Winter has arrived, is not many people looking forward to being able to meet three or five friends after work, around the charcoal stove, drink a few cups, sweep away the cold and tired.
Recently, a niche Korean drama focused on three women who love to buy and get drunk, telling the story of the healing and warm friendship between them -
Alcoholic City Women
The series is based on a Korean comic of the same name, and more than 10,000 people on Douban scored a high score of 9.0. The style of the story is humorous and healing, and the sense of urbanity is full, which can be seen as a gourmet fan or chased as a funny fan.
The volume of 12 episodes is just right for the night home to chase in one breath.
Although it is based on the topic of alcohol, after watching it, you will definitely fall in love with these cool and crazy women!
The appearance of the three is extremely different.
In order to have someone to spend Christmas with, the man took turns meeting with three women under the introduction of his apprentice.
The number one woman, named Jiang Zhijiu, is a YouTuber who broadcasts origami live, with a cold appearance and not much to say.
When we first met, before we could greet each other, she poured three glasses of men on the grounds of being late.
The man wanted to get acquainted with the girl through the topic of origami, but she seemed to be too lazy to answer, and threw the wine glass directly over, and the next picture was always drinking, pouring, drinking...
The woman said to order dessert after dinner, and he was just glad to finish, so the shopkeeper brought two bottles of shochu and was directly handed over by the woman with a straw.
This is clearly drinking wine as water!
After a few laps, the man has been drunk and even produced a psychological shadow.
The second woman, named Han Jiyan, is a yoga teacher.
The first time a man sees her, he is fascinated, because from the outside, Ji Yeon looks like a super beauty that men dream of.
But when it came to the wine table, Ji Yeon was very surprised, her lively extroversion was a little nervous, she liked to deliberately drag out the long tone, and she was crazy.
Just chatted a few words, I asked the man to "see (open) the sea (room)", and directly called the other party the future father of his child.
Under the influence of alcohol, Ji Yeon has been dancing and unable to control herself, so that men are frightened and stunned, and have since begun to hate beautiful women.
The third woman, named An Zhaoxi, is a variety show planner. Judging from the fact that she still has to bring a computer on a date, there is no doubt that she is a complete social animal.
ZhaoXi finally looked like a normal woman, but when he drank the wine, he was in the same form: he directly took a big cup and took a mouthful of dry, ordered Magri to eat, and only when he drank did he feel full of blood and resurrection.
What's even more outrageous is that she is forced by the high-pressure work to distinguish between public and private, directly let the blind date man test the punishment of the variety show for himself, completely use the other party as a tool person, and torture him to the point of ugliness.
Any man who encounters these drunkards will also be frightened to pull out his legs and run.
But when the three women got together, it was a different story.
With an astonishing amount of alcohol, the three not only drank a bar until it went out of business, but also felt sorry for each other and formed an unbreakable alliance of drinkers.
Everyone drank together to the point of madness, drank until hanging, and after a round of drinking was not cool enough, there would be a succession of stalls. He even practiced his own skills, as if he were a professional in the field of drinking.
For example, this way of pouring wine,
There are also bottles of wine opened with the heel.
The advanced operations on the various wine tables are dazzling and call out to the insiders.
But if you think the show is about the uninhibited daily life of a bunch of drunkards, it's a small pattern.
In fact, wine is just a lead-in, involving the emotions and friendships of the three women. Behind the playful and funny painting style, this drama will focus on the bitterness and bitterness of three women who are nearly thirty years old in the process of growing up.
Don't watch them talk wildly at the wine table. In fact, each of them has been ravaged by life and is covered in wounds. Only when drinking alcohol can they briefly leave it behind.
For example, the cool girl Chiku, who looks cold and ruthless.
In fact, before she became a vlogger, she was also a decent middle school teacher. Because she was crushed by a female student at the school, gossip spread in the school.
She tried to enlighten the girl and make her brave enough to accept herself, but the pressure from the outside world and her family eventually made the girl choose suicide.
Chiku, who was involved, was fired. After the incident, she wanted to seek the comfort of her family, but her mother felt that Zhijiu's loss of the iron rice bowl made her face dull, and she pinned her hopes on her daughter to become the principal and shine on the lintel.
