It's funny, just listening to the name, I always thought that "We Are Not Kind Enough" and "The Distance Between Us and Evil" were dramas on the same track, and I looked forward to it for a long time with the excitement of "Is Yuan Xiangqin going to break the law".
After all, one of the biggest advantages of Taiwanese drama is that it is never afraid to give people a fine outline, and legal drama is the king of kings.
And the cast is extremely strong, and there is almost no one on my resume that I don't like to watch.
So when I finished the first few episodes of Tiger Pounce on the Food, I felt that the nobles were like Qi and ran to Imperial Doctor Wen to check the fornication and find out the King of Guojun.
Indeed, I didn't expect such a story to be told.
The whole is not compatible with "With Evil", but the portrayal of people is not wonderful.
At the time of writing this article, the Douban of "Unkind" had soared from 8.6 to 9.0, and a certain book and a certain blog were all exclaiming, "Taiwanese drama has reached the next level".
Then I'll give you a quick comment first:
很喜欢《不善》，但next level嘛，有待商榷。
The mood of "I didn't expect" is actually happy and surprised, let's bloom two flowers today, one for each branch.
Let's say hi first.
One of my big loves about "The Bad" is its brilliant portrayal of female jealousy.
This is also the key word of the whole story.
There are many stories of twins falling in love and killing each other, but it is difficult to see one of them as a "strong woman" and one as a "baby mother".
Jian Qingfen played by Ariel Lin and Rebecca played by Xu Weining were colleagues and fell in love with the same man He Ruizhi.
To be more precise, it is He Ruizhi, the man who falls in love with Rebecca.
It's a clichéd setting, isn't it?
As is customary, the story should begin here and end with the wedding of either of them.
But the narrative angle of "Not Good" is not here.
It places the main story in a few years later, the married life of He Ruizhi and Jian Qingfen.
Yes, the "female competition" has ended, but looking at the face of the "winner" is like a mournful test, you know that the story has just begun.
Theoretically, Jian Qingfen at this time should have obtained the life she wanted.
A nice husband, a nice kids, a nice place to live.
But the calmer the days, the less peaceful her heart becomes:
It's too banal, it's too trivial, it's too repetitive.
Yesterday, today and tomorrow, it was like copy-paste.
was so calm that she was even grateful to her troublesome mother-in-law, who was tricky second, and always caused a little ripple in her life.
She wanted a goal, a little excitement, so she remembered the "old enemy" Rebecca.
Under the eyes of social software, Jian Qingfen built Rebecca's life, which is "with 18 million, with new surprises every day".
Then night after night, in front of the blue light from the computer screen, I smacked what kind of life it was.
Writing this, I think it's right to tell everyone about a Taiwanese version of "Malice".
But no.
Jian Qingfen didn't do anything, and she couldn't do anything, she was just secretly jealous and fantasizing.
The real life is still like that, in the track, between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
It's just that I'll hallucinate Rebecca in between the day-to-day work at hand, and then be stung by her passion and longing in the vision.
What a boring "jealous woman", isn't it? But I like it.
I know what the jealous woman who was keen to portray in film and television in the past is like, pulling her head, slapping her mouth, all the pen and ink are used in the form of explicit, I can't wait to shoot ten small times in one go, the audience will watch a thrill, but it will also be exciting.
Looking back on it for a while, I remember pouring red wine and some cheap verbal wars.
I can't remember why?
You don't know why it's so thunderous and hurts.
It's not so much that this is portraying jealousy, but rather that it wants to satisfy a spectacle of "Lu Ziqiao loves to watch women fight".
But the jealousy in "Unkindness" is thick inside and faint outside.
From Jian Qingfen's point of view.
Everyone could see that she had a sore tooth for Rebecca, but from beginning to end, she actually had very few movements that could be called "fighting".
So how does she show her jealousy? By doing some "observation reports" on the life of the young couple in front of He Ruizhi from time to time.
