As the pinnacle of Chinese sitcoms, "The Tale of Wulin", which was released 15 years ago, not only became popular with Yan Ni, Sha Yi, Yao Chen and other actors, but also became a meal and hypnosis drama that netizens still enjoy.
In fact, in addition to being funny, the screenwriter Ning Caishen obviously has greater ambitions. In "The Tale of Wulin", Ning Caishen painstakingly built the Town of Seven Heroes into a paradise where the road is not left behind and the house is not closed at night, which is far from the core of the imperial court and has become a world of its own.
The government and the catcher enforce the law impartially and do not favor personal feelings; beggars and merchants can also get along harmoniously and enjoy themselves. As for the main location of the story, the Tongfu Inn, it was even more beaten into a migrant worker's paradise.
The employees inside, although the salary is not high, but all kinds of medical security and welfare are indeed available, although it is an inn, it is more like the public ownership organization of Shuipo Liangshan that "has blessings and sharing, and there are difficulties".
The background of this story setting is exactly what we call a utopian perfect setting, where everything is running in an orderly manner, and everyone is doing their own work step by step. Although there will occasionally be competition and disputes between each other, most of them are benign.
However, behind the perfect story setting, it also exposes the cruel truth about love.
Some time ago, the Neptune Xiang Si woke up the incident, the Internet made a lot of noise, the lower limit is simply stunned jaw, in addition to pedaling multiple boats at the same time, but also behind his boyfriend and other people engaged, to put it bluntly, just for a "money" word.
In "The Tale of Wulin", in the highly perfect utopian world, there is a very contrasting contrast between one thing and it, that is, love.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" >1, Bai Zhantang, and Tong Xiangyu</h1>
In the "Tale of Wulin", Bai Zhantang, whose original name was Bai Yutang, was a well-known "thief saint", and his mother was an undercover agent of the six doors of the imperial court, because he grew up with the "thief god" Ji Wusheng, so he inadvertently embarked on the road of theft. Fortunately, the heart is good, and the essence is not bad.
Tong Xiangyu was a proper "rich second generation", as the Qianjin of the Hanzhong Longmen Dart Bureau, and was engaged to Mo Xiaobao, the leader of the Hengshan Sect, from an early age. The two agreed that Mo Xiaobao would come to the Seven Heroes Town to receive relatives, but they did not wait for a long time, but only waited for their sister-in-law Mo Xiaobei, bringing bad news.
In desperation, Tong Xiangyu, who did not want to return to Hanzhong, could only rent Lü Xiucai's Shangru Inn and rename it Tongfu Inn. At the same time, Bai ZhanTang, who abandoned evil and followed good, was hired to become an inn running hall.
In the love setting of Bai Zhantang and Tong Xiangyu, Tong Xiangyu can be described as "love at first sight" for Bai Zhantang, but Bai Zhantang's attitude is always in a vague and ambiguous attitude, and the fundamental reason lies in Tong Xiangyu's "widow" identity.
Although there is no cave house, Tong Xiangyu is a proper married widow. Therefore, Bai Zhantang has always had a lukewarm attitude towards Tong Xiangyu.
In episode 13, when Bai Zhantang's finger was injured, in the face of Tong Xiangyu falling down to take care of himself, Bai Zhantang just faded back a sentence: "You are okay, what is the matter with me." ”
In episode 59, Tong Xiangyu pretends to fall, just to hear a few words of Bai Zhantang's true words.
On the other hand, Bai Zhantang not only broke the connection with the exhibition red aya lotus that was obsessed with himself, but also often chose to escape from Tong Xiangyu's desire for further requirements and actions. From this, we can find that the biggest obstacle that straddles between Bai Zhantang and Tong Xiangyu is identity.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="18" >2, Guo Furong, and Lu Xiucai</h1>
Guo Furong's father is Guo Juxia, a powerful figure in the capital, so Guo Furong, who has studied martial arts with her father for several years since childhood, has always wanted to break into the rivers and lakes alone and break into a world in order to prove to others that she does not live under the aura of her father. However, because there is no distinction between right and wrong, it eventually becomes a small miscellaneous servant of the Tongfu Inn.
Lü Xiucai, whose original name was Lü Qinghou, was a descendant of the local prefect of Qixia Town, who repeatedly failed to pass the examination, belonging to the typical nerd, and he could only sell his ancestral property Tongfu Inn to Tong Xiangyu.
The love between Lü Xiucai and Guo Furong is purely because of a word from the fortune teller, before that, Guo Furong had always liked to catch Fast Yan Xiaoliu. After the two are together, the relationship is relatively harmonious, the man is not married, and there is no problem of identity gap.
However, when Guo Furong first went home to visit her relatives, Lu Xiucai and Bai Zhantang's sister Zhu Wushuang came together, calling it "spare tire", and finally forced to stage a scene of love and enemy fighting. Although Guo Furong won in the end, it was only because of the reason of coming first, lu Xiucai still remembered to wish peerless good.
For Guo Furong and Lu Xiucai, the biggest obstacle between them is distance.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="24" >3, Li Dazui, and Yang Huilan</h1>
Li Dazui, whose original name was Li Xiulian, was the head catcher of Qixia Town and the nephew of Louzhi County of Qixia Town before becoming the cook of Tongfu Inn. He did not have a high salary, and when he first met Yang Huilan, he fell in love with her at first sight.
In contrast, Yang Huilan's identity is more ordinary, from the beginning of the competition to recruit relatives, the purpose is to marry into the rich. To this end, he even joined the "kitchen knife door", and finally got his wish and married Du Zijun, the richest man in Guanzhong.
In the relationship between Li Dazui and Yang Huilan, Li Dazui obviously made a great contribution, in order to satisfy Yang Huilan, Li Dazui even went into debt, and has been waiting for him bitterly, but Li Dazui can't give Yang Huilan the life he wants, which is why the two can't come together in the end.
For Li Dazui and Yang Huilan, like the Xiang Si awakening Sea King incident, what crossed them was money.
As the psychologist Fromm puts it, in fact, love and marriage follow the same principle of equal exchange as commodities. This has not changed even under such a perfect utopian setting of "Wulin Gaiden". This has also become one of the cruelest truths of love.
In other words, when we go back to "The Tale of Wulin" 15 years later, we find the truth of love that Ning Caishen wants to try to expose. In other words, the more perfect the utopian setting, the more brutal the truth seems.