In a number of realist dramas, "Little Minjia" redefines middle-aged love with a warm perspective, in the company of knowing cold and knowing heat, interesting without losing romance, delicate without losing tension, breaking the stereotype of the public for mid-life crisis.
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With the popularity of "Little Minjia", the topic of middle-aged love has once again aroused the attention of the public. With the advancement of the emotional story of Xiao Min, played by Zhou Xun, and Chen Zhuo, played by Huang Lei, netizens can't help but sigh that the original middle-aged people's love story still has so many moments of defense.
Remember that the middle-aged love presented by the workplace inspirational drama "The Sea of Stars" broadcast earlier has experienced the stage from group ridicule to true incense, and now "Xiao Minjia" has once again set off a boom in the topic of "middle-aged love", which may mean that the drama with the theme of "middle-aged love" has entered the inflection point of word-of-mouth.
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Middle-aged love from a traditional perspective:
Infidelity, mother-in-law, and parenting
In the past, for the topic of middle-aged love, many TV series have developed stories stylized. If the male and female protagonists are married, then their love stories are often centered around the family, and most of them are inseparable from the three-piece set of infidelity, mother-in-law relationship, and childcare.
When it comes to the topic of "cheating", there is still active in the hot search of "The Temptation to Go Home", and there is "The First Half of My Life" that has recently won a number of middle-aged actors, most of these dramas are the stories of the heroine who "reborn" after being betrayed by love.
Talking about the topic of "mother-in-law relationship", in "Children of the Qiao Family", Qiao Sanli's mother-in-law prefers her own son and is harsh on herself and her husband, and the famous scene of #Qiao Sanli angry and evil mother-in-law is one of the traffic codes of the series.
Talking about the issue of parenting, in "Little Shed", Nan Li and Xia Junshan, who were originally loving, also fell into an emotional crisis because of their children's education problems.
If the protagonists of middle-aged men and women are single, the presentation of middle-aged love stories also has its own style. Some episodes are exaggerated and funny, in "One Servant and Two Lords", Yang Shu, a middle-aged driver played by Zhang Jiayi, and Tang Hong, the female boss played by Yan Ni, and Gu Jingjing, an older leftover woman played by Jiang Shuying, began a wonderful urban triangle master-servant love;
Focusing on the love stories of middle-aged elites was once a major trend. In "Who Says I Can't Get Married", Tian Lei, played by Chen Shu, and Xu Haifeng, played by Yuan Wenkang, are both young plum bamboo horses and big winners in the legal profession, staging a love that kills each other and is evenly matched; in "Ode to Joy", Andy played by Liu Tao and Zu Feng play the singularity, which is also a love confrontation under elite thinking. While lamenting the excitement of elite love, many netizens can't help but lament that such love stories are too far away from ordinary people.
In the name of midlife crisis, middle-aged love-related TV dramas are always indispensable to dog blood and levitating elements, so that the audience has aesthetic fatigue. In the trend of content that tends to be similar, "Xiao Min Jia" jumps out of the traditional creative ideas, focuses on Xiao Min and Chen Zhuo, a middle-aged couple with ordinary identities, and finds a new way to open up middle-aged love.
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With a warm perspective
"Little MinJia" redefines middle-aged love
In the drama "Xiao Min Family", Xiao Min, played by Zhou Xun, and Chen Zhuo, played by Huang Lei, are people who have been divorced once and whose children have reached adulthood, although they are not as rich as Li Ping and Hong Wei, they also have a stable work and life, and love is the icing on the cake in life. Until Jin Jiajun and Jin Bo came to Beijing from Jiujiang, they broke the delicate balance and saw the true side of middle-aged love.
Based on the character relationship between Xiao Min and Chen Zhuo, Xiao Min has the ex-husband Jin Bo, who is known as the "middle-aged version of Su Daqiang", Chen Zhuo's ex-wife Li Ping, who is gossiping, and both sides have children who are about to go to college and are in constant condition, in these complicated character relationships, short conflicts and contradictions between parents occur from time to time, but most of them are handled very appropriately, and they also inject more real colors into the proposition of "middle-aged love".
The reason why the middle-aged love presented in "Xiao Min Jia" will be so touching to people's hearts stems from the beautiful expression in the plot laying out. Since the episode was broadcast, there are many details of getting along between XiaoMin and Chen Zhuo that make people move. On the first anniversary of love, the two people in the state of "underground love" hid in the corner of the community to take out champagne and roses from the trunk to celebrate, and the "three no's principle" of the two people in public was also quite funny; when Xiao Min was depressed, Chen Zhuojin frequently appeared, he enlightened Xiao Min on the one hand, to learn to get out of the haze of the past, saying that "the past is to let him pass, so it is called the past", while guiding Xiao Min to cherish the happiness of the moment, bluntly saying that "for us, temporarily escaping in time is very precious"; when the two quarrel, Chen Zhuo did not apologize, but after getting drunk, he took the initiative to apologize, and the next day Xiaomin also took the initiative to invite Chen Zhuo to date, and the two got back together and enjoyed the beauty of love in the moment without making trouble.
In the whole process of love, there is no relationship between Xiaomin and Chen Zhuo, there is not much material and interest relationship, pure spiritual companionship and support. After Xiaomin and her mother quarreled, Chen Zhuo took her to the car river, invited her to eat noodles, made her happy, and comforted her in the hopscotch game, "The meaning of hopscotch is to see which is not pleasing to the eye, jump it over and ignore it"... This also made Xiao Min can't help but sigh: "I always thought I would be with a person I admired, why did I go downstairs as soon as I was asked by you?" It can be seen that xiaomin, who is sensitive in heart, and Chen Zhuo, who is optimistic and open-minded, can unload the unpleasant psychological baggage and become happy, which is also another kind of sweetness of middle-aged love.
Until the end, because of the relationship between the child, XiaoMin and Chen Zhuo decently broke up, and the two sides said goodbye in gratitude. What impressed the reader was that the two shook hands until the door was released, and when the elevator door was closed, the two sides nodded at each other, for this scene, the netizens wrote "The middle-aged love is on fire in the vacuum, the original deepest pain is quiet" This comment hit people's hearts directly.
In a warm and peaceful way to get along, Xiao Min and Chen Zhuo also found their own little beauty. On the issue of love, the two still retain purity, from love to the decision to temporarily separate, all stem from the decision of the two, breaking the traditional emotional drama with a large number of dog blood conflicts of the spell, no longer the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law competition of the chicken flying dog jump, nor the husband and wife cheating suspicion and revenge, to the public to create a model of middle-aged love management, for middle-aged love has a new understanding of middle-aged love.
Of course, the high comfort of middle-aged love presented by Xiao Min and Chen Zhuo also lies in the attitude of the people around them. From Xiao Min's mother and sister, to Chen Zhuo's ex-wife, to the children of both sides, although they have their own ideas, most of them are supportive attitudes, which also provides a good external environment for them to maintain the comfort of love.
Reading Entertainment Jun believes that in a number of realist dramas, "Xiao Min Jia" is a family ethics drama with a sense of healing, redefining middle-aged love with a warm perspective, in the company of knowing cold and knowing heat, interesting without losing romance, delicate and tense, breaking the stereotype of the public for the mid-life crisis, the concept of marriage and love transmitted by it is also poking at people's hearts with the times, and also allows more people to learn the way to run a family and care for their lovers, and the values transmitted to the public are like a warm sun in winter.