"The water is too cold, let's die in the spring."
What a drama.
Before the broadcast, he was welcomed by everyone's circle of friends, and he cleared all the arrangements for Friday night and looked forward to it.
What a drama.
Obviously it has been filmed in one go, but it was hard cut into two seasons by Netflix to broadcast, the first season was broadcast on December 30 last year, releasing all 8 episodes in one breath, and topped Netflix Korea for 5 consecutive days.
Word of mouth is also hot, 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, 7.9 in IMDb, and Douban soared from 8.6 to 8.9.
Just happened to meet the end of "Chaebol", a battle, whether it is popularity or word of mouth, Qiao Mei is better.
According to reason, according to the consistent rotten curse of Korean drama explosions, classic sequels often have the following symptoms: the main line and the secondary line become loose together, and the character's temperament suddenly takes a sharp turn. Finally, it ended in a hurry, and the drama ended.
Unexpectedly, "Dark Glory 2" won the first place in Douban popularity only 1 day after its broadcast, and directly killed 9.4 in the opening score, which is another step up from the first season: a masterpiece becomes a god drama.
Not to mention, this is still the result of the night of the broadcast, 10,000 people staying up late, hot search screen, and high expectations.
But if there is a slight flaw, it will overturn.
As a result, you give me a king fried finish?
Korean dramas for so many years of explosive rotten curse, just so to Kim Editor + Song Hye Kyo broke?
I don't believe it!
I stayed in front of the computer one night and watched the first episode intently. It's over!
Chased all night in one breath, until the sunrise in the east, the finale revenge all the female protagonists who wanted to commit suicide, were persuaded back by the male protagonist's mother with a wail, my feelings were exactly the same as the majority of netizens - "The last episode cried to death", "Satisfied" "I didn't score full because I felt that those people were not miserable enough".
I have to say that the sequel not only continues the high standard of the first season's plays, but Song Huiqiao's acting skills are also better than the first season, if this show can't sweep the awards season for her, I'm the first to be unconvinced.
But the most important thing is that there is no rotten tail, no rotten tail, no rotten tail!
All the bad guys are punished, the protagonist has no forgiveness, and the audience finally doesn't have to see the bad guy forgive everything and let the bad guy repent alone.
Compared with the two, the national drama that is best at happy endings is a sore face or glory?
01 Rotten suspense
Undoubtedly, the biggest concern many viewers have about the sequel: rotten ends.
Too many rotten dramas, countless times broke the hearts of the audience.
"Dark Glory 2" is not finished, review the previous plot.
The story begins with a Korean school violence.
In 2004, the heroine Wen Dongen attended a high school.
Because he came from a poor family with no background, Moon Dong-eun, who was still a high school student, was detained in the gymnasium by the violent five-person group led by Park Yeon-jin, slapped his hair, pulled his hair, burned his body with curling irons, and viciously molested... Opened a nightmare that would last a lifetime.
The school doctor found her covered wounds and was forced to leave.
The teacher at the school reprimanded the heroine with "some mischief between friends, is it necessary to call the police".
In the end, Don, who could not stand the violence, decided to drop out of school.
On the reason for dropping out, she wrote the school violence and the name of each perpetrator.
However, for the sake of her performance evaluation, the shameless middle-aged male head teacher forced her to revise her reasons for withdrawing from school and beat her in front of everyone. The police called for help, because of the relationship between the two female families in the police community, the police unconditionally released the perpetrator.
Even if the outside world is evil, what is even more terrifying is that the mother who took Park Yeon-jin's mother for 1 million won (about 5,500 yuan) directly changed her reason for dropping out of school to not being able to adapt, and also returned her monthly rent.
The heroine once stood on the roof of the school and wanted to commit suicide. But snowflakes fell on her wounds in time.
Cold, but warm.
She enchanted snow on her body, and then made a lifelong vow to her enemies: "From this day forward, my dream is you".
A revenge plan that has been in preparation for 18 years is officially implemented.
The female protagonist quickly collected a lot of chips, in addition to the rich husband who practiced chess hard and approached the female second, he received the super strong support of the male protagonist, caught the evidence that someone in the violent five-person group took drugs and cheated on someone, and also found a key clue:
Before bullying Don, the fivesome also bullied a girl, and the girl mysteriously fell to her death.
The police hastily closed the case with suicide, but this was not the case.
