Text丨Cultural and Entertainment Value Officer Author丨Liu Nana Editor丨美 There are so many people who planted this drama on me! There are so many that I wouldn’t even know Na Wei, Shen Lin, Xie Meilan, Na Juan, Shen Lei... who are they chatting in the group without looking at them?

Text丨Entertainment Value Officer Author丨Liu Nana Editor丨美 圻

There are so many people who planted this drama for me! There are so many

that even if I don’t look at them, I don’t even know who Na Wei, Shen Lin, Xie Meilan, Na Juan, Shen Lei…who are they chatting in the group? Those stories sound like what happened to friends around you. What kind of love-hate entanglements are they?

However, when I started watching "Mortal Song", I found that my lazy thoughts suddenly became active, and some realities that I was trying to escape emerged before my eyes. The key is that such a work that does not set up perfect characters is actually very touching.

01

"Topic drama" in the tea room

In 1991, Li Zongsheng's "Mortal Song" was included in Rolling Stone Records. People of a certain age have heard it and can also hum it: "You and I are both mortal, born in this world, all day long. Running around is hard and there is no time to spare. Since you are not an immortal, you will inevitably have distracting thoughts. Put morality on both sides and profit in the middle..." The lyrics of are sharp and sharp, and they vividly sing the worldliness and helplessness of middle-aged people.

Coincidentally, the drama "Mortal Song" is also a work that directly addresses the fate and life choices of middle-aged people. I don't know if the name is related to Li Zongsheng's song, but when I watch the drama, that song will echo in my mind. The sadness.

This urban drama series is produced by CCTV, Noon Sunshine, and iQiyi. It is adapted from Ji Jingrong’s novel "I am not a waste". The starring role of Yin Tao is amazing, Wang Xiao is a senior actor, not greasy at all. Coupled with the cooperation of Zhang Ruonan , Qin Junjie , Zhang Zhehua , Chen Haoyu , the quality of the series has maintained a certain level.

The topic of this drama basically focuses on the conflict between reality and ideals in the drama: "Is thirty-five years old the red line for the workplace?" "Should I lie flat if I have a job?" "If a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan is called a salary of 100,000 yuan, it is called hard work. "Is it wrong to not want to have a baby in a rented house?" "It hurts the most when couples quarrel and settle accounts." For a time, Weibo, Douyin, and Xiaohongshu were filled with the audience's self-reflections and associations.

As for the content being too realistic, I almost thought the screenwriter lived in the pantry of my company .

The "fine-decorated life" of full-time housewife Shen Lin in the circle of friends is almost the same as that of my college classmate Cindy. Like Shen Lin, she wears exquisite makeup every day and shows off the life of a wife in the circle of friends that workers are envious of. . However, when Cindy's husband's large factory began to "optimize", she began to feel anxious. Shen Lin in the

drama also longs for a career, but repeatedly encounters obstacles in the process of job hunting. This also depicts the current situation of the workplace. In an era when young unmarried graduates from prestigious schools have difficulty finding jobs, older married women seeking jobs ultimately rely on An acquaintance helped with . After accepting the conditions of salary reduction and demotion, Shen Lin could get the opportunity to return to the workplace.

Shen Lin will become more "naive" if she stays at home for a long time. At the class reunion, when a successful classmate asked her three soul questions, Shen Lin's uneasiness was deeply planted in her heart. The housewife who makes soup every day is already ready to realize her self-worth. But what followed were various tests given to her by reality.

On the other side, Shen Lin's husband Na Wei, a middle-level company owner who originally held tens of millions of options, was approaching a state of satisfaction when suddenly the company boss escaped into the void. After Na Wei and a group of colleagues found their boss, the boss explained how he had given up his secular life, and spoke out the voices of "bosses" that had been buried deep in his heart in recent decades..

The two sub-story stories also resonated with my colleagues and friends around me, first of all, Na Wei’s younger brother Na Juan. The two young people were in the stage of climbing their careers. They worked a lot of overtime and met less, and their relationship was almost on the rocks. There are a lot of stories like this in everyone’s office, right? For example, Xiao Tao, the operator of our company, , because her boyfriend, a programmer, had no time to accompany her, spent every day in the tea room planning to find a "spare tire" to change her boyfriend. But the girlfriend Li Xiaoyue in the play made a smart decision and came to work in her boyfriend Na Wei's company to try to solve this problem. Unexpectedly, because they got along day and night and had different ideas, the two of them would have a new dispute.

