Recently, a Taiwanese drama has quietly gone out of the circle.
Neither rely on restrictive images, nor do you have any great shots.
It turned out to be a few lines-
"That's how human nature is cheap, so we have to keep a little bit of a sense of godliness. ”
"One person only needs to solve the problem of loneliness, but two people will give birth to a lot of trouble."
"At the age of forty, you have no right to think about what you like, and at the age of forty, you can only think about things to plan for."
"Is the answer waiting for us ahead?, or is it our consciousness that has chosen the universe in which we exist?"
"Isn't human nature funny, what you don't get, will always be more charming. ”
"We don't seek happiness because we love pain. ”
"I want to be someone else's wife, mother, daughter, daughter-in-law, employee every day, a good person who loves the earth."
This drama has made a breakthrough more than just the scale-
"We Are Not Good Enough".
starring, Ariel Lin, the queen of Taiwanese drama idol dramas, became the first actress in the history of idol dramas to win the queen of Admiralty with "Mischievous Kiss".
Later, he relied on "I May Not Love You" to take off the queen of the eyes for the second time.
This drama is Ariel Lin's comeback after marriage, and the last time she starred in a drama, it was "Little Girls Don't Give Up" by Internal Entertainment.
Director and screenwriter Xu Yuting has filmed "I May Not Love You", which has resonated with countless women, and the director's first film "Who Fell in Love with Him First" became a dark horse.
actors, as well as Xu Weining , He Junxiang, cameos are all at the level of Liu Ruoying and Xie Yingxuan.
Plus Tanya Tsai's tailor-made golden songs.
After the broadcast, the Douban score rose from 8.5 to 8.8.
and topped the real-time hot list for 3 consecutive days.
The ratings are not bad, and the first broadcast swept 4 champions such as public television dramas, Chinese dramas on the eight major drama stations, MyVideo drama list, and iQiyi International Version's popularity soaring list.
Some netizens said that Taiwanese dramas have won again.
What kind of drama can Ariel Lin play the role of such a housewife who once pry her boyfriend?
What is the implicit meaning of this character itself?
After experiencing a mischievous kiss at the age of 20, I may not love you at the age of 30, and we who are not kind enough at the age of 40, Ariel Lin seems to be a friend who has accompanied me through a period of time.
Today, I will take you to take a look at this 8-episode short drama that unveils the fig leaf of the adult world and specializes in dismantling the truth of life behind adults.
Take a look at the three female characters played by Ariel Lin, Xu Weining and Liu Ruoying, how they exhaust the life choices that adults have to face in terms of family, career, and love.
and how did internal entertainment lose this time-
01, Ariel Lin: The family problem of the perfect housewife
Ariel Lin's role this time, Jian Qingfen, "worked hard" at the beginning.
As soon as the whole play opens, it is the process of her success in prying the corner.
In the car where her boss drove her, she said to her boss He Ruizhi, who was about to marry her girlfriend: You seem to be working a little hard.
"Hard", the connotation is his girlfriend, Rebecca played by Xu Weining.
Because of his cold personality, he won't get along with his mother, which makes him embarrassed.
followed by a wave of trampling, "At least I won't forget that Mother He doesn't eat fish."
I have to say that these two people have a lot of fate, they used to work in the same company and like the same clothes.
's birthday is the same day, and they both fall in love with the same man, that is, He Ruizhi played by He Junxiang.
Jian Qingfen did not hide her careful thoughts, and then took the initiative to take care of He Ruizhi's mother who had a traffic accident, and finally became the final "winner".
Rebecca was out, and the two got married and gave birth to a son.
For many years, Jian Qingfen is 41 years old this year and has a happy life that many people imagine-
There is a house and a car.
The husband has a stable job, takes care of the family, has no affair, and has a sensible son.
Everything was perfect?
But anything, getting hands on it is the beginning of troubles - behind the perfect life, there is a mother-in-law with turtle hair, a house without the privacy of husband and wife, and a husband who has lost his halo.
and herself, a middle-aged woman who has lost her passion for the current married life.
Jian Qingfen's happy life has become a repetition and repetition day after day.
