"Xiao MinJia" can be said to have saved a "big gift" for the audience at the end of this year, Zhou Xun and Huang Lei cooperated again after "April Day on Earth" and "Orange Red", although Lin Huiyin is still the light talented woman, and Xu Zhimo is already a plus version of the talent. And this drama is also the first time that "young girl" Zhou Xun plays a mother, even if she has really reached the age of being a mother, in the hearts of the audience, she is always a fairy with a very high heart that will not be trapped by chai rice oil and salt.
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Does Zhao Xiaomin look like a mother in the play? The answer is never like that. Some people even came up with the idea of the Japanese drama "Sage Love" from her play with her son (stop!). stop! How terrible, what kind of damn magic did Zhou Xun have?
Let's first look at the role of Zhao Xiaomin itself, 23 years old in his hometown gave birth to a son, a few years later divorced with her mixed ball husband, came to Beijing alone to work hard, more than ten years later, Hua Rong is not old, still charming, became a nurse supervisor of a well-known international hospital, alive and middle class. Someone pulled out the price of her costumes in the play, and each dress actually fits her identity, exquisite, elegant, and capable urban mature beauty.
Under such an image, it seems easier for us to accept a completely independent contemporary female figure – no husband and no children, a bit like Andy in Ode to Joy. However, the biggest attraction of "Xiao Min's Family" is also here, it "violates" to arrange a son for Zhao Xiaomin (Zhou Xun), or a big son, whether it is the character itself in the play, or Zhou Xun himself is really not like someone with such a big son. Should the girlishness of female celebrities always be there? Will the lack of "mother's taste" at a certain age become a restriction on the drama road?
Looking back at Zhou Xun's experience from film all the way, it will be found that the characters she plays always carry a sense of "transparency", as if they are wrapped in a beautiful bubble, isolated from the vulgar world.
In 1998, she starred in the famous work "Suzhou Creek" by Lou Ye, the sixth generation director of China, and the innocent girl Peony fell in love with the motor that used a motorcycle to deliver goods for people, but just when she decided to entrust her life to the other party, the motor money fan and the underworld friend kidnapped her, making Peony disheartened and jump into the Suzhou River. Five years later, Mada, who was remorseful for her actions, wondered that Peony had returned and began to look around, and when she saw the beauty of the mermaid performing in a bar, Mada decided that she was Peony...
From the very beginning, Zhou Xun played this special, beautiful, somewhat dreamy paranoid girl, which seemed to set the tone for her path as an actor. Between 1998 and 2001, she starred in popular TV series such as "Daming Palace Words", "April Day on Earth", "Like Fog Like Rain and Like Wind", these three popular dramas of that year, the Princess Taiping of the Teenage Period, the Talented Daughter of the Republic of China Lin Huiyin, and the Du Family Qianjin Du Xinyu, who had suffered from heart disease since childhood, they were all naïve and obsessed, with a beautiful sense of fragility.
Even in the two completely different types of films" and "If Love" and "Li Mi's Conjecture", Zhou Xun's literary and emotional femininity is still obvious, and it is precisely because of this that she can achieve this character and become a role that only she can perform.
Therefore, in "The Legend of Ruyi", Zhou Xun was a little "unsatisfied with the water and soil" for the first time, and her temperament and the undercurrent of the surging palace and the harem battle of the intrigue produced a sense of contradiction and violation. It was as if a fairy had been forcibly pushed into the mire of reality. After so many years, the immortal qi on Zhou Xun's body has not diminished in the slightest, but with the increase of life experience, it has become more and more distinct, and her state and mentality have made women envious.
Back in the story of "Xiao Min's Family", after meeting the second spring of her life, this man was still good to her, and there was some little sweetness that was not greasy. Putting aside the setting of the son, it almost does not affect the core of the story of middle-aged people falling in love, so it does not matter whether Zhao Xiaomin has a son or not, this drama is not to see how Zhou Xun plays his mother, but to see how she talks about a middle-aged girl-like love.
Middle-aged love or middle-aged people's emotional problems are about to disappear in domestic dramas. The audience is sniffing sugar, sniffing all kinds of CP sugar, whether it is industrial saccharin or not, as long as the beauty of men and women, the marketing number will go a wave and someone will pay the bill. But in the past two years, the situation has changed, and after being fed too much completely unattended industrial saccharin, people began to think, what kind of love do we really want to see? Or rather, what does love really look like?
In "Xiao Min's Family", Liu Xiaomin and Chen Zhuo had to talk about love carefully. Why? Afraid that the son who is not close to him will not accept it, afraid of his mother, afraid of the eyes of the people around him... But in fact, their love is completely correct, two divorced people, are single adults, have full love freedom, let them worry about things are not right or wrong, but "ideas", "ideas" and "others".
In Chinese culture, there seems to be an unrecognized but real problem — the shame of middle-aged people falling in love. If a child becomes a father and mother, it seems that they can no longer generate love and desire, they become a sacred identity, playing an educator and a guide, how can they be wrapped up in the private feelings of their children? How can I let my child know that I am in love?
However, the legitimate yearning and pursuit of love is everyone's right, regardless of gender, let alone age. "Hello, Lee Huan Ying" said that every mother used to be a girl. Why only once? It is time to let every mother always maintain a part of the girlish heart in her heart, especially when they unfortunately lose their love and happy marriage, they can take a brave, bold and calm step to find new love, and they can continue to believe in love.
In "Auntie's Postmodern Life", the aunt (SiChengawa), who lives alone in Shanghai after retirement, does not have the figure and face of Zhao Xiaomin, she is an ordinary old aunt, she meets Pan Zhichang (Zhou Runfa), a greasy to a messy old uncle, the two have become confidants because of Peking Opera, and have a twilight romance. Unfortunately, the end is that the aunt was cheated out of all the money and decided to leave Shanghai and return to her home in the northeast, where there was a husband and daughter who had been estranged...
This is the reality of a chicken feather, completely without the beauty of the middle class in "Xiao Min's Family", but this seemingly absurd twilight love between aunt and uncle is unforgettable, they are not beautiful or handsome, but they face desire. Middle-aged people are not ashamed of love, even if there is no zhao xiaomin's appearance, there is also the right to love like Zhao Xiaomin.
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Author: Mie