text丨Huang Xiaomi
After obediently chasing the Korean drama " ladies ", I no longer have the position to criticize.
The bloody drama is betting on who the audience and the screenwriter will give up first, and the screenwriter has long since given up their pursuit of reasonableness. If the audience can hold on to the show without giving up, it means at least its entertainment is strong enough, even if it provides a A joy that cannot be publicly acknowledged.
In fact, if "Little Ladies" is not " Park Chan-wook Queen Screenwriter" or "adapted from nineteenth century female writer Louisa May Alcott's classic coming-of-age novel " Little Women "" The name, the audience may not have unrealistic expectations for it at first.
If you are looking forward to watching Park Chan Yufeng's TV series, "Little Ladies" will of course be a big disappointment. The plot is bizarre and unreasonable. The characters seem to come from reality, but their actions are farther and farther away from the logic of reality. In the end, it keeps reversing and does not give the audience time to stop and think, but of course the audience will not forgive the screenwriter for constantly making question marks but unable to give a satisfactory answer.
But the curious elements that appeared early quickly made people doubt the reality of the show. The dead best friend Hua Ying left the stolen money to give to the eldest sister, and the third sister stayed in a wealthy family like the next girl in the movie "Miss" to accompany the fragile Miss. Audiences who do not believe that they have stepped on the blood of dogs continue to have hope in their hearts: is it a cool film that praises women's friendship? As everyone knows, the really important characters have not yet reached the center of the stage.
After watching the whole drama, it is not wrong to say that this character is the real protagonist of the whole drama. She is Won Sang Ah, the daughter of a general who regards human life as a must. Maybe you can think of this drama as a story about femme fatales like "Resolve to Break Up". As for the three sisters of the Wu family, they seem to be just bystanders who lead the audience to her. They can retreat and trip over Yuan Shangya. Because Miss Yuan herself has gone too far.
Yuan Shangya gave people a bad feeling from the beginning, because she is the wife of the big devil Park Jae-sang , and her appearance seems to fit everyone's imagination of a rich wife with a smiling face, and she is especially friendly to the Wu sisters. Not only took the third sister home to take care of her daughter, but also helped the eldest sister when she was beaten.
But her image quickly moved closer to the "mad woman in the attic", letting us know that the political and business wealthy couple were not harmonious. Yuan Shangya was regarded by her husband as someone who was emotionally unstable and incapacitated, and was even placed under house arrest for a time. Almost all the episodes of
are shrouded in this gothic novel atmosphere. Won Sang-ah grows precious orchids in the secret garden, and speaks softly to anyone but will lose his sense at any time. In addition, her self-positioning is a failed actor who loves to perform, so she played tricks into her life. At this time, the audience thought she meant that she was playing a successful politician's wife all the time. The eldest sister
was recruited by her to serve as a personal assistant, and witnessed how Won Sang Ah and her daughter were mentally controlled by Park Jae Sang. Therefore, she developed sympathy for Yuan Shangya. Even if she was reminded by the "fairy godmother" Cui Daori, she still listened to Yuan Shangya's bewitchment and took the poisonous orchid home like a crystal ball, thinking that she would understand herself better, but she was confused. Confused that he killed his aunt by mistake.
Although the audience still can't figure out whether Cui Daori is black or white at this time, they have no hope for the elder sister's ability to see people, and of course they all have a premonition that she will eventually be a fool and a fool.
Yuan Shangya's demonic face was soon revealed, and the indoor video clearly revealed that she might be the real murderer who killed her eldest sister's best friend (there are videos of all crimes in the play), her daughter was the first to escape from her, she The eldest sister of the Wu family, who was incompetent and extremely lucky, also began to act.
When it comes to the daughter of Yuan Shangya, she resolutely broke with her parents who did evil things, and went to the huge deposit prepared by her parents overseas for her. Among the big and small characters in the whole drama, she is very able to justify herself. He also performed a small "Miss" with the third sister of the Wu family. In the end, the two accidentally got the stolen money that was transferred several times. The third sister left a large amount of pocket money for the sisters.Painfully cut the flesh and kissed the kindness, and the two went to the end of the world.
Yuan Shangya's previous attitude towards the three sisters was to keep playing slowly, but the audience was confused about her plan, until the main scene of the episode moved to Singapore , the conspiracy and resistance officially kicked off. Sister
followed Cui Daori to Singapore to take out the stolen money in the name of Hua Ying in the name of the eldest sister. When she saw someone who looked like Hua Ying, she thought her best friend was still alive. Driven by missing, she fell into Yuan Shangya's trap and was laughed at: "Do you really think the dead will be resurrected?" Seeing this, the audience felt a little relieved, thinking that at least the dead would not be resurrected in this drama. Of course, they quickly discovered that it was not that they would not be resurrected, but that the time had not yet come.
