New Year brings new atmosphere, but many viewers were angered by the mother image in two urban dramas:
One is "If Running Is My Life" which caused a lot of heated discussions some time ago, and the other is "Fireworks" which is about to end "People".
Both works are conscientious works gathered by big names. In addition to popular stars, there are also many "veteran drama stars" joining the cast. They are worthy of recommendation in terms of concept, highlights and acting skills.
However, Chen Xiaoyi and Xu Fan, who play the two mothers in the play, seem to have a tacit understanding of expressing "suffocating love" vividly.
Compared with the early popular films such as Fan Shengmei's "Ode to Joy", Fang Sijin's "Settle Down", Bonnie's "Perfect Relationship" and other mothers who constantly rely on "blood-sucking" their daughters, the "new track" created by Xu Fan is another Kind of suffocating.
They have unreserved love for their children, but this love is mixed with selfishness, strength and control.
Today, we will take stock of the "alternative mothers" who used the banner of "love" in past film and television dramas to see who is the weirdest, and who is still "saveable"?
1. Xu Fan's "Fireworks"
Classic line: "I gave birth to you, do you have a conscience?"
"Fireworks" is Xu Fan's TV series after starring in "A Tree of Peach Blossoms" in 2017.
But no one expected that the 57-year-old would return again as a "suffocating mother".
Many viewers commented on Xu Fan's performance in the play, in addition to her poor character design, some actually questioned her acting skills and lines.
crew, she and her daughter Li Yijin, played by Ma Sichun, are simply incompatible.
Meng Mingwei, played by Xu Fan, is the eldest of three daughters. However, since she is not her biological child and has been lame since childhood, she has unimaginable expectations for her daughter Li Yijin, hoping to achieve her goal of being proud because of her success.
Therefore, the "war" between mother and daughter continued:
She first stopped the relationship between Li Yijin and her boyfriend, and intervened forcefully under the banner of "for your own good".
On the other hand, Meng Mingwei also regarded Tao Shuna, the daughter of his second sister Meng Wanqing, as an "imaginary enemy". He often used her to suppress his daughter, often saying: "You and Nana learn..."
This is not the most suffocating thing - except When it comes to love, this mother also controls her daughter in all aspects, suppresses her career, resigns for her behind her daughter's back, and even goes to the workplace to stage a large-scale forced abortion on the spot.
After ruining her daughter's love, she began to force marriage again, poking her daughter's heart with every sentence:
"You are almost 30 years old, do you think you can still choose slowly?"
But this is not because of not being able to Love, but too much love - the most hateful thing about Meng Mingwei is that she is so harsh on her daughter, but she has no say in her useless husband, and she lives a submissive life, never feeling loved.
So she projected everything onto her daughter and controlled her with suffocating love. The reason was: she hoped that she would not live like herself in the future.
But this kind of love is full of accusations, suppression, cruelty, and even "crazy" love, which makes people look very uncomfortable.
Many viewers also felt sorry for Ma Sichun, who plays the daughter: "She already suffers from depression. Can she take on a sunny and cheerful role?"
And this just shows that Xu Fan's acting skills are indeed amazing. She has been in the industry for more than 30 years, and has created many roles. There have been many classic images.
But in recent years, she has gradually reduced her production, and the TV series she plays are basically supporting roles, with not many scenes.
"Fireworks" is a rare starring role for her, but she played such an "annoying" character, and she chose to sacrifice for art.
2. Chen Xiaoyi's classic line from "If Running Is My Life"
: "If you don't go on a blind date, I will starve to death!"
Chen Xiaoyi, who is 1 year younger than Xu Fan, was famous for starring in the TV series "Foreign Girl" 33 years ago. Being popular, it is the "White Moonlight" in the hearts of many father-generation audiences.
After that, she successively produced works such as "Halfway Couple". It is worth mentioning that she also starred in the TV series version of "Tangshan Earthquake" in 2013, playing the role of Li Yuanni, the mother who had been played by Xu Fan.
After that, Chen Xiaoyi successfully transformed into a "professional mother" and played mothers with different personalities in many film and television dramas.
