"The Road of Life": The full version of Gogarin crumbled and inspired my heart

Produced by CCTV and iQiyi, produced by Contemporary Time Production and co-production, directed by Yan Jiangang, written by Hong Jinghui and Weixi, starring Chen Xiao and Li Qin, "The Road of Life" will be broadcast simultaneously with iQiyi on CCTV on March 20. The play is based on the famous writer Lu Yao's masterpiece "Life", the play is based on the original work, the story and characters are presented with a sense of the times, and at the same time, according to the audience's needs to fully understand Gao Garin's "complete life", Lu Yao's works have been moderately adapted and extended narrative.

Take "college entrance examination" as the key word to restore the atmosphere and people's hearts of the 80s

"There are so many steps in a person's life, especially when they are young", this sentence quoted by Lu Yao on the title page of "Life" has influenced young people's outlook on life for a long time, and has also become the common perception of generations of young people when opportunities come. The plot of the first few episodes of "The Road of Life", with "college entrance examination" as the keyword, created a strong atmosphere of life and thought in the eighties, and in a relatively simple and simple survival environment, the "college entrance examination" made the whole people at that time tighten a string that could not be loosened.

One candidate was carried out of the examination room, four candidates handed in white papers, the exam was not over, the classroom door was full of frustrated students, the situation portrayed in "The Road of Life" is in line with the embarrassment of the general lack of knowledge and insufficient preparation of candidates after the resumption of the college entrance examination in 1977, and the county where Gao Garin is located has not tested a college student for several years, such a tense environment allows the current audience to sincerely capture the high-pressure atmosphere. When high school seniors leave school after taking the college entrance examination, the school door is locked and closed, and "The Road of Life" performs a montage of the cold silence at the school gate, accompanied by immersive music, and the sense of loss and despair seems to overflow the screen.

Gao Shuangxing, as a newly added character in the TV series, played a "catfish role" in the play, he not only made Gao Garin's fate more bitter when he was young, but also stirred up more complex entanglements and collisions in the relationship between the characters in the play, which played a role in promoting the deep portrayal of human nature, Gao Shuangxing's father Gao Minglou, used the identity of the village director to turn Gao Garin's "admission notice" into his son's, and the father and son did not enjoy this stolen glory with peace of mind, The torture suffered by the play in the conscience of the father and son has given a lot of portrayals, one of which is impressive: Gao Shuangxing went to find Gao Garin late at night to confess the truth about going to college, Gao Minglou rushed to dissuade in a panic, out of the yearning for a better future, the father and son finally concealed the truth. Such a plot, in addition to letting people see the cruelty of the competition for interests in the context of lack of resources, also makes people reflect on the lack and regret of the relevant systems at that time.

With the "college entrance examination replacement" as the entrance to unfold the whole story, so that "The Road of Life" this period drama has more realistic elements, in the past few decades, the college entrance examination replacement incident has been exposed by the media from time to time, each time will set off an uproar across the country, the improvement of rules and systems, did not completely put an end to the phenomenon of "college entrance examination replacement", therefore, "The Road of Life" for the expression of this phenomenon, deeply reflective and critical significance, and from the current social media constantly being circulated "college entrance examination candidate oath video", The public's views on the college entrance examination are still deeply rooted, among which there is a positive and inspirational side and a narrow and biased side, and "The Road of Life" takes the audience to appreciate the atmosphere and hearts of the 80s again.

The cultural world often misses the eighties, because the hope of that era germinated, everything showed a lofty and upward attitude, idealism blossomed everywhere, and could find a place to take root, but for ordinary people at that time, especially small cities and villages in backward areas, there were still many constraints and struggles tied to people in the eighties, through the encounter of the young man Gogarin, the audience can experience how to change their destiny through hard work and hard work under difficult circumstances, and take their own life path.

Whoever expresses his "grievances" will win the audience

Lu Yao's writing is unpretentious, never through the deliberate choice of words and sentences to attract readers, and rarely in his works, see literary dazzling, and the reason why his novels have not lost their charm for decades and won the love of generations of readers, I am afraid that he is good at reflecting the life and fate of the group through individual stories, as Li Jingze, vice chairman of the China Writers Association, commented, "When we pick up "Life", I think hundreds of millions of people will feel that this is my business, my emotions. ”

The TV series "The Road of Life" mentally inherits the most valuable part of Lu Yao's works, it tells the story of Gao Garin, Liu Qiaozhen, Huang Yaping, Gao Shuangxing and others, but every audience can find a place to correspond to their own emotions and values. The reason why this drama can catch the audience's attention on the emotional level is because it can sensitively capture an emotional element that can be described as "grievance". It can be said that Lu Yao is one of the best writers who write "grievances", and as a film and television work, whoever expresses "grievances" well wins the audience, after all, "grievances" are very emotion that can resonate with the audience in the first time, and everyone can see their own shadow in "grievances".

