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In October, the most anticipated Korean drama "Zhiyi Mountain" was finally broadcast last weekend. The childhood goddess of countless people, Jeon Ji-hyun, returns to the small screen again, just like "My Savage Girlfriend" crosses over. Responsibly said, in addition to being a little thinner, it is still so beautiful.
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Ratings are still so good
It is worthy of being a special project drama for the 15th anniversary of tvN, and the premiere verified the appeal of the return of the king, with a national rating of 9.1%, ranking first in the tvN weekend drama premiere ratings. Compared to all tv series on tvN, the premiere ratings were also runner-up. The first is "The Witty Doctor's Life 2".
As soon as Jeon Ji-hyun appeared in the first episode, he staged a textbook cliffside rescue, with neat movements and a cold look, not at all 39 years old, as if he could fight better than "My Savage Girlfriend" 19 years ago!
The second episode is no longer the shape of a ponytail, but the way the head is sent down, who does not exclaim that time has stopped on her? The people who watch the drama are old, and the people who act are still so beautiful. God it's not fair.
If the ratings of the first episode are directed at the face of Quan Jixian, then the ratings of the second episode continue to rise, indicating that in addition to the charm of Quan Zhixian's appearance, the TV series itself is also very interesting.
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In addition to the beauty, there are also beautiful views
In fact, for us who have countless famous mountains and rivers, the scenery of Zhiyi Mountain is like that, no matter how the director rotates the camera, we don't feel anything. There is no strange danger of Huangshan Mountain, nor is it comparable to the different scenery of the Five Peaks. However, for Koreans who are not very large, it is a special period when they cannot run around, even if it is a tourist promotional film, it looks good.
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The structure jumps repeatedly between order and difference order
Flipping through the resume of screenwriter Jin Yinji, he is the person who has written the Korean suspense drama "Signal" and the zombie drama "Kingdom". So, will she tell a good story? Rest assured, absolutely not. The audience is also ready to be massaged.
At the beginning of the first episode, it was still a normal 2018, and a new ranger came to Zhiyi Mountain, that is, our male protagonist, Zhu Zhixun, who played the son of "Kingdom".
Through his perspective, the screenwriter takes us to unveil the mystery of the profession of ranger.
Common sense infers that we think the role of rangers is to check trees and protect mountains. But the rangers in "Zhiyi Mountain" are different, their main job is to rescue people who are missing on the mountain, to find the bones of people who died on the mountain.
In the first episode, they even ran to the mountain on a typhoon day to save the children who had lost contact. It is clear that this event is the main body of the first episode. It is reasonable to suspect that there may be a rescue incident on the mountain in each episode in the future to promote the daily plot.
And the ranger played by Jeon Ji-hyun, because of his professionalism and physical strength, is nicknamed Xu Devil.
The male protagonist Zhu Zhixun, a newcomer, actually has a special function, that is, he can see some scenes on the mountain. Superstition is similar to opening the heavenly eye. Scientific comparison, like a combination of CPS and monitoring in one of the instruments, can accurately locate the injured person's destination. This has provided great convenience for search and rescue work. As for why he is like this, the follow-up plot should mention it.
When we are lamenting the greatness and danger of the rangers' work.
The screenwriter suddenly changed the timeline to 2020.
At that time, I found that the friends of the bullet screen were lost. Because of the kung fu in the blink of an eye, Xu Devil, who was bouncing around, came in in a wheelchair.
Ah, this ???
Then the camera turns, the male protagonist has collapsed on the bed, full of various organs, proper vegetative person.
Episode 1, it's over!
Good guys, I knew screenwriters wouldn't write a bland story. The first episode wrote the male protagonist as total paralysis and the female protagonist as semi-paralysis without warning, to this extent, is it to compete with "Penthouse"? The key, this plot or suddenly jumped to 2020, what is this going to make? At one point I wondered if it had been cut. After watching several versions of this, I was relieved. Be confused, everyone is confused together.
