The recent national drama battlefield is a bit exciting.
The hit episodes, each one fights hard quality.
"The World of Man" has entered the end, and the climax continues.
Three urban dramas have been broadcast in a bunch, Hunan Satellite TV's "Two Conjectures of Marriage" has taken the lead, and tonight the two major dramas have started at the same time: "Meet the Season" vs "Our Marriage".
The former tells the story of a pair of middle-aged Romeo and Juliet, who meet again in the feud between the two families, how to get out of the hatred and see life clearly.
The latter tells the story of a middle-aged couple, when the woman returns to the workplace, meets in the narrow way in the workplace, how to face life and see marriage clearly.
The former, simulcast by two satellite televisions, and the latter, exclusively broadcast on Beijing Satellite TV and Tencent Video.
This hard-hitting, really interesting, I am more curious, in fact, it is specially rescheduled to today's "Our Marriage".
Marriage, childbirth, and buying a house are the three major anxieties of contemporary people.
When people reach middle age, how to face marriage is always the most touching topic.
But in fact, in recent years, very few domestic dramas have really made this theme.
And this time, to the point, completely focus on the people and things of middle-aged marriage.
The director is Shen Yan, the director of "The First Half of My Life", starring Bai He Tong Dawei, are all masters of urban drama, plus, the blessing of the six major acting schools. Director Shen Yan's portrayal of the group portraits and the control of the rhythm, laughter points, tears are all there. No matter how you look at it, it's all reliable in capital letters.
However, marriage is to live a life, whether it works or not, you have to know it after a while. Come, come with me, and "try to get married" first.
1, the story: full-time mother, middle-aged marriage, this drama filmed how many women are indescribable pain
The title of the play, "Our Marriage", is intriguing.
Who are we? Couples, of course. Two once strangers, turned into us. But to be us, there are people who have to make sacrifices.
And this drama series is actually about the marriage story caused by the return of a woman who has sacrificed her career prospects for her family.
Marriage is a matter of two people,
But in China, many times, carrying a baby is often considered a person's business.
unbelief? Look at a set of data: nearly 40%, 65%, 80%, 90%.
What does it mean? This is a working mother survey released by a group of survey agencies in 2020: the survey shows that Chinese mothers contribute nearly 40% of family income, but 65% believe that they have depression tendencies, 80% feel guilty about their children, and 90% believe that childbirth hinders career development...
Bai Baihe's Shen Yanxing, played in the play, is a "strong" working mother, and the story reflects their unspeakable pain.
Shen Yanxing was originally a high-achieving student with excellent ability, and after having a child, she sacrificed her career to choose a husband and a godson.
However, in the face of life pursuits and life pressures, after the child grew up, she decided to re-enter the workplace.
But re-entering the workplace is not easy.
What are the stumbling blocks for working moms?
There may be prejudice and discrimination in the workplace, and many mothers have had the experience of adjusting career plans for their children. In the workplace, they dare not show fatigue and collapse, and if they are not careful, they will be tied to the hat of "inadequacy".
There may be a drag on housework.
In the play, the heroine is facing the pressure of housework, she discusses with her husband in the hope that he can share some family affairs, and her life becomes more trivial and begins to quarrel.
This led to new problems – a return to the workplace and a marital crisis.
What is more dramatic in the play is that the heroine's new job and her husband's company are competitive, which exacerbates the contradiction between the two, and once made the two go to the step of divorce.
Although the main story is the pair of Bai Baihe and Tong Dawei, the series is actually based on different female perspectives, depicting three women played by Jiang Xin, Gao Ye and Cao Xiwen, a total of four groups of marriage problems faced in career and life, exploring the common life dilemmas faced by modern women.
Including work 996, with a baby 007, 35-year-old crisis, these mountains pressed on the head of working mothers, in a line from Jiang Xin: People are full-time mothers, I am a full-time mother.
To put it bluntly, the drama is to shoot the unspeakable pain of Chinese working women facing various pressures in the workplace and marriage through these four sets of marriages.
