In 2020, after the Korean movie " Parasite " won the Academy Award, it once became a Korean phenomenon work.
Korean film and television has also set off a craze for satirizing chaebols. The TV series " Top Floor ", " Sky City ", etc., mostly start with the luxurious and absurd life of chaebols, satirizing the decay and dirty behind the upper class, the real and bloody plot made the audience unable to stop watching.
If there are too many filming of the same type of theme, the audience will get tired of watching it. If TV series such as "Black Bride" are only packaged with gorgeous costumes and props, the plot is not attractive enough, and the audience will not pay.
However, a new TV series of the same type recently has obtained super high ratings and discussion, and has taken a different approach, focusing on the female group at the bottom, and using them to unfold a story of satirizing the chaebol.
This drama is -
" Little Ladies "
On September 3, "Little Ladies" was broadcast on South Korea's tvN TV station, starring Kim Go-eun , Nam Ji-hyun , Park Ji-hoon , Wei Ha-joon , Yeon Ki-joon , and also guest starring Qiu Ja-hyun and Song Joong-ki . The cast is very luxurious.
production team configuration is also strong. Its screenwriter Zheng Ruijing and art director Yoo Chengxi are both directors of Park Chan-wook , so this TV series has a movie-like texture in terms of picture texture, lines, etc.
This drama has a total of 12 episodes, 2 episodes a week, and 60-70 minutes per episode. The ratings of the first week were topped by the list and were on the hot search list many times.
"Little Ladies" tells the story of three sisters living at the bottom, relying on each other to fight against the Korean chaebol.
The three sisters squeezed into a small house and depended on each other. The father owed huge debts and fled abroad to take refuge. The mother even stole the savings from the family and left them alone.
In this way, why do people living at the bottom of society contact the chaebols who can control the country?
All of this starts with a mysterious case experienced by my elder sister Wu In-joo (played by Kim Go-eun)...
Wu In-joo is an accountant. She is excluded by her colleagues in the company, but she also made a good friend Chen Huaying (played by Qiu Ja-hyun) who has the same experience.
The two of them eat and chat together every day. Wu Renzhu is short of money, and Chen Huaying will also take the initiative to lend her money.
But Chen Huaying died.
hanged in his own wardrobe.
The person who discovered this scene was Wu Renzhu who went to Chen Huaying's house to feed her goldfish.
What's even more strange is that the hanging Chen Huaying wore a pair of eye-catching red high heels and a blue orchid tattoo on her ankle.
Wu Renzhu, who witnessed all this, is destined to be involved in a huge vortex.
First, I learned that this friend of mine stole 70 billion won of private funds from the company.
Then, I found that my friend left a huge amount of cash and a will for himself in the locker of the yoga studio.
In the will, Chen Huaying just said that she hopes that the money can make Wu Renzhu and her two sisters live a better life.
Wu Renzhu, who received a huge sum of money, did not squander it, just went to the supermarket to experience the joy of being able to buy it casually.
Rich people are so happy, why do friends commit suicide? Still leaving the money to yourself?
So, Wu In-zhu used the name of helping the company investigate 70 billion won to find out the real cause of his friend's death.
Wu Renzhu first came to her friend's house to find clues. By recalling their daily conversations, bills, call records, etc., she found that her friend had an extraordinary relationship with the company's senior executive, Director Shen, and had reported the issue of Director Shen's embezzlement of public funds.
Through the call record with Director Shen, Wu Renzhu found a woman, the ex-boy in the position of her friend.
The same way I died for a friend many years ago!
also committed suicide in his apartment wearing red high heels, and after his death, he was also charged with embezzlement of public funds.
Wu Renzhu is very sure that it is Director Shen. In order to get rid of the crime of embezzlement of public funds, he flowed huge amounts of private funds into his pockets.
He forced his friend to commit suicide in the name of depression .
Wu Renzhu returned home and received a very scary express delivery, a pair of eye-catching red high heels.
Is it their next target? Wu Renzhu immediately ran to find Director Shin, but witnessed her falling from the building and dying.
Before he died, the same orchid appeared in his car.
And his death also means that the clues that were just solved were broken again.
Wu In-joo also accidentally encountered her colleagues who investigated with her, and sent mayor candidate Park Jae-sang (played by Yeon Ki-joon) out of the company.
So who is this Park Jae-sang? He is the subject of the second sister Wu Renhui investigation.
Second sister Wu Renhui (played by Nam Ji-hyun) is a news reporter for a TV station. She is also not loved by her leaders in the unit and has always done the hardest and most tiring work.
Recent social focus is on Mayor candidate Park Jae-sang. Wu In-hye still remembers that he received reports about his bank money laundering in the early days of his work. In order to get recognition from his leaders, he wanted to dig deep into his ideas about his bad information.
However, the whistleblower who reported that year also died before meeting Wu Renhui.
died in a car accident, and a terrible orchid was also left at the scene.
At the same time, the third sister Wu In-kyung (played by Park Ji-hoo) is a high school student with extremely high talent in painting. With his own efforts, he was admitted to the highest art high school.
Her daughter and Park Jae-sang are classmates and are often invited to draw at home.
However, on the surface, the two are friends, but in fact, when Park Jae-sang's daughter won the award, no matter how angry Wu In-kyung was, it would be useless.
Because whether the painter wins the award is not the final say, but the power has the final say.
From this, we can see that the three sisters living at the bottom have received unfair treatment. Their lives seem unrelated, but they are all focused on Park Jae-sang.
From the current broadcast part, the storyline is very exciting and the suspense is full of feeling. Why does Chen Huaying choose to commit suicide if she has so much money? Why did Wu Renzhu receive red high heels? Every time a dead person appears? The reason why the drama has received such high praise is that in addition to focusing on the theme in the suspense line, the discussion on the gap between the rich and the poor and human nature is also one of its highlights.
For example, the conversation that became a hot search today -
When Wu Renzhu got this sudden huge sum of money, what she did and thought of was timeout and winter coats.The portrayal of details of
all reflects the delicateness of the screenwriter.
also makes this drama more worthy of thinking in addition to suspense.
In addition, the actors in the play are also quite good, especially Qiu Ja-hyun's guest appearance in just two episodes, which makes people feel a stunning feeling.
At present, "Little Ladies" has been updated for 4 episodes, and the rating has dropped from 8.9 points when it first started broadcasting to 8.5 points.
score decreased slightly, on the one hand, because of the natural decline caused by more people watching it, and on the other hand, it is also related to the fact that there are some small bugs in its suspense line.
But in general, the whole drama is still not concealed by the flaws.
As long as it continues to develop according to its current level, the editor thinks it is not impossible to become the next Korean drama after "Extreme Lawyer Yu Ying-jeong"!
