Sorry, I admit that I was a little loud about "Love Only" before.
When it first started broadcasting, the Internet was full of Wu Lei's kiss scenes and bed scenes, and I thought it was another broken drama selling the hormones of the little wolf dog or the little milk dog in the year.
My sister is an independent woman who grasps both her career and life, and her only flaw is that she has locked her heart and love for many years, relying on her brother's simple mind and eight-pack abs to open the door of her ashen heart.
It's so earthy, it's an insult to our 30-year-old woman.
By default, the sister's need for love is only physical temptation, and the sexual tension of a young boy to dispel the anxiety of aging in her heart - living like the old Montenegrin demon who sucks the sun in "Chat Zhai".
The publicity team of "Love Only" may also think so, so Wu Lei's muscles are displayed 360 degrees in the material, as well as various loyal dogs to speak.
Of course, the muscles are pretty good.
Fortunately, the screenwriter is still very knowledgeable: Wu Lei plays this younger brother, and he is not a fool with an empty body and youth.
The little fox who knows how to push and pull can pry open the hearts of his sisters.
01
The fatal temptation of sibling love is not the "straight ball" of the younger brother
To be honest, it wasn't until I saw Wu Lei's Song Sanchuan that I vaguely understood why the sibling love of domestic dramas made a bad one.
Although the younger brothers are young and invincible from actors to characters, they are too boring to be excited.
Either just met and took off my sister's sunglasses, at best it was rude, at worst it was sexual harassment;
Either you have just met twice and completed the heart-warming confession combination - the sincerity is instantly full, but this is like you go to a drawing class with great interest, and the teacher directly draws you a finished product.
Many people say that the love line of "Love Only" is too slow and peaceful, and the male and female protagonists focus on their careers and have almost no sugar.
Sorry, Ben's 30-year-old ambiguous lover loves this kind of dark rubbing pushing and pulling process.
Heartbeat, restraint, temptation, wrestling, the above factors together form a kind of magnetic field that the two know well -
You say the front door building, I say the crotch shaft, but our conversation can still go on sticky to the kind of magnetic field of the old wasteland.
Is it good to like the love you say directly? Of course good.
But this "firmly chosen" relationship is too sweet, and my sister's stomach, which has become accustomed to a healthy diet, is somewhat indigestible.
Just the right sweetness is the shit reason Seba and Mia find in "La La Land" in order to watch movies with each other;
It is the hand on Robert's shoulder that Francesca pretends to have no intention of putting on Robert's shoulder before the two sides exchange hearts in "Dream of the Covered Bridge";
It was "Love Before Dawn" The two people obviously wanted to meet again, but the words became all over the place.
Like a precursor to a thunderstorm in the night, the surface looked calm, but both sides felt the surrounding charge at the same time that made the sweaty hairs on their arms stand up.
The sibling love in "Love Only" poked me a little for a long time, because it didn't directly enter the wolf-dog plot of "she ran away and chased him".
Before Wu Lei's confession of "I like you" in episode 13, the plot arranged several subtle temptations for him, each of which was more sparkling than their later kiss scenes.
The first time I proposed a date with the heroine, there was no firm look and rotating lens that was standard with the little wolf dog in sibling love... A stormy quest began.
Instead, he turned his eyes to see his sister's reaction while speaking, and after vaguely speaking, he also played a ball awkwardly.
Seeing that the other party showed a slightly surprised expression, he immediately retracted his foot that crossed the boundary by half a step.
From "dating" to "having a meal and playing together".
But you see the smile on the corner of my sister's mouth when she turned and left, in fact, she was like a mirror in her heart——
This clearly means like!
The charm of the younger brother is not in the straight ball, but in the ability to play pig and eat tiger generously.
The 22-year-old boy can obviously even get a marriage certificate, but in front of his 32-year-old sister, he can still be a child who doesn't understand anything.
Many sentences that are equivalent to confession in ordinary relationships can be used to cover up the past with "naivety" in sibling love.
If the younger brother does not say it, the sister is happy not to poke through, and the ambiguous stimulation level rises sharply.
Even Song Sanchuan's first serious dissection of his heart was picked at the moment when a sister wore headphones to listen to a song.
My sister's expression did not change, but her eyes raised slightly.
Did she really not hear it, or did she pretend not to hear it?
Looking at his brother's playful laugh, is he making a "one-man confession"? Or did you deliberately want your sister to hear?
I love watching this kind of guessing emotional drama, but I also understand why so many people don't like it.
