When it comes to countries that are good at making suspense dramas, we have to mention South Korea. It can not only shoot "Secret Forest" and "Snooping" that make the audience scratch their ears and scratch their cheeks to know the follow-up plot development, but also integrate the suspense element with the warm element to bring the audience a reversal of "Monster" that is constantly full of healing at the same time.
In this genre of drama, "the truth behind the suspense case" is the main narrative line, while the writers and directors will also set up "heavy native family backgrounds or tragic criminal motives" for other supporting characters around them, so as to make the plot more in-depth and bring more layers of discussion.
What I want to introduce to you today is also such a suspenseful Korean drama, called "Blind", played by the new generation of Korean actors Yu Ze and starring Jung Eun-di.
Both were born in Aidou, but both have starred in many dramas: Tamazawa played "Fight Bar Ghost God" and Kim So-hyun CP feeling is super sweet, and Vincenzo played the villain in "Vincenzo"; Zheng Endi made a name for himself in the show business circle with "Please Answer 1997", and later starred in many blockbuster dramas such as "Unreasonable Advance" and "Alcoholic City Women".
What kind of surprises will two young actors of the new generation bring to us together? Let's take a look.
1. Clown murder
The story begins with the death of "young woman Baek Ji-eun", who was brutally murdered on the night of her birthday, and the death was very cruel: the corners of her mouth were cut open by sharp objects, and she became a clown who could not complain about pain and fear.
The body was found by an old grandmother, and the police soon arrived at the scene. The leader is a police officer named Liu Chenglie (played by Yu Zeyi), who has a very good case-handling ability, and only three days later he can arrest the major suspect Zheng Manchun through the details of the scene details, and only after the trial is over, he can be brought to justice.
It seems that the case is going very smoothly, but I did not expect that Zheng Manchun had a lot of hands at the trial scene: first he threw out Bai Zhien's father's arrears of seven million salaries to attract the jury's sympathy for himself, and then said that he was not the last person to see Bai Zhi'en at the scene of the crime, and finally identified "it was the police officer Liu Chenglie who took Bai Zhi'en" away. For a moment the judge and the jury were stunned, shocked by such an absurd development.
Although Liu Chenglie proved his innocence, the move of "Zheng Manchun to identify Liu Chenglie" is meaningful. What is the relationship between the real murderer and Liu Chenglie? What happened in the past that made the murderer want to put Liu Chenglie to death?
At the same time as the narrative is fast-paced, the suspenseful murder case brings a sense of horror and suspense on the screen, and successfully won the praise of the audience.
2. Nightmare Welfare Home
The timeline pulls back to a "nightmarish army soldier killing young children" incident many years ago. Soldiers in the army are known as mad dogs and are keen on violently beating children in welfare homes; Five of the many children choose to escape, even if there is little hope, they are eager to escape from the place called "Happiness Welfare Home" but it is actually hell.
The scene scheduling of this escape scene is very stunning! The night is a chill in the face of fear, and the mad dog whistles like a death notice. The evil dog searched for the breath of the escaped child in the grass, the child trembled and pasted the mud on his face to cover it up, and saw that only a few centimeters of the evil dog was about to find himself, too nervous to breathe.
Two children escaped to the road but were repeatedly crushed and killed by vehicles, and the surviving children were afraid to see that the driver was not someone else, but the director of the mad dog. What is even more frightening is that the mad dog has already found the last child hiding in the cellar, but pretends not to know. Deliberately dropping the blood of other children on the faces of children in the cellar as a warning... In just 10 minutes, the children's sense of despair and depression that they cannot escape hell is vividly displayed.
Seeing this, I think the audience who carefully observed the clues has already guessed: the mad dog of the army soldier many years ago is the father of the dead young woman Bai Zhien; The murderer of Bai Zhi'en was one of the five children at that time.
In Liu Chenglie's constantly flashing memories, there is a child who looks at the mad dog in horror, and it is obvious that Liu Chenglie is the child in the cellar of that year. But the writers and directors don't really set the "cop as the murderer", and they don't let the murderer appear in front of the audience so early, so the murderer can only be one of the other 4 children.
Coupled with the appearance of the "Daughter Death Case" in the plot of the third episode, which was conspiratorial with the mad dog many years ago, the series officially evolved from an ordinary murder case to a "revenge anti-killing". Many years ago, the young and kind child returned bloodthirsty and became the existence of the evil person who tortured himself many years ago. All the evil people, black eating black thrilling, let the audience look forward to the development of the follow-up plot.
3, some of the advantages of production
There are many characters in "Blind", and it involves two narrative branches of the past and the present, and it will seem very chaotic if you do not pay attention to the plot. So the writer and director use the tone and time period to distinguish the time, the beginning of each episode of the suppressed tone of 10 minutes is to recall the past, the subsequent tone to return to normal The picture is to tell the normal time and space, which helps the audience to understand the plot more clearly.
The narrative maintains a rhythm of inevitable reversals in each episode and details everywhere. This is reflected in the irony that the victim's family is the perpetrator, and even more in addition to Yoo Sung-yeol, Mad Dog, and Choi Man-young, the scene of the trial in the Bai Ji-eun death case is that "all 9 juries are inextricably linked to the perpetrators many years ago".
Choi Man-young once said to the jury, "You will all die", and the camera language indicates that 9 juries have been targeted by the murderers behind the scenes, and one of the jurors is likely to be one of the surviving children! Could it be that the murderer is hidden in the middle of the jury, or that he should be in league with the jury? This suspicion undoubtedly made the audience creepy.
Of course, "Blind" also has some shortcomings, such as too fond of making things up, deliberately shooting Liu Chenglie's gloomy expression to mislead the audience; There are too many relationships between the background of the story and the characters that need to be unfolded, and it is hoped that it will be fast-paced but too strong, resulting in a somewhat fast pace, and many plots will have to be re-watched to understand it.
But as a suspense drama, "Blind" is completely speechless in the horror atmosphere, the suffocation of being hunted down, the cardiac arrest of the murderer hidden in the toilet bathroom, and even the cruelty of witnessing the death of his daughter... Viewers who like this type of drama will definitely not be disappointed by the audiovisual language and plot development.