Maybe we are far from the center of power, but after the storm, everyone may be complicit.
In the summer of 2017, Lee Soo-yeon, a new Korean screenwriter, used a prosecutor's professional drama "Secret Forest" that was always brain-burning, and quietly responded to the hidden forests in the case of former President Park Geun-hye's "Girlfriends Intervention".
"Secret Forest" (2017)
"Secret Forest" is a professional drama conceived by ordinary white-collar Li Soo-yeon in three years of spare time. After graduating from Ewha Womans University, she has a keen sense of politics and public power. When she felt that her script had matured, she resigned. At work, I contacted SIGNAL Entertainment to promote his script, and finally succeeded in persuading the CEO of SIGNAL Entertainment to provide more project support for improving the details of the script, such as allowing myself to follow the local prosecutor to experience the process of case handling.
"Lee Changjun (the forest designer in the first season of "Secret Forest", he knew he was guilty, he made Hwang Si-mok participate in the investigation of corruption cases, and finally used suicide to atone for it) reminds me of Oh Byung-woo in the office of the secretary of the former Presidential Office (Park Geun-hye) ."
Li Changjun was the prosecutor Huang Shimu’s professional enlightenment in the first season. When he was young, he saw Li Changjun’s court trial, and Huang Shimu was determined to be a prosecutor. Similarly, Li Changjun was also Huang Shimu’s bell ringer, with several lives. The indulgence of corruption made Huang Shimu realize that power must be made public and disclosed in order to obtain justice.
The idealistic Huang Shimu and Han Ruzhen may never appear in the daily world, but Li Changjun walks on the edge of justice and evil, all the way from the chief prosecutor to the blue house presidential secretary. It is the screenwriter Lee Soo-yeon who thinks it is necessary to let the audience. People who understand and reflect on reality.
Unexpectedly, when "Secret Forest 2" finally aired in the summer of 2020, the "Recitation of Truth" at the beginning of the first episode came from Li Changjun's mouth:
chasing the truth and moving forward in a reasonable direction, this is an endless process, and the moment it stops, it is doomed to failure. Moving towards change, as if making my feet into thin needles, wearing invisible threads, allowing me to walk without stopping, I believe that a gleam of hope is better than countless despair, and with the will to never stop, I will fight again. .
Lee Changjun is dead, but the secret forest of the Korean public power system still exists.
"Secret Forest" (2020)
Many viewers will think that the college student drowning case in the first two episodes of the second season is much less rhythmic than the corruption and murder case at the beginning of the first season. But if you look at it from the perspective of public power, Li Xiuyan in the second season Obviously more anxious than the first season, because she pointed directly at the current political reform in South Korea at the beginning.
Moon Jae-in has been working on power reform for more than three years. The judicial reform passed at the beginning of this year proposed the establishment of an independent investigation department for high-level public officials. In South Korea, the public power system, which is a subordinate relationship, is adjusted to a parallel system of mutual supervision and checks and balances.
Thecollege student drowning case happened to be a tool used by the South Korean police to attack the prosecutor’s abuse of power. The Seoul local prosecutor helped clear the suspicion of the rich second generation who was negligent in causing deaths and insufficient evidence, just because the rich second generation’s lawyer was For retired court officials, according to the Korean judiciary's "Previous Official Courtesy" code, the case will be better than the "former official" side.
The Police Agency Search and Innovation Corps, where Han Ruzhen worked, and the Criminal Legislative Corps of the Public Prosecutor’s Office where Huang Shimu worked, were the pioneer battlefields of the fierce police and prosecutor’s power struggle. In this way, the first season of CP fans used a magnifying glass to find sugar. Huang Han, CP, once again returned to the pre-liberation period, and became the target of war again.
is also anxious and reveals another pair of new combatants, Huang Shimu and Han Ruzhen’s bosses Yu Taixia and Cui Wei, these two power spokespersons who defend each other’s interest groups, they “disclose” their identities as soon as they appear on the stage, and they don’t need the audience at all. Like the first season, you must experience and remove the layers of fog of the characters in an immersive way, and spontaneously explore their true colors.
Of course this is also very likelyThe fog bombs released by the screenwriter, the absolutely differentiated binary oppositional roles are not admired by Li Xiuyan, except for the two absolutely idealistic roles of Huang Shimu and Han Ruzhen, she is good at portraying the parties in the storm of both right and evil.
In the first season of, prosecutor Xu Dongjae, who made the rudder, double-sided and triple-cut, changing thighs faster than changing clothes, is just as good as Li Changjun. The Seoul District Prosecutor’s Office, where the elite gathered from the local university entrance examination, had no background, no education, and no capital in order to climb the ladder. He became Li Changjun’s dog-legged dog for more than ten years and overheard that he was going to be treated as an abandoned son. Looking for all the useful resources to protect himself, and seeing him desperately struggling, it is estimated that most of the audience who has been ravaged by life think of not disgust, but introspection and check-in.
Xu Dongjae, who was warned by Li Changjun with his life at the end of the first season, used a whistleblower report in the second season, which unexpectedly consolidated the audience's "love and love" for him. With a glib tongue, he broke the news about the police corruption and abuse of power alone in front of the head of the criminal and legal system of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, Yu Taixia. The three carefully prepared documents can be a magic weapon for Yu Taixia to attack, but it may also be that Xu Dongzai’s love for promotion is better than justice. The unreliable trap set by the prosecutor.
Under Yu Taeha’s arrangement, Xu Dongzai will become Huang Shimu’s helper in the subsequent plot, which brings back the famous saying of Huang Shimu in the first season-keep friends by your side, and keep your enemies by your side. . Xu Dongzai, who is also an enemy and friend, can predict that he will once again become the most empathetic character in "Secret Forest".
"When we point our fingers at others, although one finger points to others, the other fingers extend towards ourselves. The last thing I want to say is that everything comes from ourselves." No matter how the environment evolves, the original intention of the characters is screenwriting development An important basis for the role.
Huang Shimu, who had his brain's emotional perception system cut off when he was a teenager, is an ideal image of a prosecutor. He has no emotional fetters with a pure original intention. He believes in the constitution and procedural justice.
Alone policewoman Han Ruzhen is an ideal policeman who always pays attention to lowly individuals. She can invite the families of victims to settle down in her own home, and she can be neither humble nor overbearing to ladies like Miss Korea. She believes in pure justice.
In essence, Han Ruzhen is an upgraded version of Huang Shimu who has acquired empathy. They are not like people in the living reality, but they are the classic lines of the first season "Justice is always the object of crush and the ultimate ideal." It is an ideal myth that the living reality audience will always love in secret.
From this point of view, "Secret Forest" has actually given some kind of answer. The ultimate ideal is out of reach, and people can only trek forward in the secret and dark forest.
