What should a big female protagonist cool drama with word-of-mouth and business win-win look like?
South Korea's new actress face value ceiling Han Suxi appeared with a group of tough guys who were "hacked to death" by her.
▲ The main creative team of "My Name" - South Korean emerging actress Face Value Ceiling Han Suxi and a group of tough guys who were "hacked to death by her"
Netflix's crime-themed action movie "My Name" debuted a week ago, and it rushed to the third place in the global hit drama day list. At present, the Douban score is 7.8 and the IMDb score is 8.1, although it is not as bright as the score of the director's previous work "Human Classroom", but it also maintains the basic production reputation of "Squid Game".
▲ "My Name" IMDb score 8.1, Douban score 7.8
"My Name" tells the story of a girl who is bent on finding her father's enemy.
The start was mournful. The life of high school student Yoon Ji-woo (Han Su-hee) seems to have fallen to a low point: his father is missing due to police arrest, the police have been watching outside the house for a long time, and they have to face school bullying and all kinds of gossip at school...
▲ His father is missing, and Zhiyou is subjected to gossip at school
It's a tough look, but don't worry. As the daughter of the gangster's big brother, Zhiyou did not suffer.
She quickly directly competed head-on with the big sister in the class, and after winning the one-on-three victory, she also took off the famous brand on the school uniform and took the initiative to quit school, showing the evil girl style.
▲ Zhiyou and the eldest sister wrestled with each other
On the same day, it happened to be Zhiyou's birthday. His father sneaked over to celebrate Zhiyou's birthday, but just a second before opening the door, two gunshots rang out, and he was shot outside the door by a man in black with a mask.
Zhiyou, who witnessed the tragedy firsthand, really fell into the low point of life.
▲Zhiyou witnessed his father being shot
The beauty heroine who took a bad hand, how to take revenge against the wind? The play begins.
Open and hang cool drama
Compared with the previous plays of the same genre, the biggest gimmick of this drama lies in the character setting of the protagonist "Female Version of Infernal Affairs", but as a cool drama aimed at the young people's market, the moral dilemma faced by Chen Yongren in "Infernal Affairs" portrayed by Liang Chaowei is not the focus of this drama.
▲ Yoon Ji-woo (played by Han Su-hee)
The main line of the story is actually very clear. After witnessing his father's murder, Ji Woo enters the drug search team with the support of the big drug lord Choi Moo Jin (Park Hee Soon) as an undercover police officer Oh Hye Jin. Ji Woo partners with the anti-drug policeman Jeon Bi-do (Ahn Pu Hyun) to find out the truth of the case, discovers that his father is an upright and kind policeman, and finally finds his real name and avenges his father.
▲ Zhiyou practiced boxing hard
The heroine Han Suxi is well known to the audience for playing the role of a third party who intervenes in the marriage of others in the popular Korean drama "The World of Couples". The new drama is considered to be Han Suxi's transformation work, up to three months of fighting training, making the final action scene very eye-catching.
The first action scene in the play (high school students pull their heads does not count), the ferocity, and the scary.
Screaming, punching, covered in blood, covered in wounds... The villain Who wants to get ahead of the crowd, Du Jiangcai, and the vengeful Zhiyou compete for a chance to survive in the Colosseum.
▲ Yin Zhiyou competed with Dujiangcai Colosseum
Zhiyou narrowly won, and before he could catch his breath, the ecstasy drug under Du Jiang Cai began to exert its medicinal effect again. Another death in the darkness—fragments of a porcelain urn became a defensive weapon she grabbed in panic.
Zhiyou, who survived the battle of survival, began to use Wu Huijin's identity to enter the anti-drug team and voluntarily became a sharp blade in the hands of the big guy.
▲ Yin Zhiyou entered the anti-drug team
Director Jin Jin-min also continued his basic style in the hit crime drama "Human Classroom" in this drama, replacing static literary dramas with a large number of action scenes and few lines to highlight emotional tension and conflict.
In a scene in which Hye Jin and the police officer are kidnapped by Du Jiangcai, the two are locked in a van and are about to be crushed into meatloaf. A minute of struggle to survive, a sense of depression and urgency that culminated as the space inside the car disappeared.
▲ Stills of "My Name"
The ultimate audiovisual stimulation and moderate "superficial understanding" are the classic formulas of the explosive cool drama.
Coupled with the fast-paced plot advancement, with the bloody and violent hand-to-hand combat scenes, the cool dragging temperament of Zhiyou in the electronic music, the gangster does not lose the uncle hormones of Liu Temperament to decorate the screen, which is enough to attract people to brush it in one breath.
Deadly lies
In My Name, each character has a pure motive, and the character's intentions and actions are driven by this single motive. Break away from the cool drama setting, a little review, you will find that including the heroine's father, lying everywhere are the female protagonist's tools on the road of revenge.
Only the role of the big drug lord Cui Wuzhen, the supreme trader, exudes the personality charm that makes the audience want to stop. In the traditional villain role, in order to highlight the contrast between absolute good and evil, most of them usually do evil for the sake of evil, and Cui Wuzhen is obviously not among them.
▲ Big drug lord Cui Wuzhen
Although many people will guess the evil deeds committed by Cui Wuzhen early on, until the end, this layered character is still hated.
From Zhiyou's perspective, it is easy to understand why the poisonous insect police who know the truth will lament that Cui Wuzhen is a "demon", and also understand why the heroine chooses revenge, which means becoming a monster like Cui Wuzhen.
