Hello everyone, I'm Ma Xiangyu.
I have to say that Korean dramas in recent years are very grounded.
Some time ago, Xiangyu recommended "Postpartum Conditioning Institute" to everyone.
The drama confronts the shame of maternal childbirth with a dramatic treatment, which can be called a human reality.
In a witty way, it raises sharp questions about the institutionalized motherhood.
It not only expresses concern for women's lives, but also focuses on thinking about the actual situation of women.
Shortly after the end of "Postpartum Conditioning Institute", another Korean drama continued to exert its strength.
He set his sights on the new identity that comes with women after marriage - daughter-in-law.
From strangers to family, what kind of real problems will they face?
"Daughter-in-law"
a daughter-in-law
The pair of handsome men and women on the poster are very eye-catching.
The heroine is played by Park Ha-suan.
She just played the childcare mother in the popular Korean drama "Postpartum Conditioning Hospital", and in the blink of an eye, she played a wife and daughter-in-law in "Daughter-in-law".
The male protagonist is played by Quan Lu.
With a good appearance, he has always appeared in Korean dramas as a green leaf, and this time he finally took on the role of male number one.
The web series is produced by KakaoM and directed by female director Lee Kwang Young.
Adapted from the popular webcomic of the same name that has been serialized on Instagram and Facebook since 2017.
Although it was only a small cost production, it was well received as soon as it was broadcast.
The Douban score is as high as 8.5.
Although the series focuses on the identity of "daughter-in-law", it does not exaggerate the relationship between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of dog blood.
Avoid becoming an exaggerated mother-in-law tearing X dog blood ethics drama.
Many viewers called it the web drama version of "Jin Zhiying Born in 1982".
The heroine Min Si-yong (park Ha-moon) and her boyfriend came together because of fate.
Know and love each other, and enter the palace of marriage together.
At the wedding scene, everything went according to the normal process.
However, during the oath-taking session, the priest's words stunned Si Ling:
"Whether you are happy or sad, do you want to be a daughter-in-law?"
daughter-in-law?!?!
Si Ling looked at her husband next to her at a loss, and then looked back at her mother and mother-in-law.
Then, confusedly, he nodded.
Since then, her identity has been in addition to being the wife of her husband;
She also became the daughter-in-law of the in-laws.
Life after marriage is as always.
The day before her mother-in-law's birthday, she and her husband arrived at her in-laws' house early after work.
Not long ago, she received a reminder from her sister-in-law.
On your birthday, you need to be early and prepare a rich breakfast.
When I came to my mother-in-law's house, the atmosphere was still warm.
But Si Ling couldn't feel as comfortable as he was in his own home.
The mother-in-law took out a cantaloupe and prepared to entertain them.
Before Si Ling could take a break, he took over the task of cutting the fruit.
The mother-in-law said two polite words, and then turned to leave.
However, she was spoiled by her parents from childhood to adulthood, and she only ate and cut well, never cut herself, and could only ask for help from the almighty network.
Before the whole family could talk a few words, the mother-in-law noticed her tired son.
She was so distressed that she asked her son to hurry up and rest.
But he pulled Si Liang, who had also been on a day's shift, to chat endlessly about the sky.
Si Ling could only pinch his thighs hard to listen to his mother-in-law Barabala talk about his son's glorious history.
The next day, before dawn, she had to get up early.
No one in the whole family got up to help her.
After all the meals were ready, the husband, father-in-law, mother-in-law, and sister-in-law came out one after another.
The mother-in-law was very happy, took out her mobile phone and took a wild shot, and she was also full of praise for Si Ling.
However, such praise and enthusiasm are only superficial.
The family at the dinner table chatted feverishly, but they were all topics she couldn't get into.
After eating, the whole family sat happily eating the fruit she had cut, but she stood in the sink facing the pile of rice bowls.
Although the task of washing dishes was done out of courtesy, the people sitting there were all at ease.
The mother-in-law was just a simple courtesy, and did not really want her to let go of the work at hand.