To tell the truth about the marriage of these Chinese working mothers who are struggling to coordinate with their babies and work while desperately running forward.
2. Lineup: Bai Baihe Tong Dawei joined forces again, Zhang Chenguang played Tong Dawei's father again, this lineup is absolutely amazing
Excellent urban life dramas are inseparable from the interpretation of characters.
The biggest attraction of "Our Marriage" is the portrayal of group portraits.
And these group portraits, without exception, are small people who can be seen every day.
True or not, the audience can see at a glance.
First of all, let's talk about the heroine Bai Baihe. This should be the first heavyweight drama starring Bai Baihe after that storm, and in a sense, this drama can be said to be tailor-made for Bai Baihe.
All along, Bai Baihe has been good at interpreting this kind of urban woman with a little eccentricity and a little stubbornness, but with the change of years, the urban chick Huang Xiaoxian of that year has also become today's urban mother Shen Comet.
In China, it is almost impossible to find a second actress who can deliver such a smooth acting skill in the urban light comedy genre.
I'm sure she'll have a smile, an action, or even an expression and a tear to attract you. This is also the irreproducibility of Bai Baihe's acting skills.
This time, she played a working mother, which is still very real.
Especially a scene in the trailer where she and her husband quarrel,
Bai Baihe is still the same look that he used to scold people without dirty words, and after a scene, the taste of urban comedy will be there.
But in the next scene, the audience sees a Bai Baihe who raises his head, tries not to let the tears fall, and his eyes roll, showing that he doesn't care.
In fact, it is to swallow the tears that flow from the face into the stomach.
After watching Bai Baihe's performance, I believe that many girls will have a deep feeling: Isn't this herself after arguing with her husband?
It is impossible not to mention another modern urban theme of this drama, Tong Dawei.
Bai Baihe's debut work is Tong Dawei's "Days Related to Youth" with Tong Dawei as the protagonist.
After so many years, some viewers have questioned the lack of changes in Tong Dawei's performance, but another aspect is that Tong Dawei has become a domestic urban theme, a wild one.
No matter what kind of heroine he meets, Jiang Xin or Bai Baihe, he can perform a strong sense of CP.
It is necessary to force him in a wine table scene in the play, in the face of Bai Baihe's question of "when to go home", a self-directed and self-acting double reed, which workplace man will not smile when he sees it.
Of course, the most interesting thing about this drama is the vivid portrayal of various characters. Among them, female characters may be more brilliant.
In the past, urban dramas were often dominated by glamorous male characters. Female characters tend to be vases.
"Our Marriage" is a bit of a subversion.
The female characters portrayed are not only more sassy than one, but also have their own personalities.
The first, Jiang Xin, who is likely to play the role of a big hit again.
From Fan Shengmei in "Ode to Joy" to Tian Yulan in "Little Shede", the law of domestic urban drama is: But where Jiang Xin plays the second female of urban drama, it will explode.
Compared with those bitter people in the past, this time Jiang Xin's role is also quite sassy, quite textured, and quite bright.
On the one hand, it is the full-time mother who kills the four parties in the workplace, and the boss of Bai Baihe in the play. At the same time, it is the gentle mother who comes home late at night to kiss her daughter, and the helpless wife who secretly hides in the dark and sighs.
This role, which is completely within the range of Jiang Xin's acting skills, has a high probability that it will trigger the empathy of many women in the workplace.
The second, Liang Annie in "I Am Yu Huanshui", Gao Ye.
Another powerful actress with good looks and acting skills, and who is full of firepower when looking for the right drama path.
In this play, she is likely to be the head of the golden sentence.
Dare I say, no one can match. In the workplace, she is a fighting force that cannot be underestimated.
But back home, you also have to face family pressure.
Third place, Wu Junmei.
Has reached the age of playing the mother-in-law's mother-in-law, the acting school of great beauty, in the play of the shape, still bold, beautiful, this role, should also be very interesting.
It can be seen that the women in this drama are not easy to mess with each. The corresponding male actors naturally have enough weight.
