There was a recent drama that was quite surprising.
The filming is a rebirth theme that everyone has seen a lot, but he didn't take those familiar routines, not a revenge drama, not for the pursuit of love, and the protagonist did not open and hang to the peak of life.
The plot is dull, there is no strong unfolding, the magic is that it does not feel boring, but attracts people to keep watching, and soon after the broadcast, it won a high score of 9.2 on Douban.
The name is very straightforward -
"Restart Life"
The heroine Asami Kondo, 33 years old, is single, living with her parents and sister.
At the beginning of the series, Asami tells the audience in a calm tone that this day will be the last day of her life.
It was a very ordinary day, and as usual, she had breakfast with her family and went to work.
Asami is a junior civil servant at the municipal office, and her daily work is boring and tedious.
During the window shift, I often fight with all kinds of people, it is common to be scolded, and even greeting people who come to do things out of politeness and say "hello", may be choked with the phrase "less to pretend".
In addition to the difficult citizens, Asami is also tired of the strict regulations of the municipal office, and even the purchase of a pen has to go through layers of instructions and approvals, and it cannot be done in a month.
Outside of work, Asami often gets together with two hairy children.
It was the birthday of my friend Mabel, and they celebrated their birthday at a restaurant they frequented.
After chatting about gossip, I felt unhappy, and ran to KTV to sing, singing hungry, and a few people ate a late-night snack at a convenience store on the side of the road.
Exhausted and ready to go back to her house, Asami decided to walk back on her own and take a walk to consume food. Who knows it's just bending down to pick up a garbage, and a van hits head-on ...
Opening her eyes again, Asami found herself in a pure white space, which was not a hospital, but a reincarnation place.
Not surprisingly, she was hit and killed.
Asami quickly accepts this reality, but the place of reincarnation is not like heaven or hell, but more like the office where she works.
The front desk staff received her politely, and the two began a conversation that sounded ridiculous but very reasonable.
"I'm sorry sir, I seem to be dead."
"Okay, please fill out the form. You have worked hard for these thirty-three years, and I will now take you to reincarnation. ”
This is reincarnation? Asami was amazed at the efficiency of the work.
Before leaving, out of curiosity, she asked again: "What will I be reincarnated into in my next life?" ”
The staff flipped through the filebook: you will be reincarnated as a large anteater southeast of Guatemala.
What is the big anteater? The second life is not human, which is more difficult to accept than the fact that she died.
The staff told Asami that this was based on her performance before death, and she was not reincarnated as an adult, perhaps because she did not have enough yin virtue.
Asami listened and asked reflexively, "Can't you think of a way?" ”
She remembered that she was often troubled like this, and the staff said that it was the rule as she usually replied to others.
Yes, what can be done, Asami is ready to accept this cruel result.
Unexpectedly, the staff came again: if you don't want to reincarnate, you can live this life again.
Then he added: As long as you work hard to modify your life in this life, you may be reincarnated as a target creature.
That is to say, as long as she works hard to accumulate yin virtue in this life, she can avoid becoming an anteater by reincarnating.
Asami, of course, chose to be reborn without hesitation, so she took the memories of her past life and started all over again from infancy.
Others are reborn for revenge, and the first task for Asami to relive once is: Jiyintoku!
After Asami is reborn, she introduces her life in the first person, and with the inner monologue of the adult population, the baby's expression seems to be really full of emotions and joy.
Asami remembers her mission and has never missed any opportunity to do good since she was a child.
Pick up garbage casually, don't destroy flowers and plants, play games with children, everyone competes to be a princess, she takes the initiative to be a bad guy...
In kindergarten, she finally waited for her first big chance: to stop her classmate's father from cheating on the teacher.
In this life, with adult thoughts, she can see the ambiguous atmosphere between the two at a glance, and recall that this should be the reason why classmates transferred.
So she took advantage of the teacher's lack of attention and replaced the note with the phone number with a thank you note.
He also stole his father's private money, sent a pager to his classmate's father in a public phone booth, and successfully used anonymous messages to scare away men who wanted to cheat.
Guarding the family of my classmates and keeping my teacher's job, no matter how I think about it, it is a great merit, only the world where my father is injured is achieved.