"Just wash it."
Her husband, who would bring her kelp soup on her birthday before marriage, also learned the skill of automatic divination after marriage.
Typical short man in action, giant in speech.
Not only did he not understand Si Liang's hard work to help her, but he also said that he thanked her for her dedication to his parents.
When Si Ling finished washing the dishes, the fruit she had painstakingly cut was only a few pieces of kiwi fruit.
No one thought about leaving her fruit.
I heard my mother-in-law say embarrassedly, "Ah, there is no thought."
She also had to play round and say that she didn't like to eat kiwi fruit, so her mother-in-law didn't care.
But at this time, the mother-in-law raised her fork and forked a piece of kiwi fruit directly to Si Ling's mouth:
"Don't waste it, we'll eat one at a time."
this...... alas!
This daughter-in-law transition period made Si Ling feel tired.
Talking to colleagues about these things, everyone expressed dissatisfaction with going to the in-laws' house to become a "nanny" in order to make a good impression.
However, everyone will still replace their mother-in-law as soon as they need to work.
But is it really normal to take all of this for granted?
For such a mother-in-law, or for such a mother-in-law, many people will be angry and roll their eyes.
Thinking that the mother-in-law herself has come all the way from the daughter-in-law period, why has it become like this?
This made Xiangyu can't help but think of the writer Zhao Nanzhu's writing in "Jin Zhiying Born in 82":
"This society seems to have changed a lot, but a closer look at the internal rules and conventions will reveal that it is still stuck in the old habits." 」
It's not just the men in the family who don't take this seriously.
Even the mother-in-law who had experienced all this did not perceive anything wrong in her words.
At the official birthday dinner that night, the sister-in-law's attitude shocked Si Ling.
The sister-in-law (the husband's sister) kicks a step there as soon as she opens.
By praising Si Ling for a sumptuous meal made in the morning, he was weird to the sister-in-law's yin and yang.
Who knows, the eldest sister-in-law Yun smiled lightly and replied:
"The children didn't do anything, it was the younger sister who had just entered the door who did it themselves." Where in the world is there such a truth?"
Then the mother-in-law pointed out her future delivery.
Say no matter what, you have to give birth naturally.
He also said that he could not let his son go in to accompany the birth, and that scene was afraid that his son would not see it well.
When she heard these words, the sister-in-law had been eating by herself.
Until the mother-in-law chased after her, she tried to suppress the negative emotions and smiled and replied:
"We'll discuss this ourselves, thank you."
It turned out that the sister-in-law had already begun to fight against the underlying traditional rules.
When she first entered the house, she only said a few words of greeting, and then she was asked by her mother-in-law whether she had any casual clothes.
The meaning could not be clearer: this meal, the two of them came to cook.
What about everyone else?
The father-in-law and the uncle want to drink and chat; the sister-in-law and brother who are ready to go out will not do anything; the mother-in-law is even more reluctant to let her son be too tired and let him go back to the house to rest.
"You're going too far!"
After the sister-in-law finished speaking, she got up and left directly.
It's not that she doesn't want to work, she just wants her in-laws to know that she didn't just come to work as a daughter-in-law.
At this point, she and her husband have already made an agreement.
If they don't want to replicate the old traditions, they have to cross this hurdle.
Marriage seems to be a matter of two people.
But life is about two families.
Perhaps in the eyes of some people, this is just a short parent.
But this undoubtedly also reveals a dangerous signal.
Traditional ethical relationships and values are based on male subjects.
In the family structure of East Asian societies, patriarchy has always dominated.
Inequality is pervasive in the "take for granted" that we take for granted.
Oppression has long been hidden in women's social roles.
A woman who grows up in a patriarchal society can only ultimately copy the tragedy to the next generation of women.
With the evolution of gender concepts, this is also destined to be a dialectical self-awakening for women.
Xiangyu has always believed:
The existing operating rules of mankind, which are based on male subjects, will eventually be redefined.
And this seemingly inconspicuous parent is also one of them.