did not expect that the most "breaking circle" theme in 2022 turned out to be "funeral".
First, in June this year, a " life event " turned out.
, relying on rare domestic funeral themes and gentle and heart-warming stories, won a box office of 1.7 billion, ranking fourth in the box office of 2022 theatrical films.
Just a few months later, another funeral-themed TV series set off a craze for domestic dramas. The title of
sounds a bit strange at first glance, it is called " Sanyue has a new job ". The volume is not large, only 13 episodes.
is just such a short drama, but it won "the best reputation of domestic dramas in the second half of the year" .
Douban score is not only as high as 8.3, but also reached the top three in the real-time hit list.
in the end, what kind of magic does this type have, and it is so popular with the audience? With this question in mind,
, Pigo watched 9 episodes in a row, and finally found that the most difficult "taboos" of , , were almost completely explained by this drama.
01. Let's talk about the roles first: Zhao Sanyue, Zhou Yanan, Liang Gege
mentioned the funeral, our first reaction was "dead", "bad luck", and "stay away" .
But when it comes to the theme of funerals, we can be familiar with them. In addition to "Major Events in Life", Japan has " Encoffiner ", and South Korea has " I am a Relic Organizer ".
Two things, in life and on the screen, have become irreconcilable poles.
in "Sanyue has a new job", in fact, the same is true.
Zhao Sanyue ( Zhou is still ), , is a serious useless girl.
After graduating from college, I haven't found a job for a year.
's daily life is to lie on the bed and scan the phone, laughing heartlessly.
's mother called her to eat, but she turned a deaf ear. The instant noodle box on the floor almost tripped her over.
Mom expects her to be angry, but in her heart, "lay down" is king.
Finally, the long-standing conflict broke out, the mother and daughter had a big fight, and Zhao Sanyue was escorted out of the house by her mother.
Actually, it's not that she didn't work hard.
majored in stage design at university, and found three jobs, but none of them wanted her.
was the closest, she was the only one among all the interns who took the first place in the assessment, but the leader "wanted a boy more", reasoned that boys can survive better than girls.
did not expect to go home, but was scolded by his mother in the face.
Since the society is like this, Zhao Sanyue accepted her work and went home to work hard.
Her motto in life is that she doesn't want to work.
She thinks that society should let those who want to do it do it,Let those who want to lie down lie down, and those who want to be Buddhas.
She even felt that she was born wrong.
When she had nowhere to go, she climbed onto the overpass, thinking that she would slump and lose her mind.
, the aunt who came here specially, but persuaded her to come down. Aunt
is a undertaker . For Zhao Sanyue, who wants to commit suicide, there is nothing more confident in life than seeing a real death.
So, the aunt took her to participate in the whole process of entering the burial , gave her a handful of banknotes, and promised to introduce her to a job.
Zhao Sanyue disdains the kindness of her aunt.
can live in the youth hostel , and she will soon be out of pocket.
A penny beats a heroic man, not to mention a beautiful girl. Zhao Sanyue called his aunt and found his work address by following the house number.
looked up, she was stunned: Isn't this a funeral home?
It turned out that the job introduced by my aunt was a posthumous organizer, that is, to make up the dead.
is a business unit that guarantees income during droughts and floods, professional counterparts, and leisurely work, but for Zhao Sanyue, it is difficult to accept. Aunt
immediately persuaded in reverse: Your mother is engaged in a wedding, and you go to the funeral home, so your mother must not be angry?
In order to fight against her mother, Sanyue plunged into the funeral industry.
Although funeral homes are taboo for everyone, this job is very technical.
Sanyue, who just entered, has to overcome at least three hurdles, and each of these three hurdles hit Zhao Sanyue's life gate.
The first way is to overcome fear.
Every newcomer to the industry must have the first night at work, it's worth it! night! class!
Sanyue can't escape.
After successfully angering the master, Sanyue likes to work the night shift for one night. Unexpectedly, on the first night of the night shift, I encountered a situation.
A body was brought in in the middle of the night, Sanyue went to park in the corpse, but heard noises in other drawers.
The hidden corpse in the middle of the night was eerie and terrifying, Sanyue resisted her fear and slowly opened the drawer, and a pale-faced male corpse appeared in front of her.
Just when she thought nothing happened, the corpse suddenly opened her eyes and shouted: is so cold.
Sanyue was frightened and fainted on the spot, and slept until dawn.
The second hurdle is to overcome nausea.
funeral home, there are all kinds of dead people. There are some in
, which have just been lifted from the bottom of the truck .
