In recent years, the audience has found that there are more and more high-scoring dramas, and "Bad Evil Thoughts Cleaner" is not born, it is a combination of changes and traditions over the years, although there is a high-concept setting of "fantasy" + "comedy", but in the end it still falls on the truth, so that the audience can find themselves in the play.
Author|Scarlett\Editor|Yishi
"Help me..." The man who said this stood in front of the bed and gazed affectionately. Precisely, this is not a person, because it drags a broken body and oozes blood - oh, a monster!
Pu Yiyong lay on the bed, opened his eyes to see such scenes, and closed his eyes in fright and retracted into the quilt. But it was useless to escape, and whoever told him was the only one who could see him, had to stand up for his life.
Pu Yiyong (played by Zeng Jinghua) is the protagonist of the Taiwanese drama "Bad Obsession Cleaner", he is not a big person, just a high school student with poor grades and a second year of middle school.
Help what? I don't know. But the monsters all found Pu Yiyong in various ways, and this is the opening sentence.
At school, he seemed to have nothing to do and was often treated like a punk. But in the eyes of the monster, he is the only one who can "help me". Because Pu Yiyong is the only one who can see the monster, and he writes with a beautiful brush hand—it seems like a guiding signal to the monster.
In this drama, "monster" is the embodiment of "obsession", obsession may come from sadness, longing, resentment, jealousy, to put it bluntly, it is a kind of "can't let go". Pu Yiyong and his partner Cao Guangyan (played by Peng Qianyou) and rookie policeman Chen Kaiying (played by Song Yunhua) began the process of clearing obsessions, which is actually the process of how to let people go.
In this three-person team's journey of "fighting monsters", there is funny, fantasy, blood, and the power of warmth and sincerity. Douban netizens scored a high score of 8.8 points for the play, and it was this sincerity that rushed.
Douban score
In recent years, the audience has found that there are more and more high-scoring Taiwan dramas, such as "I Want to See You", "Our Distance from Evil", "The Cultivation of a Common Girl", "The First Lantern", etc., all of which are subverting the routine of traditional Taiwanese romance idol dramas, and touching people through the stories of one person after another.
And "Bad Evil Thought Cleaner" is not born out of nowhere, it is a combination of changes and traditions over the years, although there is a high-concept setting of "fantasy" + "comedy", but in the end it still falls on the truth, so that the audience can find themselves in the play.
What obsession leaves the world behind
The drama "Bad Obsession Cleaner" was originally titled "I am destined to save the world if I can't be a cartoonist".
At the beginning, Pu Yiyong filled out the life future planning form, he was completely unaware of the process personality questionnaire, and only wrote about the final goal of being a cartoonist, but he was not sure if he really wanted to become a cartoonist.
His 17-year-old life was chaotic. The academic performance is "crane tail", and the total score of 133 points in 7 subjects in the third year of high school is only 19 points. The barber's mother (played by Yang Jinhua) washes and cuts his "wolf teeth" hairstyle, and is regarded as a hooligan by the entire school. He is also considered to be "bullying Xueba's classmates", and when he meets by chance on the stairs, Xueba will also fall downstairs inexplicably; Whether it is basketball, football, volleyball, they can kill with one move, causing the student to fall to the ground and vomit blood on the spot.
The drama shows that the bully falls like a comic
Pu Yiyong's only strength is to learn a good hand from his grandfather, but he was criticized by his grandfather for only imitating the tangible and godless, simple sentences, and no heart.
In this way, Pu Yiyong, who couldn't make up his mind about what he was going to do in the future, suffered an accident, the plane crashed into the bus, his father lost his life, and his grandfather became a vegetative person. He was in a coma for two years and woke up when classmates were in college for college, and the internship, only him, was still frozen in the past 17 years.
Pu Yiyong is no longer qualified to wonder whether to become a cartoonist, and during the coma, the landlord does not want them to "die in the rental house", and his mother says that "because of death, he will die freely at home" and uses the pension loan to buy a house. Pu Yiyong can only work immediately to earn money and support the family with his mother.
But the monsters came first and asked him to work for free.
"Monsters are born from people's obsessions, some people can see them, and some people can't see them." In the play, the setting is explained with this sentence, and Pu Yiyong is the one who can be seen.
The "zombie" with a broken body is the obsession in the first story.
