Recently, I was on a TV series "Ordinary Road", which caused a lot of shock in my circle of friends.
I asked my colleague if this was a road movie, a youth movie, or a hot-blooded workplace drama?
Everyone in the editorial office replied: "It's not accurate." "Because —
This TV series is probably to install a monitor on the lives of our young people.
It can be said that every ordinary person who has just entered society and has been crawling in the adult world for many years can find his own figure in it.
On this ordinary road, there are everyone's footprints everywhere.
Can the post-95s rectify the workplace?
In the spring of 2014, Sohu published an article saying that 400 resumes submitted by fresh graduates have sunk into the sea.
Ten years have passed, and this year there is no so-called "golden three, silver four", and it seems more difficult for young people to find jobs.
These experiences, as an ordinary graduate, Pan Yan also has the same experience.
Pan Yan, a newcomer in the legal industry, has an ordinary education, an ordinary school, an ordinary family, and an ordinary appearance.
The ordinary start of 0 krypton gold, 200+ resumes sinking into the sea, dare to ask where the way is?
As a microcosm of our ordinary graduates, Pan Yan finally relied on his girlfriend's relationship to get the opportunity to work in a law firm.
You thought it was a newbie benefit and stacked a relationship buff?
In fact, the social animal gift package is delivered, and he cannot be less than one of the hardships we have endured.
For example, although he was recruited into a law firm, he was actually regarded as a spare tire by the leadership, and Pan Yan, a job seeker with better conditions, would be abandoned at any time.
For example, after the old employee takes the job, he hands it over to the new employee to do, and the results are his own, and the new person is responsible for the incident.
For example, workplace academic discrimination, leadership PUA, taking sides, and factional fighting are all vividly reflected in the play.
In the face of these workplace tumors, the new generation of professionals represented by Pan Yan in the play, the post-95 generation, did not choose to lie down directly, but got up to fight back to protect their legitimate rights and interests, and fought bravely in the wind, frost, rain and snow.
Did the post-95s start to rectify the workplace?
When the leader wanted to kick Pan Yan off, he took out the contract and successfully saved his job with legal weapons.
In the face of the leader's dumping pot, Pan Yan politely faced the line, and HR enlightened the leader that "today's young people will not work for you if they are not satisfied."
Many viewers who are chasing "Ordinary Road" said that the post-95s in the play really stood up in the workplace and slapped this Cthulhu giant beast a few times, which was too relieving.
Even, many people extrapolate from the plot to reality, thinking that the post-95s in the real workplace are also like Pan Yan, and they can quickly effectively change the workplace ecology.
If "Ordinary Road" really lets the protagonists hang all the way, then this is not an "ordinary people's life monitor", but a suspended cool drama with feet not touching the ground.
The valuable thing about "Ordinary Road" is that this drama not only has the meteorological innovation brought by post-95 professionals, but also does not avoid the various dilemmas that young people will encounter in real life.
The main thing is still one who can not only look up at the starry sky, but also be down-to-earth.
How far is the ideal from reality
In the recent news lenses focused on the young group, it can be seen that this generation of young people has a new look for work, career and the whole life plan.
Post-95s even say that post-00s look for jobs more important?
Now many young people are looking for jobs, interests and beliefs are ranked ahead of money, and many young people pay more attention to the matching of work content.
As the saying goes, it's "generating electricity for love."
A higher point is "idealism".
In a poll on "naked words" initiated by @Daily People, it can be seen that this generation of young people yearns more for freedom and pays attention to personal feelings.
As a netizen in the comment area said, happiness is the true meaning, which is the self-victory of "idealistic" people.
From @ChenMoera
However, in The Ordinary Road, the idealist's path of exploration is bittersweet.
Returning to the realistic narrative in the plot, the real life without filters immediately wakes up young people.
Let's talk about a case in the play, Pan Yan's front foot was just rated as an Internet celebrity "war damaged man" for chasing the satyr who secretly photographed the bottom of the girl's skirt on the subway, and his back foot was bitten back by the satyr family who had a heart attack.
Overnight, positive energy Internet celebrity lawyers were caught in online violence and became a "violent maniac" that everyone shouted at.
Even when Pan Yan struggled to wait for the police to prove his innocence, contemporary social media, whose trust has fallen to a freezing point, will even question this official notice.
It can be said that whether in life or in the play, how to be a good person under the premise of protecting yourself is a question worth thinking about.
Recently, the topic of sexual harassment of girls by a well-known cultural Internet celebrity has rushed to the hot search, and the girls involved have been subjected to the surging malice of the Internet while speaking out.
Some people say that this is not sexual harassment, it is flirting between the two parties, and even the woman will be more provocative.
Some people also say that from the perspective of the small composition, the price has not been negotiated, and the girl in question has no problem at all?
Coincidentally, Yuan Xiaoou, the victim of harassment in the play, also suffered a huge amount of "slut humiliation".
Under the lens of the TV series that opened the perspective of God, the characters in the play did not get as lucky as God.
The cancer of victim guilt, rooted in social consensus, permeates the plot from real life.
