I don't want to demean any domestic drama, in fact, the standard of domestic dramas in recent years is constantly improving.
However, it has to be said that there are many plots that in order to win ratings, they always push the contradictions and conflicts of the characters to the extreme, the character shaping is very extreme, one side is very virgin, and the other side is the culmination of all the disgust in the world.
The slots are full, and dog blood bridges abound.
Although the male and female protagonists keep outputting golden sentences, it seems that there are still not many that can really impress you and make people remember, not to mention that those golden sentences can often find some shadows in Japanese dramas and American dramas.
The character relationship is chaotic, dog blood, bizarre and similar, and sometimes it is a waste of good actors.
How to tell the story of a divorced woman, true, profound and unconventional, it is recommended that domestic screenwriters learn from "The Amazing Mrs. Maisel".
Mickey's marriage change begins in the first season, and not long after the plot begins, her marriage collapses, and when she is dressed most beautifully, her husband Joel tells her that he is tired of all this to be separated from her, and actively admits that he has a new love, a female secretary in the office, a silly, cute girl.
This marriage completely changed the thinking and life of the two families of Mickey and Joel.
Even in today's China, in many places, the overall environment is not tolerant of divorced women, not to mention the more conservative social atmosphere of the 1950s.
When he learned that Mickey and Joel were divorcing, Joel's father, Maisel Sr., told his daughter-in-law Mickey in an out-of-control state: My sister has been living in a nursing home to take care of the elderly since she was widowed, busy during the day, and at night she plays cards alone to kill time.
The old man was of course kind, and he seemed to foresee Mickey's future as bleak as the widowed old woman, and he felt heartache for her but could not do anything about it, and he could only blame his son for raising him.
As for how to correct his own son, who was raised by his own hands, this process I think Joel's father is very clever, worthy of being a shrewd and loving businessman, which I will talk about in detail later.
After the marriage change, Mickey was surprised to find that she had no husband or not, and the treatment she received was too different.
She and Imogen went to a physical training class, and with a little force, Imogen reminded her not to push too hard, otherwise she would look like the middle-aged women in the divorce corner.
Imogen said that middle-aged women who were out of wedlock came here to find a husband as soon as possible, or to make the forensic doctor think she was thin when she died; and we were just there to be able to eat cheesecake.
When he heard that Joel's affair was his secretary, Imogen's defenses against the girl who knew shorthand were stretched to full strength, and Imogen later learned shorthand.
The night when Mickey was pulled away by the police department because she was drunk and immoral, and could not go home, the beautiful and elegant Rose thought for the first time: If I quarrel with my husband, I will stop when I walk to the door in anger, because I have nowhere to go in this city. But where can my daughter go?
A beautiful and elegant woman who has lived a lifetime, because of her daughter's marriage change, realizes that if she leaves her husband, she has no place in this city.
Therefore, she angrily blamed her husband for not caring about his daughter, asking him to care more about her daughter, fulfilling the responsibility of a father, and she wanted Mickey to move back home, just like when she was not married, and she wanted to find ways to make her daughter happy during this time.
And father Ambie sadly talked about the V1 and V2 examples in class, and then rushed to Joel's father's factory after work, clumsily negotiating with the shrewd ex-family, trying to pay half the money to buy the house where Mickey and Joel are currently living, and not wanting her daughter and children to leave the environment they were familiar with.
And Mickey herself, the change is also huge.
She began to read various job postings in the newspaper, and when she saw a women's movement rally in the park, she rushed up to speak on the moment, winning warm applause.
When she began to pay attention to the current affairs and politics in the newspapers, even her father, Ambi, was surprised and said: You actually started reading newspapers?
Mickey was a little angry at her father's reaction: "Didn't I read the newspaper before?"
Father said: "You used to be only interested in shoe ads in the newspaper.
Mickey began to reflect: Is it because the corset is too tight? Leaving our brains deprived of oxygen and unable to think, leaving us stuck in fashion and shoes and ignoring real life? These feelings and reflections were all used by her in the paragraphs, which won the resonance of many women.
She began to sell cosmetics in the department store, and her father, Ambi, pretended to be passing by and looked at it and left in pain, he blamed himself a little, and he also blamed his daughter a little, why did he choose the Russian literature major that was not practical at all?
Just because Mum Rose has never been to Mickey's workplace doesn't mean she's really not hurt, Mickey is an excellent benchmark that she built exactly according to the pattern that society and men like, but she was married at the age of 25. So, she began to realize that the social atmosphere for the upbringing of girls has always paid more attention to the cultivation of aesthetics and tastes, those more suitable for the living room and kitchen courses, girls are encouraged to study art, literature, home economics, while boys to learn engineering, mathematics, physics and mechanics, business.
That's why Ross would later say something to a columbia schoolgirl: Is there any use for you to have a Master of Fine Arts? Being a college teacher? I didn't notice that there were female teachers at this university. Being a female artist? It seems that there has never been a female artist, I have met two in Paris, one even if the man's name has changed, wearing a man's hat no one buys her paintings, and the other is crazy. My daughter majored in literature in undergraduate science, but now she can only do the most ordinary work in department stores.
Universities believe that the future of girls is nothing more than marriage and children, diplomas are only one of their dowries, and universities need to use girls' tuition fees to subsidize boys' colleges, which is the truth.
That's why Mickey's mother said to the principal in a righteous way: You have accepted their money, but you have never provided them with the corresponding education and services.
