Source: People’s Daily Central Kitchen-Culture Time Studio
On the square, accompanied by cheerful music, Jiang Shuqin (played by Zhu Yin), who is dancing the square dance, is boasting of her sensible and well-behaved granddaughter Yuanyuan (played by Zhang Xiwei) , She turned her head subconsciously, but Yuanyuan, who was sitting not far away, disappeared. The music stopped abruptly, Jiang Shuqin shouted Yuanyuan's name, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense. At the end of the first episode of
's TV series "Dear, Where Are You", Ding Yu (Wang Lei) and He Xuelin (Qin Hailu)'s daughter Yuanyuan suddenly disappeared and the whole family was in torment. At the same time, as the child was lost and "detonated", there were also various contradictions under the warm and harmonious appearance. The emergence of the crisis caused the family to fall apart.
is missing
is the center and the lead
The observant audience is not difficult to find, the beginning of the series has paved the way for Yuanyuan’s loss: In the scene recorded inadvertently by the DV, He Xuelin and Ding Yu talked about the agreement between the two and Yuanyuan. Divorce in elementary school. After seeing this scene, Yuanyuan first said that she didn't want to go to school, and then lost herself when her grandma was not paying attention.
When the incident has already been presented to the audience, the process and results have become the main clues that arouse suspense. How do Ding and He families find children? Will Yuanyuan be in danger? Can the child be found in the end? A series of questions promote the development of the story and affect people's hearts.
is different from movies such as "Dear" and "Lost Orphans" that tell the tragedies of traffickers and children. "Dear, Where Are You" focuses on an active lost child and sets its sights on the family life of "all chicken feathers". In the looming crisis, through "searching for children", we pay attention to the emotional pain points hidden behind family and family.
Yuanyuan’s family seems to be peaceful, but in fact there are problems of this kind. In a family of three, Ding Yu and He Xuelin's marriage is facing breakdown. Ding Yu, who wanted to be a painter, gave up her dream for the sake of his family, and became a designer of a decoration company, and even became a "super dad", "Buddha" happily and silently. In the eyes of He Xuelin, a hard-working and thunderous wife, her husband is a typical example of non-motivated and unsophisticated. The difference between the two made He Xuelin exhausted physically and mentally and filed for divorce. There have never been many contradictions among relatives of
. He Xuelin's mother Qian Bizhu (played by Yang Kun) and her post-wife Hong Guifa (played by Fan Ming) are very affectionate, but He Xuelin doesn't like this stingy and often unhelpful stepfather. My sister-in-law Ding Yanzi (Wang Yanzhi) is impulsive and aggressive, not only can't understand the strength of 's sister-in-law, , but also suspects that her sister-in-law has derailed and investigated secretly.
And all these "hidden" and unspoken, with Yuanyuan's loss, from the undercurrent surging to the surging waves, sweeping everyone in the Ding and He families. The setting of the strong plot of enhances the viewability of the series, and also allows discussions on issues such as intimacy, emotional communication, conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, family relationship, family education, and later life. The loss of the child became a lead, igniting all the repression, restraint, and sanity of the two families in the past, forcing the people in the play to face the messy life, and also hitting the pain points of the outsiders, causing the audience to think and resonate.
Looking for
to find the children, family and yourself
warm yellow soft light tone of the poster, the eyes of several protagonists with tears, affectionate eyes reveal expectation, joy, longing... the hand that stretched forward, like " The call of "Wherever you are, home is" also seems to touch the lost treasure carefully.
has always been an important motif in literary works. Finding love, finding warmth, finding hometown, finding the past time, finding the value of life... When the basic motive of "finding" this human action is superimposed with emotional elements, it is often inseparable from the call to the heart.
"My dear, where are you" uses "finding" as the cut, while retrieving the lost child, digging the depth of the path.
Finding the child is the main line of the narrative, and it is also an open line, which has become the most inked part of the closed loop of "Children Lost-Finding Children". The dark line opposite is "recovering love and affection" . In the process of working together to find a child, the husband and wife rediscovered each other's shining points, faced difficulties together, and supported each other so that they could learn to look at themselves, and finally get back together. In the same way, bear the burden of wind and rainThe mutual assistance and mutual help of each other also allowed the mother-in-law, aunt-in-law, and father-daughter to reach an understanding and understanding.
"Why does marriage transform two people into one person? There are old and small, as pillars, don't we need to be as strong as parallel railroad tracks in order to make this family move forward smoothly like a train?" Facing He Xuelin Regarding the doubt that the husband and wife can never change each other, Ding Yu earnestly expressed his thoughts in his heart. The loss of their children made them begin to reflect on themselves, and they also began to face family problems, gradually calming down and thinking about the meaning of "home".
Finally, He Xuelin also admitted in front of her family that she had ignored Ding Yu's contribution, "I can't see his goodness, but I just grabbed his problems, but I never thought about my own problems." Perhaps, the one who found her daughter Hope is still elusive, but in the fog, the fading family has increasingly seen the road and direction of "home".
As screenwriter Zhu Jinchen said: "The journey of finding children is also the process of people in the play looking at themselves. They have learned rationality and tolerance, and they have also found the true meaning of love." The loss of children gives everyone a chance to wake up. , The process of looking for children is not only a search for love, but also a redemption of self. Find your true self, listen to your inner voice, tolerate each other and yourself. When the family members let go of their previous misfortunes and reconcile themselves, the people in the play also move towards reconciliation with themselves amidst hardships, regaining courage, faith and love, and continue to move forward side by side towards a long life.
as a family ethics drama, "Dear, Where Are You", the strong conflict, strong plot, and typical character design still inevitably have problems such as amplifying contradictions in pursuit of effect, insufficient character level, and some details that can be considered. But in the stories of the Ding and He families, through this heartbreaking path to find a child, the drama provides a window for viewers to see the grievances and entanglements that every family may encounter, and it is closely related to real life. In the connection, touch people's hearts with warmth and true feelings.
"Life is a journey through the wind and waves. The past experience will be built into sails to help the journey. The support of family members will become the oars in our hands, allowing us to reach the other side of happiness faster." "Dear, where are you" "Use a journey of "searching" to make people think about the true meaning of happiness, and find the "warmth of a room" in "a chicken feather".
