"Hello everyone, my name is Nano." End of self-introduction.
Stills from Forbidden Girl 2
The play begins.
In 2018, a Thai school drama "Forbidden Girl" was so dark that people's jaws dropped.
The second season returned this year, and it was broadcast several times because of the "high-energy plot" dominating the hot search.
The famous "Let the Scumbag Get Pregnant" in "Forbidden Girl 2"
Still that formula, still so sensual, once again easily won the high score of Douban 8.5.
The first and second seasons of "Forbidden Girl" have Douban scores
The English name of this Netflix blockbuster drama is Girl from Nowhere. No one knows where the heroine comes from, but they can only glimpse her game people, look up at her, and call her "drag sister" Nano.
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Each episode is a separate story, Nano can always go straight to the darkness, whether it is a teacher, a classmate or a so-called friend, she always uses a trick to tear off the mask of the other party's hypocrisy.
This beautiful young girl, greedily chewing on the darkness in those human beings, always had a triumphant expression on her face.
She sees her prey as a plaything, like a god killer, but like a Thai version of the girl "Nezha", cunning, clever, cute, as if everything is jealous and hateful, just a game of whim.
And when Nano suddenly looked sinister and burst out into an irrepressible and terrible laugh full of pride and mockery, pay attention:
The time for the prey to die is coming.
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I have to say that "Forbidden Girl" has a big brain hole and a lot of courage.
The first season of 13 episodes tells a total of 11 stories, taking place on different middle school campuses, involving lust, vanity, hypocrisy, hatred, greed, selfishness and other dark sides of human nature.
The scale is too large, and the drama is classified as an R-rated film in Thailand, and it is necessary to be at least 18 years old to watch it alone.
The new season is even more bloody.
It was Nano who started it all.
More strictly, she is like a poisonous snake in the Garden of Eden, enchantingly inducing the seeds of evil that already exist in people's hearts, and then letting people choose.
People who are swallowed up by the darkness of human nature will eventually fall into the abyss back.
In Nano's first story, Nano's prey is a handsome male teacher who is loved by his students.
This teacher Wen is a gentle and responsible teacher at school, and at home a good husband and father who takes care of his wife and daughter.
But when Teacher Wen appeared in the classroom, the girl next to Nano showed a distressed look.
That's right, it's not that simple.
Teacher Wen chose two girls to stay after class to participate in the shooting activities on the grounds that she needed the girls to assist in shooting the yoga teaching video. Nano volunteered to stay.
She came prepared because it was a game of demons hunting demons.
The early shooting was normal, until one day, Nano deliberately separated the girls who participated together and let herself participate in the yoga teaching shooting of Teacher Wen alone.
In a classroom with only two people, Nano did the yoga as usual, like a charming flower stretching wildly.
Teacher Wen suddenly wrapped his arms around Nano, and the atmosphere became dangerous.
Teacher Wen leaned closer to kiss Nano, but Nano had a calm expression and calmly asked, "Are you sure?" ”
Teacher Wen, who tore off the "good teacher mask", naturally would not let Go nano.
Nano gave a second chance: "You're pretty sure you're going to do that, aren't you?" ”
Eventually, in front of the camera that originally filmed the yoga instructional video, Teacher Wen sexually assaulted Nano.
Teacher Wen, who thinks he can blackmail the girl who controls the victim, has no idea what kind of dangerous role Nano is.
Nano suddenly appeared at Teacher Wen's house and gained the love of Teacher Wen's wife and daughter. The dining table became a whitewashed shura field.
Teacher Wen began to be afraid, and he still used the same means to try to control Nano. But Nano has already mastered Teacher Wen's weaknesses - family and career.
Nano came to Teacher Wen's house in the name of returning the mobile phone, and was invited to stay and have dinner together. At the dinner table, Nano hid a knife in his words
Under Nano's design, Teacher Wen's daughter saw the most animalistic side of her idol father, and suffered a car accident after the father-daughter breakup. Eventually, Teacher Wen was also arrested by the police.
Demon teachers, who were punished by more demonic transfer students, were punished by means of violence.
Nano is not good, she always seduces human desires, and she is sometimes a magnifying glass, seducing only budding desires to infinity, and finally making people suffer their own consequences.
Some people think that Nano is the daughter of the devil, she came to the human world to let the darkness of sin devour humanity, and some people feel that Nano is a mirror, reflecting the two sides of the unity of all people.
