In the finale of "Our Marriage", the protagonists have received the ideal ending. Domestic urban dramas are also.
This year has only passed more than two months, domestic dramas are all red, from "Beginning" to "The World", word of mouth is continuous. However, there are also regrets in the outbreak, that is, in terms of urban dramas, it is slightly weak.
Think about it again in recent years, I found that I can't even think of many good-looking urban dramas, each drama is either the male and female protagonists are looking at each other and dying for a lifetime, or married men and women quarrel from beginning to end to the audience's head buzzing pain, love to death before marriage, quarrel dark after marriage, in fact, the construction of reality is single and boring.
Until this work directed by Shen Yan Liu Haibo, chased to the finale, it can finally be said - domestic marriage drama, tired for several years, finally, hardened again.
The cumulative number of plays at the end of the series exceeded 900 million, and there was no suspense in breaking 1 billion. It also won the 15-day broadcast volume.
Powerful, not only the number of broadcasts, but the drama through Bai Baihe, Tong Dawei, Jiang Xin, Is an, Wang Xiao, Gao Ye, Cao Xiwen and other four different types of couples, four different types of marriage models, a knife, fiercely into the real marriage, but also into the audience's heart.
In particular, the grand finale of the whole drama, in addition to the ending of "divorce trap master" Lu Weibin is too good to be peaceful, almost all the protagonists, in the marriage, the fate has undergone a surprise reversal, but also makes this story more interesting.
The marriage that disappeared from the domestic urban drama seems to have been found by this drama, and the question is, how to find it?
The 3 questions left by the episode are also time to be solved.
1. Why are the protagonists of the finale happy, but the "scumbag of the world" is not punished?
Although the process is tortuous, the finale is still relatively satisfactory, and it is not a bad ending.
The typical marriage of four pairs of men and women (Sheng Shen, Dong Li, Jiang Lu, Li Huo), three pairs have made sacrifices in the workplace, and have divided more energy into the family, while the career of the two sons is still thriving.
The screenwriter does not add to the audience's blockage is commendable!
The series can cause public discussion, in addition to the superb strength of the actors, the main plot is close to social reality, focusing on the joys and sorrows in several contemporary marriage models, so the finale is actually the idealized solution to the marriage given by the series.
The first couple, Shen Huixing and Sheng Jiangchuan, returned to the marriage of the mother and the straight husband.
The end is that the man took the initiative to return to the family for a short time and then returned to the workplace to succeed again, the working mother shined in the workplace, and the whole family won the hemp.
This is the most typical couple in the whole drama, Bai Baihe played by Shen Huixing is the top beam pillar inside and outside, the golden sentence output machine, Tong Dawei played Sheng Jiangchuan at first glance is a good husband: the president of the Family Fish Association, the runner-up of the husband and wife debate competition, the career is almost one step into the partner of the investment company, there are more than 600,000 bonuses a year, loyal to the family, money to the wife, do not engage in three or four.
But the series also ruthlessly punctures his perfect appearance.
Shen Yanxing single-handedly managed to buy a house, decorate, move, choose a precinct for his children, find a school, interview for enrollment, and when the new house was occupied, Sheng Jiangchuan could not even find the door of the new home. The daily series of speeches also stepped on the lightning point of the female audience, and it was not surprising that they were criticized as deceitful: straight male cancer, machismo, not appreciating the woman's efforts...
However, this pair is obviously loved, and the most essential contradiction of this marriage is that Sheng Jiang Chuan does not understand the woman's dilemma.
Therefore, when Shen Huixing plucked up the courage to return to the workplace, Sheng Jiangchuan did not adapt to various at first, but after taking the child + role reversal, Sheng Jiangchuan understood the difficulty of Shen Comet for many years with a full-time baby.
Later, in the choice of becoming a partner in the company and supporting the yellow whale not to be swallowed up by capital, he chose the latter, came up with the idea to let the spruce evergreen behind Shen Comet intervene, voluntarily resigned and returned to the family, and soon returned to the peak of independent entrepreneurship while taking the baby.
The second pair, Dong Sijia and Li Yuwen, the marriage of the female protagonist and the male protagonist.
The finale is that the woman wakes up, and the man's career rises, so complete that it can no longer be complete.
This story line completely punctures the marriage problem within the female protagonist and the male protagonist, even if the woman played by Jiang Xin is a sister in the financial industry and the king of the workplace, and the man is a full-time grandfather and Li Xiang brain who cannot be found with a lantern, the two are still always on the pointer of uncertainty. But this grinding process is also part of marriage.
