"The Long Season" entered the second half of the revelation stage, and the constantly reversing plot made the audience call the CPU burned dry, but in the brainstorming caused by suspense, the story also hides the tragic father-son relationship that many audiences ignore.
For the father and son of Wang Yang and Wang Xiang, if the characters are pulled out separately, the audience has a little good impression of the two characters, but if they are put together, there are often comments of "waste father, low-intelligence son".
Especially the plot where Wang Xiang was framed by Xing San.
The son was framed by the father, but he bowed his head and apologized to the person who framed him, which made many viewers feel angry for the father and son, but also dissatisfied with Wang Yang's internal and external "softness" and Wang Xiang's impulse to "reckless the consequences".
Relatively speaking, the audience can understand the decision of father Wang Xiang a little.
At that time, due to the social atmosphere and personal future, if Wang Xiang did not compromise in time, the persecutors were all about gold, which was likely to ruin the future of his son Wang Yang, and give up his dignity for his son, and the old father's mentality was tearful.
But what "Long Season" wants to dig out from the two of them is not the family affection and emotion unilaterally paid by the older generation, but a tragic father-son relationship created by the times, concepts, and generation gaps.
Father's "stability"
Seven episodes in the barrage of this play, I often see that some viewers complain that Wang Yang "does not do his job", thinking that he is neither good at school nor honest work, and only thinks about falling in love all day long, which is a rebellious son who makes people feel uncomfortable.
Audiences who have this feeling of chasing dramas are likely to ignore the causal relationship.
To understand Wang Yang's behavior, we must first understand his father Wang Xiang, in Wang Yang's parents' generation, everyone is accustomed to stability and arrangement, life moves forward step by step, and everything is a straight and visible road.
For example, Wang Xiang and his father.
His father is a steel mill veteran, and he will also enter the steel mill when he grows up, and in Wang Xiang's original family plan, he can also get a steel mill job for his children in the future, just like other old workers think.
In the early days, this phenomenon was the default "unspoken rule", and it was very common for employees to be hired first or whose parents retired from illness, and a formal position in a state-owned enterprise was also a guarantee of stability.
Therefore, for Wang Xiang, if his children want to live well in the future, there are only two ways to go, one is to enter the university through the college entrance examination; The other is to get an official position in the steel mill by virtue of the descendants of old employees.
The first road has been determined to be impossible here in Xuescum, Wang Yang.
So Wang Xiang put all his thoughts on fighting for his son's steel mill job, but the audience in front of the screen knew that they were in the era of state-owned enterprise transformation, not only could it be impossible to fight for jobs for their juniors, but even their own jobs would be difficult to secure.
For Wang Xiang at this time, he is still a proud old birch steel man on the surface, but he is actually very panicked in his heart, because the times are changing, and he has been "arranged" to move forward for most of his life, and he does not know how to parry at all.
In Wang Xiang's personal affair with the director of the factory, many viewers felt that he was too "nesty" and did not use this handle to blackmail the director into arranging work for his son, and Seven Words felt that the character reaction arranged by the screenwriter was more in line with the character setting.
It's not that Wang Xiang can't think of using this to blackmail the other party, but "stepping on the red line" is too difficult for him who has followed the rules for most of his life, and just sending wine has allowed him to subvert the world view, not to mention stepping on another red line that is more sensitive?
Obedience, stability, and integrity have been carved into his bones, and the future planning for his children is also revolving in his originally limited "circle", and the changes in the world are destined to be unfeasible for Wang Xiang, but he does not know it.
"Confusion" with his son
What are the children of workers who fail to get into college and are not put into steel mills by their parents doing? The camera has hinted that most of them have become social unsettlers, such as the gangster who stole the spare tire of the police car.
The reaction of the other party when he heard Wang Xiang tell how honest his father was in his work was very intriguing, and it was obvious that what the fathers were proud of and even adhered to, because the work could not be "inherited", had lost authority in the younger generation.
If today's young people were to deal with this situation, most people would probably be more optimistic than they are: Isn't it impossible to get into the steel mill where their parents work? You can go out and break in, so many opportunities await them in the 90s.
But it is still that problem, we look at the past in this era, we see opportunities, they looked around at that time, but they were all uneasy and confused, their parents did not have the experience to give them, and at the same time bound them.
It is also like Wang Xiang to Wang Yang.
Wang Yang, who can't go to college and can't enter the factory, is actually listening to the advice of his classmates to do odd jobs to be self-sufficient, and in Wang Xiang's memories, the audience can also see that Wang Yang has always wanted to leave his hometown and break in.
Subsequently, Wang Yang went to the dance hall to work as a waiter, not only to chase silence, but also because he really needed a job.
But Wang Yang's choices and ideas at this time are like subverting the worldview for his father Wang Xiang: how can the children of workers degenerate into waiters? Without a formal position, how can there be a stable life in the future?
Isn't it back to the audience's original question? It is not that Wang Yang "does not do his job", but Wang Xiang does not allow him to work in other places, and the jobs he can win locally are "degenerate" in the eyes of his father.
The father is not allowed to do the job he can find, and the father feels that the job he should do cannot be obtained, and for the young Wang Yang, he is full of beautiful fantasies about the future and deeply confused.
Wang Xiang's insistence on applying his life experience to the young Wang Yang is also the cause of family tragedy to a certain extent, and Wang Yang, who is bound by the "circle", is destined to be unable to see a broader world.
Guard and let go
Years later, Wang Xiang and his adopted youngest son Wang Bei depended on each other, and during the college entrance examination in Wang Bei, Wang Xiang's attitude towards educating children changed 180 degrees, and he hoped that Wang Bei could "go out" and encourage him to see a bigger world.
This plot also once made many viewers feel incomprehensible, obviously Wang Bei wanted to live with his father, why did he force him out? Because binding his son to his side has taught him enough lessons.
The change of time made Wang Xiang understand the confusion of his eldest son Wang Yang, understood his purpose of wanting to see a broader world, and faced with his younger son who was about to enter the next stage of his life, he was afraid of repeating the mistakes of the past.
Once kept the eldest son to protect, now let the younger son fly, but also to protect, this old man who has experienced too many life turns and hardships, has been using his best efforts to pave the way for the future of his children.
This is also the key to whether Wang Xiang is to Wang Yang or to Wang Bei, their father-son relationship has the key to making the audience cry, and the old father does not necessarily give the best arrangement for the child, but has been trying to love them.
Objectively speaking, in the eyes of the younger generation, the ideas and educational concepts of the elderly Wang Xiang are undoubtedly limited.
At this time, he paid too much attention to pushing his son out to grow up, ignoring that family affection is also an important bond for children, and for children, they should be "far-reaching" while avoiding leaving another regret in their lives.
If Wang Bei followed his father's advice and left decisively, would he feel bitter self-blame in the future for not being able to accompany his father for the rest of his life? We have no way to speculate, but judging from Wang Bei's tears, he has regrets at the moment.
It just echoed the conversation between the queen mother and Wang Yang.
The world changes rapidly, Wang Yang, who has experienced his father's arrangement, may not be able to figure out how to treat his children in the future is a better choice, and Wang Xiang, who has experienced regrets, may not choose a better path for his younger son.
But we can continue to learn from the changing society, face the parent-child relationship with a more enlightened and positive attitude, minimize the father-son tragedy of Wang Xiang and Wang Yang, and strive to create a healthier and better parent-child relationship.