The best thing in "Flowers" is not Xin Zhilei

"Flowers" is gone, and the aftertaste is not gone.

The reputation of "Flowers", which was not favored by all parties before the broadcast, has risen all the way, becoming the first hit at the beginning of 2024 in the real sense. Although the show ended, the discussions around it are still endless, from Shanghai food to stock market business wars, from audio-visual language to character analysis, all of which have been dismantled.

Director Wong Kar-wai previously said in an interview that "two-sidedness" can be applied to all characters in the play. Mr. Bao and Bao, Peace Hotel and Night Tokyo, Huangpu River and Suzhou Creek, Huanghe Road and Jinxian Road, all have a control group relationship to some extent.

If this sentence is applied to female characters, Li Li, Lingzi and Miss Wang can be regarded as the flowery side of "Flowers", then Lu Meilin, Mei Ping, and Xiao Jiangxi are probably the other side of the sparse grass and trees, but they can better represent most people's lives than the protagonists who stir up the storm.

· Lu Meilin

When Lu Meilin first appeared, it would make people feel too noisy. The sound is like a bell, and the wind is blowing when walking, not the kind of wind that blows in the spring breeze on the face, but the wind that can blow people on their heels.

Crazy is also really crazy, the chin is always up, and looking at people is looking at them with the rest of your eyes, which means that you are not worth being an old lady with your eyes. The arrogance is a little arrogant, but if Lu Meilin goes to that stop, the audience will believe that she can control the scene on the Yellow River Road.

went to Tokyo at night to find Reiko to explain the law and take the lead in smashing Li Li's field, Lu Meilin at this time was noisy, annoying, and clown-like, but it was also in line with her character logic at that time-

Lu Meilin is not like Lingzi and Miss Wang who have the connections of Mr. Bao, nor is she like Li Li who has Shenzhen Capital as the backstage, she even her husband is a big straw bag who can only gamble. "Jin Meilin" This hotel is the foundation of Lu Meilin's life on the Yellow River Road, and it is also her everything, and she is more afraid of losing than anyone else.

(This shot exposes that Lu Meilin is more worried than anyone else that Mr. Bao can really move to the rescue for Li Li▲)

To make a strong character appear three-dimensional and complex, not to look at the strong, but to look at the weak. Lu Meilin's three most moving scenes in "Flowers" are also when this role shows weakness.

The first scene is that after going to Zhenyuan to smash the field and failing, Lu Meilin and Du Honggen began to dig through old accounts, and talked about the past of the two people with a meal of "wow, wow, wow", and the hysterical Lu Meilin in the last second seemed to be pricked by a needle, and her anger slowly dissipated, and her eyes were sadder than anger. There were no tears on his face, but there was already a cry in his voice.

After this scene, everyone began to be curious about the story between Lu Meilin and Du Honggen, and Lu Meilin jumped out of the labeled identity of "boss lady" and became a more specific person.

The second scene is after slapping Mr. Bao, this slap is to fight for face for his man Boss Jin, and it is also a test of Lu Meilin's courage. Some people who don't think it's a big deal to see the excitement have already said, "Who dares to beat Mr. Bao on the Yellow River Road?" Mr. Bao has his hands and eyes all over the sky, who knows if he will retaliate elsewhere? Even if Mr. Bao doesn't care, there are still a lot of friends who want to come back for him. In other words, when this slap is made, Lu Meilin has to take the risk.

But she still fought, and it was loud and solid. After the fight, his expression was not to raise his eyebrows, but to turn his head to look at Boss Jin, and his face was gloomy. I think at this moment she has noticed the affair between Boss Jin and Xiao Jiangxi, the two are contrasted, both angry and saddened by their misfortune, the former is for Boss Jin, but the latter is for herself.

The third scene is the last one, Boss Jin jumped off the building, and Lu Meilin couldn't raise money and withdrew from the Yellow River Road. But when she walked out of Zhizhen Garden and got into Du Honggen's car, she still held her head high.

Actor Fan Xiangyan said that the notice sheet for this scene at that time was written to let Meilin lean her head on Du Honggen's shoulder, but she felt that this did not fit Lu Meilin's character, "If you lose, you lose, and leave the scene in style, this is Lu Meilin's character." After the actual shooting, the director also felt that this way of handling it was better, and finally chose this version.

Goodbye is also the first meeting, and leaving the scene is also the beginning, Lu Meilin's tone has not dispersed after all.

· Mei-hsien

Strictly speaking, the character of Mei Ping is more like the "villain" of this drama than Lu Meilin.

First, because although Lu Meilin stumbled Li and Li, she did not actually threaten Zhizhenyuan in the end, but Mei Ping's report really reversed Miss Wang's fate;

Substitute for our own workplace, real villains and hypocrites must be more wary of the latter.

Lu Meilin has her own emotional line, a vigorous and unknown past for the audience, and the character line is relatively more complete, while Mei Ping is on the edge and inconspicuous from the moment she appears, and there are very few scenes about her in the play, even Min Min has a little sister group (Min Min, Xiao Jiangxi and Ruth), but Mei Ping seems to have erased all information. You don't know where she's from, where she lives, or if she has friends. All her identities are related to Miss Wang-

Miss Wang's colleague is a foreign trader who is older than Miss Wang, and Miss Wang was the first to contact the Sanyang project.

