The sequel to film and television dramas is always criticized for "dog-tailed sequel" and "weak successor".
On the other hand, with a score of 8.3, it also soared all the way to the 9-point gold line.
It even overshadowed the 8.2 that was not low in the first season itself.
More interestingly, Uncle Meat also found some "old acquaintances".
Hey, isn't it Zhang Songwen at this glance?
Eh, when did "Lin Youyou" Zhang Yue go to South Korea to film?
Oh, Huang Xuan, are you handsome again and have new sunglasses?
What is this sacred?
2023 Korea's No. 19 banned large-scale cool film, "Model Taxi 2" (모범택시2)
That's right, and Shuang Ding is the revenge theme that Korean dramas are best at.
But this time, the way of revenge is indeed new.
A "model taxi", carrying a criminal who has not been punished in place, starts a journey with no return.
The team consists of a "model six" with everything from "the strongest brain" to the "hardest hitter".
Use violence to "replace the Sky Walking Road" and help victims export evil qi.
Adapted from the webtoon of the same name created by Japanese manga artist CARLOS, SBS production has a full Korean local style.
In addition to large-scale, the secret lies in localization.
The external manifestation is the strong correlation with the social reality of Korea.
There are major social cases:
After Suyuan's case, Cho Doo-chun, who was released from prison after only 12 years in prison, was ready to move; the Yantian slave incident, where disabled girls subjected to forced labour were sexually exploited; The website that was secretly photographed and uploaded by her boyfriend, and the N-room incident that was killed by online violence.
There are strange murders:
the Hwaseong serial murder case in which the victims were all women; The "happy murderer" case that kills people just for pleasure.
There are also small cases related to individual rest:
From familiar school bullying to common workplace bullying, bullying has become a "culture" that runs through the social structure of South Korea, and no one can escape; Phone scams, in the early days of the society without anti-fraud APP, unscrupulous, is often a lifetime of hard money.
A unit drama model connected by the victim's help.
Every case stirs your dull nerves.
The suppressed anger finally had a flood outlet.
But is it just cool?
01
Don't die, come for revenge
The "Model Taxi" drama is as its name suggests, very "exemplary".
Uncle Meat would like to call it "the Korean version of the magical realism Avengers".
The luxury of equipment - the model taxi in Rainbow Transportation, is the "transformer" in the taxi industry.
Variable license plate, replaceable wheels, variable car model.
It can be "hidden in the city" at any time.
"Ace Agent" calls the insider
The stronghold, extremely hidden, hidden - an ordinary office, the middle cabinet is actually an elevator.
A wasteland-style mine tunnel is connected.
Further inside, it is a "special agent room" that integrates technology, brain power, and information.
Let's look at the 6-person group composed of the protagonist group "5+1" - the top boss Lao Zhang (played by Jin Yicheng), the leader of the "S.H.I.E.L.D."-STYLE LEADER, HIS PARENTS WERE KILLED WHEN HE WAS YOUNG, AND WHEN HE GREW UP, HE SPECIALLY ESTABLISHED THE Blue Bird Foundation to help the victims.
On the surface, it is financial support and psychological counseling.
Secretly, he contacted various victims and formed a revenge alliance.
The extraordinary male protagonist Kim Dodge (played by Lee Di-hoon) is the "Korean captain" who is responsible for force.
In his early years, after joining the army, his mother was killed by a murderer, and he was led into the door by Lao Zhang.
Grow into a ruthless tough guy who "makes others mourn".
Xu Jiang: What grade do you use with me... You boy
Lao Choi (played by Jang Hyuk-jin) and Lao Park (played by Bae Yoo-lan) of transportation maintenance engineers.
Specializing in equipment upgrades, the low-end version of Tony Stark duo.
Taxis have been remodeled in a myriad way.
I even wanted to use the superalloy material from the tank on the car.
Hacker Goen (played by Watch Yizhen), sweet, is a small employee of Meimeida's toll booth.
Restless, is the "Hulk" of the online world, the shoulder of the intelligence department.
The black material and weaknesses of the perpetrator were all found out by her, and she was indispensable to save the scene.
It has to be said.
They all have something.
The 6th uncle will talk later
The game console is the victim's "little red and blue pill".
If you see a revenge advertisement for a taxi, you can follow the address to the game console.
The use of rainbow taxis may not be mentioned to others
Words that want to teach a lesson to those who torment you
Press the blue button on the left side of the screen
If you don't want to teach a lesson, press the red button on the right side of the screen
Why did the rainbow rental service appear?
