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A few days ago, "Xiao Min Jia" ended.
Douban score dropped from 7.5 at the beginning to 6.2 at the end.
Along with it, there are all kinds of abuse such as "dog blood", "rotten tail" and "melodramatic".
Huang Lei personally cooked a bowl of chicken soup for middle-aged people, which finally became hard to swallow.
In fact, the signs of rollover have long been hidden in the casual questioning of netizens:
"Huang Lei has no formal job? 」
"Don’t these people need to worry about buying a house? 」
……
Indeed, middle-aged people can have the right to romance, just like the "underground love" between Huang Lei and Zhou Xun at the beginning.
But …
When romance is divorced from the foundation of reality, you will find that there are too many slots to stand scrutiny.
Xiaomin’s home. Whose home is it?
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If middle-aged people have no money and time, it will lead to anxiety;
It is melodramatic to say that you are unhappy when you have money and leisure.
Xiaomin’s Home succeeded in being melodramatic.
Liu Xiaomin, a 43-year-old divorced single woman, was asked by her mother to marry a man she didn’t like.
After the divorce, her son was awarded to her ex-husband. At the age of 30, she left nothing, and she came to Beijing to drift in the north alone until now …
The front foot sounds distressing, but you will find the back foot:
Liu Xiaomin is the chief nurse of a large hospital. She also got a Beijing hukou and owns a two-bedroom and one-bedroom house in Beijing’s Fourth Ring Road.
She is intellectual, calm and elegant, and her life is moist. She didn’t hesitate about her son’s tuition fee of 120 thousand a year.
Is an audience overrated:
"Seeing the tuition fee of 120,000 yuan a year in counseling institutions, I still wonder if they will be puzzled or hesitate to pay for it. When the next line comes out, it’s because I worry too much off screen. 」
Chen Zhuo, a 46-year-old divorced single man.
His ex-wife divorced him because she disdained his mediocrity, and married a rich man instead, leaving him and his daughter to live together.
Pretty sad, huh?
But people have cars and houses in Beijing, and they still have two sets …
Moreover, Chen Zhuo is not only a proper science and engineering warm man, but also a good cook, and he is romantic and considerate when he reaches middle age.
You may not understand as much as I do:
"How can such a rich, romantic and considerate man be divorced? 」
Of course, it’s not just these two roles that people don’t understand.
Chen Zhuo’s ex-wife Ping Li, a remarried rich wife, lives in a single-family villa with a living room big enough for a party.
Liu Xiaomin’s sister Liu Xiaojie, 28, is an editor of a publishing house, but she can afford a one-bedroom apartment in Beijing.
Liu Xiaomin’s son, who was admitted to Tsinghua by two points in the college entrance examination, chose to repeat.
However, two months before the college entrance examination, my son was not busy studying, but was busy falling in love and playing games to earn money to pay off his father’s debts …
But as a result, 708 points, 24 points higher than Tsinghua’s score, is an absolute genius.
And Liu Xiaomin’s mom.
When she was young, Xiaomin Ma decided to divorce and raise her two daughters alone, regardless of the comments from people around her.
When Xiaomin’s sisters grew up, their mother did not urge them to get married, and they did not intervene.
Hearing the news of the second daughter’s divorce, my mother didn’t panic at all, but also made a summary in a light way:
"Let’s mother and daughter three people, is the divorce this thing together. 」
This calm reaction, even the daughter Xiaojie couldn’t help but ask:
"Mom, aren’t you a little too enlightened? 」
Looking around, the whole drama seems to be a family with an annual income of more than 500 thousand, with a house and a car, and no ordinary people or poor people.
In fact, it is more than Xiaomin’s Home, and it is the same with domestic family dramas in recent years.
"Little Joy" focuses on Jiwa’s anxiety, but the protagonist has four school districts in Beijing, and the rent alone is a considerable amount;
"Little Shede", the protagonist’s two families also have houses in Shanghai, and there are millions of rewards for having a second child;
Talking about anxiety under such conditions? This is obviously melodramatic, and it is a moaning without illness.
