After "Spring Night" and "Dazzling", there is another realistic theme drama with a theme that is excellent than the performance of the series.
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Ha Zhiyuan Yin Qixiang "Chocolate" began to air low-key, just finished 4 episodes, as an ordinary passerby audience, at first I was not particularly looking forward to it.
Looking at the story itself, although it is not new, it is comfortable to look at:
1. The plot and characters are familiar routines, but with all kinds of coincidences and misses, connect and diverge the plot and character relationships:
The love story of the male and female protagonists stems from the ignorant childhood. Since childhood, because of the beautiful encounter, the loving and kind little male protagonist has carefully cooked a meal for the hungry female protagonist, and has become her unforgettable first love;
After growing up, the male protagonist left his mother who was dependent on each other for his life because of his sad life secret, gave up his hobby and lost his happiness, survived alone in a rich family, and strived to become an excellent doctor to prove his value and fight for his mother;
The female protagonist realized the male protagonist's wish to be a chef and open a restaurant, but in an accident lost his parents, fell in the middle of the family road, and had a serious PTSD; coupled with the unreliable brother who "pit" the sister at the moment, she became an elderly and wandering young woman.
2. Love relationships are as difficult and tangled as ever, and there must be misunderstandings and misses:
The only best friend of the male protagonist likes the female protagonist; however, the female protagonist can only choose to run away from Greece and flee to a distant place because she really cannot forget and let go of her first love;
The infatuated and kind friend soon died of a terminal illness, and when the male and female protagonists passed away between the male and female protagonists, it really became "the most distant distance in the world"——
Standing in front of you, I can't tell you, you are my first love that I have missed for many years and cannot be forgotten. Because you don't even want to see me again for the rest of your life.
3. The acting skills are stable, the rhythm is moderate, and the picture is very beautiful:
The female protagonist He Zhiyuan is born after the film, and her professional attitude is very famous; the male protagonist Yin Qixiang's state is somehow, really vicissitudes, but the ambition to grasp the fate and the state of forbearance are in place, and the crying drama of mobilizing emotions is very impressive. The supporting characters are also stable to play, the second little brother from the next door "Wanderer" played the cold-blooded killer who caused the air crash, turned around and came back to play the cute role of the affectionate model, and there was no sense of violation.
The first four episodes have introduced so much background information, clear and efficient; after all, there is the element of "food", the picture is healing and warm, the colors are soft, the rhythm of the story is telling, and there is a kind of fireworks atmosphere of "Little Forest". The director's masterpieces "Sorry I Love You", "Snow Queen" and "Postman of Heaven" are all fresh and beautiful painting styles.
In summary, the performance is still acceptable.
But I'm more than willing to keep looking at it, because of this outstanding advantage —
In addition to love, the main topic of this drama is "hospice care". That is, the protagonists, while struggling to "survive" in reality, how to face the "old disease and death" around them.
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Haruki Murakami said that death is not the opposite of life, but eternal existence as a part of life.
In our lives, we will always be exposed to such famous sayings and aphorisms. However, in our culture, in the face of the natural law of "life, old age, illness and death", we always spend a lot of energy and efforts to study how to better "live"; deliberately avoid how to face "old age and death", or only focus on how to "delay old age", "avoid illness", "postpone death". So when we have to face this heartache moment for ourselves and those around us, panic, sadness, helplessness, despair, overwhelmed, left with regrets.
In "Chocolate", almost all the difficult moments that ordinary people can face are clearly presented through the perspective of male and female protagonists:
A terminally ill innocent child whose wish is to live past the age of ten;
The kind and enthusiastic lady of the home-cooked restaurant, because of Alzheimer's (Alzheimer's disease), often can't think of recipes and can't make the signature dishes that have been in business for a lifetime;
The female protagonist experienced a collapse accident when she was young, and died nine times; the one who lost her close relatives was also the male protagonist and the male protagonist's brother;
The male protagonist is in the frontline battlefield, constantly facing the cruelty of the war, desperately saving his life from the hands of the god of death; when everyone thinks that he was accidentally injured by a shell and died, the male number two who lost his friend cannot cry in the corner of the hospital;
In fact, it has not yet come out of the trauma of losing the male protagonist, the yin and yang mistakenly agreed to the confession of the male second, the female protagonist is trying to live a little easier, when moving on, the male protagonist who found the return of the dead and resurrected;
The experiences of the male protagonist and his friends are exchanged, but this time he really lost his friends...
Almost all the "unavoidable" brought about by "old illness and death" are here.
The male protagonist uses medical skills to resist the disease, and the female protagonist comforts people's hearts with food; and then together from the background of this nursing home, they are inspired to heal their respective wounds. This seems like an obvious follow-up.
Why am I, like many viewers, still willing to watch?
Because this drama does not overly sensationalize, nor beautify and escape, but just uses a warm interpretation, let us face the cruel reality, to think about heavy questions, to ask rhetorically, if, instead of us, what to do?
