Text/Xinyi Wang
How should people face the choice of divorce when they reach middle age? Under different family states, how to deal with parent-child relationships and with the previous generation? What is it like for middle-aged people to fall in love, and how to face the marriage and ex who have not been able to go on together?
It seems that it has not yet come out of the topic of parental contradictions and children's education, and domestic dramas have thrown completely different realistic issues in front of the audience.
This drama is "Xiao Min Jia", which is the second "small character" series launched by Lemon Meng Pictures this year.
How to interpret the new style of the Chinese family is the key observation of many content creators for social trends nowadays, and this time," "Xiao MinJia" innovatively breaks another bite, telling the audience about the "divorced life" and "middle-aged emotional expression" that appear more and more frequently in real life.
As soon as this new "rift" appeared, it firmly grasped the audience's emotional appeal.
Stills from "Little Min's House"
During the premiere period, the four networks were the first, and "Xiao Minjia" set a new high for Hunan Satellite TV to start broadcasting in 2021. Social platforms are also hotly discussed, # Huang Lei online ride-hailing driver semi-permanent # # Liu Xiaojie began to broadcast on divorce # and other topics occupy the forefront of hot searches, "Xiao Minjia" debuted on the first day of the network won 35 hot searches, won the Douban real-time popular TV TOP1.
Behind the strong attention is inseparable from the audience's high recognition of the main creative team. The producer Lemon Meng Pictures has long been hung up on the golden signboard of "Realistic Theme Changsheng General", and the familiar "Troika" production configuration of Lemon Meng Pictures + Wang Jun + Huang Lei has been reassembled, with the familiar "small character head" title, it has also laid a strong agent for the audience with quality content.
Tear open new rifts of reality
Liu Xiaomin (Zhou Xun) has just returned from the sudden arrival of his mother Wang Sumin (Liu Lili) and son Jin Jiajun (Zhou Yiran), and her ex-husband Jin Bo (Tu Songyan) has come to the door, bringing out new contradictions and problems.
"Xiao Min Jia" is unfolding its portrayal of different families and different middle-aged people's lives.
In the opening few episodes, Liu Xiaomin, Chen Zhuo (played by Huang Lei), Liu Xiaojie (played by Tang Yixin), Li Ping (played by Qin Hailu) in divorce or divorced middle-aged people have brought out a number of family forms that have opened new relationships, new relationships or singles, and at the same time, several middle-aged people with "good children" jump out.
Elegant and generous, stable and calm, Liu Xiaomin also has a past hurt that has always been in the heart, she seems to be a mother who is not so much like a mother - the relationship with the child is strange, do not know how to express, but will also choose "underground love" in order to take care of her son's emotions and psychology.
"Little Minjia" character network
And the object of her "underground love", Chen Zhuo, is more like an "optimist", living peacefully with his ex-wife and her current wife, and the interplay between his ex-wife and daughter can always make both sides less angry, and people are middle-aged, self-consistent and still red-hearted.
In addition to the two protagonists, the capable and atmospheric Liu Xiaojie dares to love and hate, and is free and free; Jin Bo, who has many vices but has a full love for his son; Hong Wei (Played by Feng Lei), who manifests the "rich man" in all aspects, tries his best to meet the requirements of relatives and friends... "Xiao MinJia" interprets love and life through seemingly imperfect families and imperfect roles.
Compared with the past "small series" with children's education as the core and label, "Xiao Min Family" focuses on the life of middle-aged people after divorce and the pursuit of a new life, thus tearing open new cracks and further excavating issues that are not common in domestic dramas.
At the same time, through the presentation of different family relationships and forms, as well as the contradictions, healing and reconciliation between these middle-aged people, the issues of empty nest elderly, pension treatment, and children's changes in mentality between parents are displayed one by one.
Wang Sumin, who is alone in his hometown to help his divorced daughter with his grandson, reflects the state of "empty nest old man", and also reflects the situation that often occurs at the moment when his children are working outside and the old man is taking children at home; the company of being absent for many years has deepened the gap between Liu Xiaomin and his son Jin Jiajun, and the misunderstanding caused by the storm about his mother that Jin Jiajun witnessed when he was a child has intensified the contradictions and knots between mother and son, and the issue of divorced family parent-child relationship has surfaced...
Liu Xiaomin's mother, Wang Sumin
However, what "Xiao Min Jia" ultimately conveys is that divorce is not a failure, nor is the relationship between the two people must be tense, old and dead, middle-aged people can also have new visions and yearning for love after experiencing marriages that have not been able to go on, and obtain warmth and healing in the process by dealing with problems encountered in intimate relationships such as family, friends, and lovers.
"Little MinJia" presents light comedy with love as the foothold, conveys people's yearning for a better life, and further explains different social issues and social relations.
Human fireworks that flow in real life
The warmth and healing of "Little Min's House" is already on display from the beginning of the story.
Chen Zhuo and his ex-wife Li Ping and her current husband Hong Wei's friend-like mode of getting along, Liu Xiaomin and Chen Zhuo's long-term but romantic love daily, even if Liu Xiaomin and his mother cried after arguing and could not help themselves, they could also warm their hearts because of Chen Zhuo's words and actions, which made the audience not feel any suffocation caused by conflict and tension, but felt that "Xiao Min's Family" flowed with a warm and timeless taste.
At the same time, such warmth and timelessness carry the fireworks of reality and nature.
Li Ping carries the shadow of a typical Chinese mother, doing her best to make her daughter better in educational resources, economic conditions and other aspects, she will break her thoughts, attracting netizens to feel that "Qin Hailu's mother has a strong sense of substitution"; Chen Jiajia (Xiang Hanzhi) After learning that her mother is pregnant, she wants to accept but the awkward psychology suddenly appears, resisting the arrangement of going abroad, talking impatiently with her mother, and even standing at a distance; Liu Xiaomin quarrels with her mother, constantly spreading from a topic and "turning over old accounts" ...... All of the above plots are true and grounded.