However, the delay in revealing that Hua Ying is actually not dead is a relatively powerful reversal of the whole drama, and the eldest sister and Hua Ying are loyal and mutual help each other, which is also the least playful in the relationship between the characters in the whole drama. In the end, we learned that Huaying’s initial donation was just to pity the eldest sister, as compensation for using her name to launder money and set up a company.
But when she found out that the eldest sister was tirelessly investigating the cause of her death and avenging her own life regardless of her life, she jumped out of the safe situation of incognito and repaid the eldest sister, even if she knew that what awaited her was either death or legal sanctions.
returns to the female devil, Yuan Shangya. After she repeatedly delayed her murder to allow the Wu sisters to escape, she finally successfully held a hydrochloric acid party, kidnapped Huaying, and tricked the eldest sister and the second sister into saving people. This final confrontation between good and evil was a gorgeous exit carefully designed by Yuan Shangya. As a result, the second sister was not able to participate because she was rescued, and the courage and observation of the elder sister finally came in handy.
She revealed the psychological shadow of Yuan Shangya's accidental murder of her mother when she was a young girl, and also explained to the audience the cause of the female devil. Yuan Shangya, who is said to be the central thing, contributed one of the best performances in the whole play, switching back and forth between madness and coquetry.
After the eldest sister performed a bomb-throwing performance, carrying a manhole cover to cover the sulfuric acid rain, and took out a sharp knife that I did not know when to cut the rope to save people, Yuan Shangya also fell into the hydrochloric acid pool and died, and those precious and evil orchids were buried. , representing the destruction of the entire evil force.
In fact, the design of this scene is unexpected. After all, even after seeing the finale, no one would have thought that the eldest sister has such a brain and physical strength. The eldest sister who suddenly "reversed" not only killed Yuan Shangya, but also killed the audience's remaining expectations for this drama.
In this show where everyone used to know everyone, there were some characters that were at first sight extremely important to the main plot, but turned out to be disposable. The first is the aunt of the three sisters. She solved the financial difficulties of the sisters at a critical moment and allowed the third sister to be admitted to the hospital for treatment. Later, the third sister's illness was never mentioned again.
Auntie handed over the company to her second sister, who was nurtured by her. The second sister only found evidence against the Pu family from the company's information. It was not until the end that everyone forgot the relationship between the show and "Little Women" that the villa left by the aunt to the eldest sister appeared, which is in line with the original work.
Choi Daoril's father was the leader of the resistance army at the beginning. He gathered all the people who had hatred with the Park family. He was brave and resourceful, and hid a carload of heavy weapons to execute Park Jae-sang. Later, he cooperated with his son in acting, and finally helped the second sister to successfully expose Park Jae-sang's murder in public, driving the wicked to a dead end.
Then the father was duly punished by the law. Before he left, he left a useful bomb for the eldest sister. Like the aunt, the purpose of appearing is to provide the protagonist with divine assistance.
As for the evil organization "Love Orchid Club", which is mainly depicted in the play, it was established after being betrayed by the motherland during Vietnam War , and developed into a money laundering chaebol group after the war. This historical background does provide a way to understand why the wicked do evil. However, the villain in this play is not the general who is lying on the hospital bed with only a voice-over, but the daughter and son-in-law who are affected by his evil deeds. It seems that there is no such background and does not hinder the progress of the story.
has acting skills, adds historical elements, and uses famous novelsA dog blood drama is a dog blood drama after all. Just imagine if the original slogan of "Little Ladies" was "The sister chapter of " Top Floor ", Zhu Dantai is back again" (actor Yan Jijun did return to his old business).
The audience's perception may be: "In addition to the bloody plot, it also involves the history of the Vietnam War, plus the cast is so strong, the acting skills support the plot, the costumes and the soundtrack are so exquisite, at least the high-end version of "Top Floor" Right?" After all, the tried-and-true plots such as the resurrection of the dead, the reversal of the wicked, and the reversal of three combos still work, and can stimulate the audience's desire to challenge "I'll see how unreasonable you can be".
and the actors' performances are generally more serious and restrained than the script, and they just interpret the dark horror that people can't take seriously into the cold gothic style . Of course, it is also "blame" these actors, people always look forward to a bullish market outlook, and finally waste time chasing a drama that you want to forget quickly.
