Author: Sister Yi
Source: Yi Jie Watch movie (ID: eemovie)
Shanghai, the most modern, civilized, and recognized as the most equal city in China.
A while ago, the popular movie "Love Myth", three middle-aged women, with 50 million bungalows, Bai Teacher loved to ignore it, let him feel sorry for himself, this kind of "myth" can indeed only be established in Shanghai.
But the "myth" is precisely because it is out of reach that people look up.
The real Shanghai life picture book is not all the different styles of Internet celebrity halls on Wukang Road, the Japanese juniper trees, roses, and violets in the bungalows; the Oriental Pearl background on the Little Red Book, the vague Hermès standard, and the American style of 70 yuan / cup jumping.
In this city, not all idle, old shoemakers have their own coffee time.
In this city, there is a flow of unconnectable sorrows and joys.
After the national hit "The World", the new drama that took over it began to come out.
"In the World of Man" tells the story of the change of individual fate on the fate of individuals in the fifty years of changes in the black land of Northeast China; "Heart Residence" is a portrayal of the family relationship of the Haipai in the new era.
In the name of "Fang", the ethical entanglement of four generations of a family is connected, the living conditions of Shanghai Drift, and the self-perception of the new Shanghainese facing the city.
The English name of "Heart Residence" is "Life is a Long Quiet River", "Life is a quiet river", small details, I know, the focus of "Heart Residence" is not "Home", but "Heart".
In an era when one walks into one's house and one's origin, family background, and class are clear, "peace of mind is home" has become a very complex and meaningful phrase.
Feng Xiaoqin (Haiqing), with no education and no background, took his sister and married a foreign daughter-in-law in Shanghai.
Husband Gu Lei (Yao Yiqi), nearly forty years old, has achieved nothing, has a job, but the income is not high, he is forced by Feng Xiaoqin to study hard every day to get a financial and accounting certificate, change jobs, and increase family income.
Gu Lei's sister Gu Qingyu (Played by Tong Yao), a typical urban elite woman, looks good, has high education, strong ability, and can easily buy a house of 20 million yuan by her own strength.
Gu Shihong, the old father of the Gu family, is a retired teacher, his wife has passed away, and there is still an old mother in the family who needs to be cared for.
In an old house, there lived three members of the Feng Xiaoqin family (Gu Lei and Feng Xiaoqin's son was 8 years old, named Little Tiger), as well as the Gu family's old father Gu Shihong and his grandmother, the fourth generation.
Grandma wants to follow her son Gu Shihong, and Gu Shihong wants to follow her son Gu Lei, but the key person who serves the whole family and maintains the normal operation of the family is an "outsider", daughter-in-law Feng Xiaoqin.
(Feng Xiaoqin is at home full-time, taking care of the old and the young.) Living and living, three meals a day, including Zhang Luo's preparation of the Gu family's dinner every weekend)
Beneath this roof, it is clear that even in China's most modern city, family relations are traditional.
What supports Feng Xiaoqin's 365 days of serving the Gu family's big family is a strong desire in her heart——
To buy a house, to give your son a good education, to be based in the city.
For this goal, she can be described as painstaking.
Two million house, down payment of one million, Feng Xiaoqin has no money, pressure to her husband to borrow money from her sister Gu Qingyu.
On Gu Qingyu's birthday, he forced her husband to recite the "borrowed money draft".
Hearing that Gu Qingyu also wanted to buy a house, he turned to Gu Father to withdraw the money left to his son after his old age in advance.
Half a million pension was obtained, plus the house decoration was not enough, and he continued to borrow 1.8 million yuan from Gu Qingyu.
From beginning to end, Gu Qingyu did not agree.
She said very euphemistically that if it is for her children to go to school, she can transfer her house to Gu Father, and add the name of her grandson to the household registration.
This shrewd and transparent sister-in-law has a defensive heart for Feng Xiaoqin, one is that she knew that her brother was just like this, and she also took the initiative to pursue it, and finally the two people became pregnant before marriage, and the "motive for marriage was not pure";
The second is to know that Feng Xiaoqin is much more shrewd than his brother, and people's hearts are changeable, if Feng Xiaoqin has a heart and mind, ten brothers cannot be defeated.
There is also a layer that can not be put on the table to say, Feng Xiaoqin's hometown and his brother, if they all come to Shanghai to live together in the future, I am afraid that Gu Lei's living burden is too heavy.
Feng Xiaoqin and Gu Qingyu, the two sisters-in-law, fought wits and courage for buying a house and borrowing money, and fought with each other for different positions.
Feng Xiaoqinti's request seems reasonable, but behind it, there is indeed his own long-term wishful thinking.
Her sister Xi Qian (Sun Anke) has been living in the Gu family, and she also asked Gu Qingyu to help Xi Xi find a job and find a partner.
Her long-term idea is indeed to bring her parents and brother to Shanghai in the future, and the family will become "real Shanghainese".
Is Gu Qingyu completely correct?
