Please, this explosive high-scoring Japanese drama must not be produced in the domestic version

The full text of this article is a spoiler, please come back after watching the finale.

The Douban score of the Japanese drama "Restart Life" has exceeded 80,000, of course, compared with the Korean drama "Dark Glory" in the same period, only one-third of it, but for Japanese dramas, this is already quite a circle-breaking influence. (PS: Overall, Chinese mainland audiences are much more interested in Korean dramas than Japanese dramas.) ）

"Rebirth Text" and "Crossing Text" are already settings that we are too familiar with, but the lightness of "Restart Life" as a "Rebirth Text" is simply beyond imagination.

Asami Kondo, played by Sakura Ando, died unexpectedly and found that she was going to be reincarnated into an anteater, and because she was unwilling to become this animal, she could only live her life all over again. After that, for different reasons, I went through it twice, three times, four times, five times...

The setting of "rebirth" has become a Japanese cold joke in Japanese dramas. The options for the heroine's reincarnation again and again are: Guatemalan anteater, mackerel, sea urchin...

That's all, the front desk of reincarnation and reincarnation docking presents a special Japanese-style social animal state. (The actor who plays the front desk is the screenwriter himself, the funny artist "Stupid Rhythm", whose real name is Hidechi Kanano.) ）

Japanese dry humor is really peculiar. Every reincarnated animal is strange, and the demonstration photos are inexplicable, such as the photos given to make food sea urchins when they want to turn them?? (Then I was stunned and found that I didn't know what a living sea urchin looked like, and I was ashamed.) ）

This kind of Japanese dry humor is also reflected in the fact that a meme's call back will be very patient to put it in a very late position. In the penultimate episode, when Makoto Uno (played by Asami Mizukawa) finally reveals that he is also a "rebooter", the reincarnated animal is a termite, showing a picture of a large anteater eating termites. It's more excessive than the sea urchin sashimi photo, and it also echoes the heroine's big anteater...

Japanese dry humor is very absurd and does not pursue "instant laughter", and this light narrative rhythm runs through "Restart Life". People who are not familiar with Japanese dramas may find the first 20 minutes of the first episode a bit boring.

But on the other hand, "Restart Life" seems to tell a Japanese joke, but the degree of subtlety is also beyond expectations. The first 20 minutes that were as bland as water determined all the elements of the rest of the story. "Call back" is superimposed again and again, like ordinary stones throwing at the end to inspire a symphony of magnificent ripples.

Dad holds a cervical massager (a birthday gift for every heroine in her life), Sakura Kindergarten (what Truth's life really wants to do), phone booth (a must to stop the teacher's extramarital affair)... Of course, there are the trivial chats of girls, stickers, indoor playgrounds, the latest situation of classmates, every song and sentence in KTV... Wait a minute. At first, I thought that many of the terriers were reserved for nostalgia and age, but then I found that I only guessed a small part of the function of these terriers.

I won't list the corresponding points of these "call back elements", but I strongly recommend watching the last episode and rewatching the beginning of the first episode, which is really amazing.

I like the patience of the screenwriter. In recent years, many domestic dramas and Korean dramas like to use conspiracy music and various large close-ups to set the atmosphere, as if desperately trying to focus on the audience: Look here and here, the big one is coming!

"Restart Life" is a very Buddhist refinement, all the clues are placed here, you can smile if you find it, and it doesn't matter if you don't find it.

In the process of repeatedly calling back key elements, it is not only a screenwriting technique of "digging holes to fill" and "burying terriers to use", but also a metaphor for life: everything we take for granted may have deep meaning. It is in the process of "restarting life" again and again that the precious bits and pieces of the heroine's first round of ordinary life become more and more valuable.

Repeatedly "rebooting life", this structure seems to be very similar to "The Beginning". But "The Beginning" is a purposeful task, plus a little suspenseful reasoning. "Restart Life" has a new and different interest in each reboot. Each round of life can constitute a unit story with a relatively independent theme.

