The audience always favors suspense-themed Korean dramas. The progress of the process of unraveling the truth of the case and deducing who the murderer was, as well as the suffering and tragedy hidden behind the case... While the plot progress makes people scratch their heads, it gives the audience the hope that "the truth will eventually come", so it can always achieve high reputation and high ratings.
, such as the 2020 " Flower of Evil ", 2021 " Peeping ", and the classic "Secret Forest" series that has been regarded by the audience as the classic "Secret Forest" series.
When suspense themes are combined with political and legal themes, what kind of different viewing experience will it bring to the audience? This latest Korean drama "Defending" scored 8.2 high scores to give the audience a satisfactory answer.
story background is set in a public defense law firm. The male protagonist is named Zuo Shibai and the female protagonist is named Lu Xiyi.
The two met in a case of "employees suing the company for the side effects of contraceptive pills produced by the company". Zuo Shibai defended the plaintiff, and Lu Xiyi defended the contraceptive pill production company.
As a lawyer who has experienced many battles in "Korea's most well-known Zhangshan Law Firm", Lu Xiyi, as always, "only attaches importance to interests and not care about the truth". Without confirming whether the contraceptive pill has side effects, she chose to stand on Jiangcheng Pharmaceutical and successfully won the trial.
But I never expected that Lu Xiyi's best friend was a victim of birth control pills when she was young. Under the severe auditory hallucination fantasy brought by birth control pills, she killed her husband in full view...
bloody murder case, Lu Xiyi began to reflect on the choice of "money and conscience" for the first time, and the story ushered in a reversed -
, who should have been standing on Jiangcheng Pharmaceuticals, while pretending to defend the pharmaceutical company, she secretly handed over the information that could prove that the contraceptive pills had side effects to her opponent's lawyer Zuo Shibai. Because I want to save face, I pretend to be drunk and my behavior is not controlled after drinking, and the image of a cute lawyer who speaks right and wrong is vividly interpreted.
As expected, Lu Xiyi's betrayal was known to Jiangcheng Pharmaceuticals and Zhangshan Law Firm (the representatives of these two companies in the play are relatives), so he lost the opportunity to be promoted and was transferred to work in the public defense law firm where Zuo Shibai works.
thought it was a daily routine of defending the victim as usual, but unexpectedly he was involved in another murder case. And all the dead are closely related to "Lu Xiyi and Zhang Shan Law Firm Representative Zhang Jidao"...
first two episodes, "Defending Against the Wind" is a stunning political drama. Zuo Shibai and Lu Xiyi are opposites, standing opposites between justice and money and power. In the process of defending their respective clients, they present to the audience with the sharp reality that money is not guilty, money is guilty, and the law is not 100% protecting victims, and the strength is very profound. After four episodes of
, the story background gradually becomes complete. Introduced by the side effects of birth control pills, one case related to "Zhangshan Law Firm" occurred, and one person who had sins and colluded with "Zhangshan Law Firm" was killed and died... The main line of the drama was completely surfaced, not a political drama but a suspense crime drama with political laws as the background.
and the picture is very daring: the head of a person who has committed crimes in the past is pressed into the water by the murderer, struggling to the death but it is useless, and he clearly feels the coming of death. After his death, his hands were tied behind the murderer and his body was placed in a kneeling position. He told the public in a confessional form that "the dead are unforgivable criminals." The scale was too large and he felt full of pleasure.
Who is the murderer who will kill the guilty person? This is the biggest highlight of the series. In traditional suspense dramas, the screenwriter and director choose to hide the identity of the murderer. In less than the last 4 episodes, the audience will never guess who the murderer is. But "The Battle Against" is a big deal. At the end of the second episode, the audience was hinted through the details of "The Watch on the Wrist" to the audience that the murderer was the male protagonist Zuo Shibai. In the subsequent plot, evidence proved time and time again that even if Zuo Shibai was not the murderer, he was definitely one of the accomplices in the serial murder case.
The protagonist is a villain, and the first two episodes tell the audience that there is a close connection between the murderer and the protagonist.Such character setting and plot direction are very touching, and it also brings infinite curiosity to the audience. I want to know what kind of harm Zuo Shibai has received from Zhangshan Law Firm in the past and why he used the "violence to fight violence" method to punish relevant characters.
At the same time, Zuo Shibai's lawyer identity also brings multiple highlights to the drama: lawyers are most familiar with the legal terms and are the group who knows best how to escape from crimes by doing. Faced with such an anti-reconnaissance criminal, will the police really have a chance of winning? It is obvious that the cat and mouse game between the two sides is difficult.
On the other side is Lu Xiyi who was selected by Zuo Shibai. Because he worked for Zhangshan Law Firm after graduation, Zuo Shibai believed that Lu Xiyi was also a villain, so he involved Lu Xiyi in the murder case with the intention of punishing him in the process.
But unexpectedly, in the side effects case of contraceptive pills, Lu Xiyi was conscientious and found out that he had changed from a bad girl to a kind lawyer. After being dispatched to become a public defense lawyer, he was wholeheartedly defending the vulnerable groups who had no money to pay the lawyer's fees. These soft and kind actions made Zuo Shibai feel guilty about Lu Xiyi.
From the initial mutual agitation to the final heart-warming, Zuo Shibai and Lu Xi intended to have feelings during the process of getting along day and night. Zuo Shibai would beat up the person who hurt Xiyi. Lu Xiyi unconditionally trusted "even Zuo Shibai committed a crime because of a reason." The two had a close and calm relationship.
In the current plot, Lu Xiyi knows that Zuo Shibai is a criminal, but is not afraid of Zuo Shibai for this reason, but instead acts like "If you need it, you can defend Zuo Shibai regardless of everything." Without too many lines and performances, the deep emotions between the two are presented to the audience, with a different sense of sweetness and bitterness.
Finally, let’s talk about the most important setting of “Zhangshan Law Firm” in the play. This is a company full of sins and the source of all tragedies. All murders, all victims, and all roles in the play (including Zuo Shibai and Lu Xiyi) are closely related to him. Or money-related interest entanglement, or tragic revenge of life paying for life, linking all the secondary lines in the play together in the main line.
From Zuo Shibai who defended the vulnerable group and killed people, to the former evil girl who has regained his conscience, and to the representatives behind Zhangshan Law Firm who have no bottom line in money and power, "Defending Against the Side" is set by all the evil people, bringing the audience the "justice and revenge contest" that has been reversed throughout the whole process. It is absolutely impossible to guess who the person who succeeded in the final battle is until the last moment. Such a stunning work is worth watching!
