Warning, spoilers. It is advisable to watch the Acharnés series on Netflix before continuing reading this article.
Available on Netflix from April 6th, Relentless is a feel-good comedy from Lee Sung-jin (Philadelphia, 2 Broke Girls and Tuca & Bertie) starring Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead, Minari) and Ali Wong (Always Be My Maybe ). ).
The series tells about the consequences of a violent altercation between two completely unknown people at the wheel. Danny Cho (Stephen Yun), an embittered entrepreneur full of bitterness, is pitted against Amy Lau (Ali Wong), a colorful self-made businesswoman. Their arguments gradually take on disproportionate proportions, affecting their lives and relationships throughout this moving show bursting with black humor.
What does witch Amy represent in life?
Over the course of the episodes, their conflict brings out old demons from their pasts and childhood traumas that explain how they were able to commit such acts. This is especially true of Amy in episode 8.
When she hides in a dirty hotel room to have sex with a stranger, she looks in the mirror and sees a very white, disgusting face with a big nose replacing her head.
This mysterious and terrifying figure returns moments later when teenage Amy discovers that her father is cheating on her mother with another woman. When Amy looks at the mistress hidden behind the bush, the latter transforms into a very white physical form of a mysterious creature with a large nose and thick black curly hair and a red bag. This figure tells him to shut up and say nothing about his father’s betrayal.
We learn from another flashback where Amy is young that the creature is nothing more than an illustrated witch that comes from a children’s book she read when she was little. In the book, the witch urges them not to obey because she is watching the children.
This figure accompanies Amy in her youth as a kind of threat to keep her place, follow her parents’ education that she doesn’t care and does everything to succeed in life without spreading her feelings to be loved. his loved ones.
The manifestation of this magician from childhood to his adult life at this very moment is an image to explain that he is choking and that he no longer wants this life of convention, pretense and hypocrisy.
You might think Ali Wong is playing the witch, but it’s a completely different actress who has been playing this disturbing figure since Amy was a child. This is actress Ione Skye, daughter of singer Donovan, who has had several small roles in television and film. This was especially seen in Wayne’s World and Zodiac.
She is completely unrecognizable under layers of makeup and her impressive wig. This character is a paper-drawn manifestation that is a mixture of distinctive characters that the creator of the series Lee Sung Jin He read it as a child.
The Acharnés series is available on Netflix.
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