text/ Zhong Lewei
Time travel has become a popular theme in Korean dramas recently. After SBS produced "The King: The Forever Monarch", starring Lee Min Ho, and Kim Go-eun, traveling between the Republic of Korea and the Korean empire to hunt down the enemies of the king, SBS released another film at the end of August, which also uses time and space. The drama "Alice Alice" (앨리스) with the title of travel.
▲ "Alice" is starring Zhou Yuan and Kim Hee Sun. (Photo/friDay video provided)
is directed by Bai Xiucan of " The Girl Who Sees the Smell " and writers Jin Kyu-won, Jiang Cheol-gyu, and Jin Jiaying. The plot of "Alice" mainly tells the heroine Yoon Taiyi from 2050 played by Kim Hee-sun, in order to verify A secret about time travel named "Alice's Prophecy", and her boyfriend Yoo Min Hyuk (played by Guo Siyang) traveled back to 1992 and found the scientist who wrote the book.
However, when she knew that she was pregnant with Yoo Min Hyuk’s child, she decided to stay alone in 1992 in order to prevent the child from being affected by the radiation that traveled back to the future through time and space. She did not go back with her boyfriend and gave birth to the child. Changed his name and surname to "Pu Xuanling".
▲ Zhou Yuan grew up and became a policeman. (Photo/friDay video provided)
brought up his son Park Zhenqian (played by Zhou Yuan). One day in 2010, his son witnessed his mother being suddenly murdered by a mysterious man. In order to catch the prisoner who killed his mother, he aspired to become a policeman. In 2020, ten years later, after investigating a number of suspected homicides by persons of unknown origin, he found that there was a suspected "time traveler" from the future. He escaped after committing a crime. While tracking the incident, he fatefully met a woman who looked exactly like his mother. She was born in 1989 and also played by Kim Hee Sun, a professor of physics at Korea University. Yin Taiyi".
▲ Kim Hee Sun, another character professor in the Department of Physics "Yon Tae Yi". (Photo/friDay video provided)
"Alice" is Zhou Yuan's return to work after his retirement, and it is also the first time for a generation of Korean wave superstar Kim Hee Sun to perform in a "one person with two characters" method, plus it is based on physics theory The setting of traversal has received wide media attention from before the broadcast.
is similar to the "Parallel Time and Space" introduced in the previous series "The King: Forever Monarch". There are many protagonists in different eras. The setting is similar. But at that time, many Korean audiences criticized the series. The relationship between the world view, the characters and the plot is too complicated and difficult to understand. As a result, the final series has a mediocre rating, and the reputation is only average.
▲ Guo Siyang plays the time traveler Liu Min Hyuk. (Photo/friDay video provided)
However, this time "Alice" received a more positive evaluation from the local audience in Korea than "The King: Forever Monarch". Based on the evaluations, the audience believes that the plot has developed so far. From the beginning Yin Taiyi decided to stay in 1992 for the sake of the child, instead of returning to 2050. Later, her son Park Jinqian discovered "Time and Space" in the process of hunting down the prisoner. "Traveler" travels through time and space to commit murder today in 2020. There is no unreasonable understanding of the various plots.
Moreover, for most of the audience, until the second episode, the parallel time-space world view presented by the show is relatively simple and easy to understand. The audience can still enjoy the mystery brought about by various bizarre bridges and entertaining Sex is also sufficient, so the ratings have risen from 6.1% for the first broadcast to 9.2% for the second episode the next day.
▲ The 43-year-old Kim Hee Sun plays a "college student" in the drama. (Photo/friDay video provided)
was once hailed as the ratings guarantee of the Korean drama industry in the 1990s. After Kim Hee Sun stepped into the 2000s, the ratings of many dramas were only average, and the two films that returned after marriage in 2007 Her works-"Xinyi" and "Angry Mother", the results are not satisfactory, so there have been comments that her downturn has arrived.
but everything is turning pointSince 2017, Kim Hee Sun has participated in the comprehensive compilation channel JTBC's drama " Has a Tasteful Her ", which set a record of 12.1% of the highest ratings in the history of the comprehensive compilation at the time. It once again proved that Kim Hee Sun's star power still exists, and the treasure is not there. old.
This time "Alice" she challenges her acting breakthrough that she has never tried in the past, and she plays two roles in one person. She cooperates with Zhou Yuan who has proven her acting skills in the theater and in many past episodes and has become more mature after retirement. , Coupled with the elements of time travel in physics that have become a hot topic in the society in recent years, and just looking at the plot development of the first two episodes, "Alice" is definitely one of the most anticipated works of this season.
