"You and I are both mortal, born in this world..." Li Zongsheng's "Mortal Song" is well-known to every household. The urban drama adapted from the novel "I'm Not a Loser" borrows the title of the song as its title. It revolves around three couples living in Beijing and tells the story of the life dilemmas they each face.
"It's hard to run around all day long and never have a moment to spare." The lyrics are a true portrayal of the characters in the play. The difference is that Li Zongsheng's writings are not only filled with complaints and helplessness, but also ridiculed and open-minded. The drama version of " Mortal Song " gives people a completely different feeling. The plot is laid out in a "hard landing" style. It depicts the fragility and fear of the high-income people in the city when they are unemployed, divorced, lose their health and other shocks. Both grim and true.
Zhiyu Li: A life with an uncertain future
Some people say that the real "mortal song" is "The Happy Life of Zhang Damin". The small people live in poverty, but they always make people feel that they love life, are optimistic and enterprising, and give people hope. As for "Mortal Song", which is currently being broadcast, many viewers who were "depressed" said that they felt "sad" and hopeless after watching it.
Indeed, since the broadcast, the three groups of families have been in a disadvantageous situation, with unsolvable blows and conflicts coming together.
In the play, Na Wei, played by Wang Xiao, and Shen Lin, played by Yin Tao, , a middle-aged couple, suddenly encounter a life crisis. Na Wei worked hard in the company for 15 years and finally got the position of vice president. The company was about to go public, but suddenly the boss became a monk, and tens of millions of shares were turned into waste; Shen Lin was originally an "affordable lady", living a decent life at home, caring for her husband and raising children, but was forced to return to the workplace to relieve financial pressure... …
Na Wei’s younger brother Na Juan and his girlfriend Li Xiaoyue, this pair is more like a workplace mentality control group. The former is an out-and-out "King of Involvement", earning millions a year and not allowing himself to take a moment to breathe; the latter is a spokesman for rectifying the workplace and refusing to be involved in involution. In order to live a comfortable and stress-free life, he refuses promotion and salary increase. . Na Juan Chang "disdained" her for not wanting to make progress, and Li Xiaoyue asked, "Earn money to live or live to make money?" !
The third couple Shen Lin's younger brother Shen Lei and his wife Xie Meilan were once sweet campus lovers. However, due to different outlooks on life, they drifted apart, and their pure campus love was eventually defeated by reality. The
TV series "Mortal Song" has made many viewers feel particularly depressed, and because the protagonists are all typical "reliable middle-aged" and "reliable young people", they work hard in their respective family and career positions, and actively respond to crises. There is no obvious fault, but there is no way to recover when happiness is shattered.
Healing Power: "Hidden" in Cruelty
At present, "Mortal Song" has been broadcast to the end, and the ups and downs and bottoming out expected by the audience have not yet come. On the contrary, Na Wei and Shen Lin's bottom line continued to fall, and they had no choice but to move from Wangjing to Yanjiao, relying on the difference in rent to support their families... The cruel life tore the middle-aged couple apart, which truly brought the audience a sense of pain - According to common sense, the life of every ordinary person is already very difficult. The function of film and television dramas is to give people temporary comfort and hope from reality. Therefore, there are refreshing dramas, light comedies, and healing dramas. If it is really a "sad" After all, what are the viewers who are still following the drama looking for?
In fact, the healing power of "Mortal Song" is "hidden" in the cruelty, and the ink leaves no trace. It is a bit like looking for candy in the glass ballast, but "you and I are both mortal, born in this world", everyone understands Understand. The middle-aged couple Na Wei and Shen Lin, the more sad and miserable they are, the more touching and sweet they can taste. The hope of life is hidden in the mutual trust and support between the two. When re-employment is not going well, Na Wei pretends to be a fake person in the mall. Occasionally, Shen Lin recognized her husband through the thick frog suit. After looking at each other silently, Shen Lin responded with an encouraging smile with tears in her eyes, cheering up Na Wei... Faced with the blows of life, this couple is the most rare thing. The most important thing is not to complain about each other, and always be comrades who stand by each other's side and friends who support each other's choices. This is also their only chance of winning through the difficulties until the end. In this sense, it doesn't matter whether the comeback finale that the audience is looking forward to will come.
Sense of Reality: No Filters for Life
As the most popular type of TV series, life dramas have experienced the evolution from topic dramas to healing dramas, whether it is " Ode to Joy " that intersperses social issues or "Go" that refuses to be introverted "Where the Wind Is" are typical works that try to understand social emotions to the maximum extent and achieve empathy with the audience.
In this sense, the "discomfort" "Mortal Song" brings to the audience is precisely its small step forward - most of the current mass production in the film and television industry is to apply filters to life, beautify, or use comedy at every turn It's a light comedy about life that uses a way to resolve the characters' predicament, but in reality, when the real hammer blows, no one can laugh it off. Text/reporter Yang Wenjie
