The TV series starring Haiqing have almost become a ratings and topic guarantee, from the classic mother-in-law special to the professional drama for the rise of women, to the small series focusing on contemporary education, she has hardly missed a hand.
Now, Haiqing and director Teng Huatao have joined hands again to give a topic hit: "Heart Residence".
For many young audiences, the name Teng Huatao may be a bit discouraged, because he is the director of the domestic science fiction "closed door film" "Shanghai Fortress", which suffered word-of-mouth Waterloo after the film came out.
However, Teng Huatao's performance in the film market is weak, and the TV drama market rarely disappoints the audience, he is very good at excavating issues such as family ethics and social contradictions, and has contributed many classics with the characteristics of the times.
For example, Teng Huatao and Haiqing cooperated in the ethical drama "Double Sided Glue" and the urban drama "Snail House".
A realistic and cruel perspective analyzes the Relationship between Chinese mothers-in-law and daughter-in-law, and the plot is still very relevant to social pain points until now; one explores the different directions of urban people's survival in the background of soaring housing prices.
"Heart Residence" and "Snail Residence" choose to use the house as the starting point to analyze the protagonist's marriage and life, different times, house prices are changing, people's pursuit of buying a house has not changed, but the perception of life is evolving.
Home, house, security.
Feng Xiaoqin, a daughter-in-law from abroad, has been married into a Shanghai family for ten years and has undertaken many years of full-time wife work, but she has always lacked a sense of security, not only because her sister-in-law Gu Qingyu is defensive about her, but also because she has no house.
Feng Xiaoqin has been living with her husband and son with her father-in-law and grandmother, and when she reaches middle age, she desperately hopes to have a house of her own, which makes her feel that she has really taken root in the metropolis of Shanghai.
The question is, the house is easy to choose, where does the money come from?
On your own? No, Feng Xiaoqin became a full-time wife after marriage and lost her economic autonomy. Rely on your husband? No, her husband Gu Lei is a Buddhist player, and he only got a job with a mixed life by virtue of his sister's relationship.
The two couples have only left tens of thousands of dollars in savings for many years, only enough to buy a house to pay a deposit, small families can not afford the high house prices, they want to solve the demand, only to borrow money this way, and once the mention of borrowing money, the contradiction comes.
In "Snail House", Hai Ping's constant pressure to borrow money has pushed her sister Seaweed into a wrong path, and the audience has sharply evaluated her life with a house and petty bourgeoisie, which is achieved by sucking her sister's blood.
Feng Xiaoqin made a similar choice in "Heart Residence", but she can empathize with the audience more than Haiping, paying for the full-time mother for the family for so many years, and borrowing money from her family to buy a house to make herself secure, it seems that it is not too much.
But Feng Xiaoqin has her own grievances, from the perspective of Gu Lei's family, her sister Gu Qingyu and her father also have their concerns, after Feng Xiaoqin borrowed money to buy a house, what if the elderly are ignored? What if I get divorced?
On the one hand, anxiety, because there is no "residence", it is always impossible to obtain enough family security; on the other hand, there is concern, because there is a "residence" with money, they do not want to change the status quo, for fear of being taken advantage of by "outsiders".
Contradictions between the two sides continued to erupt, resulting in Gu Lei's accidental death, Haiping in "Snail Residence" indirectly pushed her sister into the fire pit because of a suite, and Feng Xiaoqin in "Heart Residence" indirectly pushed her husband down the stairs because of a suite.
The ending of buying a house in both dramas is very cruel, the issue of "Snail Residence" ends in the backlash after the wrong way, and the topic of "Heart Residence" is officially opened by the tragedy of buying a house, and the story tends to analyze what is the real sense of family security.
If Gu Lei had not died and Feng Xiaoqin had moved into her own house with her husband and son as she wished, would she have truly felt secure in Shanghai? Maybe it is happy in the short term, but the long-term development is still standing still.
After borrowing money to buy a house after a series of wall encounters, dignity sweeping, and humble requests, Feng Xiaoqin borrowed the down payment as she wished, but is her appeal over? No, because what follows is the repetitive process of borrowing money for renovations.