This is also what Mei Ping cares about the most, in the ending, Mr. Bao is upset for Miss Wang, Mei Ping's first reaction is that this is the first time that Mr. Bao has said a complete sentence to me.

This line expresses Mei Ping's appeal, her name is Mei Ping, she has a name and a surname, and she is not Miss Wang or Miss Chen's pendant. If reporting Miss Wang can make these people see "Mei Ping", pay attention, it is not even a "high look", just "seeing", then Mei Ping will do it.

It is true that reporting Miss Wang is too stupid to be stupid. In the early stage, Miss Wang was a little proud and loved by everyone, Master Jinhua valued her, her uncle spoiled her, and Mr. Bao loved her, even Jing Xiu, the small owner of the grocery store on the Yellow River Road, had a secret crush, and offending Miss Wang was equivalent to offending most of the people who had direct interests in her.

After Miss Wang left No. 27, Mei Ping did not become the section chief as she wished, and it can even be said that she was farther away from the position of section chief. Even if Mei Ping can't figure it out, she should be clear after seeing her uncle's two faces. But at the last moment, Mei Ping gave her own answer: she doesn't regret it, she doesn't feel that she is too much, Miss Wang's existence is a harm to her.

There was a sentence on Weibo that was turned crazy, "This kind of person is a provocation to me to live!" Speaking of which, Mei Ping's mentality is just the mentality that many ordinary people will have.

It is true that Mei Ping is a supporting role on the Yellow River Road, not even a small person, but in the end, she taught the male protagonist Jack Su a lesson in her own way: no one is born a protagonist, and those who are used to being the protagonist should not forget how to be a supporting role.

· Xiaojiangxi

The last person I want to write about is Xiao Jiangxi, she is the least likable of the three sisters who work part-time, but she is also the one that really gave me some small shocks.

called the boss "baby" for the gold necklace, was driven away by Lu Meilin but was able to help her cut the wires of Zhizhenyuan for the sake of profit, and used the huge amount of borrowed stock speculation to hide from everyone...... At first glance, Xiao Jiangxi is a bold and greedy person.

But there are two scenes, but it can reflect that the background color of Xiao Jiangxi's characters is "ruthless", ruthless to others and ruthless to himself.

The first scene is that after Xiao Jiangxi failed to speculate in stocks with the money borrowed by Boss Jin, when the creditor came to force the debt, she proposed to Boss Jin to run away with Jin Meilin's flowing water today, which is equivalent to throwing all the mess to Lu Meilin.

Rao is a heartless Boss Jin, and he can't be so ruthless. The relationship between these two people is that of a boss and a subordinate, and they are also lovers, but no matter what it is, Boss Jin is the one who is in absolute advantage, but at this moment, Xiao Jiangxi's "ruthlessness" is unexpected by Boss Jin.

In the second scene, after Boss Jin jumped off the building, everyone on the Yellow River Road was frightened. Lu Meilin, who usually has a bad relationship with Boss Jin, was also stunned, but what was Xiao Jiangxi's reaction? She leaned down and silently picked up Boss Jin's gold ring. This scene was shot extremely beautifully by director Wong Kar-wai, as if she was leaning over to salvage her fate.

Boss Jin is gone, Jin Meilin is also gone, and everything that Xiao Jiangxi has worked hard to plan has come to naught. Of course, she was also sad, but the great sadness could not compare to the weight of reality, and the gold ring was the way out she found for herself at this moment.

This gold ring was handed to Min Min by Xiao Jiangxi when they were separated, and Min Min once lent Xiao Jiangxi 50,000 yuan, and she didn't forget it.

Just like Lu Meilin kept her breath, Xiao Jiangxi, who was extremely self-interested most of the time in the whole play, also kept her bottom line, and the sisters Min Min and Ruth naturally became the ones who "supported Xiaojiangxi".

Minmin is smart, Ruth is steady, they have gained a lot of love from the audience, and they seem to be more smooth than Xiao Jiangxi's life. But in the end, it was Xiao Jiangxi, who was beaten by Lu Meilin, who had a blue nose and swollen face, and was unwilling to give up the spirit that he had when he came to Huanghe Road, and said categorically, "I will still find a way."

From Lu Meilin to Mei Ping, and then to Xiao Jiangxi, they are all "losers" on the Yellow River Road from a certain dimension, but they are the same as Mr. Bao, like the protagonists such as Lingzi, Li Li, and Miss Wang, who do not accept fate and admit defeat, and struggle to get out of the established destiny and take the unknown life in their own hands.

Because of the struggle, it is moving. The beauty of a flower depends not only on what it looks like, but also on the way it grows. In this way, we can copy the "Flowers" of the hearts of the people and the various states of all beings.

As for the fall of the flowers, someone stepped on the falling flowers, then it is a new story....