Over the years, with the decline of south Korea's three major television stations in all aspects, tvN, JTBC, OCN and other cable stations have gradually developed, and latecomers have come to the fore and produced many fine products.
For example, "Castle in the Sky", "Ghost Guest", "Secret Forest", "Ghost", "My Uncle" and so on.
These high-scoring masterpieces are not only limited to romantic love, but also constantly innovate and break through in terms of theme and content.
And the Korean drama that Poison Jun wants to talk about today is a crime drama that integrates brain-burning and suspense -
The Trap
Trap
OCN, which has been focusing on criminal suspense for a long time, can be said to have come up with a super high configuration on "Trap".
Park Shin-woo, the director of the Korean version of "White Night", sits in the escort;
Written by Nan Xiangxu, the screenwriter of the first season of the high-scoring criminal investigation drama "Special Case Task Force TEN".
You should know that after the withdrawal of Nan Xiangxu in the second season, the quality of the script has dropped significantly.
And the two male actors who supported this double male protagonist drama are also not small.
The first is Li Ruizhen.
Speaking of this actor, everyone is probably not familiar with his work role, but the variety labels of "tvN civil servant" and "the man who controls Luo Chenxi".
"Grandpa Fancy", "Three Hours and Three Meals", "Yin Canteen", Li Ruizhen can be called the hero who helped Luo Pd build a sign in tvN.
However, the long-established variety show image did not affect the separation of his role and personality, which is especially evident in "Trap".
Another male protagonist is Cheng Dongyi.
The "National Dad" of the "Please Answer" series is also a police professional.
In addition to the protagonist, the supporting cast should not be underestimated.
Xu Yingji of "The Beginning and End of the Murder of Jin Funan";
"National Grandpa" Bian Xifeng ("Pinocchio", "My Girl", "Witch Youxi").
It is worth mentioning that "The Trap" is the first work of the 2019 new series "Dramatic Cinema" project jointly created by OCN and the filmmakers.
A total of 7 episodes, now finished, watched in one breath, and the more you watch it, the more addictive it becomes.
Douban score 8.1.
As the name suggests, "Trap" is an innings from beginning to end.
At the beginning of the story, in the wilderness, passers-by find a seriously injured man.
Snake venom, stabbing, penetrating wounds, respiratory failure, this man can pick up a life is a miracle.
The police suspected that this was not a simple mountain climbing shipwreck, attacked by wild beasts.
Especially after it was found that the victim was former popular anchor Jiang Xianyu, the case attracted the attention of the police.
Therefore, the police sent gao Dongguo, who was experienced and experienced, to take charge of the case.
But in the process of investigation, the police also gradually fell into a Rashomon.
The first is Kang Hyun-woo's confession.
In his memory, he took his family on a vacation to the mountains to celebrate his wedding anniversary with his wife.
Unfortunately, there was heavy rain on the way, and the family of three had to go to a café to hide from the rain.
However, this café just looks very strange.
Not only is it eerie and terrifying, it is like an exhibition hall of the head of the beast;
There are also snakes and lizard reptiles.
In addition, other customers in the store also looked at the family with very strange eyes.
At first, his wife was very upset about the atmosphere in the store, but Kang Hyun Woo did not think so.
It wasn't until his son's disappearance that he realized something was wrong.
Since there was no signal in the mountains and the café owner claimed that there was no landline, Kang Hyun Woo could not ask for help outside.
He recalled a few people who had just been in the café and became suspicious.
Kang Hyun Woo returned to the café to question the boss about the whereabouts of the men, but the boss told him that the store had only received their family of three at that time.
During this time, the wife did not know where to go.
Kang Hyun Woo believes that the boss has joined forces with the "hunters" to kidnap and extort.
He forced the boss to ask about the whereabouts of his wife and daughter, but he did not expect to be killed by the other party.
It turned out that this was a premeditated "hunting game".
The boss gives Kang Hyun Woo a map and tells him that his wife and son are locked up in two places, and That Kang Hyun Woo must make a choice about who to save first.
