It was published on April 2, 2022| No. 2830
Lively and lively, light and fast, the "Chasing Love Family" that is being broadcast on Jiangsu Satellite TV has passed a third of the blink of an eye.
Watching this drama, the first impression is a particularly unique male group portrait.
Qi Guosheng (Yang Xinming), a retired veteran teacher who has been widowed for many years, raised three sons with very different personalities to grow up alone, and watched as life finally came out, and the three sons will form a new small family to run things, but they did not expect that a new crisis was coming.
At present, women's narratives are the mainstream of urban dramas, around the modern women's family, workplace, friendship, love, often can extend layers of branches for people to explore. In contrast, the convergence of male characters is either instrumentalized and becomes a green leaf with red flowers; or it is "bound" to the stereotypical setting of male one and male two. There are very few people who focus on male groups in urban emotional themes.
"Chasing the Love Family" does the opposite, with the family, emotions and workplace stories of the three sons of the Qi family as the main line, leading the audience to look forward to the world from another gender dimension and taste it carefully.
Three interesting words, group portrait landing
Domestic dramas have always been good at meticulous depictions of families. From the early portrayal of the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to the recent incision of the original family, intergenerational relationship, and gender tension between men and women, the charm of family dramas has not diminished, and it is often written and new.
As society continues to evolve, family structures become more diverse. For the current family drama, how to be unique on top of authenticity is the key to the work's progress from the plateau to the peak.
Instead of diving headlong into it and wandering in the homogeneous family imagination, it is better to find another way. "Chasing Love Family" extracts three interesting words of "male group portrait", "old, middle and young generations" and "pursuit of love adventure", which will score the new family expression with more realistic characteristics.
The qi family of six people, in addition to the second daughter-in-law Xiao Nan (played by Tan Zhuo), a unique flower, the other four men plus the little grandson Qi Mowen, the five elders formed a proper "boys' dormitory".
As the saying goes, three women in one play, five men in the Qi family together, can also stage a big drama.
Qi Guosheng, a retired old teacher, has a good face in everything, but these three sons are unconscious. When his wife died, Lao Qi made a promise to let all three of his sons start a family, and then considered his own happiness. For fifteen or sixteen years, he had also been waiting for his own spring.
At the beginning of the episode, the life events of the three sons have eyebrows, and the "boys' dormitory" of the Qi family can finally find happiness. Lao Qi went straight to the blind date square, and his hands had already touched the doorknob of the love gate, but the son mixed up the happiness of his father.
The third son, Qi Tian (Xiong Ziqi), is a "righteous responsibility" in the eyes of everyone on the outside, but a "horizontal in the nest" on the inside. He was the youngest son in the family, who lost his mother at an early age, and his father and brothers were over-pampered, which created his "giant baby personality" that did not know the sky.
Don't say that the elderly are doing everything in the world, they can make the younger generation doubt life. This young man is in love with his head, and in order to change the old house for a new house, he can also play a set of suicide, threats, and deception combination punches.
The unrequited love trip of the third elder here has not yet ended, and the wedding of the boss Qi Tianzuo (Jia Nailiang) over there has also soaked up the soup with the groom's falling water.
A second before the wedding oath, Qi Tianzuo received the bad news that the bride was fake pregnant and cheated on the marriage. The wedding is dissolved on the spot, the bride and groom chase me, and with a drama of extras rushing forward to settle the bride's salary, the romantic love drama immediately becomes a farce.
The boss died to face the guilt, and the pain of the wedding was crushed into the stomach. Since then, the dessert master has embarked on the road of "fear of marriage", and the Qi family single group has added another person.
As a twin brother who is 7 minutes away from Qi Tianzuo, Qi Tianyou (Guo Jingfei) has a very different personality and experience from that of his eldest brother. He graduated from college, stayed on to teach, and looked at the work. Students make memes for him, naturally it is difficult to escape the fierce hands of this "cold-faced professor", apologize, give gifts, and cannot change the crisis of hanging up.
But he is not an old man who is not unsophisticated. Xiao Nan encountered malicious competition when opening a store, and Qi Tianyou was able to immediately give a one-hit solution according to the characteristics of the opponent's handling. It can be regarded as a rare "normal person" in the Qi family.
Such an atypical family, getting together is naturally indispensable to chicken flying dog jump. In the scene where Qi Tian resigned, several brothers came and went, which was a family conflict on the table.
Qi Tianyou pointed out that Qi Tian was a love brain, Qi Tian relayed to accuse the second brother Qi Tianyou of "moral kidnapping", Qi Tianzuo went to the front to pull the frame and was affected, the three brothers were about to come to a big fight, Qi Tianyou could only use the killer skill - pretending to be ill, only at the critical moment to prevent the situation from becoming serious.
The "wolf smoke" of this family has shaped a family where universality and particularity coexist vividly, and while pursuing drama, it has also unfolded the audience's new imagination of family drama.
Chase love and break through the mold
The plot has passed a third of the way through, in addition to the eclectic group portrait modeling, the "typical love" in "Chasing the Love Family" is also fully arranged. Among them, there is both a bland family life, a dangerous love road, and there is no lack of a road to a black unrequited love journey.