Because of her disappointment in her parents, she has been out of the house for several years and lives alone.
As a beautiful woman, Ji Yeon is not much better, after the early death of her mother, she always dreams of getting married and having a family, but every time she encounters scumbags, either sexually harassed, or men quickly run away when she talks about marriage.
And Zhaoxi is not only always frustrated in love, but also repeatedly frustrated in professional life.
Obviously, he bowed down to the company, but he was always suppressed by the leader, excluded by his colleagues, and dared to be angry.
Only after drinking alcohol did he burst into battle and utter the words that were usually accumulated in his heart.
Also because she lost her speech in front of customers, she was dismissed from the original publishing house and came to the current variety planning company.
Three female drunkards with very different personalities stumble in their working and life, and they are full of jokes. But behind such an extremely comedic narrative, it is full of bitter tears of urban young women.
The gap with parents' expectations, the unladylike encounters in love, sexual harassment, homosexual discrimination, cold violence in the workplace, and thousands of grievances among customers...
In just 12 episodes, it almost tells a series of real problems that ordinary urban women will experience in the process of growing up, profound and realistic, and it is difficult not to resonate.
At this time, just drinking and drinking with their sisters became a short escape from the world around them.
But this escape also carries a little helplessness and loss.
Adults are full of complaints, unable to tell their loved ones, unable to be solved in the moment, only slowly dissolved in three glasses of two light wines, forgotten in the long night of blowing water to each other, and even have the courage to face life.
In the words of the play, "Drinking alcohol can make irrelevant things extremely important, and extremely important things irrelevant." ”
In the play, alcohol runs through almost every important moment in the growth process of several girls, and when they are out of love, they have to drink, they have to drink when they are unemployed, and they have to drink when their families die.
In such a staggered situation, the friendship of the three people also gradually warmed up, and the more they drank, the stronger they became.
This is also the most fascinating part of the show, it is like the urban version of "Please Answer 1988", with extremely life-like details, depicting the perfect friendship relationship that everyone admires.
As the saying goes, friends are family members of their own choosing.
The strong friendship formed by the three people at the wine table has made them already like family, becoming each other's dependence, accompanying each other through every moment of joy and sorrow in life.
Zhaoxi was sued by the girlfriend of a colleague, in order to negotiate peace with the other party, Zhaoxi, who had an extraordinary amount of alcohol, was drunk, and his friends rushed to the scene, taking turns to fight, and the other party just ended up.
Ji Yeon was sexually harassed by a strange man, and Ji Jiu immediately got up, beat the other party up, and entered the police station.
The two people, who had very different ways of doing things, had a conflict as a result, and they stopped drinking wine and planned to go back to their respective homes.
However, Ji Yeon was accidentally followed into the house by the man, and at any time he encountered an accident.
In a hurry, she dialed the emergency contact.
Ji Jiu, who had just released harsh words to Ji Yan, immediately rushed to subdue the other party.
One of the most moving scenes in the film is the funeral of Joo Hee's father.
When Cho-hee and Ji-hee arrive home, they see that Ji-yeon, who is usually headless and brainless, has already arrived early and skillfully arranges funeral matters for her.
In order to fulfill Cho-hee's wishes, Ji-hee invited her parents, who were Christians, to perform a prayer ceremony for her father.
Such a sincere and deep friendship, really see people running in tears.
The companionship at the wine table, the silent payment under the wine table. It is precisely with these friends who have made love to each other that we still believe in the existence of beauty after tasting the bitterness of the world.
The friendship of the girls is so simple and strong!
Of course, although alcohol relieves worries, it is harmful to the body and cannot be drunk without restriction.
Although the story in the series always revolves around the wine table, it also involves many of the dangers of drinking.
For example, Zhaoxi suffered from amnesia after drinking, his memory was seriously reduced, and he forgot to write; Ji jiu drank until he twisted his waist; and Ji Yeon's skin, who had a beautiful face, also began to burst.
Raising a glass to dispel sorrow is nothing more than a dramatic way to present the real joys and sorrows of urban women in their nearly 30s at a certain stage of life.
In the long life, there must be more important moments for the three of them to learn to put down their glasses and see the wider sky when they raise a glass.