Xiaogang Feng, the great director, collaborated with Iqiyi on an online drama, which was scolded to pieces after two days online. This film "The North Road to the South" is like a bomb that accurately hits the audience’s thunder spot, directly tearing off the fig leaf of domestic modern urban dramas, and making the fundamental problems of film and television drama producers in shooting concepts lose their hidden space.
Noble life suspended in the air
The life shown in TV series seems to be getting farther and farther away from us. It is said that it is an urban modern drama, which opens the eyes of the audience as much as fantasy through science fiction movies. At a casual moment, people can always ask: "Do I really live in the same time and space with them in TV series?" .
By showing the story of a group of women who have achieved their own success in their struggle, North Crossing the South intends to open a restaurant in partnership after an encounter. From the theme, it seems that there is no problem at all, and it seems to be a feminist perspective work that emphasizes struggle and friendship. The leading actors invited are also popular flowers in the entertainment circle.
However, the basic configuration does not mean that this drama can deduce a wonderful history of urban struggle. First of all, in terms of people’s design, it began to create a bunch of "dummies" in a clever but stupid way.
First of all, Dai Xiaoyu, played by Gina, studied in Northern Europe. When her boyfriend, who had already talked about marriage, was found to have not divorced his ex-wife, she packed up her things and left without saying goodbye. She returned to Beijing from Norway, lived in her grandmother’s big villa, and soon found a job in public relations for a film and television company through a friend’s dinner.
Not to mention that international students have been involved in attracting people from Nordic countries, it is also very shocking to see this smooth work process after returning home.
After being recommended by a friend, she hit it off at the dinner table. The next day, she signed a contract and went directly to organize a dinner with a big broker, and convinced everyone with her own set of words, as if she was the only one who could see the root of the problem at the dinner table. Not only was she not a fireworks worker who lived in northern Europe for several years, but she also quickly knew the details and operation mode of the film and television entertainment circle after returning home, which was hard to help people sigh.
It is said that you can’t look at the public relations industry with stereotypes, but you try your best to express all kinds of words and routines on the wine table. The arbitrariness and willfulness of talking about business with the wine table dispels the duties and working methods of an industry, making the audience think that practitioners can be like Dai Xiaoyu in the play.
Using "high emotional intelligence" to challenge brokers at dinner, but ignoring that most practitioners are conscientious in going through the process, making statements and signing contracts, which deepens the stereotype of the industry for the infinite scenery of the protagonist, which is a very failure in TV dramas.
Don’t spend money on social problems.
And another woman, You Shanshan, is a highly effective and capable woman with rich life experience, so that she can write two novels and make a TV series independently. Wang Luodan plays her role as the backbone in the play, and she leads the meeting of several friends and the investment in the restaurant in the opposite direction.
Her appearance was also astounding. When shopping in the supermarket, she met Si Meng, who had met by chance. Originally, she was a nodding acquaintance but gave birth to a whole story line because she lost her wallet. She described herself as a dropout at the University of International Business and Economics, a junior who dropped out of school. Later, she chose to divorce because of the breakdown of her relationship with her husband’s family. After the divorce, she became a strong woman engaged in investment, and started her own company with high income and a beautiful life.
Tell the identity and story of your single mother so gently and skillfully, and seem to regard this as a small difficulty that can be easily overcome in life. In three or two sentences, the painful and complicated social issues are turned into the talk of urban petty bourgeoisie life after dinner, which virtually eliminates the seriousness of social problems.
I didn’t touch the difficulties that real single mothers will encounter in real life at all. I didn’t talk about the hard work of starting a business with children. Instead, I used "making a lot of money" as an enviable footnote to show my superior ability, as if I could really become a successful woman like You Shanshan easily.
This conversation between You Shanshan and Si Meng is tantamount to stepping on the pain of other single mothers who have suffered in life, with the voice-over of "You are just not good enough to become female presidents".
Such a TV series that discounted the name of women’s struggle history not only failed to help women get a better living condition, but deepened the suffering of ordinary women with simple stories of rich people, which really made people feel very shameful.
At first glance, it’s amazing that she is a powerful woman who is engaged in business, but after careful scrutiny, such a person’s setup is not reasonable, but in fact there are many loopholes.
Not to mention why the big boss who runs the company looks very idle, as if the company affairs can be easily completed between chatting and occasional work. Her simple and profound behavior with friends will make people wonder: can such a "leaky spoon" character really make a big business?
I didn’t meet Simeng twice, because the other party mentioned that the refrigerator in his home was broken and needed to be repaired, so he directly took the workers and a brand-new refrigerator to install it, and didn’t ask the other party’s opinion. This attitude of "I think I am helping you" itself contains arrogance and irrationality that I feel too good about myself.
On the other hand, most of her life experiences were shaken off, and the "sense of social distance" disappeared directly in her world. In order to pave the way for the follow-up plot, the feelings between the two people were quickly brought closer, but it seemed just inexplicable. There is not enough convincing emotional foundation to shape the friendship between the two protagonists by playing house with children, which makes the plot of "opening a restaurant together" perfunctory.
Don’t struggle if there are not enough characters.
The funny thing is that in TV series, even the characters of grandparents have begun to roll in, and ordinary old people are no longer within the consideration of directors and screenwriters, but must focus on reflecting what kind of fairy life the fashionable and young rich grandmother has lived.
In the play, Dai Xiaoyu’s grandmother lives alone in a big villa somewhere in Beijing. Beautiful French windows and wooden floors show the word "rich" in every detail. Her hobby is to play piano and jazz at home and indulge in it. Her attitude towards her grandchildren is so enlightened that she has no mentality of the elderly at all. Communication and interaction are also like treating friends instead of elders and children. There is a touch of kindness in the ceremony, which glows the spirit of "the elderly in the new era" from the inside out. Otherwise,
Therefore, can the current online drama stop stigmatizing the stories of urban women? From ode to Joy to diametrically opposed, it is becoming more and more grandiose and boring. From two rich girls in the community to the whole drama, they are talking about the speculative state of superior life. Perhaps the former audience will be moved by these exquisite lives, but now it seems dull and increasingly ungrounded TV dramas have fully satisfied the audience’s voyeurism, even to the extent of aesthetic fatigue.
