" Fireworks " Meng Mingwei can be said to have "become a monster" for nearly 30 episodes. Basically, the viewers who follow the show are more or less offended by the way Meng Mingwei acts as a mother. Meng Mingwei's previous characters can be said to have brought together the shortcomings of various mothers, creating an objectionable mother character to the extreme. At least, she is no longer considered a "normal person".
In real life, being half as controlling and worrying as she is would be enough to make people suffocate. As a result, the play seemed to put the word "outrageous" directly on Meng Mingwei's forehead. The most suffocating part of Meng Mingwei's early stage was her repeated "attacks". Especially like a mentally ill person who suddenly roared hysterically at his daughter, and even jumped up and beat her.
I personally cannot relate to and understand what Meng Mingwei did before. If there really was such a mother, there is a high probability that she would not be able to raise a daughter as emotionally stable as Li Yijin. Li Yijin didn't have a mental breakdown. I think she has great ability to withstand stress. It's really not easy for her to remain rational when her mother tramples on her self-esteem, invades her privacy, and even almost loses her job.
Meng Mingwei's previous "desire to control" Li Yijin was actually illogical. She had no idea what her daughter needed most. She simply felt that suppressing her daughter was the right thing to do. For example, in her eyes, her daughter’s hairstyle is wrong, her daughter’s job is wrong, her daughter’s choice of friends is wrong, and her daughter’s person is also wrong.
The considerate native family will indeed make many parents object. However, Meng Mingwei just objected out of habit, and happened to come across a "correct answer". When we watch her face Liao Zhe, we can see that she has no idea what type of man she wants her daughter to choose.
Compared with whether this man will be good to her daughter, she is more concerned about whether her daughter can stay with her in the future. For example, although she originally thought Liao Zhe was excellent, once she heard that Liao Zhe might take his daughter abroad, she would not hesitate to deny the marriage.
Such a self-centered mother finally began to change because of her divorce from her husband. The plot was really too idealistic at the end, which made me feel that her "crazy" attitude was a bit fake. We often say that a country is easy to change but its nature is hard to change. Meng Mingwei's transformation at the end suddenly made me feel a little strange. The change before and after was huge, and he suddenly became reasonable and considerate.
In order to rationalize Meng Mingwei's improvement, Li Chengzhi was specially used to attract firepower. For example, letting Li Chengzhi hurt Meng Mingwei can make the audience change their view of Meng Mingwei and even sympathize with Meng Mingwei. However, I still haven’t figured out the brain circuit of the character Li Chengzhi. Why did he marry Meng Mingwei?
Li Chengzhi is also a very bad person with no logic. When he was young, he was favored by Meng Mingwei's mother. Not only did he not appreciate her, he also domestically abused the old lady's eldest daughter. Assuming that Li Chengzhi is really a bad guy, then isn't she just after the woman's property? Why doesn't he play the role of a good son-in-law? Instead, he bullies the mother-in-law's daughter when she is at the height of her power. According to the situation at the time, the old lady was both Li Chengzhi's leader and his mother-in-law. How could he have the courage to confront her?
Also, the fact that Li Chengzhi has hated the old lady for decades is so small that it can almost be ignored. Li Chengzhi pushed down the old lady's daughter and almost caused Meng Mingwei to miscarry. I thought the old lady asked the crowd to beat him, and he would hold a grudge for the rest of his life. As a result, he was left to carry the goods alone, and he held a grudge for the rest of his life. This was too illogical. He was the first to take the blame and claimed that he had been wronged. If a grown man moves a few things, he won't hold a grudge for the rest of his life.
The screenwriter's finale is to "whitewash" Meng Mingwei. The more suffocating the previous plot is, the more fragmented the subsequent plot will be. If a person really changed so easily, there wouldn't be so many painful families of origin.In fact, this drama has exaggerated so many suffocating plots in the past, but in the end nothing was resolved. Meng Mingwei suddenly woke up, and everyone "made dumplings" together in the end.
In short, after watching the plot until the end, I felt that the ending was very hasty. Meng Mingwei had lived for more than fifty years without realizing anything. Suddenly he got divorced and his whole face became radiant. In fact, if her character design in the early stage was not so overdone, the finale would still be quite sweet. However, when I think about how she "tortured" her daughter for more than thirty years and finally suddenly became "deeply affectionate as mother and daughter," it is too unrealistic and idealistic.
