Born in 1971, Lee Young-ae is a well-known national goddess in Korea. She debuted very early, but the real peak of her career was after the millennium.
The literary and artistic radio DJ in "Spring Death", the tough and dignified Xu Changjin in "Great Changjin", the double-sided gold in "Kind Gold" who is bent on revenge... Although it is not called a thousand faces, Li Ying'ai has completed the transformation from a jade girl to an evil girl, which proves the elasticity of his acting skills.
After getting married, Li Ying'ai gradually faded out of the film and television circle and almost did not act for more than ten years. In the past two years, she has made a strong comeback, but the impact has not been as good as expected. Whether it is the 2019 movie "Please Find Me" or the recent drama "Gu Jingyi", it is thunder and rain.
Before the start of the broadcast, "Gu Jingyi" was labeled by the drama side with many labels: such as "Korean version of "Killing Eve", "Cold and hard reasoning" and so on. However, judging from the broadcast situation in the first week, it is not worthy of the name and the goods are not on the right board.
Like "Kill Eve", "Gu Jingyi" also plays the scene of two heroines falling in love and killing each other.
Gu Jingyi (Lee Young-ae), a former police officer and current investigative officer, is in partnership with NT Insurance Company. She is good at finding lies and loopholes that deceive the insured with her keen intuition, and the nature of her work is similar to that of a detective.
But Gu Jingyi is not a mainstream detective image, and she is accustomed to staying in a dirty and garbage-heaped home, playing computer games comfortably. Only when the younger generations have asked for her, they will go out to investigate.
She speaks directly, does not care about the emotions of the other party, and does what she wants in the world. Only in the state of work will you get serious and find clues that have been ignored by everyone.
Little K (Kim Hye-hyun), a sweet and cute, eccentric female college student, but it is difficult to maintain a close relationship with anyone.
Beneath the deceptive exterior is a heart that regards murder as mischief. Little K disregards life and the law, and everything is based on his own likes and dislikes.
With her high intelligence, killing people is not difficult. Little K not only escaped smoothly, but also always arranged the scene as an accidental death, never showing the horse's feet.
Such a pair of cats and mice is linked by an accident: a family of three fraud case.
An ordinary family of three went up the mountain to play, but old Jin accidentally disappeared, did not see anyone alive, did not see the corpse, and only left the blood on the edge of the cliff.
The police convicted him of an accidental death, and The elder Kim's wife rightfully became the beneficiary of the huge insurance money and began to raise her daughter alone.
The people of the nt insurance company suspected that the old Jin wife had killed her husband for the insurance money, so they sent Gu Jingyi to investigate.
Gu Jingyi, who did not take the usual path, pushed away the partner sent by the company and found netizens as her new partner in the game she often played. A woman and a man, an old man and a young man, the two cooperate tacitly, and constantly play people with different identities to obtain information.
In the end, Gu Jingyi discovered a more explosive truth than expected: Old Jin was not dead at all, but just hid. The couple worked together happily and made a large sum of money.
However, when Gu Jingyi took advantage of the victory to pursue Old Jin, he was out of the ordinary - due to an accidental explosion, he died in the hiding place. And this case seems to be related to the small k that can't be hit by eight rods.
Gu Jingyi and Xiao K also had a relationship many years ago: Gu Jingyi's husband was a teacher in the high school where Xiao K studied, and the two briefly met each other due to the investigation of the death of the school worker. Not long after, Gu Jingyi's husband also died, which was rumored to be related to the peach scandal on campus.
After the reunion, Gu Jingyi and Xiao K began a career chasing each other. The biggest attraction of this drama is the wrestling between the two heroines.
I believe that the audience who has watched "Kill Eve" will not be unfamiliar with the plot arrangement of "Gu Jingyi": this is a low-end version of the former. The level of drama and acting skills are all dimensionally reduced.
Looking at the play first, "Killing Eve" is not a detective suspense drama in the standard sense, it does not have the heart to linger on the crime of the female killer or the solving of the female agent, but focuses on the collision of the characters themselves.
It spends a lot of time depicting the mental resonance between cats and mice. In essence, the double heroine who seems to be at both ends of the good and evil ends is actually a kind of person.
The writers also use a rather fashionable term to describe the relationship between the protagonists: folie à deux" (diptych psychosis). With the support of mental illness, we can finally abandon all moral positions and gaze at the cold wrist and personality charm of the female killer.
"Gu Jingyi" is a more traditional detective suspense drama, and its main line should be connected by one small case after another, and the last case may involve the mystery of Gu Jingyi's husband's death.
The family of three fraud case is just a small appetizer, which leads the contest between the two heroines to the front of the stage. The bright line is an insurance-related case in real time and space, and the dark line is the death of a teacher a few years ago.
Xiao K's character modeling does not jump out of the audience's imagination, her "evil" has roots, and the judgment of the evil has a set of logic that overrides the law. And the newspaper clippings that flew by quickly in the second episode also seemed to hint at her dismal origins.
Even though Gu Jingyi will be interested in Xiao K, the relationship between the two is closer to "cat and mouse" than "cat and mouse game".
However, it has to be said that the case setting of "Gu Jingyi" is somewhat lackluster. Even the audience can guess a simple case that is inseparable from ten, how can it highlight the case-handling wisdom of Jingyi's independent special behavior?
Looking at the acting skills, the most famous thing in "Killing Eve" is the spark of Sandra Wu and Judy Comer, the former is full of fantasy, the latter is nervous and cute, but they always fit.
In "Gu Jingyi", the two actresses who have been praised for their acting skills have performed mediocrely.
In Lee Young-ae's career, the closest to this drama is Park Chan-wook's film "Kind of Gold". Kaneko is a devout believer loved by everyone in prison and is loved by all female prisoners. After being released from prison, she bid farewell to the image of the saint in the past, sharpened her knife to the enemies of the past, and killed decisively and fiercely. Before and after the image change, Li Yingai came by hand.
However, Gu Jingyi, played by Li Ying'ai, always reminds the audience that she is just playing such a sloppy housewife. Internet addicted women who are addicted to games, sloppy detectives who do not play cards according to the rules, and everyone has a deliberate label.
Whenever the messy curled long hair was tied, the delicate and dignified facial features were exposed, and it did not look like Gu Jingyi, who behaved roughly.
Born in 1995, Kim Hye-hyun's most famous role was the Lady of the Middle Temple in the zombie drama "Kingdom". At the behest of her father, she married the dying king and became the stepmother of the young Shizi. Her father staged a coup d'état in the imperial court, and she pretended to be obedient and agreed, while at the same time ambitiously playing with the idea of ascending to the throne. Although there are not many scenes, the viciousness and loneliness and fragility revealed by it are impressive.
But Kim Hye-hyun is not suitable for playing a little K, sweet and cold. In other words, it's only appropriate for her to be placed on a high school campus, convincing her that she's not a very well-behaved high school girl; as she grows up, she doesn't look like a female killer who plays with people in the palm of her hand.
Although the opening song tries to highlight the relationship between the two heroines who love and kill each other and mirror each other, as an audience, they can never get the tension and spark between the two.
This has also led to the usual sparseness of the play, and the "Gu Jingyi", which does not stimulate the starring potential, is destined not to go out of the circle like "Kill Eve", but to become a self-congratulatory work in the fan group.