Although this drama has a bright ending, it still can't hide the deep sadness emanating from the core of the whole drama.
The hero David once dreamed of becoming a doctor who saved people, but he became a soldier who killed people on the battlefield. He loves his wife and children, but because of PTSD, the family faces a breakdown. He was lonely and depressed, but had nowhere to talk to.
He desperately saved a Muslim woman's meat bomb on the train, but he did not expect his sympathy and trust in her to become the source of his future tragedy. The latter killed his lover and nearly killed himself with a bomb she made.
He had no doubts about the boss he had followed for many years, but he never expected that the other party would use his loyalty and bravery to make him the perfect scapegoat, almost killing him.
He treated the dismissed female assistant kindly, but he did not expect that he would be tricked into making him a human flesh bomb in the future.
All those whom he treated kindly, not only did not treat him tenderly, but took advantage of his kindness and integrity to harm him, directly or indirectly killing him.
This is not the worst, the worst is that the only person he suspects or even betrays, but also the only person who has the most sincerity and trust in him, and in the end, this person is because of his kindness to others. Badly beaten.
Is there a more tragic life than this?
Yes, the relationship between David and Julia is the warmest part of the show, but this complex tenderness aggravates the tragedy of David after Julia's tragic death. The relationship between them is worth talking about.
Before he became Julia's bodyguard, David had a bad impression of Julia, and even hated her because of her political views. After the contact, the two also looked down on each other. Julia, who was domineering and arrogant, didn't care about David, who was ma'am all day long, and just wanted him to finish the routine work quickly. Fuck off. David is also outraged by Julia's views on the war.
But the seemingly mechanized David is a dedicated and meticulous person. When Julia encounters a critical moment, he can always react decisively and resolve her predicament. After a few times, Julia looked at David with admiration, and her goodwill rose. She began to keep tabs on him, placing his son at the school they wanted to apply to, and David was grateful to Julia for that. Moreover, in the day-to-day closeness, his impression of Julia slowly began to change, and the relationship between the two became closer and closer.
What really changed their relationship was that shooting. David's bravery and consolation undoubtedly became a life-saving straw for Julia, who was covered in blood and in a state of fright. Her trust and attachment to the man who sacrificed her life to protect her in front of her surged out amid the gunshots and reached its peak. That night, the frightened Julia called David to her room. At that moment, she was no longer a high-ranking Home Secretary, and she completely presented her loneliness and vulnerability to David. Maybe, after life and death, all she needs is a shoulder that she can take off her mask and rely on. These can only be given to her by David, who was with her in trouble.
And David has the same loneliness and vulnerability as Julia. In Julia's embrace, his tense nerves gradually eased, and hugging Julia unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, and all defenses were completely disintegrated at that moment. In the cold and hard wound, who can refuse this moment of tenderness?
This scene is very moving. In the need and satisfaction of each other, in the silent approach and fusion, they are no longer high-ranking officials and personal bodyguards, but purely the emotional intersection of a woman and a man, and it is a connection between one person and another. , the process of skin-to-skin mutual healing. Therefore, the sexual meaning of the whole process is also very light, and the camera is all focused on the face and hands of the characters, highlighting the loneliness and longing in the characters. Perhaps, compared to physical, what they need at this moment is spiritual comfort.
If their first time was based on mutual comfort after living together and dying together, what happened next was unstoppable passion. Just like the forest after a long drought, what they need is far more than a one-night stand in a drizzle of rain, but a steady rain of countless nights after that.
As they cuddled under the sheets, Julia stroked the scars on David's back (a gesture with deep meaning, David had always been resentful of the politicians who sent them to the battlefield, but did not expect to finally soothe his physical and psychological wounds The person he hated was the one he hated at the time), when they talked to each other about love and nonsense and their past experiences, their relationship had not only stayed in the body, but began to enter each other's inner world.
