Actress Shin Min-a’s transformation paid off. She captivated global viewers with her dark and cool new face in the Netflix series ‘Affairs of Evil’.

‘Evil Relationship’, released on the 4th, is a crime thriller that depicts the story of six people who are entangled in an evil relationship that they cannot escape from even if they want to.

Shin Min-a, who returned to the thriller genre after three years through this work, created a new face by playing the lead role of a surgeon who lives with lifelong trauma. Unlike the visuals she has shown in various works so far, Shin Min-a accurately captured the character’s characteristics with her lifeless face and dry-looking speech and gaze, and she exuded a strong presence as one of the main characters of the play.

The lead character, played by Shin Min-a, is an ordinary university hospital doctor who lives his life with a lukewarm temperature rather than being hot or passionate about life. Then one day, he encounters an unidentified full-body burn patient, and upon hearing the patient’s name, he faces the wounds from a past incident again, which maximizes the ambivalent emotions between anxiety and a desire for revenge.

Shin Min-a, unlike other characters who have been hurt, made viewers ‘hearts ache as someone who has faced a trauma that may be realistic. In particular, the lead character, who suffers from trauma due to a past incident, is so deeply hurt that she suffers from nightmares and cannot even reveal her hurt to the person she loves, which made viewers feel sorry for her.

In the latter half of the play, the protagonist approached Park Jae-young with a knife to take revenge on him for causing her pain, but when she saw his disfigured appearance due to burns, she made the most humane choice and endured revenge, even though she could have done so. In this way, the protagonist walked away from the past on her own in a different way than the perpetrators, and cut off the complicated evil relationship, making the viewers root for the protagonist’ s life.

In this way, Shin Min-a delicately portrayed the emotional line of the most lonely and painful character in ‘Affair’. She acted passionately, controlling even the slight tremors of her pupils and the strength of her breathing to express slightly different emotions, such as the process of being consumed by anxiety and fear, and the scene where she expresses anger.


Reporter Seungmi smlee@donga .com

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