Two years ago.
There is a Taiwan drama that is a blockbuster -
The first broadcast broke the record, and the number of views of the premiere exceeded that of "The Distance Between Us and Evil", and incidentally set the best ratings of Huashi in 13 years.
The attitude of opening high and walking high, even won the Golden Bell Award for mini-series.
It is also hot on the mainland side.
Tencent, Youku and iQiyi mainstream video platforms are vying for introduction, with a Douban score of 9.1.
Two years later.
The much-anticipated sequel is finally here.
Only one episode, Douban opened a score soared to 9.6, with strength to prove -
The sequel to the blockbuster, or the blockbuster.
The Cultivation of Ordinary Women 2
Why is "The Cultivation of Ordinary Women" (hereinafter referred to as "Common Girls") so popular?
It comes from a resonance.
A universal resonance of individuals struggling to find a way out under the dislocation of self-growth and social expectations.
In human terms —
How do we confront the world?
The first season tells the story of an ordinary woman growing up.
The protagonist, Chen Jialing (Xie Yingxuan), was raised to be a lady, but accidentally grew into a "common girl".
"Vulgar woman" is a female image that does not meet the expectations of society.
Like Chen Jialing, she not only has no car, no house and no marriage, but also lost her job and achieved nothing in her life.
But the victory lies in the strong vitality, and when it comes to collisions, we must also insist on ourselves.
The second season is about the changes in friendship, love and affection after she slowly accepts that she is a common girl.
This season, Chen Jialing finally has a home - transformed from a haunted house bought at a low price
So, starting from the transformation of the haunted house, at the age of 40, she opened a new chapter in the second half of the life of a lay woman.
She can't do a lot of things, but she doesn't accept defeat, but she has to do it herself.
The result is a mess...
Either fell, or was stabbed in the honeycomb, or accidentally injured himself and went to the hospital...
Therefore, the theme of the two seasons of "Common Girl" is that they are -
Learn to accept your imperfect self.
In addition to Chen Jialing's own character charm, the success of "Common Girl" lies in the fact that it portrays the entire family group portrait very vividly and interestingly.
Like Grandma, when she is old, she still participates in singing competitions, and she sings well.
But the family saw that she was very excited, and they did not want to hit her, so they had to encourage her half-coaxed and half-deceived.
Maybe she knew she wasn't singing well, but she still stood on that stage.
That was what Chen Jialing realized later:
Grandma was going to sing to someone, and that person was herself.
There is also Chen Jialing's mother, which became a major tear point at the beginning of the second part.
Chen Jialing and her mother can be said to have quarreled from the first part to the second part.
The two often wrestle wits.
Her mother wouldn't let her watch TV, she sneaked in when her mother wasn't at home, and Grandpa helped her with the wind.
When my mother came back and touched the TV, she knew she had peeked at the TV.
For a while, she found a long-distance cram school for Chen Jialing.
Before leaving, prepare a note for her with instructions on where to get off and how to get back in the car.
Although her mother verbally asked her to learn to be independent, she actually waited at the station early in the morning for her to finish school.
As a result, Chen Jialing, the daredevil, really sat at the station because of dozing, and her mother had to follow the bus all the way.
As soon as she got out of the car, she started to output wildly:
Are you just going to squat here stupidly?
Didn't I tell you? The road is long on the mouth
You didn't meet an aunt just now, why didn't you ask her
Chen Jialing, who was young, did not understand this painstaking heart.
She only felt that this harsh and harsh mother who had to control everything was "fake."
When she grew up, her mother still managed her.
She had a crush on a "haunted house" and wanted to make it her own.
Mom asked the feng shui master to go to her house to "cast off demons and exorcise demons."
She looked at a light-colored sofa, and her mother felt that it was easy to get dirty, so she secretly changed another set for her.
-Orderer Wu Xiuqin, is it you?
- Yes, it's my mom
The mother-daughter relationship is evident through these small everyday things, but it also reflects the differences between the two generations.
Mom loved her in her own way all the time.
In the first part, before Chen Jialing went to Taipei to study, the two mothers and daughters had a cold war for a while.
