The Korean drama that has been cued by everyone for a long time, "Twenty-Five, Twenty-One" is finally over.
But after chasing for a long time, what was waiting for was the end of the love of the male and female protagonists.
Although the first two episodes have been paved, the audience who has been sweet for a long time can not accept it, and the Douban score has directly slipped from 9 points to 8.2.
Even the screenwriter was scolded on the hot search.
Just one ending can send a drama to the hot search so many times, which shows how much the public is interested in this cp.
Many people believe that before the ending, this drama can be comparable to the high-scoring Korean dramas of the past that make people brush.
After watching it, I also feel that it is indeed different from the previous Korean-style love dramas.
The difference is that it is not only about love, but also about family and friendship, youth dreams, and life changes.
It is the one that I have recently seen, and the one that talks about love through personal growth is the most thorough.
The story begins with a mother-daughter relationship.
The mother accompanied her daughter to a ballet competition, and before entering, she instructed her daughter:
Put aside the idea of performing well
Just show everyone how much you like ballet
I didn't expect my daughter to be very competitive:
There's no point in not being able to take first place
In just two sentences, the tension between the daughter of the struggle and the Buddhist mother came out.
The result of the competition was lamentable - the daughter of the contention could not compete for the first place, and in order to save the whole face, she directly abandoned the competition.
The mother asked bitterly in the back, "Is there no point in not being able to take the first?"
The daughter responded domineeringly: No.
Not only did he give up the game, but he also refused to communicate with his mother, and even ran away from home to go to his grandmother's house.
Why does the daughter have such a strong desire for the first place, and the mother's open-mindedness and generosity are only based on the concept of healthy and benign education?
The answer to this has to start from the growth experience of her mother, Roshidu.
In 1998, when Rohido was a teenager, the mother-daughter relationship was even more severe than it is now.
Her mother, Shin, was in Beijing, a popular news anchor in the 90s, and she said one thing at a time at work.
In front of relatives and friends, he proclaimed his bottom line and professional ethics as a journalist everywhere.
Because of his status as a journalist, he not only offended his best friend, but also did not attend her husband's funeral
(Because I want to broadcast urgent news)
Such a strong woman in the workplace, the requirements for her daughter will naturally be higher.
Only because Roshido's fencing level had remained at a young age, her mother concluded that she had not grown up for so many years because she did not work hard enough.
So when her daughter was about to transfer schools because of the dissolution of the school fencing club, her mother's first reaction was to persuade her to give up.
But he ignored his daughter, who has been unable to break through the bottleneck of his own strength, and is actually very anxious and sad.
Of course, it may also be because of repeated misunderstandings.
In the mother's view, her daughter usually likes to read comic books and visit nightclubs, which are evidence that she is not motivated.
She clearly loves her daughter and wants to work hard to protect and help her achieve her dreams.
The words spoken are all demeaning to their abilities.
"Twenty-Five, Twenty-One" begins with a focus on intergenerational relationships, grandmothers, mothers, daughters, three generations, and two mother-daughter relationships.
The main line of the story is led by the contradiction between the two mothers and daughters, which seems to have nothing to do with the love theme of the play, but in fact, it is the most important and solid emotional foundation of this love drama.
Because emotions are not rootless waters.
Only by understanding where it comes from can you understand where it goes.
In the mother-daughter relationship between the young Roshido and his mother Shin Jae-kyung, it is clear that the lack of empathy and understanding can be seen.
However, Roshido, who grew up in such an environment, has a rare sunny and cheerful personality.
Why?
To understand why Rohido is Rohidu is incomplete only from the perspective of the mother-daughter relationship.
Her personality, her emotional desires, are inseparable from another person.
Her father.
In 1990, her mother Shin was sent to Work in France in Beijing, and the family came to Paris.
Afraid that his daughter would be bored, his father took Rohido to the fencing hall opened by a French friend.
This chance allowed Roshido to find his talent and interest.
Unlike her strict mother, Rohido's father in childhood memories is gentle and understanding, and he is always encouraging and guiding her.
