Bae Suzy 's new drama "Anna", the heroine is full of problems, vain and full of lies.
Perhaps the biggest difference in the play "Anna" lies in the "negative first perspective" of the heroine Lee Yumi.
is not a decent person who must be true, kind, and beautiful, nor is he an innocent unfortunate who is oppressed and exploited. On the contrary, in the face of the sharp and even stinging class differences between rich and poor in the play , the heroine's greed, misfortune, vanity, and distortion, All very vivid.
Although the story scam makes people feel that there are obvious loopholes, the drama uses the delicate and real mentality to cover up the unsmooth logical lines to a certain extent.
Rather than saying that "Anna" is a play with "all villains" (it is not), it is better to say that it is a morbid personality analysis record with no absolutely correct position, and an abyss of colorful desires.
1. Revelation of the Abyss of Desire.
The first two episodes of "Anna" tell the story of the heroine's life in the past few decades as quickly as a revolving door.
is competitive and vain, and will not give up until the goal is achieved. will do whatever it takes .
The heroine Lee Yumi, played by Bae Suzy, has a poor family, her parents work hard to run a small suit shop, and her mother is mute. These factors make the heroine look down upon by her snobbish classmates.
The more she is looked down upon, the more she has to cover up and earn back face, and the more she has a sensitive and paranoid mentality of "I hope you all envy me" , even if this envy is an illusion that can be broken at the first glance, even if the consequences are shattered and irreversible. .
- The first point is the tragic attribute that goes hand in hand with vanity.
What is attractive about the character of Li Youmei (later using Anna’s fake identity and name) is that among her negative attributes such as vanity, there is also a trace of innocence that has not been completely blackened by interests, and the resulting tragedy. feel.
When Li Youmei was in middle school, in the last scene, she was still the envy of her classmates, with good test scores and a sweet relationship.
And this dangerous love affair is between Li Youmei and her music teacher.
In the next scene, the school representative looks serious and talks to the romantic partner.
Her previously gentle and sweet boyfriend looked bewildered and regretful, and kept saying that it was Li Youmei who approached her first.
Li Youmei tried to refute, but he yelled : Why do you interrupt when you are talking?
The teacher was only lightly punished, but Li Youmei was forced to drop out of school.
was running away in despair, looking for the next place to stay.
At a certain moment, Li Youmei reminded me of "Madame Bovary". The era, background and environment are all different, but the mentality of being tempted by vanity, mistaking vanity for value and fun for love is similar. of morbidity.
- The second point is the gradual deterioration of the "live" dynamic of the upgrade.
The play follows Li Yumei's age clockwise. When she was a child, she was discriminated against by rich children when she danced. She went home and begged her father to give her a chance to participate in the competition.
Although vain, his approach does not seem to be bad.
After that, in order to comfort her parents far away in her hometown, she lied that she was admitted to college (in fact, she failed and secretly repeated her studies). This was not so much vanity as it was a hint of reporting good things but not bad things.
Then, she half-heartedly admitted that she was a girl from the same school due to the enthusiastic misunderstanding of the girl in the same room.
After that, she fabricated her wealthy background out of vanity and completely concealed the fact that her student identity was false from her boyfriend. Step by step, she slipped into the abyss, and the nature of the incident became much more serious.
Until she defrauded her father of money to study in the United States (actually, her boyfriend's mother revealed that she had faked her identity and could not go at all), she used countless lies to cover up the original lie, and gradually worsened.
From harmless begging, to passive half-pushing and half-hearted 's lies, and then to actively using lies to fill bigger holes, the highlight of "Anna" is not so much that "this time the heroine is a so-called vicious female supporting role" "It is better to say that the real pain point lies in the dynamic itself and in the process.
In some dramas, negative attributes and human weaknesses are set as front-end mode . The characters have certain shortcomings or sins when they appear on the stage, but "Anna" is another kind, delicate and "a little bit pregnant" "How an ordinary little girl leads to a shocking scam out of vanity."
Compared with the so-called "rebellious" setting that is inherently vicious, I prefer to watch the dynamic process of "ordinary" becoming "unordinary".
