The reality-themed contemporary drama "The World of Man" was broadcast on CCTV, which attracted widespread attention, indicating that this work and the audience's aesthetic needs reached a certain resonance.
What resonance? In my opinion, it is that the life situation shown in the work and the life experienced by the audience actually reach an echo, like a shadow reflecting real life, the characters in the work are like the people around you, looking up and not looking down, once born, two times mature, three times have to follow the characters, unconsciously taken to the "human world".
Works with a sense of life texture have this kind of artistic charm, which makes people involuntarily care about the fate of people in the play. The so-called texture of life is authenticity, vividness, and vividness, which is the temperature, breath and human feelings of life that the audience can feel empathy for, in the final analysis, it is a kind, simple, and surviving fireworks taste.
In the mortal world, there will be fireworks, and the smell of fireworks is the warmest and most essential taste in the world. Do not eat fireworks in the human world, Gu Ying self-pity, after all, is too vain and ethereal, the high place is not cold, how can it seem to be in the human world? So you have to go back into the world.
The first factor that attracts the audience to "The World" is this rich, warm, ubiquitous, and ever-present pyrotechnic atmosphere. The smell of fireworks is to work hard for survival, to run, to struggle, to catch up with the days and rush forward, year after year, this is life.
"The World of Man" is very ordinary, but also an "ordinary world", but it shows not the countryside in the northwest, but the city in the northeast, showing the fate of an ordinary worker couple and three children in a civilian community in the city.
A family, three generations, fifty years, and these fifty years are a period of drastic changes in Chinese society from tradition to modernity, the fate of the ups and downs, ups and downs, vicissitudes, the vicissitudes of the sea, the heavens are different, the life trajectory of the three brothers and sisters of the Zhou family reflects the great changes in Chinese society and the great changes in people's lives.
Every day is ordinary, but every day is changing, time is long, looking back, the change is huge, huge extraordinary. From the years of youth to reform and opening up, the country is advancing in exploration, and everyone is also moving forward in exploration. The social significance of the play lies in depicting a map of social change through the changes of a family, and seeing the history of the development of the country and society from the history of life.
Of course, the attraction of "The World of Man" lies in "home". "Home" is the most basic unit of society, the place where the fireworks of life rise, the so-called cooking smoke, and therefore the place where survival depends. From every household to village and village, to towns and cities, this world is the gathering of "home", and the neighbors of "home" form thousands of lights.
Home is also the carrier of family affection, nostalgia, and neighborhood feelings, and the indiscriminate coveting of people's feelings. "The World of Man" is written from home, how many years after a "family portrait", can meet another "family portrait", the Zhou family brothers and sisters no matter where they are, they are concerned about this family, but also by this family, home is the root. In the New Year, I want to go home, I want to be reunited, that is the gene of emotional belonging brought in the blood, the deepest and most intense. No nation has such a deep "home" feeling as the Chinese nation, which is an invisible cohesion.
Of course, there are also personality conflicts in the family, there are generation gaps, there are contradictions, these contradictions originate from the love of flesh and blood, and the other side of love is called pain, so it is called love. But no matter what, when the child grows up, he will open branches and leaves, build a new nest, degenerate the old and become new, and live from generation to generation.
When people come into the world, they all have a mission. The difference between people is that people are guided by different values, walk different life paths, and show different life values. All kinds of people in "The World of Man", up and down in the tide of the times, looking for their own love, looking for their own position, playing their talents, the process is not smooth, and even some people die early.
In the world, there are many wrong paths, the three brothers and sisters of the Zhou family, who has not experienced setbacks? Like Zhou Bingkun, there are constant bumps and stumbles, but no matter what, people always have to try to move forward. People may not be able to vigorously and earth-shatteringly, ordinary life also needs solid steps, conscientious efforts, kindness in the heart, hope in front, footsteps have strength, life has momentum, life has brilliance. Moving forward to goodness is the coordinates and goal of life revealed in "The World of Man".
There are many characters in the play, the most charming character is several female figures, Qiao Chunyan is cheerful and open-minded, has a kind of courage to face the pungent energy of life, Zheng Juan is tenacious and industrious, and supports a family. Even the "Qu Secretary" of the soy sauce factory, Mrs. Qu, also has a distinct personality, not much drama, no demeanor, she is kind-hearted, upright, principled, with a strong "old" cadre "style", so she is often misunderstood as a "bureaucrat", in fact, she is the most realistic.
"The World of Man" extends from the family, spreads to the factory society, from the commoners to the high-ranking cadres, the vicissitudes of the past half century, eloquently depicts the life of social transmutation, conveys the spirit of survival and struggle of the Chinese, perseverance, and endless life, which can be described as a meaningful life epic.
"The World of Man" was jointly launched by Tencent Pictures, Xinli Media and Yuwen Film and Television," and formed the "Melody of the Times Trilogy" of Tencent Pictures and Reading Film and Television with the movie "1921" and the drama series "Heart Residence". It can be seen that tencent pictures' creation pays attention to close to reality and grounded in the choice of themes. It is expected that in the near future, the "troika" can add another masterpiece to the literature and art of the new era. (Author: Zhang Dexiang, Vice Chairman of China Literary and Art Critics Association)