Wen 丨 Qing Xin Junyue
Favorite period drama, every time you watch every new, the touch is always there!
In recent years, the most watched period drama is "The World", adapted from the works of Mao Dun Literature Award.
The original book has been turned over many times, the TV series has also been brushed several times, and the idea of serializing all 58 episodes of "The World" has been around for a long time, but I have never made up my mind.
This time, by chance, I planned to repaint "The World" again, so I gritted my teeth and prepared to take this opportunity and combine the original work to complete the unfinished business.
Therefore, the review of this serial "The World" will be based on the plot of each episode, and interested friends remember to pay attention to the update.
1. A family portrait that heralds the ending
The drama version of "The World" began in Jichun City, Jiangliao Province in 1969, unlike the original "The World", which began in 1972, when Tu Zhiqiang was sentenced to death (the background introduction of Chapter A City does not count).
At the same time, the drama version of "The World" has an additional key plot: Zhou Zhigang retrieved photos of five members of the Zhou family from the Dongsheng Photo Studio, a total of five, one for each person, and the negatives were handed over to Zhou's mother for safekeeping.
When Zhou Zhigang sent photos to his family, he said a sentence:
"This is very likely, it's our family, the last group photo."
After hearing this, Mother Zhou immediately scolded Father Zhou unhappily and said:
"What did you say?"
Father Zhou glanced at Mother Zhou, shook his head and sighed:
"Tell the truth!"
At that time, the Zhou family of five would never have thought that Father Zhou's words would become a saying, and in the end, it would really become a pain in the life of the second and third generations of the Zhou family.
In the drama version of "The World", the Zhou family is on the eve of their imminent separation.
Zhou Zhigang wants to return to Chongqing, Bingyi wants to go to the construction corps, both of them only have a family visit leave in two years, as for whether they can meet at home by then, it is completely unknown. And then the Zhou family will have another person to respond to the call to "go up the mountain and go to the countryside", and it will be more difficult to say what the situation will be then.
The road ahead is unknown, it is difficult to meet each other, it is normal for Father Zhou to have such feelings. Therefore, when the Zhou family gathered twice later, it was not difficult to understand that Zhou Zhigang wanted to take another "family portrait".
It's just that the follow-up Zhou family didn't seize the opportunity to take a "family portrait" twice. Once it was bad on Zhou Bingyi's body, and once it was bad on Zhou Rong's body. (About these two times, wait until the plot extends there)
Perhaps a "family portrait" will not stagnate the flow of time, let alone prevent the occurrence of birth, old age, illness and death, sorrow and joy. But the images preserved in the photos can at least prove that in a long time, there was a moment when the family was tightly attached and their hearts were tightly together.
And there is such a moment, the meaning for relatives is incomparably huge, it is eternal, and it can give comfort, courage and warmth to loved ones.
Second, Zhou Rong's scheming kiss
There are two things stuck in the hearts of the Zhou family: first, they are about to face family separation; Second, there will also be a child of the Zhou family who will leave the house.
Although two members of the Zhou family had already responded to the call to "go up the mountain and go to the countryside", the rule at that time was that only one person in a family with many children could stay in the city. If there is no positive response, even if he stays, then the person will not be assigned a job.
The "Nine Tigers and Thirteen Eagles" in the original work were not assigned to work because they did not respond to the call and were not assigned to work, so they went on the "wrong road" in a group. And Zheng Juan did not have a job because she did not respond to the call.
(A special note is needed here: some people think that Zheng Juan is the "eagle" of the "Nine Tigers and Thirteen Eagles", which is not true.) The "Nine Tigers and Thirteen Eagles" of that year had long been swept up, and only Tu Zhiqiang, the "tiger", had the lightest sentence. Later, Tu Zhiqiang was not only exempted from punishment because his father became a martyr, but also took over his father's class and entered the lumber factory. ）
The last person in the Zhou family to respond to the call was Zhou Rong.
In this matter, although the final result of the drama version of "The World" and the original "The World" are the same, the process is not the same.
