| Di Fei
discusses death and the meaning of life.
Recently, a drama focusing on the funeral industry, with a depressing but very healing tone, has received a lot of attention. Guangzhou University "Life and Death Lesson" broadcasts "Three Joys", the funeral industry workers dare not celebrate the New Year with others, the public's professional prejudice against the funeral industry, and how to explain death to children, etc. Topics have gradually become hot searches. The episode mentioned in the hot search of
is the latest self-made drama " Sanyue has a new job " from station B. Follow the perspective of Zhao Sanyue, the protagonist of the rebellious newcomer born in 1995, to listen to the stories of the world, and to uncover the mystery of the group portraits of the funeral industry.
talks about the topic of death, but does not give people a sense of heaviness. "Three Joy" uses many elements to create a diverse "sense of contrast". We can describe this kind of heavy lifting as -
"violent healing technique".
Drawing from life, living towards death
"Go along a dark alley and keep going forward. You can't turn or turn back. You can only go forward alone."
The description of death in the first episode of "A New Job".
In such a work that haunts the tragic atmosphere of death, the very contrasting characters first bloom in the dust.
Zhao Sanyue, the heroine who ran into a wall in her job search and was often disliked, wanted to die for a while. With the rare " rotten " outlook on life for domestic drama heroines, she even envies people with advanced lung cancer - "you can justifiably be a waste, just waiting for death to come."
When everyone around you is asking you to be positive and to work hard, the protagonist of this play seems to play the little man in people's inner world who wants to but dare not lie down: "Why can't you let people who like work work? , let people who like to lie down lie down?"
In the eyes of adults, such an idea is unreasonable, and such three joys have become a hi-point that triggers the resonance of Gen Z audiences.
Zhao Sanyue, who was kicked out of the house, wanted to seek death, so her aunt really took her to seek death.
With her sharp contradictions and youthful fears, Zhao Sanyue stepped into the funeral industry like this. From the perspective of a growing protagonist, the audience is guided step by step to experience increasingly strong contrasts.
For the first time, Sanyue felt that she "doesn't want to die". When a photographer boy passed away from lung cancer, he entrusted her with his puppy. Sanyue had this puppy named "Gift", and she had fetters.
At this point, the show has gradually approached its central idea - drawing from death.
Zhao Sanyue heard a wife's request to restore the appearance of her husband who was hacked to death by the mistress as much as possible, but she just didn't want her innocent child to be hurt, so she took the initiative to chat with her mother about childhood memories. Although it was not pleasant, it was the first time for her Towards the mother took the step of communication.
Zhao Sanyue saw a pair of parents who came all the way to say goodbye to their son who died of a sudden illness. They brought the cotton they had just picked in their hometown and wanted to make the last quilt for their child. She was touched, and the sharp contradiction with the world suddenly softened at that moment. She hurried home, eager to feel the warmth of home.
is constantly facing death in the funeral home, witnessing the life and death of the deceased, witnessing all kinds of fetters, reflecting the images of all beings, and at the same time giving Sanyue more and more hope for life.
's character and three views of the protagonist affect the style of the whole play. Sanyue's sense of youth, and the edge and edge of youth, give her a sharp contrast. This dispels the heaviness of life and death to a certain extent, and also provides a new perspective for the audience to observe and experience the world.
shot asideFocusing on the changes of Zhao Sanyue, while telling the daily life of the funeral home.
The funeral home is dark and heavy: there are young directors who choose their own urns in advance and shoot dying videos; there are parents who abandoned their biological daughters but were heartbroken at the funeral; A young guy who passed away; there are also old people who died on the eve of the year, but secretly wrapped the real estate certificate around his waist until the body was stiff and undiscovered...
For the sad and dark place, he didn't make a big fuss about the impacted place. , grasp the sense of proportion, do not do deliberate tears, just flatten the human nature of good and evil, beauty and ugliness, and leave it to the audience to judge what is right or wrong.
