Domestic workplace drama is a big pit, ten beats and nine pounces.
A new drama, once labeled as "workplace", is almost equivalent to being sentenced to death in word of mouth.
Why? As far as Pigo's own experience of watching dramas, there are two reasons
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First, many domestic screenwriters have never really gone deep into an industry and experienced a profession, relying on blind fabrication to present the workplace ecology.
For example, "Surgery" has been a medical drama with a good reputation in recent years.
But in addition to playing handsome and falling in love, other parts of the doctor, medical loopholes, various industry common sense, frequent mistakes, people are eye-popping.
"Win or Lose" talks about elite sales, but it can be seen that the screenwriter has never understood the sales industry, even the basic bidding process, is wrong, let alone understand the barriers between technology and sales, resulting in the plot suspension and cannot withstand scrutiny.
"Even if the Wind Rises" talks about entrepreneurial entrepreneurs, whose net worth is from scratch, all rely on the golden sentences of the Internet to put together, all the way through, just by coincidence, it is simply a "poisonous chicken soup" for young people's entrepreneurship.
In addition, "An Home" for real estate agents, "Hello Prosecutor" for prosecutors, "Emergency Public Relations" for public relations...
Even these common professional presentations of the public are worse than the other, and the other is more outrageous than the other.
The second is to target unpopular professions, and even create careers, and make workplace dramas into "fantasy dramas".
The most typical is the "gold medal business investigator" in "Summer and Winter in Short", which people do not know at all.
No suspense, no business war, no excitement, no action, filmed into four different things.
In addition, the fashion editor-in-chief in "Dressed Up", the crisis PR in "Perfect Relationship", the translator in "Dear Translator", the negotiator in "Negotiator" and so on.
are taking advantage of the public's cognitive blind spots in these professions, making up plots, and talking about bloody love under the guise of the workplace.
For this reason, Pico has always sighed: When will I see a down-to-earth workplace drama?
Unexpectedly, in these two days, it came.
The title of the play is unremarkable, "Ordinary Road", the profession is commonplace, lawyer.
But the lawyer in "Ordinary Road" is not the greasy and smooth-tongued middle-aged man in "Elite Lawyer", but a young man who has just entered the workplace, and is a worker who is low to dust.
Yang 8 broadcast, the opening situation is like a bamboo, winning 3 ratings championships in prime time in a row, which shows its popularity.
Why is this domestic drama popular? Pico brushed 8 episodes, 4 words, and revealed the reason.
01、
"Relationship household"?
Two people, one heavenly and one underground, ended up in the same way
The whole drama begins with a gray two-story shelf bed.
If you don't see the person in the beginning, you hear it first, and the day of the worker must be "difficult to get up".
But Pan Yan (played by Guo Qilin) can't be delayed this day, because it's a big day for his interview.
Pan Yan came from a single-parent family, his father left at an early age, and his mother drove a special car for him to study.
After graduation, he finally got an interview qualification for a law firm by virtue of his girlfriend's cousin.
Getting up early and busy, going out like a war, finally arrived at the interview office building, Pan Yan was stunned.
The entire elevator is full of job seekers who come to the interview, all in suits and shoes, and talk extraordinarily.
Talk casually between the two, switch between Chinese and English at will, either Oxford or Stanford.
When asked about his school, Pan Yan could only mumble carefully: Southern United University.
But this Southern United University was also mistaken for the University of New South Wales in Australia.
Can these two be a grade?
Sure enough, when asked a question, Pan Yan found that he had gone wrong.
This elite law firm is called Huanjing, which is one of the largest law firms in the industry.
And the one he is going to, named Rong Ke, turns left and gets off the elevator when he goes out.
Came to Rongke, his girlfriend's cousin Zuo Na (played by Jin Chen) took him to the office of his boss, lawyer Du Feiyu (played by Zhang Zixian), for an interview.
Just two questions, the interview is over, and the work is arranged immediately.
Because Rong Ke was short of people at this time, Du Feiyu didn't look at Pan Yan's resume at all.
Since then, Pan Yan has officially become a professional.
But the next day, he suddenly received a notice of dismissal, and it turned out that the law firm came to the "related household" and removed his position.
Pan Yan looked up and saw that this was not Shu Yinan, who had joined Huanjing as the Oxford senior student he met in the elevator before.
Compared with Pan Yan, Shu Yinan was born with a golden key.
His father ran a law firm, his mother was an executive, and he was a big name in the industry.
He has been hanging all the way since he was a child, and he seems to be completely excellent, but in fact, his parents are behind him, which paved the way for him.
Including joining Huanjing, it was also exchanged for benefits by his parents.
But Shu Yinan was young and frivolous, sneered at the golden key, and wanted to rely on himself to fight for a piece of the world, so he broke with Huanjing and turned to Rongke.
A poor boy, a rich man, the two went the same way, and became colleagues in this shabby little law firm.
