In 2009, the urban life drama "Snail House" directed by director Teng Huatao was broadcast on various David TV, causing a lot of sensations, and so far 9w people have scored a high score of 8.1 in Douban.
After 12 years, Teng Huatao returned with his house buying drama.
The play is adapted by the novel of the same name by Teng Xiaolan, the winner of the "Lu Xun Literature Award", and written by himself, and I have to say that the "double Teng cooperation" is indeed full of Haipai life atmosphere.
In "Snail Residence", HaiQing plays a selfish ghost who does not hesitate to take his sister's happiness in order to buy a house, while Feng Xiaoqin, who plays in the play, is a foreign daughter-in-law who has been married to Shanghai for ten years.
Her husband, Gu Lei, is an authentic Shanghainese man.
Gu Lei, because he has not suffered anything since he was a child, is the second oldest in the family, so he has always been satisfied with the status quo of life, has not been self-motivated, and has been thinking about Fa'er's wife to play games in Internet cafes all day.
And for what his wife said, he hoped that he would take the financial and accounting certificate, basically the left ear listened to the right ear out.
But Feng Xiaoqin was different, originally she had traveled thousands of miles to marry Gu Lei, part of the reason was to change her fate, and it was impossible for her to lie flat.
She pinned all her hopes for life on her son who was in elementary school and Gu Lei, who was loose-natured, strict with her son, and high hopes for her husband, hoping that one day, she could really become a Shanghainese.
However, the reality always backfired, and the Gu family was always wary of her.
In the name of buying a house for her son, she wants to own a house of her own, and gu lei borrows money from his sister Gu Qingyu (Tong Yao), and borrows 1 million yuan as soon as she borrows it.
Although Gu Lei was able to listen to his daughter-in-law's words, his emotional intelligence was too low, and he directly said about borrowing money at his sister's birthday party, and the scene was once embarrassing.
Gu Qingyu knew that her brother did not have any heart, and immediately knew that borrowing money must be Feng Xiaoqin's ghost, privately, she asked her brother if he really wanted to buy a house, if he wanted to buy it, he would definitely borrow it.
Without thinking, Gu Lei scratched his head and felt that it was not necessary, because living with his parents was also very good, and it was not that there was no house.
Therefore, Gu Qingyu politely refused the request to borrow money, saying that he also wanted to buy a house.
In fact, Gu Qingyu originally had the idea of buying a house, but the Shanghai policy needs to buy a house on the basis of marriage, 36-year-old she is free and accustomed, although there have been people around to pursue, but she still did not agree, because she has a first love who has been waiting in her heart.
In desperation, Gu Qingyu thought of a fake marriage, but when the intermediary introduced the fake marriage object to her, she found that the other party was shi yuan (Feng Shaofeng), the first love she had been looking for for many years.
In her impression, Shi Yuan has always been a gentle and elegant, personable man, but the figure in her memory gradually coincides with the uncle in front of her.
Divorced twice, owing a million huge debts, Shi Yuan, who fell in the family road, was not worthy of Gu Qingyu for a long time.
In the matter of buying a house, the two women, one poor money and one lacking people, are not very smooth, while Gu Xin, the son of Gu Lei's great aunt, does not lack anything.
Gu Xinxin's new girlfriend is the daughter of the director of the Shanghai New District Land Planning Bureau, rich and powerful, after the two decided to get married, they quickly met, the woman's parents promised to give honeymoon money and give the little two twenty thousand yuan per month to repay the mortgage, Gu Xin's family only needs to pay half of the house money.
Therefore, the formation of the two families was purely Gu Xin's climbing of high branches.
However, although the Gu Xin family took most of the advantage, the Gu family's great aunt was still dissatisfied with this daughter-in-law, she felt that the money from her family was still too much, and her vulgar table manners also made the woman's mother very contemptuous, and the two young people did not have seizures.
But after marriage, the great aunt of the Gu family finally felt that the woman was the Gu family, and began to pick and choose, even the small two honeymoon had to follow, and the yin and yang weird woman spent a lot of money.
Typically get cheap and sell well.
Fifteen episodes later, under the lens of Teng Dao, you can clearly feel the trivialities and the fireworks that are difficult to ignore in the life of Haipai, which are in line with the realism of "Snail Residence".
I have to say that Teng Huatao is really good at filming urban dramas, and under the filter of incomparable realism, the characters in the play do not have absolute three views.
Feng Xiaoqin's unadorned face gives the audience the feeling of being a bullied foreign daughter-in-law, a big son to deal with her, however, from the details of the plot slowly penetrate, you can find that her ambitions are actually very large.
From borrowing money from the eldest sister, to asking the eldest sister to help find a job and object for her sister Feng Xixi, to several times and three times "one cry, two troubles and three hangings", she knows very well how she can do to hold the other family.
Unfortunately, she did not calculate that the downstairs neighbor would put a piece of glass in the corridor, nor did she calculate that her husband would roll down the stairs under her own push, just smash the glass, and die on the spot.
And in the play, Gu Qingyu's personality is also very unpleasant, the most obvious is that she has been taking Gu Lei and Gu Father to guard against Feng Xiaoqin, and even turned the scarf that Feng Xiaoqin personally knitted to the hourly workers at home, just because it is a fake.
Every time Gu Lei Feng Xiaoqin had a conflict, she would give Gu Lei advice behind her back, and Gu Lei's death in the fifth episode was indeed inseparable from her.
Because Feng Xiaoqin overheard their conversation, she decided to run away from home in a huff, which led to an irreparable tragedy.
Afterwards, Gu Qingyu also regretted it, but did she guard Against Feng Xiaoqin everywhere for ten years just because the other party was a daughter-in-law from a foreign country? Judging from the latest plot, this is not the case.
It turned out that before Gu Lei and Feng Xiaoqin got married, Gu Qingyu had investigated her and knew that she had a man before her brother, and even had a child...
This is why Gu Qingyu will be wary of Feng Xiaoqin, and it is difficult to establish a sense of trust between the two.
Feng Xiaoqin wants to have her own separate house from a small city to a first-tier city, and It is not wrong for Gu Qingyu to be biased towards his brother who has been guarding against Feng Xiaoqin.
Although the characters in the play are all screwed, they are very real, because everyone is not an absolute saint, but they have different growth experiences and different positions.
Liu Yuqin, former editor-in-chief of the overseas edition of People's Daily, commented: "'Xinju' delicately shows the warmth and unworldliness of Shanghai, revealing tension in the mutual confrontation and warmth between people, and there is a smell of fireworks and warmth among people. Write about the more authentic side of life. ”
And this kind of authenticity is the most charming place of "Heart Residence".