Two months ago, "The Hidden Corner" was on fire, and the villain in the play, Zhang Dongsheng, quickly became popular.
Thanks to the superb acting skills of actor Qin Hao, this evil Sven scum who looks like a nest in the inside is vividly portrayed.
In particular, the lines in the play, "Do you climb the mountain together" and "Do I still have a chance", have become shadow scenes in many people's hearts.
So many reviews said:
The collective nightmare of the previous generation of audiences is Feng Yuanzheng of "Don't Talk to Strangers", while the shadow of the new generation of childhood is Qin Hao of "The Hidden Corner".
The shadow left by Zhang Dongsheng has not yet dissipated, and a two-sided villain has also appeared in a Korean drama that has just been broadcast recently.
The male protagonist in the play is ostensibly a perfect husband, but behind the scenes, he is a serial murderer with a black belly and a murderous heart.
And his wife is a righteous policewoman, so she is destined to stage a love and murder with her husband.
I have to say that this kind of "marriage inside and outside is a scam" persona is simply too emotional!
At present, the show has only broadcast two episodes, and more than 10,000 viewers on Douban have scored a high score of 9.1 -
The Flower of Evil
(aka: Flower of Evil)
The drama is directed by Kim Chul-gyu, who has previously directed many blockbuster Korean dramas.
Whether it is the historical theme of "Huang Zhenyi", or the remake of the Japanese drama of the same name, or last year's crime theme high-scoring drama "Confessions", all of them are high-quality Korean dramas with fast narrative rhythm and excellent production standards.
Also known as "My Horror Husband", "Flower of Evil" is produced by tvN, the golden sign of the Korean drama industry.
As early as before the start of the broadcast, it has attracted the attention of many Korean drama fans, because the main cast of the show is quite eye-catching.
The male protagonist in the play is the Korean male god Lee Joon Ki, who won the Korean Baeksang Arts Awards Newcomer Actor Award for his role in the costume film "The King's Man", and the film eventually set a record of 12.3 million viewers. After that, "Nocturnal Scholar" and "Step by Step Thrilling Li" established his status as a male god of Korean dramas.
King's man
Now 38 years old, his acting skills are more and more pure, from weak drama to civilian heroes to cold kings, all kinds of contrasting roles can be digested, idols, espionage, social, magic and other themes are involved. In this "Flower of Evil", Lee Joon Ki once again subverted the image, challenging to play a serial murderer "Du Xianxiu" who was a former sage and changed his face after a person, in order to get a peaceful and happy life now, cheated his wife for the past fourteen years.
This role appears as a gentle and easy-going humble gentleman, she is a good husband in the eyes of his wife, a good father in his daughter's heart, not only has a successful career, but also cooks, takes children, and does housework, which is simply a textbook example of a perfect good man.
However, when Lee Joon-ki's sunny smile made the audience let down their guard, the style of the play suddenly changed, directly subverting the audience's previous cognition - it turned out that all this was just his disguise, and behind his back, he was actually a suspect in a serial murder case wanted by the police for many years.
And the happy expressions and smiles he exudes in front of his family and wife, from the corners of his mouth to the wrinkles of his eyes, are actually the effects he has designed many times in front of the mirror.
How, this change from Mr. Perfect to the Murderer before and after, is it emotional and exciting?
In the play, the opponent play with Lee Joon Ki is the goddess Wen Caiyuan, who is also a popular actress with good looks and acting skills, and this drama is also the second drama in which she and Lee Joon Ki co-starred after "Criminal Minds".
The wife "Che Zhiyuan", played by Chinese Caiyuan, is a criminal police officer of the serious crime team, who loves her husband deeply, and originally thought that she had a happy and happy family, but she did not know that there was a huge lie hidden behind it.
The opening scene of the play is high energy, and the director uses a scene of life and death to create suspense as soon as he comes up.
