Korean Dramas Line ‘investigates sexual privacy through supernatural lens
Sidus in South Korea returns to the worldwide stage with the bordering supernatural thriller ‘s Line’, premiered with his first two episodes in Canneseries season 8, which started on 24 April.
The series with six episodes, made and produced by Handae Rhee and co-created and directed by Jooyoung Ahn, investigates a provocative starting point: what if sexual connections between people became visible as physical red threads? When glasses who reveal these intimate links fall into the wrong hands, Chaos follows a public raw material when privacy.
“We started developing ‘s Line’ 10 years ago. The original webcomic touched us as a shock of electricity,” says Rhee, who acts as an executive producer at Sidus. “As soon as the lines of the invisible S become visible, a single revelation flows into turmoil for an individual, a family, eventually for society itself.”
The long -term project arrives with Rhee who recognizes the series, has confronted countless obstacles during the decade of development. “I am still of platforms, precisely because the series is not a neat love story or a happy ending; it is polarizing by design,” Rhee explains.
Director Ahn, who also wrote the series together with Hogil Hwang and Joonhyun Kim together with Hogil Hwang and Joonhyun Kim, has adapted the original webcomic with important changes. While the source material visited a world where everyone suddenly sees sexual connections, the series approaches the concept as a prequel where only those who wear special glasses can perceive these ties.
“We held the starting point for the series, but we concentrated it on the inner world of one character, aimed at a sharper and intense story,” says Co-writer Hwang. “Our biggest question was who should be the one who would get the glasses, so that the public would be interested in following the story to the end.”
The series plays Soohyuk Lee as Detective Han Ji-Wook, K-pop star Arin (from Girl Group Oh My Girl) as a Hyun-Hip-a young woman who can of course see the S lines and Dahee Lee. The starting point combines supernatural elements with detective stories telling.
“I saw the red threads in the world of ‘s line’ as visual extensions of the inner nature and desire of each character,” explains actor Soohyuk Lee. “Because the character I play is the one who pursues the truth behind the S lines, he looks at everything through an objective, analytical lens.”
For Arin, portraying her character presented unique challenges: “I had to express things that people rarely say out loud, so I concentrated on subtle facial expressions and behaviors that suppress or reveal emotions.”
Although the concept may have been designed to provoke, AHN insists that the series of sexuality uses more as a vehicle than as a focus. “We decided to treat sex and the sex line itself as a MacGuffin. If eroticism was central, the message we wanted to deliver would lose its clarity,” the director explains. “Because feelings of shame and ideas about supervision vary through culture and generation, we have approached them with the widest, most open attitude we could. Sex is an instinct; unless it violates social standards, there is no inherent reason for shame. So we have submitted the specific situations that can cause shame, the atmospheres who trying it and, the atmospheres, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, the atmospher.
The series Put from East Asian folklore over red screw threads of fate, but reused the concept for the digital age. “I believe that invisible lines are already surrounding us. Look at the countless connections that we forge on the internet every day,” says Ahn. “It is not a tangible strand that you can touch; it is a link that you can remove or spawn as you please, make it visible if it is not there, or even hide it when it is the smooth, ever-changing tires that cross the online world.”
The development of the visual language for these connections was its own challenges. “The real pressure was less in raw technical limits than when deciding how the S lines should appear on the screen while they remain a budget-efficient,” Rhee notes with regard to the VFX approach of production.
Co-writer Joonhyun Kim summarizes the thematic core of the series: “Everyone has their own sexual desires and tastes, but almost no one reveals them openly. Paradoxically we pretend that they are not secretly praising in the sex life of other people with intense curiosity in an intense curiosity.”
Despite its Korean origin and cultural specificity, Rhee believes that “s line” has a universal attraction: “Although ‘s Line” is a Korean series, it focuses on human desire and conflicts, giving it a universality that the global audience can immediately with. “
The Canneseries Premiere is expected to contain the presence of director Jooyoung Ahn and Cast members Lee Soo Hyuk, Arin, Eunsaem Lee and Nam Kyu Hee.