By the end of the first season, Park Yeon-jin, the second actress who was not in the same heavyweight class as the heroine, had stepped into the trap set, and the heroine began to break the disintegration of the bullying fivesome one by one.
A big drama is in full swing.
Shuang is really cool, but it also buried three major suspense:
Suspense one, can it be cool to the end?
If the first season is the heroine's revenge trailer to the "five".
Then the second season is the beginning of the revenge feature film.
Kim Editor said: "All the relationships that have been entangled so far in the second season will be snowballing bigger and bigger, which will make everyone very happy to watch!"
But whether it can make revenge feel refreshed is the biggest suspense.
Suspense two, whether the pit can be filled smoothly.
The screenwriters relied on dense plots and reversals in the first season to bombard the audience with information.
But to be honest, the heroine's revenge game is too dramatic, like a dark fairy tale, and many of the bridges are actually difficult to be consistent.
Besides, the heroine of the first season was unexpected, but the villain camp did not eat dry rice, and the second season will of course begin to make moves.
And the heroine also has the huge weakness of the mother, and the difficulty of revenge is needless to say.
Whether the second season can tell fairy tales smoothly is also a problem.
Suspense three, can the wicked all suffer the consequences?
This is also a huge concern for the audience, if according to the closing method of the popular Chinese drama, the ending must be forgiveness + forgiveness, the heroine is likely to remember the exercise book that the female second gave her that year, and the female second may suddenly suffer from brain diseases and forget everything, but remember the friendship with the heroine that year, and finally the two held hands and tears and let go of everything. The heroine will also quit her job to focus on taking care of the second daughter, because of love.
If it is filmed like this, there is no doubt that the second season will be nailed to the pillar of shame.
02 Break the spell
Fortunately, none of this happened at all.
The first trick to break the rotten curse: fill the hole perfectly.
At the end of the first season, two major mysteries were left on the bright side:
1. Sun Mingwu, the first person to die in the whole play, is he dead, who moved his hand, and why?
2, how did Yin Suxi die, and where did her body go?
The second season did not hide it, came up and directly ordered the topic.
First of all, Sun Mingwu died thoroughly.
At first, he thought he had grabbed everyone's handle, threatened the Yin Suxi case, and called one by one. The result is self-defeating.
Look at Yoon Suxi again.
Suxi, who had transferred schools that year, met three girls from the bullying group on the road, and happened to collide with Yeonjin, who laughed at her clothes and burned her sweater with a lighter, and then Yoon lost her footing and fell into the building, and the children Yoon was still carrying when he fell were all Jae-joon.
At the moment of life and death, she dragged down the name tag of the second female and became a key evidence.
The case is closed, but Yin's body is not in the "morgue" and is not "decomposed".
Instead, it was placed in the "freezer", and in the end, the name brand did not become a killer, but Yoon Suxi still completed the revenge of the deceased in another way.
The second trick to break the spell: simple and rude, cool to the end.
At the beginning of the second season, when the Avengers come to their senses, they really start to fight back.
Mother Park once again used a huge network of contacts.
Park Yeon-jin bought Dong-eun's mother, and started with the audience's most distressed aunt, wanting to break up the heroine's female enemy alliance step by step.
But the invalid reversal in many plays has been completely abandoned.
In "Dark Glory 2", the villain did not reverse from beginning to end, and once he lost to the end, he didn't want to turn the door over.
The protagonist group did not drop at all at the critical moment, and it was fast and ruthless.
The aunt who is considered the weakest by the villain is not a soft persimmon at all, and her double agent has become a key factor in this revenge.
The villain group really found the wrong shortcoming.
The protagonist is monolithic. On the side of the villain group, the nest is constantly rampant.
Li Sarah, who is addicted to drugs, is afraid that the police will find out about her, and Choi Huiting just wants to get rid of the mess and marry a wealthy family quickly, all in Joon's heart to regain his daughter.
Under mutual suspicion and mutual restraint, they are not the opponents of the heroine group.
The portrayal of the villain in the sequel is neither stereotypical nor deliberately created a reversal and whitewashing.
The evil girl Park Yeon-jin is both evil and dull, and is led by the heroine by the nose from beginning to end, and finally the paragraph where the weather forecast is broadcast in prison is funny and relieved.
Her only strong support, the heroine's mother, was paid to find trouble for the heroine, but the ending of this evil woman is also the coolest part of the whole drama, especially the heroine's sentence - "Because you are my mother, you can sign my withdrawal application on my behalf; I can also send you to a psychiatric hospital as a daughter. ”
Burst!
