In order to save on living costs such as rent, many people will choose to settle down in another city.
Because of the epidemic, the life of office workers who commute across the city is even more difficult.
For example, commuters who recently crossed Beijing and Yanjiao, who needed to walk half an hour to work, were frequently reported by the media.
In "Twin Cities Life", everyone is very difficult.
Recently, the Korean drama "My Departure Diary" was launched, which also told the "twin cities" life of Korean office workers.
The play revolves around the story of the three sisters and brothers. They live on the outskirts of Seoul and spend a lot of time on the road every day, and the distance from the metropolitan area affects their life experiences.
Screenwriter Park Hye-young, whose representative works "Living in Cheongdam-dong", "Oh Hae-young Again", "My Uncle" and other departments have high scores, is a Korean ace screenwriter.
At present, the drama has only been online for two episodes, and it has received a high score of 8.9 on Douban, with a burst of word-of-mouth and rave reviews.
01 Life in twin cities
In The hometown of Yamapo City, Gyeonggi Province, a suburb of Seoul, there are three sisters and brothers.
The eldest sister Ji Jing (Li Ai) is the leader of the investigation company, with a cheerful and lively personality, and her daily dream is to find a suitable boyfriend to marry.
The second brother, Chang Hee (Lee Min-ki), is an equipment agent for a chain convenience store, with a hot temper and hard work.
Little sister Mei Jing (played by Jin Zhiyuan), is a copywriter of an advertising agency, with a shy and introverted personality.
At parties, she always sat in the corner.
When the other girls got together to talk about cosmetics, she couldn't pick up a word and was excluded.
Colleagues talked about her weirdness in private, and she didn't dare to argue when she heard it.
All three of them work in Seoul, and every day they need to take the bus and then catch the subway, commuting back and forth for three hours.
At night, if they miss the time of the subway operation, they can only take a taxi home together.
Chang Hee said, "If Seoul is a poached egg yolk, my hometown is the egg white area wrapped in egg yolk." It's close to the lights of Seoul. ”
Because they lived far away, the three brothers and sisters not only lost their social freedom, but even lost the opportunity to find a partner.
Mei Jing's company, colleagues are keen to get together after work. Everyone also took this opportunity to consolidate their friendship with colleagues and see if they had a crush. But because Mei Jing lives far away from home, she can only go home early every time.
Colleagues ridiculed her: Young, why spend your youth on the way to and from work?
They have been living at home because of the high rent in Seoul and their poverty, and because my father, as the head of the family, wants his children to be around.
02 Everyone's life is not easy
Chang-hee has been working in the field for eight years, going to various convenience stores every day, but he has no chance to be promoted.
Chang Hee's girlfriend split her legs and proposed to break up, and Chang Hee asked her to explain in person, choosing the middle position between the two.
His girlfriend laughed at him, "You're just a country boy, dirty and poor, and even now our location is here for you to take a taxi home." ”
Ji Jing's love road is also full of bumps.
The ex-boyfriend likes to set up a weekend date in downtown Seoul. Ji Jing had to continue her life in the Twin Cities on a rare weekend.
Before falling in love, Ji Jing knew that the other party was divorced. After being together, she learned that the other party actually had a daughter who was in junior high school.
Ji Jing couldn't help but complain to his girlfriend, "His conditions are really too poor, and he actually lives with his daughter." ”
Who knows, the ex-boyfriend took his daughter to dinner at the next table.
Ji Jing died on the spot.
In Ji Jing's company, there is a sea king leader. Aquaman swept all over the company's girls, but ignored her.
Poor peach blossom luck and leadership practices made Ji Jing fall into self-doubt, "Am I too feminine?" ”
She said bluntly, "It is too unfair to me that eight points of men find five points of women, and five points of men find three points of women." ”
While drinking with friends, Ki-jung says she wants to go back to the Joseon Dynasty. At the very least, someone would assign her a husband, unlike the single dog she has now.
The beautiful and quiet life seems to be calm and calm, but in fact there are words of suffering.
Mei Jing once had an underground love affair with the company's leaders, but the other party left her a high amount of credit and found a trace.
Mei Jing could not push off the invitation of her colleagues, and went to the bowling alley to play hard, but there was no way to integrate into the collective atmosphere, such as sitting on a needle felt.
03 Song of the Ordinary
One of the sources of beauty and vitality is fantasy.
When alone, she imagines herself as a happy woman who someone loves.
She convinced herself over and over again, "Even if no one loves it now, it will always happen later." I will try to wait for you. ”
Chang Hee said that if he could be born in Seoul, it would be good, the transportation is convenient, and falling in love will not be like a long-distance relationship, and he can also double his value.
Mei Jing retorted to him: "At the beginning, I also thought that it would be good to change the environment, thinking that if I changed something, there would be some big changes in my life. Later, I found that even if I changed the environment, I was still this me, this not very pleasing person, and life was just as difficult. ”
The play did not succeed in learning, did not have a gorgeous and lively work life, and a sweet love. Some, just a chicken feather, real enough to suffocate and heartache.
In the play, Mei Jingjia has a mr. tool. He is taciturn and calm, drinking alcohol in addition to work, and seems to have an unspeakable mystery of his life.
At the end of the first episode, Mei Jing has a conversation because she asks Mr. Gu to help collect the bank's loan collection letter.
At the end of the second episode, Mi-jing bravely confides in Mr. Kazuku and says to him, "Please worship me." Let my heart be filled, let my life have some meaning. ”
What kind of interesting story will happen between the two? Very exciting.
The three sisters and brothers in the play, doing boring and disliked work, live into a dislike. They can't find a presence in the countryside and are ostracized by urban people on the margins, like the daily life of most of our social animals.
The unique image style also makes the play present a light, warm, mournful and not sad texture, and the picture is attractive.
The synopsis suggests that the later stages of the play will tell the story of how the three sisters and brothers find a sense of achievement and freedom in their ordinary lives.
How will the three sisters and brothers solve the problem? How to change lives? What about changing your attitude towards life? Next, let's look for the answer in the play.