As I get older, there are fewer and fewer people and things that can impress me now (especially in internal entertainment). With less "heartbeat", there will be fewer updates.
However, it is precisely because there are fewer and fewer opportunities to "go up", so every time I encounter it, I will cherish it very much and immerse myself happily.
It's like the drama I wrote today is the conscience idol drama that I recently went crazy in the circle of friends Amway and hoped that everyone around me would watch - "Love Only".
If I were to write a one-sentence recommendation for this show, it would be:
It can make the 38-year-old me, tired of being tortured by life, tired of most sweet pet idol dramas, and show a smile again.
It's what makes me feel it again – ah, what a nice feeling of hormonal flow! (Sorry, it's hard to control myself, one more sentence)
Why this drama
Can it refresh the hearts of old women and girls?
And look
There is no "refreshing" sister
is the heroine of this era
First of all, I must say that everyone should not be dissuaded by the name of this show.
"Love Only", look at the name, look at the introduction, is a very ordinary sibling love:
Liang Youan (played by Zhou Yutong), who is facing a career bottleneck at the age of 32, met Song Sanchuan (played by Wu Lei), a 22-year-old badminton player who sat on a cold bench because of his "psychological shadow". The two who were at the trough of their lives started a new life in a tennis club and achieved a double harvest of career and love.
This boring introduction, coupled with a series of "sisters and brothers hugging and holding high" films circulating on the Internet before, made me mistakenly think that this is another brainless sweet pet drama selling artificial sugar.
But who would have thought that this idol drama featuring love in the new year unexpectedly has a "texture".
The "texture" of a drama is determined by the delicacy of the plot. "Love Only", where it is done well, is the characters.
Although it is a romantic drama, what first attracted me was not "sister dog love", but the heroine Liang Youan, who can resonate strongly with me. (It turns out that casting is also very important, Zhou Yutong is the aesthetic orientation of our 35+ women, just looking at this face is very comfortable)
In fact, it has been concluded before that the first element for idol dramas to be successful is that the female protagonist makes people feel substitution. Ten years ago, the heroine was "Cinderella", and now the times have progressed, and the heroine has become an "independent woman".
Therefore, domestic dramas, in recent years, have also worked tirelessly to create "big heroines" and "strong women". Unfortunately, few are grounded.
They all "drag sisters", walk with the wind, and feel that the earth revolves around them.
But that's not the case. There are few women around us who are so determined. Most people, even if they reach the age of 30 and have a little bit of life wisdom, still have to face a difficult life. We're struggling, and we're moving forward.
And Liang Youan, played by Zhou Yutong, belongs to this category. She is the most professional female character I have seen in years.
She is very capable of working. At the beginning, she was a special assistant to the president of a sports brand, and she can help the boss "sweep mines" and solve various crisis public relations.
However, when she did these things, her face was tired.
She is not a female bully with full aura, but a migrant worker who "has to work hard even if she doesn't like it".
After the age of 30, no day in the workplace is easy.
The job of special assistant of the president looks glamorous, but it is actually to help the boss wipe his ass. The good performance is not yours, and if something goes wrong, you have to blame it.
Liang Youan wanted to transfer to the marketing post, but helplessly, because she was doing too well, the boss was not willing to let her go.
This job, the salary is good, can allow Liang Youan to live a relatively decent white-collar life, but where is the sense of achievement and the value of being on the job day after day, 24 hours? Do you always have to be the shadow of the boss?
When people work for a certain number of years, sometimes what they are pursuing is not just getting a salary.
Liang Youan wants to realize personal value, she wants to have more personal space, but she is trapped by reality.
There is a scene in the play that I think is quite real.
At night, Liang Youan was chasing dramas at home alone when he suddenly saw his boss turn on the phone. She deliberately didn't listen and pressed it under the pillow, but in the end, the sense of responsibility she had trained over the years prevailed over her momentary willfulness.
She read WeChat, answered the call of her boss, and did not forget to wear makeup before going out.
"Liang Youan, you are a." In a word, it pierces the heartache of people in the workplace. There are obviously many things that you can not do, but your sense of professionalism is that you can't turn a blind eye to this.
The body cannot help itself, it is passive and active. Everyone is trapped in the inner cage of society.
Liang Youan, who is trapped in the workplace, makes us feel the same way.
Her feelings also touch our nerves.
Liang Youan is good-looking and has excellent people, but why didn't he fall in love? Because, for women of this age, it is too difficult to meet a suitable partner.
For Liang Youan, she is independent at work and has requirements for feelings. What she wants is not just some hormonal moisture, but a comfortable and comfortable relationship.
I was chatting with my friends the other day, and everyone agreed that we had passed the stage of being controlled by dopamine and entered the serotonin phase. Dopamine stimulates hormones, while serotonin stabilizes mood. For 30+ women, in the relationship, they are more eager to get someone with the same heart, rather than the stimulation of dry firewood.
Liang Youan is in the company and seems to have a good choice.
