It’s funny. Just by hearing the name, I always thought that "We Are Not Kind Enough" and " The Distance Between Us and Evil " are dramas on the same track. I have been looking forward to it for a long time with the excitement of "Is Yuan Xiangqin going to break the law?" .
After all, one of the greatest strengths of Taiwanese dramas is that they are never afraid of giving subtle hints of humanity, and legal dramas are the best among them.
has a very strong cast, and there is almost no movie on my resume that I don’t like to watch.
So when I finished the first few episodes of "Tiger Pounces on Food", I felt like Qi Guiren rushed to Dr. Wen to investigate the affair and found out that King Guo was found.
Indeed, I didn’t expect to tell such a story.
as a whole is not comparable to "With Evil", but its portrayal of people is not unsatisfactory.
When I wrote this article, the Douban score of "Business" has soared from 8.6 to 9.0, and some books and blogs also exclaimed that "Taiwanese dramas have reached the next level."
Let me give you a quick review first:
likes "Unkindness" very much, but the next level is open to discussion.
The emotion of "unexpectedly" actually brings joy and surprise. Today we will show two flowers, one on each side.
Let’s talk about joy first.
One of the things I love about "Kushka" is its brilliant portrayal of female jealousy.
This is also the key word of the whole story.
There are many stories of twin flowers falling in love and killing each other, but it is rare to see one as a "strong woman" and the other as a "baby mother".
Ariel Lin 's Jian Qingfen and Rebecca, played by Tiffany Hsu, were once colleagues and fell in love with the same man He Ruizhi.
To be more precise, it was He Ruizhi, the man who Jian Qingfen fell in love with Rebecca. Isn't
a very old-fashioned setting?
According to convention, the story should start from here and end with the wedding of any one of them.
But the narrative angle of "Business" is not here.
sets the main story several years later, on the married life of He Ruizhi and Jian Qingfen.
Yes, the "female competition" is over, but looking at the face of the "winner", you will know that the story has just begun.
Theoretically, Jian Qingfen should have obtained the life he wanted at this time.
A good husband, a good child, a good place to live.
But the calmer the days, the less peaceful her heart becomes:
It's too ordinary, too trivial, and too repetitive.
Yesterday, today and tomorrow are like copy and paste.
She was so calm that she was even grateful to her difficult mother-in-law, who was more cunning than anything else, but it still made some ripples in her life.
She wanted a goal and a little excitement, so she thought of her "old enemy" Rebecca again.
Under the influence of social software, Jian Qingfen built Rebecca's life, which is wonderful as "having 18 million, there are new surprises every day".
Then every night in front of the blue light from the computer screen, I felt what kind of life it was.
As I write this, I feel like I should tell you about the Taiwanese version of "Malevolence".
but it doesn't.
Jian Qingfen did nothing and couldn't do anything. She was just secretly jealous and fantasizing.
Real life is still like that, in the orbit, between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law.
would just have visions of Rebecca between the day-to-day work at hand, and then be stung by her warmth in the vision, and long for her.
Such a boring "jealous wife", right? But I just love it.
I know what movies and TV shows were keen to portray in the past about jealous wives, who pull their hair, slap their mouths, and use all the words and inks to express their appearance. I wish I could have filmed ten Little Times movies in one go. It would be exciting for the audience, but it would only be exciting. .
When I think about it after a while, I will remember the pouring of red wine and some cheap and low-handed verbal battles. What is the reason for
? Can not remember.
You don’t know why but you are furious and hurt.
This is not so much a portrayal of jealousy as it is an attempt to satisfy the spectacle of "Lu Ziqiao loves to watch women fight".
But the jealousy in "Unkindness" is strong on the inside and light on the outside.
From Jian Qingfen’s perspective.
Everyone could see her bitterness towards Rebecca, but from beginning to end, she rarely made any moves that could be called "fighting".
How does she show jealousy? By doing some "observation reports" on the couple's life in front of He Ruizhi from time to time.