Where are the poor people in domestic dramas?
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Why are there no poor people in domestic dramas?
A bilibili up master named @ Song Shaohong said:
"The current creators are people who can’t spend 650 yuan a day on food. How can he imagine how two or three thousand yuan, five or six thousand a month? For them, there is no choice in life, but for us ordinary people, we make choices every day. 」
Some time ago, Cecilia Han made a short film in a certain program, telling the story of a little brother who took delivery in Shanghai.
As a result, after the film was broadcast, Cecilia Han was moved to tears, and both the audience and the judges laughed.
It stands to reason that such a topical subject, life cases are everywhere, not too bad.
But the truth should be ridiculed: "wealth limits people’s imagination."
The story of the short film is not complicated, but it is a common-sense bug throughout.
The little takeaway brother inside is racing against time all the time, but from beginning to end, he didn’t leave a drop of sweat or catch his breath.
The order will be overdue, and I’m not nervous at all. I’m on the phone while walking, hoping that people won’t complain about themselves.
We have seen too many scenes of a delivery man whose order is about to exceed the time limit, stamping his feet and even crying in the elevator.
What’s even more ridiculous is that this takeaway brother delivers 30 orders a day, but he lives in a large hardcover studio in a luxurious area of Shanghai. He has a spacious bathroom, and his bedside is full of books and guitars, or English books.
According to local netizens in Shanghai, the rent of the house in that location exceeds 8,000 yuan.
But in reality?
Most takeaway brothers order 70 or 80 meals a day, and it is normal to deliver meals until 10 or 11 o’clock in the evening. They often return to the village in the city for hundreds of dollars a month and fall asleep when they are too tired.
Even so, the monthly salary is seven or eight thousand, 30 yuan a day, and you can barely make ends meet.
Ironically, on the set, Cecilia Han also constantly emphasized the texture of life, to be simple and to reach the hearts of the people …
No wonder Li Chengru, as the judge, smiled and said to the people next to her: She cried.
Perhaps, in Cecilia Han’s imagination, this is the poorest and most miserable life.
In fact, the theme of ordinary people depends on the creator’s observation of life, and only by personal experience can the real life state of ordinary people be presented.
However, the reality is that the current creators are increasingly divorced from the lives of ordinary people.
How can Cecilia Han, who has lived like a princess since childhood, understand the life of a takeaway brother?
How can a boss who doesn’t have enough food for a day in 650 yuan empathize with ordinary employees?
How can a star with a daily salary of 2.08 million play a bottom-level person with a monthly salary of several thousand yuan?
Li Boqing, a famous book review artist, once said something very popular:
"Why don’t people like many programs? Because the writers are unconstrained and unconstrained, and they are poets’ thinking. He made couples snuggle up on the Champs Elysé es Avenue and under the Eiffel Tower ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
I am a 70-year-old man. Until today, I have always adhered to a principle, that is, telling stories of ordinary people in their languages. 」
It is stupid to say that you can’t film the life of the poor;
Then it is bad to directly stereotype and uglify the poor.
In Ode to Joy, Fan Shengmei’s mother was a snob who forced Fan Shengmei to ask for money as soon as she appeared.
Su Mingyu’s mother in Everything’s Fine persecutes her children with filial piety for her own selfish interests.
In last romance, Zhang Anren’s ex-girlfriend in her hometown changed from a good girl to scheming bitch as soon as she arrived in the big city.
The role of the poor is either the abuser of "family of origin" or they lose themselves in the city and gradually blacken themselves.
It seems that their appearance is only to meet the needs despised by the audience.
Mao Jian, a professor at East China Normal University, hit the nail on the head in his book Winter is Coming.
In the current domestic dramas, the IQ of characters is distributed according to wealth:
"Poverty is not only a lack of economy, but also the first negative assets of morality and emotion. 」
He mentioned a question about "role identity", that is:
In a play like Ode to Joy, do you identify with rich Andy and Qu Xiaoyu, or with ordinary Fan Shengmei and Qiu Yingying?
