Douban 9.1, young people are silent after reading it

Recently, Korean dramas from the perspective of ordinary people have been released in a bunch, and the reputation is not bad.

"Our Blues", starring film emperor Li Bingxian, received a rating of 8.5 on Douban, and "My Liberation Journal" was even more popular and popular, with a rating of 9.1.

Different from the "Penthouse" style of dog blood flashy drama, these two plays are not about the extravagant life of high society, nor the wind and moon affair of the overlord and ordinary girls, but the camera focuses on the daily life of ordinary people with rice, oil and salt, a vegetable and a meal, which is plain, simple and grounded, but makes the audience tearfully score high scores.

Who says the stories of ordinary people are not readable? /My Liberation Journal

"My Liberation Journal" is considered to be the "annual Korean drama booking", and the bland and realistic narrative style may make impatient audiences feel bored and bored, but the overall quality is undoubtedly much better than those fake and exquisite urban dramas. The audience who experienced the fraudulent ending of "Twenty-Five, Twenty-One" has the only expectation for this drama is that as long as it does not end badly, it will be able to sit on this year's Best Korean Drama.

There are many reasons to recommend you to watch, and there is only one reason not to recommend, just as a netizen only gave this drama three stars, the reason is: "I watch TV dramas to escape life, you take out my life to see, where do I get ease?" ”

"It's so real that I don't want to see it a second time."

Bland depression,

It's like a real story happening around you

"Mourning", "depressing", and "emo", these three words appear almost uninterruptedly in the bullet screen of the first two episodes.

Its "mourning" does not stem from how fierce the dramatic conflict, nor is it deliberately miserable in the plot setting, the protagonist does not suffer much emotional stimulation, no unemployment, no misunderstanding, no hysterical quarrel, that kind of mourning is revealed in a bland, day-to-day life, real, there is a sense of substitution, like a dense and solid net that is breathless.

You watch the protagonist of the play, Lian Meizhen, get up at 7 o'clock every day to commute to work, take a bus from the countryside, then transfer to the subway to work in a big company in Seoul, and at the end of a tired day, she has to cross a long distance back to the countryside, she stands quietly in the subway car, looking out the dark window in a daze.

You seem to recall a very ordinary day, maybe last month or maybe yesterday, you ended a day's work, hurriedly with the flow of people to squeeze on a subway, the radio sounded the closing sound, the headphones played the song you listen to most often, this is obviously the most ordinary day, nothing unpleasant happened, but you just suddenly lost, feel that this life seems to have been repeated countless times, as if everyone's life is very interesting, only they are still living aimlessly, You start thinking about how long this life will last.

Some people say that "My Liberation Journal" is for introverts and people who try to understand introverts, because in Lian Meizhen, you can see many introverts' common traits: delicate and sensitive mind, rich inner world, like to be alone, and reject social interaction.

Lian Meizhen's introversion and sensitivity are probably incomprehensible to others, just like colleagues can't understand why she doesn't go to the company's fandom (interest club), why she doesn't travel with everyone, she uses the fact that her family lives too far away and has no money as a reason, but in her heart, she is extremely rejecting these social activities, because she feels that "all relationships are like work", and she just wants to stay in her own world after work.

She was often the one who was overlooked at the colleague party, because she was always silent, quiet, dispensable, as if it didn't exist at all, and occasionally she pretended to be extroverted and gregarious, and it was difficult to pluck up the courage to talk to others, but the other party would turn around and forget what she had just said.

In the company, she seems to get along well with everyone, but in fact, she does not have a person she likes, even if she likes it carefully, she will find that there are always places that make her feel uncomfortable, and places that make her feel disappointed.

She is indifferent, not optimistic, and distrustful of relationships, but sometimes, she also envies others, envy those who can talk, can bring joy to others, can say comforting words beautifully, and she is always so clumsy that she can't express herself to others.

Occasionally she would envy those who lived in Seoul, but then she would think pessimistically that even if she lived in Seoul, life would not be different.

Lian Meizhen's life is always very tired, too much emotional internal friction makes her breathless, depressed family atmosphere, work that is not affirmed by the leader, indifferent interpersonal relationships, and debts borne by her ex-boyfriend, everything has planted an emotional bomb, as if it will usher in an explosive moment at any time.

She described herself as a "cattle herder", dragging herself forward with difficulty, convincing herself that although she could not find the meaning of life, she at least let herself live a decent and decent life.

The little fortune in her life came from a billboard she saw on her way to work that read, "Today you're going to have something good happen," and there was a brief sparkle in her tired eyes, and perhaps at that moment, she believed it too.

Very few Korean dramas observe and dissect the inner world of introverts so thoroughly, so that in the process of watching the drama, I can always think of this introduction of the Douban group's "Protection of introvert Alliance":

"We are introverts, we are happy to communicate with ourselves, we are willing to immerse ourselves in our own world, excessive socialization is a mentally draining existence for us, but from childhood to adulthood we are labeled 'out of place' because we are not extroverted enough, but we are never wrong..."

