Sir suspects that the post-90s and post-00s have never seen such a picture:
4:3 format.
Scan lines, snowflakes, strobes, and old yellow-green "filters."
- Characteristics of a picture tube television.
The content is even more peculiar:
Beijing crowded with bicycles, Asian Games, Big Brother, Casual Listening, Disco, Gymnastics, Aerobics, Perms, Electronic Dictionaries...
Wait, how come there is no picture all of a sudden?
A palm that descends from the sky
syllable.
The story begins.
Reveal the subtitle.
And, this unintelligible note:
Large, colorful, stereo, serial...
Trance?
Sir reveals the answer.
This is not a re-release of an old 90s film.
It is a domestic drama that just went online 3 days ago
Set Sail: When the Wind Rises
In September, there was a unique storm of youth in the National Drama.
The two main actors, Wu Lei and Hou Minghao.
The production team, a small sugar man company that has produced many high-scoring youth dramas ("The Best of Us" and "Chess Soul").
There is also the most attractive to Sir.
A sense of age.
The opening sequence of long shots directly pulls the audience into the time machine
Plumbers walked into the video hall.
The bulletins on the walls, the slogans, the characters' clothing, the chat content...
With background music, "Dashing Walk Back"
You ask, what is a "video hall"?
Special product of the 90s.
At that time, there were few public entertainment venues, and it was also one of the "three halls and one room" that the government focused on.
Fish and dragons are mixed and colorful.
Don't forget
It was also the underground harbor where Hong Kong cinema and Hollywood first "landed".
Therefore, the "today screening" are "Lame Hao", "Qiannu Ghost 3: Dao Dao", "Across the Sea", and "Hero Essence 2".
Full of posters, as well as "God of Gamblers", "Heavenly Love", "Ah Fei Zheng Biography", "Rogue Tycoon", "Waiting for Dawn"...
So, it's a big era nostalgia back to the '90s?
No.
Sir learned about the original and behind the scenes.
Compared to nostalgia, its subject matter is more scarce:
Entrepreneurial history of the first generation of computer (Internet) industry.
The cut point is also sharper:
A generation of Chinese teenagers do not accept defeat, do not recognize the youth and growth of life.
01
juvenile
The main line of "Departure" is simple.
In the early 1990s, several researchers from the Computer Research Institute of Yenching University went to the sea to do business and founded the "Huayan Company" to sell computers.
You can find the shadow of many contemporary Internet moguls in this story.
But compared to business wars.
The first layer of "Departure" is a youth drama.
What is youth?
In takeshi Kitano's words:
When you think that you are a "big" person, you should think of the ridiculous things you did when you were young and crazy, and feel very shameful.
In the words of Jiang Wen:
What is youth? It's the age when God almost forgives for making a mistake.
So what was the youth of the 90s?
Probably this scenario:
In the video hall, Xiao Chuang (Wu Lei), who secretly made and sold Hanka with his friends, was found by the Industrial and Commercial Bureau.
Running is too late to run.
He slapped his chest and told his friends to flee and stay on their own.
When the industrialists broke through the door.
Dumbfounded
Trench coat, pocket, toothpick, crooked pose of the little margo classic pose.
The TV set is played with "The True Colors of Heroes", and the heating pipe behind it bursts at the right time, and the stage effect is full.
Barrage shouted:
Damn, he pretended to be.
This is the youth of that time - ideals, hot blood, stinky farts, fashionable...
Of course not only.
Load x for a while, crematorium afterwards.
They secretly sold Hanka in the name of the Computer Research Institute of Yenching University, so Xiao Chuang, as a researcher, was expelled from the institute.
Pei Qinghua (Hou Minghao), the disciple who provided him with "technical support", was also fired.
But the latter is completely unaware.
The originally peaceful and stable life has been turned upside down.
Two teenagers in their twenties had to go to the sea.
Help the institute sell computers to get a chance to stay.
The pressures of the two are different.
Xiao Chuang, as his name suggests, is like a little brother, who wants to be the tide of the big times. Going to the sea to do business, for him, is a dragon into the sea, a great achievement.
Selling computers for the first time.
His hair was combed into the shape of an adult, he put on a handsome suit and talked in front of the hundred and ten people.
——The first "computer sales conference".
Pei Qinghua, the other extreme.
Born in the countryside, from school to Beijing, I just wanted to do research for a lifetime, and as a result, I had to come out to do sales.
Otherwise, you have to return to your country of origin.
When I first entered the mall, various kinds were hit.
Most obviously, the salesman did not even understand the rebate (rebate), and was directly sprayed:
Are you in business?
The same is "youth", but the tension is pulled away
Xiao Chuang's social gives people a sense of youthful coolness.
Pei Qinghua's desperation is the pain of youth.
Youth is not only reflected in "people", but also in the times.
The delicate early '90s.
"Departure" portrays it unceremoniously:
The team sold computers, some encountered hooligans, were beaten up; some touched scammers, the train did not get off, and the goods were all deceived.
Even worse, such as Pei Qinghua.
He was put off and fell asleep and let the "peer" of the next bed pry open the computer chassis to remove the parts.
Add to the curtain of the times.
Youth is no longer a duality of coolness and pain.
It's also mixed with the wandering that can't be looked back.
