The most eye-catching moment of Korean movies in recent years is that "Parasite " won the 92nd Academy Awards Best Picture in 2019. The opposition between the poor and the rich, the barriers between the upper class and the lower class, and the sharp contrast between the good and the evil of human nature make this story highly anticipated and become a new classic in film history.
Recently, the Korean drama "Anna" starring Bae Suzy was aired. Breaking through the conventional way of winning by relying on love lines, there are no eye-catching suspense, murder, time travel, and fantasy elements. What is just a process of "the heroine Anna will do whatever it takes to get the life she wants."
seems to be a boring subject, but in fact it is full of high energy. Because there is only one way for Anna to rise to power from beginning to end, and that is to "use lies to claim other people's lives as your own." In just two episodes of the first episode, the key element of "the gap between rich and poor" was sharply presented, so it was called the drama version of "Parasite" by the audience.
Before we officially start introducing the series, let’s talk about the acting resume of the heroine Bae Suzy. He made his debut with the youth-themed "Dream High" and won the title of National First Love in one fell swoop. Subsequently, he starred in many hit dramas such as " 九家之书", "While You Were Sleeping ", " started ", etc. The improvement of his acting skills can be seen with the naked eye. In the "Anna" released this time, Bae Suzy plays two roles by one person. She vividly interprets the two images of a submissive girl born in a poor family and an upper-class socialite who pretends to lead other people's lives, which is eye-catching.
1. Poverty and disease
The story begins in the childhood of the heroine Yumi. Because she briefly got along with the wife of a chaebol, Yumi has been full of yearning for the upper class world since she was a child, so she became vain.
This vanity brought Yumi happiness, but also brought many tragic consequences: falling in love with a teacher at the same school made the girls around her envious, and it also became the trigger for Yumi to be expelled from school; After enrolling in school, she failed the college entrance examination due to her mental state. In order not to disappoint her parents, Yumi lied that she was admitted to Seoul National University and wanted to study abroad with her boyfriend. Although he didn't intentionally deceive him, he still asked his father to take out all the money used to treat cancer , which indirectly led to his father's death.
In less than half an episode, Yumi experienced the shattering of her college dream and the death of her loved ones. A serious change made her learn to accept her fate and become a maid who handles trivial matters in the chaebol's home.
However, the compromising posture did not make Yumi's life smoother. On the contrary, the class status of the bottom of society made the rich more proud of her posture. Finally, Yumei chose to resist when a rich man insulted her. In the dark night, she stole the passport of Bai Fumei's owner and a large amount of cash in the house, and chose to start a new life.
2, Vanity and Parasitism
The above is the plot of the first episode of "Anna". The pace is very fast, and it will tell the story of the troughs and ups and downs of the past 20 years in the United States. Starting from when Yumi takes away the passport of Bai Fumei's owner, the story officially reaches its climax, which is the setting of the show that attracts the most attention of the audience, "Secretly Changing Life".
With the power of money, Yumei replaced the photo of her rich and beautiful owner Anna on her passport with herself, and transformed into "Anna", a successful person who returned from studying abroad. Thanks to her lying skills, which are enough to change people's lives, everyone around her believes that Yumi has a high degree of education and a good family background. She has successfully become a senior professor in a private school and married a man in the upper class.
This plot is very exciting and also very satisfying. As for the character, Yumei was born at the bottom of society, with a vain and low self-esteem character, and at the same time, she is ambitious. People from the lower social classes have succeeded in sneaking into the upper class by changing their roles. This exciting drama model will undoubtedly make the audience get more and more excited as they watch.
On the other side, as Yumi's fame grows and her career and life become more and more successful, the audience becomes more and more on tenterhooks. She is always afraid that Yumi's lies will be exposed, and at the same time, she is looking forward to the development of the plot after the lies are exposed.
I have to say that Bae Suzy's acting skills are really amazing. After many years of filming TV series, he has completely developed his own style.When she plays the role of the girl Yumi, she almost appears without makeup. The youthfulness and vanity of a student, and the desolation and unwillingness when becoming a maid in a wealthy family are all vividly presented.
The presentation of such a low-status character is in sharp contrast to the performance after becoming a fake white and rich Anna: After stealing the real Anna's life, Yumi became confident and high-spirited, as if she was born to exist like this. in living environment. Although they have the same face, they give the audience completely different feelings, which is evident in their acting skills.
3. The definition of truth and falsehood
After watching the first two episodes, "Anna" gave the audience a very contradictory feeling. Judging from the act of stealing other people's identities, Yumi's current upper-class life is fake; but judging from the plot of Yumi cramming in art knowledge one night and being able to teach students with ease the next morning, Yumi's ability is indeed worthy live such a life. It's just that Yumi lost because of her not-so-good birth.
Putting these two plots together gives the audience a strong sense of contrast. For a while, they can't tell what is true and what is false, and the story becomes more interesting.
According to the relevant information of the drama, Anna in the drama is not only a smart and hard-working woman, but also a patient suffering from "Ripley Syndrome". This group has an unquenchable desire for high-class status, so they will continue to lie and use bigger lies to justify the initial lie. The reason why
sets the heroine Yumei as such a character is to explore and explore the spiritual world of the "fantasy personality" group. At the same time, the setting of "Yumi stealing Anna's life" was added to the series, giving it the feel of a drama version of "Parasite", and the thickness of the story became deeper.
In addition to the narrative branch of the heroine Yumi, the narrative branch of Yumi’s husband and the real white and rich Anna is also very exciting: various details indicate that Yumi’s husband is not a real upper-class celebrity, but is just like Yumi, as if he is hiding some secret. The little boy who appeared at the wedding was probably the husband's child from the past, and the husband concealed his marriage history; many years later, the real Bai Fumei Anna and Yumi reunited and recognized Yumi. This plot development undoubtedly maximized the dramatic conflict of and . . In this case, what kind of "resistance" will Yumi make, and can her skilled lying skills allow her to hide the truth? let us wait and see.