Just as the scale of absolute justice tends to shift slightly in real life, the parameters of this social constant are extremely subtly displayed in "Ordinary Road".
A victim plucks up the courage to stand in front of the stage, and the probability is not protection, but from the countless magnifying glasses of the Internet looking for flaws.
And following the original intention, the righteous and courageous deeds may end up facing a bunch of frivolities like Pan Yan.
There are more in-depth discussions on the workplace, society, reality and ideal dilemmas.
Enthusiastic young people who enter their ideal industry will suddenly look up at a late night overtime moment and ask if what I do has anything to do with my ideals?
Those hot-blooded, non-numb young people are actively looking for the meaning of life in work and life, but what is the meaning?
In episode 21, Pan Yan and Shu Yinan had a fight over this issue when they were drinking, and Shu Yinan asked Pan Yan what was the meaning of these trivial little cases that the two did.
Pan Yan said, if people's goals are set so big, then who cares about the lives and deaths of the people?
In other words, the realization of ideals and the meaning of life is not an iron ball above dusk, so grand, dazzling and unattainable.
The ideal may be to continue walking on the ordinary road, and the realization of the meaning of life is not at the end of the road, but in the moment you decide to achieve it.
Although we will pass the castle and gardens along the way, we will also pass imperfect gravel and ruins.
If we, like Pan Yan, do not have the ending of "relief" after being misunderstood, will we still adhere to our precious original intention?
In fact, these "imperfect but real" situations are the majority of our lives.
Some of the dilemmas in "Ordinary Road" are not black and white, just like life itself, it is impossible to say who is right and who is wrong, let alone solve it.
But walking on the road, you will always slowly find the answer...
Until you see the ordinary is the only answer
In 2014, Pu Shu released the song "Ordinary Road".
"Desperate and longing, crying and laughing and ordinary" became the motto of young people at that time.
Now, 10 years later, "Ordinary Road" uses the song Pu Shu as the theme song, which also responds to the confusion of young people.
I think the TV series "Ordinary Road" can be regarded as an answer to the current hesitant young people.
Where does this answer come from?
Some people say that it comes from the reality of the plot and setting, and this drama is too life-like.
From @Fanny
Some people say that it comes from the plump character arc and clear growth path, and each character has flesh and blood.
From @bench long lentil short
Some people also believe that from this drama has achieved a sense of the living conditions of ordinary people, speaking people's words, talking about personnel, and penetrating into the hearts of the people.
And I think that this drama is also unique, that is, it really touches the grand proposition of "ordinary", which everyone will think about for a lifetime, and buries the answer in the grass snake gray line of each character's choice and story.
For many people, the life of the protagonists is to crush all the ambiguous decorations of ordinary life to you.
Their ordinariness and hardship can be traced in our real lives.
Pan Yan's online violence seems to be exaggerated, and if you really open the comment area, you will find that everyone's first reaction is:
"Isn't that the real situation now?"
In the latest episodes, the new housing problem, the contradiction and dilemma between renting and sharing a house in the case, just like yesterday happened next door to you and me.
The TV series is not satisfied with exhausting the ordinary, and "Ordinary Road" constructs and connects in these ordinary.
The principled Zuo Na rebelled against the leadership to defend Pan Yan, containing the compassion of some workers who shared the same illness.
His heart was as high as Shu Yinan, and he also learned from Pan Yan what he lacked from the city and land.
The rift that everyone faces, in the end, they find positive ways to face, to fill, to learn to bridge in the simplest kindness and courage from people.
"Ordinary Road" is actually a story of a group of ordinary people redeeming each other.
It is that after recognizing the mediocre and cruel nature of life, everyone still has the courage to solve the inevitable mess, face the increase in the entropy of the universe, and embark on the unfinished road.
A dozen years ago, the ordinary was a seemingly circumventible option.
People yearn for poetry and distant places, ideals that can be realized, spring dreams of love without traces, and tosses in many ways to make their work life as enthusiastic as a storybook.
However, in the past two years, there seems to be little discussion on the Internet about this topic.
Ordinariness is no longer the original sin of a young person, but more and more a consensus.
That is, everyone recognizes that they are originally ordinary, and they are destined to be ordinary.
Or in other words, to be able to live an ordinary life, too many young people have exhausted their whole strength.
"Ordinary Road" uses the most realistic brushstrokes to see through the plight of many ordinary young people, and at the same time soothes it.
The ideals that we once held in the palm of our hands have never been lost.
The ideal is hidden in the texture of ordinary life, waiting for the tempering and grinding of the years.
The protagonists in the play are all making perhaps small but not small changes to this society in their respective roles, even if they just pry the world in the ideal direction a little, which is also a great realization that they actively explore on the ordinary road.
And the audience who watched the play, even if they got a little inspiration and resonance in it, may have more courage to face life's problems.
Tomorrow, the sun will rise as usual, the episode will be updated as usual, and we will still live an ordinary and indispensable day in our ideal life in our own way.
Just like Pan Yan said, the answer lies in the question itself, and everything we are looking for has been clearly revealed on this ordinary road.
All we have to do is, go on. of sessions
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