The second round of Apothecary Life is a basic gameplay display of "reboot", where you can use the information difference to correct the regrets in your life, making everyone happier and making misunderstandings less. As I said before, this is a kind of "female crossing" to have an atmosphere, the heroine has never thought of using the information difference to profit, "cool", her continuous restart is mainly for the happiness of the people around her, even under the setting of "Jiyin De", kindness and gentleness are also a kind of undertone.

This series of "Nice, Haruka" is really cute. Here is also a creation of this play to subvert my impression. I originally thought that the "refreshment" of "doing tasks" only existed in those high-intensity plots, allowing a kindergarten girl to do a series of tasks intensively, just for the teacher not to have an extramarital affair, which is funny and healing, and I want to applaud her for completing the task, feeling that the game has been cleared!

The heroine of the third round of life became a TV producer, and the plot atmosphere of this plot was relatively close to industry dramas (the audience clearly felt for the first time that the synchronous shooting and broadcasting of Japanese TV dramas was really done like going to work), and also played some "collective memories" memes. Producer Nippon TV (Nippon TV) has put all its own classic dramas in.

For example, "Women" and "The Woman Who Sold the House" familiar to Chinese audiences (this remake starring Sun Li in "An Home"), among which actors Hyoshi Nakamura, Asami Ukita and Takeya Tsukaji are all themselves themselves, and the latter two are strictly in line with the setting of "also starring in the corresponding drama in reality", seriously ensuring unity with the real world!

(△ Cameo starring as his own Hyung Nakamura)

Unable to be reincarnated again and again, the heroine of the fourth round of life began to read hard, and then the story seemed to be talking about the "price of involution". If you spend all your time reading, it is indeed better, but there is no way to play with friends, so you lose the "natural friendship" - in ordinary life think that this is the most ordinary thing, who has few friends who talk nonsense, but really no friends to know, this is not extraordinary at all!

The fourth round to the fifth round of life is the climax and the most thrilling place of the whole drama, the heroine finally became friends with the truth (Asami Mizukawa), who had been excellent in the previous rounds of life, and only learned in adulthood that the other party was also a person who repeatedly "restarted life", one more round than himself, and in the first round of life, the girlfriend trio was a foursome with the truth.

The setting of "Restart Life" has finally begun to stack up. In the first few rounds, it was always mentioned that the truth was very good and became a pilot. The meme of "pilot" has actually used "call back" once, the heroine was surprised to hear the truth as a pilot in the first round of her life, and the second round of talking about this is to enjoy the "rush answer" happiness of knowing the answer in advance.

On the basis of having already called back once, the "pilot" can also call back the whole drama terrier - the truth is to be a pilot in order to save friends from air crashes, and not only to save friends, but also to save the entire plane of people, so that the world has one less air crash.

Aaaaaa

And the theme of "friendship is the highest" did not pop up suddenly. In the previous rounds of the heroine's life, she has been silently laying this problem.

The first round of life is not sensational and does not understand the atmosphere of "good friends together", as mentioned earlier, the kind of detailed conversation and nonsense tacit understanding, even a little "boring", this is exactly where the senior is.

In the second round of life, the heroine has already said, live life again, or think that everyone is the happiest to go to Round1 to play together.

The third round of life seems to focus on the career of a TV series producer, and the company of friends has always existed, even if everyone is not in the same city, the girls who grew up together when they were young will suddenly come to see you.

In the process of the third round of TV series production, there was also a discussion of "traditional crossing value" and "bland crossing value" (let's call it that). The heroine's first few rounds of life are repeating the stable life and friendship she has, and doing good deeds, but if you write this as a plot, it will be disgusted too bland.

The discussion of the plot topic of "restarting life" can essentially be regarded as a debate about the value of life: should life be earth-shattering or enjoy those seemingly ordinary banal pleasures?