For example, after Rebecca's mother was disgusted with fish soup for hospitalization, Jian Qingfen said:
For example, when Rebecca was promoted and raised, Jian Qingfen said to He Ruizhi:
For another example, after the two broke up with their mother, and He Ruizhi spoke to his mother, Jian Qingfen said:
Some people say that Jian Qingfen, who speaks this kind of thing, describes it as green tea, but I don't agree with it.
Playing tea art mostly relies on the ability to compile and deduce, make up the opponent's arrogance, and play his own weakness, which Jane does not have.
She was telling the truth, and the facts were harsh, not because of hypocrisy, but because we knew from God's perspective that she was not pure.
The contradiction between Rebecca and He Ruizhi was never made by Jian Qingfen, but she was still the one who was inexplicably involved.
Because Rebecca and He Ruizhi couldn't find anyone, she had no choice but to go to help, so there were follow-up incidents.
If it were any of He Ruizhi's other friends, he was involved in these contradictions between the young couple and sighed, "You have to think carefully about whether you two are suitable for marriage", is it much more reasonable.
Of course, I'm not saying that Jian Qingfen is completely blameless for the breakdown of their relationship, what I want to say is that most jealousy does not fall into a tearing flower, and the influence of jealousy does not have to be shown through a tearing flower.
The explanation of this point of view in the play is a bit awkward, using the famous physics thought experiment:
Schrödinger's cat.
The cat was supposed to be a superposition of dead and alive in the black box, but when someone opened the black box and began to observe, it collapsed into either of these forms.
So the observation itself changes the world.
Observation comes from jealousy, and observation is jealousy.
Observing and reporting is Jian Qingfen's jealousy.
She doesn't have those "fights" in the traditional sense, at most, she just marked the key points of the contradiction between the two in red, and then lingered and existed as a "solution to the contradiction".
is enough to be the strongest catalyst for the breakdown of the relationship between the two.
But still, she is not the root, if the above paragraph makes you feel terrible, it is not Jian Qingfen's terrible, it is the terrible of jealousy.
Back to the post-marriage timeline, Jian Qingfen's Internet rape of Rebecca is the same.
Even if she was already so jealous in her heart that she hallucinated the passion of the other party and her man, Jian Qingfen came back to her senses and was just worried about the sheets.
Some people think this is very unreasonable, and they are so jealous that they are delirious, and they can't go up and tear it up.
Even before she came back to her senses, her expression was not angry, but thirsty.
But that's where "Bad Things" portrays jealousy so well.
It writes about the core, subtlety, and most neglected emotion of "jealousy":
不忍毁坏。
Many people's understanding of jealousy is "because you can't get it, so you want to destroy it", you can't say wrong, but in fact, this is just the worst form of jealousy, and it is easy to misinterpret it, thinking that the core motivation of jealousy is "not getting it".
Not really.
At the heart of jealousy is "I want".
The so-called "destruction" is not the same as jealousy, but only a deformed act that arises under the extreme anger of "not getting it".
Most jealousies can't go this far, not because they don't believe in the evil of human nature, but because they don't dare to underestimate people's desire for "what they want".
If you destroy it, you really won't get anything.
No stranger, this belief is also born of jealousy, and even it is the root of jealousy, the part of jealousy about "I want".
In the long mutual jealousy of the two girls, the desire to "become" often triumphs over the desire to "destroy".
And this is the real power of women, a power that transcends the patriarchal definition of "jealousy", a power that breaks out of the cycle of patriarchal "control" and "oppression".
This kind of becoming, and eventually, even towards mutual support.
Not because of a very plastic sisterhood, but because I know that "you have to move forward before I have a direction." ”
The background of the times is different, and Jian Qingfen's jealousy of Rebecca is unlikely to have such a sense of grandeur, but the essence is also very similar.
Many people think that if Jian Qingfen sees Rebecca's true condition, she will be a villain, and I am really a little speechless.
She needed the Rebecca she had constructed, and that was her goal, and she wouldn't destroy or attack Rebecca excessively, because deep down she knew that it would only bring her days back to normal.
The target and the imaginary enemy are two sides of the same coin.
Just as Elena imitated Lila's walking, Jian Qingfen also wanted to follow Rebecca, intentionally or unintentionally.