In life, she does housework and takes care of her son every day, and everything goes according to plan.
She felt that she hadn't felt happy for a long time.
On his birthday, my husband remembered to order a cake, but he didn't have time to accompany him.
My husband took the initiative to get in touch when he was taking a bath, but he was kicked out by the other party with a sentence of "Jian Qingfen, you are sick".
Even had a few people's spring dreams.
In the dream, she was still worried about getting dirty rolling the sheets, so she stopped the hot two and removed the sheets, because it was really difficult to wash.
In the days to come, will it be so boring?
Until one day.
She suddenly remembered a long-lost name-
Rebecca.
How is the rival in love now? So she found the other party's social platform to browse her recent situation.
As it turned out, Rebecca seemed to be having a great time.
has a deposit of 18 million, and is still in a relationship with a boy who is ten years younger than himself?
How surprising is this life?
Ariel Lin's performance is very good, especially the moment of silent emotional collapse, which is vivid, which makes people feel chills down their spines and empathize with them.
Because the life of the heroine is really not bad, the male protagonist played by He Junxiang is not as handsome as he was when he was young, and there is no problem at all.
This is just a family problem that a married middle-aged woman may face.
After giving up the illusion of love, she regarded her children as her only goal, and her relationship with her husband weakened.
I can't tell if it's because I didn't manage this relationship well, or if love and marriage are like this.
In contrast, Rebecca, who was out of this relationship back then, seems to have become a symbol of freedom.
The question is, Rebecca, who seems to be perfect for living independently, is really that perfect.
02, Xu Weining: Various problems of older single women
Rebecca, played by Xu Weining, is 39 years old this year, unmarried and lives alone without children.
Except for the appearance, everything is not perfect.
Perhaps compared with Jian Qingfen, Rebecca's life seems to be free, but what she represents is actually a problem that many older single women in the workplace have to face.
In the play, the male girlfriend expresses envy for Rebecca: the two will have children
There is a lot of trouble, and one person only needs to solve the problem of loneliness.
The problem is that Rebecca is not alone at all.
In order to pursue freedom, she quit her job and opened her own studio, but in fact, she was alone.
She has excellent work ability, and she has the temperament of a strong woman wherever she goes.
There are so many lists that you can't finish it, and you can refuse if you don't like it.
But I also work every day until the lights go out in the studio, and I have to continue to do it when I get home.
As Rene Liu's eldest sister sighed: Your professional freedom has actually become less free.
She wants to retire at 50.
But Liu Ruoying calculated an account for her: if she retires at the age of 50, she must save at least 20 million Taiwan dollars, that is, 4.494 million yuan.
"With 20 million, you still can't get sick, you can't travel, weddings and funerals, you may not be able to wrap those red envelopes and white envelopes, not to mention that 20 million still have to take into account your taste, is it enough?"
Also, "People will grow old, and money will depreciate." ”
Rebecca has now earned enough NT$2 million, a difference of NT$18 million.
Even more unfortunate was that the newly renovated house was repossessed by the landlord because his youngest son was getting married.
Therefore, the 18 million on social networks is not what I have now, but the money to be raised in order to support the elderly, the so-called "little boyfriend", but a photo created by the dinner friends who cooperate with the performance to chase other women.
That's all.
Rebecca wanted to go to the restaurant for a meal and then go back to work overtime, but was told by the waiter that she could only sit at the bar alone, and she fantasized and said her grievances in one breath.
But in reality, I was just so angry that I walked out of the restaurant and went to a convenience store to solve it.
It's hard to finish the day.
opened the social platform and planned to complain, but after writing the sentence "There is a situation every day", I felt that it was too negative to write like this.
In the end, it was changed to "there are surprises every day".
At this moment, she found a familiar stranger who praised her - Jian Qingfen.
So she was also thinking: How is the rival in love now?
Being curious about other people's lives is essentially dissatisfaction with the lives of the moment.
She didn't want to admit it, she didn't want to throw in the towel.
But if you carry it on, where is the happiness?
The rarest thing about the story is that it does not shoot a puppet drama like a domestic urban drama that shows adults love and hate, and beats the third child and the third child.
