Author: Green Stream
"Secret Forest" is a more typical suspense and criminal investigation drama, starring big stars such as Pei Doona and Cao Chengyou, and the protagonist's aura is of course very bright. In "The Secret Forest 2", Cao Chengyou works overtime night and night, scolded every day, Pei Douna is excluded by colleagues and learns to mature in the workplace, and the two protagonists are "reduced" to proper social animals.
If the japanese writer Fujisawa Shuhei's novel reflecting the life of the lower samurai is a civil servant martial artist, then Lee So-yeon's "Secret Forest 2" is a civil servant criminal investigation. Regardless of the protagonist's supporting roles, they have faded their aura, and they honestly go to work and work overtime, which is really miserable.
The story is really inconvenient to introduce, and once introduced, it is spoiler.
To put it simply, it is still a struggle between the chaebol and the public prosecutor's law, and there is an internal struggle between the public prosecutor's law, and one line that runs through the whole drama is the struggle between the police and the prosecutor for the right to investigate, and even involves the Diet (Yeouido).
Although the typing at the beginning of each episode has nothing to do with reality, even I, a foreigner, can see that it has something to do with President Moon's administrative measures. The confrontation between the police and the prosecutor in the film also carries the real Korean people's discussion of the two classes.
In the first season, we see many personal heroes, hot-blooded, forbearing, persistent, martyrs... In the second season, we see real people in the system, as well as their small work and subtle thoughts. Ancient court dramas such as "The Ming Dynasty" are difficult to write, not only involving complex party struggles, but also examining the system, culture, and social life at that time. But dramas like "The Secret Forest 2" that reflect the current system are not easy to write, unlike ancient people and things that have been conclusive, especially in the environment of East Asia, and the scale of criticism of the present needs to be well grasped by the creators.
In fact, screenwriter Li Xiuyan is not from the class, but a company employee who is halfway out of the family, loves writing, and is a hit. This is a bit similar to Mingyue and Liu Cixin in that year. However, the power of Korean editors is quite large, and they have a lot of say in the production of TV dramas, and talented people should have equal power.
"The Secret Forest" takes the legal people as the main body, and through their work, let the public feel up close: justice is a luxury. In the first season, it is reflected in the vicious cunning of the bad guys, and in the second season, it is reflected in the complexity of the system and the complexity of human nature. The screenwriter unabashedly carries bootlegs and needles. The difference in style between the two seasons feels that Li Xiuyan is engaged in experimental creation and self-breakthrough. Very successful.
The audience can experience the double pleasure of watching the movie, one is that this story has suspense and wants to watch the next episode, and the other is that the screenwriter can write this detail can be portrayed.
For example, in the sixth episode, the chaebol's daughter + female entrepreneur + former attorney general's wife, this female image is also plump, not only a "rich woman" label. Her husband committed suicide after reporting the family business, her father went to prison in place of her brother, the family business turmoil miracle she can be regarded as a way to turn the tide, the father suffered from bipolar disorder after he was released from prison, and the brother controlled her father and colluded with the media to try to drive her out of the decision-making level. It is bitter enough to be vengeful, but her "revenge" is by no means simply "blackened", she is still noble and delicate and feminine and has her own aura, taking different means for different people, but not losing the emotional side (for example, when Xu Dongzai caused her memories of her husband, her emotions were out of control for three seconds).
Dealing with some men, but also use female charm, true and false, reminiscent (for example, for the person in charge of the "Chengwen Daily" to perform a beauty plan, here is too absolute, not seduction, high-level dignity and highly targeted beauty plan, the man's reaction is also too good "your lipstick is too red for female entrepreneurs", a sentence of inner desire, guilt, love and hate are entangled into a line ball spit out).
The image of this female entrepreneur is very rich, leaving enough suspense for the third season. The other two heroines are also very exciting, Pei Douna played by Han Ruzhen was transferred from the police station to the intelligence bureau and became a subordinate of the intelligence director Cui Bing, and the two female police officers have a clear mind, quick thinking, and pity each other.
Cui Bing has become a role model for Han Ruzhen in the workplace, but the future is ruined in the hands of Han Ruzhen, during which there is no female mutual harm like Gongdou House Fighting, and the ending of the two can also be said to be their own place, which is really the mind that contemporary female screenwriters can have.
Another very interesting point is that the male and female protagonists do not open emotional dramas under the thousands of calls of fans, which is very clever, who said that a man and a woman should fall in love, and it is not fragrant to engage in careers? Of course, they are not without feelings, but friendship, colleague friendship, mutual respect and understanding between people in the same way. Between people, it is not only love that is called love.
The first and second seasons of "The Secret Forest" are different directors, but they have maintained a considerable standard, in which the screenwriter's credit is great, very much looking forward to her performance in the third season, I don't know at that time, what kind of breakthroughs and creativity will be there?
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