After brushing the eight episodes of "Dark Glory", the dean felt an unprecedented emptiness.
Yeonjin...
You're in jail, where will I go to see you crooked mouth in the future!
The ceiling of the revenge cool drama in 2023 has been baked -
"Dark Glory" (I will seal it later).
First of all, it is not a dream (simply step on your ex-husband).
Secondly, the heroine Wen Dongen fought violence with violence, and her hands were not stained with blood, which made the people who used to bully themselves pay a heavy price.
These two points alone are enough to hang "The Little Son of the Chaebol Family" and "Penthouse" and other dramas.
Of course, to say that the slot is not without -
Goldfinger wide open.
The villains are all wise, but if they are willing to send a WeChat to communicate, they will not let Wen Dongen retaliate so smoothly.
Mary Sue's aura shook.
A rich second-generation loyal dog male protagonist who can buy a land rental house at any time, willing to be used as a pawn by Wen Dongen; A chaebol male second who was attracted to Wen Dongen at first sight, abandoned reason and fell deeper and deeper...
However, even so, "Dark Glory" is still flawed, and it is hot to the hot search.
Why is it so unreasonable and vivid?
Today we will take a closer look.
School violence is a widespread but long-neglected evil.
"Dark Glory" once again confirms this reality -
Before the second season aired, director Ahn Jiho was revealed to have been a school bully, bringing "indelible harm" to others, but he didn't admit it until the end of the episode.
Sarcasm to home.
Experienced, right?
Similar incidents have also emerged in China.
Videos popping up on the Internet from time to time record the rampant laughter of the abuser and the desperate roar of the victim.
The reality of the piles makes it impossible to easily treat the theme of school violence.
The success of "Dark Glory" lies in the use of an entire season to lay the groundwork for the pain and dormancy before Wen Dongen's revenge.
did not weaken the damage suffered by Wen Dongen, let alone ignore the price of revenge——
Dropped out of school to become a female worker, couldn't hold on countless times and wanted to commit suicide, ate gimbap to save money until malnutrition...
Through artistic processing, the pain and hatred of school violence are actually transmitted to every audience in front of the screen.
The curling iron is hot, which is a very dramatic setting.
Its subtext is: I want to hurt you, and I don't need to spend time finding a murder weapon to make a thorough plan.
Picking up an everyday object can hurt your body and destroy your spirit, it's a breeze.
This pain and hatred is immediate.
Wen Dongen needs to roll in the snow and quench his thirst by drinking to relieve pain.
It is also continuous and long-lasting.
From sight, smell, and touch, Wen Dongen's life after the age of 18 is shrouded in all aspects.
She can no longer wear short sleeves, shorts, and can no longer hear or smell the "nourishing" aroma of barbecued meat.
She lost her health and dignity and was taken away from her right to live normally as an ordinary person.
Her world, because of school violence, opened a hole, and then completely collapsed.
For poor Wen Dongen, this is not a wound that time can heal.
For an indifferent society, "Dark Glory" goes a step further and points out the deeper structural problems behind school violence -
Power struggles, class barriers.
After "Parasite", Korean screenwriters became more and more effective in describing the gap between the rich and the poor.
In "Little Ladies", the heroine's answer to the "winter coat" "satirizes" the limited imagination of the poor.
In "Dark Glory", a roll of gimbap separates two classes.
Ha Daoying refused the gimbap offered by Wen Dongen because he did not eat food with too high carb content.
The same is eating, one for a stomach, the other for health...
The reason why we think this description is accurate is because it does not use the straightforward contrast of rich people living in villas and poor people renting houses.
The deviation of the attitude and perspective of the poor and the rich on the same thing is the more puncture of the truth——
The poor and the rich do not live in the same world at all.
Just like starting from Yeonjin's worldview, she never felt that she was wrong to bully Dong Eun.
She believes that the sad nature of Donn stems from the fact that she was born poor, and that poor people deserve to be bullied and played by themselves as rich people.
Screenwriter Kim Eun-sook said it very clearly:
You don't need to give Yeon-jin a reason for "why bully".
Yeonjin lives in this environment,
No effort, no apologies, whatever you want.
So there is no reason for her actions.
And Don, 18, has been defending herself against violence in ways she thinks are useful.
She asked for help from the teacher, who said it was "classmates making trouble"; She went to justice, which the police ignored.
Every time she tries to protect herself through legitimate means, she is hurt again by Yeonjin's small group and even the larger group of society.
All this tells Moon Dong-eun that she is bullied by the rich and powerful Park Yeon-jin, which is a "correct" order that society defaults to.
In schools, where rich and poor are most likely to meet, the rich crush the world of the poor.
Such a state of no way to file a complaint and nowhere to appeal accurately hits the current status quo that the public is disgusted and angry but is powerless to change.
After years of dormancy, he returned with a perfect plan.
Fighting violence with violence is Moon Dong-eun's revenge on Park Yeon-jin's small group of living as a social elite.
The following offense is a complete revolt of the poor class represented by Wen Dongen against the arrogant rich class.
In terms of subject matter, "Dark Glory" won twice.
In the first quarter, just paving the way left a lot of famous scenes that made the scalp numb.
Many viewers expressed concern at that time -
If the tune is raised so high, will it end?
And the broadcast of the second season of "Dark Glory" unexpectedly broke the curse of the end of Korean dramas and carried the audience's high expectations.
This is definitely thanks to screenwriter Kim Eun-suk's advanced textual skills.
A little story behind the scenes -
The inspiration for "Dark Glory" came from a conversation between Kim Eun-sook and her daughter.
The daughter of the second year of high school suddenly asked Kim Eun-sook one day:
Mom, I beat others to death to make your heart ache,
Or do I feel more heartache when I am beaten to death by others?