In the drama version of "The World", the person agreed by the Zhou family is Zhou Bingkun, asking Zhou Rong to stay at home and wait for the assignment of work. Making this kind of decision is not to worry about Zhou Rong leaving.
The so-called "uneasy" is that Zhou Rong is "too beautiful and too attractive". Of course, Zhou's mother decided to keep Zhou Rong, in addition to this factor, it was because she felt that "the best time for a girl is so many years", and Zhou's mother was afraid of ruining Zhou Rong's life, so she endured the pain of pushing away Zhou Bingkun, who "just passed her seventeenth birthday".
It's just that for the love in her heart, Zhou Rong secretly left the house one step ahead of Zhou Bingkun.
In the original work "The World", although Zhou Bingkun and Zhou Rong were rushing to leave and let each other stay, the person determined by Zhou's mother was Zhou Rong.
Making this decision, Zhou's mother was not worried about Zhou Bingkun.
Zhou's mother said to Zhou Rong: "Of course, mom is reluctant to let you go." However, your brother is not as good as you and your brother in any way, he has lacked heart and eyes since he was a child, and he does not understand people's feelings, a tendon, he is not at ease when he leaves! ”
In addition to this, Zhou's mother left Zhou Bingkun for another reason. When Zhou Bingkun and Zhou Rong rushed away, Zhou Bingkun had a sentence that deeply stung Zhou's mother, and only then did he make this decision.
Zhou Bingkun said to Zhou Rong: "You are a woman, I am a man." The woman stays with the mother, my man goes! Anyway, my mother doesn't pay much attention to my old pimple. ”
Zhou Bingkun's words are not casual, whether it is the original book or the drama version, Zhou Bingkun believes that "mother loves Zhou Bingyi, father loves Zhou Rong", and he is the extra person in the family. Of course, this is not the case, so let's not talk about it here.
After talking about the difference between the drama version and the original book in this matter, we will turn our attention back to the drama version.
In the drama version, there are two details that are worth paying attention to: one is Zhou Rong's self-deception, and the other is Zhou Rong's scheming kiss.
Let's start with the first concern.
For Zhou Rong's unique "selfishness", everyone's hatred should be the same. But people can't be born "selfish", Zhou Rong initially gave people the feeling that they had ideas and ideas, but they didn't take their family seriously at all.
So the factors that drove Zhou Rong to make decisions that hurt his family's hearts were not other factors other than Feng Huacheng?
There are still some.
When Zhou Zhigang finally decided to go Zhou Bingkun, Zhou Zhigang's sighs, especially Zhou's mother's reluctance and tears for Zhou Bingkun, actually made Zhou Rong more firm in her decision to a certain extent.
If before that, Zhou Rong would feel guilty when she went to find Feng Huacheng, then at this moment, Zhou Rong would find a psychological compensation from her family's reaction, or it can be said that it was the correctness of self-deception - her approach was not all willful, but also sacrificed for her family.
Therefore, in the long time that followed, Zhou Rong did not think that many of the things she did were wrong, perhaps the source was here.
More self-deception will produce a kind of "thinking inertia" - as long as she perceives that there is some correctness in what she is doing, then she is doing the right thing, and it is not wrong.
There are very few things in this world that are absolutely right or wrong, and it is not difficult to find only one explanation that is "right" for you, or just a reason that can convince you, right?
This may be one of the reasons why Zhou Rong has repeatedly made mistakes and has no regrets.
Let's move on to the second focus.
When the train Zhou Zhigang was riding was about to start, Zhou Rong asked Zhou Bingkun to pick him up and kiss Zhou Zhigang on both cheeks. This scene is tender and contains the daughter's attachment to her father.
However, after watching it several times, I found that Zhou Rong's kiss was scheming enough.
Back in the play, do you remember what Zhou Rong said in the eighth episode of the drama version of "The World", in front of Zhou Zhigang to face Feng Huacheng?
