We were cured at the beginning of the year. The long-awaited new drama "Go to a Windy Place" makes us think about life in 2022 while watching "fairies go down".
The lineup of this drama is really strong, in addition to the protagonists Liu Yifei and Li Xian, the supporting actors are also familiar faces: "Whirlwind Girl" Hu Bingqing opened a café, Huawei's second princess Yao Anna was the lady of the commissary, "Actor Please Take Position" champion Niu Junfeng became a bar singer who played guitar, and Yan Liang, a young man in "Hidden Corner", came to learn wood carving...
The filming place is in the picturesque Dali of Yunnan, the dream settlement of literary and artistic young people who want to escape the big city, unlike the previous domestic dramas that like excessive dreamy dermabrasion, this drama overflows the screen with a real and fresh green town green, setting off Liu Yifei's plain beauty like white porcelain.
The most important thing is that there are many differences in the plot, let's taste it slowly.
The heroine Xu Hongdou played by Liu Yifei is a classic social animal floating in a big city like you and me, an extremely dedicated hotel lobby manager, living in a rented house, using the luxury that will be affordable, shuttling through the bustling business district of the city, with her head held high on the surface, but in fact she is working "with her head bowed down".
Every day I came home tired from work, I didn't know if the food in the refrigerator expired, I didn't take almost a day of annual leave saved over the year, overtime became the norm, and I even forgot my parents' birthday... If there is no sudden change in life, I wonder how long her life will continue like this?
The heroine Hongdou's girlfriend was confirmed to be terminally ill, and there was no miracle, and the person left quickly. Even under such grief, she cannot truly express her emotions, after all, "Kitakami Hiroshi does not believe in tears", and the work is to continue rationally and calmly. And her heart was completely shattered by this huge external force, and the hard shell that she had once taken for granted was shattered, and she remembered the travel destination she had agreed with her girlfriend: Yunnan.
Xu Hongdou, who came to Dali, seemed to open another half of his life - slow and slow... The life that had been accelerated suddenly slowed down. In Yunmiao Village, there are fireworks everywhere that are different from those in the city.
Xu Hongdou broke her mobile phone as soon as she arrived in Dali, and during the two-day disconnection, she seemed to open her second pair of eyes.
Ma Ye, a "worldly master" who meditates all day in the inn, has a social terror web writer who goes out day and night; There are enthusiastic local hostesses in the village, elderly girlfriends who nap in the afternoon, aunts who can make flower cakes...
Of course, there is also Xie Zhiyao, the male protagonist who is ostensibly a "street slipper", but is actually a big man who controls the industrial chain.
In fact, like Xu Hongdou, he is a young man who "escaped" from a big city, but this "escape" is not really going home to gnaw the old, but after seeing through and figuring it out, he uses another way to change places to realize his value. Xie Zhiyao returned to his hometown, accompanied his grandmother, started a business and became rich, so that more young people could earn money back to their hometown.
There are differences between urban and rural life, except for the physical one, there is something more subtle called: a sense of distance. Xu Hongdou has the common disease of urban white-collar workers, good at and accustomed to maintaining a sense of distance, which is appropriate courtesy and self-protection in a big city with complex and clear interpersonal relationships, but in Yunmiao Village, the sense of distance is easily and naturally melted.
The aunts will pull you to help make flower cakes, and if you don't go, they will pull you directly; The hotel lady will give you a big dish, or even directly free of charge, Xia Xia, who learns wood carving, will give away a bamboo dragonfly, and the children will say "I'll play with you another day" in a childish way... All this touched Xu Hongdou's heart.
This drama is different from many domestic dramas with twists and turns, more like a slow variety show, you rarely see dramatic conflicts, and there is no bloody design, the biggest twist and turn encountered by the heroine is nothing more than stepping on cow dung, breaking the mobile phone, and being bitten by mosquitoes in several large bags. The love of the male and female protagonists also did not fall, catch the circle.
Everything is slow and faint, and this kind of drama is poking the audience's heart more and more, such as the Japanese drama "The New Life of Tai" in 2019, the Korean drama "Don't Want to Do Anything" in 2022, the British drama god "All Creatures", and then "The Cultivation of a Common Girl". Once we loved to watch stories of young people running to big cities with their dreams with their bare hands, but now it seems that the audience has seen more glamorous urban beauty, seen enough of the bright skyscrapers, and wants to find a real spiritual refuge.
Contemporary young people, overwhelmed by life, work, and interpersonal relationships, are pondering another possibility of life. In "To a Windy Place", the landlady Aunt Agui is engaged in trivial matters every day, but she has long realized great wisdom, she said:
"People in this life, crying with bare asses, crying empty-handed, can't you not live because you are going to die anyway? But I have to ask you again, one day you are gone, people die so much to send very much, paper paste things, heaven and earth banks, hundreds of billions of billions. Alas! I don't like to talk about these things the most, I'm not here to gossip with you, my work is not done yet..."
The century encounter between Ling'er and her aunt left a simple but worthy of everyone's thoughts.
During the day, we are independent urban new women, and in the tired night, perhaps we must learn to let go of the armor imposed on women that must be "strong" and face up to the desire to be healed in our hearts. Maybe just this year, give yourself a real vacation and go somewhere windy.
Written by: Yoshiki Image: Douban, Weibo