When I saw a photo of Rebecca's tattoo, I was born with the idea of getting a tattoo.
Seeing Rebecca's wavy curls, I also went to burn my grandmother's head.
Rebecca's frustration is destined to mean Jian Qingfen's weightlessness.
In Jane's jealousy of Rebecca, the part that becomes is clearly the part that is higher than the part that is destroyed.
When savoring Rebecca's online life, her expression is also more admired than hated.
That's why I can't hate Jian Qingfen.
The story of her and Rebecca is difficult to summarize in terms of female competition, because female competition refers to the competition between women who have completely lost their subjectivity to compete for men, but Jian Qingfen's jealousy of Rebecca has always been subjective and constantly increasing.
Correspondingly, He Ruizhi is the more instrumentalized and objectified one.
Let's rewind the tape and find out what kind of opportunity was it at the beginning of the timeline of the whole show?
It's not love at first sight with He Ruizhi.
It's Jian Qingfen's clash shirt with Rebecca.
In the same long skirt, Jane tightly wrapped the waist, and Xiande made a long skirt gently.
Rebecca, on the other hand, made a trench coat behind him, tied it on his belt, and walked in the wind.
It's just an aesthetic difference, but what is Jian Qingfen's feelings?
It's embarrassing.
This is the singularity that stimulated the explosion of the universe of Jian Qingfen, and it is the beginning of all the later stories.
Her connection with He Ruizhi also began here.
Many people mistakenly think that this sentence is a tool, and deepening the connection with He Ruizhi is the goal, but in fact, it is completely opposite.
"Embarrassment" is the deepest motivation of this sentence, and contacting men or anything is just a means to cover up embarrassment.
If you lose on clothes, I can win on men.
This is not actually to "ruin" Rebecca, but when Rebecca's enthusiasm seriously impacted Jian Qingfen's long-term belief in "frugality makes life", she was eager to find something to prove her sense of worth.
He Ruizhi is that thing.
, 在 Rebecca。
Unfortunately, when he was young, he was ignorant, and he obviously wanted to have Rebecca's sense of subjectivity, but he finally put on the referee's top hat for the man.
Time passed, the illusion of self-deception dissipated, and the midnight dream was still the grapes that had not tasted the mouth.
Jian Qingfen cares about He Ruizhi's obsession with Rebecca, not so much because she loves He Ruizhi, but because she "realized that the tool person who proved the grape sour in the first place seemed to have lied".
It was also at this time that Jian Qingfen realized that she and Rebecca were the same person in a superimposed state, and without Rebecca, there would be no Jian Qingfen.
She will not realize the lack of self, so it is very easy to blur this life under discipline.
The play also gives many obvious hints, the collision of the two and the birthdays of the same month and day are all revealing that the two are never incompatible, but quantum entanglement.
And when the two begin to observe each other, when jealousy begins to flow.
And each man collapsed into his own universe.
It's a pity that any universe is a fragment of the self after it has collapsed, and it is a pity to abandon it.
This is true for Jian Qingfen, and the same is true for Rebecca.
I know that at this moment, there will be a big heroine lover who will come out and shout to stop.
Rebecca, who is independent and self-reliant, Rebecca, who is engaged in her career, can buy herself a room of gorgeous clothes, has more than 600,000 Taiwan dollars in savings, and has not yet stepped into the grave of marriage, how can she lack herself?
Just, how to say.
The domestic heroine is very harmful.
Money is important, but having money can solve all the problems in the world, that's the logic of Dad.
Thinking that if you don't get married, you won't be deprived of your personality by the patriarchal society, which is underestimating patriarchy and despising the plight of women.
So, don't rush to shout for Rebecca that it doesn't hurt.
She is obviously in pain, and the core of her pain is the part that is often covered up by today's Internet slogan feminism:
Aloneness.
Rebecca's loneliness is not only a "lack of men", but in fact she loses the ability to form deep relationships with anyone else.
It is important to know that when we emphasize independence, we are not emphasizing the independence of the legacy.
It's the ability to retain oneself in one's relationship with others.
The logic is very simple, if there is no other person in the world, then there is no way to talk about "self".
