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Korean dramas with middle-aged people as the theme, if not Mary Sue, will be quite bold and warm, such as the "World of Couples" that detonated the hot search a while ago, and even punished for glorifying crimes and playing them in the viewing time of minors.
The hot discussion and even success of heavy-taste family dramas have also helped JTBC find a creative path worthy of in-depth development.
Thus, "Elegant Friends" came into being, revealing the dirty secrets between adults.
This article contains spoilers.
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Late at night, a brutal murder is taking place in the apartment.
The perpetrator sneaks into the victim's home and grabs the other person's neck with both hands until he loses the ability to breathe.
As a crowd of people hurried to arrive, only a gradually cold corpse remained in the bathroom.
Outside the bathroom, there sat the suspect who was overwhelmed, HighFive Fried Chicken Sales Director An Gong Tetsu.
The few people who had just rushed into the murder scene were Yasumiya's college friends.
Those involved in the investigation and evidence collection have said:
Even if Gong Zhe occasionally loses his temper impulsively in life, it is absolutely impossible to kill people.
The story begins with a shadow that makes one wonder:
What kind of person is Ahn Gong Tetsu, who is fierce in his eyes and trusted by his friends at the same time?
As friends have said, Ahn Gong Tetsu has an enviable happy life.
In the family, An Gongzhe is a reliable father who is responsible for funny, and Nan Zhenhai, the wife of a famous psychiatrist, is a perfect woman with both talents and looks in Gong Zhe's mind.
Although the duo's son firmly occupies the first place in the class, the whole family still maintains a joyful and harmonious atmosphere.
At work, TetsuYatsu Onomiya's HighFive Fried Chicken has just officially opened its 1,000th chain.
In order to keep the taste of fried chicken consistent, Angong Zhe will personally go to each new store to check the equipment and instruct the staff.
At the same time, he also helps employees with difficulties regain job opportunities, which is also loved by everyone.
An Gong Zhe also faced his friends with this kindness.
For example, when he encounters a friend who is embarrassed to be criticized by his superiors, he will cooperate with the other party's lies in a very measured manner and resolve the embarrassment.
Putting himself in the shoes of others, Ahn Gong-chul has a close circle of friends – a small team of five made up of Jae-hoon, Hyun Woo, Chun-fu, Wan-sik and himself.
These five friends, who met in the university drama club, maintained a deep friendship in middle age and often met in a tavern.
They are the most elegant friends in each other's eyes, and they are also the warmest secret base in each other's hearts.
Ke An Gong Zhe did not expect that his fate was like a joke he accidentally made, and as the secrets between friends emerged, they were rewritten like crazy.
2
Everything starts with the sudden death of his friend Wan Zhi.
On the rainy night of his wife Nam Jung-hoe's birthday, Ahn Gong-tetsu was carrying his wife on the way home, and on the parallel bus was his friend Wan Zhi.
At this moment, Wan Zhi died suddenly of myocardial infarction because of the fatigue of work day and night.
At Wan Zhi's funeral, the remaining four people are grieving the departure of their friends.
They could not have imagined that the conscientious Wan Zhi would pass away in such a hurry.
However, it was also the two women who appeared at this funeral who became the key figures in unveiling the masks of the crowd.
The first woman was the girl the fivesome had chased together in college, Bai Haishu.
When everyone wondered how Hae-sook learned the news of the funeral, they turned their eyes to Ahn Gong-tetsu.
Because they once had a past, and the purpose of Hae-sook's sudden appearance was to come and see Gong Zhe, who had not been seen for a long time.
What is even more disturbing is that Hae-sook was once Zhenhai's girlfriend, but the two turned against each other because of Gong Zhe.
After Hae-sook's visit, someone maliciously posted a photo of Gong-cheol's meeting with Hae-sook to Zhen-hae's mobile phone, a photo that sowed his wife's suspicion of her husband.
The second woman was a stranger who suddenly broke into Wan Zhi's funeral and cried.
Compared with Wan Zhi's wife, Ming Shu, the intruder's emotional expression is obviously too exaggerated, but when Ming Shu comes forward to inquire, the other party responds hastily and leaves in a hurry.
Ming Shu was already suffering from depression, and the appearance of the intruder made her curious, and sure enough, she found the strange appearance of her husband's life - Wan Zhi proposed all his insurance money before his death.
Ming Shu digs deeper and slowly approaches the truth, after which she suddenly contacts Gong Zhe, smashes a stack of chat records on the table, and tells Gong Zhe: My husband and Zhen Hai have an improper relationship.
Although Gong Zhe strenuously denied Myung Sook's conclusions, this meeting also planted suspicions about his wife in the husband's heart.
After separating from Myung-sook, Gong Zhe sat alone on a park bench in a daze, and just as he was wondering if he wanted to read the chat history, Zhen Hai called, and there was only a uniform breathing sound in the microphone, but no one answered for a long time.
At this moment, Zhenhai is lying naked on someone else's bed, and the person who dials the phone is the man who was killed by Gong Zhe at the beginning of the story.
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Is it a dog blood drama in which all the members cheat, or a deliberate revenge that has been carefully framed?
"Elegant Friends" uses five families as a sample, and constructs a character relationship map intertwined with light and dark under the pen of screenwriters Park Hyo-yeon and Kim Kyung-sun, and it is precisely in order to present the contradictions and cruelties in it more intensively, JTBC directly limits the drama to "19 years old and over can be watched".
In addition to the restrictive shots and derailments that are visible to the naked eye, director Song Hyun-wook ("Wu Haiying Again", "Inner Beauty") also tries to use the real midlife crisis to narrow the distance between the suspense story and real life.
For example, as a civil servant in the municipal tax collection section, even if he is older than the leader, he must nod his head and bow his head and humble himself in his work.
For another example, Zheng Zaixun, the director of the urology department who has achieved fame, cannot escape the medical troubles of the patient's family.
For example, director Zhao Hengyu has to deal with disobedient actresses during filming.
These small details are interpreted by a number of famous actors such as Liu Junxiang, the winner of the Acting Award, and Song Yun'er, the best actress in South Korea, to quickly and accurately portray the personality characteristics of the characters, and also show the life picture of middle-aged people in different fields.
However, group dramas often face the problem of uneven distribution of the proportion of scenes.
Because the five families have secrets, coupled with the death of the drama club professor 20 years ago, "Elegant Friends" had to quickly and heavily add many side characters, or use props to hint at unusual character relationships.
While the above path increases the sense of suspense, it also leads to an overload of episode information.
The appearance of multiple new characters has eliminated the excitement of the main plot, and it is inevitable that some of them will be too strong, which makes people worry that they will not be able to form logical self-consistency in the end.
However, just as the emotion conveyed by the posters of "Elegant Friends" with one cold and one hot, it is the same as the true and false cases, and in the middle-aged world living with masks, the truth and falsehood are always the same.
In the family, they can hug each other for warmth and be suspicious of each other.
In society, they can not only be vain and vicious to their superiors, but also be able to push their hearts with friends.
In real life, they sometimes become intellectual parents who use fake results to help the sons of primary school students exchange extra points, and sometimes become public officials who demand bribes in vicious cases.
The so-called elegant friends are nothing more than false gentleness, and they either actively or passively choose the mask they think is right at a specific time and place, while pretending to be cool and thin, while interpreting the confusion of survival. #影视杂谈 #
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