So with the development of the plot, the funeral home in gray and white will also show warm colors full of fireworks.
"Einstein" Liu Qingming, the master "Einstein" who is sometimes confused and sometimes sober; Mrs. Ya, who is sober in the world who goes on a blind date after changing out of work clothes; gentle and delicate, can enter the funeral host Gege who can read people's hearts; will be in the first snow day Little Sichuan Yang Lin , who is excited to pack snow in a vacuum flask; and curator Gao, who is strict with his wife and wife. The
funeral industry group portraits are given just the right comic characters, which not only make the plot light and full, but also use humor and a sense of ease to create a warm tone to ease the dignified atmosphere.
Although the subject matter is similar to the movie " Life Events ", the look and feel of "Sanyue Has a New Job" is different: if "Life Events" is a city story under the sand, then "Sanyue" is like a gentle Late-night radio, discreetly dissect contradictions and dissolve conflicts. let coolness, solemnity and warmth heal the antonyms and blend harmoniously in one drama.
distributes the secret recipe for reconciliation in the conflict,
adjusts the contrast to soft, which is the plot of "Sanyue has a new job". It uses many delicate details and seemingly contradictory perspectives to distribute the exclusive secret recipe for reconciliation with the world. The main line of
's plot revolves around Zhao Sanyue's funeral work. In the form of a Japanese drama-style unit drama, the theme of diversity is launched: "No matter how lonely an individual is, there are people of the same kind", "Do a little more than nothing", "Tomorrow and The accident comes first" etc., through the story of Zhao Sanyue's experience, rebate the theme of each episode.
The advantage of the unit drama format is that each issue can be explained independently and clearly, and the drama skillfully uses tiny details to highlight the grand emotional value, which not only arouses resonance, but also tells the stories of each unit vividly.
Zhang Hong, a young girl, is the first deceased person that Sanyue contacts.
At her funeral, the adoptive parents who raised her with their own hands were unusually quiet, but the biological parents who abandoned her were crying loudly and wailing constantly.
When the coffin was about to be closed, the girl's adoptive mother pulled her biological parents over the coffin and yelled, "Get up, don't stop my child, let my child go home."
said something like this The words hit the heart directly, and the real sadness does not need to be shown by the wailing of the people.
And not long after, the youngest son, whom his biological parents loved most, passed away due to illness. At the funeral of the youngest son, the biological parents finally stopped crying and making noises, and the silent mourning hit the heart, "the heart is so painful that it is often silent." The lens of
is not fixed on Sanyue. Besides Sanyue, there are also perspectives of other characters.
Luo Damiao, a doctor who was transferred from the hospital's oncology department to the hospice department, as "the gatekeeper of life", explained different views on life and death: how to make dying patients more dignified, how to say goodbye to dying relatives, etc.
In addition to the issue of life and death, as the plot progresses, "San Yue" has a sharp interpretation of social issues such as women, family, workplace, and interpersonal relationships, and also has a foothold to heal the soul.
The tension between the mother and daughter of Sanyue is not only the presentation of the issue of the original family, but also involvesto the issues of children's education and marriage.
's mother Su Wenjing's demeaning education to her daughter has made them unable to communicate well. She ranked first in Sanyue's internship assessment, but she couldn't change her gender because of her gender. When she needed comfort and help, as a mother, she said, "I don't have a good brain and a bad temper, so I should not be able to choose you."
And the biggest knot in Sanyue's heart is that after her father cheated, her mother put all her anger on Sanyue, which made her spend a very dark childhood.
When Sanyue was touched by what she saw at the funeral home, she tried to communicate with her mother. There was no smooth flow of the heroine Shuangwen, but the real state of life flow, which more appropriately showed the entanglement and anxiety of the younger generation.
