For a self-proclaimed man who is a bit of a force, Sir has always had little interest in the tradition of Korean dramas that love to sprinkle dog blood.
Especially the tear-jerking three treasures of "terminal illness, car accident, can't get better", just listening to it, I want to pinch my nose and take a detour.
But this Korean drama is completely different.
The New Culture Newspaper once hit its selling point accurately with a standard:
This is not false.
Well, don't sell guanzi.
It's called —Unborn (미생)
The Baeksang Arts Awards is the oldest and single comprehensive art award in Korea and the highest award in the Korean television industry.
And "Unborn" won three awards in the 2015 Korea Baeksang Arts Awards for Best Director, Best Actor and Best Newcomer Actor in the TELEVISION Category.
In Sir's impression, the Korean dramas with a rating of more than 9.0 on Douban do not exceed 10.
"Unborn" scored 9.3, ranking second. (The first is "Funny Family")
"Unborn" is adapted from Yoon Tae-ho's webcomic of the same name, directed by Kim Won-seok, and tells the story of a group of professionals working hard.
"Unborn" is a Go term that refers to pieces that still have room for survival, and this chess piece can be worked on or uprooted.
The title of "unborn", as the name suggests, is that life is like a chess game.
You are both a pawn (at the mercy of others) and a chess player (self-selection).
For most of us, our state in the company is unbirth, and we may become dead chess (fired) or we may be worked (flat).
This drama mainly revolves around the stories of four "unborn" (An Yingyi, Zhang Baiqi, Han Xilu, and Zhang Gelai).
Judging from the combination of cards, "Unborn" is not like a Korean drama.
There is no long-legged Oba (the male protagonist is only 173 years tall) and no national goddess.
It can even be said that none of the four leading actors are particularly famous wrists.
First of all, Jiang Sura (playing An Yingyi).
Her character we are most familiar with is the eldest sister Dachunhua in "Sunshine Sister Tao".
In "Unborn", Ahn Yingyi is a member of the office minority (woman), proficient in many foreign languages, high and cold on the outside but kind at heart.
In life, she can pick up a small and rough job together, and she does not need or be helped by others.
Even the boys' lives she will.
At work, she has insight into the needs of customers, and it did not take long for her internship to negotiate a fat contract for the department.
In the positive assessment, in the face of the boss's doubts, there is no fear of the stage.
Her only problem was that, as a newcomer, she was too strong—and, moreover, a woman.
So she had a hard time, was pointed at the nose and scolded, and had to do some chores for unreasonable demands.
Jiang Hena (as Zhang Baiqi).
He has participated in TV series such as "Monstar" and "Heirs", and won the Best Newcomer Award at the 2014 SBS Acting Awards.
Like An Yingyi, Zhang Baiqi is also an elite of the elite.
From childhood to adulthood, they are model students, schools or companies, are the ones who are optimistic.
But strength doesn't make it all.
Even if you are strong, you are still a newcomer, and the "core task" still has to be handed over to the "core person".
Therefore, Zhang Baiqi can only watch his "low-energy" colleagues get more resources. And I have a lot of blood in my mouth.
He felt "subjugated" and applied to his superiors for more tasks, which was rejected.
Bian Yaohan (as Han Xilu).
Filmography: "The Watchers", "Social Phobia", etc.; TELEVISION works: "Ex-Girlfriend Club", "Six Dragons Flying", etc., won the 2013 Seoul Independent Film Festival Actors Department Independent Film Star Award.
Slippery, sociable, cheeky.
It's still a color embryo.
Every morning, I go to work in order to see more beautiful women.
In short, a "workplace spirit" that everyone avoids.
Ren Shiquan (as Zhang Gelai).
He was once the lead singer of the boy group "Children of empire", and won a lot of money with the TV series "The Moon Embracing the Sun" and the movie "The Defender", and officially entered the acting world.
Zhang Gelai is the male protagonist of "Unborn" and the most miserable one in the office.
Being looked down upon, being suppressed, being bullied, all the time.
It all stems from his identity— a relation, and it's well known.
Honestly, "relationship households" are common in the workplace.
Maybe most people want to be in a relationship – the only difference is that it's okay.
But everyone beats from the heart to hate the relationship household.
Zhang Gelai knew this very well, and all he had to endure.
Coupled with their low education and lack of professional knowledge.
On the first day of work, I was at a loss.
I can't even shake hands with my boss.
Particularly nervous, very restrained.
Notice this scene, the only person in the whole office is still wearing a coat when he is working.
Because he couldn't do anything, and no one had time (willing) to teach him, Zhang Gelai couldn't do anything well.
Seeing this, everyone must ask, then why did he go when he was young?
This pulls out another hidden line in "Unborn".
It turned out that Zhang Gelai used to love playing Go very much, but because his father was not in good health, he could only give up his ideals and go out early to work.
Make money, make money, make money, work part-time from morning to night.
This kind of reward through his own labor is very solid, so Zhang Gelai almost paranoidly advocated "effort".
