The first thing people notice about "Our Blues" is that it has a gorgeous cast, led by Lee Byung-hun, Shin Min-ah, Kim Woo-bin, Han Ji-min, Cha Seung-won, Lee Jung-eun, Kim Hye-ja, Gao Doo-shin, Um Jung-hwa and other top-level Hallyu actors. starring. To be able to invite such a cast, the screenwriter also needs to have absolute strength and appeal. The screenwriter of the play is Lu Xijing, who has created high-profile Korean dramas such as "It's Okay, It's Love", "Live" and "My Dear Friends". Her works are known for their blandness, delicacy and warmth.

Our Blues poster

"Our Blues" is a group drama. It adopts a unit drama mode, with different units having different protagonists to reflect the concept of "everyone is the protagonist of his own story". This also means that it does not have the so-called male and female protagonists throughout the whole play. For example, Cha Seung-won mainly appeared in the first three episodes, and the scenes of Lee Byung-hun and Shin Min-ah were concentrated in the ninth and tenth episodes. This will affect the topicality of the show to some extent.
But there is no doubt about Lu Xijing's strength. Even if it is a unit drama, it is different from the common independent units that we commonly see. Different units in the drama are logically linked and intertwined with each other. Because all the protagonists are rooted in Jeju Island, in stories where others are the protagonists, he still lives as a resident of Jeju Island.
As the title suggests, "Our Blues" has a sad, low-pitched undertone of blues music. These Hallyu superstars appearing in the play, no longer bright, nor high-spirited, they are ordinary residents of Jeju Island, they are all in the climbing period of life, have different troubles, and are physically and mentally exhausted.
"Cha Seung Won" (the actor's name and double quotation marks are used to refer to the character names in the play, so as to avoid too many names in group portraits and cause reading confusion), he graduated from a famous university and has a decent job, but in order to support golfers who play golf in the United States Daughter's dream, he can't make ends meet and is heavily in debt. The once high-spirited teenager has now become a frustrated middle-aged man.

"Cha Seung Won"

"Li Bingxian", when he was middle-aged, he did not have a successful life, and he did not have a good temper. He worked as a hawker in Jeju Island and had a tense relationship with his mother "Kim Hyeja". He used to like "Shin Miner", but people didn't like him.

"Lee Byung-hun"

"Shin Min Ah", who survived a tragic teenage period, once had a life that seemed to be complete: living in Seoul, her husband had a good job, and she had a lovely son. But she was plagued by depression, her marriage broke down, and she fought with her ex-husband over child custody. She may be healing her wounds in Jeju Island, or she may want to say goodbye to the world here.

"Shin Min Ah"

"Han Zhimin" has the soul of a gypsy. She drifted from the big city to Jeju Island. The residents of the island didn't know what she experienced, but people were talking about her rumors everywhere. She seemed to be "free and easy" to deal with everything, Close your heart tightly.

"Han Ji-min"

"Jin Huizi" was found to be seriously ill. She called her son "Li Bingxian", but she didn't know how to speak. In the eyes of "Lee Byung Hun", "Kim Hye Ja" only cares about her other two sons who have had a successful career and contacted him if they are about to die and need a funeral. "Jin Huizi" has words of suffering.

"Jin Huizi"

The girl "Lu Yunrui" wanted to escape from Jeju Island wholeheartedly. She didn't like the human society on the island. She yearned for the urban life of Seoul. With excellent grades, she could escape from here as long as she was admitted to the university. Unexpectedly, she and "Pei Xiansheng" tasted the forbidden fruit for the first time and became pregnant unexpectedly. "Is our love really great enough to give up my life?" She hesitated whether to choose a child or a future...

"Lu Yunrui"

Similar to "My Exodus Diary" next door, "Our Blues" also tells a tired life story. It's just that the writer's style is completely different.
Our Blues is a sad story, but not at all sad in style. Instead of complaining hoarsely, it murmured and murmured that the embarrassment and predicament of life, the turning point and the hope were highlighted in the light of the cloud. Just like the scenes of Jeju Island in the play: the clear and clear sky, the endless blue sea, the wind blowing through the ends of the hair and blowing the corners of the clothes, the bustling crowd always reminds the existence of the world... Everything is so open, But it does not appear lonely, so that people's troubles can be temporarily placed without feeling lonely.
"Cha Seung Won" came to the beach when he was young, and he ran to the sea again like when he was young. When he was young, he was so pure and so fearless, how did he get to the current state of depression step by step?

Coming to the same beach, "Cha Seung Won" saw himself as a teenager.

He opened his mouth to borrow money from "Li Yanyin" - he took great pains to approach his old classmate "Li Yanyin" in order to borrow money from "Li Yanyin". But the sound of the waves was so loud that "Li Yanyin" didn't hear it, and "Cha Seungwon" couldn't speak a second time. He knew that the teenager was dead, but when he came to the beach back then, he couldn't accept that he really became a disgusting middle-aged man.

"Lee Jin-yin"

At every desperate fork in life, Lu Xijing will make the character's life turn. It is not a cheap "counter-attack", not a chicken soup-style "healing", but a belief in the resilience and strength of life itself, and the gleam of truth, goodness and beauty in human nature. No matter how thick the cloud layer is, there will eventually be a gap, and "Our Blues" must seize this gap and let the light penetrate the light layer.
The current life of "Cha Seung Won" seems to be a failure, but the beauty of the youth reminds him that he has been so wonderful before, and he can avoid letting his life continue to rot.
"Pei Xiansheng" was in a hurry to wear the wrong shoe when he went out, making "Lu Yunrui" believe that he could take responsibility. No one can predict whether the boys and girls will regret it after many years, at least the decision at this moment was made by them with the courage and willingness.

Boys and girls decide to deal with it together

On the cruise from Jeju Island to Seoul, "Lee Byung-hun" leaning on the railing to look at the sea reminded "Shin Min-ah" to turn around and look behind - the fireworks in the distance are really beautiful, "Lee Byung-hun" said: "If you feel depressed in the future, just watch Look behind, turn around and you will see another world, don't just stare at the sea."
When "Shin Min Ah" flashed the idea of suicide again, when she looked back, she would see the son she loved, and "Lee Byung Hun" who was waiting for her, and maybe there would be more than despair...

Turn around for a different view

"Our Blues" has the warm undertones of Noh Hee-kyung's works as always. Lu Xijing has always had a strong and firm belief in truth, goodness and beauty, which also builds the strong spiritual core of each of her plays. A tree shakes another tree, a wave of ripples shakes another wave of ripples, her works always want the audience to believe that as long as life continues, the little people who give their all to catch the glimmer of light will eventually wait for the turning point of the willows and flowers- - Life will not be flat because of this, but there is still a way to live at the corner of the cliff.
"Our Blues" sings out the blues of life. It is also a sad and warm blues in itself. It should give support to all tired lives.