Dad recorded a video for her, all kinds of advice, mom is duplicitous and said she didn't want to record. At night, he secretly set up a camera and prepared a large box of daily necessities to send to her.
Although her mother seems to dislike Chen Jialing, she actually cares about her the most.
Not necessarily "correct", but the most intense.
For example, cook her a variety of soups in the form of shapes.
Eat brain tonic brain, red ginseng to replenish blood, earth lice to supplement eyes...
For example, in order to welcome the middle school, she took her daughter to cut her hair, and obviously said that she would only cut "a little".
As a result, it becomes "billion points"...
But only mom remembers her birthday the most, what she loves to eat, what she loves to do, what she is most afraid of...
The one who knows her daughter best is always her mother.
It's great to have a shot.
Chen Jialing changed the sofa selected by her mother back to the original light-colored sofa, and the result was too big to enter the door at all.
Mom has been nagging, Dad is doing peace on the side, provoking an irritable Chen Jialing suddenly angry:
You all don't care about my business anymore.
As Chen Jialing came out of the frame, the camera was aimed at her parents and then turned to the direction of their gaze——
A Chen Jialing in a school uniform.
No matter how old the child is, in the eyes of the parents, it is always a small child.
This clumsy love is the most precious.
There is also his younger brother Chen Jiaming.
After Chen Jiaming coldly announced that he "likes men", what was even more unexpected was his mother's answer:
It's my own son anyway, and I'm supposed to stand with him, aren't I
Sometimes I also think that he has lived to be thirty years old, so old that he does not dare to tell others, and it is also very hard
I also wanted to tell him, Amin, in fact, Mom knows that you are not alone
Dad was stunned at first and couldn't accept it, but slowly he began to understand.
At the scene of Jiaming's boyfriend's confession, he specially prepared a remark and wrote it on the letter paper:
Amin, Dad is sorry for you
Since Jin Dexing handed it over to you, I can't help you do anything...
The simple companionship and understanding between the family always makes the audience laugh and laugh and cry.
And this emotional switch lies in the delicacy of this kind of life.
Even if we don't end up being the kind of children our parents expect, their love won't diminish.
Like Chen Jialing, didn't she insist on her own opinion in the end?
Choose to live in a "haunted house", choose the light-colored sofa that is easy to get dirty, choose not to get married for a while and not have children...
The imperfect Chen Jialing is the real winner in life.
Her greatest fortune is that she has a family that tolerates her mistakes.
The reason why the audience feels healed is because we will unconsciously substitute for Chen Jialing's life.
In the process of growing up stumbling, there is noisy but loving affection, there is a sparkling friendship, and there is also a love that is budding.
The person closest to her can make willful decisions, can be wild, and then grow up well.
Life is hard, society is cold.
But her heart was always warm, and she was not afraid of anything.
In Uncle Meat's view, "Vulgar Girl 2" is more extreme than 1.
It presents the growth experiences of adult Chen Jialing and child Chen Jialing with parallel time and space clips.
Let adulthood and childhood intertwine like intertextuality, outlining a more complete Chen Jialing.
Half of her life, it seems that she will never understand why it is so difficult to be a woman.
I remember when I was a child, naïve she asked the women at home with this germinating doubt:
Is it really not as good as being a woman?
As a result, Grandma and Mom replied with a rare brush and determination: No.
There is a scene in the trailer:
Xiao Chen Jialing had the first menstrual period, she thought it was hemorrhoids, and she was depressed for a long time.
Later, the women in the family told her that it was menstruation, which was the sign that she had become a woman.
From a girl to a woman, she stumbled every step.
The first part buried a hook, and the ex-boyfriend Jiang Xianrong is getting married.
They said goodbye.
As a result, at the beginning of the second part, Chen Jialing was holding a child at a loss and muttered:
Daddy, where's Daddy?
Jiang Xianrong ran over, picked up the child, and then began to tease her.
Chen Jialing looked at him full of fatherly love, and her eyes were full of complexity:
It's not the same when you're a dad
Chen Jialing and Jiang Xianrong, reunited?
Nonono, this is Jiang Xianrong after marriage, and has already had children.