No one knows where Nano came from. She will not die, she has been killed in various ways by different people in various stories, but she will always come back to life, the wounds will heal quickly, and she will have a double body.
Nano is shrouded in a fog of mystery, and the episode doesn't explicitly explain how it all works.
Nano is more like a kind of causal reincarnation, "it's not that you don't report, the time has not yet come", but when Nano appears, the time comes
People always have to swallow some kind of bitter fruit for the cause they have planted for themselves.
In the second season, Nano bluntly states that everything she does is to punish sinners.
In fact, she is the judge of black and white good and evil in this world, always using the most refreshing way of revenge to suppress evil, which is why the audience regards "Forbidden Girl" as a cool drama.
Even if Nano's methods are evil and do not leave a trace of regret for sinners, people still fall in love with this girl with a cold smile, because everything presupposes evil deeds.
In this way, it is fully in line with people's expectations of worldly axioms: evil has evil retribution, and sin deserves it.
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The first season was a sight to behold.
By the second season, the plot is more complicated, as Nano begins to reflect on her own trial.
Because the second season added a character like Yuri who is the same as Nano, she also wants to take on a judge. The two meet, allowing "Forbidden Girl 2" to go beyond pure revenge drama and have a deeper philosophy about the good and evil of human nature.
Yuri
In the first season, we can feel that the character of Nano has a temperature and self in addition to "punishing evil".
In the most popular episode 8 story, Nano has a "sweet and abusive" entanglement with Tika, a student with a bad habit of stealing.
Nano approaches him and lures Tika into a stealing contest.
The two developed an ambiguous affection in the comparison between friends and foes. But Nano ended up setting a trap so that Tika would be caught stealing.
In this story, Nano rarely let out a terrible hilarity. Not only did she find it fun to be with Tika, but she also kissed Tika under the romantic pink sky, and the two separated on a rainy night.
"In the end, Satan's daughter moved her heart and her eyes were red when she left."
This insatiable emotion adds a human warmth to Nano.
It turned out that Tika had always longed for his father's love and could not help it, and in order to fulfill the agreement to bring back his father, Nano thought of a way to let his father lose Tika first.
The eighth episode is no longer around the "evil deeds", the kindness of the boy's nature makes Nanno smart but is mistaken by cleverness, and the revelation of true feelings sublimates the series, exploring the meaning of "knowing to cherish after losing"
When she faced the thief who had a clear heart and treated her sincerely, the "small punishment" she finally gave was a gift to Tika.
By the second season, Nano was suspicious of previous black-and-white trials.
The emerging girl, Yuri, becomes Nano's reflection on the other in which to contrast the other side of herself.
Yuri was also an ordinary poor student, relying on helping rich women run errands to maybe get paid.
Ostensibly a friend, but in fact a lackey, the undignified Yuri endures everything.
Yuri had said that if she stood in the position of a rich woman, she would take the same humiliating way. She was a naked believer in the inherent evils of human nature.
Nano gives Yuri a chance to get revenge on the rich woman. Yuri inflicts the same humiliation on them, and the revenge succeeds, "killing" Nano. But unexpectedly, he was killed by the helpers he brought and drowned in the bathtub. In the wrong place, Nano's blood resurrected Yuri.
Since then, Yuri has become a replica of Nano.
Yuri's appearance brought variables to Nano.
In the past, Nano appeared next to the wicked, playing the role of the inducement of evil, creating opportunities for the wicked to make mistakes, and she always gave the wicked a chance before the trial.
But Yuri, who emulated Nano, took a different route:
She unscrupulously uses her abilities to treat mortal life and dignity as grass and destroy the wicked in a more wicked and obedient way. She enjoys the thrill of crushing everything, like a real demon girl.
In the artistically pleasing sixth episode, the entire film uses black and white to present a campus under the authoritarian management of bad principals and teachers.
The atmosphere of the whole episode is depressing and terrifying, the teacher and the students are shrouded in an abnormal order, only the red lipstick, green ribbon, and purple hair brought by Nano are separated from this world.
In this story, Nano plays the role of a rebel.
She sharply refuted the autocrats, satirized the superiors, and ignited the spark of students who dared to rebel and pursue power. When the students successfully walked out of the campus, they found that the colorful world they envisioned did not appear.
It's a terrible metaphor: Oppression doesn't exist only on campus.
