October Daily drama can be described as a hundred flowers blooming.
From campus romance to suspenseful puzzle solving, lovers of various genres can easily pick their favorites.
Recently, there is such a youth drama known as the "light of BG" this quarter, which stands out and is praised by many drama fans as "sweet rolling on the ground"——
It's Love! ~Bad Boy and The White Cane Girl
You can guess from the title of the story, which is about the sweet and funny love between the bad boy Kurokawa Mori and the young girl Akaza Yukiko who holds a white cane.
Bad boys don't have to explain.
What is a white cane?
The white cane, also known as the guide stick, is an indispensable tool to assist the visually impaired in travel.
The heroine, Yukiko, is a high school girl with amblyopia.
The encounter between the two can be said to be quite ancient, but because of the hostess setting, it seems to be full of sparks.
Yukiko hurried along the blind path to the school.
However, he was blocked by three bad teenagers who were discussing the countermeasures for the group beating.
"That... Excuse me, can you let it go? ”
Yukiko leaned down and said politely.
The boy in black with his back to her turned his head back, revealing a fierce knife scar on his face,
Drop the sentence "Can't you just walk from the side?" "Turn around and continue nagging.
This scarred teenager is the male protagonist Sensheng.
Yukiko poked Sensei with her white cane, signaling that he was blind.
Unexpectedly, the boy grabbed the white cane in her hand and stood up.
The sudden disparity in height made Yukiko feel dangerous and subconsciously fly a foot.
One kick, right in the middle.
Mori couldn't afford to fall to the ground.
The two little brothers next to them were about to come forward to support themselves, and only then did they notice the white cane in the girl's hand and hurried to apologize.
But bad boys have their own pride.
Of course, the little brother has to symbolically honor the boss, and the two sing a harmony, trying to shock Xuezi with some social words:
"I urge you to apologize to him as well."
"Because he is a notorious fierce god in this area."
"People in the jianghu call him 'Panther Asson.'"
"More than two meters tall."
"I got a hundred stud earrings on my body."
As they made up, the two also realized that such a lie was too outrageous.
To sum up, the most proof of Sensheng's "identity" is the scar on his face that extends by 5 centimeters from the bottom of his eyes——
"Mori's face hurts."
The simple Yukiko was confused at first, until she heard the phrase "there is a wound on her face" and instantly panicked.
Thinking that she had injured Morio by mistake, Yukiko immediately squatted down and knelt on the ground to examine his injuries.
Since she couldn't see clearly, she naturally held Sen Sheng's face with both hands and leaned her face closer.
The unapproachable bad boy had the first intimate contact with the beautiful girl and found that the other party was not only not afraid of him, but also gave him spring breeze-like care.
At that moment, Black Panther Assen was completely defeated.
So a series of sweet straight balls chased love...
In the past, the blind characters in film and television works that we are familiar with,
Or, a master image like Jarrut Îmwe, played by Zhen Zidan in Star Wars: Rogue One:
The enemy's bullets are loaded, the ear pinna moves, and the danger is immediately perceived;
The moment the bullet is fired, a sideways body is destroyed;
Followed by a move "Ling Bo microstep", the speed of light dodged left and right, through the rain of bullets and bullets, to complete the counter-kill.
Listen to the sound to identify the position, with one enemy and a hundred, and enjoy it.
This kind of role is not visible, and it seems that there is no difference.
The only thing that the camera shows the audience is their anti-heaven skills.
Or, it's the image of the blind masseuse in "Tuina",
The camera only captures the most bizarre and cruel touches of their lives,
Expose for us the repressive and miserable undertones of the blind community (non-pejorative).
"This Is Love" chooses another aspect, bringing the narrative back to the ground in a light-hearted and witty way, presenting us with the daily pain and pleasure of "ordinary" blind people.
Following the camera, we get closer to Yukiko's life and begin to understand the world of the visually impaired.
The white cane, for Yukiko, is second only to the existence of life;
The "yellow dot" (blind path) on the ground that was ignored by the sighted crowd was also important to Yukiko.
Long bars indicate the direction of progress, and dots represent possible hazards;
The series also simulates the visual experience of visually impaired people for us through popular science images.
Although people with good vision are collectively referred to as visually impaired people, there are actually different levels and types of visual impairments:
Totally blind, the field of vision is pitch black;
Amblyopia with a small field of view and strong perception of the type of light, like overexposed photographs;
Amblyopia, which can only blur the type of color and light, is like a blurred lens.
Yukiko's symptoms belong to the third type.
In the episode, this physiological characteristic of Xuezi, in addition to bringing many inconveniences, unexpectedly created a lot of tense, warm and romantic heartbeat moments for the two:
For example, as mentioned earlier, when the two first met, in order to see the wound on Sensheng's face, Yukiko killed her face with one move, brought her face closer, and let Sensheng's heart fawn bump.
For example, in the play, visually impaired people can also go into the cinema to "watch" movies.
When watching the movie, you only need to wear a device with voice commentary and use it through your mobile phone software.
The picture on the screen, the expression of the characters, they can imagine the picture by relying on the voice commentary, so as to achieve a pleasant viewing experience.
But inevitably there are still movies that I want to see but suffer from no commentary.
Knowing that Yukiko wants to watch the "Zombie Legend" series, Morio moves out of the projection and explains it to Yukiko in a friend's restaurant.