02
The wind is blowing
Note the point in time at the beginning of the first episode:
Beijing, 1991.
The second layer of "Departure" is the period drama.
What kind of era?
This is an era of clear goals and vague pace.
Why did the director of the institute insist on expelling the two protagonists?
The mistake was also confessed, the money was also punished, and the affection was also begged, but it still did not care about the face.
Come and see the meeting:
Re-pinnacle the mantra of the director:
Expulsion is not only about right and wrong, but it is more about attitude.
This is still an era of emphasizing ideals and nostalgia for conservatism.
Director Tan has always advocated that the institute sell computers on behalf of foreign brands.
He was right.
After all, the Institute of Automation has been making minecarts for private mines two years ago, and the Institute of Electronics has long taken out a research room to go out to do business...
But the director's worries are even more understandable:
Don't be the head bird, protect yourself, and don't make mistakes.
At last.
This is still an era that advocates changing destiny, and it is difficult to control it.
The day before, a meeting had been held to emphasize political learning.
The next day, the newspaper reported on the front page that private entrepreneurs were networking at the Great Hall of the People.
Which one should I believe?
Ordinary people can only hope to "report" and sigh: "One day at a time."
The subtitle of "Departure" sums it up precisely: "When the Wind Rises".
This "wind" is an ambiguous wind and wind.
It's inspirational rides.
And most of the time
A gust of wind in the big era, falling on the heads of ordinary people is a fierce wind and rain.
Everyone in the play is fighting against this elusive "wind".
Sometimes, it's a matter of going with the flow.
Sometimes, it becomes "against the wind".
The following experiences are taken from the real experiences of entrepreneurs in the 90s:
The institute wanted to run a company to sell computers, but at that time, the regulations were not perfect, and competitors had to be summoned for investigation as soon as they reported it.
In the early days of the securities market, the slightest mis-trading would result in a loss of work.
Another example is the "810 incident" in Shenzhen.
Xiao broke into Shenzhen as a scalper reselling subscription warrants and made a lot of money, but at the same time was arrested and detained.
The forerunner, just reverses back and forth between "tide" and "cannon fodder".
That's why
Their perseverance and tenacity have become valuable.
In the fourth episode, Pei Qinghua goes to KTV to sell computers to big bosses.
Carrying a "KPI" of 50 computers.
If it can't be completed, it can't take the agency right, and Pei Qinghua and Xiao Chuang have to get out of the research institute.
But the big boss put it this way:
How many drinks do you have tonight
I'll book as many units as I want
What can Pei Qinghua, who has never drunk alcohol, do?
He drank 55 cups.
Spit forward and backward.
Then in the taxi, crying like a child.
From top to bottom, from the collective to the individual, it is all the waves rolling in the tide of the times.
Sir feels that this is exactly where "Set Sail" shines:
It speaks to the boldness of change-makers.
The trial and error of the forerunners.
But in the end it celebrates
Ordinary people have also been waving in the wind.
03
venture
In fact, Sir also had concerns about "Departure".
The screenwriter said in an interview that the story is based on the real experiences of many Zhongguancun entrepreneurs.
And the plot of selling Hanka, selling computers and other plots in the play is easy to think of those IT cattle people in reality: Zhang Zhaodong of Fangzheng, Shi Yuzhu of giants, Lei Jun of Xiaomi...
Sir was afraid that it would be made into a successful chicken soup.
Fortunately, there is none at this time.
The deepest layer of temperament of "Departure" is the adventure drama.
What does it mean to take risks?
There are successes, and there are more disappointments.
This frustration manifests itself in friendship
Opening a detail metaphor.
The poster in the video hall is the most conspicuous, "Best Friend".
This is a 1988 comedy film directed by Wang Jing and starring Andy Lau.
Corresponds to the plot of the first act of the play.
Xiao Chuang reselled the proceeds of hanka and specially left a copy for his disciple Pei Qinghua, but he did not expect to harm the other party with some kindness.
Isn't that what a friend is?
Doesn't it correspond to the literal "best friend"?
Contradiction is the beginning of true friendship.
Frustration is also reflected in ideals
Xiao Chuang and Pei Qinghua each have their own ideals.
One, I want to be a big boat, fight the tide, be the tide.
The other, want to be a stone.
Stuck in the waves, laughing at the wind and clouds, standing still.
Shout loudly.
The time when their hearts ache the most is also the moment when their ideals are shattered and reshaped.
Frustration is more reflected in love
In that era when there were no mobile phones, no mobile Internet, and even no telephones, how should young people pursue love?
The love of "Set Sail" is silent.
You don't even need the "object" to appear more.
It depends on the paying party, likes the things that the other party likes, is anxious about the other party, thinks what the other party thinks...
Borrow money for the other party, be a scalper, and even be arrested and put into a detention center...
So what.
Everything is paid, like throwing into a black hole.
But his response, from beginning to end, was only one sentence:
Can't manage so much
Let's do it first
This is also the flash that Sir is currently seeing in "Departure"
It begins with a wild youth adventure, but stops at the frustration of growth.
Adventure is a game for the brave.
But what is growth?
Pick up heavy responsibilities.
But I still miss the light self in the game.
The picture in this article comes from the network
Editorial Assistant: Gilmour's Gyro