LEE JOON GI
AND
MOON CHAE WON
BOWL VIEWERS OVER
IN
IN
MELODRAMATIC FLOWER
OF EVIL
TEASER
Lee Joon Gi and Moon Chae Won dazzle the viewers with their
stunning performance in the fifth teaser of Flower of Evil.
The teaser is about an emotional conversation between Baek Hee Sung, a psychopath and Cha Ji
Won, his homicide detective wife. They are compelled to confront the past
and the truth about their relationship. It would leave a trail of devastation in its wake.
The teaser flashes forwards to the present and backwards to the
past, ramping up the tension and excitement.
It begins with a flashback to the past. Ghosts of their past. Let’s
try to unravel the convoluted story.
The young Baek Hee Sung
seemed to be waiting in the half-lit street. Flakes of snow were falling
everywhere. It was the winter of contentment. He was thinking of Cha Ji
Won, having been impressed by her warmth and beauty.
Baek’s appearance
needs discussion.
There are two issues about Baek
Hee Sung’s crowning glory.
First, the style. Is it the English mullet or the Midwest
Metal? No? Fortunately, his hairstyle
was not the Visigoth. The mullet, which comes in over a hundred forms, is the
hairstyle of the gods. You can say, Baek
Hee Sung’s hair was behaving well. And, he looked gorgeous in his
hairstyle. He looked like a god to Cha Ji Won.
Second, the colour of his locks. He had bleached his hair
platinum blond or fiery gold. It’s difficult to say because he was partly in
the night light. His looks were good enough to dye for.
Was his bleached look a form of self-expression? The young
fella could be experimenting with his hair and making a statement. It could
be the season’s trend. Probably, it was an act of rebellion. It could be a
hot style for the young and dangerous. Or, perhaps, it was a form of
creativity. He was, after all, a metalcraft designer.
Whatever it was, the young Baek
rocked the Asian blond mullet look. It was attention-grabbing and he had Cha Ji Won’s rapt attention all
right.
Baek Hee Sung disclosed to his wife, ‘I keep thinking about it. The way you
looked at the time.’ He was moved by the way Cha Ji Won swooned over him. He had waltzed right into her heart.
Girls love bad boys. When he alternated between coldness and warmth, he must
have intrigued her.
    
The traffic sign in the older part of the town where he was
standing said ‘No right turn’. It
meant that he should take a wrong turn.
She took a wrong turn, so did he. She fell hard for him. To
her, he looked like the god of her dreams, with his blond hair falling
against his porcelain skin. Smitten with the handsome young man, Cha Ji Won couldn’t help but stalk
him. It was foolhardy of her to be drawn to him. They shouldn’t have ended up
together.
He didn’t know it but he was about to begin a journey into a
transformation of himself. He said goodbye to his bleached hair and his icy
self when they wedded. He was a brand-new person. He seemed to love her.
‘Do you love her?’ Cha Ji Won finally spit out the crucial question. She had asked
him point blank and she expected a straightforward answer. For Cha, it seemed to be an out-of-body
experience. She was in her detective mode and seemed to be grilling him. It
is as if she wasn’t talking about herself; she had disassociated herself from
him. Her question, so urgent and intense, seemed like the Spanish Inquisition.
The teaser reverted to the past. Cha Ji Won relived their romantic past. She remembered that she had snuggled
up to him on the sofa. It was so romantic. All her wonderful dreams about him
had come true. He was in love with her just as much as she was with him. That
was what she thought. Did he feign love and happiness which he did not feel?
He did not have to think hard about the question, ‘Do you
love her?’ Tension hung in the air as she waited for his answer.
Then, the teaser sweeps the viewers into the future. His dark
past had caught up with him; he must have been taken completely by surprise. Pursued by some evil characters,
he stumbled in his attempt to escape.
Baek had decided earlier that he couldn’t allow his beloved family
to be dragged into his dark criminal world. He leaned forward to study
himself closely in the mirror. He was
looking at his past. He saw not a wound, but an old long gash of a scar
running from the back to the front of his neck. Was it a memento from a
vicious fight in the past or the mark of a suicide attempt?
But, a bandage was plastered beneath his right eye. He must
have been in a recent fight.
The handsome Baek Hee Sung gazed placidly at the
mirror.
He numbed himself to emotions and feelings and detached himself
from the emotional situation. His eyes were cold and expressionless.
 
He cruelly pronounces ‘No’.
The straightforward answer was conveyed in an impassive and cold tone. It meant that he didn’t
love her in the past and he doesn’t love her in the present. It devastated
her. The air seemed to freeze.
An icy chill washes up the viewer’s spine.
Was he lying? The better the psychopath, the better the lie.
Cha Ji Won was standing near what seemed like a curved flight of stairs
while having the very emotional conversation with him. The curved stairs
suggest disorientation. Cha was confused. The Baeks were estranged.
Baek Hee Sung nonchalantly confessed that he didn’t know what love was. He
had plunged a knife into her heart by confessing that he didn’t love her and
now, he had twisted the blade deeper into it by coldly stating that he did not understand anything about love.
This was the downside of loving a man too much. Her tears fell
like raindrops on a cold, wet day.
Now, is he telling her the truth? Or, is he telling her a lie
to protect her, her reputation as a homicide detective and their love? Probably,
he, a criminal, didn’t want to drag her into his dark,
dangerous world. They were on the opposite sides of the law.
The teaser shifts into the future again when an assailant
attacked him with a knife.
    
She was at the edge of despair. Pain reached her heart with the
speed of light and her heart was shattered.
Convinced that he did not love her, Cha Ji Won proceeded
to burn all the photos of their happy past. Burnt to ashes.
 
Consumed with anger, she shrieked, ‘Who the hell are you?’ Who
was Baek Hee Sung? She couldn’t
figure him out.
  
Her ‘Sherlock Holmes’
instincts gave her pause. Something was wrong but she could not put a finger on his problem. Baek Hee Sung’s life was a puzzle. Troubled,
she thought long and hard about him. Has
she been too hasty in judging him?
Cha Ji Won was in a daze. Baek regretted their relationship; he stressed
that she shouldn’t have met him.
What Baek Hee Sung feared most finally materialised. The past had caught up with him. He was subdued by some assailants. His hands and legs were tied and he had
been thrown into what looked like a huge swimming pool with welded wire mesh
panels to cage him in.
One is transfixed by the horror of the scene.
   
Fate was benevolent to him. He did not drown.
Cha Ji Won finally saw the light. The truth was not that
simple. Suspecting that her husband might be in danger, she screamed for him in fear
and terror.
  
Baek Hee Sung had managed to free himself. His startled look shows the dawning realization that he had been given
a new lease of life.
Wasn’t living behind a mask all life-long meaningless? Perhaps, his soul would be set free and he would
be able to feel again.
Lee Joon Gi’s appeal as an actor has always transcended the
barriers of race, sex, class and nationality. He has slipped into the
character, Baek Hee Sung ever so effortlessly. He is awesome. Global viewers
are impatient to see him in the drama. Moon Chae Won has also won many
admirers for her amazing acting in the teaser.
Flower of Evil, the most highly anticipated drama of 2020, will
premiere at 10:50 p.m. K.S.T. on 29 July 2020 (Wednesday-Thursday drama) in
South Korea.
 
It will premiere at 9:45 p.m. on 30 July 2020 (Thursday-Friday
drama) in TVN Asia regions.
The 16-episode drama is written by Yoo Jung Hee, directed
by Kim Cheol Gyu, and produced by Monster Union and Studio Dragon.
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