In this paragraph, Sakura Ando's narration cooperates with the performance of the little girl, showing an adult trapped in the body of a child very vividly.
After that, Asami went to school and grew up, and her life was almost the same as in her previous life.
Although elementary school knowledge is easy for her, as she gets older, she finds that her learning advantages are gradually less obvious, and she is only better than before.
Asami still became friends with her girlfriend in her previous life, and even her favorite game console was taken away because of carelessness.
Although the pace of this life is fast, the plot does not forget to show some emotional details.
For example, Asami remembered the previous life, she was inexplicably bored with her father during adolescence, and her father was very disappointed, she originally decided to change this life, but found that this is the irritability unique to adolescence, and she couldn't bear it at all.
And the love aspect.
Adolescence is at the beginning of her relationship, but because the mental age gap is too large, she can't treat the boys in the class as the opposite sex, and the boy she had a crush on in her previous life has become unattractive this time.
Asami was admitted to the same high school and university as before, because she didn't like the job in her previous life, this time she chose to major in pharmacy, although there were some changes, but it was still the life of an ordinary person.
In the matter of accumulating merit, Asami's choice also shows some of her attitude towards life.
For example, at the graduation party, everyone praised a classmate for singing well and encouraged him to be a singer, Asami before too, but now it sounds unremarkable, and he finally gave up chasing his dreams in his previous life and worked in KTV.
Asami originally wanted to persuade him to give up, but thinking about this occasion, did he really want to use God's perspective to pour cold water? And so that he will not meet the wife he loves and give birth to a child.
Forget it, outsiders who chase dreams can't experience the feelings, let it be, the other party's life has other beautiful gains.
Asami, who has changed jobs in this life, bumps into a middle school teacher on the train and is mistaken for a salty pig hand.
Asami, who originally wanted to secretly film the teacher sending to his girlfriend to ridicule, happened to capture the truth, and although he hated this teacher, he still helped him clear his name.
In her previous life, she learned from her girlfriend that this teacher had a miserable life after being fired because of a mistake, but she didn't expect this reason, and what shocked her even more was that the real criminal was actually the boss who took good care of her in the previous life.
This incident changed the lives of the two people, and also gave Asami a new understanding of Jiyinde.
Although rebirth is still an ordinary person, there is no big thing, but it can make up for many regrets when you were a child, and relive those happy times, these are the meaning of rebirth.
Different from the tense and exciting plots often found in other rebirth dramas, the atmosphere created by "Restart Life" is relaxed and funny, and there is a cold humor from time to time.
Knowing that a classmate with a gentle personality was deceived by a married man, the three felt that she was indecisive, and rehearsed for a long time how to calm her emotions, even songs with love and cheating meanings were all dropped by them.
Unexpectedly, after the classmate knew it, he directly made a phone call with a swear word combo, and the comedy effect brought by the contrast before and after was full score.
There are a lot of trivial and real dialogues in the play, as well as meticulous and humorous insights.
As a window worker, how can you have a dialogue with the citizens who handle various affairs?
It doesn't seem appropriate to use "welcome", after all, it is not a restaurant, and "hello" will be scolded and pretended; You can't say "thank you for your patronage" or "come back next time" when you leave, it's really a headache.
Party with girlfriends and talk about how your former classmates are doing.
I heard that excellent classmates have become more powerful, and the more I think about it, the more inferior I am, it is better to find someone to mix with to seek psychological comfort.
When I went to KTV, my old classmate gave fries for free, although I was very grateful but I felt annoyed, obviously when I came in, I said that I had eaten, but it was rude not to eat.
There is no golden sentence output for the purpose of communication, but instead it is thinking about life, but it can really resonate with us off-screen.
And many seemingly casual conversations are actually of great use to Asami after being reborn, and also lay the groundwork for the development of the story.
In this life, 33-year-old Asami successfully escaped a disaster in her previous life.
The audience was just curious about how Asami would start a new life, but at noon the next day, she was hit again because she was riding a bicycle to watch the star, and she still died very casually.
I have to say that screenwriters know how to create surprises.
What new plot will be brought about by this unexpected unfolding, interested friends may wish to continue chasing.