Author: Yan Wei Li Huimin
Recently, "Men in the East Eighth District" has frequently appeared on the hot search with "greasy" and "salty pig hands", and has been criticized and complained. The so-called "grinding a sword in four years" shows no sincerity and quality at all, and it seems that it just sharpens levitation and hypocrisy.
Nowadays, a major problem that emerges in urban group portrait dramas is to make a fuss in the name of revisiting youth, subverting oneself, and starting again. It seems to be a heart-wrenching work full of feelings, but in fact it is a model with suspended plots, similar stories, and thin content. , low-quality work. In recent years, some urban women's group portrait dramas, derailed domestic violence, scumbag mistresses, workplace black belly and other plots have become their tacit standard, and they use the guise of facing reality to play the edge of values and create ratings gimmicks. In some urban male group portrait dramas, this routine and pattern has evolved into a more blatant "fake literature and art, true hypocrisy". Most of the protagonists in the drama are middle class, but almost all of them suffer from marriage and emotional brokenness With the entanglement and lingering of multiple emotions, the plot is false and cliché, the lines are blunt and awkward, and the mid-life crisis is wrapped in chicken soup of bitterness. Behind it are the idol drama-style Mary Sue and Jack Sue. "The Men of the East Eighth District", as the "masterpiece" of such plays, is full of nihilistic lines such as "rainy night, cold iron". Carnival, the independent, sober and successful women in the play are mostly obsessed with the appearance of the male protagonist and his friends and the so-called "hormone bursting". With vulgar and shallow creativity and content, they present a kind of pseudo-literary and artistic harmony. Pseudo-feelings. The
urban group portrait drama can not only be used as a carrier to show the emotional entanglement of urban men and women, but also reflect the current situation and reconstruction of contemporary urban culture, and see the relationship between the sexes in urban life. "The Men of the East Eighth District", however, bound the audience into a pre-set gender order, using a pretentious but completely false narrative method to condense women as a materialized imaginary representation. Under this narrative logic, the men in the play seem to be in a dominant position, constantly performing overbearing president dramas such as "win glory for the country", "this is what a man should do", "I don't like others drinking black tea in front of me" and so on. In fact, it has become a kind of self-objectification. On the one hand, it obtains subjectivity and satisfaction through the continuous accumulation of exquisite packaging, and on the other hand, it also becomes the carrier of desire for losing self-consciousness, repeating the relationship between the sexes in the previous suspended idol dramas. The stereotype .
This kind of creative stereotype exists not only in "The Man in the East Eighth District", but also in other similar urban male group dramas. The play is full of all kinds of old-fashioned plots such as cheating love, old and young love, emotional disorders, etc. The female image wanders between the two poles of pure innocence and shrewd money worship. No matter what stage of life the main characters are in, it seems that they are not concerned with their livelihood and life. Difficulty, but always mediating in a vague and tangled emotional state, without the temperature of life and the depth of reality, only the pulling and wandering of emotions and emotions.
TV dramas can consider the market and pay attention to benefits, and they can also use popular expressions to get close to the audience to achieve a more ideal communication effect, but they can't go wrong or go astray in dealing with the relationship between artistic logic and market logic, and they can't seek personal gain. to cater to low taste. Judging from the early publicity and audience feedback of "Men in the East Eighth District", it not only wrongly underestimated the audience's aesthetic style, but also showed a lack of rational blind confidence. The play not only rarely conveys the positive and progressive spirit of urban youth, but also reveals people's spiritual emptiness and even lack of value from time to time. In the play, the engineers do not see painstaking research and development, but only flirt and joke; the university teachers do not see painstakingly teaching, but only see bitterness and hesitation; the sales elites do not see business research, but sing every night. The plot, characters are seriously out of touch with the current spirit of the times and social style.
, such a thoroughly suspended drama, can bring us many reflections. In addition to the dimension of creation itself, we should also consider: Does the review and evaluation of TV dramas need to pay more attention to the quality bottom line of the work? Should there still be market space for works whose quality is below the pass level? Should a suspension mechanism be established for works with extremely poor reputation after broadcast?
"Art and literature must be popular, but must not be vulgar, vulgar, or kitsch. Literature and art must live, but must not become a maker, follower, or advocate of bad ethos. Literature and art must be innovative, but they must not be bizarre and ridiculous. Things. Literature and art must be effective, but they must not be contaminated with the stench of copper and become slaves to the market.” Urban drama creators also need to dip their legs in mud and put their bodies on the ground, focusing on the realThe urban strugglers and dream chasers, convey truth, kindness, beauty and positive energy. (Yan Wei and Li Huimin)
Source: Guangming.com - Literature and Art Review Channel
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