Jin Yueji is an intriguing character in "The World of Man".
She is a provincial high-ranking cadre, according to the novel, she has participated in the Anti-Japanese League, the qualification is quite old, in the TV series, through the mouth of her daughter Dongmei, it is said that she participated in the Long March, climbed the snowy mountains, walked through the meadows. This is not the same as the setting of the original novel, but one thing is the same, that is, she is an old cadre who participated in the revolution.
However, in the eyes of her daughter Dongmei, she looks down on the common people and has always had a grudge against Dongmei's marriage.
In the TV series "The World of Man", Dongmei once had a fierce argument with Jin Yueji, which is also a rare argument between two generations in THE TV series.
Compared with the confrontation between the two generations of the Zhou family, the confrontation between Jin Yueji and Dongmei is more reflected in the collision of tit-for-tat language and ideas.
This confrontation appeared in the TV series in the 1981 novel, a period that was not specifically described, which was specially selected by the TV series according to the characteristics of the times to show the ideological changes of the times.
In the TV series, a starting point for contradictions and conflicts is designed, which can be called the conflict of ideas caused by "two cans of tea".
In the play, Father Zhou returned from Guizhou and brought back two cans of Guizhou tea.
In fact, in the novel, it is not written that Zhou Father returned in 1981.
The TV series requires a mental impact between Zhou's father and his family.
And the cause of this impact is these two cans of tea.
Father Zhou gave the tea to his son Bingyi and asked his son Bingyi to bring it to Governor Hao's house.
For the Zhou family at the bottom, the tea brought back from Guizhou's wind and dust servants and thousands of miles can be described as a precious gift.
However, when this precious intention was put into the storage room of the governor's house, it was not a name.
In the play, when Bingyi and Dongmei put two cans of tea leaves in the storage room of Governor Hao's house, facing the dazzling and dazzling gift world, the two cans of tea leaves seem too shabby.
Bingyi can be said to have deeply felt the embarrassment of his father's gifts in his father-in-law's house.
Therefore, Bingyi saw the feeling of "bad" in Jin Yueji's eyes, and he said to Dongmei: "For your family, there are not many more, less, but in any case, you can't go out empty-handed, think from the perspective of your family, the New Year, the family will definitely come to the guests, take it out and put it on the coffee table, the southern specialties can also be regarded as a saying, even if it is not rare, but it is not cold." But your mother's attitude at that time made me feel bad. ”
Dongmei actually felt the contemptuous attitude in her mother's bones, but she couldn't help but defend her mother, and she advised Bingyi: "If I remember correctly, my mother saw what your father sent and has been saying that it is good to be there." ”
Bingyi does not deny Kim Yue-hee's apparent enthusiasm, but he clearly sees the underlying psychology behind it: "Yes, as far as possible to show the kind of culture and courtesy that should be." ”
In fact, Bingyi expressed his inner feelings, pointing to the hypocritical essence behind Jin Yueji's superficial courtesy, and in the context of Bingyi, Jin Yueji's external enthusiasm hid the "pride and prejudice" in her heart.
This subtle feeling, in Dongmei's heart, she would obviously think that Bingyi had thought too much, so she continued to fight back against Bingyi's judgment, "Zhou Bingyi, should you reflect on yourself?" Are you starting to feel inferior again? ”
In the novel "In the World of Man", although there is no such dialogue, it still reveals the quiet transmutation of the psychological position between Bingyi and Dongmei after entering the 1980s. The novel reads: "Since Dongmei's father was rehabilitated, their relationship has undergone subtle changes - before, Bingyi was like a tree, and Dongmei was like a vine, but now it seems to be the other way around." ”
In the play, Bingyi continues to express his thoughts, which is actually the plot interpretation of this psychological change in the novel: "I have reflected, so I didn't tell you anything at the time, but later it turned out that it was not my inferiority, it was their arrogance, but this arrogance was not their fault, it was the inevitable result of the status and gap between the two sides." If nothing else, take the New Year's gift, your father's position decided to send your family things to the people must be more, so many that you have no time to look closely, you can only go to the storage room a bunch of things. As the governor of the province, there are many things, catching up with the New Year, the secretary is seriously ill, your father still has to act as the secretary of the provincial party committee, and the party and government affairs of a large province are shouldered, so the general human relations of your family can only be handled by the secretary to assist your mother, your mother is not there, and the secretariat is responsible. How could the secretary know the origin of a barrel of tea and those snacks? Is it possible to ask your mother to explain this to your secretary in the case of your father's sudden illness, unclear condition, and hospitalization? I can't..."
The huge gap between the governor's home and the workers' home mentioned by Bingyi unconsciously forms the "confrontation space" between these two classes, which is bound to be shrouded in "pride and prejudice".
After Bingyi explained it in detail, Dongmei had to admit this.
After that, she and her mother engaged in a fierce verbal confrontation, still revolving around why there was such pride and prejudice in Jin Yueji's thoughts, and the deep-rooted concept of "door to door" behind this appearance.
In the novel, Jin Yueji also made a deep reflection on this concept in her own thoughts.
On page 440 of the novel, Jin Yueji expressed to Secretary Qu this way: "Logically speaking, people like us should feel that the common people are the closest, but how have we become the people who are most afraid of forming a family with the ordinary people's families?" As if a commoner who has formed a family with a family like us has become our enemy, can you explain to me why? ”
Secretary Qu's quick speech in the novel has a great influence on the thinking of Bingkun's group of young workers, but when it comes to the question of this high-level cadre, he cannot give a better answer to Jin Yueji.
