Originally unknown , "Love is Delicious", why is it worth watching?
"Love Is Delicious" was a complete dark horse at the end of 2021, and won a good reputation with a non-vain story in the big production drama publicity. Now few domestic dramas can maintain more than 8 points at the end. Why is this originally unknown drama worth watching?
Mentioning that many of the current urban dramas, whether in the workplace or in love, have a common problem, often engaging in superficial realism, in fact, or the Mary Sue and Jack Sue set, levitation and ungroundedness make it difficult for the audience to empathize. At any time, the heroine can always maintain a permanent delicate makeup and live in a "mansion" that is extremely inconsistent with the human setting. Although it is said that the creation is derived from reality and is higher than reality, the source of the current drama concept is already problematic.
That's exactly why "Love Is Delicious" looks different. The story takes place in 2020, which is not far from us, and the epidemic has just begun, telling the story of three urban beauties with very different personalities and distinctive characteristics, who have experienced a series of entrepreneurial hardships, workplace oppression, and emotional twists and turns, and have a new understanding of life, career and love.
30+ women's stories, there's really so much to tell.
Liu Jing, played by Li Chun, is the first wave of workers who were actually affected by the sudden epidemic, and after ending working from home, she was laid off by the company. Losing her job, she decided to open her own restaurant. She is the majority of this society, a typical middle school student, no talent for learning to bully, but also did not fall behind in the social current, the first instinct when encountering things is to be able to escape, but she will not easily give up on herself, there are still requirements for herself in her heart, and she has a mother who is always urging marriage around her.
In fact, most of us are like Liu Jing, no matter what we have experienced, we still long for a perfect love in our hearts, but men are always unreliable. However, she is still much luckier than many people in reality, there are two different types of men pursuing her, a second generation of iron and rich, and a director who does literary and artistic work. The adult tentative period and ambiguous period between her and the director are very real.
Fang Xin, played by Zhang Hanyun, is married, has a very "considerate" husband, and lives the life of a happy young woman. Until the epidemic burst the beautiful bubble and her husband became a close contact of the new crown case, Fang Xin did not know that she was eating meals made by third parties every day. This plot is really very uncomfortable, even a little disgusting. What's even worse is that this man actually divorced Fang Xin on this side, and then he married Xiao Sanban on that side.
After this change, Fang Xin perked up from the role of a full-time wife and returned to the workplace, but she encountered sexual harassment in the workplace, and even the company turned her into a "chip" to do some dirty transactions, and threatened her to leave if she did not do it. This paragraph is indeed a bit too caught, and wants to reflect the current situation in the female workplace with a condensed and extreme plot. However, after eating a few big melons this year, what else is impossible to happen in reality?
Wang Ju is one of the biggest highlights of this drama. Xia Meng, played by her, is a typical top student, who dares to fight in both life and career. With a yellow hair that grew black hair roots, it was really too real. She first talked to a male subordinate in the company about a strong female and weak male love, which ended in a breakup, and then met a fitness coach... I have to praise Wang Ju's acting skills are very eye-catching, and there is no collapse.
These stories of the three heroines are placed in 20 episodes, and the rhythm is very tight compared to those long-distance running dramas that are more serious than pork injection. Growing up together, they wore pajamas, faced the sky, and were full of trivial daily routines.
"Strong women are not necessarily very sassy, beautiful girls are not necessarily self-contained, and ordinary girls are not all abandoned by boys." This is what "Love Is Delicious" wants to convey, it portrays the friendship between women who support each other and watch over each other. Every woman has her own distinct personality, flesh and blood.
This may be the reason why the big female protagonist drama has gradually failed in the past two years, from a ratings elixir to a dross that no one cares about or is complained about. Because we can't find ourselves in the mass-produced industrial heroine, we can't see life, let alone any real feminism, often it is the orthodox Jinjiang literature that is more romantic than romance in the shell of feminism.
Remember another drama of 2021, "I'm Fine Elsewhere"? A group of foreigners who grew up in small cities experienced the tests of life, career, and feelings in the wandering of the metropolis. The experience of each character gives a sense of social topic and the present, whether it is anxious or calm, whether it is to stay in struggle or to return to their hometown, everyone has gained the spiritual belonging and urban home of life in the various experiences of loss and gain, stay and leave.
There is also a long-ago Japanese drama "Problem Restaurant" that also tells the story of "girls helping girls". The heroine resolutely resigned from the company where machismo prevailed, and opened a restaurant with several girls with very different personalities after mutual understanding and run-in, and faced many practical problems together. Some people say that the show is very utopian and creates a feminist ideal world, but there is nothing wrong with such a dream.
Recently, another very popular female group portrait drama "Hua Lantern Chu Shang" focuses on 40+ 100% mature women, or mature women with a smell of wind and dust. Although this drama is still somewhat complained about, it is not difficult to see that the entire market has begun to tilt from the big heroine to the female group portrait.
Nowadays, the ancient puppet drama that can hold out small flowers and small students has completely fallen to the altar and become a "ancient vomit drama" with a collective drop in appearance; and the urban romance drama is even more because the batch of industrial saccharin and routines have been spit on by the whole network, not only is it not sweet but also very panicked; after "The Biography of Zhen Huan", it has never been able to produce a phenomenon-level national court drama; because the level of suspense drama popular in the Mist Theater has suddenly gone up and down; finally, the big heroine who has been on fire for many years is no longer good...
Maybe it's time to give birth to a real group portrait drama in China, to use an inappropriate analogy, "The Age of Awakening" is not a hot-blooded group portrait of young people? The work is too rolled, the colleague friendship is a bit mysterious, the love is too unreliable, the high-quality idols and the top traffic are all like this, then far away from the parents living in a foreign country, what else can we rely on, probably friends.
So we, who don't have a heroine aura and goldfinger, can especially empathize with the three girls in "Love Is Delicious". Cherish your sister, she is more reliable than any man.
Author: Mie
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