In recent years, Netflix has made great strides in South Korea.
There are phenomenal hits such as "Kingdom" and "Love's Landing".
There is also a 9.4 point masterpiece such as "Like a Butterfly".
"The Forced Landing of Love"
It is not difficult to see that Netflix Korean dramas have a common feature:
In the genre of stories, think about human nature and social topics is added.
A new drama that was launched not long ago still takes this route.
The word of mouth is very impressive, and the Douban score has risen from 9.0 to 9.2.
Netizens saw a handful of snot and a handful of tears.
"Wipe your tears until dawn..."
"Korean dramas are filmed like this, how to make Japanese dramas live!"
After brushing 10 episodes in one breath, Uncle Fish was convinced.
It is worthy of being the best new drama in May, and staying up late is worth it——
Move to Heaven: I'm a Relic Sorter
Move to Heaven: I'm a memento organizer
There are many film and television works that discuss death.
The play takes a different path and chooses a very unpopular entry point: the relics of the dead.
In our understanding, relics are generally sorted out by the family of the deceased.
But in Japan and South Korea, there is a group of people who are specifically responsible for sorting, sorting, and properly disposing of relics.
They are called "relic sorters".
Speaking of which, you may think of a Japanese movie, "The Mortician.".
If the mortician is to dress up the body, so that the deceased leaves with dignity;
The relic sorter, then, uses the object to help the deceased say what he did not have time to say.
Don't let them die with regret.
On the surface, this drama is an unpopular profession that wants to popularize science.
But in fact, it is through the perspective of the relics organizer to discover the truth behind a series of "unnatural deaths".
Through keen observation, the collators discovered that the deceased had experienced various grievances and injustices during his lifetime.
So, back to the specialty of Korean dramas: social criticism.
The protagonist is a young relic sorter named Han Kelu (Tang Junxiang).
Withdrawn and reticent, he is actually a patient with Asperger's syndrome.
Because of the disease, he has had communication disorders and emotional comprehension disorders since childhood.
He is often ridiculed as "like a robot".
When stimulated, his condition worsens, and he mutters while hitting his head against the wall.
Although Koru cannot communicate properly with people, he has amazing memory and reasoning skills.
Through the relics, he can infer the character, identity, preferences, and even wishes of the deceased.
Each time he sorted out the relics, he was able to further understand the complex emotions of human beings.
Originally, Kelu and his father were dependent on each other, running a relics sorting company called "Heavenly Migration".
But the good times were short-lived.
My father fell seriously ill and died on the road.
KeLu's guardian becomes an uncle (played by Li Dixun) whom he has never met.
This man is not a fuel-efficient lamp.
He once played black boxing in an underground club and almost killed someone.
He was imprisoned for this and recently served his sentence.
Two people whose living circumstances are very different, not only to live together, but also to engage in the profession of sorting out relics together.
You see, the contradiction set up by the play in terms of human settings is highlighted.
Cao Shangjiu chose to be Han Kelu's guardian, and the core driving force was to covet the family property left by his brother.
What relics were sorted out, the truth of death, did not matter to him at all.
Han Kelu continued to run the "Heaven Migration" for a simple purpose, that is, to spread his father's warmth for the deceased.
How should two people with very different attitudes towards death do the relics together?
This is the internal contradiction of the play.
Not to mention, they are both people with their own mysteries.
As the plot progresses, it is learned that Han Kelu is actually an orphan.
Cao Shangjiu has had a family rift with his brother since he was a child, and he has not seen each other for more than ten years.
That is to say, the two have had a lack of family affection since childhood.
How to fill the loopholes in each other's affection by engaging in the collation of relics is the focus of the drama's attention in terms of human design.
After talking about internal contradictions, let's talk about its external contradictions.
External contradictions are the death cases in the play.
Specifically, it refers to the unnatural death cases found by the male protagonist in the process of sorting out the relics, as well as the social issues behind the refraction.
For example, in the first episode of the show, through a relic sorting, satirizes the phenomenon of factory interns being eaten dry and wiped clean.
What's going on?
The deceased this time was a boy who grew up in a poor family.
After graduating from high school, he went to a factory as an intern.
The biggest wish is to smoothly turn positive and make money to subsidize the family.
Once, during a night shift, he was injured in the leg by a factory machine.
Because he was reluctant to spend money on medical treatment, he contracted tetanus and died in a rented house.
Supposedly, this is a death caused by a work injury, and the company is to compensate.
But in order to avoid responsibility, the factory splashed a basin of dirty water.
Saying that his situation is an unprovoked absence, it is not a work injury at all, and the company does not bear any responsibility.
But when Han Kelu sorted out the relics, he found completely different information.
First of all, in the room of the deceased, there were bags full of instant noodle buckets and seaweed rice.
This shows that he is busy at work and does not have time to eat well. Moreover, these two things are cheaper, indicating that he is a person who lives frugally.
Second, he carried nail clippers and fragrances with him.
This shows that his physical exertion at work is very large, and his body odor is very heavy. At the same time, this also shows in disguise that he is a person who works very hard.
All this proves that the deceased was not a lazy young man who was absent from work for no reason.
While disposing of the deceased's mobile phone.
The text messages in the mobile phone also further revealed the truth of death.
It turned out that the deceased did not think about taking leave to see a doctor.
Instead, after taking a leave of absence, he was intimidated by his leadership and was expelled, so he missed the best time to seek medical treatment.
In the end, a man died in the room.
You see, if it weren't for the relics sorters who found these clues in their work.
The deceased is likely to have been eaten dry and wiped clean by unscrupulous factories and died unjustly.
The external contradiction of the play comes from this.
