Welcome is adapted from Bao Whale's original novel My Gai Shi Ying Xiong. There's a reason this novel was picked up by Noon Sun. In the midst of a host of high profile male and female protagonists, the fate of a small, underclass person is written in a way that will cause many viewers to ****. Holding an appreciation for Welcome, I went to read the original novel and it dawned on me. In the novel, the real heroine turned out not to be Jung Yoo-eun, but she who was a minor supporting character in the drama.
The real heroine, is Auntie Sun
After watching Welcome, I suddenly realized that the real heroine, is actually Auntie Sun. Especially her sentiments in the grand finale that set the emotional tone of the whole drama. Auntie Sun has not been particularly happy in her life. She didn't study much as a child and joined the workforce early. After work, she met Yang, whose family disliked her for being uneducated, so she tried her best to memorize poems and decorate herself with them. The two got married and had a child.
When her son was seven years old and suffered from hepatitis, she took him to Shanghai to seek medical treatment; then her son got married, and she bought him a house and a wedding through her small business; then she brought her son and her daughter-in-law a small grandson, and she even learned English for her grandson. Now, when it was time for her to retire, her partner developed Alzheimer's disease. In order to give him better care, Auntie Sun can only go to the nursing home with him to spend the rest of his life ...... Even though Auntie Sun is so, but she never complained about life, but try to live their lives to the fullest.
Which version is better before and after the adaptation?
Originally, this was a novel about a square-dancing mom and a young man forgetting their childhood friends, and it was adapted into a love story about how a toad eats a white swan. Noon this adaptation to change a little big, before and after the adaptation of which version is good? If you ask me, it's all good in its own way. After the adaptation, you can see how the ugly duckling Zhang Guangcheng turned into a white swan, or how the toad Zhang Guangcheng ate the white swan Zheng You'en.
Before the adaptation, you were able to see how an elitist Auntie Sun pointed Zhang Guangzheng in the direction of his life. How older people pass on their wisdom to the youth. To be honest, I admire the author of the original novel, Bao Wha Wha, after all, such a subject matter is rarely written, and even if it is written, not many people read it. A subject like forgetfulness is inherently unappealing, but it's only because she interspersed this story with the tale of the scalp toad trying to eat swan meat that it piqued the reader's interest.
Conclusion
Overall, the ending of the drama "Welcome" is a bit scribbly and ends in a less than natural way, with too many obvious signs of a forced grand finale. After catching up with the whole drama, I realized that there are almost no contradictions and conflicts in this drama, and there are not many images that I can remember, so the mediocre episodes seem to be a true portrayal of the young people in the north.