Li Yuwen is one of the most popular characters in the whole drama, educating children to have empathy, his father-in-law is sick, he is busy with his own busyness, and he takes good care of him.
Dong Sijia really loves her husband and thanks her husband, but in her bones she has a highly realistic measurement: instead of spending money on a nanny, it is better to let her husband hide at home with a baby.
Although she also used her connections in the investment circle to find a high-paying job for Li Yuwen in a new media company, behind the surface professional counterpart, it is this public name that uses history to wipe the flow of the side ball, which runs counter to Li Yuwen's values, and Li Yuwen, who does not feel the respect he deserves, once felt that his life could not go on.
The end is that the woman let go of her prejudices, publicly thank her husband, and invest more energy into the family.
After the husband and wife are harmonious, Shengjiangchuan invested in Li Yuwen to do an online live history class, relying on real skills to open the situation, using Shengjiangchuan's words is not fire, it is "very hot".
This ending is too ideal.
The third pair, Jiang Jing and Lu Weibin, the woman lacks an independent personality in marriage.
The ending is a big explosion of the man's scumbag male nature, and the woman goes out of the house alone with the baby and begins to counterattack.
This marriage is a clear shot of the scumbag in the marriage.
Cao Xiwen plays a full-time mother in the play, living in the same community with Shen Huixing and Dong Sijia, living in the largest house in the community.
But she is a silent housewife, a marriage worker, and a marriage with a scumbag can be described as "cold".
They do not quarrel, and look harmonious and beautiful, but Jiang Jing is extremely humble in marriage, and can only keep the marriage by blindly currying favor with her husband as the boss.
However, under the man's continuous cheating, Jiang Jing decided to divorce in frustration, and only then did he really see the ugly true face of the former pillow person as a PUA ceiling + a master of property transfer after marriage.
Lu Weibin held Ling Chi Jiang Jing's blade from the beginning, after marriage, the property was transferred, the equity was all looking for someone to hold on behalf of him, and he did not want to have children in divorce and did not want to pay maintenance, and the slag was justified.
The audience thought that Bai Baihe's family would help her reverse the situation, but the ending was that Jiang Jing really got out of the house, moved into the small house with her son, and began to work alone again.
This is, of course, the biggest surprise of the audience in the finale.
But I just like this ending: the screenwriter finally did not open Goldfinger, nor did he overlord the heavens to save the fragile beauty, such an ending is logical.
Lu Weibin is the "scumbag ceiling" of IQ Online, calculating Jiang Jing from the beginning of marriage, calculating for many years, and also installing cameras at home to secretly monitor Jiang Jing's every move, recording evidence favorable to himself, this kind of person marriage is only a face project, and the original form of divorce is exposed.
Hateful is hateful, but imperfect is the real life, such a deliberate layout, how can Jiang Jing win as soon as she fights back?
In the end, although Jiang Jing got out of the house, but lost everything but found herself, engaged in content entrepreneurship for more than a year, and moved back to the original community, living in the smallest house in the community, but the son was happy to encourage his mother, and his growth was not affected.
This divorce Jiang Jing is actually a winner in defeat, she is decent and beautiful and has a good family, and what she earns in the future is her own, what do you want that scumbag to do?
The happiest thing is the fourth pair: Huo Zong and Li Zong's unmarried and joyful enemies.
The ending is love, marriage, children, and children all the way sparks with lightning in one go, and it seems that after marriage, the little life is OK.
This is a pair that many viewers especially like in the play, and as soon as their role comes out, they can feel very relaxed across the screen.
Although Huo Liankai was not pleasing at first, it was difficult for any female audience not to be impressed by the dark horse prince who held mint grass to confess to Li Xiaotian, and Wang Xiao's acting skills made up for the shortcomings of the human design to the greatest extent, although the mouth was stupid, but every sentence was said in Li Xiaotian's heart.
The best thing about the finale is that Li Zong was originally pretending to be drunk and doing things that he did not dare to do, and the audience of this fairy tale love was bumped.
In general, after experiencing the serious psychological trauma brought about by the bad end of many national dramas, judging from the stable emotions and continuous heated discussions of the audience in the finale of this drama, "Our Marriage" is indeed quite successful.
What is rare is that the main creator's actor selection, supporting roles and branches are also very well done, filling the story with a lot of flesh-and-blood details, and I have not seen this kind of urban drama with a taste of life for a long time.
