There is no doubt that "Crash Landing on Love" is the best TV drama that Park Ji-eun has seen so far.
I can feel the great sincerity and unprecedented pressure of screenwriter Park this time.
If nothing else, just rely on these two faces that have been branded with countless classic trademarks of Korean romantic dramas and put them in your hands. Whoever dares not to use all their powers will be sinners through the ages.
My personal favorite among Korean actors is Jun Ji Hyun. But Son Ye Jin is an existence beyond the category of "Korean actor". Her face is the first love symbol of all the post-80s and 90s. Her eyes are open with stars and closed with crescent moon. Her temperament is that "the goddess has just woken up from a dream", and "a little girl came through the door". Her acting skills make you feel that it is frivolous to praise her for her beauty.
Hyun Bin's temperament is really similar to Son Ye Jin, a man as comfortable as air. Clear eyebrows, strong lines. Too much is too strong, too little is too light. When he's not smiling, he's a straight man, and when he's smiling, he's so gentle that spring flowers bloom, and a whole toothpick can be stuffed into the charming dimple. Saying that he is handsome will make him feel that handsome is too tacky, and saying that he is top-notch is not very important, it is like slandering people who only rely on their appearance to eat. Even if he is not a fan of him, when this person goes to that station, he feels that this is not an older brother or a younger brother, this is a good-looking man, and a good man. Mysterious atmosphere.
There is no hesitation in giving this drama a 5 out of 5. Suddenly I don't understand what other directors and screenwriters are doing.
The two stood in front of the camera and smiled at the crescent eyes with long dimples, and the brain-filling plot of 1,000 words and 10,000 words was naturally generated in the audience's mind.
Writer Park is not vague this time around either. Compared with "My Love from the Star", "Crash Landing on Love", screenwriter Park took a few hundred meters more on his orbit. It's not because the peninsula was pulled back from the aliens, but because the script not only made pink bubbles desperately this time, but also filmed the flesh and blood of people and the environment of people, and even did a little better to other people than the protagonist. Surprise attention ceremony.
Yin Shili's initial goodwill towards Lee Jung Hyuk, with the strong dependence and gratitude for life-saving straws in crisis, is mixed with the faint novelty, superiority and sadness of the South Koreans towards North Korea.
Yin Shili, who no one else understands, Li Zhenghe knew from the beginning. It is because in the closed world of North Korea's front line, he is the only one who has seen and pursued the outside world, and that natural understanding and protection only stems from his memories of the past, a life that has passed away. The memory and cherishing of a favorite self of options and resolute abandonment.
Therefore, in this land where political logic, safety logic, and emotional logic are very different from the outside world, he and she have reached the most special mutual understanding. They became each other's only interlocutors in a country where orders were given to orders.
Shampoo, conditioner and body wash, he knew she really needed it, because he was used to it. He knew she would like the local clam shell shochu because he had never experienced it before.
The piano score and admission letter, his Bing and Auntie fan group would never find out if they came to his house a hundred times, and would not be sensitive to know which character and past of Lee Jung Hyuk they represent. When he was about to leave, he gave others certificates of merit and specific benefits, but left Lee Jung-hyeok with a tomato seedling, which meant the hope of being able to string all the good things in his heart.
This sense of specialness and uniqueness is the soil from which all feelings germinate.
When did Lee Jung Hyuk really consciously fall in love with Yin Shili?
I think the real breaking ground of their relationship came after the unexpected and circumstantial heart-to-heart confession that occurred while the train to Pyongyang went out of power and they had to stay warm by the campfire and wait for the train to restart.
Shi Li's unintentional compliment evoked Lee Jung Hyuk's inhumane memories and knots. Li Zhenghe casually said that he had no expectations for the future, because he had looked forward to it, but he was disappointed and afraid.
At this time, Yin Shili, who was full of edges and corners, said these words to Li Zhenghe, who was anxious to comfort her:
"There's a saying in India, 'Sometimes the wrong train takes you to the right destination'. I've been there too, I've been on the wrong train all my life. So at one point, I wanted to give up everything halfway through. , I didn't want to go anywhere, so I thought about jumping out of the car like this. But look at me now, I took the wrong bus and took the wrong bus too far. I even crossed the 38th line. (Laughter) So, occasionally I still think Think about the future, although it often doesn't go as expected. I hope that Comrade Lee Jung Hyuk can live happily after I leave. I hope that no matter which train you take, you can reach your destination."
