Wu Lei and Zhao Jinmai fell in love, and the international students cried
作者 | brotherkai
Edit | Yan Fei
Title Picture | In the Blizzard
Sports-themed domestic romance dramas emerge in an endless stream, and this time they finally rolled into the more niche field of snooker (a kind of billiards game).
On February 2, "In the Blizzard" starring Wu Lei and Zhao Jinmai was finally broadcast. At the beginning of the series, before the audience saw the outstanding skills of the male and female protagonists, they were deeply moved by the study abroad life in the play: the heroine met the male protagonist who had studied abroad for many years, and the latter fell in love with her at first sight and quietly settled everything for her.
In reality, the beginning of "Xiao Liu" is often a mattress, and the beginning of "Xiao Liu" in the play is that someone carries the weight for you. International students who have really lived abroad have broken their defenses - this time, they have finally waited for their own "science fiction film".
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"In the Time of the Blizzard" should be read by every international student
"In the Blizzard" is adapted from the work of the same name by the writer @Mobao Feibao, the initial encounter between the male and female protagonists has been restored 1:1 in the play-
The heroine first arrived, and encountered the strongest snowstorm in 10 years in a foreign country: first the airport flight was delayed, and then the hotel canceled the accommodation, so that it was easy to say that someone else's car left the airport and arrived at a bar in the city center. It was also at this lowest point that she met her compatriots who helped her through the difficulties.
In a romance novel, this may be a romantic story. But if in real life, when you are in the extreme weather of a strange country, a stranger stares at you outside for a few minutes, comes in to the bar and orders you a cocktail, and actively shows your ID card, school magnetic card, passport information page, and finally insists on following you all the way back to the hotel, how will you respond?
When a person deliberately emphasizes to you that "I am a good person and will not lie to you", it is as suspicious as deliberately emphasizing "I will not tell anyone" when chatting about gossip - experienced international students said that the ending of such "sexual encounters" is likely to be "meeting at the peak" in the Aquaman PDF and the pig killing plate complaint post.
Even Wu Lei couldn't help but "backstab" the character he played: "Actually, (this process) is still quite scary, everyone must be vigilant when they encounter such a man in life!"
The first time they met, the male protagonist took the initiative to hand over his ID card and school magnetic card. (Photo/"In the Time of the Blizzard")
Since the first encounter in this bar,The male and female protagonists have started a dreamy "Liuzi" life - the male protagonist said that he has friends from afar, according to the rules of his compatriots, he invites guests to drink and takes a taxi to escort him; After seeing the heroine's mobile phone chat history, he took the initiative to take her to eat ramen; Knowing that the heroine has not yet rented a house, he immediately arranged a ready-made three-bedroom apartment with a good location and complete security.
There is more than one coincidence. The female protagonist met the male protagonist when she went to the local ball room for training, and found that the male protagonist turned out to be a peer. He won the regional champion with his amazing skills and impressed the club's Chinese and foreign people. The heroine who witnessed the whole process sighed: "Here, the talent in this Chinese ball room is him, the lazy, talented, and uninhibited Chinese man who always defeats his opponent with an attitude that doesn't care too much and wins or loses at will." ”
There is no need to contribute money and effort, and there are genius champions to accompany the practice, such a study abroad life should be the ultimate fantasy of international students.
The male protagonist showed such and such a bearing. (Photo/"In the Time of the Blizzard")
From a dream-making point of view, "In the Time of Blizzard" can be described as a great success.
Wu Lei and Zhao Jinmai, who are upright, always give people a sense of "three good students' early love": eat a pizza with one knife by themselves, invite someone to drink antique wine with three hundred dollars, turn on the mute mode in the laundry room, and send three WeChat messages to each other: Do you have a boyfriend? Or, it can be seen, do I want to chase you?
All the supporting characters in the play are trying their best to match the male and female protagonists, showing a "I understand" look at the male protagonist, even if it is a passing Finn, they have to say "this is not bad" in authentic Chinese.
