The picture on the left shows Zhou Bingkun and Zheng Juan, played by Lei Jiayin and Yin Tao respectively
The picture below shows the "Six Little Gentlemen" Annual Gathering presented in the play
The picture on the right is Zhou Rong, played by Song Jia
In the 58 episodes, the TV series "Human World" spans nearly 50 years from the end of the 1960s, cutting from the perspective of the ordinary three brothers and sisters of the Zhou family, depicting the profound changes and human feelings of Chinese society in the past half century in many ways and at multiple levels.
It begins in 1969, when Zheng Juan could make a dime by stringing two strings of sugar gourds, and it also allowed a group of 40+ actors to play from the age of 20, including their innocence and style. However, this TV series that is full of "old" has successfully "circled" the hearts of audiences of all ages.
The 58-episode long-form TV series "The World of Man" has been broadcast on CCTV and iQiyi since January 28, and each update has occupied the top spot in the popularity of domestic dramas. In today's environment where young audiences pursue double-speed dramas, short dramas, and "no tender" performances, the first half of "In the World" has successfully loosened the viewing habits of the Online Generation, allowing the post-90s, post-00s and post-50s to watch a thousand times together.
Writer Liang Xiaosheng's original work that won the Mao Dun Literature Award naturally provided a precious motherbook for TV dramas. And the second-degree creators of the film and television adaptation - from the screenwriters Wang Haiyu and Wang Daou to the director Li Lu, and then to Lei Jiayin, Xin Baiqing, Yin Tao, Song Jia, Sarina, Ding Yongdai and other actors - truly demonstrated that a good drama is the ingenuity of the whole process of the choreographer Fu Huadao. The TV series "The World of People", which the audience waits every night and netizens frequently urges changes, restores the outstanding sense of age and destiny in the novel, enriches the endless details that are intriguing after imaging, and also brightens the background of the story under the ups and downs of life and the world. It allows the audience to see that even if life is a cycle of sorrow and joy, there are always hot days and people, which are worth telling the world.
The dense details allow "us" to substitute their emotions and destinies
The TV series begins with an epic aerial shot that cuts into the Northeast of 1969. Jichun City Light Character Film Zhou Family, a family of five people will have to go their separate ways after shooting the complete family blessing. The father went to the southwest "big third line", and the eldest son Zhou Bingyi and daughter Zhou Rong had to "go up the mountain and go to the countryside", leaving only the mother and the younger son Zhou Bingkun to guard the family. The story follows Zhou Bingkun's perspective, follows him into the wood factory, soy sauce factory, and publishing house to see the people in front of him and the things around him.
The main creator has spent a lot of effort to create an accurate style of the times. The picture swept through the forest sea snowfield, state-owned enterprise lathes, collective forest farms, state-run hotels... In the era of large-scale industry, the cold and rough of the northeast came to the face. As soon as the lens is pushed into the "civilian nest" light word film, it is another breath. The eaves were stacked on top of each other, and the streets narrowed into alleys. In the light pieces where outsiders will get lost, from the chicken coop in the corner of the courtyard and the ice skate under the eaves, to the Kangtou, curtains, pots and pans of the Zhou family, there is a thick smoke and fire. But for "The World of Man", the emphasis on the physical level is only the first step to create a sense of immersion, and what really allows the elders to remember the past and the young people to know the past is not only the tight visual symbols, but the details of the dense service to people. It is the audiovisual details that are full of information, which have the audience's perception of the times and people in their hearts, so that "we" have substituted their emotions and destiny.
Depicting family affection, the details are sometimes witty. Zhou Bingkun was a little straighter than his older brother and sister, but he was filial to him. His mother was illiterate, and he naturally took on the task of reading and writing letters. His mother rose up at night to write a letter to her father, and he shouted reluctantly, but he still got out of the bed and picked up a pen and paper, and incidentally he also coddled his mother and begged her to knit a new sweater for himself. The tightness on the younger son's body was the sweater pants worn by his sister. The father sent a long family letter, a full ten pages, Zhou Bingkun read slowly and logically, while figuring out his father's subtext, the rhythm of the interjection was broken, and the mother below. The warmth of mother and child and the concern of family are all embedded in the reading and listening of hip-hop. Later, Zhou Bingkun was angry with his father, and Zheng Juan took over the pen and paper and led the northeast and southwest exchanges between father and son. The same is to write a letter, more than the traditional Chinese style of father-son relationship of the desire to rest.
Sketching the times, the details are mostly weighty. Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong are academic and hegemonic literary and artistic youths, and they use "books" in the play to dial thousand pounds. Zhou Bingyi took care of his brother and kept 61 books before reporting to the corps, emphasizing that these books were safe in the workers' families, and only a few strokes pointed out the special chronological background. Zhou Rong added, "There are three copies of me in it", "The Brothers of Yershov", "Anna Karenina", and "Three Hundred Poems of Tang Poems", which delicately hint at the future of a poetic romantic love supreme woman.
