"Dark Glory" is worthy of the "name of darkness", calmly and rationally understand human nature and calculate people's hearts, step by step in the dark tide, this revenge is high-ranked, it disintegrates everything that the other party cares about most and can rely on, money, status, relationships, etc., making their world a ruin.
Among them, the highlights of character group portrait shaping and character relationship design are very prominent. Typical of the emotions of the male and female protagonists, extremely restrained, and established a special mutual rescue love that is each other's "executioner". In terms of supporting roles, typical of the two extremely outstanding middle-aged and elderly female images of "enemy and friend camp", the heroine's revenge partner Aunt and the evil woman's mother, just symmetrically compare the complex good and evil of human nature.
Author: Mugafeng
Editor: Blue Two
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The popular Korean drama "Dark Glory", at the end of the second season, finally completed this revenge caused by school bullying and planned for more than ten years.
The bullying of civilians by rich and chaebols is not a new story in Korean dramas, and the popularity and high scores of the two seasons of "Dark Glory" naturally come from the overthrow of the past.
Accustomed to revenge running away from the love brain, extravagant scenes with unscrupulous emotions and eyeballs, and distorted logical chains, "Dark Glory" is worthy of the "name of darkness", calm down, rationalize, understand human nature and calculate people's hearts, layer by layer of planning interlocked, step by step in the dark tide, and eventually fall within the framework of revenge of a social reality. This revenge is high-ranked, it disintegrates everything that the other party cares about and can rely on, money, status, relationships, etc., and makes their world a ruin.
Among them, the highlights of character group portrait shaping and character relationship design are also very prominent. Typical of the emotions of the male and female protagonists, extremely restrained, and established a special mutual rescue love that is each other's "executioner". In terms of supporting roles, typical of the two extremely outstanding middle-aged and elderly female images of the "enemy and friend camp", the heroine's revenge partner Aunt and the evil woman's mother, also symmetrically compare the complex good and evil of human nature and human heart - the former extends the warmest goodwill and the true love beyond blood from strange mutual assistance, while the latter gives birth to the worst human selfishness from the natural closest mother-daughter relationship
The refreshing sense of the addictive story and the artistic beauty constructed with special imagery have reached harmony and balance in such a series.
At the same time, the hot spots inside and outside this series are also timely reminders that the story is a story after all, do not fall into the fictional idealization of it, and the dilemma in reality is more worthy of our attention.
The chess game is treacherous, and the "intellectual" sense of revenge is heavy
Nineteen ways in all directions, between black and white, Go and revenge coexist isomorphism, and Wen Dongen, who has been dormant for eighteen years, constructs a flowing beauty on the chessboard.
From getting to know Zhou Ruzheng and He Daoying because of chess, leading to the relationship between important characters, to ushering in the late life "polar day" in the final game, the important thing is not the separate existence of Go in the play, but in this great revenge, it runs through the protagonist's steps in all links of chess, game setting, and drop.
Light or dark attractive eyes, the inner color is difficult to distinguish. When Kuroko is strongly impregnated, how can Baiko be willing to go against the grain? Bullying victim Wen Dongen has no way to seek help from his family, school, and police station, and fair access is blocked; From being forced to drop out of high school, selling gimbap, to working in a factory and taking the exams and becoming a teacher, Wen Dongen's life trajectory has taken a big turn, and he can catch up with others. Since there are natural blackholders such as the bullying five, the chaebol Ha Daoying, there will be Wen Dongen who came to the top later, take the initiative to attack and fight violence with violence, first create a chess game, and then quietly introduce the opponent into the game.
Fighting in silence and capturing the territory that the other side cares about the most, the most enjoyable way for the chess player Wen Dongen is to force the wicked into a corner, leaving a breath that seems to be alive and dead, and suffer endless suffering. What the wicked fear is the fall of the mask of desperate disguise; And Wen Dongen, who wins in intelligence collection and insight into the weaknesses of human nature, only acts as a pusher, falls at the right time, restores the truth that has been deliberately erased, and makes the opponent lose all games.
