Last year's "Secret Forest" must have been seen by many Korean drama fans and crazy about it, they have finished the high score of 9.2 on Douban, and Ula is really convinced.
The reason for the popular starring role of "Secret Forest" is that screenwriter Li Xiuyan, who has never written a script before, when writing "Secret Forest", she was just an ordinary white-collar worker, and wrote this script in her spare time.
Unexpectedly, the actor related to her debut work, that is, Cao Chengyou today Ula wants to focus on,
In 2005, he played an autistic youth in the movie "Marathon", and won the Korean Film Grand Bell Award and the Baeksang Art Award.
He has been selected as "BIG30 Korean Mass Culture Influential Figure" for 6 times, and on May 3, 2018, he won the Best Actor Award in the TELEVISION Category of the Baeksang Arts Awards in Korea.
Why focus on two people?
Because after the 9.2-point divine drama "The Secret Forest", Cao Chengyou and Li Xiuyan cooperated again to produce a new drama with explosive appearances:
《LIFE》
This drama only aired two episodes and scored a high score of 9.0 on Douban!
The first episode of the show aired on July 23 broke the record of 4.008% of "The Pretty Sister Who Often Invited Me to Dinner" with a premiere rating of 4.334%, setting a new high for JTBC TELEVISION!
At the beginning of the story, a very famous dean died in the home of the vice dean, or the ambiguous cause of death of accidentally falling from the building, the emergency department doctor Yi Zhenyu (Played by Lee Dong-wook) and the pediatrician Lu Xia (Played by Yuan Zhen'er) suspect that the Death of the Dean has another hidden reason.
According to the deputy dean: on the night of the fall, he and the dean drank together, the two chatted very hi, the dean because he wanted to smoke to the roof, he only heard a loud noise, went upstairs to find that the dean had fallen.
No one can prove what the vice dean said, and in the following plot, someone proves that he heard the dean and the vice dean arguing, and the vice dean's attitude was very bad.
It was obviously unlikely that there would be a big fight during the day and a drink at night, so rumors began to circulate in the hospital about the vice president's killing.
At this time of the dean's death, the hospital was facing reform after being acquired.
The first thing the newly appointed president, Koo Seung-hyo (Cho Seung-woo), has to change is the hospital's losses.
Because we want to improve efficiency, we want to adopt the "piece-rate wage system" as a new system for hospitals.
However, the dean believed that "patients should not be treated as cash cows" and took the lead in fighting the consortium.
On the day of the dean's death, Yi Jin-woo learns from his younger brother Yi Shan-woo (Lee Kyu-hyung) that the dean received a support payment of 316,000 won from his private account. That is, the dean is corrupt.
Shocked and angry, Yi Zhenyu confronted the dean, who knew that the dean did not deny it, but asked Yi Zhenyu how he knew. Yi Zhenyu slammed the door and left, but he didn't expect that this was the last time they would meet.
Just when the hospital people were still in doubt about the death of the dean, the vice president who temporarily took over the hospital called a meeting.
At the meeting, the vice president announced that he would send three departments: emergency department, obstetrics and gynecology department, and pediatric department to the rural hospital to provide support.
To put it nicely, support is actually about cutting down these three heavily loss-making sectors.
The atmosphere inside the hospital, which was already solemn, was even more panicked.
At this time, president Gu Shengxiao, played by our uncle Cao, came on the stage, and in the face of the dissatisfaction and reproach of the hospital people, he was still personable and did not mess up, giving full play to his good eloquence to scare a group of doctors dumbfounded.
Although the opponent of the president, Yi Zhenyu, is a doctor in the emergency department, he is actually not brave, and he can even say that he likes to avoid things.
But the cause of the dean's death is a mystery, the hospital is about to fall apart, in order to solve the mystery or protect himself, he began to understand the mystery of the road.
He ran to the scene of the accident, that is, the vice dean's home to investigate, and happened to meet the vice dean going out, and when Yi Zhenyu followed up, he found that the vice dean had lied about his own itinerary.
Coupled with the fact that colleagues said that the dean had quarreled with the vice dean, this made Yi Zhenyu more suspicious of the vice dean.
In order to resist being dispatched, Yi Zhenyu first took the initiative and found the vice president to warn him not to be too arrogant, and it was best to unite with the hospital people to rebel against the dispatch.
Unexpectedly, the vice dean went up and warned Yi Zhenyu that if he wanted to call the police, he would first say what the dean had done, and in order to protect the dean, Yi Zhenyu could only remain silent.
The confrontation between the two male protagonists in the play was officially launched in the "auditorium meeting" in the second episode: President Gu answered the questions of the crowd with ease, but Yi Zhenyu saw through the sleekness of president Gu, and the sharp question caught President Gu a little off guard...
The Gu Shengxiao played by Cao Chengyou this time is different from the "facial paralysis" Huang Shimu in "The Secret Forest", and he is really lively in the play.
In the face of the people of the subsidiary at the same level, he is domineering, very confident, and very humble when facing the president, even if the president mocks him as just a hard worker, he does not change his face, and the right should be a kind of praise. When he saw the secretary Hua Yi Zhenyu, he would turn around and roll his eyes.
Li Dongxu played the opponent of Gu Shengxiao in the play, Yi Zhenyu, and Li Dongxu's works were also many "Unspeakable Love" and "My Girl", and last year he became more famous with "Ghosts".
But Lee Dong Wook seems to have been starring in idol dramas, and this time with Cao Chengyou as the double male protagonist of "LIFE" should be a breakthrough for him.
Although "LIFE" is mainly about South Korea's dark medical system, it reflects more human nature under this system in this drama.
Ulla believes that the most worthwhile scene in the current two episodes is the meeting presided over by the vice president, because in this scene, you can watch a group of skilled actors playing on the same stage, showing the portraits of all beings.
In the meeting presided over by the vice president, the head of the emergency department (Jin Yuanhai) pulled away the chair that originally belonged to the dean as soon as he sat down, which was actually a gesture of favor to the vice president, but then when the vice president announced that the emergency department would also go to support, he was the most emotional, and said: If the dean was there, he would have rejected it a hundred times. When a conflict of interest occurs, the spearhead is immediately turned, and the wall is sloppy.
The most detailed part of the meeting was the change in the faces of the people when the Vice President announced the list of support.
Before the deputy dean announced, all the people attending the meeting had a look of indifference and even chatted.
Until the deputy dean announced the list, every time the vice dean read the name of a department, with the camera we can clearly see the face of the corresponding department head from doubt to shock to anger.
From this moment on, the meeting seemed to become a meeting of the pediatric gynecological emergency department, because the other departments that were not on the list were all "hanging high and hanging high" attitude, until the end of the meeting, only left
Pediatric gynecological emergency department people in these three departments.
A bunch of unrelated people have "patted their butts and left", only Director Wu (Wen Suli) of the Neurosurgery Department, only to stop a little because he felt that neurosurgery might also be removed.
When a big drama ends, we can't help but wonder why the doctors at Shangguo Hospital are reluctant to support it. Is it because people in Seoul really need these three departments or are their interests at stake?
The contradiction between hospitals and enterprises, the contradiction between the supremacy of interests and the supremacy of medical ethics, the complexity between human nature, the depth and breadth of this drama has exceeded Ula's imagination, and even some netizens have only watched the first two episodes to make a judgment:
As long as it doesn't end badly, there is definitely hope for the top three of the year.
If you want to chase, hurry up!
This article is written | Internship Ulla