The fans who were the first to praise "We Are Not Kind Enough" for "taking it to a new level" were probably the group of people who were hit hardest by the ending: they thought that the delicate script and solid performances could together usher in a drama about the growth and transcendence of female characters. At the end, unexpectedly the song came to an end, and the people in the play were still struggling with "love me or her". In this ending that is recognized as "not kind enough", the sentence "drive carefully" can make the wife who is trapped in a family life full of cold violence burst into tears, while the professional woman who has worked alone for many years is found to have regrets and is suffering from cancer. passed away.
An obvious fact is that the creators understand the women who take the initiative to enter the siege. Whether it is Jian Qingfen (played by Lin Yichen )'s self-consciousness and well-behavedness when she first entered the workplace, or her tiredness in the ordinary life after her marriage to He Ruizhi (played by He Junxiang), or how He's mother treats her prospective daughter-in-law and her daughter-in-law with two different faces, the script writes It was meticulous, the director shot it calmly, and the actors acted accurately. Especially the scene in the play where Jian Qingfen is busy bathing her paralyzed and incontinent mother-in-law, and her son accidentally steps on dirt outside the door. This is probably the top horror movie that all middle-aged people have rehearsed in their minds but don't want to face. The ending of her return to her family is more or less consistent with the character's character. It is very helpless and very real.
In contrast, the drama’s presentation of single middle-aged women is less than satisfactory. In Rebecca (played by Tiffany Hsu), the audience can see all the old imaginations about this group: the original family is bad, so the "market" in the marriage market is not good; the ex is unforgettable, so he has a careless relationship and even becomes the boss's secret lover; If you need love in middle age, then only the young brother who is inexperienced in the world will be willing to take a step forward... It's not that middle-aged women don't have such a dilemma, or that they can't desire warmth and love, but Rebecca's fate is obviously different from that of the audience. It's completely different from his imagination, coupled with Tiffany Hsu's amazing appearance, who can accept that a great beauty lives like this?
Or it can be said that the "sufferings of being single" designed by the script are for Rebecca. In addition to not being able to save enough money to buy a house and provide for retirement, most of them feel like a castle in the air, especially when she repeatedly talks about repairing her own broken wardrobe and being single. Issues such as people being discriminated against while dining are completely false propositions in modern cities where the service industry is highly mature. The audience cannot understand that her ability to grow from an unpopular alien in the office to a freelancer shows that she has the ability to solve problems and face society, so how can she feel sorry for herself for such trivial matters in life that are solved with money?
Is this an oversight in script creation, or is it an overall decline caused by outdated values? The answer is a matter of opinion. However, screenwriter and director Xu Yuting once said in an interview that the series was inspired by the true story of a husband taking care of his ex-girlfriend who had cancer, and his wife finally chose to divorce. Perhaps, this story has planted a tone in the minds of the creators from the very beginning - this is a story about how to view the current and ex-partners, and how to face the past and present when faced with the topic of life and death. So, giving it the proposition of more female growth is just a mistake made by us, the audience, on our own initiative.