Ambiguity is good, but it is maddening.
The other side of stimulation is tiring, so tired contemporary people are more and more fond of watching sweet pets and overlord plots, and pursuing a sense of stability in love.
Only ambiguous and not confessed, all hit the Sea King behavior.
But in sibling love, it seems that these concerns can be weakened, although not completely eliminated.
The older sister with experience and resources partially makes up for the weak position of women in traditional relationships - I can see your tricks, but it is all up to me to accept the recruits.
When the heart is moved, you can cast ambiguous eyes with the strength of the wine, and muttered playfully "You are quite good at it";
If you turn your head, you can become a mature sister ten years older than you.
If women's ambiguity in traditional relationships is walking a tightrope on a cliff, sibling love is more like bungee jumping.
There is always a safety rope on the feet, which is a sense of safety and excitement, uncertainty in certainty.
A 100% stable relationship is boring, just like the one who is really "straight" in the play, but it is actually the former ambiguous object in the sister's company.
Come up to talk about marriage, immigration and the family career planning of the future two, and the promise of life for the next fifty years is made, this ball is simply straighter than a bird's rectum.
If his role removes the scene of embarrassment and anger behind, he may still be able to mix with a low emotional intelligence bully in the sweet pet drama.
But my sister just wanted to give him a big ear scraper, persuade him to go back and look in the mirror, and then continue to play the ambiguous little game of pushing and pulling with his brother.
02
A generation has a "younger brother" of a generation
In recent years, dramas with the theme of "sister and brother love" have been filmed one after another, and I don't know what kind of audience has been poked.
Didn't poke the sisters anyway.
The Taiwan puppet drama that the post-90s children loved to watch provided the little girl's fantasy of perfect love;
The younger brother in the sibling love on the screen should also be the "custom lover" of the 30-year-old female audience.
In fact, there have always been a lot of sibling gimmicks in TV series.
As early as 6 or 7 years ago, when the "older leftover women" were widely discussed, a group of "rescue" younger brothers were produced——
A 30-year-old hateful daughter has become a "temporary product" in the blind date market and in the mouths of her parents, and suddenly a young guy who is good everywhere appears, chasing you with his life.
In the end, the two tied the knot and slapped those ex-boyfriends/fiancés/blind dates of the same age.
The younger brother role here is more like the loot of the older sisters than the lover.
It is also a military medal used to prove that 30+ women who have been devalued in the marriage value system can still achieve worldly victories.
From this level, Yan Ni, who was swept out by her ex-husband in "Life Apocalypse", meets Hu Ge, and Gao Yuanyuan, who encountered workplace discrimination in "Let's Marry", meets Huang Haibo.
It's just that the one in front has a beautiful and youthful face, which looks higher in gold content and is a little more "cool".
Therefore, the first generation of younger brothers need straight balls, and their straightforward and passionate love is the sister's weapon to resist the wind knife and frost sword from the outside world.
But this set is obviously no longer able to please a new batch of urban female audiences -
A woman who is not married at the age of 30 is no longer a rare animal in public opinion, and she no longer needs her brother to gain a sense of recognition.
And the real dilemmas in front of them: career crisis, fertility anxiety, hidden discrimination... Don't care if you can handle it, at least my brother can't solve it anyway.
Three years ago, Song Qian played the sibling love drama "The Next Stop is Happiness", and the heroine was once complained about the contradiction of the person.
An executive in his 30s worries every day about not being in love.
Now that I think about it, the twisting of the plot is actually to create a sister of a new era - beautiful and powerful, with a perfect sense of control over life and work.
But arranging the younger brother to solve the contradiction of the previous generation of sibling love: saving the "older leftover girl" from fire and water.
However, women only need certain love when they are deeply trapped in the demeaning vortex of gender relations;
The new sibling love template, not only the sister needs to be updated, but also the younger brother.
So the sister Liang Youan in "Love Only" who wants something and has a clear mind will not pull and pull with some straight-ball little wolf dog;
Will only be moved by Song Sanchuan, who pretends to be a pig and eats a tiger.
Eat regular takeaway every day, do regular exercise, and pass the time with regular activities on weekends.
Compared to the young girl who lives in a shared house and submits a resume, the certainty in her life is not too little, but too much.
And in the exquisite, dripping life, the younger brother is the only exciting variable.
In fact, some very childish behaviors arranged by the plot for Song Sanchuan, if placed on young couples of the same age, are all big thunder.
