Rhapsody of little people reveals the shortness of human nature and reveals a ray of light in life

Poster of the web drama "I Am Yu Huanshui".

A web drama with only 12 episodes, "I Am Yu Huanshui", has the meaning of "small explosion". The simplicity of the series and the accuracy of the performance are the reasons why the show retains the audience, and it is the reason why it ripples on the Internet. What triggered the first wave of traffic attention was the protagonist of the series, a small person who really "walked close to the ground".

Yu Huanshui in the play wants to maintain the dignity of his own people to middle age. However, career, family, social and other levels of dissatisfaction nine times out of ten. The playwright collects from life the predicaments that many people are accustomed to in life, and uses the method of absurd comedy to package a rhapsody of a small person. Especially in the first half of the series, it seems to spy on the lives of some middle-aged people, and predict what some young people will look like a few years later. Watching the once spirited youth being blinded by their own lies and opportunism, and by the accidents of life, how many people will have some introspective empathy.

At the end of the story, the screenwriter gives three endings. There is a dreamy epilogue of a complete reversal of work and life on the "peak of life", the openness of Yu Huanshui leaving the city, and a hidden version of him who could not be rescued due to excessive blood loss. At that moment, the creative intention of the series was ready to come out: borrowing the rhapsody of small people, revealing the shortness of human nature, and revealing a ray of light that always existed in life.

Details and acting skills complement each other, creating a living little person

If there is the selection of the most nested male protagonist of the year, Yu Huanshui can be shortlisted. His life in the first six episodes can be condensed into 16 words: "People reach middle age, do nothing, look ahead, cowardly and timid".

At work, his performance is no better than that of the apprentices he brought to the debut, and his life is not as good as that of his colleagues. There is no majesty in the family relationship, the wife has long been in the heart, only gave a good face on the day he promised to buy a car; the son also believed that the father did not learn no skills, and blurted out "My father did not know hanyu pinyin when he was criticized for how to get to primary school." In friendship, it is even more unladylike: the old friend who is commensurate with the brother owes him an old account of 130,000 yuan, and at the same time, he has fooled him several times and three times to the point of no face. Even a random outsider can play a mighty trick on his head, obviously the neighbor takes the dog to the elevator without leading the dog leash, and lets the puppy pee, but he can be intimidated into speechlessness, but it is yu Huanshui who is only promised.

Why did the man who nestled into his bones not let the audience criticize the "violation", but the topic of "everyone is Yu Huanshui" once went away? The details with the texture of life and the accurate performance of the actors together support the sense of reality and create a living little person.

There was a time when the audience collectively asked: Why are most of the "elites" in the play in groups? Among the common protagonists, corporate executives and industry leaders abound. Their plight is often associated with sky-high contracts and with industry decisions that can shake the industry at every turn.

"I Am Yu Huanshui" is rare, which breaks the real middle-aged dilemma and presents it without pretense. At the breakfast table, the child did not drink milk, is this worth the husband and wife unhappy to disperse? Usually people will answer, when the mood is low, a little thing can detonate. In the company, seeing that the time for the child to leave school is approaching, is it important to pick up the child or the business at hand? People who work diligently are afraid that they will also have to share a stall with both hands: this problem is difficult to complete. At the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet of the old man's family, the swollen face and fat man said that the red wine he brought was more valuable, how vain was this? Many people may think: This may also be something I have struggled with in my mind.

All the time and everywhere, Yu Huanshui's dilemma is not so profound, it seems to be some "sending sub-questions". But people in life will understand that the shortness of human nature will often sneak out and sneak out, just like the protagonist Guo Jingfei said, "Life, there is not so much as people are satisfactory, anyone may be the one in the cracks."

Not forgetting to retain warmth and hope when frustrated is the creator's kindness

"I Am Yu Huanshui" is based on the novel "If There Is No Tomorrow". In the original work, Yu Huanshui learned at the end that his advanced cancer was really misdiagnosed. The web drama has advanced the time point of the truth, the plot has not yet passed the halfway point, Yu Huanshui has to face the problem of "life is still long, how to live for the rest of life".

It is also commendable that the little people who reached the bottom did not counterattack with the "protagonist aura". Instead, the screenwriter devised a set of lies for him, and fell deeper and deeper into the problem. He inadvertently broke the illegal activities of the company's management, although he did not know it, but he would calculate and ponder "maybe he can knock a stroke"; he was surrounded by flower applause, which stemmed from an accident of mistakenly hitting and bumping, but as a "vested interest", he did not stand up and clarify; he also knew early on that he had been misdiagnosed, but in the face of the company's marketing methods, the hype who "will be heart to heart" confessed, he retreated again. Things get bigger and bigger under the method of absurd comedy, and finally come to an uncontrollable situation, after finding that he has lost the dual dignity of material and spiritual, Yu Huanshui begins to self-reflect, and the play also officially cuts into the drama of "redemption".

Luan Bingran, a volunteer of "hospice care", is like a ray of sunshine, shining into Yu Huanshui's life. Not forgetting to retain warmth and hope when frustrated is the creator's goodwill, and for the audience, the only beautiful character in this play is more like a guide to analyze the plot, helping Yu Huanshui also help the audience see the core of all difficulties.

Compared with the pure and innocent Luan Bingran, the male protagonist remembered what he looked like when he was young. More than a decade ago, he was also thriving and ambitious for the future. But a car accident, and the lies he told because of it, rewrote his world, his heart. The so-called "poor people must have something to hate", Yu Huanshui's encounter is actually not entirely attributed to "the impermanence of the world", lies are the fatal wounds. When entrepreneurship can start again and life can be restarted, a "little lie that is not worth it" snowballs and triggers the endless absurdity of life, which is the cause of the real tragedy. And Luan Bingran's arrival was like a ray of sunshine shining into his already dark inner heart, determined to "live again", giving this little person the biggest counterattack drive.

As for the shortness of the human nature satirized by the other characters in the play, it is also thought-provoking after a farce: some are the self-questioning of "how important it is to always tell the truth", some are the life alarm bells of "on the issue of principle, we must not make mistakes", and more are the soul torture of "how to choose between interests and nobility". Fast-paced life, more and more such problems become unnoticed. At this moment, Yu Huanshui came with a question, leaving three answers, nothing more than letting you and me in front of the screen look at themselves and ask - what is the life I am pursuing.

The song ends with the dispersal and life goes on. If the difficulties of Yu Huanshui's first half have resonated with many people, then the four words of "re-living" at the end may give many middle-aged people the courage to change their way of life. Wang Yan, chief reporter of this newspaper