A man who was rich in a capitalist society but was so lost that he thought about suicide, after being airborne in North Korea and receiving the simplest and purest care for a few days, comfortably and warmly comforted a man who had lost power in a privileged society but lost his life. A person who lives in a daze. At this moment, with Hyun Bin and Son Ye Jin's glowing eyes against the bonfire, the touching atmosphere and the ambiguous atmosphere instantly reached the extreme.
The human dilemma that screenwriter Park described this time, although still far away from us, is not a bubble.
Behind so many hilarious contrasts and slaps in the face, it is not because of simply meeting a very different man, but a lonely person who is accustomed to protecting himself with all the edges and corners of his body meets another who is used to quenching his inner warmth and hope from The lonely people I protect, put away their fangs, show their belly, sincerely face each other, and keep each other warm.
Before the forced landing in North Korea, Shi Li was undoubtedly an elite with personality. When the edges and corners wrapped with strength make the people around them unable to cry of pain, they euphemistically call it "personality". A person with a personality must succeed, because it is difficult for the person she pierces to condense on her own, and she needs more than anyone else big and small success to prove the value of her existence. So she vowed before testing the paraglider that she wanted everyone to see that her life would continue to rise.
And people who are truly surrounded by happiness will be full of the desire to give back to everything around them. Even if you don’t have much in your hands, even if you can only dig scars from your own experience, as long as you can comfort the other person, you can’t help but share it all. It is this sense of fullness and desire to give back that makes one's "personality" gentle and mundane.
With such scenes and dialogues, the love in "Crash Landing on Love" is not a castle in the air. Good-looking, empathetic, and several hundred meters away from us.
In addition to focusing on the real flesh and blood of the protagonist, what is even more surprising about screenwriter Park this time is that in addition to her lover, her writing touches more and wider environments and characters. North Korea, which is full of true feelings in the cracks of backwardness, bureaucracy, and corruption, South Korea, which is high-tech, high-calorie, high-profile but regressive in humanity, the small irony and great helplessness of the Yoon family in Huizhou and the Lee family in Jeonju; Comrade Ying Ai, who is really favored as a "little princess", seems to be the most stereotypical of Xu Dan and his mother's mother-daughter relationship, from being forced to accept tasks assigned by the state to taking the initiative to attack with professional friendship. "Ear", and Yindong, who has an inexplicable desire to put on a school uniform, Zhu Mo, who has crossed the 38th line and completed the "most impossible star chasing mission" after 20 years of jet lag... It is really countless times that these contain real humanistic care. The small details of the weight brought tears to my eyes.
However, the best creation of screenwriter Park Ji-eun also has her own personal ceiling.
Good-looking is good-looking, touching is touching. The fireworks are bright and the water splashes everywhere. "Crash Landing on Love" is a fantasy romance drama written by Park editor and Director Li, with Hyun Bin and Son Ye Jin acting as the facade. In this somewhat troublesome winter, it is really warm. Heartbroken. ——Especially at such a realistic node where the cold winds are cold, the epidemic is raging, and people are suffering.
But after watching it, I think it is difficult to say how many traces the TV series "Crash Landing on Love" can leave in the history of Korean film and television, or even in the history of romantic dramas. ——Especially at such a historical node where the Korean film and television industry is fruitful, the heroes are fighting, and they are chasing after victory.
In such a grand opening story, the tension between the North and the South and the national melancholy are nothing more than providing a background board for falling in love. The life difficulties and antidote of the southern chaebols and the northern high-ranking officials are more suitable for worrying and resolving them when they are dreaming. Exciting, romantic, light abuse, high sweetness, there is still a certain rationality, and you don't have to poke your heart too much. The screenwriter Park Ji-eun is a full-fledged commercial romance drama writer. She has a set of formulas in her hand, which is not easy for others to apply directly, but she can guarantee you a high score in the experience of chasing dramas every time she uses it, just like the roller coasters in Disneyland and Universal Studio, which are similar with different backgrounds and themes. After a hundred times, I still want to sit again. High ratings gather top resources and create higher ratings.
But behind such excitement, regret is also obvious. Just like the first snow, fried chicken and beer, one bite can go to heaven, but what remains after eating is just a Myth who "loves people will be together forever".
What's more? Without further ado, let's take another screenwriter Park as an example. Two popular superpower romance dramas in 2013, the one with the highest ratings is Park Ji-eun's "You Who Came From the Star" (and my favorite Jun Ji-hyun in it), but it made me press the bottom of the box, and I watched it several times in the next few years. It was Park Hye-ryeon's "I Hear Your Voice".