After a few sharp attacks, the heroine quickly reaped the battlefield, allowing the villain group to meet in prison all the way, which is the most perfect ending.
The third trick to break the spell: perfect self-consistency.
The story of the second season not only did not end, but filled many hidden loopholes in the story of the first season.
For example, the relationship between the male protagonist and the female protagonist.
The male protagonist's father was the director of a hospital and was killed by a patient while seeing a doctor. This plunged the male protagonist's life into darkness. After the female protagonist told him her experience, she told the male protagonist, "What I need is not a prince, but an executioner who can dance with me."
The male protagonist replied, let me be the executioner, let me accompany you to the sword dance. Of those people, which one do you want to kill first?
At this point in the story, the shaping of the male protagonist is too romantic and unreasonable.
But in the second season, it perfectly explains why this sun-like warm person should exist in this revenge drama with a dark background.
Especially in the finale, the male protagonist's mother begged her to save her son from hell in the moment when the female protagonist was about to jump off the building.
A train passes through the night, and the heroine looks back with tears in her eyes and continues her life. Two people who lost half of their hearts were broken, but they happened to piece together a complete person.
I have to say that this dark and romantic story is indeed only written by Kim Eun-suk.
Finally, like the first season, the second season also has poetic and romantic scenes where the scenery around the male and female protagonists playing Go changes in four seasons.
Even if it is a dark revenge drama, Kim Eun-sook still maintains a unique romance.
The second season is completely unfinished, but it can surpass the first season, and there is one biggest key - Song Huiqiao.
03 Acting Nirvana
Song Huiqiao's performance is undoubtedly still the biggest highlight of this play.
After 26 years in the film, she used to be the spokesperson of romantic dramas.
But in this play, her melancholy and gloomy face fits perfectly with the dark revenge story.
In the sequel, the appearance of smiling in front of the drum washing machine is terrifying, enough to seal the gods.
But the most extreme are the two scenes.
One is that after Yeonjin went to prison, the heroine came to visit the prison.
The second woman's face was gloomy, and she gradually began to grit her teeth, and her facial muscles twitched. The hysterical expression makes people shudder.
But Song Huiqiao stopped quietly, smiled from beginning to end, and finally smiled and said, "I hope that in the end, whether I am in this world or not, your world is full of me, and I hope that every moment you breathe alive, there is a bone-piercing feeling of being wronged."
Yes, in the heroine's revenge chapter, the most exquisite chess move is to let the villain eat his own consequences. Yeonjin's murder is indeed something else.
And when the heroine understates the truth, she really completes the most thorough revenge.
As soon as these pictures came out, they instantly brought the audience into emotions, and immediately had an immersive look. And I can't help but slap my thigh, the queen of romantic dramas in the past, the acting skills are really different from the past.
In the second scene, the heroine played by Song Huiqiao completely broke with her mother in the fire.
Song Huiqiao's acting skills here really stunned me.
In this rival scene, Song Huiqiao's facial expression is completely released, and her emotions are completely invested, completely shaping the complex heart of the character in an artistic form. Qiao Mei's facial expression is changeable and expressive, and her mouth even gives people a crazy look, which is very impactful.
But as long as you understand the cause and effect, you will understand that it was the final betrayal of the heroine's mother, which finally made her decide to give up this very important and must give up person!
That's why the heroine thanked her mother, who was as bad as ever, and she was relieved!
After watching this play, even if you don't watch the previous plot, you can feel the inner struggle and oppression of the character from her performance, as if the whole person is immersed in the story, a short scene, enough to prove that Song Huiqiao has completely stepped into the acting class.
Compared with Song Joong Ki's acting skills in "The Little Son of the Chaebol Family", Song Hye Kyo won in the first part, and his performance in the second part can be said to be a complete victory.
Especially can hang domestic actresses: Song Huiqiao in the play does not have the exquisite appearance in previous works, but is full of haggardness.
That's exactly what the character needs.
Song Hye Kyo said in the interview that Wen Dongen's life is very hard, and there is no reason to maintain a beautiful appearance.
The truth is understood, but except for Sun Li and a few other people in the domestic first-line actresses, how many people can do it? Song Huiqiao said that this is the theme and role she has always wanted to try, and she wants to show her strong side more than the pitiful victim.
Most of all, she really got a "new life" like Wen Dongen.
Of course, the vivid and vivid characters of this play are not only the heroine.