Not always, she spends money on her own home every day, all of which should be hired by "high-level nannies", and she is categorically unwilling to live with a large family, and the intricacies of it are so complicated that she does not want to participate at all.
"Heart Residence" is very interesting, the men who take care of the family, seem to be the "head of the family", to be coaxed, respected, and served.
But at the critical moment, all collapsed, without any opinion.
Gu Shihong relied on his capable daughter Gu Qingyu, and the family had to find her for big things and small affairs, and even the two sons quarreled and told their daughters in the middle of the night.
Gu Lei relies on his wife Feng Xiaoqin, a thirty-six-year-old "giant baby", no wife at home, he sends his son to school in the morning is a mess, and he can break his fingers.
But the women who are eager to stand up to all the heavens can always be found by them, complaining and correcting mistakes.
Gu Shihong urges marriage every day, complains that his daughter has money and no man, and breaks up when he falls in love.
Grandma complained that Feng Xiaoqin had made her grandson and great-grandson too stressed and tired, and that she had to pick a mistake to stir-fry the dish too salty for a meal.
Feng Xiaoqin and Gu Qingyu are two kinds of women in this era, traditional and new, and their different ways of obtaining benefits and the different confusions faced in life are accurately perceived and expressed in "Heart Residence".
Feng Xiaoqin is the majority who can be empathized with, her looks, education, and family are all ordinary, and she can't buy a house in this city on her own. Her choice was to marry a Shanghainese, even if he was a giant baby.
She wants to play to the advantages of women and take advantage of marriage.
The problem she has to face is destined to be self-actualized based on dependence on others, without autonomy, without a sense of security, and not really respected and valued by others.
Gu Qingyu is an urban woman full of modern sense, outstanding, relying on herself at every step, winning the game of the tide of the times, and standing at the top of the pyramid with peace of mind.
The confusion of her life comes from marriage.
Even if there is no shortage of persistent suitors around her, such as Zhan Xiang, played by Zhang Songwen, she is good for her everywhere and is on standby 24 hours a day, but she is unwavering.
She can't accept that she has been wronged a little in her feelings, and she will be a little bit.
From spending money to buy a house for a youthful agreement, to an awkward encounter with her first love boyfriend at the scene of "fake marriage", it is actually a metaphor for the screenwriter -
The people she loves are destined to live only in fantasies, which are too difficult to cash in.
The four words of "love but not" always make the high-light life, there is a light that is disillusioned.
The latest plot, which pushes the story to a climax in an unexpected but reasonable way, also greatly intensifies the contradiction between the family and the two women.
The Gu family believes that Feng Xiaoqin forced Gu Lei to die, and ran away from home, causing her husband who was chasing him out to fall down the stairs and die; Feng Xiaoqin became an "invisible person" in the family, in an embarrassing situation, and had no choice.
Feng Xiaoqin accused Gu Qingyu of being the "culprit", and from birth he pressed his own brother everywhere, forcing Gu Lei's life's blessings and fortunes and fate.
Feng Xiaoqin's pillar of life collapsed, where will she go, how to settle down?
Gu Qingyu's sorrow also crept up in her heart, and she had to face it after all.
What family meant to her, and what was the end of independence.
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Lu Xun Literature Prize winner Teng Xiaolan, "Heart Residence" is a picture scroll of the times, and today, iQiyi slowly unfolds it.
It brings together many acting schools such as Haiqing, Tong Yao, Zhang Songwen, Feng Shaofeng, etc., and the presentation of each character's position is rooted in the heart.
(Netizens commented that why Haiqing in "Heart Residence" did not take the Magnolia Award)
It truly reproduces the life of Shanghai, the "magic capital" is not magic, more is the fireworks world.
Gu's father nagged on the phone that he also wanted to buy a piece of strawberry cake on his daughter's birthday.
The neighbors who live in the old house retain the rare neighborhood relationship in this era.
There is still two dollars a piece of soy milk in the alley, and the neighbors will gather at the table to play mahjong when they have nothing to do.
In such a fast-paced modern city, those soft words of Wu Nong with pyrotechnics make people feel that the good life is not in the towering skyscrapers, but in the homes of ordinary people who are simple and unpretentious.
The story of "Heart Dwelling" is closely related to each of us.
The house, the children, the face, the inside...
Everyone can find their own shadow in it.
Or shuttle through the early morning vegetable market, or wander through the high-end fitness clubs, or immerse yourself in soy milk fritter dumplings, or immerse yourself in the sweet fantasies outside of life.
People may one day walk through the same door and sit at the same table facing each other, but their sorrows and joys never communicate.
From "The World of Man" to "Heart Residence", within half a year, iQiyi has successively presented blockbuster national dramas, focusing on the fate of ordinary people, responding to the propositions of the times, and poking at people's hearts again and again.
High quality and valuable output, building a "heart dwelling place" outside of our lives.
Here, see yourself, see human nature, and value life.
It doesn't matter what city you live in now, what part of your life you are running, climbing, downhill, or lying down for a while.
Idealistic has a place to go, so that it really no longer drifts.
May we all find it.
"South Wind"
2022 Issue 3
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