At the end of the drama "Please Answer 1988", this subtitle is played: Goodbye, double door hole.
The audience who chases after the end of the play can't help but have some nasal acid, Deshan, Aze, and Zhenghuan will eventually grow up, and the happy past of Shuangmendong will also disperse with the wind.
If this group of young friends can live together until the age of 40, what will their lives look like?
As if to complete this hypothesis, Shin Won-ho, the director of "Please Answer 1988", and the screenwriter Lee Woo-ting collaborated again to launch a new drama "The Witty Doctor's Life".
"The Life of a Witty Doctor" is like the middle-aged version of "Please Answer 1988", which tells the life of five friends from school days to the age of 40.
If the bond between the neighbors of Shuangmendong is not strong enough, and it is inevitable to move away, then The Ludi Hospital is tightly tied together by the doctors, and the protagonist group is served here. In the first half of last year, the first season of "The Life of a Witty Doctor" was released, which was given a high score of 9.5 by 160,000 viewers. Last week, "Witty Doctor's Life Season 2" (hereinafter referred to as "Witty Doctor 2") updated the first episode, and the score was as high as 9.8 at the beginning of the score.
As a medical drama that is difficult to please, what charm does it have?
From the "Please Answer" series to the "Witty" series, the director has repeatedly shown his control over the character group drama. He can always create a charismatic protagonist group, and then let them rub a different spark.
The protagonists of the Doctor Witty series are four men and a woman who became friends in college and later worked in the same hospital.
The pediatrician ann charity, a kind hearted man, once wanted to be a priest. Although his family is prominent, he never put up a shelf, is keen on charity activities, and occasionally has some stinginess towards friends.
Chest surgeon Jin Junwan, the façade bearer, looks a little cold, in fact, the mouth is hard and soft.
Neurologist Cai Songhua, the only woman in the protagonist group, is the pet of the group and the bully of the group. Even though the work is very heavy, it still maintains a light appearance and a tenacious and persistent heart.
Hepatobiliary doctor Li Yijun, a talented player, is good at making atmosphere, looks like he is not in shape, and it is really professional to do surgery.
Obstetrician and gynecologist Yang Shuoheng, a warm man who considers all aspects of small details at work, is an otaku who calls his mother every day for advice.
This plot is not complicated, usually with the time to work and the end of the work time at the node of each episode, the work is a relatively boring medical round, after work they will form a band to practice songs. The overall rhythm is relatively flat, and a little carelessness will become a running account.
(The song live is like an Easter egg in every episode)
Therefore, character shaping is the highlight of this play, which relies on "people with dramas" rather than "drama pushing people". The audience unconsciously likes several protagonists and looks forward to their lives moving in a better direction.
"Witty Doctor 1" has laid a clear foundation for the protagonist group's life background and emotional branches. So "Doctor Wit 2" followed last season and continued to spin around in its happy character relationships.
An Junyuan's love affair with Winter, Kim Joon-wan and Lee Yi-chun's love affair becomes more stable, and continues to sugar in the first episode.
The appearance of Yang Shuoheng's ex-wife is somewhat unexpected, but it is not surprising that he and Qiu Minhe will still come together.
And the most heart-wrenching thing for the audience is the pair of "mutual digestion" in the protagonist group: Cai Songhua and Li Yijun. Everyone sat in Cai Songhua's car together, and Li Yijun quickly grabbed the co-pilot, as if declaring sovereignty.
But then, Cai Songhua rejected his confession. But I believe that in the subsequent plot, the two will still go around each other. Just like the rainbow that appears briefly in the play, the direction of their future relationship is also "don't see the wind and rain, how to see the rainbow".
The chasing experience of the "Doctor Witty" series is different from usual, more like the feeling when watching a slow variety show - whether there is a preset script is not important, what is important is the chemistry between the guests.
As a medical workplace drama, it is indispensable to present the relationship between doctors and patients.
Do you choose a more realistic way of expression, or a more healing way of expression?
"Witty Doctor 2" fully inherits the style of the previous season, choosing the latter.
The first episode alone shows the different options of doctors in the workplace.
An Shuyuan inspected the children's ward as usual, but encountered a little girl with early wisdom who asked about the condition. She calmly asked Dr. Ann how long she would live after the liver transplant.
Instead of giving a reassuring false consolation as ordinary people expect, An Shuyuan told the girl that everything was unknown, and what he could guarantee was that she would live longer than him, so don't worry.
When An Shuyuan and his girlfriend met in the winter, they heard about her troubles at work: Yanyu's mother, who died of illness, often returned to the hospital to find them, but every time she talked about gossip.
Winter's colleagues believe that she wants to collect evidence and come back to the doctor to defend her rights; but An Shuyuan feels that Yanyu's mother is just too lonely and wants to find people who have witnessed the footprints of the child's survival to send grief.
Winter agreed with her boyfriend's statement, so she frankly and sincerely talked to Yan Yu's mother once. The latter's words were heartbreaking, she just wanted to find the feeling of being connected to her daughter's flesh and blood and relying on each other in the title of "Yanyu Mother".
On the other side, Yang Shuoheng received a pregnant woman who was referred. She was only 19 weeks pregnant, the amniotic fluid was broken, even if she gave birth to a premature baby later, it was difficult to survive, and the original doctor recommended that she induce labor.
But the child was not easy to come by, and the pregnant woman had several abortions and had several test tubes, so she did not want to give up the fetus. She heard that Yang Shuoheng had helped the 18-week pregnant woman to save the fetus smoothly, so she came to him for help.
The operation was extremely risky, but Yang Shuoheng resolutely took it. Rather than whether there would be a medical risk, he cared more about the strong will of pregnant women, and in order not to let her regret her life, he only had to gamble on seniority to take a risk.
The warm doctor-patient relationship showed above is everywhere in "Witty Doctor 2".
It does not linger on the medical spectacle of showing the rejuvenation of the magic hand, nor does it indulge in the pessimism of life and death, but opens a small opening in the relationship between the curative patient.
This not only avoids the risk of professional errors caused by the positive display of the medical process, but also allows the audience to gain a lot from the experience of laughter and tears.
Overall, "Doctor Witty" also creates an idealized environment close to the vacuum for the audience outside the play, directly hitting the soft underbelly of the audience's desired life.
In this small world, the loved ones are within reach, the three or two friends are inseparable, and the work is heavy but still has a sense of achievement.
Perhaps this is the power of literary and artistic works: it creates a utopia that twists and turns, and tells us that we can always believe in love, in goodwill, in the beauty of human nature.
Luo Baiqi 24th floor theater