Author: Horn Tip
Source: Entertainment Unicorn
The current drama market has obviously entered the final stage of the year-end competition. At a time when many costumes and suspense themes occupy the market high ground, the audience is also eager to usher in a masterpiece of realistic themes:
With the "small series" word-of-mouth effect escort, Zhou Xun Huanglei "reorganized" after 19 years, Tang Yixin, Tu Songyan, Liu Lili starred, Qin Hailu, Han Tongsheng special starred in the urban family drama "Xiao Minjia", naturally became the focus of the market.
The behind-the-scenes production company of this drama, Lemon Meng Pictures, is an ace film and television company that has created many high-quality blockbuster realism themes such as "Thirty Only". Its "small series" works have always attracted market attention and are also an important representative of the "conscience drama" signboard. The new work "Xiao Min Jia" continues the company's creative purpose as always, that is, to do warm realism themes.
The difference is that this time, "Xiao Min Jia" does not focus on the topic of parent-child education expressed in the past "small series" theme, but targets the sensitive but highly explorable social issue of "middle-aged divorce".
There is home, there is love, there is warmth, see how "Xiao Min Family" reinterprets "middle-aged love".
Focus on social issues such as divorce and family reorganization,
"Little MinJia" reshapes "middle-aged love"
What should middle-aged love be? This is not only a social issue frequently discussed by the public, but also a "hot" in the film and television drama market. In domestic emotional dramas, "middle-aged love" often relies on the hegemonic design of the goldfinger, or meets a young and beautiful single woman, or is two "bigamy families" who live together for children or other factors; and placed in other film and television works, "middle-aged love" is more regarded as a "condiment", used to assist various themes and become the "supporting roles" of young protagonists.
The entry point of "Little Minjia" is completely different. The perspective is placed on two divorced single men and women, supplemented by their respective original families (children, original couples), as well as the participation of the older generation and sisters, which together contribute to this "middle-aged" love field.
As soon as the series opens, Liu Xiaomin and Chen Zhuo, who are preparing to go to a restaurant to celebrate the first anniversary of their love, are pressed the pause button by a sudden accident - Xiaomin's mother Wang Sumin brings Xiaomin's son Jin Jiajun to Beijing. Jin Jiajun, who just failed the college entrance examination this year, wants to live on his mother's side and enter the "Can Become An Education Rocket Class". A storm over "entrusting people to school" also completely involved a number of protagonists in the play. Xiao Min's ex-husband Jin Bo, who knows Chen Zhuo's ex-wife Li Ping, while Xiao Min and Li Ping are fa xiao, Jin Jiajun and Chen Jiajia later become classmates... The embarrassing scene of the large-scale "acquaintance" meeting began.
The so-called wave of uneven, wave after wave. Just when Liu Xiaomin and Chen Zhuo did not know how to tell their relatives about the relationship between the two for various reasons, Xiaomin's sister Liu Xiaojie also announced her death marriage. The two sisters have completely become "middle-aged divorceees", which also makes her mother Wang Sumin more determined to accompany them...
It is not difficult to find that facing social issues such as divorce and the desire of two middle-aged people to reorganize a new family is the whole point of "Xiao Minjia" in the current drama, and it is also an important selling point that distinguishes the drama from the past "middle-aged love" theme.
But the problem is that when two divorced singles "meet" each other like Mars crashing into the earth, their ensuing problems are becoming more and more diverse: for example, Wang Sumin, a mother who agrees with her and her sister's pursuit of happiness, also said in a serious and long voice, "Remarriage requires caution"; Chen Jiajia, who has always been optimistic and cheerful, also told her father, "It is okay to fall in love, but it is not okay to get married"; including Liu Xiaomin and Chen Zhuo themselves, when they know that their family is coming, they also subconsciously conceal their love relationship.
Facing the practical problems such as the values of the next generation, divorce and bigamy, "Xiao Min Family" wants to reveal to the public not only two middle-aged people falling in love, but their life choices for the family, the elders, the parents, and even the different vision of society. "Middle-aged love", full of difficulties.
Zhou Xun HuangLei performed "Pure Love",
"Little Minjia" "light comedy" wind reached the public
Although the love of middle-aged people is full of difficulties and problems, when two people go in both directions and get close to each other, it is really "top-notch":
Just like Xiao Min and Chen Zhuo, although after experiencing a series of turmoil during the day, Chen Zhuo will still drive a car and carry a trunk of flowers at night to accompany Xiao Min. Downstairs at Xiao Min's house, the two exchanged heartfelt words, although not as strong as the expression of love between young people, but also like a spring breeze. At this moment, the two of them have forgotten the troubles of the day, which may be the true meaning of love, regardless of age.
