In the past two years, South Korea and "Ugly Girl Turned Over" related film and television works have been one after another. From "My ID is Gangnam Beauty" in 2018 to the hit "Goddess Descending" in 2020, it has received many viewers' attention.
In this type of drama: the ugly woman turning over to meet the handsome male protagonist is a gimmick, jumping out of the appearance anxiety to find the value of self-existence is the core, thus constructing a sweet and thought-provoking story, so as to obtain high scores.
Recently, there is another Korean drama of the same type, "Shadow Beauty", which is online. But what is different is that the style of this drama is not youthful romance, but the dark tone of "all the staff is crazy and sue and perverted".
The anti-routine setting is eye-catching, and it has strongly attracted the audience from the first episode. Therefore, it was praised as the dark version of "Goddess Coming", and received a five-star super high evaluation of "good stimulation and good like".
1, the sick petite squad leader x deceived the beautiful woman to burst
As the title suggests, the main line of "Shadow Beauty" is the story of an ordinary girl named "Gu Aizhen" who has become a popular Internet celebrity "genie" with many fans through superb makeup technology and PS technology.
However, these beauties only exist in the Network. In real life, Aizhen is still an ordinary girl, and even because of her not-so-good-looking appearance, she was violently attacked by the school.
Aizhen is powerless to resist such a life, so she can only use the praise words of fans on the Internet to comfort herself and gain the courage to continue living.
But I didn't expect that this secret had long been known to the "sick class leader Kim Hao-jin" in the class. Using this as a threat, Kim Ho-jin asks Ai-jin to accompany him to play the game, otherwise he will expose Aizhen's secret in public...
From the first shot of the scene, the squad leader Kim Ho-jin shows a feeling of "sick and crazy". Use the most harmless expressions of people and animals to make Su and perverted moves, so that the audience directly calls out for stimulation -
Ask Aizhen to take a selfie in front of her, and then stare intently at Aizhen, who is retouching the picture, and sincerely praise Aizhen's eyes. The distance between the words is getting closer and closer, and it is almost the next second that they will kiss it.
Secretly track Aizhen, happy to bring home the coffee that Aizhen left on the bench, and do not allow anyone to touch it.
When Aizhen was choked by bread, she intimately handed over water, and affectionately said, "You are vaguely very unsettling." Four eyes confessed relatively seriously, "I am a favorite fan." ”
He even broke the social media convention of never using a photo as an avatar, setting the photo taken by Aizhen for himself as an avatar, "enjoying that only I know that Aizhen is actually the secret of genie".
It is reasonable to say that in the face of Haoren, who knows his secret, Aizhen should be afraid. But Aizhen did not have such emotions, because in a sense "the two are the same kind of people".
AiZhen hides the secret that she is a deceitful Internet celebrity, and Haoren hides her curiosity to spy on the lives of others, and both have masks that they do not want to be discovered by others.
Under such a setting, the two people's relationship with each other becomes "evenly matched". Ai Zhen is not afraid of Haoren's threat, but treats it as a secret that the two share. When we spend time together every day, we are intimately lying together in the sun, playing on the roof, and the sweet atmosphere overflows the screen.
Even if the relationship between the two is not a high-sweet love in the conventional sense, it is "intimate closeness between two identical souls", which is even better.
2. All members of the evil person set with a sense of feeling
In "Shadow Beauty", the tone of the first half of the story is Su and perverted, and the intimate interaction between Aizhen and Haoren is the biggest attraction. In the second half of the story, the suspense branch line is opened, and the full set of villains is gradually unfolded.
Aizhen and net red genie are the same person, which is the premise of the story. But no one expected that Song Meizhen, a girl who looked exactly like Genie, suddenly turned in the class, and lied that she was Genie.
On the other hand, Yang Tiantian, a girl who has been violently loving Zhen on campus, is also jealous of the "intimate relationship between boyfriend Haoren and Aizhen", and she has found out that Aizhen is a genie thing. Under the setting of all the evil people, will AiZhen's secret be exposed? What is Song Meizhen's purpose in pretending to be genie? The follow-up to the story is exciting.
3. Secrets under a beautiful mask
On the surface, the reason why Aizhen is addicted to the vanity and happiness brought about by the "internet celebrity identity" is because she wants to escape from the bad reality, but in fact, it is all related to the death of her sister. Instead of pretending to be very happy on the Internet, it is better to say that he wants to live the "life that originally belonged to his sister" on the Internet. The secret under the mask of this internet celebrity identity is warm and heartbreaking.
The secret of the girl Yang Tiantian insisting on exercising every day and paying attention to the image at all times, hoping to show the most beautiful state at every moment, is that when she was young, her father abandoned her mother and chose to be with a younger and more beautiful woman. From that moment on, "pretty girl" became Yang Tiantian's biggest dream. Not because I want to be a presence in the limelight, but because of the harm of my original family.
The secret under the pretty mask is pointed out sharply by Shadow Beauty. Complete the discussion on the value of self-existence and life pain: After having a beautiful appearance, you must be able to become happy? The answer is self-evident.
I hope that after watching this series, all people with anxious appearances can usher in reconciliation with themselves. At the same time, I hope that all people living under the pain can bravely walk out of the shadows and embrace the sunshine.