On the day that the off-the-screen "Dark Glory" was launched on March 10, its popularity soared. Only three days after the broadcast, it ranked first on the extranet broadcast platform (non-English area), and in the Douban score, the second nearly 300,000 viewers scored 9.1 points, which can be said to be a rare cool drama with a dragon head and tail.
The revenge of "Dark Glory" is not so much a calculation that has been dormant for eighteen years, but rather an insight into human nature and a boost at the right moment, which has risks, and the risk also comes from the grasp of human nature, whether to trust your collusion, just as the aunt was "anti-water" by Yeonjin in the play, and Don Eun has found more than once that Ruzheng, who is willing to dance the sword dance of the nephew, "also has secrets".
Although more than one film and television drama works use chess to hint at the game, Jin Yinshu's usage is simple and carries out a philosophical refinement that perfectly coincides with the matter of revenge: at the beginning of the play, Zhou Ruzheng taught Dongen to play chess and described Go as "violently and gradually approaching in silence", indicating that the heroine's revenge rhythm also seems to be in line with the creative mode of dramas such as "Dark Glory", there is tension in restraint, fierce but orderly, don't be in a hurry, the story and the people in the story will eventually lead you to find the answer.
A writer said a few days ago that when writing a story, sometimes the material to be prepared behind two or three hundred words may be the level of a book, such creative intentions abound in "Dark Glory", perhaps in this way we can achieve the suspension and dog blood that we hope to avoid every day, the blood of life is not deliberately created, it is the same need for logic and guidelines. (And you can also feel that the screenwriter seems to be constantly rethinking the creation)
I like the answer given by the death row prisoner who killed Dean Zhou in the play to Zhou Ruzheng's question: I want to see what his son looks like when his father tells him not to eat instant noodles? At the moment of my life and death, my father was still worried about the appearance of his son, who did not eat instant noodles.
It is reminiscent of the reason given by the female classmate who framed others in the campus violence plot in Dapeng's "Keep You Safe": "Don't you think her family is rich, and her appearance is very annoying." Many times, the theory of the guilt of the victim is not valid, and the sin of ordinary people is not a deep hatred of blood, but jealousy, selfishness, misanthropy or self-pity from the subtle places of human nature... It doesn't make sense: "I feel like the world treats me so unfairly."
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The motives of Yeonjin and her gang to bully people show the struggle between different classes in the whole society, which is the expression of some classes' distorted cognition of survival of the fittest, and this distorted class cognition that seems to occupy the mainstream of current society is vividly displayed in different groups and family relationships in the play.
The main relationship of the whole drama is actually family affection, and the two main characters, Dong Eun and Yeonjin, are the same kind of people to a certain extent, both people who were betrayed and abandoned by their mothers. The former was betrayed by his mother in the name of money at two important points in his life, while the latter has always been regarded as "waste". Interestingly, people like Yeonjin and Jeon Jae-joon who regard other people's lives like grass mustard are so fond of their own bloodline crystallizations and are full of obsession with their own children, which seems to reflect people's subconscious self-compensation for the lack of self-improvement.
However, in the part of the kinship line, the cause and effect between Donn and her mother is the real for tat and an eye for an eye, plus the contrast of the line of helper aunt protecting her daughter, the story goes to the end of Donn sending her mother to a mental hospital is reasonable and pleasant, and the design that is most in line with her character.
Looking back at the relationship between Yeonjin and her mother, I guess that her mother has a patriarchal complex, superstition of wizards and a strong compulsive attitude towards her daughter, as well as the act of retaining evidence of her daughter's guilt, if Dong'en's mother's approach is more purely to use her children as a money-making machine, then Yeonjin's maternal love is full of control and play, in fact, Yeonjin has the same tendency to her daughter.
In Dark Glory, no one is deviant from who he is, no one is without weakness and without sin, but they make different choices, like you and I in life. What means are used by people of what background, what resources are used by what classes of people, and there is no violation ...
This may be the story of the true East Asian daughter, insulted and damaged, betrayed and abandoned, and saved.
I hope that everyone who has been hurt, everyone who has witnessed the harm but is powerless, can find their salvation in this story. Regain lost self-esteem and "glory."
Thoughts on the line of the male protagonist
The male protagonist's emotional line is too dragging the rhythm, the female protagonist can completely rely on herself to complete revenge, why do you have to create a romantic male protagonist?
The first is that the male protagonist's acting skills are problematic. The male protagonist is very good - the little wolf dog who cuts black and carries hatred, but I feel that the male protagonist's acting skills will be smart for a while, and the anesthetic phrase for Yanzhen is very good, but later when he confronts the father killer in prison, he is staring and stunned, which may also be related to the discontinuity of others, but it will indeed be very dramatic.
Secondly, the male protagonist's personality is a little fragmented from time to time. The screenwriter gave the male and female protagonists several "sweet" scenes, and the male protagonist completely presented a state of love brain under the years, which was completely separated from his character of carrying hatred and even psychological trauma, and most of the time he could not feel that he had a heart with deep pain. In addition, if the male protagonist really has a similar state of mind to the female protagonist, he should be able to feel that the female protagonist has plans to self-destruct, but he did not, and finally his mother found the female protagonist. There is also a layer of logic, if the male protagonist intends to self-destruct and take revenge, it is contradictory to the fact that he wants the heroine to be happy and possessive of the heroine, which is also a bug.
Finally, there are reflections on romantic love. In the process of the heroine's revenge, I prefer the part where she cleverly designs the villains to attack each other and borrow knives to kill, as for the male protagonist because he loves the female protagonist, he helps the female protagonist buy the part of the cremation house through the banknote ability, which looks strange. In addition, there are many ways for the heroine to be happy after completing revenge, and she can be a private investigator with her aunt, after all, the aunt really has a hand in tracking and finding clues; You can also continue your architectural dreams and really start your 19-year-old again... It is not necessary to have a "perfect" love is the standard ending, I hope that when the screenwriter can write the heroine's beautiful open ending alone.
The most felt fragments
What I don't forget is that the art rate is isolated, and He Daoying came, but the art rate saw that his father did not move, and he looked very aggrieved. At that time, she may have known that she was not her father's child, she felt very sorry for her father, and even felt that she hurt her father, until He stretched out her arms to her, she ran over, hugged her father and said sorry, cried, really felt sorry for the baby, but fortunately Ha Doying was very good to her and did not leave her
The coolest moment of the whole show:
1. Quan Jae-joon violently beats pedophile teacher;
2, the aunt angrily fanned Yanzhen's ear scrapers;
3, Zhou Ruzheng's mother choked the police refused to remove Suxi's body;
4. Sarah pierced Whiting's neck with a pencil. Ha Daoying's mother is too weak, the golf stick smashes things, so she can give her daughter-in-law a stick!