Domestic dramas have not been so lively for a long time.
On the one hand, it is said that it is "selling anxiety" and "intensifying contradictions".
On the other hand, it is because I heard that it "sells anxiety" and "intensifies contradictions", and it is "retaliatory five-star" on Douban.
After a long time in the background, after seeing 24 episodes, Sir felt that enough was enough.
Let's talk about this one today
"Dear Child"
Today's Douban open score, 8.1.
From the very beginning, the configuration of this drama should not be underestimated.
The protagonists are Qin Hao and Ren Suxi.
The supporting roles are also linked.
Luo Wen became Yan Liang's boss (Yao Qiu) this time.
Zhu Chaoyang's mother came to Zhang Dongsheng's house to become a sister-in-law (played by Liu Lin).
Zhang Dongsheng's wife is now the heroine's girlfriend (played by Huang Miyi).
Looking at this lineup has been expected, and then look at the realistic themes, marriage and childbirth issues, ethical dilemmas...
In Sir's view, today's debate over "Dear Little Child" is actually confusing the two issues.
So the chicken talked to the duck, and replaced the discussion with a line.
It must be talked about separately:
01
Is "Dear Little Kid" good?
Sir started by feelings.
In the recent domestic new dramas, it is worth watching.
However, if the preceding qualifier is removed, this conclusion is greatly compromised.
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The highlights mainly come from three aspects.
Director Hu Kun, one of the main creators of "The Hidden Corner".
So you can see the familiar texture.
"The Hidden Corner" is set in Zhanjiang, and the old-fashioned street scenes and special snacks are in a number of suspended, model-like domestic dramas, which makes people shine.
"Dear Child", ramps, stairs, winding roads, small street faces.
The indoor environment is also very atmospheric, there are many objects, old colors, domestic dramas can finally correctly understand what is called "ordinary people's home".
Some designed color schemes and compositions.
When the family looks at the baby in the incubator, there is a clear contrast between cold and warm colors.
The second is performance.
Full acting skills online, do not seek to explode, as long as it is appropriate and appropriate.
The interaction between Ren Suxi and Qin Hao is very lifelike, like a real husband and wife getting along.
Once the quarrel starts, it also makes people very emotional.
Third, that is, the subject matter.
This is by far the most discussed part of the entire show
What does it mean to be a mother?
Few domestic dramas have focused on the situation of women on the issue of marriage and childbearing.
When born, it hurts.
But thinking that it was better for the child to have a smooth delivery, the heroine insisted and did not choose to be cut.
After unloading the goods, the pain is not over.
Because the pelvic floor muscles have not yet recovered, she is incontinent of bowel and urine, and her self-esteem is strong, and she does not dare to let her husband see.
When I got home, I fed every day, got up at night, changed my diapers... Most of these jobs fell on her head.
Even if you invite a sister-in-law, your mother is not at ease.
One moment I hated the notes written by the sister-in-law of the moon, and the other moment I suspected that the sister-in-law was lazy to mix milk powder for the child.
At the beginning of each episode in the early stages of the series, there is basically a long shot of Yinuo.
Holding your own belly covered with lines;
Stroke your own pregnancy spots and wipe off lipstick that is not suitable for pregnant women;
Pull up the corners of your eyes and lower them, carefully observing the increasingly stretched skin.
It's a woman's anxiety that may only manifest herself in the mirror, now being pushed, magnified, and exposed to the screen one by one.
Is this, "good looking"?
The perception of "Dear Little Kid" is very divergent here
If you're struggling with these anxieties, then you might be yelling "real," punching in, and feeling like you're getting talked out and cathartic.
Conversely, if you are not the subject of this emotional blow, you may feel suffocating and oppressive and unable to look down.
The latter cannot be simply summarized as "Oh, man", but also includes young people who feel that these things are still far away, women who have the same troubles but feel that they are "so tired every day, and don't want to watch the drama and then put pressure on themselves", and even people who come here who "had children in our time were not as pretentious as you are".
"Dear Little Child" is like a double-edged sword, clearly drawing a topic for audiences with different positions.
This is related to the original split in the topic.
It is also because the show initially adopts an unbalanced narrative approach.
Always hitting on one side, like a book of fear of marriage and childbearing.
Having a baby is something you must miss.
The man left the hospital, went home to watch a ball game, drink beer, and slept.
Mother-in-law, it must be strange.