"The Road of Life" is of course the most aggrieved is Gogarin, his college "admission notice" was hidden and fraudulently used, he knows nothing about this, but he thinks that he failed and was not admitted, he does not eat, drink or get out of bed, punishing himself in this way, the TV series also uses details such as not speaking, kicking trees and other details to show Gogarin's depression, he can't figure it out, his inexplicable so, in fact, is also the first reaction of generations of young people in the face of suffering and grievances, but someone came out like Gogarin later, He took his fate into his own hands, but some people have languished since then and refuse to resist again. But even if he succeeds later like Gogarin, he cannot be relieved of the greatest grievances he has suffered, unforgivable, unforgivable, and only in this way can he avoid later people being wronged again.

Whether in the book or in the play, Qiaozhen's grievances are not weaker than Gogarin's. In the plot of the third episode, Qiao Zhen's kind words and persuasion, as well as the basket of "sweet and sweet" steamed buns she sent, helped Gao Garin get out of the "falling list" dilemma, Li Qin's Qiao Zhen, through accurate body language and expression details, portrayed a Shaanxi mountain girl who only knows how to sacrifice and pay into a real and credible one, with a strong sense of substitution. "The Road of Life", as a TV series, gives Qiao Zhen a credible, cute and respectable image, while also shaping this character delicately and full. The biggest difference from novels and movies is that the series gives her a more independent temperament. In the few episodes that have aired so far, she has revealed her business mind, laying the groundwork for entering Shanghai in the future.

Qiao Zhen and Gao Garin, as spokespersons of the two genders of a bygone era, have far more brilliance than shortcomings, and in addition to the injustices they suffer, they both exude a pearl-like glow after being tempered by grit, and the people who possess this light are the most memorable images in the corridors of Chinese literature and film.

Gogarin's father and mother, honest and generous horse tether ... These honest people in the play constitute the kind background of a long rural life, they and their hostile parties, together constitute the whole of the "life" of a group living together, in such a group life, win and lose, beauty and ugliness, good and evil, in fact, have already drawn the boundary, the rest is the confrontation between instinct and choice, those who can overcome the instinct to make the right choice, through the spread of literary and artistic carriers, as the power of example, in fact, become the wealth of the public's spiritual life, can be constantly followed, This is the meaning of watching "The Road of Life" today.

The future plot is worth looking forward to, and the difference between urban and rural areas can reflect the variety of life

The young population of Gaojia Village in "The Road of Life" often mentions two place names, one is Xi'an and the other is Shanghai, for them, these two places can help them live the life they want and realize the ideal value of life. "The Road of Life" extends the plot to Shanghai, Gao Jialin, Liu Qiaozhen, Huang Yaping, Gao Shuangxing, Ma Shuo, these young people who grew up under the nourishment of the Northern Shaanxi Plateau, brought their own life trajectories to the city of Shanghai, and they collided and intertwined again at work, life, emotions and other levels, making the second half of "Life" more interesting and deep.

The creation of "The Road of Life" follows the path shown by Lu Yao in terms of real life experience, works and interviews, and Gao Garin's Shanghai can be regarded as a copy of Lu Yao's Xi'an to a large extent. When a rural struggler has a place in the city as a successful person, the city and the countryside in his mind are more capable of dramatic conflict, and his personal inner contradictions and entanglements will therefore become the best carrier of urban-rural differences.

"The Road of Life" adopts some novel techniques to enrich the freshness of the local theme, including the bicycle "parkour" style opening at the beginning of the first episode, the use of music that emphasizes psychological changes to create an atmosphere, but after all, the previous content of "The Road of Life", many local theme TV series have expressed, in contrast, the subsequent plot in Shanghai, and the plot when the characters return from Shanghai are more worth looking forward to, especially when Gogarin has an intellectual cultural identity in the city, how to evaluate the countryside where he was born, And the process of fighting all the way to the big city, which has a strong reference value.

Judging from the pattern conveyed by "The Road of Life" through the introduction of the sub-plot, the protagonist's "road of life" in the second half of the course is cross-promoted in Shaanxi and Shanghai. However, through the video information of film flowers and other aspects, the play does not have a sense of visual or visual division due to the intervention of urban elements, this is still a TV series with rural life as the background, and constantly looking and thinking about the differences between urban and rural areas, from Gaojia Village to Shanghai without a trace, which tests the adjustment and adaptability of the main creative team.

"The Road of Life" is a unique drama, its uniqueness lies in its adaptation of Lu Yao's classics, but also in the fact that it extends the story line of the original work, but also in the fact that it substitutes the public perspective, it can be considered that "The Road of Life" is not filmed for the purpose of tribute, but based on a comprehensive observation of the past decades, and then gives the play more present, so that the audience is full of "life" full of past exclamations, but also has mixed feelings, mixed tastes of different era experience.

A few final digressions. I saw someone on the Internet asking: Why don't young actors speak dialects? I think it's because their story is not limited to a corner of northern Shaanxi. Without dialects, when they go to the wider world, they do not have to pour. Some people also asked, why is the face of the person in the play so black? This should be a restoration of the original skin color, and when they later entered Shanghai, the skin color slowly changed... In fact, there is no standard answer to artistic creation, just be consistent.