Then by the fourth to fifth round of life, the two heroines really began to "do great things in shock", and they had to work together to save an air crash and give all their youth for it.

But this is not a compromise between the values of "plain warmth" and the values of "doing great things" in previous rounds of life, because such a big plan merges "saving friends" and "saving humanity" into one task.

And, the meme of "Stop Extramarital Affair" and "Save the World" combined into one is really so spiritual that I slap my thighs!

Perhaps, the setting of the task can already show the values of the creator. Some stories like to set traps, set up "switch" problems, force the audience to answer, is it to sacrifice a small family to take care of everyone, is it to sacrifice a small number to form a large collective, is this trade-off necessary for development?

And the setting of "Restart Life" is: love life, love friends, love life, start love from touchable bits, and little by little become the female captain who wants to save the air crash. I forcibly understand that this is also "love specific people".

In the most critical fourth to fifth round of the plot, the heroine also experienced a "life of losing three good friends". This huge sadness recalls the way everyone chattered together in KTV in previous rounds of life, very figurative "it was just ordinary at that time."

Ando Sakura's few eyes are the best demonstration of acting, and the huge sadness is only Mu Ran on his face.

There is also the determination that after dying again, it is clear that he can already be reincarnated as a human being, but he still wants to do it again, and he really acted well.

In the final round of life of the plot, the setting of "two girls fighting side by side" sounds simple, but for the audience, they have been accompanied through thousands of mountains and rivers and several red dust to reach the most determined life.

(△ Concrete display of "I want to be friends in the next life")

Finally, speaking of the finale, I don't know if anyone will think that the finale is not as high-energy as eight or nine episodes. There is no ups and downs of excitement, no logical superposition of pleasure, win so calm. It's just an accidental mixing of Miss Kawaguchi, who was saddened by Captain Nakamura in her previous life, and in this life she discovered Captain Nakamura's extramarital affair, and as soon as she reported it directly, the two female captains were able to smoothly take over the schedule and get on the plane, which was all won.

(△ Forward this Miss Baguchi, your life will also lie down)

It's been a week since the end of the series, and I feel more and more that the last episode of "Restart Life" really started and ended. It began with Japanese cold humor and ended with Japanese cold humor.

Only in those stories that we are familiar with are there conspiracies, villains, and overcoming thousands of dangers. But this is "Restart Life" yes, every meme is a cold joke, and the finale must of course be completed with the most nonsensical cold jokes.

Who would have thought that Miss Kawaguchi, who was ordinary in the first round of life, turned out to be an existence that changed the entire universe! Does this story tell us that nerves are the happiest!

At the final reunion, the four girls played very well. Xia Hao and Mabel are happy without heart and lungs, and Mami and Truth are precious to happiness after thousands of rivers and mountains. ——Be nice to your friends, maybe she lived several rounds to save me!

The whole drama of "Restart Life" is full of a "aura", which is the most rare. It's easy to get bored with a happy ending, but "Restart Life" really imagines the nursing home!

Let's talk about the question that many viewers are a little worried about: I have been so good in this life, two girls fly planes, why should they go back to their hometown to become civil servants and kindergarten teachers?

I think the whole play is also quietly hinting at a certain philosophy of life and self-knowledge. The heroines Asami and Truth are actually ordinary people with average quality, and they have become the elite of one in ten thousand because they have repeatedly restarted their lives. But it's okay not to be so good.

Note that both live second rounds are not enough; The truth has lived for six rounds, accumulating countless experience points to share with the heroine to reach this round of "double captain" achievements. And the heroine found that she did not do research in the round of being the captain, and the research results came out faster, and she also laughed at her qualifications. (As an aside, the show also contributed a meme to social networks: good people may have lived for several rounds.) ）

It is possible to "roll" into an elite, but it is also very tiring. Having no pleasure in life and having to lose friends is the most obvious price. If Asami and Truth do not recognize each other, they will not even have friends on the way to "roll" into the elite. Because I have exchanged stickers, watched TV series, and bought game consoles in previous lives... The life of "roll" will not be so boring, but the task of saving the air crash is completed, and there is really no motivation to continue "rolling".