What can't be done well, can't be done, for no other reason than not working hard enough.
Even being isolated is because I don't work hard enough.
The plot develops in this way, and it is not difficult to guess that "Unborn" is a story of a workplace rookie counterattack.
Yes, the routines are always not the same, but the way of telling the story is superior.
The good thing about "Unborn" is that it is an almost documentary-style guide to workplace survival.
It's not like the average kimchi drama that provides flashy fantasy bubbles, nor does it forcibly create a big reversal to help the strong and the weak in order to please the audience—Zhang Gelai will not suddenly find out that he is actually the boss's son one day, nor will anyone lend a helping hand when he is bullied.
He can only bear everything silently, and then rely on his own continuous efforts to change reality bit by bit.
How can you mix well in the workplace?
To put it bluntly, nothing more than a sentence -
In order to be true to reality, the most courageous point of "Unborn" is to abandon the emotional line between the hero and heroine.
This is almost unforgivable for the Korean television circle, which is popular with idol dramas, so that the male and female protagonists do not rub out a little spark of love.
In fact, originally "Unborn" has been favored by South Korean wireless stations, but when it was remade, the original author Yin Tae-ho insisted that there should be no emotional drama, and there should also be dilution, and finally the negotiations broke down, and the copyright was spent on tvN.
fortunately!
Remember the lesson of "Dulala" - known as a workplace drama, but when remaking the film and television version, it castrated the most wonderful workplace politics and brushed aside how to promote and protect jobs.
Instead, a lot of time is spent focusing on that little thing between men and women.
The movie version of "Dulala", the whole movie is Xu Jinglei's non-stop travel, talk about love, how to change from a rookie to an elite, we can only see the difference from the costume style.
The TV version of "Dulala" has intensified.
This is the headline of Beijing Youth Daily in 2010:
Sir hasn't seen the TV version of Dulala.
But a cursory glance at the synopsis — at least 11 of the 32 episodes focus on love.
From "Secret Love", to "Love Discovered", "See Parents", and then break up, and finally "Japanese Compound Hot Spring"...
No wonder it's said —
"Dulala Promotion" has become "Dulala Love History", which conforms to the trend of leftover women, but it is not the original intention of the novel to reflect self-worth through self-struggle, become an executive, win love, and stay away from the real life of urban white-collar workers, the success of this Dulala is far away, unrepeatable, a bit regrettable and regrettable.
Look back at "Unborn".
The love scene is almost zero.
The most pink scene in the whole play should be this scene.
Zhang Gelai admired An Yingyi's ability, and An Yingyi respected the weak Zhang Gelai.
Every time she sees Zhang Gelai making a contribution, An Yingyi will show a happy smile, this is because she often works overtime, and understands how difficult it is for Zhang Gelai, who also stays up late.
But the relationship between the two people also stops at appreciation.
For the gods to not let them rub out a little spark of love.
Sir thought the director's answer was brilliant – from 10asia, translated @Koretic:
People do not always experience love in reality, if you have been immersed in the splendor of love, won't you be too tired of living?
But the friendship between brothers, or the shallow or deep emotions of meeting someone they admire, is a very common experience.
However, this kind of plot, which appears more often in reality than romantic plots, is rarely depicted in (Korean) TV dramas.
It is based on this purpose that everything we see in "Unborn" can make us have a strong sense of substitution.
For example, being wronged in the office.
Who dares to collapse and cry on the spot, or even argue with their bosses in a loud voice.
Most people silently swallow their emotions and obediently roll back to their workstations to clean up the mess.
Also, report to your boss.
Where there may be a picture of the boss speaking English and I speaking Mandarin.
You are not fluent in English and have no chance to stand in front of him/her.
From the professional performance of the actor, "Unborn" throws out several horse positions of our similar films.
This is where Unborn is superior, not pandering to Luthor with magical reversals, nor presupposing a grandstanding position.
In the workplace, there are good people, there are bad people, but more often, people.
Everyone has his own untold story, and everyone has a chess game he wants to play.
For example, unavoidable sexism.
Taking time off during childbirth will be complained about by colleagues, but doing a good job may ignore your family.
This discrimination is unfair, but it is also "fair" – because your boss, colleagues, family members, have different needs for you, and even inevitably conflict.
So:
Working mothers have always been sinners in front of their colleagues, their families, and especially their children.
For example, those who mess up their days.
You may not know that he doesn't doze off in the office during the day because the child doesn't sleep well at night.
But no matter how tired I was, I came home and heard a "Daddy" – it was all worth it again.
In the darkness, this sense of fatalism, which cannot be shaken off, secretly echoes the title of the play - "Unborn".
Everyone wants to be a chess player, but most people are destined to be a chess piece.
And the thrill of fate is that it does not tell you the end until the end.
So, don't concede defeat lightly.
Maybe this is the real meaning of the title "Unborn" -
Persistence means to be born no matter what.
PS. The above screenshot subtitles are from "TSKS Korean Drama Agency"
Finally, this drama is on Youku, and Potatoes are online!
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