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Just came out of the story of the old Zhou family in "The World of Man", and quickly fell into the life of the Shanghai family in "Heart Residence", which will probably become the norm for many people to chase dramas in the near future.
More coincidentally, if you look for keywords for the TV drama market in the past two months, it must be: "The World" and "Women in Chinese Drama". And "Heart Residence" has a subtle connection with both: the former refers to one of the "Times Melody Trilogy" launched by Tencent Pictures and Yuwen Film and Television; the latter is that this drama also aims at two post-80s and 30+ women, Feng Xiaoqin and Gu Qingyu.
The difference is that "Heart Residence" has a flowing sense of life, but it is also full of extremely contrasting dramatic colors from the beginning. The foreign daughter-in-law who writes "change her destiny" on her face and the beautiful and confident Shanghai women who have a successful career, two completely different 30+ women are connected because of the sister-in-law relationship, which also opens up the survival map of the "two types of people" in urban life and the fireworks story in Shanghai urban family.
All along, although the sister-in-law relationship has its own dramatic tension, it has always been a tool supporting role and relationship of domestic dramas, and "Heart Residence" takes this as an incision to deconstruct the image of "women in national dramas", coupled with the collision elements of foreign daughters-in-law and local families, which naturally has a different charm. The novel creative perspective often means deeper insight and thinking about reality: what does it mean behind Feng Xiaoqin's insistence on buying a house? Can they find the real "heart dwelling"?
"I didn't live in Shanghai, but I sympathized with Feng Xiaoqin fiercely," some netizens on douban, which premiered the series, sighed. Typical Chinese family, urban survival philosophy under "her perspective", and continuous exploration of the "concept of home", "Heart Residence" has truly touched many people. And we can also boldly guess that the emergence of this drama may break the mold of urban emotional drama and even family themes.
Foreign daughters-in-law and local families: the re-excavation of the image of "women in national dramas"
Domestic dramas are becoming more and more skillful in digging into the fireworks of ordinary family life, and "Heart Residence" is certainly no exception. Housewives skilled in bargaining in the wet market, busy kitchens in the morning, greeting fathers-in-law's sons to eat and go to school... Feng Xiaoqin, played by Haiqing, is a typical "national daughter-in-law" image as soon as she appears.
But as soon as the camera turned, she forced her husband to borrow money for her eldest sister, and even wrote a speech template to ask him to be familiar with it; every day, she forced her husband to change his work for a better job, strictly supervised her son's online classes, and embroidered the LV logo bought from the market on the scarf hand-knitted for the eldest sister's birthday... The ingenuity between her personality and words allowed her to break the stereotype of the national daughter-in-law, but to live more vividly and full of vitality.
"Her theme" has always been the topic code of domestic dramas, but the image of "women in national dramas" is also rapidly falling into a new round of routines, when the former domineering female president and virtuous wife counterattack are repeatedly staged, the public is also looking forward to the creators to be able to explore women's identity and self-worth in family and social relations from a new perspective.
Although it is still a familiar daughter-in-law's perspective, the story of Feng Xiaoqin's foreign daughter-in-law's desire to settle down on the ground still touches the hearts of many people. This is also a major charm of "Heart Residence", Feng Xiaoqin's dilemma is not only in the foreign daughter-in-law, but also has a more general emotional resonance for young people flocking to first-tier cities. She reflects more people who are eager to settle in big cities.
In stark contrast to Feng Xiaoqin is Gu Qingyu, played by Tong Yao. She is elegant and capable, has a successful career, is unmarried at an older age but there is no shortage of suitors, which is probably what many people aspire to be. But it is also she, combing through the rules and regulations in the family meetings again and again, always keeping a guard against Feng Xiaoqin, although she lives alone, she is the actual controller of this family.
The ingenuity of "Heart Residence" lies in the relationship between the two people with the relationship between the sister-in-law, forming a very dramatic scene, copying the other side of the women's picture book and the family picture book.