For the novice, that kind of bloody blood not only means a loss of appetite, but also means "three days of vomiting, and a small amount of vomiting a day".
And Sanyue's first lesson is to put the tongue that the deceased stuck out into his mouth.
This is not, as soon as I get started, I "yue"...
The special training has just finished, and I finally waited for the restaurant.
's caring colleagues sent a delicious duck tongue, and then "yue"...
The third hurdle is to overcome prejudice.
There is a prejudice against the funeral industry and the whole society.
Sanyue is an honest girl who never lies, but when renting a house, as long as they hear the word "funeral", all the landlords close the door without hesitation.
was rejected a lot, and she finally understood that the standard name for her industry is "service industry".
In fact, not only her, but all funeral practitioners are facing the same dilemma.
Her senior sister Zhou Yanan ( E Jingwen ) , who is beautiful and neat.
is because of the industry, so I can't find a target all the year round.
finally had a blind date, and after going to the toilet, the object ran away.
The host of the funeral home Liang Gege ( Kang Keren ) , looks sweet and plays the piano well.
In addition to working in the funeral home, she also works as a pianist in a fancy restaurant.
After learning her real job, the manager quit her without hesitation.
When two lonely women from the same industry meet downstairs, at that moment, the truth of funeral practitioners is also revealed.
Through these three girls with different backgrounds, different ages, different looks, but with similar experiences, the drama's grand proposition about life and death has finally been slowly revealed.
02, the boy in the corpse, the wife who held the funeral for her cheating husband... She explained the unspoken "secret" in the world.
Zhao Sanyue wanted to die at first, but her aunt helped her to dispel the idea.
One of them is because she saw the whole process of death, dirty, messy, and sad, and she didn't want to leave like that.
Second, it was her aunt who told her that death is not like "the body is crooked" as she described, but a difficult road.
There are no young or old on Huangquan Road. Death is lonely and destined to be terrible. This is Zhao Sanyue's first real realization of what "death" is.
Funeral Home is the last stop in life.
However, you can often see the joys and sorrows of life here, and the world is full of different expressions.
The first time Zhao Sanyue experienced the death of someone around her was the boy she met in the drawer of 's corpse. His name is Qin Wei, and he has advanced lung cancer. The reason why
was lying in the corpse was to experience death, and he wanted to make a documentary at the end of his life.
Sanyue was asked to cooperate with Qin Wei's work, and the two soon became friends.
Under the sun, the breeze is not dry, the green willows are lined, boys and girls, and the youthful breath is exuding.
But in such beauty, the two discussed death.
heard that Qin Wei was going to die, Sanyue's first reaction was not comfort or fear, but envy.
But knowing Qin Wei's family situation, she saw the other side of human nature.
Qin Wei has two sisters, the second sister has congenital heart disease .
, because of his preference for Qin Wei, his poor parents, gave away his second sister since he was a child. Unexpectedly, when he reached 30, the second sister died suddenly.
At the funeral, the adoptive parents stared blankly at their daughter's body, but Qin Wei's parents cried heartbroken:
Some people like to use tears and loud voices to prove that they are right
In the end, Qin Wei left.
At Qin Wei's funeral, his parents no longer cried hysterically. The white-haired person sent the black-haired person. Those weaknesses in human nature were best reflected in Qin Wei's parents. The comparison of
at the funeral of his daughter and son is ironic.
The turbulent tears may cover up the truth of unloving, and the silent silence may be the real sadness.
And at Qin Wei's funeral, the eldest sister who never came home also came.
She promised Qin Wei to keep her parents alive.
not with love, but with hate.
Not reconciling with the family of origin is not an option.
The cause and effect of the world, at this moment, is also seen by Sanyue, and it hurts in my heart.
has a deceased named Xu Shicong.
He stepped on two boats and was hacked to death by Xiaosan. It was his original wife who came to the funeral home to ask him to repair his body.
's wife hopes that Xu Shicong will leave with a good appearance, so that no one can see that he was hacked to death by his lover.
, who was next to Sanyue, heard this, remembered her parents, and sneered. The sneer
suddenly aroused his wife's suppressed emotions.
She threw the bag on Zhao Sanyue's face fiercely, and then roared:
Zhao Sanyue refused to accept the beating, picked up the bottle and tried to reason, but was blocked by the master. After
95, she didn't understand why it was a man who did something wrong, but two women were required to bear the consequences.
Finally, it was senior sister Zhou Yanan who solved the knot in her heart.
The mortician is just a ferryman, not a judge.
There are many things in the world that can be disputed right or wrong, but life is never black and white binary opposition .
