first travels to the dying person;
then contributes a life-changing drama that goes against the will of heaven.
This is the most common story structure of online YY novels.
However, in a recent Korean drama that set off a viewing frenzy, the unlucky male protagonist frantically collected lunch boxes 12 times, and his death became more unjust and more miserable each time.
Plane crash;
Fall to death;
Shot to death;
Suffocation;
Car accident;
Every way you can think of to die, the director who suffers from great sorrow and hatred has arranged it for the male protagonist.
However, do you dare to imagine?
is such an unlucky male protagonist. In the midst of life and death, he launched a desperate counterattack against his enemies and the God of Death at the same time.
Today Tomato would like to recommend to everyone this new super Korean drama with a Douban score of .5 and a combination of imagination and scale -
"Death is Coming"
01
Cui Yi, who has infinite vision for the future, would never have dreamed of it in . ,
's own life went astray because of an accident.
Cui Yi was successfully shortlisted for the final interview of , a top Korean company, Taikang Group.
However, during the interview, he witnessed an extremely tragic car accident.
Because of her mentality being affected, Cui Yizai's final encounter ended in failure.
What he didn't expect even more was that this incident was like the first domino, triggering a series of bad luck effects in his life.
He is burdened with high student loans;
has repeatedly failed in interviews;
The burden of life makes Cui Yi unable to breathe. Not only is he unable to realize his previous ambitions, he is also unable to give his girlfriend a happy future.
With her life reduced to this point, Cui Yi finally chose to jump on the rooftop and hastily end her young life.
At least in his opinion, death is the simplest thing.
However, although Cui Yizai's body was destroyed, his soul was not freed.
The God of Death believed that Cui Yi was blaspheming and despising death, so she decided to punish the male protagonist to experience life and death twelve times again.
Cui Yizai will possess twelve dying people: If Cui Yizai can escape the fate of death, then he can continue to live with this identity; otherwise, he will be sent to the most terrifying place by the God of Death. Infinite purgatory.
For the first time, Cui Yi possessed the second generation chaebol Park Jintae .
As the successor of Taikang Group, Park Zhentai is sitting on inexhaustible wealth and power. Everything Cui Yi had longed for was now within reach with a single "soul penetration".
But just when the male protagonist was excited about his new identity, the plane he was traveling on unexpectedly exploded.
For the second time, Choi Yi-jae possessed the body of extreme athlete Song Jae-sub .
Taikang Group invited Song Jae-seop to challenge a high-altitude emergency landing without a parachute. He needs to jump from an altitude of tens of thousands of meters and accurately fall into the life-saving net. If the challenge is successful, he will receive a high bonus of 3 billion won.
But when Cui Yi tried to fight with Song Jae-seop's ability, he ended up with a tragic death on his head.
For the third time, Cui Yizai possessed the body of junior high school student Quan Hexiu .
Kwon Hyuk-soo was originally a timid boy, but he also became the exclusive target of the school bully. But for Cui Yizai, who has experienced life and death, these are just child's play. With a little effort, he managed the school bully to be submissive.
What made Cui Yi collapse was that the incompetent school bully used some alcohol to beat the male protagonist to death when he didn't have any spare parts.
At this time, Cui Yi didn't want to die that much. He wanted to make money and survive.
However, the God of Death was unwilling to obey his wishes after all.
For the fourth time, he possessed the body of a gangster who was being retaliated against, and what he got seemed to be the script of "The Bourne Supremacy".
For the fifth time, he possessed the young boxer who took the blame, and the story seemed to have become the plot of "Prison Storm".
One against ten in hand-to-hand combat;
's marksmanship is always on target;
Cui Yi's two rebirths are unimaginable plots like thriller movies.
However, even such cheating characters eventually died at the hands of their closest lovers and friends.
Finally, for the sixth time, Cui Yizai became a baby who was still in infancy but was killed by his biological parents.
