On the evening of July 16, the TV series "Happy Face" was updated to episode 5. After watching the latest online plot content, I took a look at the short comments of "Happy Face" formed by the audience on Douban. Interesting. Most of them are five-star reviews. But there are also viewers who gave a decisive one-star negative review. This situation is interesting, but not surprising.
why? Because this "Happy Face" has a very high aesthetic starting point. This kind of TV series with a high starting point is easy to offend many viewers who like to watch ordinary TV series. To what extent will it offend? For example, some of our listeners became furious when they heard that cross talk should be anti-three vulgar. Why is it fried? Because entertainment art that requires a high aesthetic starting point will offend this group of people—this group of people will appear to have a very low aesthetic starting point.
Therefore, the TV series "Happy Face" has a few sporadic and vicious one-star negative reviews, which I think is normal. This "Happy Face", I think, is the best TV drama work after "The Long Season" this year. The two plays are, of course, different in content. But they have one thing in common, that is, there is a romanticism beyond realism in the play. This kind of romanticism is not the sugar-sprinkling romance of children, but the romance of artistic temperament.
The romanticism of "The Long Season" comes from the great compassion for the characters' will to survive in the narrative. This TV series is of course realistic, and it cares about the real life of everyone. But at the same time, the greatest realism will rise to romanticism in the ultimate goal. Tragic romanticism is the easiest to move the audience.
On the other hand, this "Happy Face" has a high level of aesthetics, precisely because it has a great tragic romanticism. Viewers who don't like TV dramas really can't reach this kind of romance, and even this group of viewers have difficulty understanding the word "romantic". I think there must be tens of thousands of audiences who are really knowledgeable, and my comments here can only be used to attract others, showing off a little bit of knowledge in front of everyone. But I am willing to throw out the "bricks" that I understand first.
In my first review of this TV series, I said that "Happy Face" is "rules and anti-rules". In this TV series, the characters have established rules of conduct, but in the end, these rules Rules are broken and rules are re-established. With rules, and the establishment of rules, it is easy to achieve a so-called sense of reality. But this kind of authenticity and realism is not only in terms of regional culture, but also in terms of character culture and ecology.
It can even be said that the regional culture of western Fujian in "Happy Face" is fictional and distorted. However, among the Western Fujian rules established in the play, the cultural and personal characteristics of the characters are established and romantic. I think ordinary viewers will definitely say that the western Fujian in the TV series "Happy Face" is not like or not the western Fujian in history, it is distorted. The play has realistic characters and is not afraid of the so-called distortion of the environment.
The character of this TV series is realistic, but it also goes to the extreme. The character of our ordinary people has many aspects, especially the aspect of self-weakness is the most prominent. In the TV series "Happy Face", the character traits created are to hide this multi-faceted nature and focus on a certain side. This is a top-level creative technique that needs to be controlled. A low-level screenwriter will create a character that looks like a face. A master like Xu Bing came out not only without facial makeup, but also full of tension. Why is
like this? Because Xu Bing will endow the character with a kind of romanticism, an almost distorted romanticism, which makes the audience feel that this kind of character is majestic and poetic. Of course, some ordinary audiences will also feel that this kind of character , is an offense to them. All aliens are an offense to this audience. And this group of audiences needs to be enlightened by literature and art.
as an example.In "Happy Face", Yu Yixiu, played by Zhang Luyi, is a person who has read a lot of poetry and books. Although he has not traveled thousands of miles, he has already learned about the world through poetry and books. And that's not even the most romantic thing. In the fifth episode, he came to the pawnshop of the Yu family and found that the Yu family had become the accomplices of the warlords. At this time, Yu Yixiu dropped the money box and burned the land deed to give justice to the villagers.
This is great romanticism. This kind of character, of course, is not for myself, and some ordinary audiences can't understand it. However, there must be people with this personality. Moreover, this kind of character must be able to resonate strongly with many high-end aesthetic audiences.
At the same time, another high-end aspect of "Happy Face" is that it connects with the great romanticism and is the great Soviet spirit. Yu Yixiu smashed the box, burned the land deed, and returned justice to the villagers, which coincided with the revolutionary temperament of the Soviet area. With the Soviet District around, Yu Yixiu and the others are not alone. The romance of this character's character simply fascinates knowledgeable audiences.