Every screenwriter has her own way. Comparing Park Hye-ryeon's two masterpieces, "I Hear Your Voice" and "Pinocchio", they are also neatly like the product under the same mold. [Spoilers] The same is good-looking love, but it's just the hook that draws you into the story and the anchor that nails you into the unmoving nest. The difference is that the real mast in the story of "I Hear Your Voice" is the group portrait between the special group of prosecutors and their clients and opponents. The direction of the story is to explore the legal and rational in a society and each individual. The core of "Pinocchio" is about a news victim who tries to take revenge by becoming a reporter, but in the process understands the true meaning of news in society and gradually becomes a good reporter. It is also a story of reconciliation with the trauma of his own childhood.
Is the love here sweet? Are all kinds of superpowers, quirks and cheating settings fooling around? To be honest, it is not less than "Star You" and "Love Fall" at all. But every love story in it radiates the whole picture of a professional group, not just like a little bit of water, but a vivid, full, unambiguous, no-nonsense rubbing of the social values and the social values behind this group. Its connections and boundaries with other social groups or other social values.
That's the biggest difference between the two Park screenwriters. The love written by Park Hye-ryen serves our real life and the sociological and philosophical speculations behind it. And Park Ji-eun's depiction of reality always serves the so-called pure love itself.
Of course, different screenwriters have different characteristics, different advantages, different types, and different starting points for scoring, but in general, direct comparisons are not meaningful.
And why do we take the drama "Crash Landing on Love" so seriously?
It's not because of Hyun Bin + Son Ye Jin!
I gave "Crash Landing on Love" an exception of five stars because of Hyun Bin + Son Ye Jin. For a viewer who grew up watching Korean dramas, being able to meet Hyun Bin and Son Ye Jin in the same frame, and talk you about 16 episodes of love seriously, Everything else doesn't seem to really matter!
And my deep regret for the story of "Crash Landing on Love" beyond the five stars is also because of Hyun Bin + Son Ye Jin. The "Yin Shili + Lee Jung Hyuk" in the play is indeed a high-scoring love, but the potential of a century combination like "Hyun Bin + Son Ye Jin" is far more than the perfect sweet drama.
Looking at the two most familiar, favorite, affectionate, and eager faces in the camera, they are really not just Yin Shili and Li Zhenghe to me. She is Joo-hee in "If Love Had Providence", Soo-jin in "The Eraser in My Brain", and Yoon Jin-ah in "Pretty Sister Who Often Treats Meals". He is Hyun Jin Hyun in "My Name is Kim Sam Soon", Kim Soo Won in "Secret Garden", and Jung Ji Moo in "The World They Live In". It's not each other that they face each other, but all our imaginations about the best form of love in our hearts.
In addition, she is Shu Ying in "Going Out", Li Jia in "Walking in the White Night", and the last princess in "The Lord of Dehui". He is also Lin Zheling in "Co-Aid", Huang Zhicheng in "Liar", and Min Taijiu in "Negotiation". These are two immortal actors who initially relied on youth film idol dramas to become gods and immortals, but they never stayed in the footsteps of self-breakthrough and acting exploration. They grow, accumulate and expand with the dedication of one to two excellent works each year, and closely follow the slowly rising group of the Korean film and television industry, until the gods and goddesses have the sexiest nasolabial folds and the most elegant pleats. , until the age of 38 and was urged to marry by the whole people, and they are still patiently and concentratingly on the accumulation of the next works.
So, penetrating through the two top-level but distant predicament settings that were forcibly created on the screen, I couldn't help but imagine that two people who are beautiful, gentle, complete, and persistent like the real Hyun Bin and Son Ye Jin, their respective What real dilemmas will there still be in life, and what kind of antidote do they need for each other? Or, if two people who are so perfect that they have no predicament and no antidote at all, can they still be together? Still used together? Can we still be together?
When it comes to the two of them in life, the factor of love has become less and less important. But if love can still appear at this point in life, how wide the real soil it can radiate, how deep the human nature question it can ask, and how much social energy it can resonate?
Curiosity about this question is probably the ultimate motivation for us to follow this drama, follow the tidbits, and even secretly look forward to the real CP.
Hyun Bin + Son Ye Jin, "Negotiation" alone is missing something, but "Crash Landing on Love" alone is a waste of such crackling.
Looking forward to the opportunity for these two to show us a deeper story and a more advanced love. Works are fine.
