Author|Daxin Xin
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In 2019, there were frequent movies and TV dramas about the growth and life of contemporary women. There was a high-score Japanese tea series about the growth and life of contemporary women in 2019. The story of 's past, from a good old man who won't refuse to a story of regaining himself by saying "no" bravely.
This year's American drama "Fatal Woman" is also on the list with high scores. From a female perspective, it explores the problems and nature of marriage and gender. And recently, there is also a Taiwanese drama- "The Cultivation of Vulgar Girl" broke out of the siege and became a dark horse, Douban 9.1. People who have seen it are moved by the drama with tears in its laughter.
Taiwanese dramas are based on idol dramas. A group of youth idols in those days fascinated thousands of girls. The idols of that year have been replaced by waves of "small fresh meat".
The mainland's film and television standards have already surpassed Taiwan, and Taiwanese film and television have gradually turned to some social topics, such as the previously popular "The Distance between Us and Evil" , which exposes the struggle and suffering of human nature.
This time, "The Cultivation of a Common Woman" does not have such a heavy topic, but is humorous, healing and warming .
A trivial trivial
Carina Chen, the protagonist of the film, was born in Tainan. After graduating from university, she plunged into Taipei's "Shu Luochang". Now 39 years old, she has worked hard in Taipei for more than 20 years. She has no money, no house, no car, no marriage. Children.
nominally is a special assistant to the chairman of a company, but in fact is a nanny and janitor. In addition to official business, Chen Jialing also reminds the boss to take medicine and deal with the boss’s errands, not only that, but also to cover the boss’s job with the mistress.
has a boyfriend who has been in love for four years and lived together for three and a half years, but the passion has faded. In her own words,
is more of a roommate than a lover.
has reached the age of marriage and marriage, but she hasn't gotten married until she attended the wedding of her ex-boyfriend. She was stimulated to get married too!
has long been "habits" with her boyfriend. They are more like friends than lovers.
Carina still decided to "proposal" to her boyfriend!
But the mother-in-law has to come here for everything. The wedding dress must be picked by her mother-in-law. Carina complained, but her boyfriend just said "My mother is also kind!" The new house of
is also the mother-in-law looking for a designer to decorate (who makes the money She paid for it), the key is to live in the same community as her mother-in-law, and not to work after marriage, but to go to various yoga and illustration classes with her mother-in-law.
mother-in-law has not actually seen what Carina Chan is like.
Carina Chan, who is in pre-marital anxiety, is increasingly uncertain whether she really desires to marry the man in front of her,
is extremely anxious and disturbed , but the other party is unaware, facing her future mother-in-law, she fears and resists .
Finally, the pressure from work and life made Carina Chan collapse. She first resigned from , , and then regretted marrying .
finally took off the burden and ran to freedom, but immediately regretted it.
A woman who is about to forty years old, facing the big problem of life, is still unclear, just like us fledgling calves,
The difference is that we have not experienced it, we have not got it, and she has already gained and lost .
The 20-year-old has nothing, it doesn’t matter, young and frivolous, the world is so big that we can run wild; the 40-year-old has nothing, how can we say "it doesn’t matter."
Childhood paper airplane
When looking for a job again, his awkward age made him repeatedly rejected. The interviewer asked her "What do you think you will be like in ten years?"
Chen Jialing suddenly thought of her parents, grandma, her hometown, she is not nothing, she still has a home. It was her last warmest harbor.
Friends who have watched said that this drama is "Old Things in the South" + "Please Answer 1988" . The
play uses interstitial narrative methods to tell the childhood memories of Carina Chan. This is also a special feature of this show. The two time and space stories are connected in series, allowing the audience to see step by step how Carina Chan came to today.
childhood experiences will more or less affect the decision after growing up, this is also the main theme of this play:
can not find a way out in the world of adults,
will return to childhood memories, Look at how the immature self solves the problem.
When he was a child, the Chen family was in a small town in Tainan. The township atmosphere of is simple and warm.
is a big family who lives as a Chinese herbal medicine shop. Carina Chen has been a stranger, lively and lovely since she was a child. All of her stories are familiar to us at
.
The childhood Chen Jialing grew up under the love of her parents and grandfather and grandma. Looking at the childhood version of Chen Jialing is more popular,
is like the Deshan family in "Please answer 1988".
dad is kind and funny , and often brings home stray cats and puppies from outside. On one occasion,
even brought a homeless man back for dinner and was despised by the whole family.
Mom and grandma always have a different "singing". The humorous atmosphere surrounds the whole family. Carina Chan who grew up in this environment is optimistic and brave . When the cousin's family of
came to the house as guests, the mother and aunt were calm on the surface, and secretly compared.
Chen Jialing has also been compared with her excellent cousin in various ways. The cousin has excellent grades, is good at piano, chess, and painting, and Chen Jialing has passed the exam.
saw the thick glasses of the cousin, and wanted to go with a pair, saw the cousin's beautiful dress and pajamas, and wanted a set.
The vanity of little girls is always aroused by beautiful and illusory things.
When she was a child, she was also curious about sweet love. Every day she and a male classmate in the class helped Xiaojuan sister send love letters. She would secretly read the content of the love letter, and would be ashamed by the numb love words inside.
From sister Xiaojuan, she knows that love is something sweeter than a lollipop in her hand;
When Carina Chen suspected that she was not her biological person, she asked her grandpa if she was picked up. Bring an answer "You are what your dad picked up from the trash dump" , the little soul was greatly hurt, Carina Chen ran away from home that night,
Mom and Dad rode motorcycles all over the street to find her, grandma ran to the radio The station broadcasts the missing person, and because of this, she accidentally broke the embarrassment of her mother. This section is really , not .
When she was wandering at night, Carina Chen ran into the homeless man her father had brought home. She thought that the homeless man was going to attack her,
, but the kind-hearted homeless man was not only friendly to her, but also persuaded her not to run away from home.
From the tramp, she knows that the family are people who care about you no matter where you are or what you do.
is a person who cannot leave easily and give up.
In that small town, the villagers have lived according to the experience and customs of their ancestors, and many things are traditional or even deeply rooted.
is gay for younger brothers. Parents with traditional thinking do not understand what new ideas are, but as parents, they are full of understanding and care.
"He is my son anyway, should I stand with him, right? Sometimes I also think that he is now 30 years old, and he is so old that he still dare not tell others. Hard work. I would also like to tell him that, in fact, my mother knows that you are not the only one, you don't need to be so lonely." The attitude of
's mother towards Chen Jialing's resignation and repentance of marriage is also touching.
Finally, Carina Chen and Carina Chen are in the same frame, she shook hands with herself and made peace with herself, and wrote on the wall such a period of exclamation:
z472, how long can you forget? When you fall and stand up again, dreaming and waking up again, you have forgotten from when, this life is actually very short, so short that you have no time to force yourself, no time to hate yourself."The Carina Chen in the show is actually The reflection of many girls in real life, we all have to accept our imperfect selves.
You don't have to be shining, you don't have to have any special meaning, you just need to be that little you, and then love.