At this time, Nano also began to think: "Who can tell the difference between black and white or colors other than black and white?" Who is right and who is wrong? Who is better than whom? Can we really judge right from wrong? ”
The forbidden girl 2 ends with a Thai version of Evil Deeds story:
The mother paralyzed her daughter by injecting drugs. But the truth is that the daughter is a murderous demon, and the mother deprives the daughter of her freedom of action in order to stop it. In this crime of complex human nature, it is difficult to say who is the real sinner.
At the end of the story, Nano is suddenly killed.
Yuri looked at Nano, who was lying on the ground, with a crazy smile on his face, "What will the world become?" It's really exciting. ”
Yuri joins forces with mother and daughter to kill Nano
This abrupt ending leaves more suspense: Is Nano really dead? What will Yuri bring to the world?
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Forbidden Girl was co-produced by Thailand's GMM25 and Netflix.
Several filming directors have filmed horror works, which is enough to meet the expectations of foreign audiences for Thai horror, and finally presents a story that takes place in modern society but is full of ancient mysteries in the East.
Thailand is an important Buddhist country in Southeast Asia, with more than 95% of the country's population believing in Buddhism. Thai monks generally practice Theravada Buddhism, and there are countless temples. Buddhism believes that there must be a cause and effect, cause and effect are inevitable, and human greed will cause evil deeds, and evil deeds will lead to regeneration and suffering, and suffering will aggravate confusion, that is, "delusion."
Forbidden Girl is full of Buddhist meditation.
Stills from the lines of "Forbidden Girl 2"
For example, in the story of the classmates who got drunk and violated Nano, Nano bluntly said that "apologizing means that the next time will still make mistakes", and finally the classmates who committed evil deeds fell into a horrible cycle of continuous killing and constant apologies.
Theravada Buddhism attaches great importance to human behavior and cognition, believing that the karmic causes of evil must have evil consequences, and reminding the world not to do all kinds of evil.
"Forbidden Girl" uses the school as a stage, which is a masterpiece of Thai horror films.
Teenagers still have unworldly innocence and untamed wildness, and the evil they commit is not too much of a lull, sometimes just human nature.
At the same time, the campus is a relatively pure place, but there are still all kinds of evil breeding. The stories made with them as the protagonists are more educational and reflective.
Some people say that Nano is like Junji Ito's Tomie.
Nano's character, Kicha Amanda Yagu, has responded that she once studied Tomie as her own reference object. Both of them are qi bangs, long black hair, and there is a mole of charm at the moment, which can confuse anyone.
Nano is played by Kicha Ammadaya Gu
But unlike Tomie, no matter what kind of revenge Nano uses, she always has a yardstick of good and evil in her heart. More than a demon or a monster, Nano is more like a god in this ancient land of Thailand.
Due to the superpower setting, many plots pursue a sense of mystery rather than rigor, such as Nano's seeming omniscience, but sometimes there are limitations, requiring wits to achieve their goals.
In an atmosphere of seemingly true and untrue, many stories are like dreams that take place in modern society, which are reproductions of ancient religious myths in the Internet age.
This atmosphere has become a common feature of many works of art in Thailand, as if steaming up in a tropical monsoon climate.
From the post-millennium onwards, the most important New Wave movement of Thai cinema showed enormous influence.
For example, Apichatpong's works are full of narratives that are out of common sense, full of mysticism and illusory fantasies.
One of the main screenwriters of "Forbidden Girl" is Khonde Zaduran Rami, who has directed the feature films "Four Teenagers Who Returned the Gods" and "A Moment" and the horror film "Hades".
The feature films "Four Teenagers Who Returned to God" and "A Moment" directed by Khonde Zaduran rammi and the horror film "Hades"
Konde Zadulammi's works are both close to the modernity of the Internet age, as well as the influence of ghost stories and circular retribution, and he is also deeply integrated into the thinking of Thai street politics in daily life, containing ideas for political expression and modern social development.
The reason why "Forbidden Girl" still has such a big horror rendering is because its story has the shadow of a real case behind it.
Those hidden evils occur unspoken in modern society, the immunity of the rich class, the increasing bullying of schools, the N rooms of various countries... The ugliness of reality is more magical than the legend of gods and ghosts.
The reason why people love Nano so much is based on a kind of jealous anger.
Retribution is not happy, who does not like to see?
Author | Appl
Edit | Ji Jie
Typography | Weng Jie