Text: Northern Autumn
Edited by Beiqiu
Li Xian's performance in recent years can be described as quite good, since the role of Xie Xun in "The Brother Who Sleeps on My Top Bunk" has become popular.
Over the years, he has frequently appeared on the screen, including "Dear, Loved", "Going to a Windy Place", and "When the Stars Shine".
Now he has brought the romance drama "Spring Lover" to the screen, when the audience is still immersed in the sweet love between him and Liu Yifei last year's "Going to a Windy Place".
He also appeared in "Spring Lover" with his new girlfriend Zhou Yutong, and as soon as the new drama was released, he gained a large number of CP fans.
What is the quality of "Spring Lover"? Let's take a look.
The plot is novel and has depth
First of all, this drama is different from regular romance dramas, there is no love, hatred, and sweet encounter.
Instead, the story is told from the perspective of an undertaker, our male protagonist Chen Maidong (played by Li Xian), born in a small town in Nanfang.
When he grew up, he became the undertaker of the city funeral home because of his outstanding ability, and this profession itself is great, but there will still be people who are prejudiced against these people.
With the development of the times, urban and rural construction is becoming more and more important, and in order to revitalize, Nanfang Town began to call on talents from all over the country to return to the town for construction.
Chen Maidong is also one of them, and his profession also means that he can only become a "body plastic surgeon" when he returns to the township.
Because of dealing with the deceased for a long time, a wall also appeared in Chen Maidong's heart, a wall to isolate outsiders and protect himself.
Facing her grandson in her thirties, Chen Maidong's grandmother was also heartbroken and anxious.
Telling Chen Maidong everywhere in the village is to find a daughter-in-law for his grandson.
At this time, the heroine Zhuang Jie (played by Zhou Yutong) appeared on the stage, and she had an operation due to working outside.
In need of recuperation, she chose to return to her hometown of Nanfang Town instead of the hustle and bustle of the city.
In the car, she and Chen Maidong met each other, and the two were classmates in high school.
At the age of the first love, the two had a crush on each other.
Zhuang Jie, who was a girl, had an accident and needed to walk on crutches during school.
Because she is different, she is bullied by others, which also leads to her very withdrawn personality in order to protect herself.
At this time, although Chen Maidong's grades were very good when he was a teenager, he became very rebellious due to the divorce of his parents and only the care of his grandmother.
He noticed Zhuang Jie and appeared in front of her, and in the eyes of the other classmates, both of them were different.
Chen Maidong, a "bad boy" with good grades, and Zhuang Jie, a "disabled person" with crutches.
This difference also made the two rely on each other in high school.
When he was a teenager, Chen Maidong said to Zhuang Jie the most healing sentence is "crutches can also be weapons".
He encouraged Zhuang Jie to face her disability and live her life well.
The teacher and the student had different views, and they were not very relieved to look at the disabled Zhuang Jie, so they asked Chen Maidong to take care of Zhuang Jie after school.
In return, Zhuang Jie also took Chen Maidong to participate in class drama performances, so that Chen Maidong no longer became a marginal figure in the class.
The two began to fall in love with each other after going back and forth, but both of them were relatively shy and didn't say anything.
Until Zhuang Jie transferred to another city without saying hello for the sake of his studies, leaving Chen Maidong alone and secretly sad.
Many years later, the two reunited on the high-speed rail, and compared with high school, Chen Maidong has not changed much.
In Zhuang Jie's eyes, he was still the cold and handsome boy, looking at this man who once made his heart pound.
Zhuang Jie committed a nymphomaniac again, but Zhuang Jie at this time was a complete stranger in Chen Maidong's eyes.
Because in my impression, Zhuang Jie has always been a taciturn and talkative person.
Who would have thought that Zhuang Jie's inferiority complex had completely dissipated because of her very successful career in Shanghai.
In its place was her confidence that radiated from the inside out.
The moment she saw Chen Maidong, she directly incarnated as a "social cow" and stepped forward to start talking.
But Chen Maidong has closed his heart due to professional reasons, so he didn't respond to Zhuang Jie's enthusiasm, but just told her that he didn't recognize it.
After the two separated, Zhuang Jie met Chen Maidong's grandmother on the way home, who was looking for a partner for her grandson.
As mentioned earlier, Zhuang Jie at this time was a social cow, and she couldn't pull it at all, she felt that her grandmother needed help, so she began to help her find a candidate.
