Her personality is broken? I can't scold
Amnesia, mental degradation into a 7-year-old:
Terminally ill, take a photo of yourself before dying:
Car accidents, even twice...
The familiar Korean drama buff is stacked fiercely! But unexpectedly, the popular dog-blooded bitter routine in the last century actually "stacked" Douban 8.5.
constitutes a life drama full of sour power -
"Bad Mom"
In traditional bitter dramas, the protagonist is usually the incarnation of a saint.
From the wronged daughter-in-law of "Little Lady Tian Xiaocao" to the dumb girl Ju Xiang in "Little Nyonya", they all regard "forbearance" as a virtue in life and suffering as the way to cultivate immortals.
Although they always rely on kindness and patience to solve difficulties in the end, before that, my blood pressure has risen to 250+...
"Bad Mother" is completely the opposite -
It makes the protagonist a "bad guy".
Mom Chen Yingshun is a suffocating East Asian parent:
In order to train his son Cui Qianghao to become a prosecutor, he was never allowed to participate in extracurricular activities such as stepping into youth, and corporal punishment was also commonplace.
Forbid everything outside the window, bow your head and read only the books of the sages.
What if a child has a talent for art?
Shred the drawing paper directly!
Still want to watch TV secretly?
Smash the TV!
What's more outrageous is that her mother never let Qiang Hao eat a full meal with peace of mind, because "when I am full, I want to sleep and can't concentrate on reading."
Qiang Hao was pranked by his classmates and locked in a small black room, but the first thing his mother said when she saw him was:
"How long have you been in this house, missed the tutoring class?"
Academics and prospects are paramount, and self-esteem has become a luxury.
Mom will even force Qiang Hao to kneel down to admit his mistake to classmates who have relationships at home.
The chicken doll operation that says "everything is for your good", but ignores the child's personality, pierces the heart of almost every East Asian child, and also makes people feel more empathy for the painful heart of Qiang Hao.
When the strong man tramples on self-esteem like a masochist, he can't stop self-deprecation and self-pity:
Or fall asleep with tears again and again, and resentfully cut the "bad mother" with "bad mother" 10,000 times in my heart:
How many psychologically distorted children will an almost pathological desire for control teach?
Perhaps, the forbearance of the strong is already an interpretation of goodwill.
However, "Bad Mom" is not limited to the perspective of children.
While grieving for Qianghao, we also see the reason why my mother has to become "bad", and between the two identity positions, emotions are constantly torn.
Chen Yingshun, who always smiled at his neighbors, only put on a stern and cold face in front of his son.
Because she believes that only by reading can she cross the class and no longer be the fish on the chopping block.
Just because she herself knows best that powerless people are like living on a tightrope, they will inadvertently fall into the abyss.
When they were young, Chen Young-soon and her husband Choi Hae-shik ran a pig factory and had beautiful fantasies about life.
It was the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, and the couple's pig farm was on the torch relay and could be televised to the world.
For the sake of face engineering, officials and businessmen colluded to dismantle the "dirty and smelly" pig factory.
Choi Hae-shik strongly disagreed.
As a result, the pig factory burned down overnight, and Choi Hae-shik hanged himself shortly after.
The two apparently man-made injuries were handled by prosecutors as accidents and suicides.
Facing her husband's corpse, Chen Yingshun was overwhelmed with grief, but the child in her belly allowed her to survive.
With the strongest tenacity, she took her children to rebuild the pig factory and restart her life.
She secretly vowed countless times that she would never let this child follow in her father's footsteps.
After learning about my mother's story, there was only a sigh.
Chen Yingshun's "chicken baby" is not the elitism in "Sky City", but the struggle of poor people to live an ordinary life.
This attitude to life is completely contrary to those bitter characters who abuse for the sake of abuse.
Chen Yingshun desperately wants his son to escape from the established fate, and does not hesitate to become "bad" for this.
So, can such a she escape the "bitter" script?
Unfortunately, life will not go smoothly.
As his mother wished, Cui Qianghao became the best prosecutor after graduation.
The neighbors felt that Yingshun had finally worked hard and could enjoy happiness with his son.
Unexpectedly, the son returned to his hometown after a long absence, but the purpose was to break off relations with his mother.
He seems to be taking revenge on his mother.
As she wishes, she crosses the class and becomes part of the "power" that once oppressed her, a corrupt adult who seeks only profit.
