In April 2016, I sat in an unfamiliar room in Williamsburg watching the Descendants of the Sun finale.
I remember that it was a chaotic day, so much so that I didn't even watch the last paragraph of the finale. I only remembered that after watching the kiss between the two in Shenchuanwan, I hurriedly turned off the computer.
Who told me to be with my Yoo Si Jin that day, he is humorous but often makes me unable to find anyone, so I met him across time and space with a faint concern. Later, we were naturally separated in the sea of people, because I am not Jiang Muyan, he is not Liu Shizhen, there is no Uruk in this world, and we have no chance to meet again. Although there are more stories like La La Land in this world, and although the protagonists are together and separated in real life, I still often think of that person, this drama, and Greece.
In September last year, I stood on the most beautiful and blue seaside and picked up a heart-shaped stone, hoping to come back here again. In the endless mountains of Greece, in the eternally warm and soft sunlight, in front of a barbecue stall shrouded in twilight, after cooling down from a day at the seaside, in a restaurant in a small town, when you open a beer bottle, What appeared in the middle was the heart-wrenching love between Yoo Si-jin and Jiang Mu-yeon and the song "you are my everything".
I don’t know why I have always defined Descendants of the Sun as a brisk idol drama in my memory. Maybe it’s because the marketing account has been hardselling those so-called “sister flirting skills”, or maybe it’s because I was young at that time and didn’t get them. What kind of heaviness hides behind the light-hearted joke. The background of the special forces and doctors is actually very tragic, and only major disasters such as earthquakes and infectious diseases can bring them together.
Most people know that being in the army is hard, but why and where is the hardship? Sending troops can be called a holiday, and even dying can’t get a reputation. It was the first time I followed Dr. Jiang Muyan into that world. Most people know that doctors are busy, but why and where they are busy, I have a deep understanding of how to study medicine. I once heard my classmates persuade my friends not to study medicine, if you're in this field just for the money, you won't last if you're not passionate about it. When I took that oath, I remembered the Hippocratic oath that laid the foundation of modern medical ethics. The first sentence was swearing in the name of Apollo, the sun god. Apollo was also the god of medicine. So suddenly there is a point of understanding” Descendants of the sun "Where do these five words come from." Especially this year, we are all no strangers to disasters, and no one has the aura of the protagonist in the face of the plague, we all watch the people we love go to that time and time again A battlefield without gunpowder.
Many people criticized this drama for not telling the characters well in the context of the big era, and the ambition is heavy. I think it's the opposite. The screenwriter uses a non-existent country, Uruk, to say that South Korea is the only divided country in the world in the most veiled way, using the commander's mouth to accuse politicians who will only please the United States. The purpose is obviously not to tell a big story and background, Chen Yongshou, the annoying soldier Ryan of the earthquake infectious disease, every task of the special forces, every rescue by doctors and nurses, all kinds of foreshadowing are to tell us a simple but often The overlooked truth: Stick to your job and do everything well, everyone. How simple it sounds, but how many can actually do it? What really makes Jiang Muyan and Liu Shizhen evenly matched is not their mutual teasing, not their jokes, but their relationship with the chairman who will send outstanding employees to the frontier because of personal grievances, the degenerate who has no country to defend The legend of Delta, that Jin He who couldn't even do surgery well but went through the back door to become a professor... It is precisely because of their love for their profession, their strict requirements for themselves, and their self-esteem that they are different from these people. They are attracted to each other.
This is the first Korean drama I have ever seen. The male and female protagonists have very, very sound personalities and mature ideas. They have friends and colleagues who support each other. They have their own world, not that kind. Without you, I am so lonely. So lonely, only you in the world understand me. It is also the first Korean drama. Finally, the male protagonist did not degrade from the sky again and again to save the heroine. In fact, Captain Liu pulled a gun to save the VIP and disobeyed the order for Jiang Muyan's kidnapping, not because "she is the heroine", but because of him You have to follow your own principles. Why save people, he gave the answer "I don't care about personal happiness, why should I protect the country", which is why the commander agreed to let him save people, the president said "the next step is my job", even this is why he is in During the disaster relief work, I could not express any pity for her, because she was in her position and sought her position.
The first time Liu Shizhen took a helicopter to leave in the dark, leaving Jiang Muyan alone on the rooftop in a daze, the next time Captain Liu jumped out of the helicopter in the dark with the hope of all the victims and relief workers, Dr. Jiang finally slowly understood After understanding the meaning behind the words "task" and "can't go into details", the two exchanged glances in the crowd of people coming and going, and then returned to their jobs. Outside of work, I also appreciate their attitude towards love, still self-respect and self-love, well-drawn bottom lines and sharp edges and corners. "Let's watch a movie with me, or not?" "Should I confess or apologize?" Jiang Muyan faced the chairman's question of whether you should wash first or I wash first. The answer was, "What about romance?" young people, but there is no love for such basic respect. The movie that never sees the end, like the dance in Captain America. "I figure I'd wait." "For what?"" The right partner." Does it matter whether the ending is good or bad? We all know that Jiang Muyan's life has been different from now on because of Liu Shizhen. She was originally capable, but now she has experienced all kinds of things and is more tolerant and powerful. Such a person and such a doctor would not be disdainful even if it was not Schweitzer. fall into mediocrity.
Anyways, I understand that Descendants of the Sun has a lot of flaws and imperfections as a show. But I still like it very much. There is a lot of sincerity and a lot of the most real and simple human nature in it.
ps Greece is really beautiful. Only by seeing it with your own eyes can you understand that such openness and clarity can achieve such love.
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