The former setting corresponds to the isolation and externalization of sin and twisted mentality: the bad people are other people, and have nothing to do with us good people;
The latter one is a more ambiguous and struggling state: greed, vanity, and jealousy are As a part of human nature, the difference is not in essence but in degree. It lies in whether you can defeat the demons and monsters in your heart.
Two, poor daughter rich daughter.
In the play, Li Youmei's father died of illness. During his lifetime, he thought that she was studying in the United States and did not tell her the fact that she was suffering from cancer , fearing that it would affect her so-called great future.
Lee Yumi, who cried and repented, may have wanted to change her past.
In the past few years, she worked hard as a part-time worker, working hard, steadfastly, hard and desperate.
At this time, the drama arranged for her a job that was trivial and had a huge contrast .
works next to a certain wealthy lady. In name, she is an employee of a family-owned company, but in fact, she works as a handyman.
Similar age, same surname, completely different life trajectories.
Li Anna was born with the golden key in her mouth, possessing all the glamorous contents that the heroine wanted but could not reach.
has a beautiful background in a prestigious school, her favorite art major, and another luxurious life that she could not imagine at all.
A contrasting detail in the play is that Li Youmi helped Anna go home to get clothes. After entering the mansion, she was shocked when she stood in front of the window. Her window could overlook the entire Gyeongbokgung .
Many years later, Lee Youmi finally made money by demolishing her father’s old house and rented a house that was more presentable than her previous residence. The agent said, “You can see Gyeongbokgung Palace from here.”
And the so-called seeing is from the gap between the buildings, barely saw a small corner of Gyeongbokgung Palace.
The heroine has to work very hard to achieve this "palace" scene.
As a result, her life became a life of unwillingness, dissatisfaction, and dissatisfaction, with no hope.
saw a daughter whose IQ was not as good as hers, whose efforts were not as good as hers, and whose beauty was not as good as her own. She could easily have everything she could not get even with all her efforts because of her background.
The key point of this part of the play is that it is not a one-size-fits-all black and white version of the "evil rich lady" and the "innocent Cinderella".
On the contrary, the rich lady loves to play, does not like the heroine very much, and her academic qualifications are not worthy of her name, but is not considered a great evil in any of them.
And the heroine is not a perfect character of "poor, hard-working and kind". On the contrary, she is vain and unbalanced.
This is much wider than the single-line good and evil narrative of "bad daughter bullies white poor beauty".
Another contrasting character in the play "Anna" is Sister Li Youmei, who is simple and upright, similar to a standard textbook ideal personality.
live a clean, happy and spotless life.
It is not yet known whether this subsequent role will maintain its original character or become the next deformed fake Anna.
The heroine’s current husband is most likely a careerist with secrets like her. The little boy who was suddenly pulled up by her grandfather at the wedding and lied to be his nephew is most likely his biological son.
This pair of human-looking couple are most likely just a fragile interest alliance that may break down at any time.
The shortcomings of the play "Anna" are obvious. Li Youmei misappropriated Anna's relevant documents, changed her name to Anna, and gradually climbed up from the bottom to the top of the tower using her false identity. No one verified the process, and the sense of reality was very poor.
If it were a imperial envoy-style satirical comedy , it might still be understood as satirizing everyone, but this tragic song of ambition with the real heroine and fake Anna reaching the top easily in such a way that "doesn't need to be exposed" is too real. buoyant.
It is not yet known whether subsequent dramas will make up for a more reasonable logical closed loop, or resolve the frivolous quality of "climbing too fast and flying too fake" by exposing her false illusion and causing her to fall.
At the end of the second episode, the fake Li Anna meets the real Li Anna in the elevator. How much happiness can a stolen life have? Where did the cracks in the heroine Crystal's life begin? It seems that she is finally entering the stage of debunking and "trial".
It is easy to stand in a moral vacuum and judge right from wrong and point out good and evil. However, "Anna" abandons the absolutely correct position and talks about greed, vanity and misfortune from the first perspective. It reveals the inner darkness, the entanglement of mistakes and sorrows step by step, and it is a small one. The idea grows into a big scam, and the shadow of the abyss of human nature is shocking and sad.