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I was once very close to "old and sick and dead", found myself too fragile to collapse, and wanted to hold up all the responsibilities for my loved ones, but found that none of them could be done well.
I may not be able to do anything about the world, I can only change myself.
I don't want to know the next time I will not be so useless, I began to read and think about the theme, in the end how to better face the "old sickness and death"?
1. Continuing life is important, but time without quality is just a number; perhaps it is necessary to expand the time threefold with more meaningful companionship.
In one of my 4 favorite books of 19 years, "The Last Book Club of Life", the author Will Schwarbe, as the editor-in-chief of the world-renowned publishing company Hyperion Books, learned of the bad news of his mother's cancer when his career was in full swing, and could only rely on the painful chemotherapy process to barely survive a short life.
During this last time with the family, the family suddenly set up a small family book club to take more time to accompany each other. By reading many classic books together and sharing their own life insights, especially compared to the past few decades of getting along, but in the last days, the author has a deeper understanding of his mother, comforts the pain of his mother's treatment, and adds doubled good memories.
This book is Will, who chose to combine the experience of the mother in the whole book club, the common memories of the family, the touching persistence of the self-improvement that occurred at the moment, and the mutual understanding and feeling, no matter how big or small, put it on paper, forming a book that touched and inspired many people, which is also the last memory that belongs to the Will family, especially Will's mother.
2. Go and love it, go and experience it, as if there is no tomorrow, without regrets.
A very important plot thrust in my favorite movie "The Ultra-New Testament" (also translated as "Little Angel Eya"): God is a crazy and rough father, so his daughter Eya the little angel tells the world how much time everyone has left in life in the process of escaping. Even if you don't want to know.
The world began to mess up, and the scenes in the film showed the countdown to life as long or short, and the moods or joys and sorrows of people with different lives and attitudes; but most people, have become braver and do not hesitate anymore.
In a limited life, I will always miss, there are always regrets, but seize the time, take action, read favorite books, do what you want to do, meet the people you want to see, change yourself that you want to change, and unreservedly love the fleeting things. Make a long wish list, big or small or naïve, it doesn't matter, and then start to realize them from now on.
3. It is true to have pursuits and desires, but we must also learn to be grateful and cherish the calm leisure moments.
I cherish every moment of idleness in the present moment: because it means that I and the people around me are healthy, smooth, and safe. Every time I was depressed and saw negative news, I was calmly relieved: the irritable and boring daily life I was tired of may be the tomorrow that others can not hope for.
It's nothing trivial, and the camp is a real deal, except for life and death. Including life and death, everyone who lives seriously has their own difficulties and pressures, reality is reality, but as long as you are willing to face it, you can always come out and continue to walk. Therefore, do not easily give up the people and things that are really important because of the lack of teeth.
Because everyone is carrying it, but isn't it all very good?
4. Calmly facing "old age and illness and death" is a false proposition; it is enough to recognize the reality that cannot be changed and look more at positive points.
No matter whether people's lives are plain or wonderful, long or short, in the end, there will be regrets, unwillingness, and unwillingness.
Calm is too hard and too cruel. However, when I really face death, it's not that I'm not afraid, it's that I'm braver than I think; we may be surprisingly calm in dealing with making choices and bravely holding on. When we really deal with death, we are stronger than we think, because we have to be strong.
We can only accept what cannot be changed and adjust ourselves.
5. Be as prepared as possible and improve.
I remembered the line in the cartoon "Nezha's Demon Boy Descending": My life is up to me. I can't change my life, but I can improve the status quo that I can change. Try to make "dying" more dignified and more quality.
For example, I will change my mindset and change my habits:
My diet and rest have become very regular and healthy, everything I want to do is no longer waiting for "later" and "tomorrow", only with the people I want to meet, good for the people I value, forcing myself to escape from the "flattering personality", brushing the drama, not humiliating for being myself, and enjoying the happiness of doing nothing without thinking of making progress.
Because the person I want to please the most is myself. I don't know the future, I don't know what fate will be, I just want to change the present and live in the present.
In Jian Yan's "Who Is Waiting for You in the Silver Shining Place" and Kai-Fu Lee's book "Born to Die", some specific measures can be enlightened.
"Chocolate", a drama that focuses on "hospice care" but is warm and healing, is like a cup of hot chocolate in winter, that is, the cruel reality is intertwined with people's faith and strength.
Just like at the same moment, this side is full of wars, life and death, and over there, trying to heal wounds with food and find the quiet of the years. It's starkly contrasting, but it's all about life.
Those who can cry and finish their meals will definitely be able to continue walking.
People who have survived life, old age, illness and death, and the impermanence of life, will certainly be able to continue to resist very well.
Author: Xiao Mao, who loves to read, uses deliberate practice to write multi-platform 10w+ wild writers. Determined to change your life through writing, insisting on work, play, reading, writing and self-improvement. Entertainment bloggers who are only willing to write reviews of plays after deep thinking.