I don't know if it was influenced by this dialogue, but the mother-daughter relationship in "Dark Glory" is particularly prominent and contrasts with each other.
Some mothers are the first to stab their children.
When she was bullied at Dong Eun High School, her mother accepted Yeonjin's family money and happily signed it as a guardian, forcing Dong Eun to drop out of school.
After Dong Eun was admitted as a teacher, she was bribed by Yeon-jin and asked for red envelopes from the parents of the students in the name of Dong Eun, causing Dong Eun to lose his job.
A rare mother figure, but it reflects the mother-daughter relationship that is not uncommon - jealous, blood-sucking.
There are also mothers who give everything for their children.
When she was incapable, her aunt kept blocking her daughter Shanya and endured her husband's punches and feet.
When she has the opportunity to let her daughter escape from her native family, she is willing to give up the "only source of happiness" in her life and let Shanya live a new life.
How important is a mother to a girl?
After Dong Eun began his revenge plan, the only real emotional breakdown was not because of Yeonjin's violent taunts and unrepentance.
But because mom roasted meat in front of her and burned her house.
She knelt on the ground and yelled "thank you for always," and then finally made up her mind to send her mother to a mental hospital.
And the same tragic kindness of the original family, but under the protection of her mother, she has become a little girl who can occasionally breathe and laugh and chase stars.
In Kim Eun-suk's writing, this contrast is shockingly tragic.
It can be seen that she is not just writing a refreshing revenge story, but is willing to think about one more layer, bury one more layer, and the rest of the variables about real society.
Her cleverness also lies in the fact that in addition to ensuring the integrity of the story, there is no lack of ingenious expressions and metaphors, leaving room for the audience to interpret.
The fate of each character has a grass snake gray line that foreshadows the outcome early.
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Jeon Jae-joon, the weak rapist who only loves himself, ends up dying in a cement pool.
It was the gray world that he had taboo for the rest of his life.
Cui Huiting, the best example of Seri Li inwarding.
Fall to the end of the vocal cord damage, can no longer pull the throat, fox fake tiger power.
Li Sarah, this line is especially wonderful.
Drugs, art, religion and other elements are used on her without obtrusion, and the logic is clear and complete.
She sold her artistic talent, indulged her desires, squandered her life, and always lived like a snake spitting letters.
Eventually, she falls in an orgasm, and the onlookers are her father's believers.
Sarcasm pulled full.
These exquisite designs slowly push the thrill of revenge to a climax, and they do not lose the fun of interpretation.
The simple truth that good is rewarded with good and evil is rewarded with evil is told wonderfully and tortuously.
After watching "Dark Glory", you know that the most shocking thing about such a bloody story is not the ruthlessness of violence and the decisiveness of revenge.
Instead, it's those, tiny tender moments.
It was the details of the factory girl who took off her shoes and tiptoed around when she saw Don studying in the aisle.
It was the exclamation of the aunt after driving the car and seeing the sunset.
It was the landlord's mother-in-law who comforted Don Eun that "heaven also makes mistakes", and held her hand to carry out a spiritual murder that broke the rules.
This seemingly inconspicuous character completes the maternal love that Don never received.
They got involved in the agreement to "die again in the spring" and gave each other a second life.
Kim Eun-sook defines these as "moments when the gods stop" in the production special:
Wen Dongen's revenge, 99% is a close plan,
The remaining 1% is the moment when the gods stop.
When the "gods" appear, this dark story has a warm and bright background.
One of my favorite scenes is when a sedimentary sorceress suddenly speaks of a conversation that only the other victim, Yoon So-hee and Yeon-jin, knows about on the way to the gods.
Suddenly, Yeonjin was frightened and fled, while Dong Eun stood in place in amazement, her eyes full of compassion.
At that moment, she finally believed that in the long night of 20 years, someone was silently accompanying her to sleep.
It does not blindly exaggerate the horror of evil, but also emphasizes the goodwill and vitality of people.
There is no mutual harm at the bottom, but the hurt people warm each other.
Most of these huddles are women.
I also liked the end of the second season:
Park Sang-jin, the mother of the male protagonist Zhou Ruzheng, appears to prevent Dong Eun from saying a ceremonial farewell after completing his grand revenge.
She finds a new reason for Dongen to live - as a mother, she asks Dongen to save her son Zhou Ruzheng, who is still alive in hell.
Seeing this, my heart hanging in mid-air was finally put down.
As the character of the male protagonist and male second becomes more and more perfect, the emotional line between Zhou Ruzheng and Wen Dongen becomes more and more sweet...
I have always been worried that it will be Zhou Ruzheng who will come to save Dongen.
There is no doubt that "Dark Glory" will fall into the cliché again, turning into a love fairy tale in which a prince saves Cinderella.
And when Park Sang-jin spoke, it became a legend of two earnest women saving their painful lovers/sons.
This setting is more impactful and powerful -
Two women who have never met before empathize and form an ally.
This ending is the last weight Kim Eun-sook put on the scale of Mary Sue vs female self-help.
Under Kim Eun-suk's restraint, "Dark Glory" did not go astray.
The occasional "Mary Sue" aura that I am willing to accept.
On the contrary, he admires this big screenwriter who has already become famous with idol dramas.
At the peak of his career, in the second half of his life, he is still willing to follow the market, listen to opinions, and create works that conform to the present and reflect reality——
In my work, in the past, male characters dominated the story.
Now, the world has changed and independent women are getting more and more attention.
In my next work, I will portray a woman who acts independently without relying on chaebols.
Tell the dean in the comment area -
What did you love most about Dark Glory?