This May, Korean dramas finally gave a very good delicate and touching drama "I am a relic sorter" again. "I Am a Relic Finisher" is a translation of the Chinese, which is more straightforward, and I actually think that Netflix's English name Move to Heaven is more emotional. Although 2021 has only passed a little and a half, I have a hunch that "I Am a Relic Finisher" is definitely a strong candidate for the best Korean drama of the year, and in terms of tear-inducing degree, the annual NO.1 can also be directly booked.
"I am a relic sorter" was only launched on Netflix on May 14, and a total of 10 episodes were put on the list in one breath. Although Korean dramas are quite good at such genres, it is not an easy task for today's such dramas to explode, especially in the past two years, there are too many high-quality dramas produced by Netflix, and it is absolutely impossible to get praise without two brushes.
Apparently, only 10 episodes of "I Am a Relic Finisher" did it.
Believe me, as long as you watch Episode 1, you will definitely fall into it. Even if you have been in tears, you can't stop chasing the drama. I think that anyone who has seen this drama will agree with this wonderful feeling.
Calm and not bland, touching and not sentimental, cutting into the niche but emotional public, the rhythm is soothing but never dragging mud and water, the story seems simple but full of tension, the small cost of "I am a relic finisher" throughout the text is using daily small things to show human nature good and evil, the world is cold and warm, social changes, to the true, not depressed only healed.
The theme sword takes a side and tightens the door of the audience's emotional heart
The plot of "I Am a Relic Sorter" focuses on a very unpopular field - relic sorting. To be honest, if I hadn't watched this show, I believe that many people might be like me, and they wouldn't have known that such a profession existed. This reminds me of the Japanese film "The Mortician", which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, which I saw before, which was about sending off the deceased, and this Korean drama is about the last move for the deceased, responsible for sorting out the belongings of the deceased. What the two works have in common is that they both gaze at the deceased and the lives that surround them from the perspective of a death-related profession—"When someone dies, my work begins!" ”
"I Am a Relic Sorter" is adapted from the novel of the first generation of Korean relic sorters, telling the story of Han Kelu, a 20-year-old young man with Asperger's syndrome, who originally ran a relic sorting company "Heaven Migration" with his father Han Jingyou, but his father Jingyou died unexpectedly due to a heart attack, leaving the sick Kelu alone. Kelu's uncle and Jingyou's younger brother Cao Shangjiu was imprisoned for injuring someone in an underground boxing match, and after his release from prison, he was unexpectedly appointed as Kelu's guardian due to Jingyou's will, and had to take over the management of the relics sorting company with his nephew. In the process of constantly sorting out the relics left by the deceased, under the influence of Kelu's pure soul, the original cold and full of resentment has gradually melted. The touching and warm and tear-jerking little stories touched not only the hearts of Shang Jiu, but also the hearts of the audience.
Unlike other relics sorting companies that sort out the relics of the deceased as if they were removing garbage, Dad told Koru that by observing and listening attentively, he could hear what the deceased wanted to say or understand what they had not done by sorting out the relics. Therefore, before each tidying up work, Dad and Kelu would take off their hats and say after a brief silence, "××× Mr/Madam, you died on ×, ×, ×, we are Han Jingyou and Han Kelu who moved to heaven, and we are now going to help you move home for the last time." "This sense of ceremony is a heartfelt respect for the deceased. And this tradition, after the death of his father Jingyou, Kelu has also maintained this code of work, including his later uncle Shangjiu and his friend Shuki, who unconsciously turned this move into a habit.
It can be seen that the work of heavenly migration is not just as simple as sorting out relics and discarding relics, because there is a story behind each deceased, and heavenly migration is to pass on the heart of the deceased to the people they care about and help the deceased take this last journey. So, in addition to the garbage, they would each time sort out something important to the deceased, put it in a yellow box with the deceased's name and the words "May the deceased rest in peace", and then give it to the deceased's loved ones and friends.
