I wrote about the usefulness of "useless plot" before.
I watched the last two episodes last night, yes, the two episodes that made countless people want to send blades to the screenwriter.
Let's talk again. It's speculation, it's business communication...
The previous article said a word "logically self-consistent". That is, the logical unity and integrity of a story. When we write a story, whether it is a reality drama or a fantasy drama, we need to be logically self-consistent, that is, the whole story goes on in one logic. What a novelist does is weave a new world, which can be grounded, parallel to reality, or the opposite.
When we watch brain-burning films such as "Inception" and "Interstellar", we use some existing scientific theories, psychological and physical, to understand the logic in the film, the folding and overlapping of time and space.
In the face of fantasy dramas, especially fantasy with a traditional foundation, the so-called rationality and logic will be slightly weaker.
The starting point of the narrative logic of "Goblin" is: people have four lives. In other words, even if he was reincarnated, he would only be reincarnated four times. This is a traditional Korean saying, which is a little different from Buddhism. Buddhism does not have the limit of the number "four", just like playing a game, you can keep going again and again.
The logic of hell and heaven exists in both China and the West, Buddhism and Christianity. Reincarnation is eastern. Life is given by God, not suicide is Christian. (The main reason why Wang Li was punished as a messenger from hell was "suicide")
There is no clear religious reference in the play. It can be understood that the screenwriter combined these existing religions and created a world by himself. (Combining traditional Korean culture, legends, Buddhism, Christianity - still a story in a Korean context).
Drink a cup of tea and forget about the water before you go. There are also Chinese stories. In the past, Andy Lau sang "Give me a cup of forgetful water". (The screenwriter is Dehua Fan)
Forgetting is compassion for people, which the screenwriter also mentioned. The work scenes of the final journey of the messenger from hell are always warm and compassionate, with small stories, human scenes, and various situations in the world.
According to rational logic. A computer has limited memory. To run it, you need to brush your emotions from time to time. Not to mention people.
Here comes the question.
The little bride chose not to drink the water of forgetfulness, so how did the ten years of reincarnation go. Imagine a baby, born with 29 years of memory, life experience, common sense... Isn't it scary? If you refine the plot, these memories are not brought from childhood, but gradually recovered (corresponding to age), then maybe it is more logical and less scary.
Even, as a scumbag, I even thought that if this child didn't lose his memory, it would be too cool to read... a direct child prodigy.
In episode 14, the bride recovers her memory. The logic of this stalk has duality. Contradictory, not contradictory. Paradoxically, since God had erased her memory, rethinking it is not feasible at the "human" level (it's not a car accident and amnesia), and it can only be understood as God's care. Not paradoxically, the love line. If the memory of the little sister and the ghost is cleared, then the 14 episodes will tell how a handsome and rich man pursues a radio Dj, and the story will be vulgar.
Then why did the screenwriter let the bride die in episode 16?
I guess it's the writer's narrative ambition.
As mentioned in the previous article, the screenwriter constantly implants "three views" in an entertainment drama: good and evil, and the reincarnation of people. The messenger of hell is to maintain the world order, and human life and death are a kind of world order. The "Butterfly God" is a high-level leader who arranges the main line of the characters' destiny; the grandmother of the three gods and Andy Lau, who is possessed by the gods, are the executors and develop under the advancement of the human world; the ghost uncle is regarded as a "Robin Hood" outside the establishment, and he will meet from time to time. Hoe the strong to help the weak.
The main line of logic of the screenwriter is: life and death.
Every time the last leg of the messenger of the underworld is a life discussion meeting. A dying scene. An extreme scene. All have the mouths of characters, and some continuous life experiences flow out. The messenger caressed or drank to them. Everyone is equal before death, there is no class difference, and wealth cannot be taken away. Good people go to heaven, bad people go to hell. There is even a stalk of the Civil War, which is a national narrative.
A love film that could have been happy with sugar and dog abuse, why should the heroine be arranged to die?
When the bride died, the messenger of hell said: The sacrifice of human beings cannot be arranged by God. That is to say, the greatness of man makes him surpass God at this moment. This is also the motif mentioned in countless literary works: human nature, reaching divinity at some point. Possessed by the divine. The ascension of man.
God, man, and ghost are the three dimensions involved in the story. God is the highest level and controls the fate of the characters.
Is that fate, the fate beyond the human world, unchangeable? Since everything is set, why do you want people to come?
So the screenwriter began to contend with God as a human being. There was a joke in the first few episodes. In the tea room of the underworld, anxious humans broke in. The ghosts were amazed, "It turns out that the will of man can be so strong."
Also, Dehua was possessed by God after drinking and said, "Fate is the question I asked, and the answer is for you to find."
Therefore, these people are fighting with their will. Jin Shan said, "What is God? It's obviously our own memory and our own life, and we will figure it out. Why should God make his own decisions?
This goes back to an old philosophical proposition. From God to man, Schopenhauer said "man's free will".
At the script reading meeting before filming, Gong Yoo said that he was hesitant to accept the script, and he didn't want to touch such topics before. After filming the live video, he mentioned the pressure again.
Gong Yoo talked about "The Furnace" in a previous interview. He said, "He understands that everyone wants to watch a movie to relax, so why do they have to shoot so heavy...". You see, he understands that his job is to let the public pause in the daily boredom and hardship to relax and entertain. But he was not reconciled. Gong Yoo was in his early 20s and filmed the No. 1 store of Coffee Prince. Such a sweet film. It was a couple's daily life all day long, guessing, fighting, kissing, hugging, but he was not happy, he was thinking about the direction of his life, what should he do? How to live, should I make idol dramas, should I continue to be an artist...
So, after the film became a hit, he did not continue to make money, but served in the military. Military service is hard work. And then there's The Forge. He is someone who has been thinking, "what can I do as an actor".
It can be understood that he trusts screenwriter Kim, and also trusts her, not just writing the drama as an idol drama.
Back to story logic. Talk about ghosts.
After drawing the sword, he must continue to be a ghost, with magic power, and his life is immortal. It's really exhausting. The ideal plot is that he accompanies the heroine after four lifetimes before going to disillusionment.
Thirty years of waiting, but also distressed him. It seems to be more difficult than the previous 900 years.
Thirty years later, the bride reappears as a high school student. The same attire, long hair, school uniform, but the face is not as bright as when he first appeared. Not the girl who jumped at the zebra crossing when the sun was shining.
So, I can't help but think, what is the experience of being a high school student with a memory of 29 years old?
The logic of the other pair of Cp is perfect. Reincarnated together, reincarnated and loved each other again, it is sweet and not heavy.
Just still worry about the ghost couple. Looking forward to the special edition.
Ps, put welfare.
Gong Yoo went to Cambodia after finishing his career. Cancer Boy said that his hobby is going to the supermarket, and he hopes to go to the supermarket and take a walk by the beach like ordinary people.
In the play, they are all blessed by famous brands, and the folds of hair and clothes are meticulous. As shown in the figure, he is the most self-conscious and most comfortable moment.
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