“Others are hell” + “It’s your turn”
Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account “New drama observation” (ID: xinjuguancha), author Ming Yuefan.
Japanese TV dramas and Korean dramas have recently fallen in love with the metamorphosis of killing neighbors.
The Japanese TV series “It’s Your Turn”, which was launched in April, tells of a exchange killing game between 25 residents in a Tokyo apartment, which triggered a wave of chasing drama among mainland audiences. Although it was finally found on the unsatisfactory end, the Douban score was still firmly maintained at 7.9, and the number of people who scored more than 160,000. At the same time, a large wave of domestic dramas will be far away. Behind me.
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The Korean drama “Others, Hell”, which was launched in August, also tells about the killing game that took place in the neighborhood, but the location was changed from the Tokyo apartment to the Korean examination center.
Under the premise that “It’s Your Turn” has played the same stalk, “The Others, Hell” is still a high score of 8.4, and it is another high-selling overseas this year. drama.
The two dramas have made breakthroughs in the subject matter, especially in the context of the domestically-oriented dramas that tend to be conservative. This kind of “perverted” theme of killing neighbors seems to have one for the mainland audience.The stocks are not clear about the inexplicable attraction.
In all fairness, in fact, no matter in the concept setting or the details, the standard of “It’s Your Turn” and “Others, Hell” is not good. There is still a big gap between the drama and the audience. The audience is so spared. Why is it?
Sexuality vs. Sexuality
“Does everyone, at a certain moment, want to kill someone, or want someone to die?”
“It’s your turn” The opening of “Others is Hell” throws such a rather sharp question, and invariably gives the audience an affirmative answer: everyone has wanted to happen in a certain moment. The urge to kill someone is normal.
In the “It’s Your Turn”, 25 households in 18 rooms have had the urge to kill someone at some point for a variety of reasons.
The 45-year-old single male staff member in Room 101 was troubled by the appearance of a popular male star, and then had the urge to kill a male star who had never met. The Chinese student in Room 203 was sexually harassed by the owner of the restaurant. The urge to kill the boss; the plastic surgeon in Room 403, because of the college students who had been handed over to dig the wall, the urge to kill the friends of the same class; the housewife in Room 502, because of the repeated martyrdom of the mother-in-law, The urge to kill the mother-in-law who is getting along with each other…
In the “It’s Your Turn”, an honest female college student, is an anti-social personality that is hobby-loving
With the support of these seemingly legitimate reasons, the protagonists wrote down the names of the people they wanted to kill on the paper, exchanged them, and replaced the “damn” people instead of the other.
The murder motive in “Others is Hell” is not as good as “It’s Your Turn”.
In the “It’s Your Turn”, the protagonist has more or less serious little troubles, and the murder motive is generated under the impulse; in “Others is hell”, the dental doctor Xu Wen group headed the “perverted five people” The Neighbors Group is a murderer with no reason to use murder as a hobby. Whenever you encounter your favorite “prey”, you can start at the same time and put the other person to death.
In Others, Hell, a gentle and gentle dentist, is an avid murderer
Under the provocation and nuisance of a group of perverted neighbors, the inner side of Yin Zongyou, who has always been a man of nostalgia, was thoroughly motivated, eventually killing all the murderers and escaping from the examination hall.
Yong Zongyou, the male protagonist of “Others is Hell”
The story of “It’s Your Turn” and “Others is Hell” is not high-level. The audience’s setting is that they have made a humanity under the influence of the traditional Asian Confucian cultural circle that emphasizes human nature. An alternative expression of evil.
The two dramas agree on the theme that life will be evil, but moral rules and legal order constrain the desire of people to do evil.Killing is a manifestation of the way of extreme evil. Under the subtle stimulation of a specific time, the potential evil desires of the human heart will be stimulated, and then the murderous impulse will be generated.
Asia and other Asian countries such as Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Vietnam are far-reaching influenced by Confucian culture. In the traditional Confucian cultural concept, it has always been advocated that “the beginning of man, the nature is good”, and that the key to the transformation of human nature lies in the education and cultivation of the day after tomorrow.
Xunzi’s “sexual evil theory” holds the opposite view and advocates “human evil, good and false”, and believes that evil in human nature is born, and goodness can be achieved through hard work.
In the past, most of the film and television dramas were inherited by the good deeds, and they were willing to create the pure and perfect protagonist of “Wei Guangzheng” and silly white sweet. For Asian audiences who have long been influenced by Confucian culture, this kind of pure and perfect protagonist is persuasive and convincing.
Today, the right to speak in society has gradually shifted to the hands of young people. How to maintain social order and how social rules are established, a new generation of young people have different answers. In their cognitive system, on the one hand, they do not deny the traditional concept of human nature, but on the other hand, the “sexual evil theory” is also included in the scope of discussion, which has led to many active discussions.
The more obvious phenomenon now is that the young audience is quite disgusted with the reason of the “Mother of the Virgin” and the “Father of the Father”. It is particularly popular with the “Black Cut” and “Black Lotus” style. This change of preferences is not unrelated to changes in values behind it. TV dramas such as “It’s Your Turn” and “Others, Hell”, as the protagonist of the heinous killer, can also be highly recognized by young viewers, which was not so easy in the past. But in today’s cultural context, they do not exceed the social cognition system of young people, so they can harvest a large number of fans.
