Kill crazy!
The whole network sat and waited, launched more than 20 hot searches, and topped the second place in the world of Netflix TV series in less than a week.
Some people shared their experience of squatting and guarding: from four o'clock (online), jumping back and forth between several websites, within half an hour, they encountered downtime and website crashes one after another...
There are also people who stay up late to chase the drama and chase out the internal injuries, lamenting that they can't slow down for a day and a night.
No wonder many people are not convinced by Netflix data, saying that if Chinese netizens read it, they would have been the first.
What kind of divine drama has provoked hundreds of millions of fans to bend their waist?
If you don't sell it, it's her---
Dark Glory 2
At the end of last year, the first part of "Dark Glory" was launched.
At the beginning, the gimmick of this drama was the first confrontation after the marriage of the two Song Dynasties.
But with "The Little Son of the Chaebol Family" starring Song Zhongji going high and low, Qiao Mei successfully won back to a city with "Dark Glory" that came later.
The Douban score is 8.9, which is already the best of the best.
After the end of the first season, netizens who couldn't stop were calling for Qiao Mei to come back for revenge every day.
Recently, the second season also returned as scheduled in the highly anticipated manner.
Unexpectedly, the momentum was even stronger, Douban opened with a score of 9.4, and after more than a week of inspection by 200,000 netizens, it still maintains a level of more than 9 points.
A revenge drama that is not uncommon, why is it in the midst of thousands of explosive models?
01
Let's revisit the first season first.
The storyline is simple.
One day 18 years ago, high school student Moon Dong-eun was dragged into the school gymnasium by a bully fivesome led by Park Yeon-jin and engaged in a horrible bullying.
The scarred Wen Dongen also thought about saving himself.
However, the police are the accomplices of the other party, the teacher has become more aggressive to her, and her own mother is an alcoholic who sees money.
After some shirking, accusation, and pulling, Dong'en's mother, who had benefited from it, signed the withdrawal form for the reason: unable to adapt.
Cold and painful, isolated.
Dong Eun, 18, chose the latter at one point between the pharmacy and the Han River.
After wandering and struggling for a long time, she finally stopped walking towards the river.
If your dream can't be realized, why not spend the rest of your life realizing another?
At that moment, hatred condensed into frost.
Moon Dong-eun's lifelong dream also changed from an architect to revenge on Park Yeon-jin, and his accomplices Lee Sarah, Choi Hye-jeong, Jeon Jae-joon, and Son Myung-woo.
In order to take revenge, Wen Dongen made perfect preparations from the beginning.
Part-time work, he was admitted to university, became a teacher, and then used the weakness of the school chairman to become the homeroom teacher of Park Yeon-jin's daughter's class.
Later, in order to get close to Park Yeon-jin's husband Ha Do-young, she secretly learned Go, practiced chess hard, and paid a high price to hire her aunt Kang Hyun-nam to form the "Avengers".
Painstakingly planned, clear goals, down-to-earth, from a shivering victim to a thoughtful avenger, it took Wen Dongen 18 years to finally come to the bully.
Every step on her road to revenge seems to let the audience see her own history of struggle.
At the same time, the bully five also lived the life of their dreams.
Park Yeon-jin became a weather anchor, married a rich generation, gave birth to a beautiful and cute daughter, and is a veritable winner in life.
Li Sarah became a decadent painter with a chaotic private life.
Cui Huiting is a gold-worshipping flight attendant who wants to marry a wealthy family.
Jeon Jae-joon inherited the golf course, opened a boutique, and lived a life of wind and rain.
Sun Mingwu, who dreamed of becoming rich overnight, continued to squander his life in daydreams.
02
Before the second season was launched, the biggest concern of the audience was, will it end?
After all, the bloody drama that goes high and low under various pretenses and even pounces on the street, everyone has seen too much over the years.
It wasn't until the revenge of Wen Dongen, who killed all sides, that the audience proved with ratings and word of mouth: No.
Compared to the violent and bloody destruction, Wen Dong'en's method of retaliation is much more "civilized".
Her first target was her homeroom teacher, who had also beaten her.
The head teacher is allergic to lilies.
However, before the head teacher's son went ashore, he specially brought a large bouquet of blooming lilies to visit the door and told the other party with a smile that he wanted to report him.
By the way, I also "bumped into" the son of the head teacher who was full of longing for the preparation.
Knowing the truth, the desperate son released a room full of lilies to cause his father's asthma, and kicked out the medicine at a critical time, resulting in the death of the head teacher.