And the "patriarchal" character currently appearing in the play, the heroine's cousin, after some investigation, also said with satisfaction: "You two are rushing to get married! Your boyfriend is picking a good job, you work hard to abduct him back to China to get married, and I will take care of it on the parents' side." ”
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is really "Xiaoliu", a chicken feather who dares to face reality
How different is people's imaginary life of studying abroad from reality?
"In the Blizzard" was filmed in Finland, and since last year, people have been releasing atmospheric Reuters photos. To a large extent, it accurately captures the exoticism of the country, and many students can recall their feelings in the same place, and as a romantic drama, its romantic and suspended narrative mode is also in line with the public's consistent imagination of studying abroad.
In fact, it is not the first domestic drama that allows the audience to have a filter on the life of studying abroad: "Little International Students", which was broadcast as early as 2005, is a generation of study abroad enlightenment dramas. At that time, it was the tide of studying abroad, and the lyrics "I crossed the Pacific Ocean / crossed the Atlantic Ocean / I chased the sun / I chased the waves" once made people yearn for the outside world.
According to the "2023 White Paper on Studying in China", more than half of the people who intend to study abroad with a bachelor's degree or below, and 45% of those who intend to study abroad with a master's degree or doctorate. The UK and the US remain the most popular countries for studying abroad. But international students who really go abroad will find that they may have to face a skinny reality.
Studying abroad is like opening a blind box, and it is not the same as a glamorous life. If you land in Germany, you may usher in the road of life and death, "3 years in Germany, will be your happiest 7 years", landing in Australia, you will deal with all kinds of suspicious unknown animals, landing in some universities in the UK, you may be greeted by "reverse study abroad" - imagining that you are staggered with foreign friends and immersion in learning English, but in fact it is more likely to become an i-person and warm up in the Chinese circle.
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In the previous study abroad dramas, they were more or less criticized for "not depicting the real life of studying abroad" - in "Returning", the male and female protagonists only applied the elites of the Ivy League schools studying abroad in the setting, and in "Taking Dad to Study Abroad", the protagonist showed an unprecedented "social bull X syndrome" and staged an absurd thunder drama.
More often, the real situation and situation of international students are hidden in the passages that have not yet been broadcast in the original "In the Blizzard": the glamorous male protagonist, because he can't afford to live in the school dormitory, rents a remote place with his classmates, buys a second-hand bicycle, and occasionally reveals that he "has been in a hurry for two days of paper, and has never slept at all".
If you open Douban's "Arduous Study Abroad Group", you will see 60,000 people exchanging the real daily life of studying abroad: DIY application papers, not being deceived by intermediaries, dealing with shared housing conflicts, and invisible cultural barriers are what they must face. In the play, the heroine also mentioned that foreign subways have a history of hundreds of years, and many carriages do not have electronic display screens, so she has to listen to the station name attentively, and often takes the station accidentally.
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In The Texture of Poverty, scholar Wang Bang describes his sojourn life in the UK as follows: living in a low-rent house, visiting second-hand stores, growing vegetables in the backyard, and squeezing a "Brazilian ant nest" in a slum with people he doesn't know, observing the society from a stranger's perspective. "For many, London is the city of the 16th-century poet William Dunbar, the king of flowers, the best of all cities. To me, it's William Black's city, 'walking down the street at midnight when I hear the curse of a young prostitute crushing the tears of a newborn baby'. ”
It is not denied that there will be some surprising opportunities in the life of studying abroad, but those who have these experiences are still a very small number of lucky people.
Romantic love is certainly beautiful. In addition, we also look forward to seeing "real warriors" in study abroad dramas in the future - they will be careful about daily expenses and dare to face the chaos of daily life. Sometimes, ordinary documentaries of studying abroad can also capture vivid textures.
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Proofreader: Yang Chao, Operation: Lu Zirui, Typesetting: Liang Ningyan