For example, after Rebecca brought fish soup to He's mother who was in the hospital and was disliked, Jian Qingfen said:
For example, when Rebecca got a promotion and a salary increase, Jian Qingfen said to He Ruizhi:
Another example was when the two broke up because of He's mother, and He Ruizhi spoke to her different mothers. , Jian Qingfen said:
Some people say that Jian Qingfen who speaks this way is described as green tea, but I don’t really agree.
Tea art mostly relies on the ability of editing and deduction, making up the other party's arrogance and acting out one's own weakness, which Jian does not have.
She is indeed telling the facts. These facts are harsh, not because of hypocrisy, but because from God's perspective, we know that her heart is not pure. The conflict between
rebecca and He Ruizhi was never caused by Jian Qingfen. To put it bluntly, she was the one who got involved inexplicably.
Because neither Rebecca nor He Ruizhi could find anyone, she had no choice but to go to help, which led to various subsequent incidents.
If it were any other friend of He Ruizhi who was involved in the conflicts between the young couple, it would be much more reasonable to sigh, "You should think carefully about whether you two are suitable for marriage."
Of course, I am not saying that Jian Qingfen is completely blameless for the breakdown of the relationship between the two. What I want to say is that most jealousy will not turn into a fight, and the influence of jealousy does not have to be through the breakup of the relationship. The head flower shows.
The explanation of this point of view in the play is a bit awkward, using the famous physics thought experiment:
Schrödinger's cat.
This cat was originally in a superposition state of both dead and alive in the black box, but when someone opened the black box and started observing, it collapsed into either of the states.
So the observation itself changes the world.
Observation comes from jealousy, and observation is jealousy.
observation report is Jian Qingfen’s jealousy.
She doesn't have those "fights" in the traditional sense. At most, she just highlights the key points of the conflict between the two in red, and then lingers and exists as a "solution to the conflict."
is enough to become the strongest catalyst for the breakdown of their relationship.
But still, she is not the root cause. If the above paragraph makes you feel terrible, it is not the horror of Jian Qingfen, it is the horror of jealousy.
Returning to the post-marriage timeline, Jian Qingfen views Rebecca as an adult on the Internet, and the same is true.
Even though she was already jealous in her heart and imagined that the other party was passionate about her man, Jian Qingfen came back to her senses and was only worried about the sheets.
Some people think this is very unreasonable. They are so jealous that they are delirious and have to go up and tear it up.
Even before she came to her senses, her expression was not angry, but thirsty.
But this is where the portrayal of jealousy in "Abstract" is excellent.
It describes the core, subtlest and most easily ignored emotion of "jealousy":
cannot bear to be destroyed.
Many people’s understanding of jealousy is that “you want to destroy something because you can’t get it.” You cannot be wrong, but in fact this is just the worst form of jealousy, and it is easy to misunderstand it, thinking that the core motivation of jealousy is “not getting it.” arrive".
is actually not the case.
The core of jealousy is "I want".
's so-called "destruction" is not the same as jealousy, but a deformed behavior caused by the extreme anger of "not getting it".
Most jealousies do not reach this step, not because they don’t believe in the evil of human nature, but because they dare not underestimate people’s desire for “what they want”. If
is destroyed, you will really get nothing.
Don’t be unfamiliar, this belief also comes from jealousy, and it is even the root of jealousy, the “I want” part of jealousy.
In the long period of mutual jealousy between the two girls, the desire to "become" often defeats the desire to "destruct".
And this is the real female power, a power that transcends the "jealous wife" defined by patriarchy, a power that escapes from the cycle of patriarchal "control" and "oppression".
This kind of becoming will eventually even lead to mutual support.
It’s not because of a very plastic sentence of sisterly love, but because of the deep understanding that “you have to move forward so that I can have a direction.”
The background of the times is different. It is unlikely that Jian Qingfen’s jealousy of Rebecca will have such a heroic feeling, but the essence is. It's also very similar.
Many people think that if Jian Qingfen is allowed to see Rebecca's true condition, she will gain the upper hand. I am really speechless.
She needs Rebecca in her own construction, that is her goal. She will not destroy or attack Rebecca excessively, because deep down she understands that this will only make her life return to mediocrity.
The target and the imaginary enemy are two sides of the same coin.