It's a rare shot of a pair of rivals in love, each with their own desires and restraint.
Everyone has a siege trapped in themselves.
Everyone is envious of someone else's siege.
03, this drama unveils the three unspoken rules of life in the adult world
When "We Are Not Kind Enough", the title of the play is 7 words, tearing open the "fig leaf" of the adult world, revealing how many adults' spiritual internal friction.
The story is not only about marriage, family and women, but also implies a key proposition in life: choice.
This is actually very similar to the director's previous 8.5-point work "Tumi".
In "Tumi", the heroine made a choice between her boyfriend and her career, and then the story uses a parallel universe to tell the development of the two choices.
As a result, the heroines on both life lines are regretting it.
and "We Are Not Kind Enough" turned the roles of Ariel Lin and Xu Weining into twin flowers.
The house where Jian Qingfen and He Ruizhi live now is the same one where He proposed to Rebecca back then, and even the ring.
There is a detail in the play that Jian Qingfen couldn't wear the ring at all, and she put it on only after enduring the pain, which is normal, because the ring was originally prepared for Rebecca.
It is equivalent to that Jian Qingfen lived a life that originally belonged to Rebecca.
So these two characters just reflect the choices and dilemmas of adults when they face life.
There is no easy word in adult life, and real life is unsatisfactory, nine times out of ten.
This drama unveils the three unspoken rules of life in the three adult worlds:
First, life is "Schrödinger's cat".
Rebecca sees an ad in front of the restaurant, "Schrödinger's Cat".
When you poison the cat in the box, the cat is in a state of life and death until you open the box.
And the choice of our life is not "Schrödinger's cat".
People are always saying, "What if I had chosen a different life?"
The two heroines in the play are not only envious of each other, but envy themselves who have chosen another path.
People are just so strange, we are always looking back at the past, and then envy ourselves who chose another path at the beginning, and always feel that it may be much better than now.
But the reality is that it is very likely that the self in another parallel universe will also fall, will also break the defense, and envy the self in this world.
That's why the series is so real that it resonates.
When people reach middle age, they will find that no matter which path they choose, everyone cannot escape the hardships of life.
Each has its own good, and each has its own difficulty.
But life is special precisely because it is Schrödinger's cat.
Second, human nature is eating from the bowl and looking at the pot.
Nine times out of ten, the anxiety of adults is caused by thinking too much.
In the play, He Ruizhi's mother has always disliked Rebecca, but many years later, when Jian Qingfen mentioned Rebecca to her, she praised her for dressing up beautifully.
On the contrary, I found fault with Jian Qingfen, who I liked very much at the beginning, and Jian Qingfen couldn't help but feel emotional:
Humanity is not very funny, and what is not obtained, is always more charming.
This is also why, people are always envious of other people's lives on social platforms.
Because no one will take out a piece of chicken feathers and dogs to show off, everyone is actually happy on social software.
Human beings will only understand when they lose: only what they really have at this moment is meaning.
Third, life is never perfect.
There is an old Chinese saying that forty is not confused.
It is also said that when you get married, you mature.
But the strange thing is that the 40-year-old middle-aged people who are not married in the play seem to be full of confusion.
Because people are always in pursuit of perfection, but life is a game without perfection.
How can people not be confused when they chase something that can never be chased like a father chasing the sun?
Regardless of Jian Qingfen or Rebecca, they can't get the fulfillment they want, because growth is cruel, and everyone has to go through a midlife crisis.
Life is a crisis, and through a crisis, there is nothing that cannot be overcome.
If you have, lie flat.
04, Taiwanese drama took us to tear off the fig leaf of the real world
Some viewers admire Xu Yuting's skills, but I want to admire today's Taiwanese dramas.
The era of idol dramas where everything can be in love is long gone, and today's Taiwanese dramas have long entered the post-idol drama era that faces reality.
"We Are Not Kind Enough" is just another Taiwanese drama that depicts women facing the double attack of life and family after reaching middle age.
Gold medal screenwriter Xu Yuting vividly shows the difficulties of marriage, work and life in different women's realities through the perspectives of two women.
One is a married woman who complains about the repetitive tedium of life, and the other is a single woman who is always in isolation.
