Jimu News Chief Reporter Zhang Cong
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the entry "New Year's Quarrel" unexpectedly ranked first in the hot search. In this entry with more than 240 million views, netizens shared many stories about the causes of ongoing quarrels. They are all trivial matters, but among them, deep-seated family phenomena such as "habitual dissatisfaction" and "wanting to control each other" have made many people feel the same way. "Celebrating a festival is a disaster."
's particularly representative "tribulation" scene also appeared in a new drama released during the Spring Festival - you guessed it, it was the one that the audience commented "Xu Fan's acting is so good, so good" I feel like I saw my mom's " fireworks and other people's " on TV.
Reunion Banquet "Shura Field"?
A real Chinese-style family is about to emerge
It is very appropriate for the occasion. "Fireworks", which will be broadcast on February 13, begins with New Year's Eve. This day is also the birthday of Qiao Haiyun (played by Song Chunli), the patriarch of the Meng family in the play.
It was a reunion banquet and a birthday banquet, but the eldest granddaughter Li Yijin (Ma Sichun) chose to suddenly rebel. She broke the rule set by her grandma that "Meng's daughters must go home for the New Year" and hid it from her mother Meng Mingwei ( Xu Fan (played by Xu Fan) followed her boyfriend Zhou Wen to the Northeast to celebrate the New Year. This decision made the Meng family's New Year's dinner no longer peaceful. On the one hand, the sensitive Meng Mingwei endured the huge pressure of her mother asking "Where are the clothes?" On the other hand, she was furious because her daughter was out of her control. On the other hand, she came to wish her mother a birthday Meng Mingwei's younger sister Meng Wanqing (played by Liang Jing) has been showing off that her daughter Tao Shuna (played by Sun Qian) has been admitted to the doctorate, which makes Meng Mingwei feel even more uncomfortable.
The things about a Chinese-style family and the different ways of getting along between Chinese couples appear one after another at this dinner table - Meng Mingwei's husband Li Chengzhi ( Li Chengru ) is deaf to what is going on outside the window and only sees stock trading. ; Meng Wanqing and her husband Tao Dalei (played by Liu Jun) seem to be in harmony in front of their daughters, but in fact they have already separated. Tao Dalei fully relies on Meng Wanqing to support the family but always suspects that the relationship between his wife and his old classmate and boss is unclear; the third daughter Meng Yi'an (played by Li Xiaoran) is the person who enjoys her husband's thoughtfulness and concern the most at the dinner table, but in fact, she and Qiu Xia (played by Song Ningfeng) have already divorced...
In just half an episode, "Fireworks" focuses on birthday parties and reunion banquets. The three generations of the Meng family get along with each other in their daily lives, and the emotional difficulties encountered by each person are already revealed. In the following plot, Meng Mingwei and Li Yijin's "Chinese mother-daughter" way of getting along, Meng Mingwei's "tying up" to her daughter "Love" and the reasons behind this love, Li Yijin's pain, various escapes and self-growth, made many viewers sigh that they "really saw themselves."
A "mirror" of East Asian mothers and daughters
Full of tender maternal love, Xu Fan's performance
allows the audience to see themselves in the plot, thanks to the solid cast of "Fireworks". Xu Fan can be called the anchor in "Fireworks". It is worth mentioning that "Meng Mingwei" in "Fireworks" should be Xu Fan's important role in a TV series again after "Youth 40" in 2012. From screen to screen, Xu Fan devoted his acting skills accumulated over many years to the complex mother character of Meng Mingwei, vividly demonstrating the character's "crossing the line" but also making people feel for her.
As the story of "Fireworks" unfolds, Meng Mingwei, who was born with a disability, gradually shows the "oppression" of a wife and an ordinary person in addition to maternal love. The reason why Meng Mingwei became Meng Mingwei is that behind her physical and mental exhaustion, hoarse voice, and unreasonable , it is her inferiority complex due to her body, and she is a selfish and indifferent husband. Douban netizen "Mu Nan" mentioned that the mother played by Xu Fan this time made people "see her banging her head and bleeding and working so hard, but I still couldn't help but feel sorry for her." Some viewers also mentioned that through the mother played by Xu Fan, For this character, "Why her native family is like this has been answered in a deeper way", "Her entire life depends on her daughter, and she needs to establish her own identity by becoming a 'mother'."
In addition to Xu Fan, Ma Sichun also successfully performed Li Yijin's sense of fragmentation and struggle under his mother's excessive control; Liang Jing and Sun Qian's performances set a template for a "friend-like mother-daughter relationship". At the same time, The male group portraits performed by actors such as Li Chengru, Liu Jun, Song Ningfeng and others in the play are indeed very representative.
Among these group portraits, "Fireworks" also completed a breakthrough in realistic group portrait dramas - on social platforms Some viewers mentioned that this drama can be called a "mirror" of East Asian mothers and daughters. At the same time, the contradictions and conflicts between them are "elegant". The logic of the story is not "overcoming" but "confronting". No Instead of deliberately stacking fierce conflicts, each character's confusion and problems, as well as the compromise and perseverance when getting along with family members are interpreted in a relaxed and humorous atmosphere, making "Fireworks" closer to life and more real and perceptible.
( The picture is the public release material of "Fireworks")
(Source: Jimu News)
