"Before, uncles could save a person's lives, but at that time uncle was too selfish. But now that my uncle had grown up, he decided to save that man's life. With the conversation between Lao Su and Hehe on the hospital bed, it finally drew a satisfactory end to the ALMOST depressed and low TV series "Dear Child".
Old Sue and Hehe
From the beginning of the broadcast to the ending, "Dear Little Child" was accompanied by great controversy. Likes said that this is a drama with a real life texture, allowing you to find resonance at the same time, but also lament the bad heart of life. These praises have made the Douban score of this drama reach 8.1. Critics say the show is too bloody and bad, with a chicken feather life and blunt dramatic conflict, which is clearly "selling anxiety".
Hu Kun, the director and screenwriter of the play, believes that there is a beautiful side to life, and there is also a not so beautiful side, as a creator, you should have the courage to tell the real world to the audience.
Qin Hao as Xiao Lu
Ren Suxi as Fang Yinuo
Objectively speaking, "Dear Child" can be regarded as a masterpiece in domestic dramas over the years in terms of showing the texture of life, authenticity, and fireworks. In the play, there is no domineering president, no luxury car that changes at any time, no large flat layer and a bright and beautiful profession, Xiao Lu is an ordinary salesman, driving an old car of tens of thousands of yuan. His wife, Fang Yinuo, is an ordinary teacher and will be excited about being promoted to class teacher. Xiao Lu and Fang Yinuo's home is in an old neighborhood, the house is as messy as most ordinary families, and even some viewers have seen that their home has peeled walls, "looking too real."
The opening of the episode is equally true. The opening is a long shot, Fang Yinuo wiped off his makeup in the mirror, the pregnancy spots on his face appeared little by little, looking at the big belly in the mirror, the woman's eye sockets gradually moistened. In the next production, Fang Yinuo originally held the confidence of "I am such a big person, the child cannot be born", but he did not expect that his stomach was getting more and more painful, and he began to beg for forgiveness and wanted to have a caesarean section. When she was pushed into the delivery room, she was sweating in pain during the delivery process, and her green tendons were straight out...
These plots and details have made many female audiences with production experience particularly moved: there is finally a drama that truly shows women's production. Hu Kun is also particularly proud of this paragraph, saying that the film and television works he has seen are basically the mother's screams, the child was born, relatives and friends congratulated, and then the family was particularly harmonious and began a new life, "Whoever gives birth to a child is like a female star, and after thirty days of slimming down, he comes out with makeup." We are all ordinary people."
Xiao Lu and Fang Yinuo's home
The mother-in-law visits her daughter-in-law
The truth in the play is worth affirming, but some plots are handled slightly rigid and routine. For example, the wife gives birth to a child, but the husband goes home to drink beer to watch the ball game; the mother-in-law holds the newborn child, but ignores the daughter-in-law on the hospital bed; the husband takes the child at night, but the husband falls asleep alone; the mother-in-law's old-fashioned parenting concept and the daughter-in-law's more advanced parenting concept are incompatible; the mother-in-law is not compatible, resulting in the husband being caught in the middle... These contents are obvious for the emotional incitement of some female audiences. On the Internet, there are many women who have children posting, and there must be that sentence in it - they are like this.
It is precisely because of this that the People's Daily published an article entitled "Realistic Theme Works 'Selling Anxiety' Should Be Stopped in Moderation", criticizing "Dear Children" for "stacking and superimposing all kinds of extreme problems such as these, which will not only cause disgust among the audience, but also may produce a great sense of social anxiety, and even cause young people's fear of marriage and childbearing, and aggravate the intensification of family conflicts." The article also criticized that it is not excluded that such things may really occur in real life, and even more extreme ones have occurred, but these are not universal phenomena, will not appear in the same family environment, and cannot represent the current public life. Will it be counterproductive for film and television to focus these individual extreme events on the plot of a TV series?
For these criticisms, Hu Kun said on Weibo, "There is a beautiful side to life, and there must be another side." I choose to face the truth, and I believe that the audience has courage and wisdom. In his view, life will not always be only sunshine, no wind and rain, the road of life will not be a horse, no thorns and bumps. He also said, "Fear comes from the unknown, and reflecting reality is not selling anxiety." Life has its truest appearance, and I neither want to scandalize it nor beautify it. ”
Douban score
Regrettably, the finale of "Dear Child" is slightly hasty, and although it has come to a successful end, it seems slightly far-fetched. The audience's dissatisfaction with the ending is also reflected in the Douban score, which is currently down to 7.9. In the play, Hehe has already been successfully matched with Lao Su, because of the misunderstanding of Xiao Lu, he chose to give up. But in the last episode, just because he heard the confession of the bar, he chose to go into the hospital again. Not only did it all come suddenly, but it also lacked a convincing reason, and while it wasn't a bad ending, it was far-fetched.
Frankly speaking, "Dear Child" is a masterpiece in recent domestic dramas, and it can also remind the current audience to re-examine their lives. But for the creators, is the infinite superposition of anxiety, contradictions, and conflicts in life into the work just to simply incite the audience's emotions and make the topic of the series out of the circle? However, back to life itself, episodes aired without giving a positive and effective analysis and deeper thinking.
Red Star News reporter Qiu Junfeng
Edited by Li Jie
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