Fresh and real "Duplex Apartment", please come to Tokyo to fall in love

Last year's "Single is Hell" made the Korean-style love variety show fiercely popular, but the evaluation of the second season this year took a sharp turn. How to say, the genre of love variety shows is indeed very attractive, throwing away complex factors such as economy, occupation, family affairs, work, background, social status and so on;

It's just through the first glance of the heartbeat on the outside, from the strangeness and shyness at first sight, to the step-by-step hormonal germination and heartbeat... In the end, maybe a lover will eventually become a dependent, or maybe it will be helpless to pass by.

Through the love variety show, we seem to have entered a love with a real sense of intention and without lacking sincerity.

But although the love variety show is delicious, it is really not easy to do it well. Like European and American variety shows, such as France's Marseille, although it is real, it is quarreling and tearing at every turn, and it looks really tired;

The Brazilian version of "Single is Hell", it is really hormonal, like an "animal party";

In fact, putting "Single is Hell" in South Korea to shoot, is a very small idea, originally like "The Temperature of Love", we can feel the atmosphere of all Koreans in love, ambiguous, jealous, careful to move, awkward... The subtlety and unique small emotions of these East Asians when they are in love are amplified in love variety shows, which can really make people feel itchy.

However, how to say "Single is Hell", it seems a little greasy and insincere: it is also a Korean body, career, self-pursuit involvement, and the guests come with a purpose: Internet celebrities, dance partners, and a little show performance, it is difficult not to make people feel that they want to take advantage of the show; If you are not sincere and true, you will lose the essence of "love variety show".

But Netflix's other series of love variety shows are quite successful, that is, "Duplex"

Three pairs of ordinary urban men and women in the city who have their own personalities live in the same apartment, gradually changing from strange to familiar; While pursuing his passion and career. The same program format in Europe and the United States is to tear up quarrels or animal worlds; In China, it is an Internet celebrity beauty pageant; Korea has more performances and less sincerity.

However, choosing Japan is just right, and the small artifice, little caution and little wildness of the neon people complement each other. It's very interesting that the guests of the show's observation team are both teenage children! There are also experienced 40-50-year-old funny entertainers and uncles and sisters, while sharply analyzing human nature, while funny spitting. The atmosphere is subtle.

Today, I will join you in a bowl of white rice to chew and chew on the electronic squeezed vegetables with relish.

With people all over the world watching Tokyo (Tokyo Olympics) for the upcoming 2020, six brand new strangers will gather in this exciting city and live under the same roof.

Six young boys and girls working in the capital and pursuing their dreams live together in a duplex apartment in Tokyo, talking not only about love, but also about careers, dreams and goals in life.

The casting of the two-storey apartment is actually quite real and interesting, the first Kaori, 28 years old, is a silent and talented illustrator, with neat short hair, excellent education and background;

Shohei is an actor, 25 years old, erratic about his career, wants to do everything, hopes to become a slash youth, but seems to succeed in nothing;

Chunhua is also a beautiful actress, but there is a big contrast in personality and appearance, under the gentle and beautiful appearance, she likes motorcycles, golf and racing cars, and she also speaks straight, and she also speaks directly to the people she likes.

Young Lihuako, 21 years old, is a stylish fitness trainer who is both cute and quite outgoing;

Young Liujia. is also a 21-year-old boy, very handsome, but very shy when talking to girls, will blush;

31-year-old Yoshiwara has a successful career and has the charm of a mature man, but he is very passive about feelings.

How to say, the casting of Japanese love reality shows is both real and personal. The boys and girls who come here are not only here to fall in love, but also to talk about a lot of dreams, career plans, friendships, and relationships between people...

First of all, the boys' group is both typical and very individual: three boys aged 20, 25 and 31, each has different ideas and cowardice about career, love and future: 20-year-old Liujia, or part-timer, completely without the idea of his own career and future pursuit, young and naïve, cute and caring but very childish in everything;

The 25-year-old Shohei is also very interesting, he is greedy for everything, he wants to be an engineering and architect, he hopes that his own actors can succeed, and he wants to be a columnist. For the attitude of the profession, he is: "I just want to do everything, people who only do one job, anyway, will be boring to age." ”

When it comes to the future, his concept is that "I don't have to be successful in my career, as long as I earn enough money to live, and I can have a beer with my friends every day after work, and as a result, the career concept of "prodigal son" Shohei is not understood by the entire apartment." The editor likes this point of "Double Storey Apartment" very much, not only a simple love variety show, but also a superficial politeness, and a lot of values and outlook on life:

The inner craftsmanship of the Japanese and some seriousness and single-mindedness in life and work. And the "prodigal son" Xiangping particularly misses the state of life in Taiwan: free self, not necessarily successful, can also wander at will, even if unsuccessful, he is still himself. Xiangping pursues calmness and arbitrariness, focusing only on the present and heart, rather than too much dedication to work and anxiety about the future.

Unlike the Japanese concept of suspense in life, and what Haruka calls "people who like blood", Shohei appears to be a "prodigal son" with Buddhist lineage, and his values are not accepted by the general Japanese.

And the special Xiangping has an alternative or "literary film male protagonist" that can make people feel infected from the depths of their souls like a faint charm like a wandering poet: everyone regards the 20-year-old boy Liujia as a child, but Xiangping will help him design his hair and clothes before his date, cook for him, and say: You are no longer a child, now you can cook by yourself. “

When Riko and Haruha had a fierce argument and conflict because they liked men, he said, "It's not something to worry about, as if there's no need to bother with this kind of thing." I will also not be on the side of someone, time will solve everything. ”

Asians are always very accommodating to those around them or show strong understanding and listening skills, but they are very strict with themselves, so it is difficult to accept people who do not conform to mainstream values. Asia's introverted development allows everyone to hide their personality, but the "prodigal son" Xiangping seems so special. That kind of free temperament is not only inconsistent with the mainstream, but also has a trait that makes people can be real friends and will be a little envious~

30-year-old Yoshiwara, although he has a successful career, he also has an enviable handsome and romantic music career. But emotionally, it really doesn't make people feel worthy of reliance and trust: they always want to be complete on the surface, so they seem mature and inclusive but have reservations about everything, which hurts both girls who actively like themselves.

The 28-year-old Kaori is another ideal type of life, with a good family background, good cultivation, good clothes, a love and successful career, and a beautiful educational background. Full of talent, ambition and high emotional intelligence. It is inevitable that girls will be close to her, and boys will have a good impression of her.

Compared with the hormonal impulses of European and American love variety shows, there are various fancy and exquisite characters in Korean dramas. "Duplex" has a more emotional and substitution ability: Xiangping, who is truly dashing and confused in his soul, disappears in a cool morning, leaving behind a philosophy of life that makes people around him puzzled and envious, living like a protagonist of a literary movie.

And the perfect Kaori is enviable and makes us who are confused inevitably feel out of reach, after all, life is always full of chicken blood and confusion in the dull and ups and downs at the same time.

"Duplex" has been going on for so many seasons, there is no dog blood or the fancy feeling of Internet celebrities, but there is a sense of reassuring and throbbing reality: both shy and depressed under Asian society, and different personalities: or hot-blooded, idle, young and naïve, confused, or living ideally. Although I didn't get love as I wished, after all, this is life, and love is so accessible;

Although it is a love variety show, there is no drama, dog blood or heart-warming drama, but a kind of most direct and real communication and value collision between people. Although their opinions do not necessarily change us, they will make us occasionally think back and then feel during short breaks on the road of life.

"Double Apartment" does not catch horses, but it is expensive, and the real life of the screen seems to be more or less, and it also has its own shadow.