What exactly is marriage?
What kind of life is fun?
Some time ago, I re-watched "Addiction" and found that 30 years later, this is still a divine drama.
In 1994, the eight-episode TV series "Addiction", which was integrated and adapted by Wang Shuo's three novels and directed by Zhao Baogang, was suddenly broadcast at 11 o'clock in the evening of CCTV.
No warm-ups and publicity.
There are only eight episodes of short drama, with a tight plot and frequent golden sentences.
Halfway through the episode, it sparked a national debate.
As the main actors, Wang Zhiwen and Jiang Shan directly became the first generation of "public lovers" and "the criteria for young men and women to choose a mate".
At that time, the 28-year-old talented actor Wang Zhi diploma won the 14th China Television Drama Feitian Award for Outstanding Actor Award.
Jiang Shan, who has just graduated from Chinese opera for a year, is even more popular, and is deeply loved by the majority of women, and she has to do her big wavy hairstyle by name in the barbershop.
Even the theme song "Confused Love" is also popular all over the country, and many people can still hum a few words:
There are some points of love that can be clearly stated
There are also some points that are confused and confused
It is said that the original song was Liu Huan and Na Ying, and only tens of thousands of cassettes were sold at that time.
But the version of Jiang Shan and Wang Zhiwen's cover song sold 400,000 boxes.
It can be seen how hot it is.
As the first generation of "Beijing Love Story", "Addiction" tells "the story of the crazy love of a man and a woman".
Different from the current horse-catching love drama, the male and female protagonists of this drama have hardly encountered any external obstacles.
No parental objection, no class gap, no third party, is a "average" love that occurs between nurses and cultural center staff that is closest to ordinary people.
When all the routines of the love story are broken, in the end it is a particularly pure state: the relationship between these two people has nothing to do with others, has nothing to do with the world, but only the internal reactions of these two people.
The encounter between the two is not so dramatic, but it is full of adult flirtation and competition.
At the first meeting, Du Mei (Jiang Shan) tests the dialect of the sweater on the 337 road (Wang Zhiwen):
"Your lover can't do furry?"
Dialect ridicule denial: Do you see me like this, like a wife?
Du Mei twisted his head to the side and smiled lightly, and the audience naturally sensed that these two people had a play!
Later, in order to verify that the dialect is unreliable, Du Mei sent his girlfriend Jia Ling (Liu Bei) to test it with beauty.
At the dance, she asked her girlfriend to accompany the dialect, and she deliberately left him alone and danced with other male companions.
It must not be said that this attempt to catch the indulgence of the prodding succeeded in making him anxious.
Finally, in the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, Fang Yu bowed his head to Du Mei, and the two made love.
- Am I allowed?
- Is it used?
The story ends here is the ideal love, but it is inevitable to fall into the clichéd love of the eight o'clock file, which is unrealistic.
And "Addiction" is by no means so simple!
What kind of person is Doumei?
— Pure and passionate love fundamentalists.
Because the original family was not happy enough, Du Mei lacked faith in love.
When she got married, she didn't invite a single friend, and the dialect was confused, but she was anxious to refute:
I have no friends.
I'll only have one girlfriend from you later.
After marriage, she copied the word "love" countless times by hand on the blackboard that assigned her new house.
He also said, "Why do you want so much furniture, as long as you love me and have a bed."
She loves so much that she never allows her passion to fade.
She repeatedly received confirmation from the dialect – "Do you still love me?" Am I the one you are? The man you grew up wanting to marry? Have you been waiting for me? Do you think we're love?"
Seeing that the dialect and his girlfriend are talking and laughing, they will overturn the vinegar jar and fall into an emotional yin and yang strange atmosphere against the dialect.
Soon, the steel straight male dialect felt bound and unfree.
He answered patiently from the beginning:
- Of course you are too
-What is it?
- The one in my heart
Later, he had no choice but to admit it again and again, and gradually became bored in the persecution.
On the eve of the rupture of their relationship, DuMay, in love and hate, tied the sleeping dialect with a clothesline, still wanting to get a clear answer from the dialect.
She took a kitchen knife and asked the dialect: Do you love me? Don't tell the truth until you're dying?
The tongue was like a trapped beast in a cage, and he felt humiliated.