Regrets and surprises are life.
2. How does this drama bring back the lost married life of urban drama? acting
"Our Marriage" is essentially a discussion of the relationship between husband and wife, as well as women's balanced choices between marriage and career, and the most powerful thing is to find the married life in domestic urban dramas.
For a long time, we actually did not see "married life" in domestic urban dramas.
Or, the characters are all shiny and beautiful, and the only task is to fall in love.
Or, each character becomes a quarrel machine, and the only task is various battles.
Marriage has become a decoration, there is marriage, there is no life.
And "Our Marriage" is expensive in the word "real".
The marriage stories of four pairs of urban men and women, their daily marriage and workplace posture is the current situation of most people.
Although the series is realistic, the background color is still a funny urban light comedy, which can make the audience think about it in a smile.
And it does not create a confrontation between men and women at all, but on the contrary, it truly presents various problems in marriage. To do this, in addition to the contribution of the choreographer, the most important thing is the actor.
Bai Baihe's full-time mother "Shen Huixing", directly upgraded from an urban chick to an urban mother, and her expression was still very rich and flexible when her identity changed.
Every time the family debate was held, the audience knew that Sheng Zong was going to be abused again.
What is even more powerful is that Bai Baihe performed the plight of working mothers, returning home to eat boiled water and boiled rice, many reports to write, children making a lot of noise, and a bunch of housework and garbage scattered on the ground.
In Bai Baihe's performance, there is both the composure of women and the lush vitality that cannot be suppressed under high pressure, and he can also use a few eyes to perform the chicken flying dog jump of the life faced by women in the workplace.
Jiang Xin plays the investment executive "Dong Sijia", who is superficially beautiful, loves to drink behind his back, and often cries in the parking lot.
Although she is still a strong woman, Jiang Xin's interpretation is very delicate, and she shows Dong Sijia's anxiety, uneasiness and vulnerability to the fullest, and most of the collapse and suppression of the whole play are completed by her and Cao Xiwen.
Cao Xiwen also made people's eyes light up this time.
In the first half of the paragraph, Bai Baihe said that "eating people's mouths is short, taking people softly, and spending money on the mother's family, there is no difference from the beggar who reaches out for money", and then the collapse and tears are the same.
The first half of this role is more silly and sweet, but women in marriage encountered all kinds of helplessness and exhaustion of scum, it seems to be gently caught by Jiang Jing.
My favorite is Cao Xiwen's performance from beginning to end without the hysterical performance of abandoned women common in domestic dramas, she is very calm in the face of scumbags, but there is also power in gentleness.
The most rare thing about her acting skills is this restraint. The scene of quietly walking and crying after seeing the scumbag's husband increased its appeal unabated.
However, the most pleasing acting group is definitely Wang Xiao and Gao Ye, especially Li Xiaotian, played by Gao Ye, who was once unmarried, and in the workplace, he was afraid of the world in the workplace, and in the face of Huo Liankai's straight male remarks, he was afraid of each other every time.
The barrage is praising her cuteness, sassiness, and relief.
Wang Xiao's performance is actually equally powerful, and even more difficult, because Huo Liankai's character is visiblely unpleasant to the naked eye, it is Wang Xiao who plays him to be pleasing, and finally the audience asks every day: When did Huo Zong complete the first order? That's the power of acting.
Even the supporting roles are vivid.
Zheng Hehuizi, who used to play sweet sisters, played She Tiantian who made empty gloves and white wolves this time.
This casting is very absolute, many people in the bullet screen say that the role prototype of Zhai Xinxin, but Zheng Hehuizi played the female liar sweet and pitiful, lying without blinking, every trick is proficient in male psychology, even Sheng Zong, who is good at seeing people, has been deceived, not to mention the simple and kind science male yellow whale.
Although the character is annoying, the finale and the audience care about her whereabouts, proving that the character is successful.
Cai Shengmei, played by the old drama bone Wu Junmei, is also very good, obviously so many shortcomings, self, selfish, but it is one of the most pleasing roles in the whole play, many viewers praise her as the most sober woman, in addition to the strong human setting, the actor's performance is really indispensable, Wu Junmei will play the character's coolness.
The best part of the whole show is that it shoots two sides of the character.
