Zhang Cong, chief reporter of Extreme News
"Yeonjin, I'm going to start losing weight, you don't know what it's like to lose weight, do you?"
"Yeonjin, I finally finished the second draft of my thesis, and I stayed up countless nights during this period, you know?"
"Yanzhen, today I went to do early repayment, and I was left dry by the loan manager for half an hour, you don't know that there is such a thing as repaying the loan, right?"
This week, you are likely to have brushed up on social platforms similar to the above exclamation of "Yeonjin literature", as a derivative of the famous line "Yeonjina" of the heroine of the Korean drama "Dark Glory" Moon Dong-eun (played by Song Hye Kyo), which has swept the lives of Chinese netizens like this drama.
Nearly 230,000 netizens hit Douban 9.2
This is not a cool drama in the simple sense
There is no doubt that "Dark Glory" has become the hottest drama for audiences this year after "Crazy", with 228,000 netizens on Douban scoring 9.2 points for the second season story released a week ago, and in an interview with Extreme News reporters, many viewers who followed "Dark Glory" said that the plot is the first element for this show to get a high score.
"Welcome to My Hell", in "Dark Glory", the girl Wen Dongen encountered school violence in high school but had no way to help, and had to choose to drop out. 18 years later, she came to the abuser Park Yeon-jin with elaborate revenge, not only serving as the elementary school homeroom teacher of Yeon-jin's daughter, but also becoming a chess friend of Yeon-jin's husband Ha Do-young through deliberately trained Go skills and careful deployment.
Seeing this, do you think that her plan is to torture Yeonjin's daughter and snatch Yeonjin's husband? On December 30 last year, the 8-episode story released in the first season of "Dark Glory" seemed to suggest that the plot should develop in this direction, plus Wen Dong-eun cooperated with "Yeonjina"'s "life-taking" lines step by step, and many viewers named it "cool drama".
But in fact, when the second season of "Dark Glory" finally came last week, the audience who followed the plot found that Moon Dong-eun's "revenge" was not an imitation of the abuser, let alone the idea of interfering in Park Yeon-jin's marriage, and she used the other party's psychological collapse to make Park Yeon-jin wrong again and again until the truth was revealed.
The victim does not need to imitate the violence of the abuser to seek justice for himself, making the "revenge" of "Dark Glory" a level higher than the simple cool drama, and the direct depiction of the continuous harm to the bottom women in East Asia from family, school, and society also gives the story a thickness in the social sense.
No longer "Qiao Mei" does not prevent the audience from loving her
42-year-old Song Huiqiao returned to the peak of glory
It is worth mentioning that Song Huiqiao, who gained popularity throughout Asia in 2016 with "Descendants of the Sun" and married Song Joong Ki (now divorced), has only three works over the years: "Boyfriend", "Now, Breaking Up" and "Dark Glory", and before the broadcast of "Dark Glory", Song Huiqiao's career did fall into a flat period.
"Dark Glory" also made the 42-year-old Song Huiqiao reap glory again.
When the first season of the series started at the end of last year, some netizens commented that Song Huiqiao in the story was older than before, in addition to the burns and scars all over his body, the nasolabial folds on Wen Dongen's face that could not be concealed, the corners of his mouth that collapsed slightly, the skin of the powder under some shots, and even the ghostly pale when he smiled darkly... But in fact, maybe not "Qiao Mei", but this state is better for the 36-year-old Wen Dongen. After all, before "revenge", Wen Dongen survived 18 years under the multiple labors of part-time work, study, examination preparation, and layout revenge.
Regaining glory is also screenwriter Kim Eun-suk, as a popular Korean drama who has continuously written "Heirs", "Descendants of the Sun", "Lonely and Brilliant God-Ghost" and "Mr. Sunshine", Kim Eun-suk's 2020 work "The King" joined hands with Lee Min Ho and Kim Go-eun but failed to get the expected praise. But this time, Dark Glory did it. Even Chinese netizens were comforted by many famous lines in the episode, such as "Child, the river is too cold, let's wait until spring to die", "What a broken sunset, beautiful like this" and so on.
Just like the summary of Douban netizen "Lepenn", "Whether it is the topicality, discussion, practical significance, or the breakthrough of personal character image, this time, Song Huiqiao won clean and beautiful!" ”
(The picture is a still from the public release of "Dark Glory")
(Source: Polar Eye News)
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