Rose, a full-time wife who has been pampered all her life, has been a grandmother, but in college, she has instigated a group of girls to change to a more practical major, and why is this not because of the touch and reflection of her daughter's experience?
Mickey is happy because she has a pair of parents who love her very much.
Let's talk about the change in marriage to Joel's family.
Joel's parents are very sensible and do not protect their sons, especially the old Maisel's outburst of complaint is quite powerful: I only have one son of you, you say you don't want to go into the factory to do dirty and tiring work, I have to ask my brother to find you a decent job and income, buy you a beautiful house, and now I want to take this house back.
In an instant, Mickey's family understood that the house was still in Joel's father's name, and Joel's work was also arranged by his father.
Old Maisel realized that blindly supporting his son this road has come to an end, the son not only does not appreciate it, but also goes farther and farther on the wrong road, and immediately intervenes, it can be said that these few tricks are very effective.
1, cut off the financial resources, immediately tell the truth, threaten to take back the house, to give Joel a huge pressure.
2. Immediately ask the brothers to dismiss Joel's secretary and replace him with a strict middle-aged wife.
3, sure enough, Joel was young and vigorous, quit his job in a huff, and built a love nest with Penny Pan in a rented house.
4. After meeting with PennyPan, the couple made it clear that Penny Pan was not suitable for her son and was not smart enough.
5, joel, who lost his job, can only return to his parents' factory to work, but also experienced the difficulties and hardships of his parents in this process, began to gradually understand his parents, and began to carry out a series of reforms in the factory, improving the working environment for female workers. He also understood the complexity of managing factory personnel, and began to feel that his father was wise and not simple, and as time went on, Joel became more and more involved in it, and even began to live in the factory office, and the father-son relationship was greatly relaxed. He also persuaded his father and mother to deposit some of the cash in the bank and use bank loans to expand the scale in moderation.
6, Joel works in the factory during the day, tries a side business at night, opens a bar, the original no one is optimistic about the location, but under Joel's efforts to operate, more and more improved. When he encountered the landlord who thought that his business was good and affected his family mahjong hall and did not intend to rent it to him, his father taught him: impress the landlord with profit sharing, and this trick really worked.
It can be said that Joel has gradually matured, and his love with Mei has come to fruition.
Joel and Mickey, after going through the separation and integration, finally embarked on a real separation.
Watching Joel and May snuggle up to each other in pain, Mickey sighed softly and left with dignity.
There is no jealousy, no anger, just a hint of sadness, after the divorce, both parties do not hesitate to help each other when they are in danger, and the two families also help each other, and the family affection is not dispersed.
For the parents of the two families, although the marriage of the children has been broken, there are still grandchildren who are connected by blood. Joel's parents have always treated Mickey like a daughter, and after Ambie and Rose lost their place of residence, they have always been enthusiastic about letting them live at home, although the lifestyles of the two couples are really different, and there have been many jokes and gaps, but the original intention of helping each other has not changed.
When the elder Maisel was seriously ill and hospitalized, Ambie's eulogy written for him was very touching, from the first season of Anbi's misunderstanding of the elder Maisel's rescue of thirteen Jews, to the feeling of admiration, both gratitude for taking in his own family, and panic about the imminent loss of a loved one, two men who had been so different, when a disease suddenly occurred, unprecedented recognition and understanding.
After the divorce, Joel's upbringing seems to be going a little smoother than Mickey's, both in terms of career and love;
Mickey has had many highlight moments, each time when she is about to rush to the clouds, and then quickly slides down, in the ups and downs and turbulence, she still bought the original house, according to her own wishes to decorate the warm and beautiful room, although there is also a large debt, life finally returned to the normal track, the child also grew up day by day.
After the divorce, joel and Joel each reflected on their past experiences, Mickey realized that her past life was too narrow, and Joel realized that she had been tolerated by her parents and wife, and had not really done a successful thing independently.
This is the truth of life and marriage.
A pair of young people, never really independent, never really left their parents, after entering the marriage, each with the previous twenty years of life inertia to re-establish a family, but in fact, they are still the children of their parents, and have not really had their own independent identity.
So, Joel decided to dump his lover, what happened? In fact, what he really wants to get rid of is the control and influence of his parents, to rebel against his spouse, in fact, he wants to rebel against his parents, he thinks that the frustration is given by others, and it is others who hinder him from becoming himself.
After losing his marriage, wanting to turn back but being rejected, losing his original job, returning to the factory, experiencing hardships, gradually finding his place in the factory, exerting his ability, truly experiencing the joy of growth, after realizing that he did not have the talent of talk shows, he began to run a bar, and also used the little skills of his father to teach him to regain love.
After the divorce, Mickey also realized that she was actually stronger than she imagined.
Excellent housekeeping skills, can be applied to any chaotic scene, makeup skills, aesthetics and taste can be fully mastered in the big scene, there are many difficulties in life, but she still slowly solved most of the problems.
What is important is that she found herself, gained freedom, and found a job that she liked best and was best at.
Fast forward to that early morning, and she asked Lenny Bruce, who had just been released on bail: Do you really like stand-up comedy?
Lenny quickly said a bunch of reasons he didn't like, but behind each one was deep love.
If it is not deep love, how can it be that you have sold a car and sold a house for this, even if you don't make money, you must persist?
Mickey looked at Lenny's departing back and smiled confidently and brightly: Yes, he loves it!
She also strengthened her confidence.