And at the same time that Jiang Xianyu went to save people, he himself became the prey of this hunting game.
However, Jiang Xianyu also served in the Army Special Forces, and his psychological quality must be leveraged.
Taking advantage of the fact that the café owner was not ready, he turned back and chopped off one of the boss's toes, threatening him with the hunters' plans.
He then snatched the shotgun and searched for his wife and son while wrestling with the hunters.
Unfortunately, no matter how capable he was, he alone could not withstand the raid of four people in the shadows.
The hunters wantonly tortured Kang Hyun Woo and cut off part of his tongue.
In the end, Jiang Xianyu was seriously injured, did not save his son, and even his wife's whereabouts remained a mystery.
The above are the confessions that Jiang Xianyu has provided to the police one after another after he woke up.
But when the police investigated along the confessions and clues, they found that everything was not quite right.
And the case is constantly reversing, and the truth is becoming more and more confusing.
Although the officer in charge of the case at the beginning, although he was a stutterer and seemed incompetent, his intuition was actually very accurate.
When he saw Kang Hyun Woo's secretary making affectionate gestures to Kang Hyun Woo in the hospital room,
He became suspicious of the secretary, feeling that it was a third party who wanted to ascend to the throne.
However, just when key evidence was inadvertently discovered, it was thrown from the roof.
Faced with this unsuspecting bento, Gao Dongguo, who was reluctant to investigate the case at first, made up his mind to find the murderer.
In addition, the police also sent a psychological profiler, Yin Ruiying, to help Gao Dongguo.
Yoon Seo-young first wrote a side note about Kang Hyun-woo's confession and the injuries to the bodies found by the police in the mountains.
She analyzed that the killer was a gang of hunters with a group of high-ranking and powerful people behind them.
These people have no purpose in hunting, but only because they are bloodthirsty, enjoy the process of hunting, and they get pleasure by inflicting great pain on those they know.
At this time, the screenwriter also put the real identity of these people in front of the audience.
The highly respected hospital director, in order to cover up his greed, forged evidence of the mental illness of others;
The highly regarded female entrepreneur is actually the godmother of a violent organization in South Korea;
Four-elected members of parliament who have long since completely washed away the history of the impeachment of democratization movements;
There is also the arrogant pro-Japanese faction of the second generation.
These people collude with officials and businessmen and do whatever they want.
And, of course, the people who hunt for them — the famous entrepreneur President Hong.
When the police investigated President Hong, something unexpected happened.
They discover that it is not Kang Hyun Woo who cheated on him, but his wife.
Ambitious, she is not satisfied with her husband who only wants to do business, so she tries to use the power of President Hong to realize her political ambitions.
So the police began to suspect that the wife and the two conspired to murder Kang Hyun-woo.
However, as they followed this trail, things took another turn for the worse.
The police found that Kang Hyun Woo had long known about his wife's unkind relationship with President Hong, and President Hong had also died at a critical moment.
Seeing this, I believe that the poison powders have begun to turn the object of suspicion to Jiang Xianyu like the poison jun.
So, is it all a play he directed himself to punish his betraying wife and her lover?
Who is the hunter and who is the prey?
Poison King will not give you spoilers here.
In fact, after watching so many suspenseful thriller works, the plot reversal is nothing new.
But the brilliance of "Trap" is that it is densely informative, and it does not give the audience a chance to breathe from beginning to end.
The screenwriter uses a multi-line narrative to unfold the story.
A line of memories constantly sets up suspense; an investigation line solves puzzles at a point.
And when the police finally cleared the clouds and saw the moon, an "accident" appeared to drag them back to the original point.
At the same time, the audience is trapped in a trap like the police, and will not marvel at the screenwriter's foreshadowing before until the screenwriter is willing to tell you the truth.
However, such a wonderful trap, poison jun is still willing to jump into it.
Finally, Poison Jun also wants to tell everyone that this drama has no bad ending!
This year, the Korean dramas that do not end badly are really conscience!