Jointly launched by Tencent Pictures, Xinli Media and Yuwen Film and Television, and directed by Li Lu and served as chief producer and screenwriter Wang Haiyu, the TV series of the same name adapted from Liang Xiaosheng's novel won the "Mao Dun Literature Award" was recently broadcast on cCTV in a golden file. The drama mainly tells the fate story of several generations of people in the "Guangzi Tablet" community of Jichun City, Jiangliao Province, showing the great changes in China's social history before and after the reform and opening up, and praising the tenacious will to life and the spirit of unremitting struggle of small people in grass-roots society. With first-class storytelling and character building, fascinating plots and beautiful pictures, the work has aroused wide resonance and empathy, and is a high-quality epic masterpiece with good ideological and artistic qualities that is rare in recent years.
The theme idea is deep and thick and intriguing to chew
The theme of first-class works of art has the excellent potential of "looking horizontally into a peak on the side of the mountain", and the TV series "Human World" is no exception. The work places the fate of ordinary workers' family members into the environment of the big era to be salvaged and hooked, and the TV series from the beginning of the intellectual youth going to the mountains and going to the countryside in 1969 to the reform and opening up of the era of change and development, the small people and the fate of the big era are closely intertwined, and the living environment and fate of the individual are closely linked to the changes in the symptoms of the times. In this regard, family history is a condensed social history, social history is an enlarged family history, the spiritual history and destiny history of the individual lives of Zhou Bingkun brothers and sisters and other generations of individuals shown in the play is actually a history of changes in Chinese society and the history of social transformation, the window of the fate of small people is beaten day and night by the wind and waves of the times, and the whirlpool of the times wraps the small people all the way forward, which is the normal life of most ordinary people, and it seems that it is also a wordless contract reached by countless individual lives and the times.
Ancient and modern stretching, few people can escape the influence of the times, there are few times that have not applied any waves to personal fate, and the entanglement and variation of individuals and the times is the universal trajectory of social and historical development, such philosophical thinking and ideological conditions have aroused the aesthetic resonance of many audiences. In other words, the creators uphold a thick and profound artistic philosophy, embodying the deep concern and affectionate care for the ordinary working class, and at the same time highlighting the aesthetic ideals of the overall grasp and interpretation of the times, trying to interpret and interpret the big historical atmosphere with the family secret history of the Zhou family, interpreting and writing the big cultural landscape of the Chinese nation with the small family culture of the Zhou family, and striving to capture and hook the endogenous driving force of the Chinese nation's endless life and rise in adversity in the journey of modernity. The works tell us that the individual's kindness and integrity and struggle for self-improvement are the driving force of the nation's increasing strength, the high fighting spirit of the individual life that dares to fight with fate is the great survival of the nation through the mountains and the sea, and the ghost light and spark of the stars accumulated in the humanity of countless individuals have created the burning trend of our happy life and social and historical achievements today.
The character image can stand and spread
The characters and details of the TV series "The World" are created with ingenuity. The character image of the protagonist Zhou Bingkun is particularly prominent, in his body has a strong will and a conscious desire for life, the subjective tendency of the characters who struggle and transcend suffering is very distinct, he is born thick and slightly juvenile, honest and kind and industrious and tenacious, self-respect and self-improvement and lily lequn, dare to face the difficulties and obstacles of life in the face of challenges, have not accepting defeat, heavy affection, dare to be more sincere and persistent, this spirit of unremitting pursuit and dare to resist has an empathetic resonance effect, It has become the most eye-catching aesthetic excitement center of the whole drama. At the same time, he advocates self-reliance and hard-working, is not crushed by the burden and misfortune of life, always adheres to the dreams and ideals of life, and the strength of his spiritual strength is enough to overcome all difficulties and obstacles, although life is extremely difficult, but the ideal and passion are still burning on his body, arousing the resonance of generations of strivers. Another major character Zheng Juan is in adversity, its tolerance and generosity, stoic and strong and sad and not hurt personality charm is commendable, its love and moderation, love and tao of personality quality makes the character image very infectious, we often say that the character quality is the result of the fate of the stress test, the greater the pressure and beyond the pressure of the spirit of the more fierce, the more can see the character's beautiful quality and character truth, Zheng Juan is such an excellent typical character. In addition, Zhou Rong's simple and frank and idealistic personality, Chun Yan's pungent and straightforward and daring personality, and Secretary Qu's rigid and gentle and enlightened and inclusive personality are all unforgettable.
The creators tried to use the three brothers and sisters of the Zhou family, Zheng Juan, Chun Yan and other characters to pay tribute to society and the past era, although the workers' brothers have experienced hardships in life and material poverty, they are not willing to be manipulated and tricked by fate, struggle and break through left and right, highlighting the lofty value and tenacity of individual life, highlighting the unique backbone spirit of the contemporary working class. Even if they encounter the depression of fate, they are still stubbornly growing like weeds and struggling to explore, which is either the true color and characteristic of the Chinese working class, and these precious qualities still shine with the changes of the times.
The picture shape is realistic and conveys the charm and beauty
The TV series "The World of Man" has made sufficient efforts in terms of modeling, interpreting the true meaning of image before thought, the creator makes every picture full of emotion and connotation in the pursuit of excellence, pursues the texture and beauty of traditional film film, the characters and scenery shapes have a high sense of realism and a strong sense of substitution, so that the audience can be integrated into the specific era environment and living context in an instant, and this kind of authenticity and hypothetical highly unified modeling itself is narrative content, with the role of participating in the narrative and promoting the development of the plot. Through realistic details such as food, clothing, housing, pots and pans, words and deeds, etc., it evokes the audience's secondary creation of lifestyles, ways of living, emotional attitudes and value orientations in a specific era, which is conducive to generating strong empathetic emotions of "people in the play" in narrative and acceptance.
Although life and fate are extremely arduous and bumpy, the color of the main body of the whole drama is warm and bright, reflecting the low-level characters' full belief in getting out of the difficulties of life and harvesting their dreams, giving people confidence and strength in warm colors, and these picture modeling images have the function of integral symbolic sublimation, conveying the optimistic and upward attitude of the bottom-level characters and the attitude of life towards death, highlighting the compassion of soothing sorrow and leading hope.
(The author is a director of the China Literary and Art Critics Association, deputy director of the 2nd Audiovisual Art Committee, vice president and second-level professor of Taiyuan Normal University)
February 11, 2022 "China Culture News"
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