On the one hand, he has seen all the warmth and warmth of human relationships and the entanglements of love and hate in the world. On the other hand, he also firmly believes that the God of Death is deliberately playing tricks on him.
But after experiencing the seventh death, Cui Yi found that her experience was not that simple!
02
Cui Yizai’s seventh possessed object is a star named Zhang Jianyu .
He was young, rich, and lived a comfortable life, which allowed Cui Yi to enjoy a few days of revelry.
However, on this day, Cui Yizai, who transformed into Zhang Jianyu, met his ex-girlfriend - Jisoo.
The love buried deep in her heart swept over her, making Cui Yi uncontrollably start to contact Zhixiu; Zhixiu also felt that the strange man in front of her always reminded her of her late boyfriend.
Just when Cui Yi wanted to tell his girlfriend the truth about reincarnation, a tragedy happened to them.
A high-speed sports car directly hit Zhixiu to death, and Cui Yizai was also seriously injured and fell to the ground and was expected to die soon.
While she was dying, Cui Yi saw clearly the appearance of the perpetrator - Park Taiwoo , the second-generation successor of Taikang Group.
This man named Park Taiyu did not have any fear or anxiety. On the contrary, his face was filled with contempt and indifference towards the passing of life.
The memories of several rebirths instantly filled Cui Yizai’s head, and the male protagonist suddenly discovered that Park Taiyu was actually related to the objects of several rebirths.
Park Tae Woo once hired the murderer Lee Joo Hoon (the subject of the fourth rebirth) to cause a plane crash to kill his younger brother Park Jin Tae (the subject of the first rebirth);
In order to prevent his brother's plane crash from attracting public attention, he recruited Song Jae Sub (the subject of the first rebirth). The subject of the second rebirth) performed an extreme challenge to win the public's attention, but the latter ended up tragically dead;
Park Taiyu himself was also an outlaw. Back then, he killed someone in a traffic accident, which was what influenced the male protagonist to participate in the interview. This was also the trigger for Cui Yizai (the male protagonist) to commit suicide by jumping off a building;
and the scapegoat found in the traffic accident was the young Zhao Taishang (the target of the fifth rebirth) at the time. After he was released from prison, it was Park Taiwoo who silenced him.
Now, Park Taiyu drives his car and kills Jang Gun Woo (the target of the seventh rebirth) and Ji Soo.
It is no exaggeration to say that Park Tae Woo not only killed Cui Yi Jae's girlfriend, but also directly or indirectly caused Cui Yi Jae's five deaths!
When Cui Yi ushered in her eighth rebirth, she was possessed by the serial murderer Zheng Kuizhe.
At this time, the male protagonist has only one goal, which is to take revenge on Park Taiyu!
Mr. Tomato thought that this time Cui Yi would choose to use violence to revenge Park Tae Woo, but he did not expect that the male protagonist was once again counterattacked by the villain Park Tae Woo. This is probably Cui Yi's many life and death experiences. The most painful time in my life.
However, just when the audience and the god of death were sweating for Cui Yijae, Cui Yijae said that she died in the hands of Park Taiyu on purpose.
And he wanted to use his ninth rebirth to launch a real counterattack against this destined enemy.
What is Cui Yi, who has been reborn many times, planning?
Can the murderous Park Tae-woo be punished?
What will be the ending of the male protagonist after being reborn twelve times?
This is a new Korean drama with a large scale and imagination, and fans are waiting to reveal the answer themselves!
03
"Death is Coming", Douban scored .6.
The audience may be praising the splendid gathering, but Tomato is once again impressed by the degree of industrialization of Korean movies and dramas!
In Tomato’s view, this work has three highlights.
One of the series has an unprecedented lineup.
Cui Yi-jae's body is starred by actor Seo In-guk . He was well-known to Chinese audiences for his participation in the second male lead in the Korean drama "The Master's Sun".