Zheng Lisong (played by Yao Chunyao) is the driver who disappeared after a bizarre car accident. After his accidental death, he did not want his parents to see his body to confirm his death, and struggled to become a stranger in the world. His obsession is that he doesn't want his parents to see him as he ends. With the help of Pu Yiyong and Chen Kaiying, he found the cause of death, made his parents the last dinner, and left calmly. Another obsession that supported his corpse, the underwater divine beast stone lion, also reappeared.
Just when Pu Yiyong thought that his daily life would be nothing special except for tripping over a stone lion, his new neighbor was also his old rival, and the scholar Cao Guangyan came to the door again.
Cao Guangyan kept seeing withered magnolia flowers, and the costumed lady under the magnolia tree asked them to help her find the name of the person, the unknown general teacher at the school.
Cao Guangyan, a student bully, used to be a person who loves flowers and blossoms, looks handsome, has good grades, has a gentle and polite personality and never overdoes it, from classmates to teachers, from flowers to butterflies, no one does not like him. Now there is more of a medical student, the future is bright, and the future is bright.
He and Pu Yiyong should have no intersection except for high school, but by mistake, they formed a pair of "mindless and unhappy", and teamed up to fight monsters - to clear the obsessions.
Coupled with the nickname, the strange policeman Chen Kaiying, who failed the exam at 1% in the police force, the three stumbled into a combination, shouting or even fainting when they were afraid, but they would desperately help when they were responsible.
Three people form a squad
After finding the name of the general teacher, the barricade guardian comes again to ask Pu Yiyong to help retrieve the child he took by his only father; After finding a child, she wants to help the obsessive doll find her "mother" Sister He's missing and dead biological daughter; Even helping the obsessive twins who can't speak find their brother...
Strong love-hate attachment will remain in the world and become obsession, Pu Yi can't help but think, he continues to help obsession, is it possible to see his dead father one day? Will someone help his dad like this one day?
What kind of person you want to be
Unlike Pu Yiyong, who is unclear whether to become a cartoonist, Cao Guangyan is a diametrically opposed example. Every step of his way is clearly planned and perfect, and his ultimate goal in life is to become a doctor - but not to cure and save people, but to be a high-status and high-income doctor.
As a junior police officer, Chen Kaiying's daily task is only to patrol and check for drunk driving, and he aspires to become a criminal investigation policeman, but he is worried that he does not have enough ability.
In East Asia's growth education and narrative system, there are few parents or stories that tell people how to grow up and how to relate to the world. It seems that people who were children on campus can step into society and become mature people when they graduate from university.
Pu Yiyong (left) and Cao Guangyan (right)
But this is obviously more dreamy than a fairy tale. Pu Yiyong was abruptly pulled out in this seemingly natural process.
In the gap between graduating and entering society, he paused for two years, and woke up as if he had been forced to grow up overnight, but of course he had not grown up. So bumps and bumps, all looking for himself, what kind of person he wants to be, what he wants to do, how to get along with the world.
And Cao Guangyan, as the complete opposite of Pu Yiyong, is the one who knows him best. So he would say to Chen that Pu Yiyong was more like a doctor and a policeman than them. He's saving people, he's helping people.
So Cao Guangyan was "tsundere" all the way and "upright", shouting that I was going to beat Pu Yiyong, but his body honestly brought him burgers and coffee; He said that he would let his father casually cut cheap side dishes for Pu Yiyong, but he still took the most expensive beef in his hand.
Cao Guangyan "Honest mouth"
Pu Yiyong is a young stubborn self, and in the process of helping one obsession after another, he gradually learned that in addition to himself, he must also help others.
Cao Guangyan took the initiative to become a superego under social discipline, and in his relationship with Pu Yiyong, he gradually let go of his true self and knew what he really wanted in his heart.
Chen Yangying is a childlike self, she has learned responsibility and growth.
Pen, ink, paper and ink, all find themselves in writing and searching
Some people say that the pen is paper, and Yiyong is pen and ink, so the three of them formed pen, ink and paper.
In fact, Pu Yiyong is a pen, a brush character that includes all strokes of Chinese characters, but he is not ink.
All kinds of obsessions are ink, ink can transform into shape, can become a variety of words on paper, write a variety of different stories.
