Friends who often watch Japanese dramas may have heard such a word:
Read the air.
It means to accurately read out the atmosphere in the air, and then decide what to do according to this atmosphere, which is what we call observing the color of speech every day.
In Japan, reading the air has long been considered to be a more important rule of workplace survival than the ability to work.
However, recently, a Japanese drama has ruthlessly broken this law -
"Kai's New Life"
The entire drama is based on the Japanese hit manga "Calm Leisure". The original style of evaluation is very good, so that the drama has attracted much attention when it has not been broadcast, and the invitation to the acting goddess Kuroki Hua as the heroine is even more full of expectations.
Previously, the comic drama "Re-edition Out" starring Kuroki Hua was well received and once became a divine drama in the hearts of many people.
Not long after the start of this "New Life", the ratings soared to 9.4 points.
凪 (zhǐ) means calm in Japanese.
The title of the play is a pun, which is not only the meaning of a new life that is calm and comfortable, but also the meaning of our heroine Oshima Kai to start a new life.
Oshima, a super observant girl, is very different from Kuroki's extremely egotistical and unwilling to go to work in "We Can't Be Beasts".
At work, the leader loses his temper, and Oshima always senses the embarrassment in the atmosphere quickly, and stands up to take the wrong when other colleagues are ignoring it, although this mistake was not her.
After being scolded by the leader's split head and face cover, the colleague who made the mistake came to thank her for helping her carry the black pot, and her words were full of pride in getting cheap and good, and Oshima could only smile and echo in order to avoid the atmosphere embarrassment.
In life, she worked hard to mingle with these colleagues. Obviously, I brought it as lunch, but I still chose to go out to eat with my colleagues.
Taking a routine selfie before eating, she kept running to the camera and rubbing into the group photo, and the result was that only she did not open her eyes in the group photo that came out.
Usually, such a black historical photo must be deleted! But in the face of a colleague's proposal to po online, she still smiled and agreed.
She has a boyfriend, Shinji.
He is played by the popular Japanese actor Issei Takahashi, and well-known Japanese dramas such as Quartet, Minwang, and We Are Made of Miracles are his masterpieces.
In his relationship with Shinji, Oshima is also the one who observes the color.
Shinji says she likes her straight hair, and she dresses up every night like The Amazing Mrs. Maisel, pulling her natural self-rolls into black and straight.
Shinji is reluctant to announce her relationship, so she maintains a normal colleague relationship with him in the office.
Pleasing the leader, pleasing the colleagues, pleasing the boyfriend, Oshima can be said to be the typical character of the "pleasing personality".
But in doing so, she didn't really want to get any substantial benefits, but just wanted to make herself appear to be a little more existential.
In the back of her mind, she was extremely inferior and lacked self-confidence.
If you feel that your real self is not good enough, you will be seen as a transparent person by the leader, you will be isolated by your colleagues, and you will be disliked by your boyfriend.
Therefore, she tried to observe the color of her words, and did not hesitate to aggrieved herself to cater to others, but as everyone knows, such pandering made her uninteresting and more neglected.
In order to gain a sense of existence, to please others, the more you please others, the more you lose yourself, and the more you have no sense of existence.
If you think about it, this dead loop is really quite heart-wrenching.
There is a plot in the play, which is particularly empathetic.
After the dinner with her colleagues, Oshima returns home and the first thing she does is to like her colleagues.
When she saw that her colleague had sent photos of gatherings in other places, her first reaction was to panic, afraid that several colleagues would make a second appointment after she left, and when she determined that her colleagues were privately dating her friends, she took a deep breath.
Afraid of being isolated, afraid of appearing unsociable, this humble self-esteem, ah, really sad.
Shinji has a very reasonable quote that is particularly good:
The atmosphere is created by oneself, and if it becomes the one who observes the color, then it loses.
Because when you look at the color, you are unconsciously dominated by the emotions of the other party, and then become the passive and weak side.
Obviously, Oshima is the weak one.
Obviously, his work was not finished, but he still agreed to help his colleagues complete the task.
At the beginning of the lights, she was alone in the large office overtime, inadvertently glanced at the mobile phone of her colleagues who had landed on the desk, and then saw the naked disdain and ridicule of her colleagues in the chat group.
Passing by Shinji's office, he overheard Shinji opening his mouth in front of his colleagues, saying that he was in love with himself only because he was more physiologically harmonious.
At this moment, Oshima finally couldn't hold back and fainted.
In the few days that she was hospitalized, none of her colleagues nor Shinji came to see her.
The last hope was also dashed, and Oshima felt that her entire worth had been crushed to the ground, and then she quit her job, left the house, and left the city with her bags.
Instead of pleasing others, please yourself!
Since the past is too bad, why not start a new life?