Specifically, how to restore the truth of unnatural death through the hands of the relic sorter is its external contradiction.
This constitutes the second major attraction of the play after the contradictions.
However, what makes Uncle Yu creepy is that the death cases in the play are all based on real events in real life.
Just search for news.
Incidents like workers injured and killed at construction sites, factories evading responsibility, are all over the screen.
Do you think it's just a mention of construction site deaths?
It is to use this incident to call people to reflect on the crux of the matter.
Why do factories want to evade responsibility?
What drives those in charge to speak against their hearts?
It is the greed of the lustful heart, the indifference that cares about human life.
So you see, this drama is not only novel in theme, but also quite profound in its discussion of social issues.
More importantly, the social issues that appear in the play are more than this one.
Uncle Yu said another case of domestic violence causing death.
In the fourth episode, Han Kelu and Cao Shangjiu go to a couple's home to deal with the woman's belongings.
The man said that his girlfriend was not mentally normal.
One day, she suddenly said that she was going to go far away, but deliberately hid her destination.
The man was in a hurry and said that he wanted to tell her parents about it.
So, the woman took out a knife and threatened to commit suicide.
In the process of arguing between the two sides, the woman accidentally fell, the knife pierced the body, and lost blood to death.
According to the man, the death of his girlfriend has nothing to do with him.
Even in the face of police questioning, he also behaved pitifully and weakly.
This death seems to be about to be treated as an accident.
However, after Han Kelu came to sort out the relics, things took a bizarre turn.
The first suspicious point he found was related to blood.
First, the blood of the deceased not only penetrated the floor, but also splashed on the living room blankets, sofas, and even walls.
What does this mean?
If the woman had just been accidentally penetrated by a knife, the blood would never have splashed so far.
According to the droplet-like blood on the wall, it is speculated that someone must have stabbed the deceased with a knife and high frequency.
While Han Kelu was sorting out the pet camera in the living room, there was another amazing discovery.
The device, which was originally used to detect pets, actually recorded the whole process of death.
It turned out that the man was a domestic violence man.
After the woman proposed to break up, the man rushed home in a hurry and stabbed her to death.
He stabbed and shouted, "If you want to leave me, there are only two options." Either I'll leave you first, or you'll die."
You see, if it weren't for the relics collator, this great evidence would have been discovered.
This death, under the careful planning of the man, became an accident.
To tell the truth, this domestic violence incident of male and female killings made Uncle Yu shudder more than the death of the previous worker intern.
Isn't this happening in real life?
Remember, a year ago, the tragic hangzhou wife murder case?
Remember, two years ago, the Thai cliff fall case that caused a sensation in the country?
The murderers killed their closest partners.
After killing people, they all pretended that nothing had happened, full of lies, trying to fool through.
What has indulged such a demon, reaching out the knife to innocent women again and again?
It is the degeneration of distorted humanity and morality.
The play uses such a death case to satirize these cold-blooded animals.
At the same time, we must also be wary of women, and we must be careful to choose the pillow person.
If you find that the signs are not right, the emergency must be reported to the police, and you must never put yourself in a dangerous situation.
The series consists of 10 episodes.
There are many cases of domestic violence men killing their wives and accidental deaths of workers.
These include, but are not limited to: medical disputes, lonely deaths of empty nesters, discrimination against LGBT groups, etc.
Found that no, these death cases in the play have a common feature.
They all reflect institutional loopholes, security risks, and stereotypes.
To put it bluntly, it is clamoring with the whole Korean society.
The director and screenwriter put the most unignowable social ills in South Korea on the table.
It is to attract the attention of managers.
Uncle Yu also remembers that the ninth episode mentions the survival dilemma of Korean orphans.
In the play, there is a Korean orphan with a congenital disease, who was taken to New York by an American couple and abandoned.
Subsequently, he was transferred to N American families, but none of them settled for him.
When he was sent home by the police, he found himself homeless.
Unable to work without a hukou, he fell ill and died in the rental house.
In response to this incident, the screenwriter directly wrote a scene in which the TV host broadcasts the news of orphans, and directly used the camera to plead with the government for support.
Writing this, there must be someone else coming out of the springboard:
"Korean film and television dramas cannot save the country."
But in Uncle Yu's view, daring to use film and television dramas to expose shortcomings is a kind of courage to change.
Speaking out may not bring about a change.
But if you don't speak up, you never make a difference.
We always say that Korean film and television dramas dare to shoot and have a large scale.
Why?
It's this courage in my bones.
In this drama, for example, the director and screenwriter used this courage to challenge two major problems at once.
By observing complex death cases, it not only metaphorically describes social chaos, but also introduces the special profession of "relic sorter".
Yes, the end of the play returns to the profession of "relic sorter" itself.
In the play, Han Kelu and his party are repeatedly regarded as cleaners who move the dead. Even, being insulted by people can infect bacteria.
As everyone knows, it is the careful observation in their work that brings one amazing reversal after another to the death events in the play.
If they had not been kind to the dead and willing to enter their world, those hidden wishes of life might never have been valued.
Similar to the invisible profession of the relic sorter, there are many more.
They may be called unseemly, unlucky, and promising.
But it is undeniable that everyone is inseparable from this group of invisible workers.
Here, Uncle Yu also wants to cheer up this group of invisible workers.
The eyes of the outside world are certainly cold.
But every time you pay carefully, it is a baptism of backward ideas.
Every time you take a step forward, you are validating the value of invisibility, how important it is.
Hopefully, one day, when you face a misunderstanding, you can bravely and boldly raise your head and shout that you are not a dead cleaner, but a beautician who purifies the world.