Half-kneeling, he carefully handed the helmet to little Rohido and asked softly: Can you do a good job?
Little Rohido asked his father, "Can I still do fencing when I return to Korea?" It was so much fun. ”
Her father's answer filled her with confidence and hope:
Of course, absolutely
As long as you work hard, you can not only participate in the Asian Games
You can also participate in the Olympic Games
In his childhood, Roshido was warmly cared for by his father with love.
Therefore, cheerfulness, optimism, and strength are the emotional imprints left to her by her deceased father.
How much influence did his father have on Rohido's feelings?
When her mother, the coach of the original school and others advised her to give up fencing, it was her father's encouragement that supported her to grit her teeth and persevere.
In the future, even if fencing is not as good as you want
One thing to keep in mind
The growth of strength is not a slope
It's step-by-step
One step, one step...
His father taught his childhood that persistence and love are indispensable in fencing.
With this persistence and love, Rohido finally defeated Gao Yulin
(Roshido's strongest opponent in the play)
。
Even when she was caught up in the storm of misjudgment and the saddest moment, what could encourage and comfort her was still not her mother who accompanied her, but her father in memory.
However, the deeper the thought of the father, the more obvious the absence of the mother.
The mother was a strong woman who chose to work between family and work.
Rohido desperately remembers his father in search of family warmth that he cannot get from his mother.
In Rohidu's mind, the mother = the person who does not want to communicate.
She would rather tell strange netizens about her heart.
The mother who missed her father's funeral because of the news, never went to see her own game, and never cheered for herself brought herself more care and comfort than a comic book.
It is not that the mother does not love her, but what she gives is a conditional love.
Growing up in this environment, Roshido is cheerful on the surface, but lonely on the inside and inferior.
She desperately wants to achieve fencing achievements, just to prove once again that she deserves to be loved and recognized.
There is a small detail in the play that impresses Piao.
In a practice match after entering Tailiang High School, Rohido won the Olympic champion Gao Yulin for the first time.
But she didn't show much joy, just taking it as a fluke victory in past failures.
Until he was privately recognized and praised by coach Liang Canmei:
The perfect player to win
Doesn't that mean you're better than that player
Is it more perfect at a certain point?
Rohido, who had been suppressed and despised all along, finally felt happy from the bottom of his heart.
But even being happy is still mixed with a hint of caution.
That look of humility and disbelief is enough to prove how precious and rare sincere recognition and encouragement are in her emotional needs.
The feelings of the male and female protagonists are based on each other's missing emotional needs.
Rohido has a cheerful and tenacious personality, but lacks care and warmth.
And the male protagonist Bai Yichen's life is more bumpy.
Because of the Asian financial turmoil in 1998, the male protagonist's father's group went bankrupt overnight, and the proud son of heaven became a broken boy overnight.
The whereabouts of relatives are unknown, universities are interrupted, interviews are repeatedly hit, and they have to rely on various part-time jobs to support their living needs, and selling newspapers is one of them.
Not only to shoulder the burden of life, but also to face the forced debts of creditors.
In order to gain the forgiveness of others, you can only carefully and humbly curse yourself that you are not worthy of happiness in the future.
For the male protagonist, don't say dream, even living well is a luxury.
Such a person, when he encounters Roshido, who is not recognized, but still insists on his dreams and strives to be optimistic, will naturally be attracted.
Backward in the family road, Bai Yichen was mostly cold-eyed and contemptuous, and even people who were regarded as friends in the past would always laugh at their scars.
But in Rohido's body, he received the greatest protection and kindness.
Rohido helped him escape the pursuit of his creditors, although he almost missed his first reunion with his father after the accident.
But even if you do something wrong with good intentions, for Bai Yichen at this time, it is also a rare warmth in the world.
In Luo Xidu, Bai Yichen not only saw the persistence of dreams that the 18-year-old himself also had, but also gained a very important kindness when experiencing the cold winter of life.
And in the same way, what Rohidu wants to get from Bai Yichen is what she tried to get from her mother but has been missing.