This brings us to the institutional loopholes in the judicial system.
Adhering to the idea of "it is better to let go of a thousand than to kill one by mistake".
The suspects either become unbridled "extrajudicial maniacs" because they do not have a sufficient chain of evidence.
Either with low sentences and various commutation policies, get out of prison quickly.
Tragically, only the victims and their relatives.
The grandmother who collected the waste was cheated out of half her hard-earned money because of phone scams.
In desperation, he even wanted to crash and commit suicide.
Maria, a girl who grew up in an orphanage, is intellectually equivalent to that of a disabled person in the third grade of elementary school.
But she taught herself to code and was introduced to a fish and shrimp paste factory by the orphanage manager as an adult.
Originally thinking that she would join the office, she was beaten with her head because she did not want to wash fish, and she was thrown into a bucket in an ice cellar and tortured.
It was even exploited as a sex slave.
Alarm? She had tried it a long time ago.
But the police were accomplices who shared the loot with the boss and sent them back to the tiger's den.
When they press the blue button, it is like starting a lifelong battle to fight back.
The Avengers who took the "order" each performed their duties - to investigate cases, find clues, and go deep into the enemy to be "spies".
The plot is light, fist greeting, cruel torture.
Seriously, the "private prison" handed over to the gangster female boss, and continued to be closed and tortured after the beating.
They will also treat their bodies with their human ways, and use their "families" to make psychological threats.
The result gives people the refreshing feeling of punishing evil and promoting good, which is very simple.
But what is even cooler is the process of luring the enemy deep and terrifying step by step.
02
Return, full wisdom?
At the end of the first season, the taxi base was seized by the police.
Lao Zhang dismissed everyone in advance and endured everything alone.
Two years after the timeline arrives, the world is even darker.
Black-hearted enterprises do not compensate injured workers, white-collar workers who go home late at night are targeted by perverts and become violent and disabled, 3 founders who insinuate that room N, by selling pornographic videos on the Internet, caused the victimized girl to take her life, only sentenced to three years and not satisfied, took the money to ask the barrister to continue to appeal...
It's unbearable.
So, the taxi reunion returned.
"Model 2" continues the temperament of the first season, which is cool enough.
Facing 3 lewd men, Dodge punched a beautiful combination punch.
Jailed for investigation, robbed prison, planted to attack the police and steal guns.
Take the hidden money and commute the sentence to life imprisonment.
For the regrouped squad, this is just an appetizer.
Not only that, but this season's ambitions and perspectives are even greater.
For example, the second case is a transnational case, the Vietnamese labor incident.
The screenwriter upgraded the case, and an old father who worked hard to provide for his son to study abroad only received the news that his son was missing.
It turned out that the son did not go abroad to study at all, but chose to go to Vietnam to earn a high salary to subsidize the family - in fact, he was abducted to Vietnam to become a laborer who wrote gambling programs.
Because the son was an adult, the police judged him to be "missing", and the riotous operation of the gang contacting the police through the embassy to prevent the son from contacting his father further deepened the impression that the police believed that the father and son were not harmonious, and did not file a case at all.
Dodge and his party cracked the hidden Morse code through the "don't contact" letter sent by his son to his father.
Please save me
So, Dodge crossed the ocean to Vietnam, broke into a fraud gang alone, and saw the opportunity to rescue his son.
Literary drama, layer by layer, see the tricks and tricks.
Dodge, who has been a white cut black teacher, a gold-worshipping employee, and set fire to the heart of the female scammer Fang, is a migrant worker who wants to make a lot of money again.
Martial arts, scale upgrade.
Forced confession fraudsters, tied him to the front of the car, and raced wildly on the mountain road.
Stop and brake, turn left and right, refuel the gas pedal at the stone, and then slam on the brakes.
Play is the heartbeat.
Villain: At that moment, I was only 0.01mm from the tip of the scythe of the Grim Reaper
But with that comes the problem.
Looking further back, Uncle Meat felt a little tasteless and tasteless.
The highly similar mode makes Uncle Rou really a little dissatisfied.
Uncle is not dissatisfied with the model of "victims suffer - protagonist group detective - punish villains".
Rather, the coolness brought by unilateral crushing, in addition to physical pleasure, is difficult to resonate mentally.
One reason comes from the high disparity between the villain's IQ and the protagonist's group.
In the first season, even college students wanted to set up a set for Dodge, a newcomer teacher.
Moreover, I still want to label him as a discredited "lewd schoolgirl".
