总说台剧已经Next level 。
Breaking this sentence apart and looking at Next level does not mean that Taiwanese actors must be better at acting.
It refers to the atmosphere of the entire script, the entire film, and the film and television industry to win domestic entertainment;
It refers to the state and emotions of the play are subtle and precious, it is a concern that happens to real people, and it is a concern that sincerely wants to hit you and, if you can, wants to put a band-aid on your wound.
And recently, Wanwan has another king bomb appeared, and as soon as he made a move, he played Boda again-
"We Are Not Good Enough"
Before introducing this new work, let me show you the resume of director Xu Yuting himself:
"Mischievous Kiss", "Who Fell in Love with Him First", "I May Not Love You", "Tumi" and "The Distance Between Us and Evil".
Needless to say, isn't it?
And this new drama is the re-collaboration between the original cast of "Mischievous Kiss", Ma Lin Yichen and Xu Weining.
Hua Dan, the leader of Taiwanese dramas, and the well-known ratings queen have joined forces, and this strength can be said to be terrifyingly strong.
The screenwriter and director only used two episodes to show how accurately Taiwanese dramas are grasping human nature and the truth of life.
This is a two-perspective story, Jian Qingfen played by Ariel Lin and Zhang Yijing played by Xu Weining met ten years ago.
They have the same birthday, they like the same clothes, and so do the boys they like.
Ten years later, Jian Qingfen became a housewife, and Zhang Yijing remained single.
The two make different choices in their own lives, with their own light and dark.
The first episode of the story is Jian Qingfen's perspective.
This married mother has a son and a stable job, not to mention that her husband is He Junxiang, who has fascinated countless girls.
What is not to be satisfied with in a life that sounds enviable?
But in such a repetitive life day after day, she already feels like she hasn't experienced what it feels like to be "happy" for a long time.
Husband He Ruizhi has changed from a handsome guy to a middle-aged greasy man, who doesn't do housework, only makes requests, not to mention emotional value.
In her view, most of life is made up of pain, and she only feels happy when she achieves her goal.
It's just that now she doesn't have any goals, so she can only take the initiative to find them by herself.
This goal is that Jian Qingfen was smoking and drinking on the balcony in the dead of night, and when she saw a handsome young guy flashing downstairs while riding a bicycle and singing a song with "Rebecca" in the lyrics (the English name of her ex-girlfriend), she ran into her mind.
So one day, she decided to add "vitality" to herself by tracking the Facebook of her former rival.
When she searched the social dynamics of her former rival, she saw that the other party popped out:
There are new surprises every day, 18 million (about 3.6 million yuan), and a photo with a 30-year-old boy......
After peeking into the other party's life, Jian Qingfen did not get happiness, but questioned her "victory" ten years ago.
He Ruizhi was still a high-spirited man back then, and he was still dating the young and beautiful Rebecca.
This well-matched couple secretly had an underground affair in the office, which happened to be discovered by Jian Qingfen.
She blessed generously on the surface, but secretly jealous in her heart.
Compared with Rebecca, Jian Qingfen is more cheerful, social and good at saying beautiful things.
It is precisely in this kind of character that she successfully won the person she liked by taking care of He Ruizhi's brutal old mother.
So what about Rebecca's life ten years later?
This beautiful and capable woman has her own career.
She is nearly forty years old, still single, and chooses to let go when she encounters betrayal.
Seems cool, right?
But she still worries about practical problems such as pension and bills, and the card is only 620,000 Taiwan dollars (equivalent to less than 150,000 yuan), no car, no house, and the overdue cost of starting a business.
As well as maintaining high consumption under refinement, the stable years of being ex-boyfriend and being called "auntie" are all sources of anxiety.
Rather than saying that she is a bachelor, it may be more accurate to describe her as the "Queen of Defeated Dogs" who was forced to be single.
It's not out of self-choice, it's only cool in the eyes of others, it's very anxious and painful when it really faces itself, and subconsciously thinks that you need a man.
There is a scene in the play where she bought new clothes and just hung up the hanger but it collapsed, and when she was repairing the hanger, she cut her hand and received the news that her colleague left for love, and the hanger collapsed again.
A single woman living alone in the city, carrying everything alone.
But the last straw was that the hanger was broken, and all the clothes were scattered.
A self-talking "it hurts", obviously the gap is so small, but it brings an outlet to the emotions of the whole episode.
The love-hate relationship spanning ten years seems to have made the lives of the two completely different.
It seems that life is better when looking at each other, but in fact, it is only the smallest aspect of fine decoration.
There is one detail in the play that is very interesting.
When the male protagonist's mother was hospitalized, his girlfriend at the time, Rebecca, was disgusted on the spot for giving her mother's most hated fish soup.
The male protagonist who knew was very distressed, and at this time Jian Qingfen told him in a comforting tone: "I won't even remember that your mother doesn't like to eat fish." ”
And when they met on the road more than ten years later, Jian Qingfen asked her mother-in-law if she remembered the fish delivery girl she disliked at that time.
The mother-in-law said leisurely: "Remember, you are beautiful and have a good figure." Suddenly made Jian Qingfen dumbfounded.
At present, the score of this drama on Douban has risen to 9.0, and it has the momentum of becoming the annual "drama king" of Taiwanese dramas.
Women of the 40th generation, whether in social issues or film and television works, are often voiceless or distorted.
Half of them sink into the intricacies of marriage and childbearing, and the other half fight against the "competition and elimination" from young girls.
These two halves have to face physiological disturbances and aging, and a moment of calm and calm is exchanged for several times the effort.
But when the mainstream TV dramas in the mainland are still discussing the original family of working women, the other side has already grasped the sorrow of urban women outside the family incision.
When the mainland was still wearing ugly clothes and domineering presidents, Wanwan had already begun to discuss what is human nature, what is desire, what is what is not obtained, what is always charming, and the essence of life.
Of course, it's not in the form of preaching, the plot is played very advanced, and the lines are written naturally.
Just from the fact that the two heroines do not project any bias, the advantages and disadvantages are evenly matched, you can see the skill.
Let's taste this line:
If the "superposition state" can be a metaphor for the existence of "parallel universes......
What is it that has brought you here?
Is the answer waiting for us?
Or is it our consciousness that has chosen the universe in which we exist?
The women from the two perspectives envy each other and have regrets about their state.
The happiness seen by outsiders may also be an illusion in order to make themselves happy, just like the screenwriter portrays the opposite of Jane and R, after all, no matter how you choose in life, there will be regrets.
Schrödinger's cat, a cat that is both alive and dead, will only know the result when it is opened.
People always feel that the road they don't take is the best way.