A more vivid and immersive narration, coupled with Morrison's startled "sound effects", the dual effect of thriller + comedy instantly filled up, and Yukiko smiled forward and backward.
The relationship between the two also warmed up again.
Another example is the following plot:
Yukiko walks down the road to school, her white cane skillfully scanning the blind path.
Suddenly, the white cane poked into the wheel of the bicycle blocking the blind road, and the "click" broke.
It's awful.
For the visually impaired, "the white cane is second only to the existence of life", without which it is almost impossible to walk.
Fortunately, at this time, the messenger of the flower protection, Kurokawa, appeared in time.
He offered to help Yukiko buy a new cane, and before he could finish speaking, he turned around and rushed to the convenience store.
Yukiko stopped him, telling him that white canes were not available in common stores.
Therefore, Morison volunteered to act as a humanoid crutch for Yukiko,
And Yukiko, probably used to this way of leading the way, naturally took Kurokawa's arm.
But in Kurokawa's view, such a move seems incomparably intimate. The emotional tension between the two is about to come out.
While applauding the romantic spark between the two, we also inevitably found the problem:
The occupation of blind lanes, the difficulty of purchasing disabled supplies, and the inconveniences of blind people's lives.
Revisiting our environment, it seems even more unfriendly to people with disabilities:
Maybe we never noticed,
There are many bus stops around, and no sound equipment for the station is installed;
Many places cross the street traffic lights without voice prompts;
Many blind lanes under the feet lead to a dead end, or perhaps a "dead end"...
Fortunately, Yukiko is in a loving family.
No discrimination, no complaints.
Both her father and sister put a lot of care into her, taking care of everything for her as much as possible.
But despite this, her life was bumpy.
It is hard to imagine how difficult it will be for the average visually impaired person to live.
According to statistics, as of 2019, the number of visually impaired people in China has grown rapidly to more than 17 million, ranking first in the world.
This means that about one in every 90 people is blind.
However, in our life scenes, it is difficult to see blind people, and there are occasionally a few people on the road, not to mention shopping malls and movie theaters.
The truth is, it's not that they can't live a normal life.
It's just that healthy people, as the designers of the "mainstream" rules of life, "occupy" their living space.
If there are too many obstacles in the external environment, they can only passively choose to close themselves and hide at home.
In addition to the care at the policy level - improving barrier-free facilities, broadening the employment coverage of visually impaired people, etc.,
The most important thing we can do as individuals is not to see them as outliers.
Do not place yourself on the moral high ground of self-touching, apply blind sympathy, but start from the heart and truly push yourself and others.
The most moving scene in the play, Yukiko and Moriko standing in a sea of flowers.
Sen Sheng suddenly said, "The world I live in is different from yours, right?" ”
Yukiko let go of the hand that grabbed him and squeezed out a sentence, "Yeah... I..."
Knowing that physical defects can drag down others, Yukiko is always sensitive to obedience and listening, and deliberately keeps a distance from able-bodied people.
Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Sen Sheng:
"I have been disobedient since I was a child, my parents did not want me, and I was expelled from high school, a bad teenager with no academic qualifications and scars on his face. No one would hire me anywhere, and no one would believe me. Miss Yukiko lives in the ordinary world. ”
"Miss Yukiko, go to school well, study well, communicate well with people, and get along well with your family." It's really handsome to be able to say what a fool like me can simply say what he wants. ”
It turned out that in the eyes of the bad boy Mori, Yukiko was the one who belonged to the normal world.
The first time she heard someone describe herself as "normal", she was both surprised and moved, turned her back and took a deep breath of flowers:
What she wanted was both simple and rare, but it was a kind of level view from the heart.
And "This Is Love" brings us reflections, far more than that.
In the play, Yukiko's friend, Xiaokong, who is also a visually impaired person, often hangs up the phrase "if you don't try, there will be no results".
He is very active in everything he does, and he will strive to pursue love.
She knew that physical mutilation prevented her from enjoying the exact same opportunities as people with good vision.
Therefore, she knows better how to fight and grasp, rather than waiting for the opportunity to fall.
And Yukiko, although she can't see it, she has memorized the location of commonly used items, put on makeup every morning, and goes out beautifully.
Can't see the drinks in the vending machine,
Just like opening the blind box, blindly choose one.
If you get what you want to drink, you will win the lottery;
If you get other flavors, you may have unexpected surprises.
"It's autumn time to eat saury."
"The scent of calendula."
Yukiko can always capture the subtle changes of the seasons, and it is easier to perceive the small blessings in life.
We often think that visually impaired people have a more sensitive sense of smell than we do, but we don't know that they also have rhinitis patients.
The truth is that they are just better at invoking other senses to grasp those limited goodnesses than the hyperopic people.
Before junior high school, Yukiko's eyesight was basically normal.
So, she knows very well how dependent people are on their eyes when they see.
"The eyes are lao tzu, the king of heaven."
People unconsciously receive the massive information captured by the eyes and enjoy the strong impact of vision, but it is also easier to ignore the most precious and simple beauty.
In addition to calling attention to the visually impaired,
"This Is Love" may also give us another kind of enlightenment:
Cherish the innocence of life,
Don't miss the taste of calendula and saury.