When you infiltrate a company as a spy, you have to deceive your boss with a tainted cost resume.
Even low and small, pretend to be flattering.
Not to mention, it began to be regarded by the protagonist group as the "anti-water" of the "private prison" underworld female boss Ms. Bai.
Violent and mercenary is like her, and she first appears in the first few episodes, which is an X factor.
Finally, the protagonist group was also put together.
You know it's a cool movie, but you can still make you feel a real sense of crisis.
Will guess, will they capsize? And how to survive in a desperate situation?
But by the second season, planning seems to be just a basic operation of the process.
After all, criminals are both stupid and bad, their IQ is not high, and they are very faceless.
Discovered? It's okay, Dodge's muscles are not white.
Fight naked and hand-to-hand, with one enemy and one hundred.
Pull the Korean captain buff full.
Dodge: I can play ten
Cool is cool.
But there is less mental pleasure brought by brain-burning fighting wit.
It also lost the core of speculation about law and order that should have evolved and upgraded.
03
Cool drama, brainless thunder drama?
Remember the sixsome Uncle Meat said at the beginning?
If you are careful enough.
You will find that I only introduced five at the beginning, missing the prosecutor Jiang Ha Na (played by Li Su) of the first season.
And her absence in the second season.
It also seems to indicate that the second season is very different from the first.
The most valuable thing about the first season is that in addition to the high fire, the series is still promoting the dialogue of several ideas.
For example, the discussion of "whether lynching is justice or not".
Therefore, although he was scolded by many netizens as "Our Lady", Uncle Meat felt that the existence of Jiang Ha Na had become an important fulcrum of the tripod of the series.
When the "bad" Dodge lurked undercover in a large company, Sister Na's questioning did not add to the confusion.
Sister Na is equivalent to some kind of righteous and public power, but Dodge is unceremonious.
If you guys do your job well
I don't have to waste time here either
After learning the truth, Sister Na still disagreed with the extrajudicial way of Dodge and his party to "fight violence with violence".
For Dodge, the phrase "I'd rather let go of 100 than wronged 1" is a joke for the victims and their families.
The victims didn't care about that at all
Things have already happened
And we will never go back to our old lives
Law is sacrosanct because it protects human power.
But laws are made and enforced by people.
When seemingly reasonable laws cannot be enforced, justice is often late or even absent.
Is the law still worthy of respect?
- Either way, your way is wrong
If people like you are getting more and more
The world will not be controlled by law
-It's already like this
That's why there are people like me
The fifth season of "Proud War", because of expensive legal fees and the long waiting process of the court.
There was an efficient court where copy shop owners set up private public courts as judges, the 93/4 court.
More extreme, the Chainsaw series.
What has maintained its high reputation for a long time is the creepy values of John the Vertical Saw.
He is using games to transform his personality – a game of life and death to force the perpetrator to examine his own life and recognize the weaknesses in human nature.
By struggling between life and death in exchange for a clean soul.
The last thing that made Sister Na slap her face was her colleague who died unjustly.
Watching the suspect go to jail and even blow himself up, he did not have enough evidence to bring him to justice.
She finally experienced the pain of her friend's unjust early death and the prisoner's long life for a hundred years.
She also chooses to take revenge with the game.
But.
This kind of lynching justice is still grayscale.
Like the law, there are scales that are difficult to grasp.
And these are the thoughts left by the first season.
But what about the second season?
There is realistic material, cool revenge.
There is teamwork cheerfulness and funny.
But when all the bugs in the play and all the thin character shaping can be fooled with a "cool drama".
After we are "cool", what is left?
The sense of reality and speculation that should be is completely missing.
True.
High reputation has his reasons.
In a world where black and white are reversed, punishing evil and promoting good is a paralytic of life.
Unit dramas adapted from real events will maximize the effect of this "living report".
People saw it, were refreshed, and patted their thighs contentedly.
Momentary pleasure was obtained.
Just like that "Poisonous Tongue Lawyer", when Huang Zihua angrily denounced this social injustice in court, how many people did not feel very happy?
But anesthetics can relieve pain, but sooner or later the pain will erupt.
Therefore, for Uncle Meat, whether the cool drama can be cool is very important, but whether it can touch the texture of reality, and whether it can have realistic thinking, is more important.
Otherwise.
When cool dramas have really become fairy tales and even myths that tickle their boots.
And far from the real reality.
The phrase "for the Skywalk" that should have poured more helplessness and anger into the people at the bottom.
It became an increasingly numb "great slogan."
Workers of the day: North of Xibei