The male protagonist played by Lee Joon Ki, Baek Hee Sung, was covered in blood, seemed to be seriously injured, and was tied to the bottom of the swimming pool.
Just when he was about to suffocate and coma, the heroine Che Zhiyuan, played by Wen Caiyuan, jumped into the water and quickly came to her husband's side, trying to save the person she loved.
However, looking at his wife who was desperate for himself, Lee Joon Ki's eyes were full of sadness and said a meaningful line:
Want me to tell you, what kind of person am I?
There is no doubt that this scene has hinted at the fate of the male and female protagonists who fall in love and kill each other later.
Immediately after, the style of painting changed, and the story officially began.
The male protagonist, Baek Hee Sung, is a metal craftsman who runs a studio in South Korea and has a happy family. His wife, Che Zhiyuan, is an observant policewoman, lively and cheerful, courageous and resourceful, and the two have a daughter together.
Although the couple has been married for many years, they love each other as before, and from time to time they will have a dream kiss and sprinkle dog food wildly when they have nothing to do.
What makes Zhiyuan feel even happier is that because of his busy work, he usually neglects to take care of his daughter, but her husband is proficient in washing and cooking with a baby, and all the trivial matters at home do not worry about Zhiyuan. So much so that the teachers of the daughter's kindergarten commented:
Husband Bai Xicheng is simply the most perfect man in the world.
However, under this seemingly perfect appearance of happiness, there are hidden all kinds of uneasiness.
It happened to be the birthday of her husband, Bai Xicheng, so the family decided to have dinner and invited Bai Xicheng's parents.
But I didn't expect that the in-laws were not satisfied with their daughter-in-law, and they were not only indifferent at the dinner table, but also sarcastically ridiculed Zhiyuan in their words.
However, when Zhiyuan left early because of work, the next conversation completely exposed the illusion behind the family.
Bai Mu taunts him that such a person with a black history and the police are born a pair is a joke, and Bai Father asks him if he and Zhiyuan have any feelings. But Bai Xicheng replied creepily:
He is with Zhiyuan only because "Zhiyuan is very easy to cope with".
In other words, Zhiyuan trusts herself very much, so it is too good to deceive!
Originally it was just an ordinary family gathering, but the vicious language and tit-for-tat dialogue made the audience understand that this is not the norm that ordinary families should have. It is not difficult to guess that this so-called parent is not the biological parents of the male protagonist at all, and even Bai Xicheng's identity is a mystery.
With the extension of the plot, we find that Tao Hyun-so has many defects, he is a patient with emotional expression disorder.
So he often practiced how to express a happy smile at his mobile phone at home. When the wife shows happiness, he will deliberately observe the other party's expression and correspondingly show a happy look.
Man's seven passions and six desires are natural, but he needs to practice deliberately.
The next story repeatedly jumps in lies and illusions, gradually unveiling the black history behind Bai Xicheng, while bringing the audience a kind of roller coaster-like puzzle-solving pleasure.
It all starts with a murder eighteen years ago.
At that time, the male protagonist was still called Du Xianxiu, he and his family lived in a village, because the family was persecuted by the village chief, his father Du Minxi killed the village chief's family of 7 people, the victims have a characteristic: the corpse is wearing a rope noose around the neck, the ankle on one side is permanently damaged, and the nails of the thumbs and index fingers of both hands are pulled out.
After the case occurred, Du Minxi committed suicide, the police deduced that the murderer suffered from mental illness, and finally committed suicide in fear of guilt, and then hastily closed the case. At the same time, after the incident, Do Hyun-so mysteriously disappeared.
More than a decade later, when Du Hyun-so reappeared in the public eye, he already had a new identity - Baek Hee-sung, a metal craftsman, and later married Ji Yuan.
Originally, Du Hyun-so could continue to live in anonymity by relying on Bai Xicheng's identity, but he did not expect that one day he accidentally bumped into his former high school classmate Jin Wuzhen.