Many people evaluate this drama and expose the unspoken rules of the workplace, which is too heartfelt. But in fact, the more Oshima's life in the city is rooted, the more moving the subsequent changes become.
From the moment Oshima moved to the town, the show changed the previous oppressive atmosphere and exuded a comfortable atmosphere from the screen.
The town is small, the cost of living is very low, and Oshima kai, who has no job, has a lot of time to squander here, just lying quietly in the house and sleeping, and it is very comfortable to look at.
In fact, she was originally a girl who was very good at life.
When she was in the city, she would grow her own bean sprouts, both as potted plants and as ingredients, but these skills were not cared about in the city, and now in the town, her skills immediately became shining.
Like what.
Picking up an electric fan abandoned by others on the side of the road, simply repairing it, brushing it with a warm yellow, and in an instant the room was like a sunflower.
More importantly, the people here have given her great kindness.
The grandmother who picks up garbage for a living, cleans up the room, often makes some delicious food, and invites Oshima to watch a movie with her.
The first thing the seemingly indifferent little girl did after letting down her guard against Oshima was to touch her fluffy and soft roll.
The boy next door always looks cool and cool, and at first glance is a bad boy.
Oshima was very afraid of him at first, and after inadvertently talking, he found that this little brother was actually quite gentle, and would give the bitter melon on his balcony to Oshima Kai, and would gently praise Oshima Kai's self-roll to touch so comfortable.
In mainstream society, these people seem to have an undignified life, but in their own world, they live freely and comfortably.
Maybe the pace of life has slowed down, or it may be infected by these people, Oshima kai began to find himself little by little.
When buying vegetables, others overcharged her, she no longer chose silence because she was afraid of the embarrassing atmosphere, and after plucking up the courage to point out the other party's mistakes, what she got was not an imaginary reprimand, but a sincere apology.
Surrounded by people to sell the good luck stone, she unusually rejected them, and found that the situation was not too bad.
All the things that were once regarded as nightmares, after really plucking up the courage to do it, found that it was actually very simple, but how difficult this road was, only Oshima himself knew best.
Invited to a picnic by the brother next door, she lay on the turquoise lawn, blowing a soft wind, and suddenly found that the days when she had expected the approval of others were really in vain.
This scene is my favorite situation on this show so far.
Of course, no matter how comfortable life is, the problem of money has always existed.
As long as people live, there will be less money.
This line is simply brilliant!
However, before solving the problem of money, Oshima still needs to solve the problem of love.
The little brother next door, the appearance seems cool, but the smile is very warm, as if you can always guess the heart of Oshima Kai, always hook the Oshima kai fawn bumping into each other, silently praying in his heart "The gears of love, can not turn up ah!" ”
Especially at the picnic, he was lying across the sky above Oshima, his eyes were gentle but full of momentum, and it was an irresistible attack for any woman.
Nakamura Lun also played such a salty and sweet role, really at ease, easily made people excited.
In contrast, Shinji is much more stretched.
Tomorrow morning, I know the secret of Oshima's self-roll, and I want to say what I like most about her straight hair. Obviously, he loves Oshima in his heart, and he also has to play a cannon in front of his colleagues to demean the woman.
Successfully put Oshima angry away, he rushed to the town to see her again, met and insisted that he was just passing by, and the gifts specially prepared were also said to be brought by hand, fortunately, he degraded Oshima's current life without dying.
After a moment of cool mouth cannon, chasing his wife to the crematorium, and finally being drawn a line by Oshima Kai, after a bit of scolding, he kept crying on the way back.
Actually, I think Shinji is someone who cares more about other people's opinions than Oshima.
He seems to be at ease in the workplace, but he has just made the set of observation and observation more exquisite.
In the back of his mind, he agreed with this law, and regarded other people's views as extremely important, so that he did not dare to confess that he liked Oshima, and he would not explain if he had misunderstood, for fear of appearing to be in a passive situation.
He sprayed Oshima's new life as unworthy, and why wasn't it because Oshima's life shook the rules of life he had always adhered to?
Originally, they were a type of person.
However, the more real Oshima is now, the more he shows off his disguise, but he does not have the courage to overturn his previous life and show his true self.
Work, love, car house... In the current era when everything can be dried, there are too many indicators to measure whether a person is excellent and successful.
Then, we are unconsciously trapped by these indicators, living in the eyes of others, living in the worldly evaluation.
Not only adults like Oshima and Shinji, but even the little girl next door to Oshima will cater to other children in order to appear sociable, to play with TikTok, which they didn't like.
Pandering to others and losing oneself seems to be the norm in society. In the process of watching the drama, it is often because the plot is too real, and people feel empathetic.
However, air is used to breathe, not to "read."
Therefore, Oshima's new life of regaining himself will make people look so happy. As if to open a window to a busy and depressing life, minutes can save unhappiness and bring full vitality.
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