First comes a heavyweight actor, Zhang Chenguang.
Fifteen years after "Struggle", tong Dawei played father and son again in "Our Marriage", who watched not to say a word ye Qinghui.
Also, Wang Xiao. Si Ming Xingjun in "Three Lives and Three Lives", Yang Ke in "Flowing Golden Years", and Shen Guangshun in "Circuit Inspection Group", he and Gao Ye are chess opponents.
And then there's Ann. Not cooked? But remember, the scumbag in "Love Is Delicious" was scolded by the audience from the beginning to the end. This time it is again to plague Jiang Xin in the play?
In addition, Zhao Da, Yang Xinming, Tan Kai, Hao Ping, Tian Xiaojie, this lineup is indeed leveraged. In Shen Yan's play, each character can convey their own dilemmas and personalities within a limited role.
These people are all characters who struggle to survive in reality, and their plight is also ours, so we will be moved by their marriage story.
3, competition: this wave of domestic urban drama melee, the biggest surprise may be her
As we all know, the finale of domestic family dramas is not difficult to guess, no matter how bumpy and tortuous the process is, the ending is mostly a reunion.
So it has to solve one of the big problems of family dramas – how to make the TV series attractive with almost known endings?
This problem depends on the director Shen Yan and Liu Haibo.
The former has directed "Tiansheng Long Song", "The First Half of My Life", and "Flowing Golden Years"; the latter, representative works include "Spicy Mother Zheng biography", "Chinese Relationship" and "Trident".
Saying that this is the top director lineup of domestic urban dramas is not excessive.
So how do you make this process exciting enough?
First of all, of course, family dramas can most touch the pain points of today's society, especially the story of women in the workplace, which should also become a topic excavator.
Second, this drama has a group of 30+ actresses who can play with good looks and acting skills.
Judging from the story, this drama is likely to once again let us see the charm of mature women.
When a good actress does not have to deliberately dress up as a young girl, she just needs to face and accept herself calmly. Playing a role that suits your age can show the best.
The third point is that the drama is likely to touch the pain points of many working mothers and trigger a wide range of empathy.
Compared with the more dramatic story of "The Season of Encounter", "Our Marriage" is actually closer to the ordinary audience, or everything in the play is something that the audience may experience.
The story of marriage, the "modern siege", has too many angles and entry points. In the story, people join every day, and people are left behind every day.
And "Our Marriage" is aimed at those who are still struggling to catch up with marriage.
The series is keenly aware of the various real problems faced by working mothers, and puts it on the screen, although it is a light comedy, but the series is likely to bring out the deepest plight of women from the perspective of Bai Baihe in a competition of acting schools.
Solving this dilemma may be the practical meaning that "Our Marriage" provides to us.
As long as there is a male who has enhanced his understanding of working mothers because he has watched the episode, and there is a woman who recognizes the self-esteem and courage of working mothers because of the episodes, it is a victory.
Of course, with only one or two film and television works, the misunderstanding and neglect of women in the workplace by the whole society will not be reduced. But with more efforts to understand, it is possible to minimize the mistaken injuries of working mothers.
In the current chinese drama market, "The World of Man" has just entered the final stage and is in the limelight. In the three urban dramas that have just started, many people say that they are aesthetic fatigue, but the fact is that the data of this type of drama is often very good, but the final ratings winner may be only one.
Can "Our Marriage" once again prove Bai Baihe's ratings appeal? It depends on whether the director team led by Shen Yan can put new wine into the old bottle of urban marriage?
Can each plot have a corresponding realistic pain point, and carefully and closely penetrate into the hearts of contemporary urban people.
In the end, the characters in the story are small and ordinary, each with its own marital dilemma, just like each of us, but also writing our own epic chapters.
Marriage is the most complex invention in the world, and it is both annoying and comforting. But it is this complexity that gives birth to all the expectations, longings and excitement, allowing us to find the special meaning of being born as human beings.
Predictably, tonight's audience will have a real headache. And this may be the happiness trouble in the marriage between the audience and the national drama.