He appeared in front of Chen Jialing:
Do you think I'm a lot like that type of male dad Beckham, do you?
This scene is a bit of a black humor.
Jiang Xianrong, marrying and having children at the right age, this means the direction of life under the standard clock of society.
His leisurely self-sufficiency reflects the various untimely embarrassments of 40-year-old Chen Jialing.
And this kind of embarrassment will bother her for a while—
For example, I want to have children, but I find that my age has various conditions.
"Sex" can't get up, and when making out with a boyfriend, it's stiff like a robot.
Physical functions begin to move towards menopause, and it may even be impossible to have children and so on.
My temper will get worse and worse
Sweating in the middle of the night, the skin getting thicker and thicker, and the voice getting lower and lower
It can be seen that Chen Jialing in "Common Girl 2" will usher in a more violent storm.
Fortunately, this ordinary and extraordinary "vulgar" woman has always had the courage to turn over.
Just as Jiang Xianrong, who was posed, said to her, "Don't hurry to have one yet", she instantly showed calmness and disdain.
No, the second half of my life has only just begun
Yeah, 40 years old? What about 50 years old?
Like Chen Jialing, if it is her own choice of life, then "vulgar" does not matter at all.
As the lead actor:
After the Golden Horse Shadow, Xie Yingxuan.
It can be said that the main actor and the protagonist have been completely integrated.
In the interview, Xie Yingxuan also mentioned a "Chen Jialing moment" in her life:
I don't know why my life seems to be so easy to go to the toilet and be opened. Once I went on a tour outside, I was also opened, and then I was sitting and squatting, so I was facing the girl, and as soon as I was opened, she was aaaaah, and then there was no intention of closing the door
Falling generously exposed his embarrassing moments to the public, which was vulgar enough, and also made the shadow queen instantly catch the ground.
It is worthy of the lineup that the director asked for back, and she is too suitable for the role of Chen Jialing.
The actuation with a bit of neuroticism and grandeur is a good interpretation of the heroine's character who is often frantically tempted between self-confidence and self-abandonment.
And this kind of self-uncertainty caused by the social environment also exists in many women.
There is also a precious natural aging in her. (non-pejorative)
I don't know if you have found that many domestic dramas must buy a type of hot search now, that is, "starring xxx state".
Click in, and praise the state of a certain elderly actress is very good-
There are no wrinkles, the skin is supple, and it looks "white and thin".
Including many big female lead dramas, under the slogan of "independence and autonomy", the appearance must be blessed with exquisite makeup and clothing.
Dirty clothes say throw away
There's an old saying that goes like this: the more you lack something, the more you show it.
The female theme blindly uses appearance and material to concave the superficial "independence and strength", which precisely reflects this anxiety and uneasiness.
In contrast, "Common Girl 2", this is exactly where it is rare -
The heroine is "old".
The camera even unabashedly approached her, and we could clearly see her obvious wrinkles and neck lines, and there were also looming dark circles under her eyes.
Completely get rid of the cookie-cutter pseudo-refinement of the Internet celebrity aesthetic.
Every girl is a unique existence in the world, isn't it?
This trace of life on Xie Yingxuan's body, the real personality, adds charm to the character all the time.
You are willing to believe that she is you.
She is absolutely qualified to represent every ordinary girl.
This also makes the character's struggle, clumsiness and resistance more convincing:
Restraint and helplessness in the face of children.
Living with my parents, I was suddenly embarrassed to be caught in the middle of myself dancing.
In order to decorate the house, she was able to do all kinds of tricks, and as a result, she was sent to the hospital three or four times, causing the doctor to think that she was abused by the family... Social death.
This kind of truth makes her more cute with many shortcomings.
yes.
Having flaws is not terrible.
The terrible thing is that you hate yourself more than others.
For "The Cultivation of Ordinary Women", I can come up with a hundred kinds of exaggerations.
But the most praiseworthy thing is the "role model" value of this work that extends from the inside of the story to the outside of the story, and the protagonist and the main actor are practicing it.
A woman who dares to grow old, dares to be herself, and dares to be imperfect.
What could be more powerful than her?
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