As for the other works, although after watching this drama, it is estimated that no one can not become the CP party of these two, although blessings and money are about to be rubbed in their pockets, but life is short and long, and the two random.
When the charming long dimples meet the most beautiful crescent eyes, they are never afraid that there will not be a vigorous "crash landing of love" burning in their hearts or waiting in front of them. If there is still confidence that they need to continue searching and weighing, it must be a five-star idol drama. The other thing is the ties and imprints that can remain deeply in the audience and each other's lives after the excitement dissipates.
Please look for it slowly and weigh it carefully.
I have no doubts that the two people I deeply like, no matter which train they take separately or together, both on and off the screen, will be able to reach their true destination.
Jessica Hu 2020.2.11
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Supplement after the finale on February 16: "The Happiest Two Weeks of the Year"
With the finale of "Crash Landing on Love," the short vacation I've stolen in the last two weeks by various coincidences also comes to an end.
Clear water, blue sky, flowers and green space, white sweater and floral skirt, Hyun Bin and Son Ye Jin, two pairs of so familiar and beautiful eyes gradually curved into the same arc, "Flower" & "Give You My Heart" in the background. This ending can be It is said that it is very complete, and it is so complete that it proves once again that this is just a fairy tale, but it does not prevent tears from flowing down without money.
To tell the truth, the plot really isn't that touching, it's just pure crying.
You say, if nature has a spirit and the sky has eyes, would it be willing to give a few years to the crimes we humans have committed because the human lens has captured such a beautiful picture?
This ending is so satisfying that people can't help but worry, these two will not want to make romance dramas in the future. Wouldn't this kind of filming really kill other idol dramas? This makes people look at other people's performances of holding hands, looking at each other, hugging, kissing, acting coquettish, jealous, affectionate, insincere, running in the rain, walking in the rain...?
Now I finally understand a little bit what other writers and directors have been doing earlier - avoiding having Hyun Bin and Son Ye Jin in the same frame for a long time, probably just trying to make a way for my future.
For the last ten minutes of footage, I forgave Director Li's lack of power in the whole drama. Although I couldn't help but complain at the end, surrounded by snow-capped mountains on three sides and paragliders on all sides, when the two kissed affectionately in such a beautiful background, why is the broken wooden shelf next to it always being robbed by CUE mirror? I counted them, and there were no less than three times in total, even if the long-range lens cannot be avoided, is there really no way to change the angle of the close-up? It's really not possible to change the position and kiss it a few more times! Do you think those two people would mind?
For the last ten minutes of footage, I also forgave the Mary Su Xiaoyanwen, who did not have any substantial breakthroughs. After all, no one dared to write down these two immortals to death. Originally, it was a drama that turned the group's ridicule into a really fragrant drama by relying on the two's good looks, acting skills and chemical reactions. Do you think that we really couldn't cry because we bought the "second forced landing of love" like a fool? Fortunately, screenwriter Park didn't try to prove herself when she shouldn't be, and congratulations to her for getting to the sky and becoming a householder. screenwriter.
Marx said: When you pour out the bath water, you can't throw the baby out with it. It can be seen that Director Li and Editor Park, who have been complaining about all the way, actually put a lot of thought into this work and supported it until the end. The congenital defect of this drama is the inherent constraints between its grand structure and the type of pure love, and an irreconcilable contradiction between political reality and public expectations. Change the actor, the effect will definitely be worse. If you change the director, the effect may be worse.
There are still a few highlights in the content of the finale episode that I like very much, which are worth picking out.
I sincerely praise Director Li in the 16th episode of the scene of a group of geese flying south above the 38th line. At that time, my tears really fell without warning. This imagery is so poignant.
First, there is a direct shot, the flock of geese flying in the south, closely connected with the nostalgic ridicule of Lee Jung Hyuk and F5 about their trip to the south in the police car. These few soldiers who have truly experienced the huge difference in national conditions between the North and the South and have not betrayed the motherland have their own arrogance that cannot be moved from poverty and lowness, and their personal feelings are not enough to shake. However, the return to the north is imminent, and the real longing, concern and subtle unwillingness can only be expressed silently through the deep envy that emerges in the eyes when looking at the geese returning freely to the south. Another shot from a distance, above the head is a group of free-roaming birds that naturally grow in the north and grow in the south, but below is the heavily guarded 38th line garrison, in exchange for a few that cannot be more threatening Hostages, for a couple of lovers who are about to part ways and hug for a short time, the North and the South meet at the same time, pointing their guns at each other. Stupid human beings, what are the reasons why birds and beasts can never understand, draw an ugly boundary, and just separate the relatives and friends of the same clan and clan at two ends, and never communicate with each other in old age and death? These two shots, one near and one far away, simplify the complex, see the big from the small, and the irony and bitterness are unspoken. I think it is the most powerful and warm scene in Director Li's entire drama. Pen bright color.
