On the evening of February 26, the TV series "Aftermarriage" premiered in a single episode on Hong Kong TVB Jade Channel. This TV series stars actors such as Li Nuoyi and Chen Ziyao, and tells the emotional story of a couple. After the first episode was aired, the TV series received unanimous five-star reviews on Douban. This kind of uniformity is not common in Hong Kong dramas. Obviously, "After Marriage" has something special.
Its biggest advantage is that a divorce story is told by multiple people from multiple perspectives. This narrative method is still relatively new, and many viewers have not seen it before. The same story told by different people from different perspectives will indeed produce different emotional biases. This is probably the most attractive aspect of the show.
The first episode of "After Marriage" tells the divorce story from the perspective of the male protagonist. The male protagonist is a lecturer in the university and is responsible for teaching the history of Chinese literature. From his narrative perspective, the reason why he failed to become a professor at a fixed university was because he needed to take care of his family and enable his wife to pursue a career. From the perspective of the male protagonist, the couple used to be very loving. Every year, his daughter and his wife would celebrate his birthday together.
However, suddenly one day, his wife filed for divorce from him. Of course he disagrees and has been fighting for the chance for his wife to change her mind. However, his wife did not give him this chance. In desperation, the hero and heroine began to go to court to seek a judicial solution. The male protagonist is obviously in a relatively aggrieved state during this marriage. After the lawyer
intervened, the actor added additional content. The male protagonist’s father is not tolerated by the female protagonist. The heroine spent money to send the old man to a nursing home without consulting the hero. As for the male protagonist, he once had an emotional entanglement with another woman outside. After being discovered by his wife, he decided to return to his family. In the story from the perspective of the male protagonist, he is indeed the victim of this marriage, and he can only borrow money to fight for the divorce lawsuit and fight for the custody of his daughter.
In the following plot content, there should be a narrative from the heroine's perspective. We can guess that in the story from the female protagonist's perspective, the male protagonist's extramarital affair will definitely be brought up and focused on. Even though the male protagonist has returned to the family, he is still obsessed with evil. And the male protagonist’s father is not a fuel saver either. The reason why the heroine sent him to a nursing home was because the old man drank too much, took out loan sharks, etc. From the perspective of the female protagonist,
will tell the audience how a once good wife and mother was forced by the male protagonist to become a resentful wife who wanted to get divorced immediately. Narration from this perspective will probably make many female viewers angry. If many viewers think the heroine is immoral when watching the first episode, then many viewers will definitely change their stance after watching the second episode. That’s what’s interesting about the show.
Let me boldly predict that in the third episode, it will definitely be a third party’s perspective, and the story may be beneficial to the male protagonist. The audience can once again see how a good husband is forced by his wife to cheat on him. After unable to find spiritual comfort from his wife, he had no choice but to go out to find it. It is estimated that many male viewers will accept this narrative approach. By the way, it probably won't do any harm for wives to be gentle at home. After reading this sentence, some men must have started to smile evilly.
In the next plot, there will definitely be a twist, and even the extramarital affair of the heroine will appear. You can rest assured that this kind of reversal mode is what this kind of multi-perspective TV series needs most. There will definitely be a lot of content that the audience can't think of. Therefore, viewers who follow the drama must remember that in this type of TV drama, do not take sides immediately, otherwise, you will be slapped in the face later.
For many viewers, they have never seen such a multi-perspective narrative work. Even some viewers do not have the ability to examine issues from outside their own perspective.Therefore, the TV series "After Marriage" has cultivated some viewers to a certain extent, letting them know that looking at issues from different perspectives can indeed lead to different conclusions. In particular, it is very necessary to look out of one's own perspective and examine problems.
I used to think that it is a very simple thing to look at problems outside of one's own perspective. Later, I met some people and suddenly discovered that in fact, many people cannot do this seemingly simple thing. What our education wants to achieve is the ability to look at problems outside of one's own perspective. I remember one year’s college entrance examination, the essay topic was “Closeness and Cognition”. This question should have stumped many college entrance examination students that year.
The TV series "After Marriage" uses multiple perspectives to narrate the story, which must be enlightening for the audience. I especially want to recommend this play to the audience who can’t write the college entrance examination essay “Intimacy and Cognition”. (Text/Ma Qingyun)