He confesses the thief as his father and asks the chaebol to adopt him, and the other party is the culprit who killed his father.
He took bribes and took evidence of the victims and told the top chaebol that "things have gotten a little tricky," just like the prosecutor who once failed his father.
Even so, Yingshun still thinks about his son's career and makes excuses for him to do so.
After signing the severance form, she only hoped that her son would have a good meal at home before leaving.
If Qiang Hao can truly become a "man on a person", it can be regarded as meeting Ying Shun's expectations of him.
However, the leap over class is not so simple.
A strong man without a background is still a pawn to be used.
He was drawn into a power struggle and was designed to get into a car accident.
When he woke up, his mind had degenerated into a seven-year-old.
Qianghao has a childhood again, and Young Shun is a mother again.
But, it's still that "bad mother".
That's the ingenuity of "Bad Mom" -
According to the general routine, the mother will definitely make up for the injury suffered by her son, treat it gently, and open the "childhood trauma healing line" for mother and son.
The script also gave the dean several illusions:
The strong man who had just woken up was paralyzed, unwilling to eat, and extremely weak.
He muttered, "You can't eat too full, if you eat too full, you want to sleep, you can't read."
This phrase of his mother followed him throughout his life, still appearing subconsciously after losing all his memories.
Ying Shun cried for a moment.
Isn't that painful enough?
However, when cornered again, Young Soon once again chose to be a "bad mother".
In the past, he forced Qiang Hao to study, but now he is forced to learn to eat and walk.
This "love" is extremely firm, but also extremely heavy.
When Yingshun learned that she had cancer and died soon, she was even harsher on Qianghao.
Throw him into the river again and again, ignoring his cries for help just to get him to move his legs.
Even, let him learn to do a funeral - Yingshun's funeral soon after.
It is worth mentioning that Wuli "Lady Leopard" Romelan, the whole drama continues to dedicate god-level acting skills.
Play this hated and loved mother into three points, reminiscent of the "mothers" in real life countless times.
Especially during the mock funeral, the mother foresees that her son will lose himself and live alone in the world.
Resolute, she finally couldn't help crying, and her whole body was shaking slightly.
But her tears only flowed to herself, and soon she got up again to Zhang Luo for her son.
Fragile by love, and strong by love, this is our mother.
Chen Yingshun always hopes that her son can live a happier life, and she summed up the lessons and blood and tears of her unfortunate life and chose a seemingly "right" path for her son.
According to the latest plot reversal, Qiang Hao actually understood his mother's approach.
Early wisdom, in fact, he has always known that his mother is blaming himself every time he finishes scolding him.
He jumped out of the trap of "the weak harm each other", and the object of revenge he was planning to take revenge was not his mother, but everything that ruined his mother's life, the real power.
Through this pair of ill-fated mother and son, the pattern of "Bad Mother" opens, revealing a more sad and real life script than a bitter drama.
The root cause of ordinary people's suffering does not lie in their life posture, but in irresistible external factors, perhaps the changes of the times, or perhaps the joke of fate.
When misfortune began, they had only one body to serve as a stronghold.
For example, Chen Yingshun neglected to pay attention to his terminal illness due to overwork, which may also be a fate for the poor.
and Chen Young-soon's family tragedy, which actually stems from the real history of South Korea -
Behind the glamorous Seoul Olympic Games, the government violated the rights and lives of many people on the grounds of "tidying up the city's appearance", and tragedies such as the "Brothers' Home Welfare Home" continued to occur.
"Please Answer 1988" is also mentioned
One survivor once said:
"My biggest wish is to live an ordinary life."
This sentence also speaks of the theme of "Bad Mother" -
What we desperately want to live, just not being bullied, an ordinary life with our heads up and chest up.
However, the plot has developed so far, and the theme is somewhat off.
On the one hand, Chen Yingshun hopes that his son will let go of hatred and live well; On the other hand, Cui Qianghao secretly laid out and played a big chess game.
Huh, what's going on?
With bitter drama as the context, but out of the road of revenge drama.
Although Shuang Jiao is revenge, it inevitably falls into the popular template of Korean dramas in recent years.
But the dean is also looking forward to -
The innocent bottom layer who has been hurt, stop "self-abuse" and mutual harm, and use wisdom and hands to win back the life you want!