The real point of "Ordinary Road" is that although the family backgrounds of the two are very different, they still act in accordance with the basic rules of society: human favor.
Pan Yan got the interview opportunity because of the relationship of his girlfriend's cousin, and Shu Yinan got Huanjing's offer, and it was also his parents who spoke behind his back.
The two "related households" seem to have the same graduate status, the same starting point, and the same career aspirations.
But will their growth be the same? This is the real proposition that "Ordinary Road" left us.
02、
"Circle Layer"
Although the two law firms are at the top and bottom, they reflect the gap between class and circle
Corresponding to Pan Yan and Shu Yinan are two law firms.
Although they are both "law firms", or even just different floors, these two law firms reflect the class gap of the entire society.
Huanjing is a large firm, a gathering place for elites, an output hall for celebrities, a good unit that every graduate dreams of, and represents the top and upper class of the legal industry.
A Huanjing work card requires dozens of "returnees" to scramble, and it is also necessary to trust the relationship to go through the back door and fight for the head to break the blood.
The same law firm, the treatment is also different.
The gym downstairs can give Huanjing a twenty-fold discount, but Rongke does not have this "privilege".
Compared with Huanjing's floor-to-ceiling windows, incandescent lamps, superior office environment, and minimalist Nordic decoration, Rongke is more like a "grocery store".
The office is dark and cramped, the workstation is uncomfortable, there are piles of materials everywhere, the atmosphere is depressing, the equipment is outdated, and even the boss's office is only a place the size of a palm.
Huanjing's lawyer can enjoy the city view in front of the bay window every day and can have free Americano.
And Rong Ke's director, but he can only eat the claypot rice downstairs for lunch, talk about something, and can only go to the "living room" that can accommodate the two.
Huanjing is big, Rongke is small, Huanjing is spacious and transparent, but there are not many Rongke people.
In order to pursue a better career, Mr. Liao, who was famous before, brought the entire team and clients to Huanjing and achieved a class leap.
But his two colleagues, still in Rongke, huddled in a small cubicle, living a life that seemed to be out of sight.
In Pigo's view, the law firm separated by two walls is a deliberate arrangement by the screenwriter.
Just like Pan Yan and Shu Yinan, two individuals who seem to be equal, in fact, one is the other who squeezes his head and cannot achieve the wish and future in his life.
This floor is not separated by two law firms, but by two worlds.
One in the chaos and noise, get by, the other in the abundance and abundance, pursue value.
People in heaven will never experience the pain of dust, just as returnees never know about pheasant universities like "Southern United University".
But in the world of our ordinary people, where there are so many Oxford Stanfords, the Southern Federation University is the daily life of bitterness.
How many migrant workers have Huanjing in their hearts, but their bodies have to suffer mental torture in Rongke.
But what is more ingenious about "Ordinary Road" is that it is two completely different natural enemies, and there is no value judgment mixed in.
It just presents two law firms, two classes of different working life situations, and in this state, people's daily life.
From this daily life, workers like us seem to be able to see themselves, and then discover their true shortcomings and pursuits.
03、
Double "grievance"
Photographed the humility of beaters and workplace PUA to the bone
Workers don't like leadership.
Because leadership in the workplace represents privilege, represents command, and even represents exploitation and theft.
This kind of truth was encountered when Pan Yan first entered Rongke.
The first grievance he encountered came from the director's tussle.
Pan Yan had just entered the law firm, and before the contract was signed, he was pulled by Zuo Na to add an overnight shift.
Rongke's original client was about to be taken away by Huanjing, and lawyer Du Feiyu had no expectations, but Zuo Na hoped to do her last bit of effort to keep him for the company.
So, the two used their own time and energy to sort out all the customer's information and a whole suitcase.
Zuo Na, who had not slept all night, went to the customer's company in the morning to block the door and put all the information on the customer's desk.
The client who wanted to choose the big law firm Huanjing looked at Zuo Na's working attitude and wavered.
In the end, he decided to stay in Rongke, but the credit for keeping the customer was all snatched away by the leadership.
Pan Yan is uneven, we pay labor, why do they sit and reap profits?
Zuo Na just smiled, she has been in the workplace for a long time, and she has long been surprised by this behavior.
This blatant dumping, in her opinion, is already the daily life of people in the workplace.
Subsequently, the second grievance followed, that is, Du Feiyu's various PUAs.
Pan Yan did not wear formal clothes when he joined the company, and was always criticized by Du Feiyu.
Du Feiyu had a lot of entertainment, drunk one night, directly disconnected, the customer could not find him in a hurry, and could only do it in a hurry.
Pan Yan received a call to help him solve the problem when he was drunk.
The next day, instead of thanking Pan Yan, he called him to the office for a stinky meal.
When things were not clear, he raised the question of attitude, the question of formal wear, and finally simply let Pan Yan get out.
