In the second half of "Our Marriage", I became more and more depressed, and my heart did not fall, so I quickly opened the "Forensic Record".
I have not understood that film and television dramas have been filmed so much, why when it comes to professional women, the major self-media can only mention Nie Baoyan repeatedly.
Selfish speculation, perhaps because the deep-rooted prejudice against women in domestic dramas seems to have not changed at all from beginning to end.
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Dong Sijia, a strong woman who is out of control
"In Our Marriage" has a relatively special female role, the strong woman Dong Sijia.
Investment company executives, shrewd and capable, very successful at work, workaholic undoubtedly, Sheng Jiangchuan and Huo Liankai have complained about her, others are full-time mothers, she is a full-time mother (in the workplace, the attitude towards men and women is very different, it is really a double standard of red fruits).
However, Dong Sijia, a strong woman, is not strong at all when facing the family, which is manifested in the helplessness of her husband's needs.
Her family is actually very perfect, her husband Li Yuwen is full-time with a baby, dedicated to the family, and her son Li Xi is also very independent and excellent, which is compared with Jiang Jing's children, and the play is described.
In the plot, Li Yuwen's depiction of the family is very heavy, which shows that Dong Sijia, as a professional woman who is charging into the front, she actually has no worries.
But she fell into the habit of alcoholism because she was overly stressed.
She is very anxious, even if the child is well taken care of, she is still anxious to death, this inexplicable anxiety almost runs through the entire play, this emotion is completely invisible to Sheng Jiangchuan, who is also an investor, and not in Li Xiaotian.
There seems to be a plausible explanation in the middle, Dong Sijia does not want others to know that her husband is a full-time cook. Huo Liankai and Sheng Jiangchuan unanimously evaluated her as hypocritical and selfish.
But this feels like a sin of wanting to add to it, as their competitor Dong Zong, it is also wrong to protect the face of his husband.
Dong Sijia is so busy, in the case of ensuring the normal operation of the family, Li Yuwen, who has a lower salary, chose to take a back seat is also a more correct choice, Shen Yanxing took the child for six years, sheng Jiangchuan did not feel that this was a problem.
In order to reinforce Dong Sijia's anxiety, the way this supposedly fierce female executive communicates with people is also very suffocating, whether it is with employees or with her husband, it is never a positive problem solving, and the aggressive tone of the audience off-screen has collapsed.
How to express the emotions of professional women needs to be well thought out by screenwriters, and "women's natural sensibility" seems to have become a prejudice and an obstacle to the shaping of characters in domestic dramas.
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The more three-dimensional strong woman Nie Baoyan
The first season of "Forensic Record" began airing in 1997, a total of only 20 episodes, this refreshing super fast-paced criminal investigation drama, 25 years later today, in addition to the scene and costumes are slightly rougher, the character settings and plot development in the drama caused by the thinking is really new.
You must have brushed up on the news that Nie Baoyan really became a forensic doctor when he grew up. Nie Baoyan, a forensic doctor who is not so beautiful but very handsome, is simply in line with the whole imagination of ignorant girls for urban professional women.
Why Nie Baoyan's professional female image is very successful, on the contrary, the female executives Dong Sijia in our mainland dramas always make people feel almost interesting.
First of all, Nie Baoyan's mood was much more stable than Dong Sijia's.
Nie Baoyan is an excellent forensic doctor, facing corpses and various suspects every day, she always adheres to her professional ethics, even in the face of her father's killer, she still holds a ruler that distinguishes between public and private while having an emotional breakdown.
In the first episode, Nie Baoyan dissected the female deceased who had a breast augmentation abortion before she was killed, and Zeng Sir made a joke about the deceased, and was shocked by her cold eyes, and quickly said sorry, should not say so about the deceased.
Treat every suspect and the deceased equally, and the side can also prove her excellence and professionalism.
Not only Nie Baoyan, this is the professional quality of the outstanding professionals in the drama "Forensic Record", another outstanding female character in the play, Xiao Tangcai, a police officer, who works seriously and bravely, is thoughtful, and is good at using intuition to solve the case.
"Women are naturally sensual" is the source of inspiration for solving cases, not an excuse for unreasonable trouble.
Female characteristics are a double-edged sword, how to use it, rely on the screenwriter and director to interpret.
Secondly, the screenwriter intends to portray a flesh-and-blood person, not a god.
Nie Baoyan is a wonderful professional woman, but she has her own shortcomings, in terms of personal feelings, she is a bit dragging her feet, being cheated by the same man twice, and indirectly contributing to a murder.
She is not perfect, even less awake in the face of the people she once loved, but after the pain, she is never entangled, has her own understanding and growth, a flesh and blood person, never perfect.
So what this drama finally presents to us is a very three-dimensional, knowledgeable, educated, professional and confident woman, and at the same time has her own shortcomings, and she is more attractive.
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Female characters who can never fly
On the other hand, the role of Dong Sijia, whether it is a personal personality or a professional image, there are too many places that need to be enriched.
When I saw her use of avoidance tactics in dealing with family issues, I even had some doubts, is this the writer and director carrying bootlegs? Or are they all strong women in the workplace who can't communicate?
A strong woman who has achieved the position of vice president in an investment company, emotional intelligence so far, how to charge forward? I held the mentality of watching the lives of professional women, only to see Dong Sijia twisting her head in the face of career and family, relying on alcoholism to escape.
And as a middle-aged urban living in 2022, I don't even understand why she is like this.
But at this point, this interesting question, I seem to have found the answer.
In this drama, everyone's occupation is an investment company executive, and Sheng Jiangchuan can be described as "invincible" in his career, and being his wife seems to be a good choice.
If you are Shen Yanxing, your husband earns millions of dollars a year, as a full-time wife, will you want to go out and work?
I think that 99 of the 100 full-time wives in the position of Shen Comet will choose to maintain the status quo, the family income is stable, and the children grow up in a stable environment is what women like to consider first.
But Shen Yanxing chose to return to the workplace, harvesting 99% of the gunfire of the barrage: to do, not satisfied, incomprehensible, regardless of the overall situation.
However, Dong Sijia and Li Yuwen are just Sheng Jiangchuan and Shen Comet who have changed genders.
Dong Sijia's annual salary is also so high, Li Yuwen is at home with children, and the cooperative marriage between the two of them is even better than that of Shengjiang Chuan Shen Comet, which can be corroborated by just looking at everyone's evaluation of Sheng Sugar:
Li Yuwen was very successful with his children, and the whole network felt that it was even better than shen yanxing and Jiang Jing, the two mothers, and there were countless front-side depictions in the play.
If it is for the sake of family interests, Dong Sijia asked Li Yuwen to take the baby at home, and Sheng Jiangchuan asked Shen Yanxing to continue to take the baby at home full-time.
But from the drama to the bullet screen to the Internet commentary, everyone is hurting Li Yuwen, and Jiang Jing even thinks that Dong Sijia cut off Li Yuwen's wings to fly.
Perhaps this is the source of Dong Sijia's anxiety. No matter how well she did, she had reason to be blamed.
Because the position was meant to be for men, she shouldn't be here.
This feeling of "stealing other people's positions" runs through the whole play, and she screws up no matter what she does.
Why can't we create a professional female character beyond Nie Baoyan.
Because no one ever cared about whether Shen Comets had wings or not, and the sky never belonged to them.
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