In the novel, Wang Shuo describes fangyu's inner feelings at that moment: I think I am too miserable, too unlucky, just a poor worm. All my life I have been tied up and fiddled with like this. A kind of grief suddenly arises...
He struggled to the edge of the bed, breaking the window on top of his head, and escaping from this suppressed and suffocating feeling.
After the divorce, when the two people sat together to review the relationship, the two sentences spoken in dialect were very classic:
"This man and woman, if you really want to talk about nothing, there is nothing to talk about."
"There is an important definition in aesthetics – distance produces beauty. That is to say, this man and woman can not be too familiar and too close, have to leave some space, have to be a little mysterious. ”
I have to sigh that Wang Shuo is really powerful, he excavated the essence, exhausted human nature, and wrote a standard model of Chinese marriage.
When I was chasing the drama, the most felt on the bullet screen was that it was too "real!"
"My mom said the same thing"
"Everyday life after marriage"
"Just had a fight like this, the lines are similar"
"I have exactly the same temper as this Dumei"
"History is always strikingly similar"
How many people find resonance in this, like looking in the mirror and looking at themselves.
In addition to the protagonist, the supporting roles of this drama are also outstanding.
For example, the "shape marriage" couple Pan Youjun and Shi Jing, who began with bebe.
Not long after they got married, they just passed the sweet period and stepped into the daily chai rice oil and salt, and the problem was exposed.
Pan Youjun described his wife as a "spiritual tyrant" with a mind like a mystery and could not guess.
Because he couldn't stand his wife, he didn't want to go home every day, and he hated not being able to die outside.
On this day, after drinking with dialects, I went downstairs in the community, and just joked that "if I am in a hurry, I will throw my wife down", and in the blink of an eye, there was a loud noise next to it.
The wife committed suicide by jumping from the balcony dressed.
Before jumping, the wife was equally tired, and a glass of red wine was poured on the wedding photo of the two.
It's so cruel, it hurts to see.
You obviously love that person, but you can't figure out why every time you want him to know how much you love him, you get hurt and then mess everything up.
And that's not even the scariest thing.
The terrible thing is that this contradiction cannot be discovered by suspicion and quarrel once or twice, but it has to go through an iterative process to understand.
But in the end, it can only be reduced to a sentence of "We tried our best, but there was nothing we could do." ”
This is the particularly cruel part of love—
"Just like in a fairy tale, two greedy people dig up treasures in the ground, and as a result, they dig out the skeleton of one person, although they quickly buried it, and even planted trees and flowers on it, but both people clearly know what is buried underneath. When I saw the tree, I saw the flower, but I thought of the skeleton underground. ”
As the theme song sings, "This is love, no one can say it clearly", we are always groping for love, confused with each other, not understanding each other, scarred.
Even after 30 years, this drama is still outdated and often new.
Now more young audiences appreciate it and learn love by revisiting the show.
Even some post-90s and post-00s have expressed their views in the bullet screen:
"It only took 8 episodes to perform the current 80 episodes"
"There are all the starting and turning, and more importantly, there is not a single waste shot"
I think the reason for this cannot escape the lack of excellent emotional works.
Take a look at some of the domestic love dramas on the market today, most of them are love dramas that pursue pure love and cleanliness.
And "Addiction" accepts the dirt and grime of human nature, and also allows the existence of "moral defects".
Most importantly, it portrays imperfect ordinary people in the play.
Unmotivated, a bit of a giant baby, a dialect of machismo;
Insecure, a bit of a dume;
Du Mei's girlfriend, Jia Ling, who has always secretly liked dialects;
Bold pursuit of the pursuit of Du Mei's large Qian Kang (Played by Li Chengru);
Han Liting, who rushed to the house to marry Fang Yu...
But it is these imperfect ordinary people who have created classics and have been reviewed over and over again.
Some film critics have commented:
"It is hard to imagine that the pioneering work of Chinese love idol drama can portray love so desperately." This is the real tragedy: there is no bad person, and there is no destructive power, but two people who love each other will slowly fall into a dead knot. Such a depressing work, then no one dared to shoot it, and it was impossible to shoot it to that point."
But it is this kind of sweetness and bitterness, joy and pain, that makes us believe that love still needs to exist.
Life is a doomed tragedy, and with love, at least this tragedy will look more beautiful and rich.
Be brave enough to love once and be addicted to it