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Film and television works can be said to be an important part of the media in social life, but also an important carrier for the dissemination of information and values and knowledge production, through film and television works, people can understand some of the current popular concepts, and at the same time can carry out some reflection.
In his work "Dissipated Modernity", the Indian-American scholar Arjun Appadurai said that the media has played a very important role in modernization and globalization, and that traditional concepts and orders will be deconstructed with the spread of the media and various audio-visual products.
For us, the existence of film and television works is also very important.
For decades, many classic film and television works have also become the spiritual food that people talk about. At the beginning of 2022, the TV series "The World of Man" has become the object of heated discussion, and many people born in the 1960s and 1970s have found the feeling of that year.
After that, the TV series "Dear Child" became a "blockbuster drama" in April, in which there were many things that people would encounter in real life, whether it was various problems in marriage, contradictions in family life or anxiety in fertility, and even some netizens said that this drama was not so much a literary and artistic work as a "documentary of life". More netizens commented: After reading it, I have begun to fear marriage.
Although "Dear Little Child" has won the love of many viewers, it has also aroused the thinking of many people. Just on April 11, 2022, People's Daily commented on the episode, saying that it was not advisable to blindly "sell anxiety".
But many netizens said: Isn't this the truth? In fact, the problems reflected in the TV series are very real, and you can't always watch romantic Korean dramas, right? That's what comes up in real life, is it that hard to admit reality?
In fact, regarding the tension between such a concept, it is meaningless to dwell on who is right and who is wrong. I have to say that the contradiction portrayal of TV dramas is too prominent, from the perspective of the People's Network, it is believed that young people's fear of marriage and childbearing is the fault of the media, and the media is too anxious, in fact, fear of marriage and childbearing is inevitable in the social environment, and the essential problem has still not been faced.
Because as two subjects with different perspectives, people hope to get some strength from film and television works to make themselves more confident in life; and the existence of the official media should pay attention to how people are affected by film and television works in addition to expressing some views.
From some of the comments before the People's Network, it can also be seen that about similar episodes such as "Heart Residence", the People's Network also said that in order to highlight some problems in life, there will be some points that are too prominent in the interpretation process of the series.
However, the focus of "The World", which also reflects the problems in society, is not on this, so it has not been criticized.
Dramatic tension and real life
The famous Russian philosopher and writer Nikolai Gavrinovich Chernyshevsky (Николай Гаврилович Чернышевский) once said, "Art comes from life, and it is higher than life." ”
From this, we can also understand that the plot reflected in the film and television works related to the problems in real life naturally helps us to reflect on the problems we encounter and the solutions we should make, but how to deal with the relationship between reality and the plot is a very noteworthy problem.
Some people will directly bring the problems that appear in the film and television dramas directly into their real lives, so as to make a way to imitate the characters in the drama to solve the problems.
Such behavior is often unreasonable, because the content of film and television dramas is processed, and there is a certain difference between it and reality.
Others are completely "figured out", believing that the content in film and television dramas is "empty", and there is no relationship with their own lives. This is also not a good idea, because there must be a mapping relationship between the two.
Take the episode "Dear Little Child", the plot that arouses people's hot discussion in the play includes but is not limited to these: for example, the mother-in-law compares the female childbirth to the "sow under the cub" and smokes while helping to take care of the granddaughter; the process of taking the child only cares about playing cards, resulting in a slide in the stroller and injuring the child; the wife is working hard to give birth, but the husband is watching TV and drinking at home; the wife encounters various problems after giving birth, and the husband does not do it, resulting in a mess in life.
In fact, these problems will exist in real life, but in order to highlight the tension of the drama, it will be processed and exaggerated to a certain extent.
Therefore, as an audience, we should see the essence of the problems behind the plot, such as the relationship handling in marriage and the difficulties in the reproductive process.
Plot and reality
In fact, whether it is "In the World" or "Dear Child", it reflects certain practical problems. According to the data released by the relevant departments, we can know that in 2021, the birth rate of the mainland has reached the lowest level in 60 years, and the number of newborns is only slightly more than the number of deaths, which means that the population growth rate of the mainland is close to negative growth.
Behind the data, there is a decrease in people's dependence on marriage and family life, and even the attitude of many young people of the right age to marriage is not only unnecessary, but shows a state of resistance. The 30 million single population on the mainland today is one proof that marriage and childbearing no longer seem to matter.
A major part of this situation is that women who are part of marriage do not get the protection they want in marriage, as well as in childbearing and family life after marriage.
From a conceptual point of view, the status of women in today's society has been greatly improved, even if they choose marriage, then the pursuit of feelings and the life they want. However, there are still cases in society where women are regarded as "reproductive tools".
Secondly, in the family life after marriage, first of all, the husband shoulders the main responsibility of obtaining economic benefits, especially when the wife enters the maternity period, it is often his own work to support the family, so often the husband is difficult to consider the wife when he returns home after a day's work, so the phenomenon of "the husband does not care about the pregnant wife" like in the TV series will also exist.
This kind of problem needs to be paid attention to by men as husbands, especially now that there is also "paternity leave", which can take the opportunity to suspend work and focus on the family.
As for the problem of elders helping to take care of their children, in fact, it is better to entrust this work to a special confinement sister-in-law, which can also reduce the pressure of parents, and at the same time avoid contact between the two generations during pregnancy and reduce contradictions.
All in all, the social problems reflected in the TV series are worthy of our attention, of course, not because of the plot after these artistic processes.
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Author | Tommy
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参考资料：Bruk, A., Scholl, S. G., & Bless, H. (2018). Beautiful mess effect: Self–other differences in evaluation of showing vulnerability. Journal of personality and social psychology, 115(2), 192-205