On the evening of October 7, the era care drama "Ask the Heart" will be simultaneously launched on CCTV-8 prime time and Tencent Video. The play is produced by Ningmeng Film and Television, written by Zhou Yifei, directed by Li Zhi, produced by Zhang Xiaobo, with Xu Xiaoou as the chief producer, Wang Ye as the producer, starring Zhao Youting and Mao Xiaotong, and Jin Shijia as a special star. The series uses medical care as its focus and uses documentary techniques to describe it. It tells the story of three cardiologists with different life backgrounds and professional concepts, who met, worked together, and worked side by side at Dongli Hospital. In the series of cases, it fully reflects reality. The complex emotions of ordinary people in life are sharp, sad, but also warm and growing.
Keeping integrity and innovating, the medical industry reflects social ethics
As the first realism theme with medical treatment as the background created by Ningmeng Film and Television, "Ask the Heart" takes medical care as its aspect, radiates to the vast social life, focuses on intriguing ethical issues, and also highlights the reality The social value of the subject matter works.
"Ask the Heart" does not copy the common narrative framework of workplace dramas, nor does it excessively pursue an all-or-nothing, black-and-white dramatic plot. Instead, it starts from real life to find the conflict points of the plot and the emotional resonance points of the public. , using the joys and sorrows in the hospital to reflect all aspects of life. How to balance strict medical procedures with the patient's real crisis? Can a doctor conceal a patient's condition in order to better treat him or her? The doctors in the play will argue red-faced due to conflicting ideas, and these questions also touch the hearts of the audience. Yang Guilan, who ignores the doctor's advice and eats snacks secretly, is optimistic and strong, but Qiangwei, who cares about her husband, deliberately refuses the doctor's surgical advice. The complicated states and moods of different patients in the play when facing diseases are quite representative and sad. These cases weave together the various aspects of life and emotional entanglements, and multiple moral and ethical tests reveal the depth of emotion and the complexity of human nature. The series throws out anchor points one by one to cause the audience to think about social reality, while the choices after hesitation and persistence under pressure give the audience positive energy.
In terms of character creation, "Ask the Heart" also abandons the previous stereotypes of doctors, replacing the flat, facial-like images of doctors with rich and three-dimensional "round" characters, showing the complexity of doctors as "people" and three-dimensional. Lin Yi has treated many patients, but he is deeply troubled by the heart disease inherited in his family; Zhou Xiaofeng is cautious, calm, tolerant and tolerant, but will also get angry when patients conceal their history of infectious diseases and endanger colleagues and relatives; Fang Xiaoran, the "group favorite" of the department, He treats patients like a warm spring breeze, and shows determination, courage and no hesitation when it comes to feelings. "Ask the Heart" shows the reality and complexity of the characters from multiple dimensions, complementing the highly realistic cases and plots. Whether it is the persistence and promotion of professional ethics, or the observation and thinking of social ethics, "Ask the Heart" shows valuable realist character.
Created with ingenuity, exploring a new paradigm of realistic theme creation
Previously, Ningmeng has launched a number of dramas that are of public concern and can reflect social emotions through themes such as education and life. This time, Ning Meng innovates the expression of themes, turns the perspective of realism creation to medical treatment, a topic of great national concern, and uses ingenuity to continue Ning Meng's experience in creating realism themes. Screenwriter Zhou Yifei mentioned in an interview that the creative team has always maintained a "tremendous awe" in creation. In the early stages of creation, they visited more than ten tertiary A hospitals, had in-depth exchanges with nearly 50 front-line cardiologists, and added more than 130 medical staff. WeChat, and invited a number of medical consultants to follow up the entire creation process, striving for excellence from the outline to the script, from case selection to the consideration of every line. The creative team not only built an 8,000-square-meter real-life hospital scene of "old, middle-aged, and young people" from different eras, of which the heart center department and ICU studio cover an area of 3,000 square meters, and purchased and rented more than 200 professional medical devices such as ventilators, anesthesia machines, ECMO, and CRRT. Equipment, every surgical scene and every professional action during the filming process was professionally guided by senior doctors from tertiary tertiary hospitals. They were even filmed in the operating room of a real tertiary hospital for 25 days, with a total of 491T of footage shot. Ingenuity leads the audience to experience professionalism.
If the solid and rigorous content and production have established the overall temperament of "Asking the Heart" that is deeply rooted in life and close to reality, then the actors' superb interpretations will present this ingenuity to the audience more concretely and intuitively. Before the filming of the series started, the protagonists entered multiple tertiary hospitals for internship and observation for more than a month. They followed doctors for consultation and treatment, learned how to communicate with patients, and accumulated experience. After a period of practice, the protagonists have not only become professional and proficient in medical operations such as tying knots and sewing blood vessels, but are also familiar with many medical rules and terminology, giving "Ask the Heart" a real sense of life in the details. At the same time, truly observing and experiencing the busyness and hardships, principles and professional attitudes of doctors deepened the actors' understanding of the inner and emotional world of doctors and their recognition of doctors' professional ethics, thus making the image of doctors they create more real and realistic. moving.
Transmit power and give full play to the social value of literary and artistic works
Medical care is closely related to everyone's life. In an era when health issues are increasingly valued, Ningmeng cares about the needs of the public, cares about social sentiments, and strives to create literary and artistic works that resonate with the times. "Ask the Heart" focuses on the multiple relationships between hospitals, doctors, and patients, allowing more people to understand the true appearance of the doctor's workplace. It also infuses concerns about health and thinking about life into the plot and characters, going deep into life and people's hearts, and truly completing The emotional progression from reality in the human world to sobriety in the human world and then to caring in the human world.
The creative team of "Ask the Heart" has always adhered to a rigorous creative attitude and solid professional skills. The twists and turns of the storyline and the plump and three-dimensional characters not only popularize medical knowledge to the audience, but also subtly guide the audience to strengthen their awareness of their own health. Paying attention will allow the audience to gain the strength to move forward. Zhou Xiaofeng's "rules" hide deep valuing and reverence for life and rules. Fang Xiaoran's great love and benevolence convey warmth and strength. Behind Lin Yi's "paranoia" is his enthusiasm for saving lives and healing the wounded, and his pursuit of ideals. Persistence and determination. The tenacity and tenacity shown by patients and family members in fighting against the disease also has profound power that touches people's hearts, which is both comforting and inspiring to the audience. As special starring Jin Shijia said, "Life is difficult, but don't lose hope." It encourages people to be self-satisfied, face and enjoy life actively and calmly, and perceive the beauty of life.
This time, Ningmeng Film and Television created the first contemporary care drama "Ask the Heart" with medical as the background. It adheres to the quality of creation, advocates professionalism, and cuts into the medical issues of widespread concern to the whole people with sophisticated production and strong quality of life. In the future, Ningmeng will also continue to work on realist themes and explore new ideas of realist expression and new paradigms of industry theme creation through more social cuts. At the same time, "Ask the Heart" also hopes to provide guidance at the social ethics level, deeply implement the people-centered mission of art serving the public and serving society, convey energy to the public, provide emotional comfort, and actively exert the social value of literary and artistic works. .