Qi Tianyou was the only person in the Qi family who had solved the marriage problem. Speaking out as a university professor can also make Qi Guosheng brag enough, but Qi Tianyou is actually tired of the "home-school" two-point and one-line life. After work, he still maintained this boring cycle state, which made Qi Tianyou's heart even more restless.
Once he lost his love because of his work and personality, and now he has successfully remarried and stumbled on the road to promotion.
On the one hand, there is a fierce competition for department heads, on the other hand, there is a crisis of rogue students blackmailing money, and Qi Tianyou, who strictly abides by the teacher's standards, is naturally unwilling to bow his head, but "the female protagonist is outside, the male protagonist is inside" is the code of conduct of this small family.
Daughter-in-law Xiao Nan is the top pillar of the Qi family. Qi Guosheng couldn't figure out what she was going to do, and the money that Qi Tianzuo lacked, she came to give. Now that her husband is in a workplace crisis, Xiao Nan does not say a word and sells the store to help Qi Tianyou.
But how could Qi Tianyou's one-eyed personality allow his daughter-in-law to be blackmailed without knowing it. Next, this small family needs to face not only how to recover this money, but also the crisis brought about by the husband and wife's very different views on the world. Whether this will plant a time bomb in the marriage of the two is also unknown.
Qi Tianzuo's fake wedding ended in a hurry, and true love was inadvertently found. The unexpected encounter with Ye Minyi (Wu You), who pretended to be a bridesmaid at the wedding, gave Qi Tianzuo a taste of love at first sight.
The good feelings of the two sparked all the way with lightning, and they saw that they were about to reach the end of happiness. However, the "True Destiny Heavenly Daughter" is the "little cotton jacket" of Master Liang Dawei (Feng Hui). As the saying goes, Zhizi Moruo's father, Liang Dawei, as Qi Tianzuo's "half father", is well aware of the unreliable and fearful personality of his apprentices. Master intervened to be an "evil man", and Qi Tianzuo had no choice but to flee.
But fleeing does not mean that the crisis is gone, but may bring greater contradictions. Returning home from Macao, Qi Tianzuo only exchanged for a moment of tranquility, and then he had to face the left and right attacks of his ex-girlfriend and current girlfriend, coupled with a master's "secret observation", the qi family boss's pursuit of love, and the taste of a "spy war movie" in life.
Ten years of unrequited love, failed to burn off qi tian's spare tire mind. Burning charcoal to commit suicide and threatening to buy a house are just appetizers, and Qi Tian, who has failed many times, does not seem to have awakened. But true love does not come and go, for Dong Yiyi (Guo Yang), who is in love alone, shaving her head and picking a hot Qi Tian makes her miserable.
Now, having lost his love and job, the qi family's old third let Qi Guosheng his heart.
There is a difficult scripture in the family. "Chasing The Family of Love" distills the core sets of variables and constructs three vivid and typical views of love. Entering the marriage siege does not mean that life has passed the level, but ushered in a greater challenge; marriage anxiety, escape can not make the problem disappear, but in the left and right siege, into a new wandering and anxiety; single-minded, self-thinking that the world is moving, in fact, is just a confusing one-man show.
They are both strongly realistic and typical, so that the audience who comes with questions can also be inspired by them.
Comedy breaks through and expresses to warmth
The comedy in the family drama is difficult to write. But "Chasing the Love Family" grasps the balance between Zhuang and Harmony, and truly achieves the famous scenes one after another.
Parents often say that they don't like snacks outside, but in fact, they wait for their sons to fall asleep and steal lollipops. However, my son is also prepared, and counting the number of lollipops before going to bed is a necessary homework.
When the wanderer returns home, he may not face the warm drama of tearful eyes, but a "fat beating" of the family members who mistakenly think that they have entered the thief.
The giant baby seems to be ignorant of the world, but in fact, his stomach is full of heart eyes. Want to change the old house for a new house, a glance at the moment when the father-to-be leaves home, two fires and smoke to create a crisis, and three buckles on a gas mask to ensure safety. A set of combination punches down, easily achieve the goal.
Pile by pile, everywhere funny.
In the final analysis, life is a problem stacked on top of each other, and the key lies in what kind of mentality to face.
There are dense, skin-cutting, and sharp real-world problems in "Chasing the Love Family", but the creators always do not forget to use humorous ways and jumpy brushwork to remind the audience not to expand contradictions, not to amplify anxiety, and to face them in a relaxed and humorous way, perhaps to harvest unexpected solutions.
"Chasing the Love Family" is a hilarious family drama. The contradiction of family affection, the tension of love, the triviality of life, it is not lacking. Whether it is a brotherly conflict or a workplace crisis, it is regarded by the family as an inevitable stumbling block in life, and it will always quarrel, but it is more of a companionship.
At the same time, it is also a rare drama that tells the dilemma of love from a male perspective. After the year of flower armor to re-find love, broken mirrors to re-round the three views, fear of marriage anxiety yearning for freedom, ten years of unrequited love wishful thinking, and so on.
Nowadays, the story of the five leaves and one flower of the Qi family is getting hotter and hotter, and according to the current pattern, the word "change" should run through the whole play. Qi Tianyou's career crisis has already laid the groundwork, Qi Tianzuo's espionage-style love has gradually unfolded, how many times does Qi Tian have to hit the south wall before he is willing to turn back? How the follow-up story will develop, we may wish to look forward to it more.
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