Was Reiza's talent in "Fearless" wasted?
There haven't been any big dramas recently, and as soon as "Fearless" broadcast by Yangba started, it won the first place in the ratings this week.
Judging from the cast alone, it is not surprising that this is written by Zhao Dongling, the screenwriter of "Police Honor", starring Reyiza and Wang Yang, and at the same time brings together Chen Jin, Zhu Shimao, Zheng Xiaoning, Cao Zheng, Feng Lei, Yang Zhigang and other acting schools.
The story is a fusion of legal dramas and female themes, telling the story of Luo Yingzi (played by Reiza) who entered middle age but suffered a marital accident, had to re-enter the workplace, and tried to get back his property through legal means. As a newcomer to the law firm, she is burdened with huge debts on the one hand, and on the other hand, she has to face the pressure of turning positive in the workplace, but fortunately she met her like-minded partner Qiu Hua (played by Tini). Growing up together in a case has also witnessed the various states of human nature and the warmth and coldness of society.
Judging from the beginning alone, "Fearless" also follows the general bridge of the big heroine's reality drama. The silly and sweet heroine found out that her husband betrayed her overnight and woke up, but the "miserable" of Luo Yingzi in this drama is a bit beyond the ordinary logic. The husband not only cheated and betrayed, but also used various means to make Luo Yingzi saddled with tens of millions of debts, and even the house of common property was used as a bank mortgage, while the husband absconded abroad with his lover and walked away.
Reyiza has hardly starred in urban dramas over the years, and the last character that everyone impressed her with was the simple, kind and bitter splash in "Mountains and Seas". An actor who has almost no experience in rural life can present the simplicity of the village woman's splash to be pitiful, and the tears of the splash in the face of unfair fate have almost become a famous scene that is still impressive in "Mountains and Seas".
Since then, the audience has officially recognized Reiza's acting skills, and her performance in "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an" has also been noticed earlier. After winning many awards with the role of splash, Reyiza did not consume herself too much, she still chose to choose the role steadily, and only saw her as the protagonist in "Fearless" again after several years.
From the perspective of the popularity of women's themes, Reyiza still has a very unique vision for picking dramas. Since the popularity of women's dramas, many female stars have also entered the battlefield of women's dramas "one after another", and almost all first-line female stars have an urban drama with a big heroine theme, but Gu Jia of "Thirty Only" is difficult to be reproduced.
Luo Yingzi in "Fearless" actually has the aura of a big heroine, because of the blessing of being a lawyer, this role has also added a lot of cool settings. Luo Yingzi was still crying and looking for her husband for the first ten minutes, and in the next ten minutes, she had already discovered the truth about her husband's betrayal through her ingenuity.
In the last episode, I was still crying to my in-laws about being kicked out of the house and becoming a down-and-out daughter-in-law, and in the next episode, I went deep into the "nest" negotiation of loan sharks. The whole process of transformation is hardly explained, and the character of the story for Luo Yingzi is that a civil servant resigns after leaving office to prepare for the judicial exam, so it is not completely out of touch with society, and it is different from the setting of housewives almost per capita of the heroines of other big heroines. This may be intentional by screenwriters who emphasize the logical foundation, but the transition is too "seamless" and still can't stand up to careful scrutiny.
After being recommended by the mentor of the examiner and successfully entering the law firm as a trainee lawyer, Luo Yingzi began to enter the all-round mode. She vividly shows what it means to "life treats me like this, but I still return it brilliantly", a trainee lawyer newcomer, can easily resolve the workplace PUA of the superior teaching lawyer; In order to solve the debt problem, he can also talk and laugh with the private boss of the loan shark; Even if he had just taken over the murder case, he was able to bypass the lawyer and the police to discover the details that no one could find, and finally contributed to the reversal of the homicide case.
Just when you thought that Luo Yingzi had started a turnaround, the screenwriter set up many obstacles for her. After paying off a private loan, there are three loan sharks waiting for her to repay the debt; A house with a pre-marital property sold and a joint property mortgaged to the bank; Even the legal person of the company was maliciously changed by the husband and lover in an illegal way. Luo Yingzi's hard mode of life can be said to have reached the full level, even if she broke the kettle and chose to hire a partner of the law firm to be her defense lawyer, she still has no chance of winning the lawsuit.
At this point in the plot, Reiza's overall characterization of the characters is relatively complete. She is not only fragile and fragile in the face of love betrayal, but also has the highlight moments of strength and self-help, and the cleverness of walking between victims, witnesses, lawyers and gangsters when she is both a client and a lawyer. The audience can also gradually establish a basic understanding of this character through Luo Yingzi's wit and wisdom in a series of events. For Reiza, these parts have long been standard movements, and she can do them without too much effort.
But does the audience's expectation of Reyiza stop there? Obviously, the answer is no.
As the plot progresses, the statement that "Reiza's acting skills are wasted" begins to appear. Luo Yingzi's story seems to be climactic, and the role of such a sassy and sharp female lawyer is rare, and the audience is also happy to see the drama of the big heroine turning over and tearing up the scumbag. But no matter how you look at it, there is still a faint sense of routine in the background of this story.
In order to enrich this character, the main creator also added a lot of background to Luo Yingzi, such as the family background of a law professor, the pursuit of decent family education in life, and the outlook on life as a lawyer to use legal weapons to defend rights. But whether Luo Yingzi's turnaround battle is really "branch-based", the realism of the characters that the audience cares about the most still needs to be verified. As a lawyer, why did Luo Yingzi instigate the little nanny to steal the real estate certificate to get back the evidence, why didn't she sue her husband for fraud in the first place to preserve the property, and even when facing the advice of the law firm's professional lawyers, she was still stubborn and "just wanted an explanation".
This is more like a benchmark set by domestic dramas for women in the workplace to draw a prison on the ground, that is, beyond all professionalism and logic, our heroine still has a little white lotus temperament, to pursue the purity of feelings, even if you abandon all favorable choices, you only need to seek an emotional response. Engaging in a career is not to achieve a true self, revenge and turning over are only to prove that they are not responsible for the failure of the marriage, and the "love brain" seems to be the necessary condition for a complete heroine's personality.
For viewers who have watched the American drama "The Good Wife" ten years ago and seen how a real female lawyer takes revenge on the heroine, this kind of weakened character obviously does not quench their thirst. The ultimate charm of female themes has never been to gain recognition from the relationship between the sexes, and in "The Good Wife", whether it is the heroine ALICIA, or the heroine's boss, the female lawyer DIANE, the life model they provide is to abandon the gender factor, and women can realize their value in society as a professional with their own intelligence, and even surpass the other gender. Feelings have never been an accessory, and careers are not a vote for women to exchange for social recognition, this may be the foundation of domestic dramas and workplace women's dramas that should really be figured out.