In the second episode, the writers finally found their conscience that when it came to the narrative in 2020, it flashed back to 2018. So watch this drama you don't play mobile phones, I'm afraid you can't figure out what year and month the TV series is playing.
It turned out that Xu Devil and the male protagonist were injured on a snowy day that was not suitable for going up the mountain, and after being rescued, it became the way it was in 2020.
After lying in the hospital for a year, Xu Devil found that the signal of the agreement between himself and the male protagonist who had become a vegetative person was still in use. She was confused, so she returned in a wheelchair to continue the forest ranger.
Through her memories, the screenwriter flashed back to 2018, and there was a second event that drove the plot. It's about the incident of stealing pine trees.
After reading it, I was really shocked that someone actually ran to the mountain to steal pine trees, and would cut down countless trees to open the way for stealing pine trees. It's so hateful! The screenwriter is making a good drama that teaches everyone to love nature. I support you.
At the end of the second episode, on the one hand, after the leader of the nursing staff had just said that he wanted to transfer Xu Devil back to the headquarters and not work so hard, Xu Devil found a yellow cloth strip used by those who illegally climbed the mountain in the leader's drawer.
At that time, the male protagonist once found these yellow cloth strips, which were originally illegal climbers indicating the location of the mountain, but were estimated to be tied to the incorrect position, misleading their companions.
On the other hand, Jeon Ji-hyun found a new ranger and ran to the mountain to put the signal that she and the male protagonist had only learned about that year. As a result, the new ranger sees a ghost at the end of the film.
End of episode 2.
In fact, from the perspective of a suspense film, this first and second episodes have neither a serial murder nor a dark scene. Not high enough.
However, from the structural jump and suspense creation of the first and second episodes, it is still good. After all, this is not a criminal investigation drama in the traditional sense, but a supernatural story. At the same time, each episode of a search and rescue small story, and the male and female protagonists to explore the secret of the main line intertwined, from the perspective of the fullness of the plot, it is also good.
Although it has only been two episodes to guess the plot, it is indeed a bit hasty. But still with curiosity to guess. Perhaps the leader of the rangers themselves was angry at the thieves who entered the mountain illegally, but the profession had to rescue any climbers, so it used yellow cloth strips to mislead them. Lead them to dangerous places and let the natural dangers of the mountains take care of them.
On Zhu Zhixun's side, although his body may be paralyzed, his brain consciousness remains on the mountain. Therefore, the signal of each victim can be conveyed to Quan Zhixian. As for why he can be out of his soul as a living person, I don't know, but he himself can predict that he is injured and cannot be explained by common sense, so it does not hurt to speculate boldly.
But the first episode of the screenwriter made Jeon Ji-hyun half paralyzed, and the next 14 episodes made her sit in a wheelchair to find out the truth? Did she really not have to go up the mountain? Presumably, the screenwriter wants to make the audience look forward to waiting for the next week.
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I really didn't understand it, but I was really shocked. It turned out that the rangers, the search and rescue team on the mountain, their work was so professional and so dangerous.
Once again, I admire the expansion of Korean screenwriters in the theme.
Then I first thought about it, there are so many famous mountains and rivers in our country, if we can shoot such a subject, if nothing else, at least the scenery will beat South Korea.
However, in fact, we have also seen that this kind of ranger profession that is unpopular in the mainland is that it is difficult to invite actors and big names who are equal to Quan Jixian in the mainland, and the big names are still in various love themes.
In "Zhiyi Mountain", Quan Zhixian does not have any filters, basically a partial makeup. Playing this role does not make people feel too ordinary and low at all. There are no signs of falling in love after two episodes. In fact, can we also learn?
This year's "Double Detective" appeared in the ranger, in fact, "Wolf Hunter" also appeared rangers, but our focus is not on this aspect, these two dramas are mainly running to suspense.
But Korean dramas are different, when it writes about an industry, it is written thoroughly. It is not a scene of running to talk about a love affair in the skin of a profession, it is really going deep into the original intention of this profession and telling stories. This is where I feel I can learn.
2021/10/25 in Hong Kong