The narrative method of this Korean drama is eloquent, and the narration is not overbearing at all, but it can directly hit people's hearts and make the viewers unforgettable for a long time. The stories it chooses and the problems it reflects cover all aspects of social life and social class, and the protagonists of all kinds are ordinary people living around you and me, full of strong humanistic care-
Born in a low-class family and not in a direct way to continue his studies, Jin Xuanyu, a factory intern who graduated from high school, has the greatest desire to become a regular employee and be admitted to college, he works hard and lives, eats discounted rice balls and instant noodles from supermarkets every day, carries deodorant spray every day to make himself less sloppy when he walks out of the factory, and even if he is injured, he is reluctant to go to the hospital and dare not take a leave of absence, and finally dies tragically in the small room of the cramped examination institute. But because the parents are deaf and mute people in the countryside who cannot speak and have no power, the factory managers unscrupulously shirk responsibility and say that it is not a work injury that cannot be responsible;
Abandoned by his son, the dementia elderly man lived alone in a dilapidated alley room and was not discovered until 3 weeks after his death. Even though all the memories of the old man were blurred, he still stubbornly remembered one thing, that is, he must save money to make a decent and high-class suit for his son, even though the filial piety son who is now middle-aged does not need it at all. To this end, she insisted on going to the bank every Friday afternoon to withdraw 50,000 won (about 300 yuan) of cash and stuff it under the mattress, and then went to the door of the suit shop to look at the window contentedly. After her death, her son ruthlessly hated everything about his mother, thinking only about the 132 pieces of 50,000 yuan under the mattress she left behind, until he saw in his mother's relics the first gift that his son bought for his mother after working more than 30 years ago- a set of purple cotton sweaters and pants in an old box that had not yet been opened, and humanity was awakened again;
The brave and righteous doctor Warm Man died of an unexpected stab in the neck artery and hemorrhage due to a doctor-patient emergency, while his parents of high-ranking officials in high society were busy burning and discarding all his belongings. My mother couldn't bear to cry all the time, but my father was very determined. In particular, the son's card that had not yet been sent was thrown into the fire by his father. The direction of the whole thing is full of mysteries. It turned out to be a love letter full of love and confession, and the recipient of the letter was a cellist who had just returned from abroad, who was about to take the stage on the second day, a handsome man who was also full of talent. Such two people, the doctor's parents are absolutely unacceptable, so that they experience a painful separation. Originally, the doctor looked forward to breaking through all resistance to pursue love, but he died with full of regrets on the day before the concert, and also took away the future that the two could no longer achieve;
Also, there are: dating violence makes the beautiful kindergarten female teacher brutally killed by the perverted boyfriend who is extremely controlled and entangled, the scumbag almost escaped the law without remorse, a loving old couple who are almost desperate in life still decide to work together with dignity and courage, and before they die, they have booked themselves a commission from the relic sorting company, and Matthew, a man who was sent to the United States for adoption and then abandoned since he was abandoned, without any national identity, The sick and weak body with congenital heart disease was sent back to South Korea, and he tried to find his biological mother but was wrong, and finally died alone and sadly...
None of this is as simple as it seems on the surface. The protagonist Han Kelu feels everything with his pure heart, and in the process of finding the truth, we can feel the warm love transmitted from heaven to heaven anytime and anywhere. Every episode is a teardrop, every episode is a cure.
(To add a little digression, it is that Korean dramas make good use of the setting of various mental illnesses, which allows the characters to naturally do some seemingly impossible things, so that the plot becomes reasonable and more flattering.) In addition, the Eisberg syndrome of this drama, like some of the mental illnesses in other dramas that we usually do not know much about, also allows many viewers to open a crazy query mode to understand after watching the play. ）
Tang Junxiang turned out to be a flying figure, and he did not fall behind in the slightest with Li Dixun and Chi Zhenxi
Many people pay attention to the Korean drama "I Am a Relic Sorter" because of Lee DiXun. However, after watching it, I was deeply moved by Han Kelu, who suffered from Asperger's syndrome, played by Tang Junxiang.
Born in August 2003, Tang Junxiang is not yet 18 years old, but he has already debuted as a child actor in musical theater before he was 7 years old, and has been honing in the field of musical theater ever since. In the field of television dramas, he is completely new. "I Am a Relic Sorter" is the second TV series he has filmed, and the first work is the 2019 hit drama "The Forced Landing of Love", in which he plays the busy soldier Jin Yindong of the 5th Border Squadron of the Korean People's Army, ignorant, simple and cute, even in front of the predecessors of the Big Bowl acting school, the teenager who was not yet 16 years old at that time still made a deep impression.
This time is the same, in the face of the predecessors such as Chi Zhenxi and Li Dixun, Tang Junxiang is not timid at all, and plays very naturally and freely, interpreting a patient with Eisberg syndrome very well.