Pan Yanqi did not fight anywhere, but there was no way, he could only rely on the help of colleagues to intercede, and he could barely mix with the miscellaneous position of a "public assistant".
When things are done well, they will be scolded, and if they are wrong, they will also be scolded, Pan Yan does not know what the meaning of such work is.
Seeing this, Pi Ge believes that most migrant workers can deeply empathize with Pan Yan.
As ordinary employees, we encounter too many such things in the workplace, but there seems to be no way to do it except complain.
Hard gang may wear small shoes, the cost of changing jobs is too great, and there will be no source of livelihood if you resign directly, and the family cannot support.
What can you do except digest it yourself, bite your teeth and swallow it into your stomach?
Helpless, it is the daily life of a migrant worker, just like Pan Yan.
A large part of the money in our salaries is not the mental damage fee of being scolded.
04、
Two "hesitations"
Do your best in the workplace and talk about the bitter life
At the beginning of his career, Pan Yan was a rookie.
There is no spacious and bright workplace, which is completely different from the "tall" lawyer he dreamed of.
But the most deadly thing is the prevarication and intrigue in the workplace.
After Shu Yinan joined, because of his high education, good image, and background at home, he was automatically isolated.
In addition to the large groups of work, small groups began to be established, and everyone privately called him "Shusaisay" and said that he was Versailles.
But all this, for him, is just a habit that he has developed over the years.
Isolation is only the beginning, and the most frightening thing is the hesitation of colleagues.
When is the quietest time in a noisy office? When the phone rings.
The phone represents something, but the entire office pretends not to hear it.
Some want to get up, turn their heads to look at others, and sit down hesitantly.
It doesn't matter to me, hang high, optimistic about my acre and three points of land, which cares about the flood outside.
Everyone is in this mentality, only Pan Yan is stupid, answering one phone call at a time.
Every time I get a call, it's urgent, but it's not my own.
Also because he was nosy, he was scolded by Du Feiyu and ridiculed at the same time.
The first lesson of a rookie in the workplace seems to start with this seemingly deliberate "hesitation".
The inefficiency, chaos and barriers of colleague relationships in the office of Kerongke are real in every unit.
In addition to the office, it is related to his own life, and Pan Yan also has hesitations.
Pan Yan, who had no say in the law firm, finally got a divorce case that no one else wanted to deal with.
Guarding the door of the client's community in the middle of the night, Pan Yan learned that his girlfriend's grandmother was critically ill and admitted to the ICU.
It cost tens of thousands a day, he wanted to comfort, but he didn't know where to go.
The first time, he tried to give a solution, typing "Don't worry, I'll help you think about it, there will be a solution" on his phone, and then deleted it.
The second time, he tried to comfort him, knocking out "You don't have a psychological burden, illness and disaster are inevitable when you are old", and deleted it again, which is too cruel.
The third time, "I want to find a way to see who can borrow", but he has no money at home, and he has no relationship to borrow money at all, and this sentence is deleted before it is finished.
The fourth time, he could only choose to draw cakes: "I work hard, work to earn money, and I will definitely let you live the life you want."
This plot moved Pico to watch.
This is probably something that everyone in front of the screen has encountered.
Unlike other workplace dramas, with a wave of the big hand, the work is not dry, and the "flying" is directly hit, and the past accompanies.
Without moving his finger to transfer 20,000, he told her "don't be afraid, I am here".
Instead, it can only provide a trace of useless emotional value when the work is messy.
Pan Yan's dilemma appeared in each of us.
So far, you may see that "Ordinary Road" talks about lawyers, but not all about lawyers.
He integrated the profession of a lawyer into his life, into the daily life of an ordinary migrant worker with an infinite cycle, but helpless.
This is the real reality, this is the normal life of every migrant worker in the adult world.
Although "Ordinary Road" seems to be very bitter and tiring, it does not hide the light in the lives of ordinary people.
Pan Yan has a mother who has a broken mouth but cares about her, not only considers her son proud, but also helps him when he encounters difficulties.
He also has a girlfriend who loves him, does not dislike him for being poor, does not dislike him for not having a car or a house, and the two stay with each other and share the small joys and small convictions in life.
Pan Yan worked hard because he still had hope in his heart.
Compared with the average cool article, the domestic elite workplace drama that talks about love, "Ordinary Road" has a rare truth.
These truths, gathered in ordinary people, are an unspeakable empathy.
This makes domestic workplace dramas have the power to shake people's hearts for the first time, and also allows ordinary people to enter the small screen for the first time and become the focus of the topic.
Sometimes, the elite and the upper class are not necessarily a better destination in life, and status and money do not necessarily bring real peace of mind.
Happier than the elite, it is to be honest with your mediocrity.
What is more elegant than having is to be honest with yourself that you have nothing.
Because happiness is simple, but we define it too complicated.
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