For example, when she heard that she had been dissuaded from the university, she wrote the name "Liang Youan" on the bulletin board of outstanding graduates with lipstick.
For example, when he heard that his girlfriend was talking to his ex-boyfriend about business because of work needs, he suddenly ran out with a collar and pretended to be an adult and began to swear sovereignty.
If the woman is a young employee who has just graduated, the lethality of this behavior is comparable to confessing in the company*5.
But Liang Youan is a sister, in the company can solve the embarrassment given by the boss, and I am afraid that you will find me this little trouble?
She would just hold back her laughter and let her little boyfriend rampage and pull herself away.
The scumbag asked helplessly in his seat: How old are you two?
Partner, this one is not the next one, and there are several dozen options in my sister's laptop.
On the contrary, he raised his eyebrows in front of his ex-boyfriend, but there was no such shop in this village.
After all, if it weren't for the little boyfriend, a decent sister wouldn't be able to do such a thing as "swaggering and showing off in front of her ex" if she didn't come out.
03
Not only is the younger brother a science fiction film,
My sister too
I don't hide from everyone, a few years ago I was a staunch opponent of sibling love, firmly believing that "men my age are so naïve, and men younger than me have it."
My brother is still naïve, but my mentality has changed.
The cowardice, confusion, and foresight at the age of 20 have almost disappeared by the age of 30.
The advantage is that the comfort zone is found and there is less internal consumption, and the disadvantage is that the desire and opportunity to explore outward are disappearing.
Just like in the play, Liang Youan's life is suddenly cheerful, but it is not because he found a younger brother to fall in love.
But after changing jobs, I found that the eight faces I had practiced in the boss's office were useless at all.
I can only relearn how to be blinded and how to surrender my heart...
For a "trapped" older sister, regardless of the outcome, change itself is the antidote to anxiety, and the younger brother is that "grabber".
It is very interesting that the core tension of sibling love is that the two parties are originally "not in the same rhythm";
And when their lives are at the same frequency, this tension will often weaken or even disappear.
In the Taiwanese drama "The Village Came to the Irascible Female Surgeon", the rural native guy chased his sister, who was a surgeon, to the big city and began to enter his sister's life;
Paula and Sunwoo in "Please Answer 1988" formed an enviable happy family of doctors + prosecutors 6 years later.
Every time I see this kind of ending, I am very ambivalent: on the one hand, I feel that this ending is too worldly and boring.
But sometimes they pour cold water on the gap between the two sides in their hearts.
For example, there is such a plot behind "Love Only": My sister confessed that it was more difficult to have a child by herself, and my brother said that I love your child is just a gift.
But all I had in my head was: "A 22-year-old kid has no idea about giving birth, will you regret it after 10 years?" ”
People, that's how screwed up.
Obsessed with the uncertainty in life, but when the uncertainty is real—even if it just seems real—you can't help but ask questions about reality.
What has really carried forward the "uncertainty" of sibling love to the extreme over the years is actually an ancient Korean drama "I Am Kim Sam Soon".
But now take out this pair of CPs, no one can move.
The male protagonist is a giant baby with more sincerity and insufficient sense of responsibility, who swings emotionally and morally between two women all day long.
It seems that the main role of existence is to add difficulty to Sanshun's originally calm and consistent life.
But after careful consideration, Sanshun still chose to hand over his sincerity.
He was hurt, wept, and wanted to die, but every time he would get up on his own.
Doesn't my sister know that people's hearts are changeable? It's just that she is strong enough to enjoy the beauty of feelings and accept the uncertain consequences that come with them.
The closing monologue of "I Am Kim Sam Soon" still sounds deafening to this day.
"Maybe we'll break up in the future, but I won't be daunted by it." What I'm going to do now is clear, and that's to try to bake a cake and try to love someone like they've never been hurt. ”
It's a pity that I lived to be 30 years old, and even if I felt that I lived to be 40 or 50 years old, I couldn't be so invincible.
Many people can't, so the theme of sibling love has also been filmed and filmed over the years, but there is only one "Jin Sanshun".
In reality, not only is there a refreshing and beautiful younger brother like Wu Lei, but there are also few older sisters who are strong enough to dare to really step out of the comfort zone.
And the sibling love in the TV series is like a roller coaster on a playground for people like me.
Let the women buckle up and briefly live the addiction of heaven and earth and crazy screaming.
But at the end, he would still pat his chest: "Harm, it's good to be down-to-earth." ”