"Marriage is a besieged city, people outside the city want to go in, people in the city want to come out", this sentence is applied to "Xiao Min's Family", but it is invalid.
Can middle-aged people have pure love? This social issue was handed over to Liu Xiaomin and Chen Zhuo to answer, which was quite appropriate. Xiao Min and Chen Zhuo's mode of getting along subverts the stereotype that everyone used to talk about feelings and complain about middle-aged people, and transcends the cheesy Mary Sue script, so that the audience realizes that the original middle-aged people's love can also be seen with relish.
Author | Wang Yingzhong
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In the world of "Xiao Min Jia", the love of middle-aged people is not only a place of chicken feathers, but also a sense of ritual and sweet dreams.
Open the trunk, what comes into view is full of stars and roses, even if there is no candlelight dinner, Chen Zhuo (Huang Lei) and Liu Xiaomin (Zhou Xun) can also drink champagne on the stone chairs of the community, chat about the future, quietly and comfortably celebrate the first anniversary of love, and the details of life reveal warmth everywhere.
Although it begins with romance, the story line that happens next also lives up to the expectations of the melon-eating masses. The characters closely focus on Liu Xiaomin as the core, two families, three generations of old, middle and young, staggered complex emotional lines, and broken and conflicted family lines, and jointly build "N out of good drama".
Kindness, decency and forbearance are the background colors set by Liu Xiaomin. Once, carrying the false name of a third party, she chose to divorce and flee her hometown of Jiujiang, and came to Beijing alone. Suffering from the accusations of secular colored glasses, the lack of companionship during the growth period of his son, and carefully repairing his relationship with his son, Liu Xiaomin, who is middle-aged, has a successful career but is subconsciously estranged from the outside world.
Until she met her lover Chen Zhuo, Xiao Min gradually opened the door of her heart and slowly unloaded the burden in her heart. Chen Zhuoxin's wide body is fat "as one on the outside", and he is alive and free of a pistachio, with a delicacy and warmth rarely seen by middle-aged men. Chen Zhuo is good at dispelling the "sensitivity" in Xiaomin's inner world, sometimes acting as a tree hole, sometimes giving comfort, just like the sunflower he gave to Xiaomin, and his role in Xiaomin's life is exactly the "Sunshine Healer".
Warm pulse, thin water and long flow, if it is only chen zhuo and Liu Xiaomin's emotional documentary, then "Xiaomin's Home" is "April Day on Earth" 20 years later. Since they are male and female protagonists from divorced families, the role of the ex-wife and ex-husband is not exempt from vulgarity, and even the eye-catching place of this play is contributed by the ex-wife and ex-husband.
Chen Zhuo's ex-wife Li Ping (Qin Hailu), a strong woman with wind and fire, exudes a rich atmosphere on her body. After leaving the affordable male Chen Zhuo, Li Ping and her remarried husband worked together to successfully leap to the top, everything went smoothly and did not lose money, but the adolescent daughter was a time bomb in her life.
The way Li Ping and her daughter Jiajia get along, in one sentence, is summed up as "buying if you like", coaxing her daughter to be happy and achieve her goals, and even "coercing and inducing" her daughter to compromise, all of which cost money. Li Ping believes that to maintain the parent-child relationship, money is the master key, and her "desire to control" her daughter, from the future development direction to the trivialities of life, is indeed full of oppression at first glance, but behind this is actually the externalized form of "the parents love their children, then they are far-reaching".
Compared with Li Ping, who can exceed the material needs of children and achieve material and spiritual enrichment, Liu Xiaomin's ex-husband Jin Bo has undertaken the biggest scolding point and groove point of the play, following Su Daqiang and Qiao Zuwang, becoming the audience's latest focus of artillery fire.
The greed, bad deeds, and frustration of the city servants are all vividly reflected in Jin Bo. When the divorced couple who had not seen each other for more than ten years reunited, Jin Bo brought xiaomin's family not comfort, but concealed debts, shameless rubbing, and outrageous operations that made his son who was about to take the college entrance examination stay up late to play games to pay off his father's debts.
After experiencing the dramatic bridges of Li Ping's miscarriage, Xiao Min's breakup with Chen Zhuo, and Jin Bo's departure from Beijing, the parent-child relationship between the four adults and the two children also evolved to another stage. Xiao Min and her son opened their hearts in the night chat and were no longer the "most familiar strangers"; Jin Bo realized that he had previously been unequal and irresponsible to his son, and decided to go back to face the debt; Li Ping's relationship with her daughter was greatly repaired, and her daughter's previous rebellion was gone; Chen Zhuo was no longer blindly indulging her daughter's petulance, letting her go abroad to study...
The parent-child relationship in "Xiao Min's Family" is so unbalanced, precisely because the four people's positions and attitudes towards the child are completely different, Xiao Min is based on making up for the lack of maternal love, Jin Bo transfers the responsibility he should bear to the child, Li Ping wants to make full use of material conditions to create a better future for the child, and Chen Zhuo takes care of the child but lacks determination. Coupled with the setting of the divorce of all the members, the double particularity of the original family and the parent-child relationship, and the emotions generated by the intersection between them, it is precisely the bold attempt and breakthrough of this play, which increases the possibility of drama and character connection.