Most of the time, the details are buried in the air. Father Zhou Zhigang is the first generation of construction workers in New China, and the roles of the old workers in the early period are not much, but the drama "buttons" echoed before and after enrich the image of the father. He traditionally took several years to digest the fact that his daughter was good at advocating going to the countryside for love, and he also made a big splash for his younger son's temptation to "fall in love with a widow" when he rarely went home to visit his family. He attached great importance to morality, and finally waded through the mountains to visit his daughter, and when he saw his son-in-law, he made it clear that the Ancestors of the Zhou Family should know how to repay kindness. A "grace" character later became his biggest motivation for accepting the "widow" Zheng Juan as a member of the Zhou family, because he saw the cocooned hands that did not match the beautiful appearance, and saw his clean, rosy face and his wife who did not look like a coma for two years. The head of the family, he was sensible, neither persuading the eldest son to break up when Hao Dongmei's family was "in distress", nor could he often understand the difficulties of his daughter-in-law after the time passed; but he was occasionally less sympathetic, taking his children and three couples to visit the New Year, and talking to the neighbors about the Zhou family to walk out of the glory of the two North University students, but ignoring the young son and wife who had been quiet for Zhou Quan's brothers and sisters and carried a difficult situation for the whole family.
Dense details permeate "The World", and people can see a native family with a fighting mouth but not tearing, a personality but a bubble. Such an ordinary Zhou family, from the past to the present, has always been the most common atom in Chinese society. The family watching the drama has the faith of the family in the play, and the audience will naturally recognize that the ups and downs of the Zhou family in the process of the times are the real footnotes of the changes in the life of the contemporary Chinese people in the past fifty years.
The poetry and brightness of the lens make the hearts of the people in the novel more sparkling
What "The World of Man" is swinging away is the history of the lives of the people, and it is not the history of social change in China. In the past 50 years, the three-line construction that has taken place on this land, going up to the mountains and going to the countryside, resuming the college entrance examination, returning to the city, opening up to the outside world, going abroad, going to the sea, reforming state-owned enterprises, invigorating the economy, transforming shantytowns, fighting corruption and promoting clean government... All kinds of changes will unfold in a long volume of 58 episodes. Critic Li Shidong's comments on the original work were written on the poster of the TV series, "showing morality and responsibility in the fireworks of the world, and expressing feelings and aspirations in the clutches of sorrow and joy". The most mellow treatment in the play is the restoration of "fireworks morality" and "personal aspirations". The winds and waves of the times are whistling, and the tides of life rise and fall. While following the trajectory of the original work, the drama version uses the poetry and brightness of the lens to make the hearts of the people in the novel more glittering.
In the era of material scarcity, the drama does not feel the despair of being crushed, on the contrary, the sugar gourd in Zheng Juan's hand, the new Spring League on the old lintel, and the sweater that her mother has knitted for Zhou Rong for more than ten years to save into a pile, all of which easily trigger the audience's tear glands. The red brightness illuminates the little people's longing for a better day. In the backlight of the blockbuster, the kind and honest Zhou Bingkun appeared in Zheng Juan's life, giving the orphans and widows the courage to live. The same sunlight sprinkled on Zheng Juan, and the way she took good care of Zhou's mother was the appearance of an angel in Zhou Bingkun's heart and in the audience's heart. Needless to say, the meat that the "six little gentlemen" have carried together, the years they have kept, and the fights they have fought are all the warmth of people's hearts when the weather is cold and frozen, and the simple feelings in material embarrassment.
When material abundance is abundant, will people's hearts change? In the play, Zhou Bingyi's two friendships with his father and father-in-law are carefully written, and the small family plots and everyone's way he asks for are about to come out. Zhou Bingkun put down the "iron rice bowl" and went to the publishing house sanza, and the consciousness of daring to try it began to appear. The annual first three meetings, as promised, he did not forget his wealth. In "The World of Man", there are also many scenes of spring festival reunions and family photos, and the drama takes home as the fulcrum, prying the suffering of various people in the torrent of history, and also using the structure of the family to string together the benevolence, righteousness, and wisdom of Chinese social recognition. With such a value background, the embarrassment, confusion, and struggle that characters encounter due to the reversal of the situation can be truly twisted but not excited.
Commendable, there are also group portraits of flesh and blood at different levels in the play. Qiao Chunyan and Hao Dongmei, a light character film "Sheniu", and a daughter who was originally in the compound. Regardless of their origins, they are open and sincere. Qiao Chunyan's work fluctuates greatly, but she always warms her surroundings with her fiery self, which is the small sun in the crowd. Hao Dongmei has tasted the sweetness of "winning at the starting line", but after going to the countryside, the gap between identity and human feelings is cold and warm, and she can't see any traces of resentment. She not only became a good hand at farm work, but also complained with virtue and gave up a place recommended for college. Secretary Qu of the soy sauce factory used to be a cold old lady in the mouth of the workers, but she did not say secret words and communicated with young people, which not only untied the knots in the hearts of the workers, but also made the audience like this older generation of state-owned enterprise cadres who distinguish between public and private, love young people delicately and strictly. There is also the seemingly mean Tao Junshu, and even this functional character who promotes the plot gives her a beautiful romantic scene in the play. The road ahead is slim and how, the black and white keys on the yellow cardboard are there, and the girl's dream is there. The curtain is lifted, the dust rises, and the old piano, which has lost its pitch, can play the romance of the difficult years and the vast world of fate. That is Tao Junshu's, but also the dignity and glory of Zhou Bingyi's dream of hard work, but also the poetic footnote of the Chinese image group with feelings, righteousness, tenacity, integrity and integrity.
With this group of characters who always believe in idealism and believe in the right way in the world, in the second half of "The World of Man", when their fate forks become clearer with the era of drastic changes, the audience will still believe that even if they have experienced the sorrows and joys of life and the entanglement of interpersonal entanglements, the simple kindness in people's hearts will not be blown away by the rain and the wind.
Author: Wang Yan
Edit: Wang Bumi
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