But no one expected that she, who always looks gentle and kind, would also play a weird mother who is extremely controlling.
In "If Running Is My Life", which has been on the screen a few days ago due to the topic of "the third child", Chen Xiaoyi challenged to play the role of Chen Xiuli, a middle-aged woman who lost her husband and her son.
This is a typical patriarchal mother with a strong desire to control:
Before her son Chen Ruoxuan passed away, she showed all her desire to control on him, causing him to have a stress reaction to the exam, and repeatedly Want to commit suicide.
After Chen Ruoxuan died unexpectedly, Chen Xiuli transferred all her love to her daughter Chen Ruohua, played by Yang Chaoyue.
Originally, Ruohua was looking forward to maternal love, but unexpectedly she fell into the abyss of suffocation.
In the beginning, the mother was meddling in the name of love, even small things like when her daughter would eat and go to bed.
Especially when Chen Ruohua was going back to school, Chen Xiuli used various reasons to ask to go with her and live in the school, which caused huge trouble to her daughter's social relationships.
In particular, Hengjia interfered in the relationship between her daughter and her boyfriend Zhou Kaize:
She initially followed and pried, and later directly staged a hunger strike, forced marriage and other dramas to experience the lines of suffocating her mother.
The daughter said: "You are using yourself as a hostage to kidnap me."
Chen Xiuli immediately replied: "Then just break it up. I know that you have long wanted me to die so that you can get rid of me as a burden... …"
This back and forth made the audience exclaim "sad":
felt wronged by Ruohua, but seemed very powerless.
Fortunately, the other mother and daughter in this drama, Zhao Xiufang and Cheng Anxin, have a lot of positive energy to understand and support each other, which can give the audience some spiritual comfort.
3. Chen Jin's "Dear Mayang Street", "My World's Fireworks" and other
classic lines: "What kind of science should girls study?"
Actress Chen Jin, who is just 60 years old this year, is also a famous "old drama star" One of them is still the "bad mother professional" among netizens.
Her temperament is different from that of Xu Fan and Chen Xiaoyi. She always gives people a feeling of independence, calmness, clarity and calmness, so playing a mother will also give people a cold and suffocating feeling.
Chen Jin has played many mothers:
From Dong Guilan, who adopted Fang Deng in the movie version of "Tangshan Earthquake", to the patriarchal Zhao Meilan in "Everything Is Good", and in "Do you know whether you should be green, fat, red and thin?" "Princess Pingning...
Especially in the TV series "Dear Mayang Street" broadcast in 2020, Chen Jin once again almost perfectly interpreted the image of a mother who binds her daughter with love.
In the drama, she plays Niu Zilai, a top-notch middle-aged woman in Mayang Street - strong, traditional and mature, but because she is too good, she suffers at the best age.
At the bottom of his life, Niu Zilai met the mediocre Ma Yingjun, the father of the heroine Ma Xiaoxiao. The two got married and had a daughter, and lived a peaceful life.
But this mother did not become a strong support for her daughter just because she was caught in the rain when she was young. Instead, she became a stumbling block for her everywhere.
Ma Xiaoxiao, played by Tan Songyun, has very good grades. She could have chosen a more promising science subject in high school, but was blocked by her mother's unauthorized belief that "girls should study literature."
In addition, her daughter fell in love with Ou Xiaojian, a boy from the same street. However, Niu Zilai thought that the man was an unlearned bastard, so he often intervened forcefully to stop her.
After that, she often prevented the two from meeting each other by saying, "I am doing this for your own good." She even used the excuse that "girls can't take care of themselves outside" to prevent her daughter from getting admitted to Peking University, which made her and Ou Xiaojian no longer possible.
In last year's summer vacation "My World's Fireworks," Chen Jin once again played a depressing mother figure.
In the play, she plays Fu Wenying, who imposes the grudges of the previous generation on her children. When she was young, she forcefully prevented the heroine Xu Qin and Song Yan, played by Yang Yang, from getting together.
It turned out that Song's mother had a relationship with Fu Wenying's husband Meng Huaijin, which almost caused her marriage to break up. Moreover, he had regarded the other person as his "white moonlight" for many years.