From The perspective of Cui Wuzhen, the brotherhood between him and Zhiyou's father was once the source of his sense of faith, supporting him to maintain a place as a human emotion in an environment where he needed to be vigilant against falling prey at all times. Until the moment when the eavesdropper in the lighter accidentally jumped out, he was forced to find out in his consternation that everything had been betrayed.
▲ Cui Wuzhen found out that he had been betrayed
"I've never betrayed anyone who trusts me, so why do I keep being betrayed?" This is a question from Cui Wuzhen's soul that is incomprehensible to death. As the boss of the drug trafficking organization "Dongchuan Faction", his complex emotions set a strong depressing tone for this drama.
As for cultivating Zhiyou, the "daughter of the policeman", Cui Wuzhen said: "Maybe living is the process of cultivating that kind of person, a person who can complain and cry out for pain." ”
For him, he cultivates the heroine from scratch on the premise of a fatal lie, trying to rebuild the loyal relationship he did not get from the heroine's father, in order to repair what he calls faith.
▲ Cui Wuzhen deceives the heroine
Many viewers are obsessed with the emotional drama between the big guy and the wise friend. If there is love in this drama, it must be hidden in Cui Wuzhen's eyes when he looks at Zhiyou, sometimes suspicious, sometimes worried, sometimes relieved, sometimes fragile, and hidden in the thermos cup with the residual taste of lipstick that Zhiyou gave to the uncle.
When the badly injured Choi Woo-jin hid in the temple, the monk asked him if he had anyone to trust. He nodded wearily, and then asked Zhiyou to go to the temple to find him. The uncle, dressed in a monk's robe, told Zhiyou that the body cut by the knife was very painful, and it had not been so painful for a long time.
▲ Cui Wuzhen was injured
This is one of the few moments when he, as the boss of the drug lord, feels safe and allows the sense of vulnerability to leak out.
But then, immediately a new lie, he made up a story with tears in his eyes. Zhiyou did not waver, and after some twists and turns, he finally found out the truth. In order to kill him with his own hands, Zhiyou even destroyed the murder weapon that could convict Cui Wuzhen.
▲ Cui Wuzhen and Yin Zhiyou
Suppressing the emotions of an entire drama, it erupts during the ultimate duel between Ji You and Choi Woo-jin, like a grenade, blowing up a bloody flesh.
The 1V20 brawl, the extreme operation, the wisdom of the friend's blood counter-killing, the purpose of avenging the father was finally achieved.
Identity dilemmas
Back to the title of the play "My Name", the most intuitive meaning is that the corresponding heroine and her father use multiple names in the play, and different names represent very different identities: police and members of the organization.
The heroine, like her father, has not been able to wander between the two lives, but has been trapped in the emptiness of life left by these two identities: for her father, the dilemma is to face the misunderstanding and accusations of her daughter, which cannot be explained; for Zhiyou, the dilemma is that in addition to avenging her father, her life is as desolate as a desert, and even if she kills the enemy, she only locks herself into the vacuum of meaninglessness.
Unfortunately, the father-daughter grief at the fatalism of existence has not been fully explored in this story.
The weakness of the father-daughter emotional drama is reflected in the plot. Between the high school students whose father's gangster identity is bullied, and the female "tough guy" who is bent on avenging her father, there is a narrative jump that cannot be hidden by editing. There are many plots behind, and the logic is also weakened in the emotional transition, and the audiovisual language that highlights the emotional tension is used to promote the development of the plot, resulting in a blunt look.
Names, as symbols, identities as narratives, collectively point to the issue of human identity on a sense level.
When Han Suxi introduced the heroine with three names in the interview, he said that "Yin Zhiyou" abandoned the role of the future and name for revenge, that is, Yin Zhiyou's self-identification was completely based on the single motive of "avenging his father".
And "Wu Huijin" as an undercover police officer who was given the identity, her self-identity, from being misled into believing that her father was killed by the police, became a sharp blade herself, and it is the mission of this identity to find out the truth and maintain loyalty.
After the heroine learned that her father was an upright policeman, she finally used the name "Song Zhiyou". Between hesitations about how to act, the male second who felt sorry for her was shot in the head, which eventually caused her to completely run away and stab the enemy.
I can't help but ask: Is there any other emotional value in the revenge completed by the transformation of three names, in addition to making Zhiyou a super-god killer who can ignore the difference in physical fitness between men and women, and getting the approval of the strong men represented by Cui Wuzhen?
"My name" is found, but Zhiyou's sense of life and self-worth as an independent person has never been able to stand up, or it should be said that her efforts from a ferocious beast to a human being were completely overthrown by herself at the moment of stabbing Cui Wuzhen.
Zhiyou's emotional transformation and growth have always been pulled by the male characters in the play. The reason she wanted to become stronger came from the fact that her father had been killed; she was able to survive as a sharp blade because of Choi Woo-jin's appearance; she hesitated in the face of revenge because of the indoctrination of Jeon-do. These male characters, however, have their own independent identities that do not need to be attached to others.
But in contrast, the appearance of free will in Zhiyou is only manifested in the confidence in the reckless fearlessness of being able to hit ten, so that the police officer who went on a mission with her for the first time gave the evaluation of "very brave, but no brains".
▲Yin Zhiyou fight scene
In the final episode, the whole police officer drives the car to the sea in the night, where the director designs a bed-stalking scene. Although the audience did not buy into this passion scene, actor Han Suxi gave a role explanation: "It can be understood that the moment when Zhiyou first became human in the play, he had the idea of living like a normal person. ”
If you only look at the narrative clues of Zhiyou, this drama can be regarded as a successful genre drama.
But whether it can be regarded as a real heroine needs to be a big question mark.
Source: Not worthy of film reviews