The Lies Within (2019)

Au cœur le plus sombre de l'âme humaine...

C’est une excellent drama d’enquête, avec une progression constante.
Il n’y a pas d’excès de coups de théâtre, on sait assez rapidement dans quel sens il faut chercher, mais l’intérêt est maintenu du fait qu’on suit vraiment de près le travail de recherche, d’une manière qui paraît assez proche de la réalité d’un travail de terrain policier.
Il y a quand même des pics d’intensité, des moments tragiques et qui serrent le cœur.
La volonté indestructible de retrouver son mari mène Seo Hui, personne assez falotte et timide, à aller au delà d’elle-même, soutenue et encouragée par Tae Sik, qui ne renoncera jamais à découvrir la vérité, malgré les obstacles à franchir.
Si vous attendez une romance entre eux, je vous avertis de suite qu’il n’y en a pas l’ombre d’une, seulement de l’estime, de l’amitié.
Le coup de théâtre à la toute fin de l’histoire est de taille, même si pour moi le scénario est allé là une peu trop loin, tout en restant quand même dans la cohérence dramaturgique, mais c’est OCN, ceci explique sans doute cela.
La réalisation manie très habilement le flash-back explicatif, sans excès et toujours dans un très bon timing.
L’interprétation est excellente, particulièrement Lee Min Ki qui pour moi s’est révélé dans ce rôle d’un homme fort, maître de lui, ouvert cependant aux autres, que la vérité bouleverse et émeut car il n’a rien perdu de son humanité malgré son travail et ce qu’il y découvre chaque jour.
Lee Yoo Young est aussi parfaite dans le rôle de cette jeune femme effacée et timide que son amour pour son mari pousse à devenir forte, courageuse. L’actrice fait parfaitement passer à quel point le personnage doit prendre sur elle-même, combien elle force sa nature, et combien peu à peu elle va se découvrir une autre, maîtresse enfin d’elle-même et de sa vie.
la musique ne m'a pas frappée ni gênée, donc elle doit être très bien !
Je recommande vraiment ce drama, si vous aimez le genre policier bien écrit, bien réalisé et parfaitement interprété.




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I admit that the first major half of the series I was actually invested, and I wanted to continue, but there were so many little things that kept bugging me. I'm listing them as follows:

1) The Characters and the Insufficient Backstory: I couldn't sympathize with most of the characters because there was just not enough depth in flashbacks to make me feel for them. For example the relationship between Seo Hui and Sang Hun seemed really empty to me, considering he had spent so much time abroad, and when he returned he didn't live with her. He kept some heavy, HEAVY secrets from her and she was basically clueless about everything. If their relationship was that bad, I can't see why she was so desperate to find him, especially if she even suspected that he was cheating on her. It just didn't add up. The relationship between Sang Hun and his step-father wasn't really explored in depth either. I don't know what made Sang Hun think that his stepdad would care much if he got kidnapped or mutilated. I mean the old man basically stopped caring after the eye was discovered at the news agency, and he was ready to shut down the investigation for the son. The relationship of Yeong Min and Seo Hyun (the reporter) was so out of the blue, unnecessary and superficial that I didn't know what to think. The relationship between Yeong Min and Sang Hun wasn't satisfactorily pursued either, since Yeong Min's feelings were actually very complex but not explored at all.

2) The Disbelief in the Storyline: I'm sorry but I just can't imagine that any human being, any sane person, even a dying man would willingly suggest that his limbs be cut off, and that other 'sane' human beings, especially a brother-like relation would agree to do it. I can't believe Sang Hun would do it thinking it would help stop his stepdad who clearly stopped caring at one point. I also can't believe he would make his own wife undergo this torture, keeping her in the dark about all of this, knowing how she would feel upon discovery of his severed foot, hand, eye and then the heart. That last organ was a bit too much. What friend/brother can take out his brother's heart? without the proper tools or the know-how? I mean, is it that easy to extract a human heart that any lay person can do it without going stark raving mad? I can't forgive that Sang Hun made Seo Hui undergo all of this just so that the bill would be stopped and there was no guarantee that it would be stopped. And that last minute 'oh Sang Hun is dying anyway so it's all good' was very offensive I mean it was just meant to make it all convenient.

3) The Cliche: Corrupt old men covering up their corruption, cruelties, and greed while using henchmen who would go to any length to serve them is getting really old. Also the corrupt insiders in the police, the erased CCTV footages, the insufficient evidence to convict the obvious killer. Please stop it.

Little things kept bothering me, like the fact that I just couldn't get how Seo Hui could be such a dumb clueless person, who never tried to investigate just what it was that was bothering Sang Hun, why he didn't want to work in the company, what he did in his secret time away from her, and what was on his mind. You're his wife! How can you be so disinterested? She did good acting, but the character wasn't very likeable. I mean, girl, your laptop got hacked once, why are you using it again to check out a secret USB which you know will have top-secret content?

It was an overall meh drama. Lee Min Ki is amazing in his acting though.

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