Recently, the Korean drama "ltns" has attracted attention on social networks. This is a comedy about the husband samuel who is a taxi driver and his wife Yuzhen who is the hotel receptionist. They use their respective positions to track cheating couples who are unfaithful in their marriage and make large sums of money from them. story.
"Large scale" is one of the keywords that initially attracted viewers to "ltns". But when you really open the series, many viewers will find that what is really attractive is not the so-called "large scale", but the care for people. In the play, the protagonists of each unit story are cheaters, and the reasons for their cheating are also various. For example, a young girl falls in love with a married man. After the affair is revealed, she truly understands who he is and what kind of partner and love she needs. There is also a couple with gray hair. The woman has never received love and respect in her original marriage. She has worked hard for her family all her life. The one who really accompanies her is not her husband and children, but a dog. There is also a young wife who, on the one hand, works hard to maintain her decent marriage, but on the other hand, rekindles an old relationship with her former lover. When her cheating was discovered and she was told to pay a high amount of hush money, she became determined. She expressed her determination to continue dating her former lover. In her opinion, this was a choice to be loyal to her own feelings and also a resistance to her husband's harsh treatment of her.
To excuse a husband or wife who has had an affair in a marriage is certainly not the original intention of "ltns". The series uses this special group of people to present various aspects of society, including Mr. and Mrs. Samuel. Samuel graduated from Seoul National University. After his business failed, he could only work as a taxi driver. He and his wife worked hard and finally bought a small house. However, housing prices plummeted. If he wanted to sell the house, he had to accept the housing price. The reality of the decline is that otherwise they will have to continue to pay the mortgage that is weighing them down. Yuzhen's niece is a piano genius and has won first place in various piano competitions. However, Yuzhen's sister, the niece's mother, is desperate because she cannot afford to pay for her daughter to learn piano. By chance, Samuel and Yuzhen discovered that they could get "hush money" by tracking those who cheated on them. These expenses are used by them to support their families and make up for the lost house payment.
samuel and Yuzhen drive their taxi like city rangers, performing their tasks. Especially at the beginning of the series, they discovered that a prosecutor was cheating on her. During the tracking process, they discovered that the prosecutor was entertaining relatives and friends in a luxury hotel with expensive wine. When watching this, many viewers will probably think that Samuel and Yuzhen finally broke through many obstacles, finally exposed the prosecutor's derailment in the seemingly unreasonable tracking, and completed a major anti-corruption event. But in fact, this drama is not about Samuel’s fight with the prosecutor, nor is it about social justice. The final topic of the drama is mental cheating or physical cheating. Which one is unfaithful to a marriage, and which one is more harmful to a marriage? serious.
After Samuel and Yuzhen lost their passion in their marriage, one cheated mentally and the other physically, but they both insisted that the other's behavior was the most serious harm to their marriage. They blamed each other, neither got the answers they wanted, ended up divorcing, and the house that had been bothering them was sold. They no longer need to worry about the falling housing prices, or the increasingly estranged relationship between husband and wife. But at this time, they begin to reflect on themselves, instead of blindly blaming each other, and cherish each other's existence like they did when they first fell in love.
In the drama, the Samuel couple are played by actors Ahn Jae-hong and Li Xu, who are familiar to Chinese audiences. The former is impressive for his role as Zhengfeng Oppa in the classic Korean drama " Please Reply 1988", and the latter is famous for his role in "Model" There is a wonderful performance in "Taxi".In addition, some of the designs in the play also made the audience exclaim that they were wonderful after watching the finale. For example, the person who had Samuel's affair was actually living next to them, but Yuzhen was not aware of it; another example was that someone was spotted on the wall of the house one day. They sprayed threatening words, and there were blood stains on the water bottles they bought before. The audience thought that the couple might be followed for revenge, but when the mystery was revealed, it made people laugh and cry. As they follow the prosecutor, brand-name wine from China is also shown on camera, and it becomes an important prop in the subsequent plot. For many Chinese viewers, this plot is somewhat unexpected.
"Large scale" is part of this Korean drama, but only a very small part of it. Compared with "large scale", this Korean drama wants to express something else, and it wants the audience to think about other things, such as social issues and marriage issues. Marriage and society are not isolated from each other, they are inextricably linked.
Reporter: Jiang Dan Editor: Xu Zheng Proofreader: Yang Hefang