Cannibalism,< /strong>Social pressure on nowhere
One hundred years ago, Lu Xun revealed the cannibalistic nature of feudal ethics in The Madman’s Diary. One hundred years later, the social system has changed, and the essence of social eating has not improved.
Excerpts from Madman’s Diary, published in 1918
As the only four developed countries in Asia, the per capita happiness index of Japan and South Korea is not as high as expected. According to the survey data released by the Cabinet Office of Japan at the end of 2016, in the survey on the future life prospects of young people aged 13-29, young people in Japan and South Korea are generally pessimistic and do not have much hope for their future prospects.
The young people of the two countries face the common troubles of the gap between the rich and the poor in society. The government is striving to improve the status quo of the unfair society, but the results are minimal. The younger generation still feels that life pressure is huge, and it is unable to breathe because of the heavy social burden.
2004 Theatrical Animation, “Detective Conan: Undead on Baker Street”
In “Others is Hell”, Yin Zongyou, a poor intern who came to Seoul from the countryside, lived in a monthly examination room of 190,000 won (about RMB 1,134). The room was small and dim, and the light was dim. The effect is very poor, and normal calls will be complained of noise pollution by neighbors. With a good attitude of forbearance and forbearance, every night, the situation after work during the day did not improve.
In the depressed workplace environment, the predecessors seem to be old-fashioned, but they are arrogant and indifferent, and they have no time to consider an ordinary intern. Unexpectedly found that the senior female colleague of the company’s obscenity, the sense of justice that has been suppressed, has been eager to move, but when she thinks that she is humble as an ant, she has no right to speak and influence in the company, she has to endure again, and she has no courage to remind her female colleagues. .
The living environment and the working environment are in a mess, and the emotional life is also difficult to say. My girlfriend is bullied in the workplace, I can’t do anything about it. At the same time, because of my inferiority complex, I feel embarrassed about my ability and position, and I am embarrassed by others.
Everyone is not easy, but the protagonist always collects all the real life is not easy, and the label on the body is covered with bad luck, and the grievances are always on the table. Originally, the negative emotions should be properly vented, but only one person came to the city to work hard, and could not tell the family members who lived in different places about the depression. The beautiful words of “a distant relative is not as close as a neighbor” are also jokes under the provocation of a group of perverted neighbors. Since they can’t warm each other, they hurt each other, and they choose their neighbors as the starting object, killing people and venting their anger.
Under extreme repression, the protagonist falls into a logical circle: the problem can never be solved, and there is no hope in the future, so seek pleasure in the most stimulating murder. Anyway, there is nothing left, and there is no need to be afraid of losing anything.
Old bottled new wine,How do you feel fresh?
The second episode of “It’s Your Turn”, the horror scene of the human head in the washing machine, apparently stealing the suspense crime movie “Fatal ID” from 2003.
The 2003 movie “Fatal ID”, one of the Douban TOP 250 movies
Because the bridges are similar, the story setting is highly similar.
“Fatal ID” tells the story of a rainy night with power outages, 10 passengers living in the same motel, one after another. In this book, “It’s Your Turn,” 25 people live in the same apartment, and the settings for people who die are very similar.
In the key setting “Exchange Killing Game”, “It’s Your Turn” has the shadow of the 1951 movie “The Trainer.”
Trainer’s Stills, The film won the 24th Oscar Black and White Film Best Photography Nomination
“Trainer” is directed by Hitchcock and tells the story of a tennis player who meets strangers on the train and exchanges each other’s father and wife.
If you go back further, “It’s Your Turn”, “Others, Hell” and “Fatal ID”, you can find traces of the classic best-selling novel “No Life”.
suspicious mystery novelsNo life is still, sales of more than 100 million copies, many times adapted into movies, TV series
“No Life” is a long storytelling novel published by the British female writer Agatha Christie in 1939. It tells the story of 10 murdered protagonists trapped in the island, after a series of failures and self-help, successively The story of death.
The relatively closed space setting, the high-density plot advancement, the unexpected murderer, and so on. The drama factors of “No Life” are all obtained in “It’s Your Turn” and “Others Are Hell”. inherit.
There are obvious imitation traces in the form, the details of the stacking and the restoration of the crime scene, “It’s your turn” “Others is hell” is still a long gap from “No Life”, visible to the naked eye .
The audience is obviously more tolerant, and the two plays are still pushed to the position of the overseas drama of the year.
The threshold for the creation of suspense subject matter is relatively high, especially under the premise that the predecessors have almost written all the novel settings and singular modus operandi. The suspense dramas nowadays want to introduce new styles and write new tricks, which is quite difficult. The clever thing about “It’s Your Turn” and “Others is Hell” is that it draws on the dramatic setting of classic suspense works and combines with the unique social context of today to make a micro-sorrow that can stab young people’s psychological pain points. Innovative expression. Once a young person can produce a little emotional resonance, the work will be successful.