Use the evil son to solve the bad father with his own hands and kill people.
Park Yeon-jin's dream has always been to be a good wife and mother, and Moon Dong-eun arranged for her to end up "empty".
But the rich and powerful Park Yeon-jin is obviously more difficult to deal with than the brainless Son Myung-woo and the incompetent and furious head teacher.
For Park Yeon-jin, Moon's strategy is to disintegrate from within.
First used the physical evidence of another classmate Yin Suxi's "falling incident" to instigate Sun Mingwu to blackmail other accomplices, causing him to seek his own death.
Then use her boyfriend Zhou Ruzheng's identity as a doctor to let Park Yeon-jin tell the mystery of Son Myung-woo's death in anesthesia.
and set off public opinion on the Internet, making the reputation of the weather anchor with decent scenery shaky.
Park Yeon-jin, who jumped off the wall, could only break the news that Li Sarah took drugs to divert firepower, which then caused infighting.
At the same time, she also let Ha Do-young discover the secret of Park Yeon-jin and Jeon Jae-joon (cheating, bullying, illegitimate child) step by step, and then borrowed Ha Do-young's hand to destroy Jeon Jae-joon.
Among the group of villains, the end of gold worship flight attendant Cui Huiting and drug addict Li Sarah is relatively "lucky", one was pierced through the throat in the infighting, and the other was imprisoned while swallowing clouds and fog.
It's miserable, but at least it's not fatal.
In the face of Moon Dong-eun's precise attack, Park Yeon-jin also had a crazy counterattack.
She even caught Wang Fried twice.
The first is Moon Dong-eun's mother, a middle-aged scoundrel who only knows how to drink and spill, and under the temptation of huge checks, he effortlessly becomes Park Yeon-jin's accomplice.
Harassed on the street, Lai did not leave the house, and coerced his daughter-in-law to resign.
Draw a lesson from a bitter experience.
In order to remove this biggest stumbling block, Wen Dongen set up a bureau to send his own mother to a mental hospital.
The second is the aunt who has suffered domestic violence for a long time and works for Wen Dongen with a dead heart.
Knowing that her daughter may fall into the hands of Park Yeon-jin, the shocked and frightened aunt was so frightened that she did not dare to show up for many days, so she could only secretly send a message to Dong Eun.
After a tangled trade-off, the aunt quickly turned into the legendary "double agent".
On the surface, he pretended to be afraid and obeyed Park Yeon-jin, but in fact, he took the opportunity to break into the other party and inquire about the news for Wen Dong-eun.
It must be admitted that the aunt's follow-up investigation and anti-reconnaissance capabilities are indeed material for spying.
Park Yeon-jin's counterattack cannot be said to be untroubled by Moon Dong-eun.
But because she strategized first, except for her mother's weakness, she had major entanglements, and the setbacks encountered in other aspects were basically in her plan and control.
As the revenge progressed smoothly, more and more people supported her, and school doctors, colleagues, alumni, and even police officers all reached out to her at critical times.
There was no reversal, no century reconciliation, everyone who hurt Wen Dongen was finally punished as he deserved.
The wicked get retribution, the protagonist starts a happy life, and this natural ending finally appears in the TV series.
03
In addition to the main line of revenge, the lines, editing and ubiquitous details and metaphors in the play are quite neat and catchy.
Like what---
After dropping out of school, Moon Dong-eun told Park Yeon-jin: My dream in the future is you.
Then ask her: Don't you have a dream?
Park Yeon-jin rolled her eyes: When you realize your dreams, I will spend money to make you go, what I need is not a dream, but a job to say, so that I can choose a good man to marry when I was youngest and beautiful.
After that, she did it as a weather anchor.
I can't write a manuscript, just throw a check to the assistant and get it.
And triumphant: You see, I only spent so much money to become her god.
Wen Dongen dropped out of school to seek help, but was forcibly signed by the guardian mother who took the benefit.
Eighteen years later, Wen Dong'en signed his mother to a psychiatric hospital, telling her that he was the sole guardian.
Retribution or cause and effect, these heartfelt and neat correspondences are both realistic and empathetic.
Screenwriter Kim Eun-sook mentioned in an interview that the original intention of creating this drama was because of her daughter's question: Mom, will it make your heart hurt more if I beat others to death, or will it hurt your heart more if I am beaten to death by others?
From this, I think of the relationship between the two mothers and daughters in the play.