Among those who committed the crime, Park Yeon-jin lost the glory of her good wife and mother; Sun Mingwu's dream of making a fortune was shattered in an instant by being counter-killed; painter Li Sarah went to prison; Cui Huiting, who laughed at fifty steps and laughed a hundred steps, had a shattered dream and lost the ability to make a sound; Quan Jae-joon was directly sealed by cement and will never suffer from future problems.
The teacher who did not stand behind the girl Dongen but worked for the tiger was finally sealed in a flower-covered room by his proud son.
The ethereal edifice of glory toppled, and everyone passed by it.
Human nature has both evil and good, and there is also black and white. Wen Dongen went on the road alone, but he would not fight alone.
The victims come together - Aunt Kang Hyun-nam, who intends to kill her husband and save herself and her daughter Sun-ah from the abyss, and Wen Dong-eun, who is taking revenge, are partners in an "equal exchange", but in the mutual rescue, they accidentally give birth to a true relationship that is more than blood connection. These three people are actually a person: if there is no courage to resist and no willingness to change, it is difficult for Shanya to guarantee that she is not the next girl Dongen, and Aunt Jiang Xiannan's today may be Wen Dongen's tomorrow.
Zhou Ruzheng, the male protagonist who taught Wen Dongen's chess skills, played the biggest chess game. From the beginning, he learns about another murdered girl, Yoon So-hee, and notices the thin and tenacious Moon Dong-eun, who has never known about this revenge plan; From empathy, understanding to affection, this outsider voluntarily entered the game and became the executioner who danced with Wen Dongen.
He Daoying, who meets the opponent, seems to be in the opponent's "camp", but has become a special initiative pawn. It is not so much that he and Wen Dongen have signs of love, but rather that they cherish each other because of some similar characteristics. Although they are not the same kind of people at different ends of the food chain, in this game, Wen Dongen, who has a strong heart, unites all those who can be united, at least not to let an available person become his enemy.
It's just that when the hatred ends, if you can start over, I don't know if Wen Dongen who holds a wisp of snowflake on the scars in the cold night has ever thought about what the world should be like without playing chess, not being a chess piece, and not having a chessboard?
Throughout the two seasons, the protagonist of "Dark Glory" will never suddenly drop the chain when he should have a brain, which is the wisdom in the show; However, like many Korean dramas, it is a pity that some characters or events fall into the trap of "routine operation" in the setting of certain characters or events.
The series has cool points, especially for the theme of revenge, which can drive the audience to a happy emotional catharsis; But everything has a degree, can be cool, can not be too cool, lost friction resistance but distortion - so in the process of this drama, the hidden danger of "Park Yeon-jin counterattack, Aunt Kang Hyun-nam is exposed" appears in time, which is very critical.
Putting the plan into account, the aunt simply became a double-sided spy, pretending to be used by Park Yeon-jin, but in fact she was still creating an information gap for Wen Dong-eun. What Park Yeon-jin could know was exactly what Moon Dong-eun planned to let her know. At the same time, the aunt's cruel and gambling husband simply became a pawn, and he was short of money, and he happened to be trapped in the scheme, and was murdered for sending a huge extortion text message to Park Yeon-jin's mother. Killing two birds with one stone, the opponent adds a crime and a weakness, and the aunt can completely escape the clutches of the domestic violence man. Playing with the wicked in the palm of your hand is the most enjoyable to see the helpless of the undoerable.
The plot twist is not stiff, and the calculation is intertwined, which can be described as fascinating.
There are many Korean revenge dramas, but different from the popular works of the past era such as "The Temptation of the Wife" that are driven by emotions, a large number of pages describe family love entanglements, and typical such as "Miss Mermaid" revenge ending is to fall in love with the opponent's lover and deviate from their established revenge track, "Dark Glory" says no to "love is greater than the sky", regards Kuang Fu justice as the primary goal, and concentrates on "pursuing a career". Although this drama also has traditional love elements, it does not overshadow the normal rhythm of the revenge rhythm.