After the investigation, he came to a conclusion, that is:
People are gradually identifying with richer and more powerful people, rather than people from poor backgrounds.
When domestic dramas increasingly cater to the audience’s tendency to identify with the rich, it is not difficult to understand that the poor have disappeared and been stereotyped.
Domestic dramas need the poor.
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In many comments, I noticed a voice:
"Life is already very bitter. As a form of entertainment, film and television dramas make people feel more comfortable. 」
To some extent, I agree.
After all, 996, the chicken baby and the involution have overwhelmed us. After a drama, there is really no need to experience the chicken feathers of life again and again.
However, this is not an excuse for the current domestic drama to be so suspended and ungrounded.
Moreover, our understanding of ordinary people’s lives should never be just a stereotyped impression of the weak and a cheap sympathy based on it.
In "Changjiang No.7", Xingye plays the old man, who is poor and ambitious;
In "Please Answer 1988", Deshan’s father is still willing to help others even though he obviously has little money.
Lao Fu, a retired cadre in I Love My Family, is well-off, so he will hesitate for a long time to buy a discounted air conditioner …
This is the life of ordinary people, with bitter aspirations; There are joys and sorrows, no matter how much wealth, they are trying to live their own lives.
Ordinary people, as the core role of this society, may be paid a small salary, but they are offering great value.
If the creators just stand in their own position and use their imagination to create unrealistic dreams for the audience, the result will only be all kinds of cool dramas and unrealistic suspended dramas;
What we see on the screen are only well-dressed elites and tyrants.
This will ultimately affect the concept of young people-
They will mistakenly think that the workplace and love of ordinary people should be what they are portrayed in TV dramas.
We can often see such problems on the Internet:
"A 30-year-old man, who graduated five years ago and saved 500,000 yuan, is it worth marrying? 」
"With a monthly salary of 50,000, can you barely make ends meet in Beijing? 」
Not long ago, a survey by China Youth Daily showed that as many as 67.5% of college students thought that they could earn millions of dollars a year within 10 years of graduation …
But what about the truth?
According to the statistics of the National Bureau of Statistics, there are 600 million people in China whose monthly income is less than that of 1000 yuan. 90% people earn less than 5,000 yuan a month.
Even in the capital Beijing, the median wage of migrant workers in 2020 is only 6,906 yuan. This means that half of them earn less than 6900 a month.
Yes, most people in China try their best to make ends meet.
However, as Lu Yao said in Ordinary World:
"People would rather care about a lame movie actor’s eating, drinking, Lazarus and trivial matters than understand the turbulent inner world of an ordinary person …"
But ordinary people are the most important roles in society.
You will always see a takeaway brother blocking the car with an electric car and escorting the old man across the road;
When a child unfortunately falls into the water, citizens will jump into the water to save people at the first time;
A row of primary school students crossed the road, and three traffic policemen escorted together at the crossroads;
A few months ago, Shanghai Disneyland was closed in an emergency. On the night when all the people were detected by nucleic acid, the park put a special fireworks on everyone.
Why are we moved by these things and people?
Because these things are the daily life of most of us;
Because these people are our parents, elders, friends and ourselves.
Because, truth has its own strength.
Sometimes, we often feel that life is boring, life is boring, and we can’t help complaining.
But in "The Happy Life of loquacious Zhang Damin", facing the family situation of mother’s dementia and sister’s death, Zhang Damin said:
"I think it’s good to be alive, let alone anything else. Three meals a day are especially good. In the morning, I’ll get a bowl of millet porridge, two cakes of oil, cut some shredded pickles, come to a bowl of Zhajiang Noodles at noon, pat a few cloves of garlic and put them in it, and get some vinegar …"
Original title: "Xiao Min Jia" finale, we were all cheated by Huang Lei "
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