Moon Don Eun vs Mother
Wen Dongen was bullied, humiliated, and ridiculed, and although she was scared every time, she was basically able to stay calm.
Only a few knives in the back by her biological mother can make her suffer to the point of emotional collapse, until she grits her teeth and sends the other party to a mental hospital.
It is said that the mother is the source of the child's strength, Wen Dongen, who has never been warmed by the mother's love, even if there is only hatred left in life, the mother is still her biggest weakness.
She longs for motherly love, just like the helpless and desperate high school student 18 years ago.
Aunt VS daughter
Mother and daughter have been beaten by domestic violence men for many years, but they have always pity each other and warm each other.
The aunt is unable to escape the hellish marriage, so she hopes for her daughter, who is in the flower season.
In order to protect her, the aunt teamed up with Moon Dong-eun, refused Park Yeon-jin's temptation to pay for money, and designed to let the greedy husband suffer the consequences.
It was not until her daughter escaped safely and her husband received retribution that she cried and laughed and breathed a sigh of relief when she was relieved.
The female nature is weak, and the mother is rigid, which has been perfectly interpreted in the aunt.
Two pairs of mother and daughter, two completely different modes of getting along, are also destined for very different endings.
Imagine, if Dong'en's mother 18 years ago could sacrifice her life to protect her daughter like an aunt, would Dong'en's life still be like this?
Fortunately, Don, who has never been a mother, continues this maternal love in her aunt and daughter.
It is both help and salvation.
These inadvertent details add a rare bright color to the originally gray and cold plot.
04
Of particular note is the presentation of the characters by the actors.
Wen Dongen, played by Song Huiqiao, is numb and cold, and most of the time his face is expressionless.
The few times she has been emotionally exposed in the play are because of her crazy mother.
Like what---
After discovering that her mother became an accomplice of Park Yeon-jin.
Wen Dongen's first reaction was shock, anger, and sadness, asking why the other party abandoned her again and betrayed her.
I didn't want to get a beating.
As blood slowly flowed from his face, Wen Dongen's heartbroken eyes gradually became more gloomy and hatred.
It made her whole person exude a kind of pathos that rushed to her face.
The section where the mother was sent to a mental hospital.
It seemed that he was calm, but when he leaned close to the other party's ear and said the sentence "Only I can send you in, because I am your only blood relative", his eyes were instantly filled with tears.
As the camera switched, when she looked at the other party in the next second, her eyes returned to cold.
The smoothness of the transition is truly stunning.
I always knew that Song Huiqiao was the spokesperson of romantic dramas, but I didn't expect that she could rely on her appearance, and her acting skills were so powerful.
The aunt who was praised by the whole Internet, her actor Lian Huilan has played supporting roles in many Korean dramas with high scores.
The aunt came from the bottom, did not have a high education, and did the most ordinary work.
Although he has been subjected to domestic violence for many years, he is optimistic and cheerful and has a kind heart.
If you have to make a comparison, the aunt's performance in the play can be ranked at least in the top three, and the scene where she appears can be called stunning and highlighted.
Beaten by her husband, her slightly hideous expression includes pain, anger, forbearance, and longing for the future.
After receiving the news of his daughter's safe departure, his mixed feelings of sadness and joy had nowhere to talk about, and he could only cry silently in the dark.
Make a "deal" with Park Yeon-jin.
A slow look up, and the various emotions such as fear, doubt, and calculation are accurately expressed.
Wait a minute.
Compared with the "explosive" acting skills that everyone generally loves to say, Lian Huilan's interpretation of her aunt can be described as perfected.
A veritable acting ceiling.
As we all know, among many film and television works in the past, there are not many works related to violent revenge, why has the "Dark Glory" series become a phenomenal hit?
In addition to the highlights of the above summary, the intention of the script is also one of the reasons.
Since the first part of this drama was launched last year, school bullying has attracted attention again in South Korea.
During this period, some victims anonymously confided their experiences, and some people told their experiences in front of the camera.
Even, some of the early experiences of the show's director An Jiho were picked up by netizens.
The temporary fermentation of public opinion may not change the root of the matter, but with more and more resistance and bravery, at least some perpetrators can have a certain degree of scruples and trade-offs when they do evil.
In summary, if this drama is not very perfect, on the whole, it is also the best in its kind.
Fans and friends who haven't seen it yet, you can rest assured to arrange it.
(Movie Rotten Tomatoes Editorial Office: Not Happy with Things)