danger, Li Qi gradually grew from a kind, upright, and simple teenager to a politician who was scheming, knew how to observe words and colors, and was good at scheming.
For example, the palace was attacked by a tiger. In a hurry, Li Qi led the samurai around him to kill the tiger. But according to palace rules, only the king could order the shooting of tigers. Li Qi's behavior made Yingzu very angry. For this reason, Li Qi knelt outside the palace to plead guilty, and almost fainted. At this point, Wang cai forgave Li Qi. In order to realize his political ambitions, Li Qi formed a party with his fellow Chinese, but was exposed. When the king learned of this, he was furious and beat Li Zhi to the point of bleeding. At this time, DeRen outside the door knew how bad Li Qi's growing environment was. Li Qi, who had been suppressed for a long time, expressed his political ambitions to Deren: Because there are things I want to achieve and endure because I want to get things, one day I will become the king of the king, and I will use this power to help the people of the world, do you know how many ideals I have to realize these sufferings, will be the force that will help me grow. At this moment, De Ren understood Li Qi's ideal of becoming a Ming Jun. She made up her mind to help Li Qi.
The love line between the two has also become a career line that has achieved great things in the country. The male and female protagonists are not only sweet lovers, but also "entrepreneurial partners" with strong professionalism and idealists.
In the process of following Li Qi, DeRen gradually stepped out of the ego and achieved a generation of Ming Jun. In the process of loving and caring for Deren, Li Qi also knows how to be more sympathetic to others. When the two express their love, there is no dog blood love triangle and the old terrier who "never listens to the explanation". But it is straight forward, there is something to say, refreshing and direct, sugar tube enough.
For example, Li Qi saw Cheng Deren talking to the second man without a cold war, and directly asked: "Are you having a private meeting with him?" Li Qi saw Cheng Deren combing his hair bun for the coming-of-age ceremony, did not turn around and leave, nor did he feel sorry alone, but directly asked: Why did he comb his hair? Was it a divine grace?
Afterwards, Li Qi found that the guards were behind him, and he felt shy, and he ran away. It was so cute. In addition, the audiovisual language of the play is outstanding. For example, Li Qi was imprisoned by his grandfather, accompanied by Cheng De reading the Book of Poetry outside the window. A generation of masterpieces is full of classicist beauty between the two.
When the male and female protagonists met again, neither of them dared to look at each other and bowed their heads and hid. But they were all in the reflection in the water, and they saw each other's shy appearance.
I have to marvel at the director's ingenuity in audiovisual. A large number of highly saturated shots are used in the play, which makes the play full of poetic beauty.
In the later period, Li Qi and De Ren married. Li Qi was a majestic king outside, and returned home to become a clingy husband. Li Qi named Deren Yi Concubine, which was taken from the Book of Poetry to describe the harmony of the family and the harmonious husband and wife, and he said to Deren: "I hope to become a family with you." ”
What a common and great dream. But in the imperial family, everything is involuntary. In the end, the two were unable to live a plain and happy life. Deren's own children need to be raised by others, and they cannot enjoy the joy of heaven. Li Qi was busy with government affairs all day long and rarely accompanied Deren.
At the end of the play, Deren died of illness while pregnant.
Li Qi, who has lacked love since childhood, once again confirmed to Deren: When you sit alone in the library, who is the person in mind? Have you ever truly admired me?
DeRen only said: I hope that in the next life, if the two see each other again, they can pass each other.
Li Qi and De Ren met when they were young, grew up together, and achieved the peak of each other's careers. Their love is sweet enough, bitter enough, and persistent enough. The dialogue between the two people before Deren's death also seems to confirm a truth in life - we are born as independent individuals, so we are doomed to be lonely. We are afraid of being alone, so we try to love others. But most people, unable to see themselves in the eyes of their loved ones, are still lonely.