Not blindly talking about the difficulties of one party, even if it is the difficulty of showing working mothers, it is also expressed through group portraits, with the boss's ideas, the attitude of colleagues who make small reports, and the appearance of the husband, the role is more three-dimensional and full, and the audience can also feel more things from the situation of the role, such as overtime culture, women's workplace resistance, balance in career and family, and so on.
In the end, the audience finds that each character is not perfect, and even has many shortcomings, but this story is also vivid because of this, exploring the thousand faces of marriage and the workplace in the daily small things, and finally depicting a contemporary marriage picture with a real and witty narrative style, and also through the growth of the characters, it brings out the various confusions faced by 30-year-old women in the workplace, love field, and life.
It does not sell anxiety, but it can give people a warm cure. The married life of domestic urban dramas can be considered to have a marriage and a life.
3. "Our Marriage" is over, will our marriage be good?
Although the series has finalized, the audience's discussion has not stopped, because the story of real marriage is still playing out.
We often say that good couples are empathetic and understand each other, because marriage implies an emotional need in addition to identity and the value of reproduction.
It is also often said to find a balance between marriage and career.
But watching the whole play, it is also easy to find a very hard-rooted fact: in this world, there is no perfect mutual understanding of the couple, and it is difficult to have a career and family to take care of this matter.
This also explains the biggest dilemma of this generation's marriage: when the mode of getting along between couples who are not about emotions but only about responsibility is becoming more and more unworkable, and the generation that pays more attention to self-feelings and is not willing to lose too much self even in an intimate relationship begins to get married, marriage management has become a huge confusion for this generation.
The imperfect marriage in reality often brings unimaginable dark battles, fights, and injuries.
The best thing about "Our Marriage" is that it confronts this dilemma.
For example, the family choice problem brought about by marriage.
Tong Dawei said that he was very troubled when he played Sheng Jiangchuan, on the one hand, he felt that the significance of this drama was to dare to face the problem, but he often felt that the role was too excessive, so he also changed some lines on the spot, such as changing "You can no longer work hard to bring your child to high school" to "Hold on for another six years, take it to primary school graduation", which proved to be too wise, because now the emotional reaction of female audiences has been very large.
But behind the screenwriter's writing is that many similar dialogues in reality are staged every day.
Family means sacrifice. But the sacrifice itself does not create contradictions, what creates contradictions is that everyone feels that the other party pays less and pays more themselves.
So Sheng Jiangchuan didn't understand why Shen Huixing had to go to work, "Why can't you think about it for me from my point of view?"
Shen Huixing asked rhetorically, "I'd better always be a stay-at-home mom, right, what about me?" Have you thought about my life plan? ”
Some female viewers said that women in reality are angry, but the views conveyed by the series are diverse, Shen Huixing does not understand, the perfect cook Li Yuwen also bears, Jiang Xin believes that her husband's history editing work is "poor toss", meaningless, "money is the best yardstick of value".
It can be seen that the most fundamental problem of contemporary marriage is not the double standard of men and women, but the social thinking determines that the income earner is higher than the one who does not earn money, and who earns more money is louder.
But if everyone always thinks so, the problem of modern urban marriage will never be solved: there are more sacrifices for the cause with the baby, the career is weaker than the other party at home, it is easy to raise the head, want to change it, the party who makes more money says: What do you toss?
Men and women are the same.
The story gives the audience an ideal ending.
Sheng zong is a good person after all, even if there are machismo lazy diseases, in the end it has changed.
Huo Liankai was full of reason at first, and the finale was also with the child. Full-time mothers can quickly return to the workplace when they meet scumbags.
The reality is certainly tougher.
But it is also in the midst of hardships and twists that people can grow up in marriage and distinguish what marriage brings to them. In fact, this is the meaning of marriage, it is ultimately a process of self-exploration, learning to recognize and face themselves in the interaction with their partners, and real couples grow up together.
A partner's best blessing for marriage is not selfless dedication, but keeping it honest and clear.
Just like the scene at the end. The protagonists have each changed their roles in the marriage, and new challenges may eventually come.
But as long as it's our marriage, not my marriage, after understanding, communication, longing, conflict... Marriage is a green meadow that will always be blown again in the spring breeze.
The reason why urban life dramas are worth watching is because the details are ever-changing, reflecting the various changes in the world, and everyone can project themselves in different stories.
Without emotion and attachment, marriage is just two words cold.
But true marriage is never for a house, but for a home.
Unhappy marriages have their own misfortunes, happy marriages need their own efforts, "Our Marriage" is over, and our marriage story has just begun.