Just like Elena imitates Lila's walk, Jian Qingfen also wants to follow Rebecca intentionally or unintentionally.
saw the photo of Rebecca's tattoo and got the idea of getting a tattoo.
When I saw Rebecca’s wavy hair, I got a perm myself.
rebecca's frustration is destined to mean Jian Qingfen's weightlessness.
In Jane's jealousy of Rebecca, the part of becoming is obviously higher than the part of destruction.
When savoring Rebecca's online life, her expression was one of admiration rather than hatred.
This is why I can't hate Jian Qingfen.
Her story with Rebecca is difficult to summarize in terms of female competition, because female competition refers to women who have completely lost their subjectivity competing for men. However, Jian Qingfen's jealousy towards Rebecca has always been subjective and is constantly increasing. Corresponding to
, He Ruizhi is more instrumental and objectified.
Let’s rewind the tape and find the beginning of the timeline of the entire drama. What kind of opportunity is it?
It’s not like someone fell in love with He Ruizhi at first sight.
is a match between Jian Qingfen and Rebecca.
The same long skirt, Jane tightly wraps her waist, making a long skirt in a virtuous and gentle manner.
Rebecca wears a windbreaker and wears it behind her back, and wears a belt on her back, making her feel windy when she walks.
This is just an aesthetic difference, but what is Jian Qingfen’s feeling?
is embarrassing.
This is the singular point that stimulates the explosion of Jian Qingfen's universe, and is the beginning of all subsequent stories.
Her connection with He Ruizhi also started from here.
Many people mistakenly believe that the topic of cross-dressing is a tool and deepening contact with He Ruizhi is the purpose. In fact, it is the complete opposite.
"Embarrassment" is the deepest motivation of this sentence, and contacting men and so on are just means to cover up the embarrassment.
I lose with clothes, but I can win with men.
This is not actually about "ruining" Rebecca, but when Rebecca's enthusiasm seriously impacted the "frugal and frugal life" that Jian Qingfen has believed in for many years, she was eager to find something to prove her sense of worth.
He Ruizhi is that thing.
After all, she really envied Rebecca.
was helpless and ignorant when he was young. He clearly wanted to have Rebecca's sense of subjectivity, but in the end he was given the high hat of a referee for the man.
Time passed, the illusion of self-deception dissipated, and what I dreamed about at midnight was still the untasted grapes.
Jian Qingfen cares about He Ruizhi's obsession with Rebecca, not so much because she loves He Ruizhi, but because she is "shocked that the person who proved the sour grapes in the first place seems to have lied."
It was also at this time that Jian Qingfen realized that she and Rebecca were the same person in the superposition state. Without Rebecca, there would be no Jian Qingfen.
She will not realize her own shortcomings, so she can easily blur her life under discipline. The drama
also gave many obvious hints. Their matching clothes and birthdays on the same month and day all revealed that the two were never incompatible, but rather quantum entangled.
And when the two began to observe each other, jealousy began to flow.
Everyone collapsed into their own universe.
Unfortunately, every universe is incomplete after collapse, and is a fragment of the self. Therefore, it is full of tastelessness and a pity to abandon.
Jian Qingfen is like this, and so is Rebecca.
I know there will be heroine lovers out there at this moment shouting stop.
Rebecca, who is independent and self-reliant, devoted to her career, can buy herself a house of fancy clothes, has more than NT$600,000 in savings, and has not yet entered the grave of marriage, how can the beautiful Rebecca lose herself?
is, how to say.
The domestic heroine has done a lot of harm to people.
Money is important, but having money can solve all the problems in the world. That is my father's logic.
thinks that if you don't get married, you won't be deprived of your personality by the patriarchal society. That's belittling patriarchy and belittling the plight of women.
So, please don’t rush to tell Rebecca that it doesn’t hurt.
She was obviously in pain, and the core of her pain was the part that is often covered up by the feminist slogans on the Internet today:
loneliness.
rebecca's loneliness is not only a "lack of men", but in fact she has lost the ability to establish deep relationships with anyone else.
You need to know that we emphasize independence, not independence from the world.
but the ability to maintain oneself in relationship with others.