Listening to the dragon and phoenix in her grandmother's mouth, the godlike grandson, Zhuang Jie also became interested, but she didn't expect this person to be Chen Maidong.
Thinking of Chen Maidong's cold and handsome face now, Zhuang Jie bumped into the deer.
In order to know more about Chen Maidong, Zhuang Jie chatted with her grandmother, and saw that some girls were so interested in their grandson.
Grandma was naturally very happy, and after talking, she felt that Zhuang Jie was very suitable for the granddaughter-in-law in her heart, so she took Zhuang Jie home to meet Chen Maidong.
But although Chen Maidong and Zhuang Jie fell in love with each other in high school, they hadn't seen each other for many years after all, and because of their profession, they hated dealing with living people.
But in the temptation and pull, I can't help but be attracted to each other again, and the love between them is not vigorous.
It's about looking at things from an adult's point of view.
In the play, Chen Maidong, played by Li Xian, faces the offensive of the heroine Zhuang Jie and remains cold at all times.
However, in Zhuang Jie's eyes, this is the desire to get away with it, although many times it is a hot face and a cold ass.
But she still gave full play to her ability as a "social cow" and accumulated experience in eating deflated and "hitting the wall" again and again.
Finally, looking at Chen Maidong's handsome side face, he couldn't bear to kiss Chen Maidong, and the two ushered in the first kiss in the play.
This drama can get out of the circle, not only limited to depicting the love and love between the male and female protagonists, but also has a deeper meaning.
The contrast of the warmth of the surface and the strange core
Between the 5-6 episodes of the play, under the false "supernatural", there is a real feeling of being alone and young, and one thought beyond life and death.
When Chen Maidong was working overtime alone late at night, there was a "supernatural" event at this time, and a pair of hands suddenly stretched out under the head of the old man's corpse.
Such a feeling will instantly startle people, thinking that something strange has happened, but in fact, the owner of those hands is the old man and his young grandson.
Since the little boy is not as tall as the morgue, it will look a little scary.
The little boy stroked his grandmother's hair, and he felt that his grandmother was angry, so he didn't go home, in the funeral home.
When he made his grandmother angry before, he could coax his grandmother by combing her hair.
The little boy asked Chen Maidong if he could help him wake up his grandmother, promising not to make her angry again, and not to have his parents anymore.
This sentence is very tearful, this time I combed my grandmother's hair and my grandmother didn't wake up, and the child probably knew that grandma would never wake up again.
But the child's yearning for beauty still made him ask Chen Maidong.
As an appeal, I can just say that I won't make my grandmother angry anymore, but I added a sentence that I don't want my parents to be angry.
As an important occasion for the funeral of the elderly, the little boy's parents were not at the scene.
It is precisely because of his absence that he can show the sadness of the old and the young who depend on each other.
The situation of the grandfather and grandson actually corresponds to Chen Maidong's situation.
Because Chen Maidong's parents divorced when he was young, he almost never felt what father's love and mother's love were since he was a child, and the only one who was close to him was his grandmother.
On the one hand, returning to his hometown is in response to the mayor's "call for promising youth to revitalize their hometown".
On the other hand, considering that grandma is old, if she dies one day, she will be sad when she is not around.
This is why he did not go to Shanghai with his beloved girl, but chose to stay in his hometown, because his hometown and his old people need him more.
In this whole plot, whether it is a little boy or Chen Maidong.
Both tacitly did not mention death, and to the little boy, he was still young.
I don't understand what real death is, but I just feel that my grandmother has fallen into a deep sleep and can never wake up again.
As an undertaker, Chen Maidong deals with the deceased every day, so he naturally knows very well what his family members think.
Saying different things to different people is also his professional ethics as an undertaker.
The good thing about this drama is that the mortuary played by Li Xian reflects the profession of the mortuary in real life, which is very real.
The mood of taciturn and self-isolation often appears in reality, and the completion of this drama is very high.
In order to show respect for this profession, it was not roughly posed, but very delicate.
Epilogue:
"Spring Sends Lover" is not a simple idol drama, but a life drama that overrides idol dramas.
There is no depiction of the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, but more of an interpretation of emotions between people and the discussion of life and death.
The ideas that this drama wants to convey also sublimates this drama to another dimension.
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