(△ The truth of being a kindergarten teacher smiles so brightly)

After watching these rounds of life, there is also a certain value orientation test, you can torture yourself to ask yourself what you care about most in the process of repeatedly watching the heroine rebrush her life. For example, I'm actually super worried that the heroine can't see the episode she made broadcast in the third round of life, ah, this really can't bear it, if I were her, no matter how many rounds passed, I would stay up until I saw my own work! Maybe I completely substituted the feeling that I couldn't send the manuscript. But if you think about it, isn't my concern for the heroine's third round of life exactly my own version of "I'll live like this again again", I just like to do this kind of work.

If you understand in the plot "another round will be like this" or "another round do not do this", you can, if you want to change your life, just follow your mood.

The attitude of the story to women, last time we already wrote, there is no male protagonist, they are all female subjects, even the dress of actresses is to refuse the "male gaze", how to be comfortable.

The plot's attitude towards love and the opposite sex is also a rare relaxation. They were also in love, but there was no need to come again. If you want to try again with your ex-boyfriend, you may be more curious about whether he can really become a rich man, and I want to see the end of my ex-boyfriend's failed music career, and I think I want to pee.

Of course, it must be pointed out that the social and upbringing environment in "Restart Life" is an extremely "female-friendly" environment that is not very realistic.

The heroine's parents and family never urge marriage, and the heroine's girlfriends do not seem to have marriage pressure. Parents have no requirements for their children, and in the life of the heroine, her ordinary sister has also received great love from her parents. In this plot, society also has no gender stereotypes or discriminatory requirements for women.

Some people ask if the gap between big cities and small cities is not very big in Japanese society, and the slogan "Go to Hometown" will be featured in the last episode. I think a similar social atmosphere exists, Japan has been far away from the struggle society for too long, and when Korean dramas still depict class disparities in every film, Japanese dramas give people the feeling that there is no difference in what profession they do.

But Japan is also unlikely to be a female-friendly environment without sexist.

So there's a lot of ideal setting for this story. And in China, the bigger the city, the more developed the city, the friendlier it is to women. Although this friendliness is relative, it is almost a consensus that women are freer the more they go to big cities, and it is needless to say that there is no need to say that gender discrimination is more in small cities. Therefore, "go to hometown" can only be established under the premise that no one at home urges marriage to be born, there are no involution requirements for young people, and the social atmosphere is simple and there is not much annoyance.

In fact, it doesn't matter whether it is "go to hometown", it doesn't matter whether you do a bland career or a dazzling profession, and the audience who is obsessed with this show really feels how comfortable it will be if the "self-esteem as the subject", "female mutual aid" and "refusal of male gaze" that we pursue are practiced.

Every overseas drama becomes popular, and some people wonder if they can do domestic version casting. If the domestic version of "Dark Glory" is done, it is about necessary to change the bullying scale, revenge methods, and the finale to forcibly reconcile or turn himself in. But "Restart Life" seems to be very harmless and gentle, huh? If you do the domestic version, is it no problem.

I want to say whether the next "TV series without a male protagonist" can be tolerated in China, whether it can resist adding emotional lines to the heroine, whether the portrayal of parents ends with warmth, or holding a shoulder and neck massager to urge marriage from sensationalism... I really can't think about this picture!

Forget it.

Let's reminisce about the meaning of the four pigeons chirping~ It's really a happy thing to be with friends, and ordinary everything is so precious.

Finally, to sum up the sequelae of my "Restart Life": I think the big anteater is very cute, eating Japanese food and seeing the sea urchin will hesitate, "Powder Snow" is fiercely tied to the image of the fat big brother in my heart, I like to watch the pigeons get together, I swear to enjoy every opportunity to sing with friends, and often do my own kaqua group to say to myself: nice, babe sauce!