This mother and daughter may reconcile or not in the subsequent episodes. But this push and pull of trying to communicate is exactly the way empathizes with , and it is able to reconcile the contradiction with the audience.
does not avoid contradictions or magnify them, and presents them in a light comedy and life style way, which is precisely to distribute the secret recipe for reconciliation in the conflict.
Of course, as a self-made drama, "San Yue" can be singled out for many shortcomings: the plot of the unit case is advanced too fast, which is unnatural; the stereotyped golden sentences are piled up, the questions are deliberately deducted, and there are hypocritical criticisms. But it starts with the funeral industry, not only talking about the issue of death, but also healing the various conditions of life. It focuses on the group portrait of life, and in a story full of reality, it calmly shows the regret of not finding the answer.
hot topic + unpopular industry
themes and perspectives are the wind that "Sanyue has a new job" has taken advantage of, it has opened up people's blind spot about death, so hot topics and unpopular industries collided fiercely in one drama . The death of
is a taboo topic for Chinese people. But in recent years, 's study of life and death is attracting more attention, and film and television works are also more daring to describe death:
" I am a good in a foreign country" begins with Hu Jingjing's death. Hu Jingjing created a huge impact;
summer vacation The hit movie "Life Events" presents the stories of people in the market in the funeral theme. "The man who grows stars" is a human metaphor for this profession. It is the first time that mainland film and television producers have tested the waters in this field in recent years. This once made this unpopular industry popular;
and "Sanyue Has a New Job" is undoubtedly the first TV series in mainland China that delicately portrays the group portrait of the funeral industry and truly enters this unpopular industry.
's hot searches on Weibo due to the drama, as well as topic discussions with professionals, have allowed the real funeral industry to be discussed and the situation of this industry to be seen more by the society.
Just like in the play, instead of a funeral home where no one takes orders, it is better to replace it with a sad noodle restaurant; use the service industry to prevaricate their careers and other "white lies", Sanyue and colleagues hope that their careers are recognized and accepted. This is also a hot topic of constant thinking and discussion: how do people face death? What social weight and how much prejudice does the mortician bear? The curiosity and fear of
viewers in this field are clearly displayed in this drama and in the drama reviews of this drama, forming a sharp contrast.
Compared with other self-made dramas at station B, the current performance of "Sanyue Has a New Job" is still mediocre and has not yet been out of the circle. According to the "No. 1 Digital Reading Alliance - Cool Cloud Interaction", "San Yue" ranked 15th in the cumulative number of broadcasts, compared with " Wind Dog Boy's Sky " with 580 million broadcasts, 170 million "" Double Mirror ", "Sanyue" has accumulated 98 million views, still not breaking 100 million. The popularity of the topic
does not seem to have saved "Sanyue Has a New Job" from the popularity of the niche. But it is undeniable that it is called a "treasure drama" for a reason. Douban has a score of 8.3, which is much higher than other self-made dramas at station B such as "The Sky of the Wind Dog"; the score at station B is 9.6, which is also similar to "Double Mirror". ” “’s sudden holiday ” and other self-made dramas at station B remained flat.
It can be seen that although "Sanyue Has a New Job" has many criticisms of being immature and out of the circle, it also has the confidence to be seen, and perhaps has the potential to be seen by more people.
A movie, a play, and an article, although it is difficult to fundamentally change the Chinese people's perception of death, "Sanyue has a new job" conveys that life and death are not opposite extremes, but two aspects of life. the reasoning of a stage.
confronting death and talking about it peacefully is exactly the value the show conveys through tender details and stories.
1 Epilogue
Talking about death in a domestic drama is not easy.
Besides, "Sanyue Has a New Job" not only discusses death, but also the meaning of life. Although
describes death with restraint, healing and warmth convey new values: seeing that the two sides of life are constructed from life and death, perhaps you can find reasons to cheer up in "lying flat".
"Sanyue Has a New Job" uses the violent healing brought by the sense of contrast, which is the powerful vitality it is endowed with.
Credits: Number 1 Reading Alliance - Cool Cloud Interactive