Such two people, naturally, as soon as they meet, all kinds of sparks are splashed. The topic of Gu Lei's borrowing money was transferred by Gu Qingyu with "I also want to buy a house", but then received a bomb on Feng Xiaoqin's topic of "unmarried, not eligible to buy a house"; a "face-changing celebrity scene" of sending a guest downstairs showed the dignity of adults and the opportunity in the relationship between sisters and sisters-in-law to the fullest; Gu Lei's accidental death was probably the most direct emotional outburst between the two people.
And it is precisely these that break the routine image of "women in national dramas". Feng Xiaoqin is manipulated by the obsession of buying a house, but she is not a simple material or a city servant, she has traces of the efforts of outsiders; Gu Qingyu is smart and capable, even in the face of family affection, she has always been rational first, but in the face of love, she also guards the gap between the first love in her heart and does not care about money status. It seems difficult to use a certain label to summarize them.
In the confrontation between the sisters-in-law, a Chinese-style family picture book is also revealed in the fireworks: the big sister who has a successful career but does not deal with it, the father-in-law and grandmother who always have reservations, the son little tiger who is overly pampered by the family, the husband who appears briefly also has the multi-faceted nature of not knowing, being humble, jealous, swinging between the family and his wife, and the aunt and aunt who are particularly vivid. When the question is constantly thrown up here, it has a realistic reference in itself.
"The dwelling place of the heart is home", "Her perspective" under the emotional insight of the times
Some people feel the realism of life in the big city in the gu family's cramped bathroom; some people envy Gu Qingyu's successful career, but they have the same desire: to have a home that truly belongs to them. Therefore, the proposition thrown out at the beginning of the TV series is "buying a house", and the story that unfolds from it is the insight of the drama into the mood of the times.
From a female perspective, the "concept of home" behind buying a house is more delicate. Feng Xiaoqin's heart to buy a house is already a little devilish: the rightness to force her husband to borrow money, the small intention to please the big sister, the pursuit and interception of the money for borrowing money, the false run away from home, and the "accusation" under the emotional collapse, as long as she can borrow money to buy a house, she seems to be able to do whatever it takes.
Behind this, after marrying into the Gu family for many years, Feng Xiaoqin has never been able to produce a sense of belonging that "this is my home". It is only because she will issue the obsession of "I want to have a house of my own" and the hatred of her husband that "it will not be you who will accompany him to drink the northwest wind in the future, it is me", and these two together constitute a traditional housewife's cognition of the concept of "home".
But this urgency is incomprehensible to Gu Qingyu, so what she perceives is Feng Xiaoqin's control of her brother, her intention to encroach on family property, and even this prejudice has existed since the beginning when Feng Xiaoqin and Gu Lei were in love. Of course, she also had plans to buy a house on her own, but it was more of a "scarce resource" consideration, and at that time, she obviously did not understand what a house meant to a foreigner.
From different perspectives, everyone sees different things, which also pulls out the two people's discussion of more realistic issues such as love marriage, education concept, family concept, personal career, pension problems and so on.
Feng Xiaoqin's concept of marriage and love is to take good care of the family's eating, drinking and dressing, strict supervision of her husband and son, the trouble of borrowing money to buy a house, and of course, the flattery of learning pigs after quarrels; Gu Qingyu keeps the first love in her heart and refuses to compromise, and also quickly falls in love and gets married after the other party appears. They represent two different attitudes of marriage and love, material spirit, chai rice oil and salt and aerial pavilions, which are also typical.
This difference is also: Feng Xiaoqin's emotional outburst is because Gu Qingyu gave the little tiger a brand-name school bag, and before that, she just sewed a "fake" for her son; Feng Xiaoqin believes that even if she moves out, she will take care of the elderly three meals a day, but Gu Qingyu is worried that no one will take care of the elderly after she leaves, and the truth she failed to put on the table is actually different personal values, careers and positioning.
In these collisions, the public also constantly re-examines women's self-worth, re-examines the couples, sisters-in-law, and pension problems in the most easily overlooked family relationships. If you just stay here, it is no different from most of the anxious family themes on the market, and "Heart Residence" uses an "imbalance" to break the solidified cognition, and also allows the "family culture" to be reshaped and explored more deeply here.
