Another film and television drama focusing on the funeral industry is here, in addition to death, there is love and growth

reporter Shi Wenjing

Recently, a relatively small drama " Sanyue has a new job " was broadcast. The drama focuses on young people in the funeral industry and tells the stories of the corpse makeup artists. Occupation, presenting various issues such as life and death, end-of-life care, body donation, and Alzheimer's disease.

's film and television works focusing on the funeral industry have gradually increased in the past two years. The previously released " Life Events " has aroused heated discussions and achieved good box office. As a genre element of workplace dramas, funeral industry dramas have also been popular in Japanese and Korean dramas in the past two years, such as "Relic Organizer" and " Unnatural Death ". Pay attention to life and death events, the story is well told, and the work can easily become a masterpiece.

's "Sanyue Has a New Job" is the first domestic healing and growth drama focusing on post-95 makeup artists. It is directed by young director Li Mo, written by You Xiaoying , and written by Zhou Yan, Yang Xinming , E Jingwen , Liang Jingkang and other starring roles. Li Mo once directed the word-of-mouth short drama ", I am a good in a foreign country", and You Xiaoying's previous works also include " love and blind date ", " my sister " and other word-of-mouth works. From the current point of view, "Sanyue has a new job" has maintained the level of the play, except that some of the leading actors have a bit of a stretch in their acting skills and cannot add luster to the characters. One of the main lines of

is the growth line of the heroine Sanyue, and various popular social discussions are woven into the growth line. Sanyue, who had been lying flat at home for a year, found a new job, a corpse makeup artist, with the introduction of her relatives. Sanyue never understands or accepts this profession, but gradually integrates into this group and finds the meaning of her own work. This drama also tries to break the audience's prejudice and misunderstanding of the funeral industry through independent stories, and present more issues and discussions behind life and death. The origin of

's works is that screenwriter You Xiaoying pays attention to social issues. She also mentioned two important reasons when sharing her creation story in an interview, "In 2016, I saw some reports about China's entry into an aging society, which also means that In the future, the matter of life, old age, illness and death will come into our field of vision more; I just met a friend who does body makeup work in a funeral home, and have some exchanges."

In order to get closer to the industry and life, You Xiaoying also went to Chengdu The funeral home feels the life of the staff in the funeral industry, and in her perception, there is less weight that everyone usually conjectures, and more open-mindedness towards life, so this also lays a solid foundation for "Sanyue Has a New Job". The same main color.

's story of life and death is easy to become a masterpiece, but also easy to fall into preaching. You Xiaoying said that in the process of creation, she will pay attention to the details to ensure that she can talk to the audience, because the growth of Sanyue is the main line, and it will also touch the characters in the sub-line, including the family members of the deceased encountered in each episode, the proportion in the creation Distribution is the difficult point of creation. It can't be overwhelming, but it can't be shallow. I hope to talk about all the problems, but also have a detailed distribution. "The proposition of life and death is very heavy, and I still hope that there will be relaxing and interesting moments as adjustments."