Pen, ink, paper and ink, all find themselves in writing and searching.
What you want to be, from beginning to end.
Until Pu Yiyong let go of his guilt, his father can say goodbye to him with peace of mind, and his grandfather can leave with peace of mind, and he has found who he is, so that he has enough strength to wake up.
From pompous to real
"Bad Obsession Cleaner" through the combination of "mindless + unhappy + impulsive miss" character setting, superimposed fantasy comedy suspense genre elements, and then superimposed emotionally solid unit stories, as well as temperament matching actors and a strong supporting role team, the comprehensive result is that Douban 97,000 people have seen it and scored a high score of 8.8. It has not only become a popular drama in recent times, but also continued the overall reputation of Taiwanese dramas in recent years.
Taiwanese dramas once left the impression of love idol dramas. Since 2001's "Meteor Garden" swept Asia, who has not been surrounded by "Fighting Fish", "Prank Kiss", "Prince Turns into Frog", "Princess Little Sister", "Fancy Boy and Girl" and "Destiny I Love You", so from He Junxiang to Zheng Yuanchang, from F4 to Flywheel Sea, Taiwanese idols are also popular idols in Asia.
However, the idol drama such as the shooting output of ten years has also greatly reduced the quality of Taiwanese dramas, and they have gradually been abandoned by the market. Since 2011's "I May Not Love You", Taiwanese idol dramas have no voice and have failed.
Since then, the Taiwan drama has begun to change dramatically, from being unable to get out of the circle for several years without attention, to attracting attention again with a blockbuster. A series of high-scoring dramas are represented by "Want to See You", "A Handful of Qing", "Our Distance from Evil", "Diary of a Lay Girl", "The First Lantern", "The Worker", etc., the Taiwan dramas on the film list are no longer full of pompous love, but tell the stories of real and landed people, reflecting the present and expressing the love and pain of people in real life.
"The Bad Thought Cleaner" is not born out of nowhere, but a combination of changes and traditions over the years.
The surname of the male protagonist Pu is difficult not to remind people of Pu Songling in "Liaozhai Zhi Wei", and the unit drama inherits the humorous and cold-eyed yin and yang of traditional chi weird novels.
Humorous lines in the play
"Can I put away your potted plants?"
"It's beautiful."
"I'll cut it for you!"
Such humor abounds.
The benevolence of filial piety, the lonely soul, the love of licking, the heart of jealousy, the righteousness of brothers, the core of the unit story is all the basic spirit of our Chinese culture. However, the latest seasoning has been added to the familiar materials, workplace bullying, big city isolation, class comparison of lost fathers, domestic violence and other social hot topics that people are most concerned about at present have been integrated into it, making people cry and laugh, empathize and resonate.
The general teacher in the second story, Lin Yongchuan (played by Fan Shaoxun), gradually lost his connection with the world after the death of his parents. He dropped out of college, his youth was unemployed, and he once went to visit homeless people, but he also died alone, no one named him. So lonely that he can only talk to the tattooed lady (Hei Jiajia) behind his back, he can be each of us, and each of us can become him.
At the end of the day, the audience is looking for themselves in the story. Sincere creations can always move people.
Screenwriter and director Lin Guanhui is accustomed to telling humorous and touching stories with fantasy elements, and "Che Xiaojin's Hotel" has been nominated for many awards at the Taipei Film Festival. Chen Nanying's actor Song Yunhua is famous for "My Girlhood". Pu Yiyong's actor Zeng Jinghua once attracted attention with "The Name Engraved in Your Heart". Cao Guangyan's actor, Peng Qianyou, was a sculptor before.
Peng Qianyou once showed one of his works, a pushpin pangolin, in an interview. "I think back to a previous work that looked like a sculpture that grew out of an obsession, and I used silver pushpins to build a pangolin in armor," he says. The shell of the pangolin was originally a shell that protected the body, but I wrapped it with the element that the pushpins are sharp, which means that the deeper your obsession, the tighter the armor will wrap and the deeper the needles will be pricked inside. ”
Sculpture by actor Peng Qianyou
When actors have such an understanding, and screenwriters and directors hide ingenuity in a person's name, why not worry about good works?
So viewers on social networks shouted "Help me..." to the producer in the tone of the show, looking forward to the story of the second season of "Bad Obsession Cleaner".