"Dad approves, it is equivalent to the whole family approves."
and the picture that Zhou Zhigang kept recalling in his mind on the train to find Zhou Rong - the kiss that Zhou Rong left for him when he said goodbye.
Back then, Zhou Rong had already made up his mind to secretly leave to find Feng Huacheng after Zhou's father left.
Zhou Rong knew where to find Feng Huacheng - Guizhou. Zhou Rong also knew that Zhou's father worked in Chongqing, which was close to Guizhou. At the same time, Zhou Rong knew that the biggest obstacle to her marriage with Feng Huacheng was Father Zhou, and as long as Father Zhou agreed, the whole family would not object.
Then Zhou Rong must conquer Zhou Zhigang for the happiness of her and Feng Huacheng.
How to conquer?
Zhou Rong could naturally think that after Father Zhou knew about her and Feng Huacheng, Father Zhou would most likely not recognize her daughter for the sake of family style. Although Zhou Rong also has self-confidence, it is impossible not to want her daughter when Father Zhou's anger subsides, but she still hopes to get Father Zhou's approval as soon as possible.
Then she needed to do something to shorten the time for Father Zhou to lose his breath.
What Zhou Rong can do is to leave enough good memories in Father Zhou's heart to make Father Zhou think more about the good of her daughter, and the two kisses before the separation are actually adding "beautiful" weight to Father Zhou's memories.
And that's where the kiss came in.
Third, Cai Xiaoguang's premeditated love
Zhou Rong left alone to find Feng Huacheng in Guizhou and left a letter to his family.
In the letter, he said that the truth was told by Cai Xiaoguang.
Three days later, when Cai Xiaoguang told Zhou's mother and Bingkun the truth, in the words of the original book, Zhou's mother was distressed and resentful towards Cai Xiaoguang.
Zhou's mother's distress for Cai Xiaoguang is: Cai Xiaoguang knows that Zhou Rong loves Feng Huacheng in her heart, but she is willing to be Zhou Rong's "shield" for love. And Zhou's mother's resentment towards Cai Xiaoguang is: it is Cai Xiaoguang's "covering" that makes her know the truth to the point of no return.
Zhou's mother asked Cai Xiaoguang why he did this?
In the play, Cai Xiaoguang said:
"I, like to be with her, take what you need."
Looking at the first half of the sentence alone, what I feel is that Cai Xiaoguang's feelings for Zhou Rong are the kind of "licking dog" love that is said on the Internet today. This is also what Cai Xiaoguang expressed in the original work.
In the original work, Cai Xiaoguang said that Zhou Rong was Lucy in "A Tale of Two Cities", and he had no regrets about being Lucy's Caton. Lucy loves Darnay so much that she is willing to take the risk to go to Darnay's prison, one day after another, just so that he can see her and the child.
And Caton, who loves Lucy deeply, is willing to replace Darnay on the "guillotine" for Lucy. Caton said to Lucy, "Please always think of a man who is willing to give his life to save the life of a loved one by your side." ”
Impressed, right?
Truly!
But if we focus on the second half of the sentence, the situation is different, and even I think that the second half of the sentence "each takes what he needs", telling the truth.
Why do you say that?
Because I have always thought that Cai Xiaoguang is a scheming person, whether it is later in his handling of the matter of "the factory does not let him go to college", or his weighing the pros and cons and choosing to become a director, it shows that he is not a simple person.
Of course, this does not affect my love for the role of Cai Xiaoguang in my heart - true temperament, free, nor does it affect the authenticity of his love for Zhou Rong.
Cai Xiaoguang's love for Zhou Rong is indeed true. But he also approached the Zhou family with a purpose in the first place:
The "good" composition of the Zhou family is a little (his father also stepped aside at that time); He values Zhou Bingyi's future, which is also a point (knowing that Zhou Bingyi is not a thing in the pool); He knows the family history of Zhou Bingyi's girlfriend, or a little.