A cheating husband may also be a family man, the pillar of a family, and a surviving wife may also have unspeakable difficulties. At the funeral of
, Sanyue finally understood the wife's good intentions.
She used her forbearance and pain in exchange for her husband's final dignity, all because she stood in front of the coffin and waved goodbye to her husband, and she also had two small children.
Not only that, but she also held a unique and childlike farewell ceremony for her husband.
All of this is because she feels that all the harm should end here.
Children are innocent, to preserve their innocence and happiness, and prevent them from premature exposure to the cruel adult world and laws, this is also a great mother's love.
We like to judge right and wrong, and we are always anxious to define everything.
But death itself, like life, is never right or wrong.
Those calm, childlike, explosive, or surging emotions always turn into a complex melancholy when faced with a corpse.
then condensed into a cognition of life and death, and an unforgettable memory.
And these are the questions that everyone should always think about when facing the proposition of life and death.
03, on the surface, she is filming "Death", but in fact she is filming "Life". It's time to change. The 27-year-old actress is popular with
's funeral theme, which is not good for filming.
is too deep and easy to suppress, and too emotional and easy to fall into the rut of sensationalism.
"Sanyue has a new job", the structure of the play itself is very convenient. From the perspective of a young girl born in the 1995s, she explores profound propositions that young people cannot access. One episode of
is a short story about a deceased person, which brings up a social proposition. Don't think it's about funerals, its themes are all-encompassing.
The pain of the original family, the judicial judgment of medical disputes, the sexual harassment of teenagers, the derailment of marriage, and the grandmother who was persecuted by the Japanese in World War II ... romance.
This is very similar to "Life Events".
In "Life Events", many netizens said that they heard the most romantic description of funeral practitioners: people who are stars.
In this drama, Zhao Sanyue and oncology doctor Luo Damiao also have their own special understanding of the funeral industry:
"I am the goalkeeper of life, you are the ferryman of death."
The dignity of one, one, gave the deceased last decency.
In fact, in the whole play, 's description of funeral practitioners is extremely "realistic", and this kind of romance is everywhere.
In order to accurately restore the funeral process and to reshape the audience's understanding of the funeral industry, the director led the team to film the whole process in a funeral home in Zhuhai.
Many of the scenes we see are actually real funeral homesscene.
Even the large sun-filled garden of the funeral home is real.
Through the mouth of the character Luo Damiao in the film, the director clearly expressed his attitude towards the industry:
And the practitioners of the funeral home are not as serious and indifferent as everyone's stereotype .
After get off work, they also dress up and live their lives.
They will also secretly eat CP and do what they like. When
went to work, they would also gag and joke, pushed a body, and they called to take orders.
talked about the salary, they bluntly said that there are five insurances and one housing fund , 6800 after tax.
Both practitioners and deceased people are human.
The living are human, and the dead are human. There are two extremely "romantic" clips in the
play, which Pigo likes very much. The first paragraph of
is Sanyue, a bereaved girl who has completely lost hope in life, and has no thoughts of being in the world.
She felt that it was impossible for her to be connected to the world, much less to be tied to others.
At this time, the dead Qin Wei left her a gift: a puppy.
She originally felt that the last thing she needed in this world was ties, so she dropped the puppy and ran away.
But in the next second, this little life followed, ran down the stairs and got into her arms.
Although Qin Wei died, this puppy seems to have brought a new life.
to itself, and also to Zhao Sanyue. In the second paragraph of
, Zhao Sanyue scattered the ashes of a dead orphan under a tree in the garden of the funeral home.
It didn't take long for green shoots to grow in this place.
and then many little flowers.
At this moment, the theme of the play is sublimated again.
Whether it is human, animal or plant, it is life.
And nature itself is the cycle of life.
Old life is dying and dying, but new life is sprouting and reborn.
They never seem to leave, they just take a different form, live around us, and exist on this earth.
This kind of new life itself is also a kind of beauty.
Li Mo said it well:
"A lot of things are fleeting, don't get confused by the trivial things in life such as promotions, salary increases, and comparisons. The beauty of every moment of life is "Sanyue has a new job"The core issue that I want to convey to everyone. "
does not have a traffic star, and the actors who show their faces are not well-known, but this drama makes up for a major shortcoming in the subject matter of domestic dramas.
, especially the heroine Zhao Sanyue in the play Zhou Yiren , the performance is full of energy, After Zhu Yilong , it is time to change the 27-year-old actress.
In any case, I hope everyone who finishes the show will be the same as Sanyue.
can be in difficulties and difficulties Under pressure, in the trivial mud, I sincerely tell myself:
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