Actress Sun Li has just returned to the small screen with the movie "The Dangerous Relationship". Dubbed the "queen of Chinese TV dramas", Sun Li's new work continues to be expected to explode in fame when broadcast simultaneously on online platforms and 3 television stations.
However, after the first episodes, the film's performance was not very positive. According to Van's statistics, "The Dangerous Relationship" could not yet enter the Top 10 viewership chart on its broadcast day.
The character played by Ton Le herself is also not on Vlinkage's list of notable movie characters. Hot topics related to the movie almost do not appear on forums.
This is the film with the lowest discussion and media index among the works in which Sun Li has played the main role since "The Legend of Zhen Huan".
According to Sohu, the biggest advantage of "The Dangerous Affair" is the topic and quality cast. This is a rare domestic Chinese film focused on the topic of PUA (psychological manipulation in love).
After the first 6 episodes, it can be seen that the content revolves around analyzing this phenomenon through three lines: the characters Nhan Linh (Tôn Lệ) and La Lương (Ngô Khang Nhân), the story of student Từ Phong and the victimized girls, and the criminal gang represented by Hạ Dực.
But the film also has shortcomings that make a part of the audience stop watching. "The Dangerous Relationship" embraces too many issues, making the topic unclear, the narrative fragmented, and the details cumbersome.
Today's audience is used to short videos, it is very difficult to patiently watch, if the first episode is not attractive enough, it is easy to be dropped.
The film has a pretty good opening: Nhan Linh is defending her thesis when she is interrupted by noise, discovers that her student is out of control and intends to commit suicide; then comes the mysterious death of her best friend.
However, the film does not follow the direction of solving cases but tends to present problems and viewpoints, leading to rambling.
The death of a close friend has not yet been clarified, but it interferes in the family violence line due to financial crisis; in addition, there are a series of scenes between mother and child, generational issues, children's education - things that are too familiar - causing the film's pace to be slowed down and deviated from the main axis.
The film addresses many topics such as the original family, childhood trauma, patriarchal ideology, usury... With a limited number of characters who have to shoulder too many "tasks", everything becomes forced and unrealistic.
The "dangerous relationship" also focused on deepening and analyzing PUA, but the crime process revealed loopholes.
The acting of two talented actors Ton Le and Ngo Khang Nhan is the main factor helping the film retain viewers. But if the film does not have a breakthrough in content and storytelling in the next stage, it is very easy to be abandoned by the audience.