At this time, the other party had become a reporter, and was writing some famous serial murder reports, and he remembered the murder committed by Du Hyun-so and his father, Do Min-seok.
After unexpectedly arriving at Baek Hee Sung's studio, he recognized the real identity of the other party on the spot.
Smelling the dangerous smell, the male protagonist did not intend to let the reporter leave.
One second they were pretending to be very happy about their old friends reuniting, and the next second they became fierce and black, tying each other up and locking them up in a secret room.
However, when he returned home, he could quickly change back to the gentle husband, coaxing his daughter to eat and amusing his wife, as if nothing had happened.
Shan Chong's performance of great contrast between before and after has already made people's backs chill and chill.
In addition, the drama has a second line, the crime line of the heroine Cha Zhiyuan.
Each episode of the show has a separate small case, and from the process of solving these cases, we can see that the heroine is a thoughtful and logical female criminal policeman.
In the first episode, it is a case of a child accidentally falling from a building.
A child lied that his father had pushed him down the stairs, but the truth of the matter was that his father had already cheated on him and often fed some drugs that would cause insanity to his mother.
Timid children do not dare to expose their father's tricks, and can only take advantage of the accident to push the matter off their father's head.
The first time the heroine and the child's father met, they saw a little catty from his dress, and immediately found evidence of his father's cheating.
Subsequently, Zhiyuan once again relied on her excellent observation to find that the drugs often taken by the child's mother had been changed, coupled with the details of the child's mother's frequent forgetfulness, and gradually clarified the truth.
In fact, the truth is that the man secretly adjusts his wife's drugs, and the man wants his wife to get out of the house. After the child knows the truth, he deliberately identifies his father, hoping to make the mother hate his father and alleviate the pain of her betrayal.
This case is easily reminiscent of Zhang Dongsheng's wife-killing and family property case in "The Hidden Corner", as well as the "strange disappearance of his wife" that has recently been rumored on the Internet.
The second case was a "murder of an elderly person living alone".
The police initially focused their suspicions on the deceased's gambling son, but later found out that it was park Se-young, a well-behaved girl from the welfare institution who was the first to report the crime.
As for her reason for choosing to kill people, it is also outrageous, but it is because she has to walk many steps every day to see the old man. And climbing the stairs day after day made her collapse, so she simply killed, a hundred.
It is worth noting that the two cases seem to be unrelated, but there is actually a common feature behind them:
They are committed by people close to the victim, and the murderers are extremely good at hiding their hearts.
At this point in the story, the main line has gradually become clear, and it is not difficult to guess the intention of the screenwriter in the next plot:
Use the case encountered by the female protagonist to guide her step by step to doubt the identity of the male protagonist.
When the truth is revealed, let the heroine fall into the dilemma of justice and love, so the later plot must be abused to die and live to estimate that it is inevitable.
Although the show has only aired two episodes so far, the screenwriter has been digging holes continuously, making people look forward to the follow-up plot.
In the end, has the male protagonist ever killed anyone?
Why would he take the risk of marrying the police heroine?
After that, in what way will the heroine intervene in the serial murder case of that year?
This drama is easily reminiscent of last year's hit American drama "Deadly Woman".
The most frightening thing about the play is that—
Some seem harmless, but they are dangerous people, which makes people invincible.
What's even more terrifying is that he's actually hiding around you.
The most romantic thing I can think of is to love and kill you until you are old.
This kind of "marriage horror" theme often makes people feel that the plot is toxic and destroys the three views, but once it is in the pit, it makes people want to watch it.
Coupled with the human criticism that Korean dramas are best at, the behavior or words of each character have a deep meaning. In the smooth shift of narrative focus, the face and heart of each character gradually become clear, and the scope of the audience's understanding of the truth also increases.
Overall --
The rhythm of this "Flower of Evil" is solid and suspenseful, and the setting of male gods and goddesses falling in love and killing each other is also very enjoyable to watch.
I only hope that the screenwriter can stabilize in the later stage, don't mess up!