Kafka's "Metamorphosis" is deformed by the male protagonist, from a human to a beetle; while "Metamorphosis", which was once a popular variety show, is a weekly role swap between urban and rural children.
The first few seasons of the show just aired, and also received a lot of tears of true feelings from the audience.
Up to now, more than a dozen seasons have been updated, and the audience knows that variety shows will also have routines and scripts, and this show has gradually lost its splash.
In fact, the original intention of the program group is good, and the metamorphosis has such a sentence in the plot summary of Douban: "Psychology believes that experience is the best way for people to achieve mutual understanding." ”
It was meant to sow the seeds of goals and dreams for children in the mountains, but in the end it was criticized as a "game of the rich".
In the show, a boy named Dong Jianjian said: "Originally I could have lived like that all along, but you wanted to let me know what life is like in the city."
"I could have endured the darkness if I hadn't seen the sun"
Many people may not know that "Metamorphosis" has reached its nineteenth season, and it is not an exaggeration to call it the longest-lived reality show in China.
Some netizens in Douban said that the latest two seasons of "Metamorphosis" will no longer deliberately create conflicts like before.
But no one cares about that anymore.
Looking back at these more than a dozen seasons of "Metamorphosis", the city protagonists who are also active in front of the big screen, in addition to Li Hongyi and Yang Tong, there are also "true incense" stems that everyone likes to use (from Wang Jingze), and some people are on the hot search with various negative news.
The protagonist from the countryside, after the show, the heat is gone.
If you want to see the so-called "counterattack" script in these people, there are probably only 3 people who meet this condition.
They are Gao Zhanxi, Luo Xianwang and Chen Yulin.
Gao Zhanxi is the protagonist of "Metamorphosis" in "Network Change", and the program team's introduction to him and Qu Weicheng is as follows:
He, a teenager in Changsha, did not cherish the prosperity of life, lost interest in schooling, and went out in a daze in the Internet café day and night. He, Qinghai Village, complains about his family's poverty and hopes to conquer the city through reading, but faces the crisis of dropping out of school.
The father is blind, the mother is sick, and the younger brother is young.
Gao Zhanxi knows that only reading can change his destiny, and the reality is that his family cannot afford to go to high school.
Because "Metamorphosis" was able to contact Gao Zhanxi in the bustling city in advance, it did not fall into the big net of the world of flowers and flowers as the audience imagined, but because "the wheat was ripe", it wanted to go home early.
Gao Zhanxi can be said to be the most sober protagonist in the "Metamorphosis" program group.
After successfully advancing to school, Gao Zhanxi was admitted to Hunan Normal University and became a national defense student.
Luo Xianwang is the protagonist of "Love in the Distant Mountains" of "Metamorphosis", and he walks for more than an hour to go to school every day.
After coming to the city, he said that his dream was:
Be a teacher in our village, let the people in our village have culture, and then go out of the mountains.
He was 12 years old when he said this.
Luo Xianwang really realized his dream, majoring in geography and environment at Guizhou Normal University, and became a high school geography teacher after graduation.
Chen Yulin, also from Guizhou, is the protagonist of "The Inseparable Net" in "Metamorphosis".
He studied software engineering at Beijing University of Technology and is now a programmer.
We care about the current situation of these people, and sometimes we just want to hear a counterattack story similar to the male protagonist of a fantasy novel, from a sick and weak rookie to a generation of masters.
But, as Dickinson's little poem "If I Hadn't Seen the Sun," says, "I could have endured the darkness if I hadn't seen the sun."
The impact of Metamorphosis on rural and urban protagonists is not necessarily positive or positive.
Some urban protagonists have gone astray after gaining fame and fortune, and some rural protagonists have been ostracized by their classmates after the recording of the program.
Like Gao Zhanxi and Chen Yulin, after all, only a few people have gone out of the mountains through reading and avoided dropping out of school early to work, and more people have actually returned to the established trajectory, dropping out of school, working, getting married and having children.
For example, Wang Jiyan, the protagonist of "The Call of the Mountains and the Sea" of "Metamorphosis", served as the male protagonist of the movie "Rolling Lala's Gun" after the show ended.
The film was shortlisted for the Berlin Film Festival, and Wang Ji flew to Berlin to attend the award ceremony.
But After graduating from junior high school, Wang Jiqi dropped out of school to work outside the home, working as a coolie in a stone slab factory in 2011 and a general worker in a rubber factory in Shenzhen in 2014.
In June 2014, the crew of "Metamorphosis" found him to participate in the filming of the ninth season, and the city protagonists of the ninth season included Li Hongyi and Chen Peiwen.
In 2019, "In the Human World" filmed the recent situation of Wang Jiqi, who returned to Miaozhai to marry and have children and live a pastoral life.
The final life trajectory of the rural protagonist is mostly similar to That of Wang Jifang.
Can the weak become the strong?
Hong Kong also has a "life swap" variety show called "The Rich and the Poor" called "The Rich and the Poor" at the beginning of the show, and the rich Man Tian Beichen will say at the beginning of the show that "even the weak can become the strong".
He experienced the profession of sanitation worker in the program, and after less than 2 days of experience, Tian Beichen's idea completely changed:
I've only been thinking about eating for the past two days, and I don't have any hope at all. I don't want anything and work hard just to eat a good meal. How can you plan for next week, next year, and what will happen in the future? The most important thing is to settle for the next meal.
Therefore, there is no need to criticize why the rural protagonist of "Metamorphosis" and why most people did not change their fate through reading as we imagined after participating in the show.
In their family environment, you may not be able to do better than them.
The so-called counterattack is just a betel nut-like pleasure for the viewer to give himself a bite, and it will be gone.
Compared with taking the road of crime like some urban protagonists, most of those "rural children" have learned to run fast from trembling and majestic walking.
Hopefully, after these people have seen the light, their next generation will no longer have to endure the darkness.
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