You see, we young people are like this. If we are far away, we will break up, and if we are close, we will break up. Young people's love is "making trouble".

is the furthest away from my life, but my favorite story is the line between Shen Lin’s brother Shen Lei and his wife Xie Meilan. After Meilan became pregnant, because her family's financial situation was tight, she felt that a life without a house, a car, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt was not the future she wanted for her child, so she went to have an abortion privately. Xie Meilan is a gentle person, and her boss showed affection for her outside of work, which made her husband Shen Lei beat her up, and Xie Meilan filed for divorce from Shen Lei.

I think this kind of plot is slightly dramatized. When I checked Douban, the group discussions were all about these two couples. It can be seen that their stories are more likely to cause the public to reflect on themselves and reality..

02

Watch it with my mother, Reconciliation with my mother

My mother and I watched several episodes of "Mortal Song" together. When my mother saw Shen Lei and his wife showing the cemetery to the mother-in-law, Xie Meilan said that Shen Lei would not give his mother money to buy it. When I was taking targeted drugs, my mother complained on the spot that she hated Shen Lei and reminded me not to find such a husband. Later, when Shen Lei said that he had spent all his savings to help take care of Meilan's family, my mother said that it was okay for a man to do this. In the end, my mother finally exploded when Shen Lei ran away from home and gave up his job as a civil servant. Maybe in the eyes of our parents, a stable workplace is the most valuable thing about a man. .

While watching the drama with my mother, I also tried to reconcile with her.

For a long time, I didn’t understand the quarrel between my mother and my father over lending money to my uncle’s family, so I labeled my mother as “stingy”. When Shen Lin and Meilan in "Mortal Song" had a dispute with their husbands due to financial reasons, I recalled the scene when my mother stopped my father from lending money to my uncle when I was a child. And when I was performing these scenes, I turned around and saw my mother with mixed feelings. When she uttered the sentence, "Poor and lowly couples have nothing to do with each other," I suddenly reconciled with her. Although it is not the same era, the challenges encountered by all families seem to have never changed.

If you think life is like romance in Little Red Book, then I’m sorry, real life is just like a piece of cake. In the past few days, "Mortal Song" has brought me back to the ground from my suspended imagination, and experienced the daily necessities of living a down-to-earth life. In the tea room, a colleague handed over a pack of spicy chicken feet and asked, "Which man can I consider in this drama?" I replied, "This drama is real. There is no Mr. Perfect. All the characters have flaws and lots of shortcomings. But you We can consider who has the most good intentions." As we chatted, we both figured out that difficulties in marriage are not terrible, and men who are clumsy and unreasonable are not terrible either. We can jump over the ditch together holding hands. , is this experience less satisfying than lying in the boss’s arms and drinking Lafite?

Of course, this drama is not without its faults. To say that the plot is suspended is the same as to say that it is back to reality. Everyone is attracted to their own eyes, and the world is around them. The evaluation of any work should be subjective and independent. Many friends also complained that the heroine with a monthly income of 10,000 is still considered a "mortal"? In fact, I live in a first-tier city in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Supermarket. I have an income of 10,000 yuan and two children. My husband is unemployed. Everyone knows how expensive life is.

What I can’t stand in this drama is that Shen Lin later found a job through a classmate. In order to keep her job, she did not hesitate to do manual labor at the lowest level. As a result, her classmate’s boss accidentally saw it and relented and transferred her to him. Be an assistant around. The friendship between college classmates is understandable, but it is rare for a business owner to sell "compassion" wantonly.

But the plot of Shen Lin’s transformation into a confinement nanny has been a hot topic in society in recent years. A college student works as a nanny or a postgraduate nanny. It sounds like a simple occupation but it has a generous income and is suitable for flexible employment for women.

There are people around me who have given up on the drama, and there are also people who, like me, are looking forward to updates on new dramas. After all, realistic themes are closer to our daily lives. Although we are not them, their emotions and emotions have many inspirations and tips for us. Whether it is the middle-class dilemma of Shen Lin and Na Wei, or the courage and vision of Na Juan and his girlfriend, or even the indifference and helplessness of Shen Lei and Mei Lan, they are all using their own thinking to create life experiences.

Having a less successful life is the life of a mortal.