Gu Lei is not willing to fight, Feng Xiaoqin because she chose to be a full-time wife many years ago can not fight, the lives of the two couples can only be half gnawed on the old and half maintained stability, once they leave the support of Gu Lei's original family, their lives will collapse in an instant.
This is the root of Feng Xiaoqin's insecurity, the Chinese people's attachment to "house equals home" is influenced by traditional concepts, but in contemporary society, the house can make people more stable, but it cannot completely replace the sense of family security.
If you want to really find your own sense of security, you also need to "control your own life", this kind of control, the house can not be brought, the family can not always bear, only they can give themselves.
Affection, sister-in-law, family.
Judging from the title of the play, "Heart Residence" should be intended to be made into the sister chapter of "Snail Residence", but the seven words feel that there is also the core of the classic ethics drama "Double Sided Glue" in this story, which refines the sharp internal contradictions of the family.
The direct conflicting parties to this contradiction are also two women: the local sister-in-law and the foreign daughter-in-law.
Feng Xiaoqin, a foreign daughter-in-law, hopes to take root in the big city of Shanghai, and she chooses to use her wholehearted dedication to the family to win the recognition of her in-laws, but after many years of living, she is still treated as a "foreigner" by her in-laws.
The eldest sister-in-law, Gu Qingyu, felt that she was too clever, suspected that her marriage with her brother was just a shortcut for foreign girls, and was accustomed to using the shrewdness of a strong woman in the workplace to analyze the purpose of Feng Xiaoqin's behavior and the possible consequences.
This made many viewers feel unfair for Feng Xiaoqin, thinking that the eldest sister-in-law was too wide, a selfish and indifferent "spoiler", and the audience had their own opinions about Gu Qingyu and Feng Xiaoqin who were more wrong.
But it is very interesting, using realistic reviews combined with the plot of the TV series to look at Gu Qingyu's situation, you will find that she is not also attributed to the audience and even her own family as an "outsider" of the family?
When the big family needs Gu Qingyu, she is a family think tank and a gold lord, the sister-in-law wants to buy a house, decorate, the first time to find her to borrow, the father, brother because the house can not hold the idea, look for her to analyze the pros and cons.
If Gu Qingyu's analysis brings good results, she is the bad person in the eyes of her sister-in-law, the pillar in the eyes of her brother and father, and if she brings bad consequences, she is the daughter who promotes family tragedy and nosy.
Daughters and daughters-in-law seem to become synonymous with "outsiders", which is ironic but also very realistic.
Gu Qingyu and Feng Xiaoqin both have their own problems, one is too arrogant and habitually looks at his sister-in-law with a scrutinizing eye; the other is too dependent and habitually transfers his wishes to others.
But the essence of the problem between the two is similar to some extent, and they both want others to do things according to their own ideas, but Gu Qingyu's chip is economic ability, and Feng Xiaoqin's chip is life pay.
In the family, whether it is the one who uses economic ability to point out the country, or the one who uses life to pay for the care of others, it will face various unstable factors, and no matter how strong the family affection, it will deteriorate in various drill camps.
How to not let the family affection be lost, so that every family member has a sense of belonging and security, and can the first member of the family be safe? Perhaps, this is the final topic that "Heart Residence" will explore.
What is "Heart Dwelling"? The literal meaning can be understood as the place of residence of the heart, and by extension, it can be understood as a "home" that is not kidnapped by material things, returning to authentic family affection and having an absolute sense of security.
The TV series uses the two perspectives of the relationship between the house and the sister-in-law to analyze the "heart dwelling", integrates the two major social hot contradictions into the story, and also brings two-way thinking about life choices, family and emotional trade-offs.
Feng Xiaoqin is more responsible for the proposition of life choice, taking the purchase of a house as the starting point, tearing up the full-time wife to hand over the economic power to people, and feeling that relying on her husband can support the fragile concept of the family.
Relying on people, there will always be uncertainty, relying on the past, in order to find the ultimate belonging.
Gu Qingyu bears more emotional propositions, and when the commercial analysis of family structure meets the impact of desperate love, perhaps she also needs to understand that running a family cannot pursue profit maximization like handling work.
Individuals stand up, in order to choose the home they want, family affection is not bound by materials, in order to let the place of residence of the soul return to the true, this film and television drama presents a variety of contradictions, it is worth us to think about with reality.