Therefore, the novel writes that Jin Yueji is "even more confused than the original".
This confusion, translated into the TV series, is that Dongmei and Jin Yueji launched a deafening quarrel.
At that time, Jin Yueji intended to find a photographer to take a family portrait for the Zhou family, and Dongmei believed that her mother was "on top, saying that the wind is the wind, saying that the rain is the rain, which is equivalent to emphasizing the gap between the Hao family and the Zhou family."
Dongmei is not out of thin air, this is just a repetition of the old things that she and her mother have made very unpleasant before. This matter is mentioned in both novels and TV series, which is that Bingyi once asked Governor Hao for help for Cai Xiaoguang.
The contradictions that did not erupt in the past have always been lurking between the mother and daughter of the Hao family. Jin Yueji saw that her daughter's words were very heavy, so she put forward the past grievances again: "You are still young, there are some things that I don't blame you, but I must say, you said that you went to your father yourself, for the sake of Bingyi's sister's classmates to do things, do you say this is appropriate?" ”
A word also touched the indelible anger in Dongmei's heart, she loudly interrupted her mother's words: "Excuses, those you said are all excuses, just those words you said two days ago, I have carefully thought about it, what are you most afraid of others hitting the idea of power in your hands, Zhou Bingyi has one, there may be two, and then there are three, their family is a grassroots people, including the seven aunts and eight aunts around them, once they start, it will be endless, but who gives you power?" Are you going to give them that head start? Can't you ever give them that head? ”
The more Dongmei spoke, the more excited she became, and she almost stood on the opposite side of her mother's position, attacking her mother's suffering at that time: "Zhou Bingyi and their family are good people, and they are good people among good people, but what about you, you always look at people who are not optimistic about bad, first look at the class, you are always full of vigilance against those who are lower than you, you are afraid that others will touch your light and use you, but we are cadres, how can you wear that pair of colored glasses to look at the grass-roots people who have elected you up?" I would like to say that the lessons of the past for you are still light. ”
Jin Yueji snapped and gave her daughter a slap, stopping Dongmei's anger.
But such an argument will never bear fruit.
Because, in the original novel, this "potential mentality" of the door-to-door pair is always Jin Yueji's inner confusion, and in the end, there is no answer.
In Jin Yueji's thought, the difference in class will form a "profit transmission" from the high class to the low class. Jin Yueji mentioned this matter in her previous exchanges with Dongmei: "You are married to the son of a big leader, not Zhou Bingyi, then of course we have to recognize this relative." ”
This shows that Jin Yueji does have a concept of "class" in her heart.
Dongmei was puzzled and asked her mother why.
Jin Yueji said: "First, we promise not to ask others for help, and second, people do not need us to help anything, so it is an equal and pure relationship, a pure family relationship." ...... When I was in power, I was most afraid of the idea of others hitting the power in my hands, and this meaning, you have to slowly infiltrate into Bingyi. ”
Synthesizing the dialogue between the mother and daughter of the Hao family, as a high-level "class" rightfully and boldly acquiescing or expecting the principle of "door to door", is because equal families can not seek each other and achieve equal coexistence in the true sense, harmony and harmony.
This is a theoretically valid statement and a grand sounding reason, and it is also an ideological concept that the Hao family is a decent high-ranking family in novels and TV series.
In fact, under the banal concept, the theory of "door to door" is not like this at all, but two families of the same class can achieve superposition of power and achieve an energy increase of 1 + 1 greater than 2.
But in "The World of Man", Liang Xiaosheng put aside the real motives of the concept of "door to door" in the worldly mediocrity. In the TV series, it is emphasized that Hao Mu gave birth to this concept of being a door-to-door pair out of a public heart and not wanting to be selfish.
Under the concept system of "door-to-door pairs" that can be put on the table, Jin Yueji stated a reason to prevent the "transmission of benefits" that can be achieved by the huge gap between different classes.
But Dongmei was obviously not persuaded by Jin Yueji's confused state, but could only make a fragile and powerless verbal defense, pointing directly at her mother's weakness, causing Jin Yueji to slap her daughter.
Interestingly, the TV series explained that the relationship between mother and daughter did not deteriorate, the next morning, mother and daughter met, Dongmei first said "sorry", and then Jin Yueji also said "Mother is sorry".
This heavy "from the class gap" controversy, after getting a vent between the words of the mother and daughter, did not end, and in fact, in the end, there was no answer, because Liang Xiaosheng also wrote in the novel that this was a puzzle that Jin Yueji could not solve.
This mother-daughter argument in the TV series is not in the novel, but it is not the focus of Liang Xiaosheng's thinking.
In the next book of the original book of "The World of Man", Jin Yueji has the following worries about helping the Zhou family: "Afraid that the relatives often ask for themselves because of such and such troubles, she has never boarded the door of the relatives, and she has never seen them before her mother and father. ...... If the cadre's family and the cadre's family have become relatives, where is there any power that is not used interchangeably? Isn't it true that your family's affairs are my family's affairs, and my family's affairs are your family's affairs, and it is safe to use each other's hearts? ”
It is the inner dynamics of Jin Yueji in Liang Xiaosheng's novel that, in the hands of the TV series adaptors, deduce the fierce argument between Jin Yueji and her daughter who is red in the face and even fists and feet, which can be summarized as: "The mother and daughter turned against each other caused by two barrels of tea." ”
Personally, I feel that this is also the most logical, methodical and philosophical adaptation of the TV series adaptation of the novel.