Netflix's film and television works on Treasure Island are extremely local. Also a female theme, in the background of social suspense + gorgeous cast, "Bright Lights" presents a strong residue of Japanese culture. The recently launched "She and Her She" is more like a scar memoir that completely sprouts from the mainland, with unique cruelty and freshness.
This drama has a total of 9 episodes, a single episode is 45 minutes long, and the Douban score is 8.5. The story revolves around the "crossing" of elite women in the workplace, full of suspense.
Lin Chenxi (played by Xu Weining) is a Taipei ace headhunter, but she is currently trying to break up with her boyfriend Li Haoming (played by Li Chengbin) to hide her unbearable past and try to avoid meeting her old classmates. Lin Chenxi was assaulted by the new supervisor Du Junru (played by Wu Kangren) in the company, and fell into a coma in a car accident during the escape. When he woke up, he found that he had traveled back half a year and transformed into a kindergarten teacher in Yilan's hometown. And his deceased father and younger brother are still alive. However, her memory of the past is blank.
In this parallel time and space, there is a murder case that follows, that is, the death of physical and chemical teacher Xie Zhizhong (played by Chen Yiwen). In the process of cooperating with the police to investigate the murder, Lin Chenxi gradually regained her memory and remembered the sexual assault and injury suffered by her senior sister Yan Shenghua (played by Jia Jingwen). When the memory was completely rebuilt, the world collapsed, and Lin Chenxi returned to reality to face the pain positively and solve all the previous doubts. The whole play is also in a complete and self-consistent logical closed loop, carving a way for the injured women to survive.
Relying on this narrative structure, the play constructs three time and space. The first was when they were in junior high school, when Lin Chenxi and Yan Shenghua were sexually assaulted by Xie Zhizhong in the name of making up classes. Characterized by memory, authenticity, powerlessness to resist. The second is Yilan in May, where Lin shielded his past of sexual assault from his memory due to a car accident. Characterized by fantasy, fiction, pain to forgetting. The third is Taipei in November, this time and space is divided into two halves by the second - the first half, Lin people in the workplace but unable to face the past; In the second half, Lin left the workplace and began to face the pain and actively move towards the future.
Three worlds correspond exactly to the three "shes" in the title of the play. This is the protagonist's different self in the time dimension. From the perspective of horizontal groups, each "she" represents every female character in the play, Lin Chenxi, Yan Shenghua, Yang Jiaying, Chen Zhiling... The complex relationship between women, such as misunderstanding, sympathy, and mutual assistance, makes the word "she" three-dimensional and multidimensional.
The series takes Lin Chenxi's three worlds to lead to "dissociative amnesia". It is also known as "schizophrenia" or "schizophrenia", which is shown in "Our Distance from Evil" and in the Okinawa movie "Damn Asura". The experience of the protagonist of this play can't help but remind people of a passage by Lin Yihan, the author of "Fang Siqi's First Love Paradise": "In the period before I took a break from school, I often had dissociative attacks, because the trauma to my body was so great that my soul had to leave my body before I could live." ”
"She and Her She" is a series with a strong style. Mostly use blue-green, bright yellow and other tones, soft lighting, birds flying, tree shadows. Between the stories, there are many pleasant scenery in the countryside of Yilan, and even the plot of the heroine's suicide by cutting her wrists is also arranged on the rural road hidden by greenery. Visually, this play is very fresh, bright and soft. It is based on this style that it is also the brilliance of this play - the more safe the climate, the more the soul has nowhere to heal. In the lightness of sight hides a terrible heaviness. This "lightness and heaviness" is also reflected in the actors and characters. Except for Wu Kangren who challenged himself and played a broken character in the play, the other characters in the play, from the appearance alone, are almost soft and harmless. But under the surface, everyone is overwhelmed by the ubiquitous malice.
Typical examples include ex-boyfriend Jiang Yuan (played by Hu Yuwei), who is handsome and talented, and is extremely considerate to Lin Chenxi, patiently guiding the latter to face and smash the past. Helplessly broken too strong, Jiangyuan finally couldn't bear it and left in disgrace. Later, he met his current boyfriend Li Haoming, and with deeper love and stronger will, he tried to repair Lin Chenxi's brokenness.
This is also the most precious part of this play. It presents feminine power and does not shy away from gender emotions; It criticizes the male gaze and does not deny love. Gender differences have always existed, and the persecution and pain caused by them have never ceased, but the show has always maintained a more objective position - the harm comes from people, not gender, and the same is true of salvation. Just as Lin Chenxi was hurt by both Teacher Xie and Mother Xie; Get salvation from both yourself and your boyfriend.