"My Uncle": Life is a confrontation between internal and external forces

"People have to live for themselves." There are times when this old saying doesn't work. Some people are used to living with sacrifice and dedication, some people live with low self-esteem, and some people live with guilt and resentment. It's not that they don't want to live for themselves, it's just that this inexplicable world, messy living rules, and social rules make them unable to find a reason to live for themselves.

Park Dong-hoon is like this, and so is Lee Ji-an.

"My Uncle" is a 2018 Korean drama starring Lee Ji-eun and Lee Sun-kyun. In the past few years, there have been many people who recommended/persuaded me to open this drama with the highest status such as "Life Korean Drama", but after four years of delay, it was finally promoted by the algorithm, and finally I finished watching the same screenwriter Park Hae-young's "" After "My Exodus Diary", I understand why this drama deserves everyone's hard work to push me into the pit.

However, I am very grateful that I have entered a life where Ji An and Dong Hoon lacked the will to survive, but had to work hard to live.

From "My Uncle" to "My Exodus Diary", screenwriter Park Hae-young used almost the same style and routine to write two completely different works-world- weary and trivial, family and siblings, commuting and walking, in quiet enough The backgrounds and personalities of all the characters are stacked in the daily behavior that the audience ignores.

Li Zhian (played by Li Zhien) is a miserable girl who condenses almost all the misfortunes in the world and walks alone in the dark. She has no parents, is in debt, supports an elderly grandmother and has a criminal record. She never asks for help because she thinks no one will help. , She is independent and lonely. She is hired by a big company day after day to wash dishes from 9 to 5 after work, and ends up with two packs of espresso melted in hot water at the end of each day. Even if the coffee is hot, She couldn't get rid of the fatigue engraved on her lower eyelid, and she couldn't get rid of her gradually closed heart defense due to killing in self-defense. 8964

On the other hand, Park Dong-hoon (played by Lee Sun-kyun), who works as a minister in a large construction company and seems to have a happy family, should lead a happier life than Ji-an, right? Not so. The second eldest of the three brothers, he has the best salary and the most respectable job. He is the pride of his mother and brother to talk outside, but he is always ignorant of refutation and works silently, but he is also the child who worries his family the most.

Except for Shang Yuan, his friend who became a monk, Dongxun has almost nothing to confess to. Whether it is in the three brothers or the community football team, he is always too sober. A calm presence that doesn't get drunk and can call his wife and ask "do you need to buy something to go home?" before going home.

All buildings are the confrontation between internal forces and external forces, such as wind, load, and vibration. We have to calculate and study all the external forces that may be generated, and design a stronger internal force than that. Internal force is always stronger than external force, and the same is true in life. From a certain point of view, it is the confrontation between external force and internal force.

As a structural engineer, Dongxun has spent his whole life calculating the balance of internal and external forces to maintain harmony in his family and workplace. As long as he does not fall, as long as his internal strength is strong enough, he can support the wall that looks happy and beautiful from the outside, but is actually crumbling. , until Zhi An became the last force exerted, causing him to collapse. 8964

I seem to be the most miserable child in the world, but say I am the most miserable person in the world.

Zhian and Dongxun's encounters are completely different. In the office where the two seats are separated by an aisle, it is also the relationship between the minister and the contract, which should have been parallel. live. But from the moment Dongxun picked out the weakest Zhian from the dispatch company's resume, he was destined to intervene in each other's lives.

It was Dongxun who guided Zhian who was walking in the endless dark tunnel to the light. His life experience provided Zhian with some concise solutions. Finding a public-funded nursing home for his grandmother was an example, telling her, "As long as you don't care, it's no big deal. " is also an example. It was Ji An's urgency to reality that disintegrated Dong Xun's long-term armed, vulnerable self-esteem and excess conscience, and made him face up to his accustomed spirit of sacrifice.

Dongxun's substantial help and open-minded attitude made Zhian feel the unprecedented kindness of humanity, and also made her decide to defend the "uncle's happiness" as the ultimate goal, which indirectly brought her messy life to the right track. Zhi'an's tragic past and perseverance made Dong-hoon realize that people's inner strength is far stronger than he imagined.

It's just that the two people's internal strength is used in the wrong place, Dongxun is led by the family, and Zhian is bound by the past. When they intervene in each other's lives with external forces and gradually transform each other's internal forces, the audience finally understands that living hard for others is not entirely a bad thing. If the other party can be happier because of their own existence and dedication, then This is another form of "living for oneself", right?

In the end, "My Uncle" is a very successful play from casting, script to crew. Ji An must be Li Zhi Eun, and Dong Xun must be Li Shan Gyun (otherwise the last episode of meeting again will be difficult to make sense) . Even if it hurts for the two of them, it is worth watching it with tears.