The adult world has the word easy.
Complex relationships, heavy financial burdens, unfinished work ... Each one is enough to overwhelm one's breath.
Middle-aged people's helplessness, confusion, anxiety, depression ...
A recent Korean drama, not spilling dog blood, not tearing, but showing such cruelty and bitterness to the fullest -
My Liberation Journal
This is a warm story between three sisters and brothers who want to escape the wordless life and a mysterious outsider.
Enough to pierce the heart, and enough to heal.
It was as if a camera had been installed on every ordinary person, and "my soul hid from me that I had starred in this play."
When it first started broadcasting, it was ordinary, the heat was flat, and I didn't expect that after a few episodes, word of mouth exploded.
The Douban score also rose from 8.6 to 9.1.
All three siblings of the Lian family work in Seoul.
They live with their parents in a village in Yamapo City, Gyeonggi Province, next to Seoul, and commute by road for two or three hours a day.
Similar to living in Yanjiao, but working in Haidian.
Weekends or holidays can not rest, to brave the scorching sun, with their parents to go to the fields to farm, hot sweaty.
The heroine, Mi-jeong, the younger of the three siblings, works for a large company in Seoul.
She is an out-and-out social phobia and feels extremely uncomfortable on crowded occasions.
Colleagues in the company are keen to participate in fandom meetings, and they can get sponsorship bonuses while also expanding their networks, and maybe there will be sexual encounters.
She never attended, partly because she lived too far away and partly because she was too introverted.
Occasional dinners, always the most silent one.
Other colleagues were excitedly chatting about men and gossip, only she did not say a word, silently eating.
When bowling, colleagues enjoy it.
Only she, looking left and right, even if she tries hard, she still has no sense of existence.
"It's theirs, I don't have anything."
Mei Zhen is not arrogant, she just does not like these activities that kill time, but do not have much meaning.
Gentle character, some people began to think she was good bully.
Her ex-boyfriend cheated her credit card loan and disappeared, leaving Mei Zhen alone to face high repayments.
The boss looked for her stubble again and again, and no matter what the plan was made, she had to be beaten back and work overtime to change it.
Several female colleagues discussed where to go on vacation and what kind of bikinis to wear.
When asked, she found that Mei Zhen only had a featureless indigo blue swimsuit.
At a young age, she was not interested in anything.
No money, no expectations, no desire to accept anything new...
Mei Zhen's heart seems to be missing a large piece, like a dark night without lights, a cold winter without a sun.
Even so, she still wanted to change, even if it was just a little.
She wanted to experience what it was like to be filled inside.
She wanted to release the soul that was imprisoned in her body.
Mei Zhen's situation is very bad, and the eldest sister and second brother are not much better.
The eldest sister Qizhen has to go to the tavern every day after work to drink a cup, in order to numb herself with alcohol and temporarily relieve her heavy heart.
The more she struggled, the more she sunk, making her only feel that her body was getting tired day by day.
She wants to start a love affair as soon as possible, anyone can do it, in order to warm each other through the winter.
But again and again, she is still alone.
A blind date asked her what the introducer had given her a note about what the phrase "picked up woman" meant.
Qi Zhen took this opportunity to open the topic and explain it word by word, while also showing her own concept of love.
It turned out that when she was a child, she saw such a story in the history books -
After the husband was beheaded, the wife rushed up and caught the head with her skirt.
As she grew older, Qi Zhen firmly believed that true love should be like this.
No matter what happens to the other half, you will "catch it" instead of letting it go.
The blind date man on the other side was frightened by her and his eyes widened, and he asked repeatedly, "Are you trying to cut off my head?"
The result is predictable, and it ends in failure again.
Over time, she began to envy arranged marriages that she had no choice for.
Anyway, it is better than choosing to go by yourself, and still nothing is better.
The second brother, Chang Hee, has emotional problems and has just been dumped by his girlfriend.
The reason is that he is too "old-fashioned".
Chang Hee blamed all this on living too far away to see each other more.
In his view, being born in the countryside is like a shackle, limiting more possibilities.
Families don't have a choice, even who they are friends with.
Because he had previously owed loans, Chang-hee's salary was now handed over to his parents.
Even to buy an electric car, you must first report the application.
When his father asked him why, he said indignantly, "Couples kissing happen in the car, but I don't have a car!"
In order to work, I have to answer the phone of my boss after work, which is more than an hour.
In his father's eyes, what he did was nothing more than a waste of life.
It was precisely because he had no planning that he became what he is now.
For social animals, love is like an expensive luxury.
The eldest sister, Qizhen, has an ordinary family and is not outstanding in appearance, which is always ignored among many women.
No money, no love.
The second brother Changxi, there is no time to accompany his girlfriend, and he can only rely on text messages to fall in love.
Even the final breakup was so sloppy.
He knows that the other person has a better choice, and maybe quitting is the best ending.
The little sister Meizhen has long been squeezed out of enthusiasm and desire by work.
Instinctively rejecting everyone, not interested in love, living in their own world.
The three sisters and brothers are thus trapped in life.
The eldest sister will be troubled by her own permed hairstyle, and the second brother will be anxious because she cannot buy a car.
Gentle little sister, work and love are not going well.
Despite this, they still live bravely in the big city.
For the three brothers and sisters, if you want to liberate yourself, you must take a brave step.
For the eldest sister, what she has to do is to learn to know herself and find someone to fall in love with.
For the second brother, what he has to do is to learn to listen to his heart and no longer be dominated by his parents.
So, for the little sister, what should she do?
Taciturn and seemingly unsociable, it is her unique shining point.
Perhaps, there is an arrangement in the darkness.
The foreigner who did not want to be named, helped his parents during the day, drank only a cup of wine at night, and rarely took the initiative to talk to others - Mr. Ku.
No one knows where he came from, no one knows his past.
When two equally silent people meet, what kind of chemical effects will occur?
The title of the play is "My Liberation Journal", so what is "liberation" for us ordinary people?
It is to be true to one's heart and to live one's own life.
Happiness is what we really need.
finish.