This pyrotechnic gas also seeps into the minutiae.
Chen Zhuo's romance is that you can prepare a trunk of lights, a bottle of champagne, a basket of roses on the first anniversary of love, or a bag of sugar fried chestnuts that Liu Xiaomin loves to eat, and do not forget to remind her to put it in the air conditioner mouth hot and then eat and other care details; the mother from Jiujiang, the food brought and the rice made are with the flavor of the hometown, the luggage is wrapped in tight bacon, the breakfast cooked powder, like the "equipment" of parents who come to visit and work hard outside, and the trunk that was stuffed at the end of the holiday has the same thing Even if Liu Xiaomin is an atypical mother, no matter how calm and calm she usually encounters anything, in order to let her son enter the rocket class, she will appear hesitant, embarrassed and cramped when sending WeChat to Li Ping, who has not been in touch for a long time but has a lot of entanglements...
"Little Min's Family" And the two celebrate the first anniversary of their love
These elements of life, character behaviors and states that can be glimpsed in reality make the story and characters of "Little Minjia" step on the real soil, which is extremely natural.
In addition, this is not unrelated to the suitability of the actor and the role.
Huang Lei in "Little Parting", "Little Joy" and other dramas, has been familiar with the role of Buddhism, optimism, "cooking husband", "family conciliator", this time Chen Zhuo fit can not be described as not high; Liu Xiaomin's calm, free, independent and other personalities and temperaments coincide with Zhou Xun's feelings; and as the hot search brought out the entry "Qin Hailu finally played the overlord's wife", Qin Hailu also let the audience shout "appropriate"... The adaptation of actors and characters makes the characters of "Little Minjia" more face-to-face and real, weakens the performance traces, and also makes their stories more convincing.
Believing in the role and reflecting the truth, "Little Minjia" will grow up with joys and sorrows and dye the variety of life with fireworks.
Escorted by the "troika", the realistic theme can still take another step
For the content industry, this giant ship has already set a new course.
How content creation responds to the mood of the times, how to empathize with the current era, and how to make good stories and good art parallel is the key to the success of the content producer stock game.
And this time," "Little Minjia" and the producer behind it, Lemon Meng Pictures, undoubtedly accurately grasped this trend.
For the creators, it is necessary to effectively exert their insight into realism. Whether it is the in-depth excavation of women's topics in "Thirty Only", or the discussion of children's education at different stages in "Little Parting", "Little Joy" and "Little Shed", Lemon Meng Pictures has accurately stepped on the point of social emotions, thus causing a torrent of discussion among the masses.
Stills from "Thirty Only"
Taking "Thirty Only" as an example, relevant data show that within ten days of its broadcast, it has received 40+ Weibo hot search topics with more than 100 million readers, and the number of new weibo topics read in a week has exceeded 5 billion.
After the practice accumulation of these works, Lemon Film has gradually found its own methodology in the creation of realistic themes, and precipitated its own quality reputation.
Based on the currents of Chinese social thought, it has long become the expertise of Lemon Film to forward-looking judgments about what kind of content the people will send emotional appeals to in the future. Therefore, the decisive choice of "Xiao MinJia" this time focuses on "divorced life" and "middle-aged emotional expression" and other aspects, which is also based on the content innovation of the specific face of the current era.
After the "good story" has been established, Lemon Meng Pictures also ensures that the "good art" can be paralleled through the familiar basic disk construction.
Part of the much anticipated "Little Minjia" comes from the third collaboration between Zhou Xun and Huang Lei, and the previous "April Days on Earth" and "Orange Red" are classics and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Another important point comes from the return of the golden partner "Lemon Meng Pictures + Wang Jun + Huang Lei" in the audience's call, and the "small characters" series "Little Parting" and "Little Joy" jointly contributed by the three have obtained high scores of 8.0 and 8.2 on Douban respectively, and have triggered many topic discussions.
Douban screenshot
Director Wang Jun is good at telling the "small series" story from a plain and moving director's point of view, leading the actors to guide the audience into a small family through real and delicate performances. Coupled with Huang Lei's insight into life and pursuit of art, as well as the narrative strategy and characteristic rhythm of family light comedy, coupled with the precise pulse of Lemon Meng Pictures for warm realism, the production lineup of "Troika" acts on "Xiao Minjia", producing an effect of 1+1+1 greater than three.
After the "Small Characters" series aimed at education issues, "Twenty Not Confused" and "Thirty Only" focused on the female group portraits and focused on the life status and life choices of contemporary women, Lemon Meng Pictures found the expression point of new realistic themes through "Xiao MinJia", focusing on more unexplored social issues, and in addition, the creation of the usual light joy, thin water and long flow tone, the true restoration of life, although the story may have a chicken feather and unsatisfactory, but the final cure is still the same purpose.
Escorted by the "troika", this realistic theme innovation can take another step, because after the content creation captures the emotions of the times, it can lead to a cure.
The return of the "troika" and the innovative continuation of the "small character" series also allow Lemon Film to get the key to market discourse at a time when the content industry is occupied by video media, that is, the further consolidation of the content brand effect.
Just as the audience found the names and actors of "Little Joy" "Lin Lei'er" and "Wang Yidi" in the end cast list of "Xiao Minjia", the whole network rushed to tell each other, and the "content universe" focused on realism built by Lemon Meng Pictures with the "small characters" series will inevitably make the future development of the content industry more imaginative.