in love.
In addition to suspense and politics, the love part is what I think "Bodyguard" does the best, and I will explain why I think so below.
I have always wanted to find some romance dramas to watch, and want to fill my mind with love waste. So I went to watch the recently popular Korean drama Gangnam Beauty, and watched the recently popular domestic drama Story of Yanxi Palace, but sorry, I failed. I went to watch the romance, but these two dramas with clear love lines between male and female protagonists are both Makes me uninterested. Why? Because I found that even when it comes to dating, I want the protagonists to talk in a context of equality and de-labeling. Mutual equality means that the time is not set in an era where men determine the status of women, and de-labeling means that the protagonists are not "warm men" or "green tea bitches", they are just living people.
This is achieved in "Bodyguard".
You can label the male protagonist and say he is a "little wolf dog", or you can think of this relationship as "old cow eating tender grass", no matter how you want to flatten and label the chemical reaction between the male and female protagonists, I Just want to define it as the mutual support between two vulnerable people. In my opinion, the relationship between them goes far beyond the simple plot settings of "the emperor falls in love with the palace maid" or "the school grass falls in love with passers-by" in the two TV dramas mentioned above. This relationship is not labelable. Single, catering to the audience, but complex, this is the real relationship between people, this is the real existence in our daily life.
The audience may like to see the story that the prince fell in love with the Minnv and abandoned his honorary status for her, etc., but when the "Prince" in the story is a strong woman in politics, she is strong on the surface but fragile on the inside; A male bodyguard, on the surface, is a "big man" and suffers from PTSD at heart. This kind of trick of swapping gender status often seen in TV dramas, coupled with the various vulnerabilities of the two, collided. Sparks blows my mind more than any idol drama. What is falling in love, in my opinion, all the lack of thinking, the same earthy love words, kissing and hugging and other "sweet" are not "love" in my mind. Westerners call love a "relationship", or "a relationship", which is only related to the two people in the relationship. It doesn't have to be "sweet", I think it needs to include some pain, some fragility. A relationship is not just two people sharing happiness, but two people sharing pain and supporting each other as people. In this fragile exchange I see love, and some of the most intimate emotions between humans. That's why vulnerability is beautiful, it reminds me of the best that could happen between human beings.
When the female protagonist covered the male protagonist's hands with trembling hands, what I saw were not politicians and bodyguards, but two people who were crying "Hug me, I am in pain" in their hearts, testing and circling, at that moment They're so beautiful, all the labels peel off on them, all the protection melts away; and when you think about someone trying to understand that feeling with "old cow eats young grass", how can you not be outraged.
What I want to express is that when most TV dramas are trying to build a fake relationship, trying to convince the audience that love words and sugar make up the whole relationship, "Bodyguard" is telling us what a real "relationship" is. , don't try to reject pain and vulnerability, they are what make you real.
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