In the ending, I also prefer the setting where Park Bian-ken makes Seo Dan temporarily single, and our Se-ri and Jung-hyuk live in different places most of the time, and can only be together for a short period of two weeks a year. It not only adds a few rare realistic colors to this idol drama that has no hope of being close to reality at all, but also shows that the Park-style sweet love drama has slightly surpassed the previous small upgrade.
The death of Gu Shengjun is sad, because this little brother is really very lovable, and he plays a social slicker who has lost his foundation and is revengeful. He shuttles, walks and bumps in all kinds of desire crowds, and finally chooses to stick to it. Truth and bottom line. He is cunning but not greasy, and there is a full sunshine in the heavy misfortune and limited meanness. In the final analysis, he is just a young man who longs to be loved, to be recognized, and to be able to truly fit in. His appearance and disappearance completed an arc of self-growth and self-redemption, and completely melted Xu Dan's obsession and resentment for a toxic first love, allowing her to change from a little princess who was under the protection of her original family to becoming a A little heroine who really wants to control her life. This huge life change brought about by the penetration of love and maverick thoughts really stems from the unique charm and unique secret recipe of the British South Korean liar Goo Seung-joon. This is basically impossible to replicate in Xu Dan's relatively closed growth environment. If Goo Seung Joon hadn't died, the two would have been a very happy couple. But Goo Seung-joon died to save her, which made her later decision to be single and go abroad to rebuild. Xu Dan finally embarked on the "non-shortcut" independent pursuit of his own happiness under his own BGM with the wishes and love left by Goo Seung-joon. One can't help but feel that she and Lee Jung-hyuk's generation have truly been affected by North Korea's backwardness. Young people with national conditions that coexist with sincerity, conditions, vision, and true feelings are the hope for the future of North Korea. Dare to let this warm, self-healing, powerful single end up in a romance drama as an important female character loved by the audience, I think this is a good breakthrough for Park Bian.
As for the long-distance relationship between the queen and the prince, in fact, it is not the first time in "Love Falls". In the past, Goddess Quan and Professor Du finally showed us the bittersweet ending of an interstellar long-distance relationship through a wormhole with an unstable system and a reunion frequency similar to Canada's Super Visa. However, it is also a long-distance relationship. The difference this time in "Love Falls" is that the taste does not seem to be as bitter as before, and it is basically sweet. The two weeks in Switzerland each year are naturally the "happiest two weeks of the year", but even when the other person is not around, there is a mature, fate-like sense of certainty between each other. , Yin Shili is very busy every day in South Korea alone, full and happy, with each other, company, and family; and Li Zhenghe still has a career in North Korea, has friends, and "fans", because he shoulders the responsibility of the country and the people around him. The true responsibility and feelings of a person, because they know for sure that their loved ones are also busy, miss and happy in the not far south, so when they are alone, they often have a down-to-earth smile on their faces. I think such a picture is a more accurate and positive depiction of contemporary real high-quality long-distance relationships. After all, the love that is blocked by the extreme natural moat like the 38th parallel is rare, but for various reasons, the love that needs to cross a certain time and space, fight each other, and love each other at a distance has gradually become a kind of social norm. In this sense, the story of how to find the "fate-like certainty" that transcends all obstacles like Se-ri and Jung-hyuk has a little realistic meaning.
Last but not least, I must mention a place that particularly warms my heart. I wrote this movie review and small fan essay before the finale. I didn’t expect that in the most dreamy ten minutes at the end of the plot, Mr. Lee Jung Hyuk, played by Hyun Bin, seriously echoed Miss Yin Shili played by Son Ye Jin. took a handful.
This show is so good for me. Grateful for the happiest two weeks of the year.
Jessica Hu 2020.2.18
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Update January 1, 2021:
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On the New Year's Day, I was directly smashed by two immortals' official announcement eggs (to the point of being so excited that I was incoherent).
The after-sales service, the benefits, the occasion, and the topic... I have to say, life is sometimes sweeter than an idol drama.
Life is short, life is long, and the two of you are slow.
When North Korea and South Korea are unified, I promise to change it again.
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