At the online press conference two days before the start of the series, Li Dixun also praised Tang Junxiang for his outstanding acting skills despite his young age - "He plays a patient with Asperger's syndrome, and his acting skills should be very delicate and unique." Tang Junxiang works very hard to interpret these delicate parts, so young but able to master such a difficult role, doing a great job. If I were to act, I don't think I could act better than him. ”
In the play, Chi Zhenxi plays his father Han Jingyou, Tang Junxiang plays his son Han Kelu, and Li Dixun plays Chi Zhenxi's younger brother and Tang Junxiang's uncle Cao Shangjiu. It seems like a family, but in fact everyone has a secret of their lives.
Han Jingyou and Cao Shangjiu are half-brothers, so their surnames are different. After the death of his parents, his brother Han Jingyou wanted to take his young brother Shang Jiuyuan to fly high, but he failed to attend the appointment because he was injured by the collapse of the department store when buying gifts, and the two brothers disappeared. (To put it more, the department store accident here uses real events — a major collapse of Seoul's most exclusive Mitoyo department store in 1995, with heavy casualties, as described in the Korean drama "Please Answer 1994.") ）
And Han Kelu is not Han Jingyou's biological son, but the child he rescued from the water tower when the Busan fire brigade was on a mission, and when he was about to be sent to a foreign country to become an adopted child, he was once again "saved" by Han Jingyou and his wife, and officially became their son. Therefore, Han Kelu and Cao Shangjiu are not related by blood.
This kind of character relationship setting Korean drama is very good at, but this time it is not bloody at all, but it cuts into every key point of the character's behavior, making their thoughts and behaviors very easy to understand.
As actors, Tang Junxiang in 2003, Li Dixun in 1984, and Ji Zhenxi in 1971 have spanned several generations between them.
Talking about the cooperation with Chi Zhenxi, Tang Junxiang said: "The cooperation with Chi Zhenxi's predecessors is incredible. The look in his eyes in the play is full of warmth, and that's how he looks at me. I'm honored to be acting with him! Although the rivalry with Chi Zhenxi is only 1 episode, Chi Zhenxi's passionate cameo and moving interpretation are believed to be of great help to Tang Junxiang's dazzling performance in later episodes.
In the play, Tang Junxiang and Li Dixun's opponent scenes are the most, which can also be said to be a double male protagonist series. However, the age difference between the two is 19 years, and the character personality and real personality are also very different. In this regard, Tang Junxiang said in an interview: "We do have an age gap, but I don't think this is a big problem. Before filming, we would deliberately make a date to eat together and watch movies to become familiar with each other, and gradually our relationship became better, so there was always a spark in the filming. "Li Dixun feels that although there is an age gap and different acting experience, he wants to cooperate with Tang Jun as a friend." I wanted him to be comfortable acting, and I didn't want him to think of me as a senior. Just because we get along like friends, our tacit understanding is so good. ”
Cao Shangjiu, played by Li Dixun, is a strong boxer himself, but he basically wanders in the underground boxing tournament for life. He is short-tempered, especially good at fighting and very rude and swearing, and is imprisoned for accidentally injuring his brother, so he becomes more cynical and cynical after his release. Until after becoming the guardian of Koru, he slowly changed under the influence of Koru's pure heart. Such a character, who finally became very warm, was interpreted by Li Dixun with sincerity. No wonder Li Dixun also said that he resonated with the work very much, and every time he read the script, he would be moved to tears.
(As a digression, in the past, when Lee Played the role of handsome Sven, I always couldn't get his charm, and even found his big nose uncomfortable.) However, I found that when he played a rough and uninhibited role, he was sharply improved in charm and handsome. Not only this one, but also "Model Taxi". ）
When Tang Junxiang played Han Kelu, he showed the psychological state of sometimes calm and firm and sometimes uneasy and frightened, and every detail was handled with almost no flaws, especially han Kelu in the play has a super memory that is different from ordinary people, basically the type that is never forgotten, therefore, he has many difficult lines, but Tang Junxiang all shows ease and shows amazing acting strength. Even director Kim Sung-ho of "I Am a Relic Sorter" praised him as a genius actor who can always shoot without NG!
However, for the first time to play the male lead, Tang Junxiang also admitted that he would feel pressure: "When I knew that I would star in "I Am a Relic Finisher", I felt very honored and happy. However, it was not an easy role, and I was also stressed to discuss with the director and other actors before I could relax and perform. ”
Tang Junxiang, who was modest and studious and steady, handed over a satisfactory answer this time.
To tell the truth, Tang Junxiang is not a Korean handsome man in the traditional sense, he looks a little rustic, but he can talk in his small eyes. Tang Jun relies on strength and belongs to the actors born for the drama.