Sneaking the placenta to the younger son to wrap wontons to eat, the name is great supplement.
When I got to my daughter-in-law, I couldn't hear how to say it
What's so tired
It nature it endows
She is the woman of her motherhood of her
Look at the old sow
A nest of it gives birth to ten eight and it is tired
Maternity, no one must care.
Friends and family came to visit, but they all went straight to the newborn.
The mother wanted to drink some water, her throat was silent, no one helped, and finally only the mother's family noticed that she was thirsty, "whose daughter is distressed."
Some people will say that this is very real, and there are many such situations in reality.
But when we talk about a work, we can't just think about whether the phenomena it reflects exist or not, but also how the director processes those phenomena.
The suffocation of "Dear Little Child" comes largely from the fact that the purpose of the plot design is too obvious
The above rushed to force the heroine to divorce the center.
As a result, it is too easy for the audience to predict the plot development.
Look, the husband cheated on him in marriage; look, the sister-in-law who invited him is not reliable; look, play mahjong with the child, sure enough, something happened.
"Dear Child" is not filmed around "people", but around "topics".
Sir is not saying that it is impossible to show people's problems in life.
"The Happy Life of Poor Mouth Zhang Damin", the brother who has a good face and is calculating, the neighbor Gu San who does not spare people in his mouth, and the sister-in-law Sasha who is grinning.
You don't hate them for these "glitches".
As long as they are vivid and three-dimensional, this is a character that people can enjoy watching.
Xiao Lu, the male protagonist of "Dear Child", is a collection of online scumbags and widowed parenting fathers.
But to be specific about who he is, it seems to be vague.
At the beginning, the mother-in-law did not have a little thoughtfulness, and she hated every word.
Later, the female principal divorced, and when she went to the door to intercede, she specially made the pepper radish that the heroine loved to eat and brought to her.
She began to show a different side.
You will find that the good and bad sides of this person have a strong instrumentality.
When the screenwriter needs her to be hated, she does things and speaks irrationally, and she is angry every minute;
When the screenwriter needed her sympathy, he immediately became reasonable and reasonable, and people's hearts are long...
So who is she herself? It doesn't seem to matter either.
To put it bluntly, in order to highlight the plight of the heroine, others can't help but be "tools" and one-sided.
Just when many people are arguing about whether "Dear Child" is selling anxiety and creating confrontation, in fact, if you look down, you will find that "women's topic" has come to an abrupt end after the first few episodes.
plot:
The male and female protagonists divorced, but the daughter was diagnosed with leukemia when she was four years old. In order to save their daughters, the male and female protagonists who have formed their own families plan to have another child...
Doesn't it feel a little familiar?
Yes, adapted from the 2008 film "Left and Right" directed by Wang Xiaoshuai.
There is a real archetype behind this story.
At the end of 2005, a couple in Sichuan, Yan and Qin, after three years of divorce, gave birth to a child again for their terminally ill son (because the success rate of brother stem cell pairing was 25%), and wanted to use umbilical cord blood to save the eldest son.
The film version focuses on ethical dilemmas.
What about "Dear Little Kid"?
With one event, many topics are stitched together.
First of all, the dilemma of marriage and childbearing, then the tear-jerking family drama, and then there are the practical problems of difficult and expensive treatment...
Sir does not deny that "Dear Little Children" has a sharp start that breaks through the plight of women.
But the pity is also that
Too many of these dilemmas have been revealed in a hurry.
What is the back-up?
Divorced ex wants to have another child, because IVF is not successful or even needs to be "physically practiced", you can imagine how many fights two people will have to quarrel with their respective families now.
Well, it is also the parents who are best at domestic dramas.
In the movie, the current and ex of the heroine have not met, and in the drama version, they are the buddies they have known since then, and there are more plot conflicts.
The heroine's current husband has a sister in charge, and does not agree with her brother to take money to see other people's children, and disputes are inevitable.
If this is the chain reaction of a child's illness.
Then the role of the heroine's girlfriend is even more puzzling, why insert a year-old love affair between her and her uncle?
So the more it is broadcast to the back, the more the audience complains
"Triple watch" "Deleting 10 episodes does not affect progress".
nutshell.
The advantages and disadvantages of "Dear Child" are obvious: the theme is breakthrough, the interpretation is wonderful, but it is also the plot fragmented and dragged.
This is easy to see.