Encouragement, support and trust.
It was difficult to transfer to Tailiang High School and practice with the idol Gao Yulin, but Gao Yulin was not only high on top, but also targeted himself everywhere.
When Bai Yichen asked her why she was not happy, what Luo Xidu wanted to hear was a favoritism and support without asking for reasons.
The day before Rohido's national competition, he still didn't have much confidence in the competition to take the first place, and admitted that he was used to losing and losing.
In the face of such a scrappy but somewhat decadent Luo Xidu, Bai Yichen told her:
Among all the athletes participating in the audition
You are the player who has lost the most games
You've built a ladder with the bricks of defeat
Think about it
Now your ladder is highest
Walk up slowly
Go and win what you want
This kind of affection for each other at the trough and encouragement of each other at the inflection point of life can be much better than what hegemonic love is.
The reason why the love of "Twenty-Five, Twenty-One" is real and moving is that it does not avoid wind and rain, and it shows and describes wind and rain as realistically as possible.
After the Asian Games misjudged the storm, Rohido did not know how to face the misunderstanding and accusations of the media and the outside world, so she secretly ran to a strange place and hid.
In order to restore Luo Xidu's innocence, Bai Yichen tried everything to interview the foreign coaches on the field.
Finally, in front of a national audience, he helped Roshido clarify the misunderstanding.
In order to avoid the creditor's threat to move to his uncle's house in the countryside, Bai Yichen would also gain strength by repeatedly listening to Rohido's phone messages when he could not hold on.
Life is never short of tribulations and misfortunes, and no one in the world can be lucky in life, so happy that they do not need any encouragement and comfort.
The basis of Luo Xidu's love with Bai Yichen is to support and encourage each other and provide each other with growth strength.
From that point of view.
The final ending, though imperfect, is not unreasonable.
Bai Yichen was stationed in New York as an overseas special correspondent, and Rohidu had to travel all over the world to participate in fencing competitions.
Two people go farther and farther away because of their respective careers, and they do not understand and complain more and more.
What Roshido said during the breakup can be seen as the reason for the end of this love.
This love no longer gives me strength
We were apologetic and resentful, and we were getting unhappier with each other
I don't want to go on any longer
"Twenty-Five, Twenty-One" wants to provide the concept of love - when love gradually deteriorates, it is better to stop in time and let it stay in its most beautiful moment.
The lack of regret at this time also represents another kind of fulfillment.
Therefore, in "Twenty-Five, Twenty-one", what is important is not only love, but the warmth and touching on the road of life that are harvested through love.
What is even more rare is that in addition to love, the director has a broader concern for life.
What can bring warmth to people, in addition to love, may also come from the comfort and understanding of strangers.
After escaping from the storm of misjudgment in the Asian Games, the comfort, understanding and encouragement of a group of strange uncles in the small restaurant.
Let Roshidu cry in the grievances of nowhere to vent.
The seemingly stern, cold coach will not only cheer Rohido up before the game:
If you can't believe in yourself, then believe in the Me who chose you
You're not going to lose
I never choose a player who loses a game
When Gao Youlin's family suddenly changed, he would organize classmates to go to dinner and use this way to increase the income of Gao Youlin's snack bar.
Of course, there will also be a group of friends who are fooling around.
Support your every choice.
Accompany you to do something funny and boring like spitting a watermelon seed into the sky and catching it with your face.
In addition to showing a well-intentioned segment, the play also deliberately portrays the picture of growth:
There is the trouble of not being recognized, but the effort is never effective;
There is a stubbornness to realize their dreams no matter how others laugh at them;
There is also the dilemma of life when the family suddenly changes and is forced to grow up overnight.
To be sure, if these dimensions are deleted, the love drama will not be as wonderful as it is now.
Putting love in life experience, talking about its growth, transformation and growth in time, and illuminating the twists and turns of life behind it from this process, can we highlight the preciousness and thickness of love.
Therefore, whether it ends in be or he, it is not the most important.
Rather than a happy ending, I would rather be touched by the small, but real moments of growth in my life.