The latest news is that the SBS Crescent Fire Drama "Racket Youth Group" starring Tang Junxiang is expected to premiere on May 31. It is said that this is a coming-of-age story about a badminton teenager pursuing his dreams in a challenge. Because of Tang Junxiang's appearance, this drama is now becoming more popular.
Boy, the future can be expected.
The extreme dialogue sentences poke the heart, and the frequent golden sentences make people addicted
The reason why "I Am a Relic Sorter" is so touching that people cry, why people can't extricate themselves from the story for a long time after watching the play, and why people can still have endless memories after being super healed by overflowing hearts, in addition to the solid script, smooth rhythm and excellent acting skills, the lines that can make people empathize are also indispensable. And look at some of the following sentences, have you poked your heart -
1. "No matter how small the room is, it is also a place where people have lived, and there is almost no garbage." Although there are too many things it is also very numb
Annoyed, but he left almost nothing behind, and it was very sad to watch. ”
At the beginning of the series, Han Jingyou and Han Kelu were entrusted to come to the small room where the factory intern Jin Xuanyu lived, looked at everything in the room, and imagined the filial, sensible, self-motivated, and thrifty boy, who although he tried his best to live, he was still oppressed by the cruel reality, and anyone would feel very sad. Therefore, Han Jingyou said this passage in pain. That boy, and his son Han Kelu are the same age, looking at him, Han Jingyou must have felt more deeply.
2. "There's no hurry to sprinkle ashes, you can stay with dad as long as you want."
Han Jingyou is everything about Han Kelu, the most powerful reliance behind Han Kelu, but such a towering tree is suddenly happening
The room collapsed. Faced with the bad news of his father's sudden death, Kelu simply could not accept it and did not know how to be good. Just when everyone was persuading Kelu to let his father be buried, all he could do was to carry his father's urn home and put it in his father's room, as if his father would not leave. At this time, Looking at the helpless Kelu, Uncle Park, who cooperated with Heaven Migration to remove relics and garbage, said this. Many times, understanding is the greatest kindness and love. Growth is something that needs to be waited for.
3. "It's ridiculous not to believe in us, but also not to get your hands dirty."
The story of the dementia old man who was abandoned by his son was told earlier, and this sentence was said angrily by Cao Shangjiu at the scene of the commission of the old man's death. At that time, the old man's son and daughter-in-law felt that the room was too disgusting, so they did not want to go in, but they were worried that Kelu and Shangjiu would steal things, so they had to wait on the spot for them to get valuable things from inside before leaving, and they coldly only cared about money. Such an unreasonable, greedy and selfish person still lives well in the world, not only Cao Shangjiu, which audience member is so angry that he wants to rush in and teach them a lesson?!
4. "This is the home of the deceased, and they can't clean it up by themselves before they ask us for help, so Kelu will help clean it up."
clean. ”
Or the dementia old man named Li Meishan mentioned above, her story is really too uncomfortable. Because she was not discovered until 3 weeks after her death, and her previous life was a dirty mess due to dementia, the room was dirty and dilapidated, and white maggots crawled all over the bedding. Shojo was shocked to enter the deceased's room for the first time, and after vomiting in his stomach, he asked Koru, who loved cleanliness at home, if it was acceptable? Koru replied. The temperature of this sentence is really too healing.
5-6． "It's true that the dead can't speak with their voices like they did when they were alive, so we have to try to read their thoughts.
If we carefully study the relics contained in this box, we can infer that the deceased wants to convey the words, and we can piece them together from these relics, just like a puzzle. ”
"Dad said that if you look closely at the relics, the dead will let you hear what they want to convey. But if you don't pay attention, you won't hear. ”
Father Han Jingyou has always told Han Kelu that their job is not just to clean up the cold relics, but to observe carefully and feel the temperature, because there is a story behind each deceased person, and there are things that they did not have time to say or do.
7-8."As long as their children are different from others, parents will unconditionally begin to worry." Being a special person is a very dangerous thing, like being particularly kind, simple, sincere..."
"Dad never felt ashamed of Kelu, and when Kelu was ridiculed by his classmates when he didn't speak, when Kelu said too much in class and couldn't go to school, Dad said it didn't matter. Dad said that There was nothing wrong with Koru, just different from the others. Because we haven't done anything wrong, we don't need to feel ashamed. ”
This is a conversation that Shang Jiu has a feeling after living with Kelu for a while, and in Shang Jiu's view, Han Jingyou is not easy. But Koru didn't feel the slightest bit confused or inferior about this, because dad's message to Koru was always: You are not wrong, you are just different from others. Han Jingyou gave Koru the best education, the greatest trust, the greatest respect and the deepest love in the world.