A man named Knight, who was sent to Singapore, has a good impression of Liang Youan, and invites her to go to Singapore to develop.
However, this Knight, as soon as he approached, was very bored. He is utilitarian and calculating, he wants to be with Liang Youan, more because of her conditions, to find such an "independent woman" as a wife to have face.
Moreover, he didn't want to fall in love well, and he wanted to confirm the relationship as soon as he came. After being rejected by Liang Youan, he also deliberately gave Liang Youan a gift in front of his colleagues in the company, wanting to tell everyone that this was his "possession".
In the eyes of this man full of "self-superiority", women are just accessories to increase his value.
Moreover, in this society, men like Knight are not alone, but emotional traps that many women will encounter. When you look for an object with sincerity, you find that the other party only wants to treat you as a "commodity". At this age, you still tell the truth, can't you laugh?
Liang Youan's workplace and feelings were not "refreshing" at first.
This may also be the reason why some people feel that the pace of this drama is slow, why do the male and female protagonists in the first six episodes have no emotional scenes?
However, the "unhappy" Liang Youan is most of the 30+ women in our lives.
Whether it's career or love, we're trying to find ways to break the game.
Life wasn't good enough for me, but I still didn't want to give up. Liang Youan touched me, it was this point, she did not stop at the predicament.
In the relationship, she rejects Knight and is determined not to be wrapped up in marriage anxiety.
△ The lines of this drama are well written, and the scumbag is torn, and it is not necessary to spit fragrant in the mouth. I especially like the saying, "Your superiority is something I see through because of maturity".
In her career, she finally found an opportunity to leave the company.
Liang Youan did not choose to continue his planned marketing position, but went to work as a manager in a grass-based tennis club.
This club wants money and no money, no one wants people, and it looks like a mess, but Liang Youan enjoys this creative process from scratch very much.
She lowered her head to beg the boss for money, she went to find the best coach, and she even had to recruit Song Sanchuan, who no longer played badminton, into the tennis club.
Because in Song Sanchuan's body, she sees the potential of outstanding athletes, and she feels that Song Sanchuan can light a fire in the club.
Facts have proved that Liang Youan really has courage and vision.
She withstood all kinds of pressure and pulled the tennis club on track little by little.
Liang Yongan's "not admitting defeat" in the face of life deeply attracted me.
She rose to the occasion again and again, not because of "whose love I get", but because "I know I can".
Without a younger brother, Liang Youan's life is also beautiful. She is not sober by the secular value PUA, which is exactly the wisdom that "sister" should have.
Independent women have to turn over, and they have always relied on themselves.
△ Liang Youan's job makes me want to change careers!
The younger brother should be likable
You can't stick to your sister all the time
"Sister dog love", the intellectual sister makes us women have a sense of substitution, then we have to find a brother worthy of her.
The younger brother does not just have to be handsome, the point is that he can bring freshness and vitality to his sister's life.
Wu Lei's Song Sanchuan is very good.
First, he is not greasy, and emotionally, he is extremely measured. Although he may have a good impression of Liang Youan from the first glance, he did not confess as soon as he came, but approached little by little.
First provide clues to help my sister solve the public relations incident, and then brush the sense of existence through daily care.
There is a detail in the play that is particularly interesting.
Liang Youan found a chocolate cyst and had to go to the hospital for surgery. Song Sanchuan looked at the circle of friends and found that Liang Youan was wearing a hospital gown, so he nervously asked "what happened".
Liang Youan told him not to worry, "minor surgery". Song Sanchuan was obviously nervous, but after weighing it, he decided not to harass Liang Youan.
After two or three days, Song Sanchuan carried a bunch of canned yellow peaches to see Liang Youan, without causing pressure on Liang Youan.
Express affection in a way that you feel comfortable with, Song Sanchuan's like, direct, but not aggressive.
Secondly, Song Sanchuan likes Liang Youan, and he really likes her as a person.
He is different from Knight in the company, he sees all the good things in Liang Youan.
He knew that Liang Youan was very good and powerful.
In the middle and later stages of the play, when their tennis club was divested and faced with a restructuring crisis, Song Sanchuan encouraged Liang Youan, "You have to believe in yourself, you can definitely handle things like restructuring the club that are completely within the range of your firepower."
This feeling of being believed and respected is very important in relationships.
Yang Li said in the variety show that the most hurtful feeling is not not to be loved, but to never be respected.
Song Sanchuan likes Liang Youan, he appreciates this person from the bottom of his heart, and he knows that she is special.
When Song Sanchuan's stepfather asked him, why do you like to be ten years older?
Song Sanchuan's answer was: "No, I don't like to be ten years older, I just like Liang Youan." ”
For Song Sanchuan, Liang Youan is Liang Youan, and no label can represent her.
Also, in order for the younger brother to be likable, he must also be independent.
The younger brother who always sticks to his sister, for a long time, will only make people feel annoyed.
Song Sanchuan has personal pursuit and personality charm, he is an athlete with strict self-requirements.
Although Song Sanchuan Yu transferred the net, a big factor was because of Liang Youan.