Because of this, Fu Wenying vented her hatred on Song Yan and prevented him from being with her adopted daughter at every turn.
Not only that, after she discovered that her son Meng Yanchen had feelings for Xu Qin, she forcefully asked the girl to change her surname without considering the other person's feelings.
Regarding her daughter’s career, Fu Wenying also pointed out that girls should not be doctors, and said that girls should put family first after getting married...
She also used pua to try to control her adopted daughter:
"A bowl of porridge, Are you going to die and not remember the kindness of your parents?"
There is no doubt that Chen Jin's acting skills are so great, so whenever she appears in a family-themed work, people will feel their hair standing on end.
4. Shi Yueling's "Dear Child"
classic line: "You are just like your father, the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked. Disgusting!"
The emotional drama "Dear Child" broadcast in 2022 also aroused the attention of many viewers. There was a strong response, especially because the male and female protagonists divorced because of their "mistress" Zhu Zhu, and the other party even staged a drama of forced uterus at their daughter's full moon banquet.
At that time, everyone was focused on Zhu Zhu’s native family and her controlling mother.
Actress Shi Yueling plays Mother Zhu, a strong woman with a strong personality.
In the early years, she raised her daughter alone because of her husband's cheating, so she was very strict with her, and she even had to use a commanding tone when asking her to drink soy milk and milk.
Not only that, she is also willing to use her own logic of "dang shame" to accuse her daughter:
"Girls with ability don't need these (lipstick) at all. If you look good, who can you show it to? You won't be allowed to do that in the future." Put on makeup!"
Perhaps, most of the reasons behind Zhu Zhu's choice to be the "mistress" of the male protagonist Xiao Lu come from the suffocating mother-daughter relationship - she found a kind of psychological comfort in Xiao Lu.
Some people also think that Zhu Zhu's rebellion was a revenge against her mother from beginning to end.
In response to this, Zhu’s mother did not look for reasons within herself. Instead, she insulted her daughter:
“I have provided you with the best education since you were a child. What have you learned? You did such a shameless thing, you It’s not embarrassing, I’m still embarrassed. Did I train you to be a talented person so that you can destroy other people’s families and work as mistresses?"
In the end, what the mother cares about most is not why her daughter does this, but how she is. Doing so has a negative impact on your reputation.
5. Xu Meiling's "Female Psychologist"
Classic line: "You are the flesh that fell off my body, you have to tell me everything you do!"
In the popular healing drama "Female Psychologist" last year, Li Meng played Jiang Jing is a 30-year-old "good girl", but she has too much pressure hidden in her heart.
All this is also due to the fact that she has a very repressive and strong mother:
Jiang's mother Zhang Lizi, played by Xu Meiling, felt very embarrassed because she was abandoned by her husband.
Like many mothers in single-parent families who are overly dependent on their children, Zhang Lizi also regards her daughter as everything, hopes that her daughter will become a phoenix, and hopes that her daughter will become "someone else's child."
She forced her daughter to learn piano, and often kidnapped her daughter with meals: she couldn't eat until she finished playing this piece.
Moreover, she was very meticulous about her daughter's diet and daily life, which resulted in Jiang Jing not having any absolute freedom for a single day from the time she was young to the age of 30.
In desperation, she vented her anger by overeating, and learned to "do one thing in front of others and another behind her back" - she was a good girl with her mother, but became a wild girl outside.
Until one day when her mother broke into her, she did not reflect on herself, but instead asked her:
"Did you tell me when you went out? Look at the people around you, what do they look like?"
All this caused Jiang Jing to explode. She complained loudly to her mother, but still could only get one sentence in exchange:
"Mom just wants you to be well..."
The above suffocating mothers each have their own shortcomings, especially they seem to be completely unable to understand being of the same sex. What does the daughter want?
Even though he has already lived with his daughter once, he still tortures the people closest to him in the name of "love", which is helpless.
And did you empathize while watching the drama?
No matter what, I still hope that everyone can have an open-minded and warm mother who can express love in a more rational and appropriate way.