It is precisely because it breaks through the limitations of traditional vision and landing point that the rationality of "Dark Glory" has the upper hand. Wen Dongen judged the situation and started with the least difficult accomplice, cleverly allowing the already weak alliance to collapse from within; Grasping the truth of old cases and the past black materials of opponents, he leads to the cannibalism caused by the evil of human nature, and finally causes them to die in self-destruction and within the boundaries of the law.
In this process, making the plot direction as convincing as possible and being able to justify itself is already the biggest improvement of "Dark Glory" compared to other revenge dramas.
In addition to the refreshment, "Dark Glory" also has a lot to improve - that is, the imbalance that is often difficult to escape in Korean dramas.
Typical as in the play, the subtext of "no money can't take revenge" is about to come out. A big help of Wen Dongen Zhou Ruzheng, a family of doctors, has the ability and financial resources, can be said to go to other cities to open a hospital, buy a funeral home to help Dongen dispose of the body - Krypton gold revenge has unconsciously reduced the human brightness of Ruzheng's teaching of Go and emotional companionship of Dongen.
The bullying echoes inside and outside the series, and you have to be sober
At the end of the second season, Yin Suxi's case was wronged, and the bullying fivesome gradually accepted the punishment of loss of voice, blindness, imprisonment and death, and Wen Dongen also turned into an "executioner", helping Zhou Ruzheng avenge his father's murder and completing the loop of two-way redemption.
Wiped through the jungle of ten thousand evils without a drop of blood, Wen Dongen who existed in the singular won a partial victory in the film and television mechanism of dream-making. It is undeniable that similar events in reality certainly have the possibility of justice coming, but there are not a few Yin Suxi who are covered in dust and unable to speak, and the fate of the plural Wen Dongen is still undecided.
On the occasion of the hit, director Angie Ho himself was "just in time" to be exposed to the scandal of school violence. The abuser did a bullying creation, and the popularity of the topic skyrocketed for a while. Coincidentally, not long ago, Jong Soon-sin, a prosecutor who was appointed head of the National Investigation Headquarters of the Korea National Police Agency, also abandoned his post because of his son's history of school violence.
The bullying, domestic violence, sexual assault, corruption and class differences referred to in "Dark Glory" have become a common topic in Korean film and television. On the one hand, the use of videos to show the real symptoms, arousing the public opinion resistance of the group directly pointed at the sore spot, on the other hand, the continuous exposure of scandals in real life, tearing a hole that is difficult to stitch inside and outside the screen.
Perhaps many details in Dark Glory have proven themselves.
As Park Yeon-jin said to Moon Dong-eun, "From the moment you were born, your life was already like hell"; Ha Daoying, who is also good and evil enough to make the audience stand in CP, is still contemptuous of other classes from the background; Sun Mingwu and Cui Huiting, the henchmen of the bullying five, were still senior "followers" in adulthood.
For example, even if it is the endgame, punishment may not be exchanged for true inner repentance, just as Park Yeon-jin in the prison room is still arrogant and holding Erlang's legs; The punished addict Li Sarah is even more delirious and short-tempered for many years. The end of revenge is drawn on the surface, but the group of people is still the same as before, and revenge cannot go to the bottom of the heart, and it is really difficult to settle.
Korean films and television that will capture hot spots in this way, after shooting so many works that expose social issues have aroused public responses, Korean society still has frequent problems. This can't help but make us think: whether the percussion of film and television can only create an emotional tree hole for the audience.
Of course, as ever, the intrinsic power of exposing behavior has been unleashed in reality – along with the hit "Dark Glory", not only has Korean society sparked heated discussions, but another wave of global campaigns against school bullying perpetrators and the spread of violence have been launched.
Maybe we still have to be optimistic, at least there are works that dare to expose, at least affect more people, right?
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