Art Bloom Public Number | Reporter Li Xia Solstice
Recently, the weather has been sweltering, and there is a new life drama that can start from the effect of cooling off the heat, that is, this life drama "Zhang Weiguo's Summer" starring Huang Lei and Liu Yijun, Haiqing, Mei Ting, Li Linqian, Jiang Peng, Su Xiaoming, Han Tongsheng and many other powerful actors.
Just by listening to this name, you can know that this drama is a proper real-life theme for ordinary people. Huang Lei, who has always liked to appear as an elite middle class in urban dramas, has also made a big breakthrough this time.
Unadorned inches, daily slippers scruffy attire, appearance carrying the early three-piece set bought in the Beijing hutong, a mixture with a little bit of frustration, comfortable to maintain a little proud of the image of the Beijing uncle is natural.
Even official propaganda has to be ridiculed, using "greasy", "premature aging", "waste firewood" and "unemployment" to summarize Zhang Weiguo's middle-aged life.
Matching his dress is the slightly bleak life of the protagonist Zhang Weiguo. Many years ago, due to a performance accident and fell, former opera actor Zhang Weiguo can only repair props in the troupe, and just four episodes later, Zhang Weiguo experienced the sudden death of his father, the sale of antiques was defrauded, and the ancestral courtyard was actually a tenant.
Zhang Weiguo was defrauded, and there was also an official "anti-fraud" propaganda song called "National And State Paying Money".
From being fooled by fake experts to sell antiques, to consciously worth 200 million yuan, to 700,000 households being cheated, but also facing the rent increase of the house that has lived for more than 20 years, Huang Lei can be said to have jumped out of his comfort zone this time, the eyes of the upstart of "villains", and then to the wandering like a big dream, across the screen can feel the despair of middle-aged Zhang Weiguo.
And Played by Liu Yijun, Shi Ge Hongnian, who appeared as a spirited and well-known anchor, looks brightly dressed at first glance, but in fact, the marriage work is full of crises. The profession of network news anchor is facing the impact of the new anchor with goods, he bought the goods with goods in order to pretend to face himself, and encountered the pride of the little sister who mistakenly thought that people wanted to sign the order, all of which were full of laughter in the details.
The front yard was still a mess, and the back yard was on fire. Lin Hongnian's wife Gu Jiayi, a middle-aged rebel and insistent on divorce, even her daughter is adopted, and there is a mother-in-law who intervenes everywhere. Two middle-aged men gathered because of their father's funeral, echoing each other's bad luck, and they could only hold their heads and cry.
In the barrage, some viewers said that this drama should be renamed, called "The Summer of Two Unlucky Middle-Aged People", which can be said to be extremely accurate in one sentence. However, the screenwriter is not to sell misery, but to occasionally put some sugar in the tragic middle-aged life, and the reversal of the story is that the front foot is still crying and drooling, and the back foot is full of comedic effects.
These classic scenes include, but are not limited to: Zhang Weiguo scatters ashes on the Nanjing Riverside "River Burial", and the next second the ashes are blown into the mouth of Lin Hongnian's wife played by Haiqing; Zhang Weiguo just held his father's ashes and cried bitterly, and the next second he was found to be acting strangely by his son; Even Lin Hongnian, who seems to be unemployed in middle age, can get the opportunity to re-employment in Beijing in the blink of an eye.
This kind of drama looks easy and not tired, and buries a lot of stems worth touching. The story has not yet fully unfolded, just broadcast only four episodes, but Why did Lin Hongnian not quit that year, why Zhang Weiguo became the only person among the division brothers who insisted on sticking to the traditional troupe, what kind of deep meaning is behind his persistence, and whether Lin Hongnian's marriage is in excess, multiple clues are buried. There is also Zhang Weiguo's grandfather's eunuch identity, how much change will it bring to his life, Lin Hongnian went north to challenge the new media, will he seize the "eunuch's grandson" this explosive point to hype the news? These are still unknown, and may also become the key to Zhang Weiguo and Lin Hongnian to reverse the midlife crisis.
Life seems to be tortuous, but middle-aged people have no choice but to face the pain of life. Many viewers mentioned that this drama reminds everyone of the "Happy Life of Poor Mouth Zhang Damin", although the story is trivial and the characters are very ordinary, but what flows in the plot is the poetry, romance and calmness of life itself.
The story that this drama wants to tell seems to be a bit absurd, Zhang Weiguo in the play is a little middle-aged greasy, and there is also the vanity of selling porcelain horses for 200 million, and when the moment of frustration in middle age comes, he has never given up on himself, and more is to entertain himself with a ridiculous attitude.
In the play, Zhang Weiguo often appears lying on the recliner in the small courtyard of the hutong to think about life, the recliner is surrounded by lush plants, and the courtyard looks shabby, but it is still full of vitality. This may be the last stubbornness of frustrated middle-aged people, and the optimism and calm face of life's challenges, and the interest of tasting life in a seemingly jumpy plot, is precisely the emotional value provided by "Zhang Weiguo's Summer". Opening such a series in the hot summer, it is a good choice to see a little life situation in a relaxed and happy way.
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