The "contest" of the bones of the drama
Previously, when "Xiao MinJia" announced the role poster, many netizens expressed surprise at Zhou Xun's role in the heroine of the family drama, and said that "Zhou Xun is very grounded." Now that the series has been broadcast more than halfway through, the image of Zhou Xun, a middle-aged divorced mother, has also stood up.
Calm and stable, not alarming, but with vibrant energy inside, Zhou Xun's version of Liu Xiaomin, does not often cry, but the crying drama can quickly bring people into Xiaomin's world.
The scene with the lover Chen Zhuo (Huang Lei) confessing the reason for his divorce, up to 12 minutes, Zhou Xun cried out of four levels, from the beginning of recalling the past, grievances gushed out of speechlessness; to hide sadness, do not let the tears fall; then to the pretense of ease in telling, tears in the forced smile; finally listen to Chen Zhuo comfort, gradually calm, tears fell, years of heart knots finally someone listened to and understood.
In recent years, Huang Lei and the "small series" can be described as complementary, whether it is lines or actions, as long as they appear, the familiar housewife and man, life golden oil is back. For him, family drama is not a comfort zone, but the "success or failure" lies in the fact that Huang Lei is always playing himself.
To say who "Xiao Minjia" "surprise", Qin Hailu deserved it, she played Li Ping, "people hold the play" is appropriate. In an interview with "Blog World", Qin Hailu said that she was particularly serious when she acted, and she did not expect to bring funny effects to everyone, and many of the bridge sections in the performance that made everyone "laugh off" were also the results of their own on-the-spot play.
"To be honest, I didn't think it would be like this after the broadcast, it was really quite unexpected, and I didn't think about giving Li Ping a person." Li Ping has advantages and disadvantages, I think she is more in line with modern women with multiple identities, she can be alone, but also worry about children, is a very rich character image.
The character design is about Li Ping's several character relationships, how she can string them together in her own way. Because I think the unity of a character is very important, she can't treat her daughter like this, treat her girlfriend like that, and then treat her ex-husband and the current one with a different face, I think it's difficult, but I didn't think about it. ”
Last year, Tu Songyan played a "father of other people's families" in "In the Name of Family", which was praised continuously, but this time he chose to challenge an "evil father" and took over such a scolded role, which can be called the Jiangxi version of Su Daqiang + Qiao Zuwang. But in Tu Songyan's heart, he did not think that Jin Bo was an unpleasant character.
In an interview with "Blog World", Tu Songyan said that whether it is pleasing or not depends on the topic degree of the character, not only the positive and tall characters are pleasing, as long as they poke the pain points or laughter points of the audience. "As a professional actor, you always have to have a sense of confidence, to challenge different types of roles, and to get it done. In the eyes of everyone, Jin Bo is even a scumbag to his son, but as the plot follows, he will be a very rich character. ”
However, Tu Songyan's words turned sharply, and he also spat out Jin Bo like the audience, "Don't say when shooting, when I read the book, I am angry with myself." I think the audience is really good now, that is, they can treat each of your characters with special empathy, and although they are also cursing Jin Bo and praising Li Haichao, they rarely have personal attacks on the actors themselves, and they are particularly rational and measured, which is a particularly good thing. ”
The next "small" series
In addition to the characters and plot, the strong pyrotechnic atmosphere of the whole drama is also a key factor for people to chase the drama. The Jiangxi elements in the play can be glimpsed from the diet. On the daily table of Xiao Min's family, special Jiangxi dishes such as fried bacon with quinoa, steamed fish, and small stir-fried meat in Pingxiang are not uncommon. The most frequent appearance is Jiangxi rice noodles, so that netizens have said "as a Jiangxi person, how can you not look at Xiao Minjia".
Do not change the "small" series of chef settings, Huang Lei in the "Xiao Min Family" to do the best braised meat, Tu Songyan said in an interview, in the process of acting, Huang Lei has always maintained an attitude of excellence, the details of the play requirements are particularly rigorous, as small as a bowl of noodles, will be very important.
From 2016's "Little Parting" to this year's "Little Minjia", the "Small" series of four parts of Lemon Film has always been a group portrait drama focusing on education topics.
"Xiao Min Jia" is different from the previous, only with the child's education problem as the main line, it is more focused on the middle-aged divorced group, with a middle-aged love story to cut in, the relationship setting of all the relatives and friends, but also makes this drama more dramatic.
Xiaomin's mother, Wang Sumin, is a representative of typical traditional women; her sister Liu Xiaomin is soft on the outside and strong on the inside, eager for love and hesitant; younger sister Liu Xiaojie dares to love and dare to hate Dashing and wanton... The three female characters of Liu Xiaomin's family just represent the changes in different women's views on marriage and love.
When people reach middle age, especially the reorganization of divorced families, how to open their hearts to accept a new relationship is more worthy of deep consideration and careful study.
Xiao Min, who has experienced emotional trauma, still bravely follows her heart and falls in love with Chen Zhuo, which is not the inherent concept of "finding a companion", but an emotional fortress built up by the same concept of marriage and love. In the face of complex family and parent-child relationship, the two invariably temporarily chose "only love and not marriage", but their love is pure, full of life rituals and fireworks, and the experience of marriage also makes them know how to better love each other.
It is true that for remarried families, love has never been a matter of two people, although it cannot be as free as young people desperately, but they have the courage to face difficulties and the ability to adapt to changes, just like the poster copy of "Xiao MinJia" writes, marriage can not define our lives, love can.