The period drama "Human World", adapted from the novel of the same name by Liang Xiaosheng Mao Dun Literature Award, accompanied by the arrival of the Lunar New Year, has established a real and good start for domestic TV dramas, and has become another high point in the history of Chinese TV dramas after phenomenal period dramas such as "Parental Love" and "Golden Marriage". Reflecting the Most Pyrotechnic Spring Festival in China, the story of the Zhou family brothers and sisters and the guangzi film neighbors in the play has also been printed with a complex and background that only Chinese understand.
Although the timeline and background set in the play clearly contain historical opportunities and topics such as the construction of the third line, the knowledge of young people going to the countryside, and the reform and opening up, it is clear that the TV series adaptation follows and respects the original intention of the novel creation to the greatest extent. Characters and stories are always the main body, which is also the fundamental reason why works such as "The World of Man" and "Great Rivers" have obviously different temperaments in the context of the close era. The TV series has done a good job of Liang Xiaosheng's observation of the "other" in literary creation, and has preserved the most easily missing and precious simplicity of the period drama.
We all had a Zhou Bingkun in our bones
The three brothers and sisters of the Zhou family in the play, each can represent a group in that specific era. In such a large tome, the protagonist who is put into the most ink is neither Zhou Bingyi, an aspiring young man who rides the wind and waves, nor Zhou Rong, who has a free personality, independent thinking, and a sense of topic, but Zhou Bingkun, who only has a degree of initial Chinese and has always been "laughed at" by the whole family. His green, thick, straight, rough, "do it, pull it down" spontaneity is the most common and easiest person around us, this person is ourselves. But in the classroom of life, the goal we strive for is precisely to become a more "excellent" person than Zhou Bingkun. Therefore, our heartache for Zhou Bingkun is also the pity for the self who has not yet completed "evolution".
If a work can only be represented by a character to complete the spiritual transmission of the creator, then the spokesperson in "The World of Man" can only be Zhou Bingkun. In his life course as a small ordinary person in the Guangzi area, the bittersweet, wind and rain twists and turns, what has never faded is the softest and kindest part of human nature, so he is not afraid of people's words when he is young, he likes Zheng Juan who is "stained", and treats the old, weak and young with a heart of benevolence; he will let his friend Guoqing's family move out of the Zhou family's old house in all difficulties, but he feels ashamed in his heart and cries; in court, compared with the length of the sentence, Zheng Juan exposed the rape before himself. Makes him feel even more powerless and desperate for the reputation of not being able to protect his beloved... All these are the unchanging compassions in Zhou Bingkun's body. And this kindness, not only in Zhou Bingkun alone, but in the township people in the entire Guangzi area, it is not difficult for us to find their goodwill because of the time and place. This ordinary and real is the largest area and the most basic composition of the whole society. In our bones, there is a Zhou Bingkun - but someone finally tried to get out of the Guangzi area, became Zhou Rong and Zhou Bingyi, or became Luo Shibin and the water flow, or never came out, living in the old mansion, day after day and year after year to meet the grind of life, crying and laughing, laughing and crying. From novel to TV series, they have maintained a heads-up perspective as much as possible, quietly recounted the years, and greatly narrowed the distance between the audience and the work.
Compared with the "big heroes" in the early years of "Big Brother", "Big Sister", "Big Sister", "Big Sister" and other dramas of the same era, the "big heroes" who prominently show the courage to bear the pain of life, still laugh at everything, are willing to sacrifice themselves to achieve others, absolutely occupy the spiritual and moral high ground, and make people respect but are daunted, Zhou Bingkun's efforts, struggles and dedication in "The World of Man" have removed the sense of sacredness and the shadow of the savior, which is true and amiable.
A time that has passed away but is nostalgic
In addition to the characters themselves, the many plain-headed ordinary people in the white-character area depicted in "The World of Man" jointly constructed the interpersonal relationship of China's low-level society in that specific era: a sense of zero boundaries. The "Six Gentlemen" group headed by Zhou Bingkun is definitely the most typical portrayal of the relationship between young people in that historical era: there are difficulties and blessings to share, even if they have formed a family, but there can be no walls and no secrets between small families. This is an inevitable and objective way for people to unite and help each other in the era of material scarcity, and it is also a common trait of interpersonal relations for a long time when the people of Chinese society have not yet had spiritual independence and personal freedom has not yet become the norm. In material life, people need to be interdependent in order to live better; in spiritual life, crowd gathering is the main channel for transmitting social information.
In today's world with high cement walls, one person and one door opening, one mobile phone and one world, such a close and inseparable non-blood social relationship is a helpless, deeply nostalgic and deep gaze for middle-aged audiences; for the younger generation of audiences, it is a new type of communication relationship hunting, but also a regret that cannot be replicated in the soil of today's social environment. At that time, although "Human World" was no longer this "human world", it did not affect us from crossing the generations, producing an understanding and resonance of life and life: although the expression and content of happiness and bitterness were different, we always tried every means to pass the years endlessly.
Liang Xiaosheng had this sentence in his acceptance speech at the Mao Dun Literature Award in "The World of Man": "I think that as far as the actual situation in China is concerned, literature has an unshirkable obligation to the mission of culture to influence the hearts and minds of the people in the world..." Obviously, the TV series "The World of Man" has completed the relay from literature to film and television dramas, and the group of small people in the novel who have feelings and righteousness and have the courage to shoulder the responsibility of life have been on the TV screen, injecting into the lights of thousands of families in this era to let life be bumpy, "I do not cry, do not lament, do not regret" The power of tenacious growth.
This article was published in the March 4 hot air edition of the Beijing Daily
Source Beijing Daily Supplement WeChat public account | Reporter Fu Yang Author Dayu
Edited by Gao Chenchen
Process Editor Yan Shengmiao