Rebecca's wariness and instinctive distrust of others were already a little sick before she met Jian Qingfen.
In her interaction with He Ruizhi, every sugar spot, but her face was only afraid of loss, and she felt illusory and worried.
Confessed so:
The same goes for being proposed:
So she is obviously an eagle-like woman at work, rolling in life and death, but she does not have a firm posture emotionally.
Her anxiety about separation has become so great that she subconsciously seeks separation in order to free herself from it.
The boyfriend proposed on the front foot, and she took the initiative to ask the other party's mother's opinion on the back foot: on the premise of knowing that the other party's mother didn't like her very much.
And when she heard Jian Qingfen's voice from the other side, she was just disheartened with a look of "sure enough", and she was even unable to be angry.
Therefore, whether she is a junior for the leader or the mistress of a married man, it is not out of revenge against He Ruizhi.
It's more just that they can't stand the loneliness, and they worry about leaving too heavily, so they simply put themselves in a lighter relationship.
But just as Jian Qingfen will not be happier when she gets He Ruizhi, Rebecca will eventually be stabbed by this kind of covering her ears and stealing the bell.
Her envy of Jian Qingfen lies in Jian Qingfen's ability to establish sincere contact with everyone.
Don't simply understand that the green tea has a man's popularity, Jian Qingfen really has the kind of girlfriend who "has the right to know" girlfriend.
The scene on the birthday of the two is enough to see that Jian Qingfen's colleague relationship is much better than Rebecca.
It's not difficult to understand, after all, she is delicate enough to praise the OOTD at the front desk.
Jian Qingfen is also Rebecca's missing fragment of self.
When Jane visions Rebecca and her little milk dog passionately, Rebecca weeps in her dream for the picture of her husband and children hot kang heads.
The design of this scene of "Zhuang Zhou's Dream Butterfly" is quite embarrassing, it is Rebecca who dreamed, and He Ruizhi who woke up.
It's not that I sigh about the love between He and Rebecca, but that there are two more women in the world, who are put into the mold of red roses and white roses.
Of course, there will be regrets, not because of greed, but because the white and red roses should be one person, so no one will be complete.
They were forcibly dismantled into two "half-people", one with the title "Strong Woman Who No One Wants", and the other with the title "The Yellow-faced Woman Who Stays at Home".
By whom?
You can also find it in the play.
It's not that I'm lazy, it's just that the name of this play is not good.
Yes, I'm going to talk about the "surprise" part.
After reading the above chapters, it should not be difficult to understand where the so-called "We Are Not Good Enough" is, and what kind of understanding the play wants to give.
But I still have to say that the title of this play is really not the most preferred.
In other words, the control group of "working women" and "housewives" is not the best material for showing the "subtleties of human nature" in a broad sense.
Because the pain of not being able to balance "family" and "career" has long been a recognized false proposition.
This is also the reason why I said that this drama is not the next level of Taiwanese dramas.
Its strength lies in the accuracy with which it portrays those difficult emotions and the actions underneath them, but the screenwriter's intention to express God's will is obviously "We are a little unkind, but what does that matter?"
This is okay in Article 20, but it is inappropriate to put it here.
After all, our thinking about the so-called "balancing problem" has long transcended the context of the trial of women themselves (even if the trial is for acquittal).
Who made Jian Qingfen regard virtuous and virtuous virtue as the right path, and who made Rebecca be classified as an "older strong woman" who is not worthy of love.
Why is this balancing act only for women, not men?
When everyone has this answer in hand, the plight of women in it can certainly be shown in detail, but it will definitely not rise to the value judgment of "good or not".
It's better to call it "Quantum Entangled Us".
However, the name of the drama is not hidden, and it is also my family's words, let's take a look.
When I was writing about the directorial controversy over "Barbarian Invasion", I talked about how long it is enough to portray feelings accurately enough to make a good women's work.
As for how far the creator has awakened, it doesn't matter, and he shouldn't be harshly criticized.
Don't forget:
Before equality comes, the fate of you and me, the fate of all women in the world.
Who doesn't get entangled with whom?