9-10."After getting to know you, I first started looking forward to tomorrow. For your sake, I want to be someone more courageous than I was yesterday. I will never cower again, and I will not let go of your hand until I die. ”
"I lost someone who was special to me, who was my whole world, who took me through a life I couldn't have experienced alone. I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to him, you are the most beautiful and worthy of love I have ever met. ”
These are two heartbreaking passages, spoken by the aforementioned emergency department doctor and cellist who love each other but are unable to stay together due to family pressures and worldly visions. The doctor's words were written in the unsent love letter, and even though they were burned, Koru persisted in passing this message to the cellist. Faced with the death of their loved ones, their future becomes a dream that can never be realized. At the concert, the cellist finally said the above heartfelt words to the audience and the doctor in paradise. I suppose, in another parallel space, his lover could hear.
11. "I think it's humiliating not to know how to love, and is it humiliating to love someone?"
Koru's love affair with the doctor and the cellist is not tolerated by the world, so he issues the above soul torture. Just one sentence, shocking. Only those who are truly pure in their hearts understand the true meaning of love.
12. "There is the same thing in front of you, some people see love, some people see hate."
When the dismissed and terminally ill janitor, whom I was talking about, finally decided to take his wife, who had been living in a nursing home for a long time, to die together, they held hands, were as calm as usual, and even if they died, they had to be clean and decent, and their self-esteem and self-love were also in love, and they even commissioned the migration to heaven in advance. In this regard, Shang Jiu could not agree at first, in his opinion, no one can decide the life and death of others, this is a hasty sense of responsibility, no different from a murderer. But later, when he learned the truth of the matter and saw that the husband and wife were poor, they still built a small roof flower house full of flowers for his wife, and he was shocked. The social worker lady played by Xiuying then said this thought-provoking sentence to him.
13. "What is happiness?" Happiness is something that makes people feel good, something that makes people laugh when they think about it. ”
Kelu's mother watched the young Kelu shed tears happily in her hospital bed, and the naïve Kelu asked her mother if she was sad? Mom smiled and replied that it wasn't sad, but because her mother, who could be Kelu, was so happy that she laughed at the thought of it.
14. "The eye does not see, does not mean it does not exist; as long as you remember, it will never disappear."
This sentence appears repeatedly in the play, when the father is not around, when sorting out the clothes, when encountering questions, this sentence taught by the father to Kelu not only brings Kelu warmth and firmness, but also brings the audience deeply moved.
15-16. "I grew up in the United States, but it was difficult and lonely, and I was always different from others and weak. Moreover, it was not that I chose to go abroad. I don't have American status, the government wants me to go back, I don't have a place to go. So I came to Korea hoping to find my biological mother. I don't actually blame her at all, I don't ask him why he left me, I just want to see her, my mother, and then call her, Mom. ”
"Although the meaning of Matthew's name is a gift from God, in the end the identity of two countries has no connection with him, whether it is the American Matthew or the Korean Kang Sung-min."
In the 1980s, South Korea was the world's largest exporter of infants for adoption and trafficking, and Matthew, the protagonist of the last story in the play, was such a child. But because of congenital heart disease, he changed hands many times after arriving in the United States, and finally was ruthlessly abandoned. Because he did not have a legal status, the United States Government expelled him. With nowhere to go, he returned to South Korea to find his birth mother. But the yin and yang were wrong, he thought he had found it, but he recognized the wrong person, until he died, he did not know the truth. However, as Kelu said, perhaps, this is the truth for him who is already dead, and he finally finds his mother to see his mother, although her mother does not want to recognize him. The show's focus on real-world issues has been a commendable sense of social responsibility from beginning to end.
17. "Maybe I wouldn't have been Hankro, but I might have become Matthew Green." Like Mr. Matthew, I don't know who my biological parents are. However, after meeting Han Jingyou's father, I became Han Kelu. Dad loves Kolu very much. ”
Tang Junxiang slowly told a secret that Cao Shangjiu and the audience thought he did not know in a calm tone, which could be described as a strong impact. Han Kelu's charm is also endless.
18. "×××, you died on ×, ×, ×, we are ××× and ××× who have moved to heaven, and we are now going to help you move your last home."
This sentence is the most frequent sentence in the whole play, and it is also the sentence that most impresses me, because before each commission begins, the employees of HeavenLy Migration will use this sentence to convey their hearts to the deceased.