Train (2020)

Un train qui relierai deux univers parallèles...

J’ai fait un résumé extrêmement lapidaire, exprès, autrement, rien que pour exposer l’épisode 1 il faut 30 lignes… L’essentiel est de savoir qu’il va y avoir le phénomène de mondes parallèles, toute l’histoire se greffe là-dessus, et c’est très très bien fait !
Ce drama est haletant du début à la dernière image ! Et je défie quiconque de deviner comment ça finit !! Ni qui est le coupable !
Il y a l’enquête dans notre univers qui remet sans cesse en question la mort du père de Seo Kyung ainsi que la culpabilité du père de Do Won, évènement qui entraîné une déviation des destins des deux héros car ça ne s’est pas passé exactement pareil des deux côtés… Et il ya la différence des personnages en fonction du monde où ils se trouvent. Il y a la question du destin : peut-on changer le destin de quelqu’un ? Si cette personne est morte d’un côté, pourra-t-on la sauver de l’autre, ou bien le destin est-il inéluctable ?
Le scénario est un labyrinthe parfaitement maîtrisé, où on va de carrefours en déviations, de découvertes en coups de théâtre. Chaque porte qui s’ouvre sur une réponse ne fait qu’en présenter une autre encore plus difficile à ouvrir ! Impossible absolument de deviner le pourquoi du comment, ni le qui-l’a-fait ? !! Et pourtant tout est parfaitement construit, tout s’emboîte, et nous conduit à un dénouement d’une logique implacable, dont je ne dirai rien, même pas ‘il est heureux ou tragique, parce qu’il faut vraiment le découvrir jusqu’au bout !
J’ai la sale manie d’aller voir la fin à peu près à la moitié du drama, là, je ne l’ai pas fait, je n’en ai même pas eu envie tellement j’étais bien embarquée dans le récit !
Les acteurs sont excellents, en tête Yoon Shi Yoon, que j’avais trouvé un peu à l’étroit dans le rôle très difficile de Nokdu flower, mais là donne le maximum de son talent, avec un jeu sobre, simple, juste, sincère qui colle parfaitement aux situations incroyables qu’il doit affronter.
Le reste de la distribution est tout à fait à la hauteur.
L’OST est très bien, chansons et musique d’atmosphère.
Plus ça va, plus je considère que le label OCN est une garantie de drama de qualité !!

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What could be cooler than the idea of a murderer killing people in one world and dumping their bodies in the other?! This crime thriller with two parallel worlds looked like something I’d absolutely enjoy, and It did satisfy my thrill trash self a good deal!

Train is a super intriguing, intense, carefully crafted, and well-executed drama. It successfully avoids straying into side stories and gives all of its writing power to the main mystery aka finding the real serial killer, hence focused and very consistent in its storytelling. All characters and murder cases are connected, with every new ep, writers throw a new thread to catch on, every detail is purposed & noteworthy, nothing sounds irrelevant, nothing to waste screentime on. I’m sure such a thing would be even more rewarding to binge-watchers.

Also in terms of production quality, Train didn’t fail expectations!! That chilling dark vibe OCN always sends is clearly there. Cinematography is neat and somehow depressing, with a warm yellow tone for world A and a blue cold one for world B (each similar to their perspective characters!). Editors really did a brilliant job seamlessly switching from world A to B to the past to flashbacks. Music was also on point. Lyrics “I’m gonna find you”, playing at the end of each episode, make you look forward to the coming one, and another soft melody singing “I want to stay with you” makes emotional scenes a bit more felt.

On the other hand, Train is quite predictable, which is not necessarily a bad thing as I was still eager to watch and see if my theory was right or wrong, and everything was built up well with no apparent holes. But I found it cheap that certain characters had suspicion written all over their faces!! I have to admit, it made the resolution a bit underwhelming. I wished if writers would bring another twist but everything was foreseen at the end.

Another thing that bothered me was how I failed to connect with characters and their emotional scars. Although it could be only me, I think they could have chosen a better cast tbh. Most of the time, It felt like YSY was carrying the whole show on his shoulders. He totally lived his character and showed diverse emotions either playing the workaholic detective who lives to care&protect or the discontented inspector who lives with hate&shame. I rooted for him but it felt hella frustrating that no one was responding!

The FL was rather weak (in terms of performance); she had that one angry/sad expression on her face that I was absolutely numb towards. I’m not trying to undermine the actress’s effort, but in my eyes, they had little to no chemistry and it always felt one-sided. That shouldn’t be much of a problem for a thriller really but It’d have been much better if the story was more seasoned and I could feel the desperation to save someone or catch someone, yet clearly the mystery element was my only driver. That’s in part a problem with writing too; ‘cause most characters lacked personality and development, the main culprit’s character is so cliche, and many were merely running the story, I could see no problem if one of them was replaced :( If there’s anyone I loved, it’d be Jung min (the forensic doctor)& Jinwoo (junior detective).

Regardless, Train was an experience I enjoyed and anticipated every week. I recommend it and I’m pretty sure many will like it :)

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