The two represent completely different middle-aged lives, as if no matter how they choose, they are all wrong, and they will become the object of envy of the other person.
The lines in the play are well written and so real that they resonate.
As a female director, the scenes and graphics of the series are also full of storytelling.
For example, Ariel Lin and Xu Weining met unexpectedly at the bus stop in the play.
On the one hand, he was ready to get on the car and carry the grocery cart,
One strides forward with a billboard.
Without lines, the situation of the two characters is self-evident.
This scene is also reminiscent of the "Mischievous Kiss", Ariel Lin is Yuan Xiangqin, and Xu Weining is Pei Ziyu.
Ten years have passed, and the two actresses are still the queens of Taiwanese dramas and still rivals in love, but Taiwanese dramas and their acting skills are like a world away.
Ariel Lin, who played countless cute girls back then, played a middle-aged woman who was gradually tired in marriage, switching freely between lightness and agility and middle-aged fatigue.
For example, when doing housework, you suddenly forget what you want to do next.
But the inertia of the body will remind you that there is still something to be done, so you hang your arms in the air, turn left and right, waiting to remember what you want to do.
Ariel Lin at that moment was so cute!
and Xu Weining.
The most beautiful and vicious second female back then is now the heroine of the acting school of Taiwanese dramas.
She is still very beautiful, but she can use her acting skills to make the 19-year-old audience find resonance in the 39-year-old Rebecca.
There is a scene at the end of the second episode, where she and her "little boyfriend" go ice skating and accidentally meet He Ruizhi, who came to pick up the child.
She looked at her ex-boyfriend opposite in a daze, with surprise in her eyes, uneasiness for fear of being seen by the other party, and hidden unspeakable expectations.
He Ruizhi approached and brought the child a kettle.
The two looked at each other for a moment, but He Ruizhi took the kettle and turned to leave.
Xu Weining was stunned for a moment.
After being accidentally knocked down, the "little boyfriend" teased her and said, Auntie is fine.
But her tears fell, and she said that it hurt.
plus Liu Ruoying, who made a cameo, a cameo scene is full of golden sentences.
Several actresses who are mostly going to play mothers-in-law and mothers in domestic entertainment still shine in Taiwanese dramas.
Why?
Probably because Taiwanese dramas over the years have entered a "new era".
The investment is far less than that of the S-level ancient puppets with hundreds of millions of dollars in domestic entertainment, but the topics are becoming more and more in-depth.
The genre is constantly enriched, and it pays more attention to the lives of ordinary people, and the background color is real and caring.
This makes every time a Taiwanese drama hits, internal entertainment will be slapped in the face once.
is also such Taiwanese dramas and movies, which have given many actors who have lost their lives in domestic entertainment opportunities.
For example, Ruan Jingtian in "Removing the Three Evils in the Week", Ariel Lin and Xu Weining in this drama.
The root cause is nothing more than that internal entertainment disdains.
When the emotional drama of internal entertainment is still in the stage of hegemony, dog blood, and sugar, this Taiwanese drama is already trying to deconstruct the essence of marriage and life.
The story focuses on ordinary people, the helplessness of life choices, and the tearing between ideals and reality.
Don't send extra sugar, don't avoid the cruelty of reality.
Straight to the contradiction of human nature.
The two heroines in the story are not kind enough, and they are not as good as the heroines of domestic entertainment idol dramas, all of them are perfect.
But I prefer to watch this kind of heroine drama that is somewhat "not kind enough", because human nature is not black and white.
Those who are not kind enough are also our real side.
We all have imperfect lives, and we are all not kind enough.
The tragedy of life is that you are either Jian Qingfen or Rebecca. When I saw Rebecca tidying up her wardrobe in the play, the hanging wardrobe was overwhelmed by too many clothes. I thought, isn't this just me in my forties, a mess of life?
But life is like a Taiwanese drama.
I'm not worthy of living a perfect life like an idol drama in domestic entertainment.
"There is no really right path in life, but you have to make the right path for yourself. ”
But "life is no matter how you choose, there will be regrets." “
What to do?
Welcome to the world of adults.