Xiao Min and Chen Zhuo were obviously suitable. Although Xiao Minkou will hang out "How did I find such a person as you" and "people in their 40s are still bouncing around all day" and so on, but in their hearts they really love the middle-aged man in front of them. She will choose her lover when her mother and son oppose, and she will accompany each other when they need each other. And Chen Zhuo did the same to Xiao Min.
In fact, not only this pair of main line CP, Xiao Min's sister Xiao Jie, in the face of the unfortunate marriage of the decisive end, when encountering their favorite people, bravely chasing love, all reflect this generation of middle-aged people's avant-garde, ideological concept of marriage and love. This is also an important factor for the audience to smile at the beginning of watching the play.
Of course, the relaxed and enjoyable viewing experience is more than that. The "light comedy" style of expression adopted in the play also allows the audience to alleviate the "aesthetic fatigue" brought about by family dramas in recent years. Let Chen Zhuo temporarily play the "ride-hailing driver" to deal with his mother, Chen Zhuo responded to Xiao Min's statement when he kept the relationship between the two secret, "It feels like we are engaged in espionage work", and the large-scale "Shuluo Field" where Chen Zhuo, Xiao Min, Li Ping, Jin Bo, Chen Jiajia, Jin Jiajun and others met for the first time, all made the audience laugh.
In fact, there are natural barriers for the audience to family themes, one is that there are too many similar works in the market in recent years, such as selling anxiety, focusing on the original family, etc.; second, it is also a heavy topic and serious style that comes with this kind of theme. This allows the audience to have a slightly low pressure when watching this type of work.
The light comedy expression style that appears in "Little Minjia" is exactly in line with the taste of the current young people's drama. At the same time, as always, it continues the creative style of the "small" series of works of Lemon Meng Pictures, and truly achieves the "family fun" of the whole people.
Multi-dimensional discussion of the concept of middle-aged marriage and love,
The "realistic meaning" behind "Little Minjia"
"Are you brave enough to love?" Is it necessary to get married? Or do you want to have children? Why must the love of middle-aged people have regrets? When Zhou Xun's familiar voice appeared in the trailer of the special edition of "Xiao Minjia", the audience also knew the core theme that the show wanted to express.
Should middle-aged people fall in love? How do you fall in love? This grand social proposition, even placed in today's society, is extremely controversial. As shown in "Xiao Min's Family", when middle-aged people choose to "remarry", they have to face multiple parent-child or interpersonal relationships such as elders, parents, relatives and friends outside, often hindering their right to pursue happiness.
Or maybe there are a group of middle-aged people who choose to give up their right to pursue their own happiness because they are afraid that their children will be single parents or that they do not have the courage to get out of a failed marriage.
Although the middle-aged people portrayed in "Xiao Min's Family" are facing various problems or "chicken flying and dog jumping", they are brave and decisive in the pursuit of personal happiness.
Just like Xiao Min, when she clearly knew that her first failed marriage was because she was "arranged by the elders" and was separated from her husband Jin Bo, she resolutely gave up this marriage and traveled from her hometown to Beijing, "met" Chen Zhuo, and bravely seized happiness.
Xiao Min's sister Xiao Jie, the same is true. When she found herself incompatible with her "Ma Bao Man" husband and three views, she resolutely chose to divorce. In the face of true love, many years younger than herself, and a single excellent man, she did not shrink back, but bravely pursued love.
In fact, the brave pursuit of love, choose the marriage suitable for their own people, not only these two little sisters, their mother Wang Sumin after experiencing a failed marriage, but also looked down on the so-called "eyes of the people around", her requirements for the two sisters are only one point, "remarriage to be cautious", choose the love that suits themselves. This is an avant-garde view of love from the older generation.
Focusing on the topic of middle-aged marriage, from the perspective of the family, the middle-aged view of marriage and love stated in "Xiao MinJia", although there is a chicken feather, the overall tone is warm and relaxed. Just as "marriage cannot locate our lives, but love can" expressed in "XiaoMinjia", the "middle-aged love" in the market has also ushered in a new interpretation. This is the core concept that "Xiao MinJia" wants to pass on to the public from the level of values, and it is an important reason why it ushered in a climax and aroused high discussion among netizens.
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