"The World of Man" provides a window for young people to glimpse the lives of their grandparents and fathers.
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▲The poster of the realistic contemporary drama "The World of Man". Photo: The official Microblog of "Human World"
The popular TV series "The World of Man" ushered in the finale on March 1, and the fate of the characters in the play has also been settled. The end of the fate of the three brothers and sisters of the Zhou family has also rekindled netizens' interest in "past life".
The TV series "Human World" is adapted from Liang Xiaosheng's 1.15 million-word novel "Human World", which won the 10th Mao Dun Literature Award. According to the introduction, the novel is written from the 1970s to today after the reform and opening up, with the life of the three brothers and sisters of the Zhou family in the past 50 years as the main line, and the life experience of the upper and lower generations is written. The play depicts the great changes in Chinese society and the ups and downs of Chinese people's lives in many angles, in many ways and at multiple levels.
This drama is called "tear harvester" by some netizens because of its delicate portrayal of the affection of the three generations of the Zhou family and the love of the three brothers and sisters of the Zhou family. There are also many netizens who said that "crouching in front of the TV and waiting for updates" to express their love for this drama.
The audience of this series spans a wide range of ages, and even a young audience, which makes people wonder, how can a series that seems to tell the story of "short parents" cause such a large empathy from the audience.
▲ The opening chapter of "The World of Man" draws the audience to a civilian community in the north. Photo: The official Microblog of "Human World"
The 58-episode series focuses on the lives of chinese people during a period of great historical change in China, and the audience follows the characters back to that time: the movement to the mountains and the countryside, the reform of state-owned enterprises in the late 1980s, and the transformation of urban shantytowns since the 21st century. In these historical backgrounds, the characters in the play are dyed with a layer of vivid colors.
Interestingly, in this series that spans nearly 50 years and involves the changes in the family life of three generations, there is no obvious beginning and turn of the story, and some are just the life changes of the Zhou family "year after year". Marking the traces of time forward is the "year" of the Zhou family, and the scene of the Reunion of the Zhou family during the New Year is also a "cultural incision" to glimpse the changes in the life of the Zhou family, and the time in the play flows under the scale of "year".
The three brothers and sisters of the Zhou family grew up, worked, married, had children, and the growth of their children, all of which can be displayed in such a "year" with the meaning of "reunion". What is visible to the naked eye is that the life of the Zhou family is getting better.
Although "The World of Man" tells the story of three generations, shows the ups and downs of three generations, and depicts the lives of three generations, there is no obvious climax and ending. The contradictions in the play come and go in a hurry, and all the "points of view" seem to be the "family affairs" of the Zhou family.
▲The three children of the Zhou family are with their father and mother. Photo: The official Microblog of "Human World"
But this is the daily routine of every ordinary Chinese family, it is not alarming, lacks "big scenes", and it is not even always warm pulse. But it is real and not floating, rough and not hypocritical, and every family member is in a neat and tidy home, working together to run to a better day.
In the play, the values of the three brothers and sisters of the Zhou family when facing life choices are full of flashpoints of human nature. For example, Zhou Bingkun chose to marry Zheng Juan, who was not so well-off; Zhou Bingyi chose his fiancée between the choice between promotion and breaking up with his fiancée; Zhou Rong devoted herself to education in the mountains of Guizhou for the sake of the poet she admired; Zhou Bingkun "regarded his adopted son as his own"...
In the choice of the three brothers and sisters of the Zhou family who have made major life changes again and again, the audience has seen the values that the characters in the play adhere to. In fact, when the audience feels for the characters in the play and empathizes with the fate of the characters, they will more or less bring in some of their real selves. Most people also face choices and difficulties in life in reality.
The fate of the characters in the play has already landed, most of the audience's own fate is still "in progress", the audience in empathy for the fate of the Zhou family brothers and sisters, in fact, in a "foreigner" to examine themselves, thinking about how to choose in the process of writing their own history.
"The World" writes the common memories of a generation, and it also provides a window for young people to glimpse the lives of their grandparents and fathers.
Through this drama, the audience will find that the historical context of the family life of the grandparents and fathers has deeply influenced the family concept of most families in China today. In reality, most families have more or less the shadow of the life of the Zhou family. In many people's hearts, this feeling for "home" is mostly common, beyond the times and regions.
As the director expressed in the interview: "The World of Man" is a history of the life of the Chinese people in the past 50 years.
It is this real sense of life that resonates with the audience. The life of the three brothers and sisters of the Zhou family is not the life experience of most people in reality? For how to follow the changes of the times and make personal choices, "The World of Man" may give us some inspiration.
Duty Editor Gu li Kang Xi Xi