Yet David's feelings for Julia have always been complicated. One is that Julia's political ideas are contrary to his own ideas, and the other is that his boss has asked him to provide Julia's information, and he himself has doubts about Julia. He took advantage of Julia's trust in himself and the close relationship with each other to obtain some top-secret information, but he did not report all of it to his superiors with reservations. On the other hand, Julia's high status and hurried behavior formed a sharp contrast with his status, and undoubtedly gave him a certain amount of psychological pressure and loss.
The first major conflict occurred after David accidentally injured Julia during a PTSD attack. Terrified, Julia crawled back to her room and locked the door. In guilt and pain, David asked Julia if he would replace him, and Julia cried and replied: I don't know. However, after a while, Julia, who sensed David's pain, comforted David in turn: I know you didn't mean to hurt me.
At this point, David was ready to be replaced. So what Julia said to him before her podium speech, "Being my bodyguard makes everything difficult, it's better to make some changes" is not what he expected. However, Julia's next confession to him, holding his hand, was something he never expected.
After being accidentally injured by David, Julia not only did not break up with David, but chose to confess, hoping to be with David as a partner forever. How could David not be shaken? At this moment, he knew that Julia had a deep affection for him.
In fact, Julia took the initiative from the beginning to the end of this relationship, not only because she had the initiative, but also because she had a real love for David, so that she wanted to keep David by her side even if she surrendered her identity. Looking at her life, there are all kinds of intrigue and intrigue every day. In the struggle for power and profit, no one knows what she looks like after the halo is removed. Look at the man beside her, the vicious ex-husband, the wretched assistant. She was alone, with no one standing with her; she was also terrified, not knowing when potential danger would suddenly erupt.
And David, who had nothing to do with all this, gave her an unprecedented sense of security. A large part of the reason why she has such deep trust in David is that she needs this sense of security too much, and what a person lacks can easily become her own weakness. She longed for someone she could trust and protect her, and David's actions gave her a strong signal that he was that person. Since then, her needs have been met, and even if she is accidentally injured by David, she can no longer let him go.
However, just when people were so curious about where this tangled relationship was going, it ended with a bang, leaving Julia blown up, grief-stricken and guilty. David picks up the pieces. He had no reason not to grieve, and he didn't even have time to respond to Julia's confession. He has no reason not to feel guilty. As her bodyguard, he failed to protect her, not to mention that he had betrayed her and betrayed her trust. All of this, he has no chance to repay.
So David pulled the trigger on his own head.
So far, David and Julia's emotional drama is over. Some people say dog blood, some people say far-fetched, in my opinion, this is the most exciting part of the whole play, of course, not only because the male and female protagonists have touching kiss scenes, but also because this is the most important thing to express the heart of the characters and advance the plot. part. More importantly, the occurrence of this relationship couldn't be more natural, and it was completely in line with the internal logic of the characters. After such a pair of men and women, after experiencing such things, it is surprising that nothing happened.
Back from the dead, David begins to track down Julia's killer. Those who used him to frame him only saw his integrity and innocence, but underestimated his wit and subtlety. Things didn't go the way they designed, and they had to press harder. During the investigation, David gradually discovered that he was not only looking for the real murderer, but also saving himself.
In the last episode, he was put on a bomb vest and exploded at a touch. This scene was very similar to the scene on the train at the beginning, except that no one trusted himself and rescued himself like he did when he went to save the human bomb. He can only rely on his own wisdom to win the chance of life, and rely on his own courage to fight against death.
When the truth came out, David finally found that he was just a pawn in a big chess game. All the tragedies were due to his kindness and simplicity, and he saved people who shouldn't be saved. He had to accept the reality that the human bomb he saved at the beginning with his life, eventually found that she was completely hopeless, and also caused the death of his lover and other innocent people. He also gave his life to save Julia, but was helpless, watching her tragically die in front of his eyes. In the end, David found that he was the only one who could save himself in the end.
In addition to sadness, is it a bit anti-chicken soup?
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