These three points, coupled with Cai Xiaoguang's love for Zhou Rong, doing these things for Zhou Rong is nothing at all, even if he does not get Zhou Rong's love in the end, he can get compensation from elsewhere.
At the same time, Cai Xiaoguang helped Zhou Rong with this favor for another deep-seated reason.
In the drama version of "The World", Cai Xiaoguang said that "worship is the basis of love", which is also Zhou Rong's concept of love.
However, this view of love may not change. It can even be said that Cai Xiaoguang is not so optimistic that Zhou Rong and Feng Huacheng can go to the end. If, one day in the future, Cai Xiaoguang is not married and still wants to wait for Zhou Rong, and Zhou Rong's love for Feng Huacheng born of worship disappears.
Then everything he has done for Zhou Rong now will definitely become a plus in Zhou Rong's heart.
Of course, this is only a psychological inference based on the character's personality, but I personally feel that the possibility is not only there, but also great!
Fourth, Tu Zhiqiang's "hat" before his death
In the first episode of the drama version of "The World", another more important plot is the part where Tu Zhiqiang was sentenced to death and Zhou Bingkun was forced to watch.
In this plot, there are two details that most people overlook.
The first detail is Tu Zhiqiang's "confession".
We all know that Tu Zhiqiang did not kill people, it was Luo Shibin who killed people, and Tu Zhiqiang just apologized.
But then I suddenly found that this matter was far from simple, because I found out that Tu Zhiqiang deliberately apologized for Luo Shibin, and the reason was Tu Zhiqiang's compensation for Zheng Juan.
Zheng Juan's pregnancy was told by Tu Zhiqiang to Shui Zili, that is, Tu Zhiqiang knew that Zheng Juan was pregnant before he was imprisoned. Then the child Zheng Juan was carrying was not his, and Tu Zhiqiang must have known it for a long time.
The special relationship between Tu Zhiqiang and water artesian is clear to those who have watched the play.
In Zheng Juan's words, Tu Zhiqiang married her in order to hide his eyes and ears, and privately continue to maintain a relationship with Shui Ziliu. At this point, Tu Zhiqiang and Shui Ziliu both felt indebted to Zheng Juan.
Does Tu Zhiqiang know that Zheng Juan's child is actually Luo Shibin's?
I think Tu Zhiqiang must have known.
For Zheng Juan's person, Tu Zhiqiang is very clear that people like her will do anything and will never do anything, Tu Zhiqiang knows in his heart. In addition, Zheng Juan escaped "going to the countryside", and in that era, people around her would keep a distance from such people in their "subconscious", which meant that Zheng Juan could not contact outsiders. The people who can be contacted, in addition to Zheng Juan's family, are him, Shui Ziliu and Luo Shibin.
So finding out who is the father of the child from these three people is too simple. Therefore, Tu Zhiqiang knew that Zheng Juan's child was Luo Shibin's.
Therefore, Tu Zhiqiang chose to blame Luo Shibin, in addition to brotherhood, it was also a compensation for Zheng Juan - he believed that Luo Shibin would also take care of Zheng Juan for the sake of his children. (Of course, Tu Zhiqiang's doing this may also have been influenced by his own life.) Since his mother died when he was a child, his father did not pay much attention to him, and he did not want Zheng Juan's children to have no father in the future. ）
And the second detail is the "hat" that Tu Zhiqiang wore before his death - Shui Zili personally brought it to Tu Zhiqiang.
Please note two points, one is that Tu Zhiqiang was the only person who did not wear a hat at the time of the execution, and the other is that the water artesian hat is brand new.
Looking at either of these two points alone, there is really nothing worth paying attention to, but once these two points are combined, it is difficult not to make people wonder: which of them was bought by Shui Zili in advance, the purpose is to know if Tu Zhiqiang has any last words.
As for who the person who was bought by the water artesian flow, you have to find the answer from the plot.
Welcome to write the guessed answer in the comment area and communicate together!
Qing Xin Junyue is an emotional observer, book critic and film critic. Warm you with words, me.