Very simple logic, if there is no other in the world, then there is no way to talk about "self".
rebecca's wariness and instinctive distrust of others were already pathological before she met Jian Qingfen.
During her interaction with He Ruizhi, every sweet spot on her face was filled with fear of loss and illusory worry.
was confessed like this:
was proposed to like this:
So she was obviously an eagle-like woman at work, involved in life and death, but she didn’t have any firm attitude emotionally.
Her anxiety about separation has become so great that she subconsciously seeks separation to get herself out of this anxiety.
When her boyfriend proposed marriage, she took the initiative to ask her partner's mother's opinion: knowing that her partner's mother disliked her very much.
And when she heard Jian Qingfen's voice coming from the other side, she just looked frustrated and said "Sure enough," and she couldn't even get angry.
Therefore, whether she works as a mistress for the leader or as a married man's mistress, it is not out of revenge for He Ruizhi.
mostly just couldn't bear the loneliness and was worried about leaving too heavy, so he simply put himself in a lighter relationship.
But just like Jian Qingfen will not be happier after getting He Ruizhi, Rebecca will eventually be stabbed by this kind of deception.
Her envy of Jian Qingfen lies in Jian Qingfen's ability to establish sincere connections with everyone.
Don’t simply understand that the green tea bitch has the right to be a man. Jian Qingfen really has the kind of person who “the bottom line for a best friend is to have the right to know.”
The birthday scene between the two of them is enough to show that Jian Qingfen’s colleagues are much better together than Rebecca.
is not difficult to understand, after all, she is so delicate that she will praise the ootd at the front desk.
Jian Qingfen is also Rebecca’s missing fragment of herself.
When Jane fantasized about Rebecca and the little puppy having sex passionately, Rebecca shed tears in her dream because of the scene of her husband and children having sex on the bed.
The design of this scene "Zhuang Zhou Dreams of Butterflies" is quite embarrassing. Rebecca is the one who dreams, and He Ruizhi wakes up.
is not lamenting the love between He and Rebecca, but lamenting that there are two more women in the world, who have been trapped into the mold of red roses and white roses.
Of course, He will have regrets, not because of greed, but because the white and red roses are meant to be the same person, so no matter who you choose, it will not be complete.
They were forcibly split into two "half-people", one was labeled "the strong woman no one wants", and the other was labeled "the yellow-faced woman who stays at home".
by whom? Needless to say.
You can also look for it in the drama.
It’s not that I’m lazy, it’s just that the title of this drama was not chosen well.
Yes, after talking about joy, I want to talk about the "surprise" part.
After reading the above chapter, it should not be difficult to understand where the so-called "unkindness" lies in "We Are Not Kind Enough" and what kind of understanding the play wants to give.
But I still have to say that this drama title is really not the best choice.
In other words, the comparison group of "career women" and "housewives" is not the best material to show the "delicacy of human nature" in a broad sense.
The pain of being unable to balance "family" and "career" has long been a recognized false proposition.
This is why I say that this drama is not considered the next level of Taiwanese drama.
Its strength is that it accurately depicts those troubled emotions and the underlying behaviors, but for these accuracy, the God's will that the screenwriter wants to express is obviously "We are not kind, but what does it matter?"
It’s okay to put the words in Article 20, but it feels inappropriate to put them here.
After all, our thinking on the so-called "balance problem" has long transcended the context of trying women themselves (even if the trial is for acquittal).
Who made Jian Qingfen regard virtue as the right path, and who made Rebecca be classified as an "older strong woman" who is not worthy of love.
Why is this balance question always only for women, not men?
When everyone already has this answer, the plight of women can of course be shown in detail, but it will never rise to the value judgment of "kindness or not".
might as well be called "We Are Quantum Entangled".
It’s nothing more than a mere drama title. It’s my family’s opinion, just take a look at it.
When I wrote about the director controversy of "Barbarian Invasion", I talked about it. As long as the feelings are accurately portrayed, it is enough to become an excellent female work.
As for the stage of awakening of the creator, it is not important and should not be harshly criticized.
Don't forget:
Before equality comes, the fate of you and me, and the fate of all women in the world.
Who is not quantum entangled with anyone?
