November is a suspense drama ~ there are "Jingyi", "Chimera", "Crime Puzzle", and the latest "dr.brain".
What is special about "dr.brain" is that it is not a Korean drama produced by ordinary TV stations, but the first original Korean drama produced by Apple TV+.
After Netflix, Apple TV+ and Disney+ have also extended their hands to Korean dramas, but Apple has preemptively broadcast them, and Disney+ is also expected to land in South Korea in November, and then launch original Korean dramas such as "You and My Police Classroom".
"dr.brain" is adapted from the popular manga of the same name, telling the story of the male protagonist Gao Shiyuan, who has no empathy ability since childhood, but has a superior brain. After becoming a brain scientist, he developed a new technology that can connect the human brain to transmit memories, but the side effect is that he may lose himself, and after personal experiments, he has other people's habits, emotions, and hallucinations...
When the man's wife is involved in a strange case, he decides to use this technique to obtain memories from the brain of his wife in a vegetative state and find the truth of the incident.
According to the first episode currently aired, the biggest highlight of "dr.brain" is that the director's personal style is very strong, and the drama is made out of the texture of the movie.
With a spooky and terrifying aesthetic, Jin Zhiyun, a film director who specializes in horror genre films, also showed amazing directing ability in "dr.brain".
The most shocking thing in the first episode is that the male protagonist connects the brain of a corpse for the first time. The deceased was condemned to death in a car accident, but the memory picture seen by the male protagonist was a picture of a large stone repeatedly smashed and blood splashed.
Slow-motion processing, with beautiful classical music, green background, dark red blood droplets with snowflakes falling, red and green contrast colors produce a strong visual effect, the stone does not know how many times it was smashed to be so evenly stained with blood?
Such an elegant and slow display of a brutal killing scene is the aesthetics of violence!
Not only that, but the information contained in this segment that connects the human brain for the first time is enormous.
First of all, there is a strange point in this memory, why choose the perspective of a bystander? It was as if he were watching the movement of a man with a stone and smashing it down, rather than the feeling of him lying there and watching the stone fall from the sky to his face.
The male protagonist connects to the memory of other people's brains, and the picture seen should not be the first-person perspective?
In contrast, when the male protagonist connects Lin Junji for the second time, it is indeed a first-person perspective, and the passenger seat picture seen from Lin Junji's eyes is indeed the first person.
Is it the first time the frequency is not correct to cause the syrupy? Or maybe the director thinks that's more beautiful?
However, the strangeness is not only one, when connecting the first deceased, the assistant Dr. has a small action, although short but gives a close-up!
He took down the small sign hanging from the corpse's feet and stuffed it in his pocket. What's so special about this person's identity?
Strange obviously only connected to the brain, why did he pick the cards on people's feet?
The assistant is somewhat suspicious.
When they were spotted by the security guards earlier, this light was a common way of lighting in horror movies, and the light source below made his face look very gloomy, which may indicate that this person may have secrets.
And it was the first corpse he selected, there was hesitation when picking, and the cause of death of this body was internal bleeding caused by a car accident, but the degree of damage to his face was more like that of the man who saw it with a stone...
While helping the male protagonist, the assistant also concealed some things, perhaps related to this voyeuristic shot.
The second memory is that of another deceased, a man related to the man's wife, Lin Zhun-ki, and the man's family is suspected of being suspects.
The clearest and strongest part of Lin Junji's memory, with a red filter to emphasize, is a little girl, which should be his daughter. The rest of the parts are flashing fragments. So this little girl is the key to memory.
The director's use of color seems to change according to the consciousness or memory of the characters in the play, and then exaggerated.
For example, at the beginning, the childhood part of the male protagonist, the scene with his mother, the color is like a fairy tale, colorful and retro texture. Because here, my mother told the little man that she would always be with him.
The little male protagonist heard this sentence, shifted the light from his own face to his mother's face, and then smiled.
In fact, he is not completely unaware of a little emotion, just like his mother said that he believes he can feel, here he feels his mother's sincerity, but he will not express it, so he hit the light in his mother's face.
In fact, the yellow light itself is not strange, it is because he hits the light from below, it is weird, looking like a female ghost.
So his mother told him not to make trouble. Then his smile disappeared, and then the color of the light changed to red and blue.
Because the characters do not express emotions, they use the color changes of light to express the changes of emotions.
Another example will make it clear that the warm yellow in the memory is an expression of beautiful emotions for the male protagonist, and the red and blue use the moments that he feels strange, abnormal or incomprehensible.
When the male protagonist recalls the happy life he once had, the director used a warm yellow soft light filter to shoot his wife, which looks very beautiful.
When his son was in an accident, he could not accept his wife's reaction, and the home in his memory became a strange space of red and blue.
The wife's face glowed blue and looked painful and distorted. In fact, the male protagonist cannot understand her.
To put it simply, the director uses contrasting color changes to express the different cognitive feelings of the male protagonist for those memories.
It's really a great director.
In addition to the director, the actor part is also worth looking forward to!
Lee Sun-kyun, the uncle who has made an international name for "Parasite", meets the gangster uncle Park Hee-soon who has recently been on fire because of "My Name", the two have different charms, and they are really curious about what the spark between the uncle will be like?
Li Shanjun and Li Yuying are already acting as husband and wife for the second time, and they are also a couple in the movie "Bully Police"
The first episode also appeared Quan Su Ni, probably a special appearance, because in "Bully Police", Li Shanjun and Quan Su Ni have a relationship like Leon and Matilda, the uncle and the girl, it is a sad ending.
There is also Xu Zhihui, who is famous for "The Forced Landing of Love", who plays a policeman in this drama, and feels that she is very suitable for playing such a handsome role
As far as the first episode is concerned, "dr.brain" has the texture and rhythm of the movie, the sense of suspense is strong, whether it is the director's strong personal style - including violent aesthetics, the use of color; and the cast, there are fresh collisions, there are tacit partners, all of which make people look forward to the next story unfolding!
Public number: Foggy wind, welcome to pay attention!