Cho Seung-woo is a well-known Korean actor.
He has starred in many high-scoring works such as "The Secret Forest", "14 Days of God's Gift", "If Love Has Providence", and his appearance acting skills are double online, and in 2018, he won the best actor in the 54th Baeksang Art Awards TV category with "The Secret Forest".
Park Shin-hye is a well-known young actress in South Korea.
"Blue Life and Death Love" debuted as a child star, followed by "Originally a Beautiful Man", "Inheritors", "Gift of Room 7" and many other popular works, although the acting skills are not particularly good, but the victory is pure and cute, very pleasing to the audience.
Recently, the two actors collaborated to co-star in the sisyphus: Mythos, a special TV series planned by South Korea's JTBC for the 10th anniversary.
Futuristic world science fiction background, through suspenseful stories. The theme is very interesting, so after broadcasting, it won the first place in the ratings of 6.677% of the same period of Mizuki drama in the country. However, due to many plot bugs and chaotic narrative rhythms, the score of the episode dropped from 7.9 to 7.3 after the first two episodes, and the spit was loud.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > 1, the story setting is wonderful, but the narrative is chaotic</h1>
The story of Sisyphus: Myth is set in a science fiction setting, and with the help of technology, people can travel through time and space at will, so there are two spaces, the present world and the future world.
Cho Seung-woo plays Han Tae-mu, a talented engineer who runs a company called Quantum & Time.
In the first two episodes, it was revealed that "Han Tae-mu has an important technology at his disposal", so he was monitored and hunted down by the Control Bureau, a mysterious organization from the future world.
Park Shin-hye plays The powerful warrior Kang Seo-hae, who lives in a very harsh future world, exists to protect Han Tae-mu, and there are some strong emotional lines between the two.
In the opening chapter, Jiang Ruihai travels from the future world to the current world. It may be because he sneaked through, or because the purpose of crossing over to protect Han Tae-mu was known to the control bureau, so he was hunted down.
In another case, Han Tae-mu discovers the secret of his brother's "death" in an accident: his brother is not dead, and he knows the reason why the control bureau is monitoring and hunting him down.
The two protagonists are in place, and the suspense story related to time travel and why the future world has become the end of the world has begun...
In terms of story setting, Sisyphus: Myth is undoubtedly wonderful.
Travel through the sci-fi between two time and space, the important technology mastered by Han Tae-mu, the brain-burning secret of his brother's fake death, the suspense of the control bureau monitoring and killing Han Tae-mu, the real reason why the future world becomes the end of the world...
Each entry point is very exciting and high-energy, attracting the attention of many viewers.
Unfortunately, Sisyphus: Myth has the fatal flaw of an unclear narrative.
In the future world and the current world, two different spaces appear on the screen without explanation and introduction; when the control bureau, an important organization related to the plot, appears, it does not tell the audience what the identity of this group of characters is. Therefore, it has caused great obstacles to understanding the plot, and even many viewers can't understand the plot at all, and don't know what they are talking about.
In addition, the narrative rhythm of this play is also very fanatic.
In the opening 30 minutes, only Jiang Ruihai travels to the current world and Han Tae-mu successfully prevents the plane from crashing. I can understand the screenwriter's desire to create a character image, but 30 minutes without any point of dramatic conflict to watch, it is really not a mature behavior, and it is easy to lose the audience. (PS: Repairing the plane while answering the phone on the plane is not a dramatic conflict at all, but a nonsense)
In the follow-up plot, there is a long shot of the MV watching scenery for more than 3 minutes at every turn.
Either Han Tae-mu observed the environment of the plane crash site, or Jiang Ruihai opened his hands to feel the sunshine he had never had before.
Romance is romance, beauty is beauty, but how much do these plots have to do with the plot? Obviously, it is just a matter of time.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > 2, the play is wonderful but buggy is flying</h1>
In Sisyphus: Myth, Han Tae-mu and Kang Seo-hae represent justice, and in the subsequent episodes, they will struggle to prevent the future world from becoming the end of the world, equivalent to the role of savior. Although it is not 100% certain at present, judging from the barbaric behavior of the control bureau to monitor people and kill people at every turn, this organization should be a villain.
In the first two episodes, there are two wonderful rival scenes between the decent and the villain, namely the fist-and-fist fight between the Control Bureau and Jiang Ruihai, and the control bureau's large-scale round-up of Han Tae-mu.
Play this part Jiang Ruihai met the god to kill the god, slammed the fist, reflexive kicks, shot without a word, the action is clean and neat to see the hormones on the human glands soaring.
In contrast, Han Tae-mu is weaker, but the behavior of being able to make a bomb under the crisis still amazes the audience, lamenting that it is worthy of being a top engineer.
But wonderful, does not mean logic online.
In the process of Jiang Ruihai's fight with the Control Bureau, it can be called the protagonist's aura against the sky: one will appear Jiang Ruihai's strange reaction waiting for the control bureau to shoot, and one will appear a group of people shooting at the same time but it is unable to hit Jiang Ruihai's dog blood plot, no matter how the people around him toss, the protagonist will not die.
On the other hand, it is true that Han Tae-mu is very strong in making bombs, but the question is: When the Control Bureau is pressing forward, will there really be so much time to make bombs? Even during the production process, Han Tae-mu took the time to make a phone call.
In order to highlight the strong ability of the protagonist, the writer and director almost completely abandon logic, which is really a headache to see.
In addition to the above two advantages and disadvantages, "Sisyphus: Myth" has many small problems that make the audience love and hate.
For example, Cho Seung-woo's acting skills exploded, but Park Shin-hye's performance could not keep up at all. As a direct result, the perception of the two paragraph plays led by the two people is very different, and the audience is very worried about the situation of the subsequent two people.
Another example is the grand proposition of redeeming mankind under the setting of the future world. Wonderful is wonderful, but judging from the poor narrative level of the writers and directors of the first two episodes, it is very likely that it will turn over into a bad drama.