This is not a TV series that has been lost to the end, the bland depression in the viewing process, but also with the progress of the plot gradually from depression to healing, and the "liberation" in the title also means that Lian Meizhen broke through the shackles of the inner world and ushered in the real liberation and freedom, netizens left comments "Very much looking forward to the plot direction, this is not only the story of Lian Meizhen, but also everyone's life."

Korean drama, can't escape the sugar

The way Korean dramas are constructed may be different, but in the final analysis, it is to create romance and fantasy for the audience, and although industrial saccharin is too greasy, it is also an outlet for young people to escape from a mediocre life.

The story of the prince and Cinderella as a classic love model, timeless, always able to capture a large audience, if according to the traditional idol drama love narrative, the ordinary heroine Lian Meizhen should meet a handsome boss or a young first love who has been reunited for a long time, curing the introversion and inferiority in her personality.

But "My Liberation Journal" provides another love model - "In the most mournful TV series, the most mournful CP." ”

Lian Meizhen did not meet a Prince Charming, but a taciturn drunkard who worked in the countryside to escape life, he had a cold personality, did not like to talk to people, and always had a decadent and world-weary atmosphere. My favorite thing to do every evening is to sit in front of the door and drink, even on rainy days. Lian Meizhen knew nothing about him except that his surname was "Ju".

This is probably the most "mournful" pair of CPs in the history of Korean dramas.

Both people are full of boredom and impatience with life, but perhaps because of this, they can understand the decadent side of each other's personality. When others arrogantly examined his behavior and took it upon themselves to throw away his wine bottle, Lian Meizhen said: "This idea of forcibly changing a person is too arrogant." ”

They tell each other about the dark side of their personalities, because they know that the other person can read themselves, they will not get disgusting eyes, and in a way, they are sick and pessimistic about life.

The chemistry between them is unique, obviously the most prosaic story and character setting, but it is just a pair of tensions, the fragments of mourning are portrayed in real and delicate, and the details of each other's healing are also extremely moving.

Just like when Lian Meizhen took the subway again and saw the billboard, she chose to take a picture and send it to him, hoping that the other party would have a good thing to do today. When Gu Shi went to the supermarket to buy beer, he also bought two more ice creams and put them in the refrigerator, so that one day she inadvertently handed them to her when she came.

Life seemed to come alive suddenly, and the decadent man gradually began to change, sorting out all the wine bottles in the room, cleaning up the house, taking pictures and sending them to her, and the editorial message said " for the first time in hundreds of years " . Two introverts and lonely people are slowly liberating themselves and healing each other.

Is this show worth 9.1?

As the best Korean drama in recent times, does "My Liberation Journal" deserve such a high evaluation, so that 64.7% of viewers give five-star praise?

It is true that there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand readers, who think that its plot is bland and boring, and there are those who think that it occupies the advantage of the subject matter, and what they think of as the subject matter advantage means that the story from the perspective of ordinary people can easily get high scores and win word of mouth.

But are ordinary people's stories really so easy to shoot?

A few years ago, director Geng Mingji mentioned in an interview with the surging news that why the stories close to the working class are decreasing, but the stories of middle-class families in big cities are increasing, in addition to the reasons of the market, the economic benefits of such dramas are not good, another reason is that the stories of ordinary people are difficult to do, "It must be a group of people who sink down for two or three years to make a good thing, and if there is a slight deviation, it is scolded, especially difficult to get, so many people avoid this."

The play is full of fireworks and fireworks.

The ratings of "My Liberation Journal" probably confirm that this kind of subject is indeed not popular with the market, because its ratings are not high, but the reputation is still soaring, and its videos and screenshots on social platforms have been disseminated twice and three times, and most of the forwards and comments are "Finally someone has performed my life" "I admit that I am an introvert and do not want to embarrass myself anymore."

What more people experience in this Korean drama is a kind of understanding, a world that rarely gives introverts a chance to shine another light for them, introverts and lonely people are concerned, understood, and try to get answers from the play, how to reconcile with their own personality, how to "liberate" and heal their spiritual world.

Undoubtedly, this is a high-quality Korean drama, whether it is the intention, the picture texture or the plot, the acting skills are the best works in recent Korean dramas, the only fly in the ointment is probably the beautification of love, some viewers believe that from the current plot alone, or failed to get out of the setting of redeeming themselves with love.

The three sisters and brothers in the play have their own life difficulties, and each has a love line, the eldest sister who hates marriage, the second brother who has lost love, and the third sister who is in love, and the emotional changes have also changed the protagonist's state of mind, which seems to tell the audience that they can get the courage to face life again in love.

But for most of the "lian meizhen" in real life, the redemption of love is more of a placebo, put down the mobile phone, and do not have to face the chicken and garlic in marriage and love and the chicken flying dog jump on the Weibo entertainment list.

It's good to watch the drama. The story of a really ordinary person, it can't be filmed.

Resources:

[1] How Korean Dramas Tell Stories, Jeong Sook

[2] Love in Korean dramas, why can it trap you, China Economic Network, 2021-1-10

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Written by | Richepp

Proofreading | Yang Chao

Cover from My Liberation Journal

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