Midlife crisis has always been a favorite proposition in film and television works. "Lost in Tokyo", "A Glass of Wine", "Weather Forecaster", "People on the Road". Whether it is domestic or foreign, there are always directors who focus on the confused living conditions of this type of group. Or presented in an absurd way, or rendered with a sad story, so as to give the audience reflection and warning.
Today, Diandian wants to introduce you to a special mid-life crisis work, not an absurd technique, nor a sad story rendering. Instead, it adopts the narrative strategy of "sand sculpture reversal" to make the audience think in laughter.
In this story, the audience can see the hard life path of middle-aged social animals, and can also feel the vagaries of life and the impermanence of the world.
Title: "Life i-Word Road".
Tokyo, Japan.
An ordinary middle-aged man works in an ordinary company. The work status is not good, and the family relationship is not good.
When the dinner table talks about her career while handing the wine glass to her wife, the wife will not take it and fill it, but will indulge in buying shirts in the second-hand market.
When the wife was on a business trip, she said that she had a smooth wind, but in fact, the most worrying thing was never the safety of the River, but the thousands of instructions: "Remember to fight the money back." ”
In other words, other grumpy men have long been angry and chose to divorce their wives. But Hu Jiang is not a grumpy man, nor is he qualified to be a grumpy man.
Under the heavy pressure of life, he has become a "greasy" middle-aged man. Willing to abandon all bottom lines for life.
Take, for example, the layoffs of a company.
When in front of his subordinates, the Attitude of the HunJiang faction dares to complain about anything: What is a leader? I'm not afraid. But when the leader really called Hu Jiang to the office to inform the layoffs, Hu Jiang instantly knelt down and cried: "I have old and young, don't fire me!" ”
The degree of brazenness stunned the audience.
As mentioned in the middle of the article, the biggest feature of "Life i-Word Road" is the narrative strategy of "sand sculpture reversal".
The sand sculpture style can be seen in the exaggerated setting of "kneeling and begging the boss not to fire himself", and the reversal is reflected in the working state of Theo River after being demoted and assigned to Asura City.
Asura is a particularly chaotic city, full of homeless people,, gangsters, and bad teenage people who smoke marijuana.
Hu Jiang is responsible for publicizing the gangsters, but carelessly prints the propaganda number incorrectly. Fortunately, the big guy and Yan Yuexi said that as long as Hu Jiang could give five million, he would be released. But The River is poor, and he has not even paid off his own mortgage. How is it possible to put together 5 million for the gangsters? In desperation, Hu Jiang had to turn into a little brother of the underworld and help the gang boss work to repay the money.
Here comes the twist.
——After several days of psychological preparation, He jiang was mentally prepared to convince himself to do the bad work of "stealing chickens and dogs to kill people without blinking", but in the end he only received a simple task of raising dogs.
Not to mention the dots off the screen, even the Fox River on the screen is full of question marks, and I can't understand what kind of strange development this is...
The role of 狛江 is played by "Japanese Shen Teng" Muro Yi. Representative works include "I Am Big Brother", "Infinity Double Dragon", "Big Love: And You Who Forgot Me", "ReprintEd Out" and so on...
There are not many starring works, in recent years, only "Big Love: With You Who Will Forget Me" and the recent "Life i-Word Road", but there are countless cameos and is one of the most intimate actors in the hearts of Japanese drama fans.
In "Life i-Word Road", Muro Yi vividly interprets the emotions of "adults have suffering and can't say". Whether it is the expression of the wife's eyes, or the slight trembling of the body when facing the boss and the gangster, it creates the image of a middle-aged man with flesh and blood who constantly strives for life.
In addition to the sand sculpture plot and unexpected reversals, "Life i- Road" also has a very touching point for the audience, that is, the series' control of the details of life and the description of marriage and family life.
During the meal, his wife did not help Hu Jiang to refill the wine glass, but Hu Jiang was not angry. Because he blamed himself: he was not capable enough to earn enough money, so that his wife could only look for clothes in the second-hand market. It was his guilt.
Then there was the warm section when working in the Asura Room where "Big Health Services Bloom Everywhere".
He works at the Wen printing agency and recently collaborated with a client who invited him to go to Big Health. But the pure-hearted Hu Jiang did not want to betray his wife and insisted that he would not go.
Love is diluted by the tired life, but it does not disappear into the tired life, which is the softest emotion in "Life i-Word Road" and its most touching existence.
Recommend everyone to read this story.
There are all kinds of unexpected sand sculpture bridge sections, there are also confusion that belongs to the mid-life crisis, and the stability and softness of middle-aged love.
In the end, a variety of emotions come together to become the most unpredictable life.
You can feel all the emotions you want to feel and find all the answers you want to find at the same time.