In this film, Choi Yi-jae's identity connects multiple rebirths, and he also needs to interpret the helplessness, pain, mania and anxiety of different rebirth objects at the same time. Seo In-guk also uses his acting skills to interpret this role vividly.
The villain Park Tae Woo in the play is led by actor Kim Ji Hoon . In the past two years, he has participated in popular dramas such as "House of Money (Korean Version)" and "Ballet Revenge". He is known in the Korean circle The limelight lasted for a while.
For the evil Park Tae Woo in the film, he has a contrasting image of being humble in front of others and crazy in others, but Kim Ji Hoon seems to be very familiar with the challenge of this contrast.
In addition to the two male protagonists, the male protagonist Cui Yi experiences life and death in the film, and the object of each rebirth is performed by Korea's top male god.
Choi Siwon plays the second-generation chaebol Park Jintae, Lee Dae-hyun plays the popular actor Jang Gun-woo, Lee Jae-wook plays the young boxer Zhao Taesang.
can see that the producers spent a lot of money and thought on the casting to achieve such a high degree of fit between the actors and the characters.
Second, the mind is wide open, and Paul is reborn to set everything.
The setting of the protagonist falling into a cycle of life and death is frankly nothing new.
From "The Butterfly Effect" to "Terror Cruise", from "Source Code" to "Edge of Tomorrow", the audience may have long been accustomed to this kind of design that can't be relieved after death ten thousand times.
In the rebirths of the series mentioned earlier, the protagonists will be themselves every time they are reborn.
This setting is like playing a cleared video game - every time you die, you will return to the starting point and take one more step forward with the accumulation of experience. This is a linear story structure.
However, the new work "Death is Coming" changes the gameplay of rebirth.
male protagonist Cui Yi will open a different "game version" every time he is reborn, and the truth of revenge and the true meaning of life is no longer a simple linear story, but has become a "jigsaw puzzle" composed of multiple stories. The audience follows the male protagonist to piece it together and finally sees the whole story clearly.
And this setting also has another very interesting gimmick, which is to turn "Death is Coming" into a rich plot feast.
Because the scenes of rebirth are different, each time he is reborn, it seems like he has entered a new set.
The first and second rebirth is a thriller, with aerial horror and crash landing.
's fourth and fifth rebirth is an action chapter, with punches to the flesh and deadly moves.
The third time, the seventh rebirth, the story focuses on family affection and love, making the audience cry.
Of course, what I have to mention here is the eighth most restrictive rebirth. When the bloodthirsty serial killer meets the rich second generation who kills innocent people indiscriminately, it feels like "the devil versus the beast". It is the signature cuisine of Korean movies.
In short, the producers of "Immediate Death" used pure production techniques and script settings to make this series a gluttonous feast that contains various elements but is not inconsistent.
Third, the meaning of torture of life and death is universal.
As we all know, South Korea’s suicide rate ranks high in East Asia and even the world. The various pitiful situations in which the male protagonist Choi Yi-jae is struggling to survive in the film may be a true portrayal of Korean migrant workers, and will also arouse strong resonance among the audience.
However, when the male protagonist has different identities and roles, Tomato believes that his emotions as an ordinary audience are real:
Everyone faces his own dilemma;
Everyone has his own happiness;
We Although your life will encounter intrigues and intrigues, you will also have ordinary and great family affection and love. We neither need to envy the power and wealth of others nor succumb to our own fate and suffering.
Looking at "The Day Is Dead", South Korea has really spared no effort to reduce the suicide rate.
The plot arranges Cui Yi to have many conversations with the God of Death that are rich in the philosophy of life. It seems that the purpose is to tell the audience - live well, there are many people who are worse than you!
The best anti-suicide promotional film of the year has to be "Death is Coming".
Overall, "The End of Days" is another new film after "Aliens" that deserves to be highly recommended.
If you are short of movies recently, this series is definitely the best choice that you should not miss.
(Movie Rotten Tomatoes Editorial Department: Ouou)