However, he loves tennis. Song Sanchuan went to the court to practice at six o'clock in the morning because he wanted to watch himself get stronger every day.
Later, he had a conflict with Liang Youan and once thought about giving up tennis.
However, in the end, it was still no match for his love of tennis.
Although the younger brother is not mature enough, he is also a very charming adult. He also exudes a unique personality.
This drama does a little more right, that is, to figure out the attraction of the younger brother.
The younger brother is so nice, not because of his young age, but because of his hard work and seriousness, reminding people of what he once forgot.
What is two-way love?
The two protagonists are standing, and their love has a reason to happen.
The love between Liang Youan and Song Sanchuan is very natural to develop, even if I, a person who is not good at "sister and brother love", will follow the plot to bump into this pair.
The good thing about "Love Only" lies in its emotional "restraint".
Many dramas, in order to attract traffic, often arrange for sisters and brothers to have intimate contact in the first episode. However, this show does not. The two have not really fallen in love for more than half of the plot.
Moreover, when Song Sanchuan confessed for the first time, he was rejected by Liang Youan.
Isn't Liang Youan impressed? Of course it's heartwarming.
But her refusal was reasonable.
She is the manager of the tennis club, and Song Sanchuan is a player of the club, and she does not want a player to work hard because he "likes him".
My brother's liking is simple, but my sister needs to think more.
Moreover, in front of Liang Youan at this time, there are many more important things than falling in love, and love is not her priority at the moment.
After being rejected, Song Sanchuan was also very sensible.
As usual, he played tennis and assisted Leung Youan in managing the club.
Liang Youan said, you don't need to be so nice to me.
Song Sanchuan responded, love is not a faucet, said close it.
Such feelings are very "adult". I like you, it's my personal behavior, even if you reject me, I can still maintain the right to like you, not have to get chickens flying and dogs jumping and bloody every time.
Although he did not get a "response" from his sister, Song Sanchuan also understood that Liang Youan did not accept him at the moment because he was not strong enough.
So, instead of giving up, he hopes to prove with the championship that his love for tennis is as serious as his love for her.
"I'll trade ten trophies for the possibility of coming to you." To be honest, who hears this phrase and the little heart does not beat wildly a few times?
Perhaps, at the beginning, we, like Liang Youan, felt that the love between 32 and 22 years old was very unreliable.
However, when Liang Youan and Song Sanchuan experienced a series of events such as unemployment, job transfers, running clubs and dealing with restructuring crises together, the sense of trust and bond between them made this age gap less important.
Song Sanchuan is 10 years younger than Liang Youan, but he has a responsibility: he is the hardest working player and the most loyal comrade. He overcame his psychological shadow and no longer confused feelings with work.
And Liang Youan is 10 years older than Song Sanchuan, but she still has a longing for love and the courage to spy on the "true body of love" again.
Their feelings are natural and logical.
Putting aside the label of sibling love, in fact, this is the story of two independent souls meeting each other and then growing together.
What is a two-way relationship?
It's not that I like you, you like me, we're going to be together.
It's that we're all on the road to trying to get better.
On this path, we firmly believe that one day we will meet each other.
There is no need to deliberately sprinkle sugar, those efforts of both parties to grow are the best sugar.
Of course, "Love Only" is not perfect.
After all, it is just an idol drama, and the male and female protagonists still carry an aura. The success of the male protagonist in three months of "feather transfer net" is very, very difficult in the real professional sports circle.
And the heroine, to bring a grass-based tennis club to the level of a top professional, is unlikely to be achieved in a year or two.
However, idol dramas, there will always be some idealized parts, and it is unlikely to completely copy reality.
I personally like this show, and the main thing is that I like its portrayal of 30+ women: no demonization, no labeling.
The role of Liang Youan, in all parts, makes me feel very substitutionary.
Dedication to work and a sense of professionalism. Be independent and assertive in life, not compromise or compromise.
She worked so hard and was so serious, she deserved the love worthy of her.
Although in reality, we can't meet a Song Sanchuan who is as handsome as Wu Lei.
But such a dream can be flashed in the play.
When chasing the drama, what makes people happy is not sweet love, but the real emotional needs of women are finally seen.
Pink bubbles no longer obscure women's true faces: we are not discriminated against for not marrying; We are not degraded for not having children; We are not considered losers because of divorce; We do not become sinners because we did not choose the path of the majority...
△ The female characters in "Love Only" are very diverse: Liang Youan's girlfriend is a nutritionist with a divorced baby, her half-sister seems to be brutal but is actually a sister control, and Guo Keyu plays an awakened president's wife, who chooses to divorce and live her life. They all have their own needs and don't just live for love.
The biggest gain from this drama for me is that I feel "respected".
As the intelligence of the audience, it is respected; The emotions of being a woman are also soothed.
At this age, of course I won't start looking forward to love because of a drama.
However, this drama still makes me suddenly lose a little more confidence in the future——
It turns out that in internal entertainment, there are still people who understand women!