If Feng Xiaoqin's initial desire for home was "house", then Gu Lei's death broke this heavy "material cognition" and made them begin to re-examine the meaning of "home". When the initial mutual blame passes, people always have to move forward, which includes housewives going to society to seek work, and also including contact with their families and accepting each other from the heart. In the later plot, the transformation of the relationship between Feng Xiaoqin and Gu Qingyu is obviously the biggest attraction.
"Home is the place where the heart lives, and home cannot be scattered", which is also the topic that this drama really explores. Starting from the hot proposition of "buying a house", constantly excavating the deeper meaning of the "concept of home", coupled with the delicacy and empathy of "her perspective", "Heart Residence" really has practical significance at this moment.
Full of texture and warm power, why is "Heart Residence" so destructible?
Ordinary early morning people rush in the vegetable market, kitchen, pulling a family, some people in the morning yoga skin care nanny on the side; some people bargain with intermediaries in the second-hand room, someone in a phone room to finalize tens of millions of real estate; of course, there is the Gu family's crowded living space, and Gu Qingyu's independent large room, travel car, workplace pride. The TV series is very good at using this contrast to imitate the lives of Feng Xiaoqin and Gu Qingyu.
This dramatic lens transformation constantly pushes the audience into "Heart Residence", but in the end, what makes the audience empathize with it is the sense of reality and life. This is first of all due to the actor's life-like performance: Feng Xiaoqin counted down the scene of her husband supervising her children, so that the audience sighed "saw the inner taste of her mother when she was young"; the look when buying a house from signing a contract to paying a deposit was praised by netizens as "the performance of ordinary people"...
On social platforms, the comments surrounding Haiqing are always "too real" and "full of sense of substitution". And her performance in the face of the unexpected death of her husband Gu Lei has poked the hearts of countless viewers: the real sadness is that there are no tears, but the sadness under her eyes and the despair of the body cannot be hidden, the early morning unconsciously wakes up her husband, the difficulty of sleeping at midnight, and the vitality on her body seems to be pulled away overnight.
Gu Qingyu, played by Tong Yao, is an attempt to break the previous role type, and the elegant and rational temperament is firmly grasped, but the surprise and sadness in her eyes are also real when her father is "too tired" after the death of her brother and the family affection cannot be completely rationally handled. In addition, Zhang Songwen's "relaxation" interpretation of Zhan Xiang and Shi Yuan, played by Feng Shaofeng, are also very accurate.
The construction of real scenes and the portrayal of details are also important factors. Outside the crowded bathroom that touched many people, there were also the school uniforms that Feng Xiaoqin received from the balcony after the little tiger got up, the old people in the family spoiled the shoes for the little tiger, and the "real" family meeting that made many people sigh, the aunt and aunt who gossiped a lot. Together, these constitute the pyrotechnic gas and sense of life flowing in "Heart Residence".
Of course, this is inseparable from the main creative team of the whole drama. The original author and screenwriter of "Heart Residence" is the Xinhai school writer Teng Xiaolan, as an authentic Shanghainese, her narrative of the Hai school story is obviously authentic; director Teng Huatao's achievements in domestic family life dramas need not be repeated, and the drama under the real fireworks is what he is best at.
More importantly, "Heart Residence" has always hidden the positive, warm and optimistic power in parents. Feng Xiaoqin's obsession with buying a house made people see the kind of "vitality" in her body; Gu Dad took the initiative to make a compromise and gave half a million yuan to Feng Xiaoqin, which is also a kind of warmth; the daily quarrel between husband and wife is also sweet. Gu Lei's death will also stimulate everyone to make changes and find the definition of self and home again.
Everyone is a different individual, and different background positions make them have friction and collision, but they will also accept kindness and embrace beauty. Just like this city is cruel, but it also embraces everyone who is positive and eager for a better life, in the follow-up plot, Feng Xiaoqin will go out of the family to find a job, reconcile with the Gu family and be truly accepted, which is the beauty and growth of human nature.
Perhaps there are inevitable difficulties in life, but it is also necessary to have the courage to be unforgiving, and the family is the greatest backing and strength, which is the most important spiritual force of "Heart Residence". This is probably the biggest commonality and the most moving strength in Feng Xiaoqin and Gu Qingyu. The story continues, what kind of emotions and life encounters will Feng Xiaoqin and Gu Qingyu have in the future? We will also always be watching.