Wen 丨 Yang Jin
Based on the novel of the same name by Liang Xiaosheng, winner of the Contradiction Literature Award, the TV series "Human World" depicts the social life from the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China to the reform and opening up period from the perspective of three generations of a family surnamed Zhou living in a provincial capital city in the north, and praises the spirit of the times in which the Chinese people work hard and strive to advance.
First, the film has a strong imprint of the times
The main narrative mode of "Human World" is to focus on the description of an ordinary family in the large historical pattern, that is, from the family history of the three generations of the Zhou family to the small circle society of "light character pieces", which is used as an incision to reproduce the condensed landscape of the big history from the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China to the reform and opening up, thus outlining the imprint of the development of the times.
First, the scene of the "light word film" successfully attracted the parent generation to explore the collective memory. Liang Xiaosheng wrote in the original work of the "light character film" prototype is the shantytown outside Harbin Road, the TV series will be built in the Changchun Agricultural Expo Exhibition Hall and Convention Center, an area of about 40,000 square meters, the details of the set are handled very well - the "light character film" area hangs a portrait of Chairman Mao and each family from house to house, each family looks deliberately old, as if someone has lived in it for a long time, as well as the roadside fence, the net pocket with the washbasin, the kang, the public toilet, etc. These treatments of just the right historical details and environmental atmosphere will fill the atmosphere at once, allowing the audience to immediately return to the northeast in the 60s and 70s. Second, the main members of the Zhou family who live in the "light character film" are displayed in front of the audience with a unique era mark at the beginning. Zhou Zhigang, the father of Zhou, went to Chongqing to participate in the construction of the "Third Line", the eldest son Zhou Bingyi responded to the call of the state to become known to the countryside, and the eldest daughter Zhou Rong followed the poet's husband to the mountain village of Guizhou to join the team, leaving only the younger brother Zhou Bingkun and his mother Li Suhua to rely on each other at home.
Second, the true feelings of ordinary people's lives have a strong sense of substitution
The story of "The World of Man" is not to promote the development of the story through a strong plot, but to create the texture of life through the emotional ties of an ordinary family, which is a work with abundant emotional concentration.
Zhou Father and Mother Zhou are the cornerstone of good family style, Zhou Bingyi is a symbol of sending affection to the homeland and the style of gentlemen, Zhou Rong's life has a transcendent aesthetic ideal, and is a practitioner of "living, loving, and writing", and Zhou Bingkun represents the beautiful character of ordinary people who are poor and untouchable. Everyone in the play seems to be far away but close to us, like many of themselves in the world. In fact, in the early 90s, there were many classic domestic dramas such as "Longing" and "I Love My Home" that vividly told the joys and sorrows of ordinary people's lives. Later, with the accelerated development of society under the market economy, the theme of mainland TV dramas began to focus on the successful elites and counterattack stories in the context of urban culture, and it is extremely difficult to see good works that narrate the lives of ordinary people and tell family ethics. Today, the emergence of "The World of Man" makes people shine, it is a rare TV series that tells the "life history of ordinary Chinese people".
For example, Zhou Bingkun is an ordinary person who "raises someone else's son and carries a sister's daughter", has not graduated from primary school, and is basically not on the same side as excellent. Compared with the older brother of the cadre and the sister who was a university professor, Zhou Bingkun can be said to be the most "unproductive" person in the family, and even when his father took the family to visit the neighbors and show off the success of his brother and sister, he could only be a transparent person who followed his wife. But it is precisely the people and stories with Zhou Bingkun as the core that gather into a face, depicting a vivid and vivid picture of the daily life of the people. In the play, Zhou Father and Zhou Bingkun had several conflicts, but these conflicts poked at everyone's weakness, because this father-son relationship is unique to China, a typical father-son relationship, and it is also an empathy point that transcends the times.
Third, the operation of the acquaintance society allows the audience to find a long-lost emotional temperature
The biggest artistic feature of "The World of Man" is to "turn life into poetry" under the operation of the acquaintance society, it is a modernist epic drama under the operation law of the acquaintance society, and has an emotional foundation and cultural foundation that is different from modern society. Humans are social animals and need to seek warmth in the social field. The warm family affection, sincere friendship and persistent love in the play are integrated into the life full of human flavors, and the power of each ordinary character to the sun is slowly blended.
In the scene of the demolition of the "photon film", Cao Debao and his wife hoped to open the back door for them through their relationship with Zhou Bingyi, the secretary of the municipal party committee, and after being rejected, the couple went to report Zhou Bingyi, which angered his younger brother Zhou Bingkun, so he went to beat up Cao Debao. The handling of this plot is obviously not in line with the operating rules of a society governed by the rule of law, but it is reasonable, because it is family-style, and in the operation mode of acquaintance society, the cultural foundation generates the motivation and behavior of the characters. For example, the pure friendship in the play is touching. Zhou's mother, Li Suhua, fell ill, and the "six little gentlemen" invariably helped the Zhou family buy coal to unload coal and help the Zhou family to work. In particular, Lü Chuan in the "Six Little Gentlemen", although he could not get together with everyone due to work reasons, he still waited in the hotel for a few days for the party. After years of separation, despite his exclusion and class, the friendship in his heart has always existed.
"The World of Man" brings us an opportunity to reflect - in that situation where materials are not abundant and life is somewhat tight, why can people's hearts be full of energy and emotional concentration so high? And where do we emotionally belong in today's near-indifferent stranger society brought about by rapid urbanization?