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A movie theater is running away from popcorn
Some time ago, Xiaowan's recommendation has soared all the way and has become the most watched drama in the world since the launch of Netflix.
The heat has not dissipated, and Netflix has launched another crazy Korean drama - "My Name", with female revenge as the core and action scenes as the selling point.
Director Jin Zhenmin's previous representative works are "Martial Law Division" and "Human Classroom", and he has a lot of experience in designing action scenes.
The heroine Han Shaoxi (also translated: Han Suxi) is the "most beautiful little three" in "The World of Husbands and Wives". This time in "My Name" subverted the image of small white flowers, starring in a cool and beautiful girl.
Like most revenge dramas, My Name takes the form of putting the protagonist to death and being reborn.
At the beginning of the series, it shows the audience the 360° tragic corner of the heroine Zhiyou.
As the second-in-command of the gang, her father became a nationally wanted criminal, hurriedly leaving her to hide in the limelight, and when the school classmates learned of this, they began to bully her to force her to quit school.
On Zhiyou's 17th birthday, he finally contacted his father, and under her complaints, his father risked going home to celebrate her birthday. Unexpectedly, the person was killed by a mysterious person in front of his home.
A wise friend who has lost his school and father is like being emptied of his soul, and the goal of life is only to avenge his father.
She finds her father's gang, and the gang boss, Old Cui, is her father's best friend before he died. Seeing that she was eager for revenge, Old Cui decided to cultivate her into a top thug.
The gun that killed Zhiyou's father was a gun used by the police internally, and Zhiyou was determined to find out the real culprit. After several years of training as a devil, Lao Cui let her enter the police station undercover under a false identity and began to track down the father killer hidden in it.
The episode naturally transitions from "orphan girl seeking revenge" to "infernal affairs in the police station", and Zhiyou looks for clues to old cases while frequently delivering information to Lao Cui.
At the police station, Chi-yo meets Che Sir, who is suspected of being related to his father's death, and a highly motivated male colleague. The two have suspected her undercover identity and are also involved in the investigation of old cases.
In the process of revenge, Zhiyou is getting closer and closer to the truth, and begins to recognize the faces under the masks of the people around him, and the game between black and white is always playing out.
The plot of "My Name" is slightly routine, if you have seen some hong Kong films or Korean movies of the same type, you should be able to easily guess the plot reversal and ending direction.
The orphan girl becomes stronger in the next step of life's tribulations, and when she is ready for revenge, she discovers the tricks of fate. There are not a thousand, but also eight hundred such stories.
So where is the cool point of the episode?
Xiao Wan came to draw the key points for everyone, the actual combat style action scenes + the psychological satisfaction of female revenge.
In order to meet the audience's demand for action scenes, "My Name" sets up two or more fight scenes in each episode.
At first, the scale was small, it was a street fight between zhiyou and scammers, although they did not accept defeat, but only their share was beaten;
After entering Lao Cui's training camp, Zhiyou progressed rapidly and performed amazingly in the gymnasium infighting;
After the undercover police station, Zhiyou was heroic and decisive in the rain of bullets and bullets every time he went out to the police.
After Zhiyou knows the truth, the climactic fight at the end of the episode seems to have a bit of the meaning of Buddha blocking the killing of Buddha, God blocking the killing of God, and killing The Human.
The director repeatedly uses close-up shots to sculpt the changes in the characters in the fight, and the facial expressions of Zhiyou and his opponents are infinitely magnified, highlighting their unconcealable pain and exhaustion, thus intensifying the audience's sense of immersion.
On the other hand, it also focuses on the capture of weapons, whether it is a swinging fist, a thrown knife, or a cold gun, emphasizing the tension of the action.
Actor Han Shaoxi's transformation is also quite successful, the eyebrows are always full of murderous anger and wisps of hatred, the action is sharp and decisive, and the interpretation of the cool woman is very in place.
According to reports, during the filming of "My Name", Han Shaoxi insisted on playing on his own, and also received training in the martial arts school in advance, and was sent to the hospital due to physical exhaustion during the filming process.
After talking about martial arts, let's talk about literary drama.
In Korean film and television dramas, "revenge" has always been a motif that has been repeatedly interpreted. Park Chan-wook's "Old Boy", Choi Min-sik's "See the Devil", and Kim Jin-min's previous work "Time for dogs and wolves" all delve into the human game between the Avengers and their prey.
"Seeing the Devil"
The emergence of female revenge dramas in recent years is a step further on this foundation, they usually highlight how the victims are transformed into avengers, and then point the spearhead of criticism at the disguised oppression of the powerful society.
This is actually in line with the context of the goddess of vengeance in ancient Greek mythology: the goddess of vengeance, Erinius, is a combination of the goddess of insecurity, Alektu, the goddess of jealousy, Megilla, and the goddess of revenge, Tishfoon. And "Erinius" means "anger" in Greek.
Observing the revenge heroines in Korean dramas, almost all of them bear a deep hatred in the blood sea, and they are all poor people, and even in the process of revenge, they have been deceived.
For example, in Park Chan-wook's other vengeful work", "Kind Gold", Gold is to bear the guilt of others, go to jail, and sharpen the knife to the old enemy after being released from prison.
"The Beginning and End of the Murder of Kim Funan" also highlights Funan's tragic experience and beautiful vision. For the sake of her daughter, in order to escape, she embarked on the path of tragic killing.
"The Beginning and End of the Kim FuNan Murders"
In "Mother Don't Cry", the heroine Liu Lin originally intended to start a new life, but her daughter was mutilated by underage teenagers. Enraged, Liu Lin began to use her own way to seek justice outside the law.
Speaking of "My Name", the heroine Zhiyou is also in a similar stalemate, abandoned by the normal society represented by the school, and struggling at the bottom of society just to one day avenge her father.
As long as the audience has sympathy for the character, then it is natural to understand her subsequent bottoming out.
But why is the play of "My Name" not so successful?
Because everyone wants to see the cultivation of the female god of war, the play has added an extremely chicken emotional line, that is, the office romance between Zhiyou and male colleagues in the police station.
Two people who didn't seem to call at all, under the director's forced will, staged intimate scenes in the play like dolls.
But according to the personality of Zhiyou, she has no time to fall in love, nor will she have love for a man whose mental maturity is crushed by himself.
The male colleague was still doubting her undercover identity before, but after understanding her pain, she could quickly develop into the process of talking about love.
There is another secret emotional line in the play, but it is more topical than the love between the heroine and the young police colleague, that is, the subtle cultivation of feelings between Zhiyou and Lao Cui.
As Zhiyou wished, Old Cui cultivated her, killed her in the past, and destroyed her. The two are the most similar people in the whole play, both kill like monsters, and Lao Cui replaces some of her father's roles, called the father of the spirit.
The possessiveness and dependence of the cultivated system, the ambiguous and complex softness and hardness of the heart, are mixed in the father-like relationship between the two people. If this line is fully unfolded, it can actually make the zhiyou's personality more full, so that the literary drama can increase the point of view.
Overall, "My Name" has more than enough martial arts and insufficient literary dramas.
Audiences who are more interested in action scenes can chase after tea and dinner, after all, it is quite refreshing to watch the beautiful sister kill the four parties.
It can't have thematic depth and social topicality, but it may become the next blockbuster drama direction.
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