For example, the aunt of the heroine's revenge group, this vulnerable woman who was once subjected to domestic violence, may be a tool person in the pen of the general screenwriter, but it has become the heart nest of many audiences.
The second woman's husband, Ha Daoying, was performed with a huge sense of complexity, watching him violently beat the villain male relief, but he was angry by his numbness and selfishness.
These rich characters eventually made a revenge drama together.
04 Revenge to the end
In recent years, what is the biggest theme of popular Korean dramas?
One is revenge. The second is rotten.
In "The Penthouse", various chaebols intrigue and stage one bloody revenge story after another.
In "The Little Son of the Chaebol Family", the lowly worker is framed and reincarnated to take revenge on the chaebol.
In these revenge dramas, the more fiercely the protagonist takes revenge, the cooler the audience watches, and the higher the ratings.
But almost all of these revenge dramas, the finale can't escape the curse.
How cool the front is, how serious the rollover is.
Until "Dark Glory 2", the curse of the revenge drama ended here.
By what?
Screenwriter Kim Eun-sook is indispensable.
This Korean drama master of romantic dramas, the creator of phenomenal Korean dramas such as "Descendants of the Sun", "Ghosts" and "Heirs", decisively changed course after the romantic romantic drama created for Lee Min Ho hit the street, and joined hands with Joe Mei to challenge the dark revenge drama.
As a result, both of them succeeded, and it can even be said that they "killed crazy".
Many of the advantages of the revenge blockbuster have been continued by the show.
For example, the rhythm is tight and the amount of information is extremely informative.
Those "strong rhythms" that are blown up by mainland dramas are standard in this play.
The pace is fast, the two add up to 16 episodes, and there is no water injection content to lengthen the series.
There is also a precise pinching of the audience's emotions, no urine spots throughout the process, the combination of skirmishes and big orgasms, exquisite lines, ubiquitous foreshadowing, and always easy to create "cool points".
But the biggest success of this show, in my opinion, is to maintain the refreshing feeling of revenge from beginning to end.
The evil of the "five" is almost always simple and pure.
And the heroine killed all the way and will never forgive.
Watching the villain cocoon self-bound and eat the consequences, the feeling of refreshment is doubled.
This seemingly lazy technique creates an unparalleled "coolness".
Some viewers complained that it was a "vengeful love". It stems from empathy for certain social ills, but has nowhere to vent its anger.
Isn't it? Of course it is.
The revenge cool drama is of course a dark fairy tale! But so what?
Even if it is a dark fairy tale, the audience can still see the courage of the little people in the face of the dark abyss.
Still in the hearts of the happy people at the end, I feel the exposure and reflection.
Why not such a dark fairy tale?
On the contrary, in many overturned dramas, the protagonist is too good at forgetting pain.
In the face of condescending oppression, he is too good at self-deception and tolerance.
Too good at self-paralyzing, nothing ever happened.
But "Dark Glory 2" tells the audience, I just want to destroy you little by little, I have to watch the evildoers wither little by little.
It can be said that the heroine's revenge is like Go in the play.
Four words: no regrets.
Whoever violates you on campus you have to resist! Even if it's your own mother, you have to fight back! Don't believe that in eighteen years the bad guys will be better!
There is an issue of "Strange Words" where Ma Dong says that time will eventually forgive those who have hurt us for us, and Cai Kangyong retorts that it is not forgiveness, that is forgiveness.
But there are too many people who have said it, so the unforgiving Don En is so precious.
Song Huiqiao once said that her favorite line was: "I will not show mercy, and I am not destined to usher in glory." ”
And my favorite line in the second season is: "If I want to save animals and animals, I will go to be a veterinarian, if I want to save demons, I will go to be a priest, I only save humans, that oath, only need to be fulfilled when saving humans." ”
Some people deserve to be saved, just as the landlady and the hostess saved each other.
And some people, simply not worth saving.
The heroine in "Dark Glory 2" gathers the "misery" of all of us, and also becomes a tool for us to get angry, and we will feel cool when we see her revenge, even if all this is fake.
However, it is precisely these "fakes" that remind us of what "true" is.
That's why "Dark Glory 2" deserves to break the curse of Korean drama hits.
To say that the only dissatisfaction is: staying up late to brush up eight episodes, thinking that it was finally over, but I didn't expect to see the ending, Ma Ya, and I had to wait for the third season with torment.
Netflix you have the ability, just hurry up and let the horse over.