It's worth discussing
02
Does "Dear Little Kid" sell anxiety?
"After watching the fear of marriage and childbearing."
"Just pull the fertility rate down another point."
You will find that the most criticism of this play is not from the quality of the work itself, but from the social impact it will have.
Is the core of "Dear Little Child" telling everyone not to have children?
Not to mention the existing environment, whether it can pass or not is a problem.
The second half of the plot also obviously shifts to the tone of praising family affection and caring for the family.
"Scumbag" Xiao Lu began to take on the role of a father.
In order to take care of his daughter, he jumped ship and left his self-made buddies together.
The heroine who is too sensitive and stubborn in the early stage.
In the face of the problem, it began to consider comprehensively, and it was less emotional.
The mode of plot development is "opening and closing".
As soon as we come up, we will spread out all the contradictions and intensify them in an all-round way.
But then, gradually, all the characters began to rethink and transform.
The popularity of "Dear Child" benefited from the first half.
The criticism also comes from the first half.
Workplace ceiling, marriage breakdown, health strain, mental burden, social opinion... It's all about women today.
When a mother and a child are connected, what else can be thought of besides love?
Sir felt that it could be extended to a word.
transmigration.
In another poster, a woman and a girl are connected by an umbilical cord.
The rose in my mother's hand had withered.
On the umbilical cord, new flower bones were formed.
And a detail that many people overlook.
At the beginning of the plot, Yinuo finishes giving birth and holds a soft little baby.
While sobbing, he said:
You say girls
How much trouble the girl has to take
It has to be like me
The rest, she didn't say.
But we all know what that half-sentence is.
In "Dear Child", it is not so much a social topic of "becoming a mother" and "fertility rate".
It is better to say that what makes everyone fall into a dispute and fall into a division is actually - themselves.
Children, we are the future.
And today, do we have enough confidence and grasp of this society?
The heroine of "A Day on the Beach" said it as early as 39 years ago
If I can't tell myself
Life is a sure happiness
How can I say to another being
As long as you come, I can give you happiness
This is irresponsible
When we can't firmly say that we are the masters of society.
I must also hesitate to introduce this to the children - "the world that Mom and Dad brought you to".
We are anxious.
But our film and television drama is far from clear, why we are anxious.
"Selling Anxiety".
As if to say, there is too much anxiety, you don't say it.
But you may not realize that the core point is "trafficking".
What is trafficking?
It's that you don't do anything to process, you don't think about it, you just want to make up a simple number.
Put it in other areas.
Selling comedy means that there is no laugh at all, but only uses the passage of playing ugly and to give the audience a rough tickle.
"Selling terror" means that there are no ghosts at all, but they use soft pornography, psychopaths and flashing jump scares to package them into horror movies to circle money.
They don't mean to focus on what you want, they just take advantage of the mood you want to pay attention to.
See.
The more "trafficked", the more often it represents scarcity
Everyone can't care about the pursuit of "good".
As long as there is," it is enough to deceive people.
Back to "Selling Anxiety".
The misleading part of this statement is that it replaces the discussion of the work itself by characterizing it.
It seems that anxiety is the original sin.
It seems that the problems of this society are all blamed on film and television works that teach people badly.
Selling anxiety?
Shouldn't "Daylight" be called "inciting derailment.".
"Why Women Kill" is not "instigating murder".
Compare that to you just find out
The problem with domestic dramas is often not that they talk too much, but that they say too little;
It is often not that the filming is too hot, but that it is too mediocre and conservative.
The shortcomings of "Dear Little Child", Sir believes, are precisely in:
Anxious scenes, after a few episodes, hurriedly off the line.
Staying in the conventional materials that can be found everywhere on the Internet, but can not dig into the most important places, can only turn to warm and reconciliation.
But.
Like "Dear Child", domestic dramas that touch a little bit of realistic themes are so rare.
The anxiety that the audience has nowhere to release is pouring out on this play.
At this time, the "selling anxiety" argument is worrying that it is not commenting on the work itself, but a numbing conspiracy
Continue to do nothing.
Pretend that as long as the problem is sealed, everything will be fine.
What is the name of not selling anxiety?
That is, don't just stay at the most simple and rough level, break through a gap, in order to go wider and wider
The first step is to face anxiety.
The second step is to dissect anxiety.
The third step is to talk about how to alleviate and cure.
Don't let our domestic dramas be stifled in the first step.
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