started broadcasting on October 26 and ended on October 30. The drama calendar of "Ripple Heart" is only four days long. At the moment when the episodes are shorter, the rhythm is faster, and the ratings are higher, "Ripple Heart" has not received much praise.
Forty, thirty, twenty years old, three women, three life stages, three love models. These few keywords can correspond to many female group portrait dramas. Under this relatively conventional setting, although "Ripple Heart" has produced some bright spots, it cannot escape the stereotype of female drama routines.
has a lively rhythm and reverses the three protagonists in the intensive
drama, who are the representatives of the three female images.
Zhang Fan is a mature executive who met his handsome brother Lin Sen abroad. Lin Sen was obsessed with Zhang Fan, but Zhang Fan ignored him.
After a divorce, Zhang Fan was reluctant to enter a new stable relationship. However, under a series of mishaps, Lin Sen's enthusiastic pursuit shook Zhang Fan's will.
Pan Xiaochen is a sales champion of an insurance company. He went through a long-distance love run with her boyfriend and entered the seven-year itch. In order to "get rid of" Pan Xiaochen, her boyfriend specially hired a handsome fitness trainer, intending to seduce her step by step - Pan Xiaochen's morals are ashamed, so that he can escape successfully.
After this bloody operation, her boyfriend found that he still had nostalgia for Pan Xiaochen and started a competition with the coach. However, behind this nostalgia, is it the feelings for Pan Xiaochen, or is it not worth "wasting seven years" to myself? Or is it the choice of the family who can't bear the harassment and ask for the next best choice under the pressure of the family?
Luo Xiaoxiao is a graduate student who is full of fantasies about love. Her boyfriend is many years older than her, and the charm of a "mature man" makes her selectively ignore her boyfriend's perfunctory and irresponsible relationship.
Accidentally, Luo Xiaoxiao discovered that her boyfriend was not only married, but also using inferior dog food to make black money. In order to get revenge, she sneaked into the company of the scumbag and planned to use the information of inferior products to take revenge. The
series has a total of twelve episodes, and the rhythm is fast. Often, before the audience can react, there is a layer of reversal, which makes people surprised. For example, Zhang Fan's subordinate was harassed by his boss, and the boss died unexpectedly before the plot of women's mutual aid really started. Although the plot is exaggerated, it is handled neatly, a plot line will not drag on for too long, and it is a highly watchable dinner drama.
Female theme, easy to thankless
"Ripple Heart" is not very popular. On the one hand, the short size and quick ending make the show not so much time to announce. On the other hand, the popularity of the themes of sibling love and group portraits of women is slowly coming to an end. The audience's fatigue with similar themes is also becoming more and more obvious.
A drama with the same theme and level would have a much higher reputation five years ago than it is now. There are too many female group dramas discussing love models. "Love is Delicious" and "Deadly Woman" are all included in the list of similar dramas of "Ripple Heart".
is also a group portrait of three women as the protagonists. "Love is Delicious" has a comedic effect while being realistic. The plot extends from love problems to careers, life and other life choices. " is more solid; "Deadly Woman" is bolder and bolder than "Ripple Heart", directly using murder as the entry point, without the pressure of trial.
"Ripple Heart" certainly has its own unique highlights. The high-density reversal and light suspense style can bring freshness to the audience. But this kind of light suspense color, if it is away from the large scale, it will be particularly obvious in suspension.
When Zhang Fan was dealing with harassment incidents between female subordinates and male bosses, he suddenly discovered that the boss's son was theIn pursuit of his own Lin Sen; Luo Xiaoxiao investigated the information of the former company, and with a few verbal threats, he successfully became a researcher, and even developed an idol drama-style romance with his colleagues. Although the
episodes are easy to eat, these plots always have an ingenuity of inversion for the sake of reversal. However, aside from these flaws, the biggest regret of "Ripple Heart" is that the overall setting is highly homogenized with previous episodes. Similar plots have been staged too many times, and it is easy for audiences to use past stereotypes to view a new female group drama and ignore its worth watching.
Nowadays, if there are no major changes in female group dramas and subversive views are put forward, it will be difficult for the audience to enter the hearts of the audience. Under the theme of female independence, various thoughts on love always have to pick out a mature heroine to fall in love with siblings. On the surface, women are used to please women, but in fact, it is still young actors who stage idol plots . Such a "tradition" itself is not strong in vitality, and the higher the value, the more empty it is. Female themes are waiting for fresher and more realistic perspectives.
Therefore, under the circumstance that the audience's needs are extremely clear, the positioning and style of "Ripple Heart" actually entered a laborious but unfortunate maze. Sophisticated, but not on the verge of popular taste.
"Perfect love" is not the only solution for women's drama
In the drama, Pan Xiaochen's emotional line has become the biggest highlight of the drama.
Pan Xiaochen watched her boyfriend hire someone to seduce her, and then went back on it. She watched the whole process, but did not directly expose it. This slightly exaggerated black humor technique is used to portray the exhaustion and powerlessness of a long-distance love relationship, but the effect is more violent than showing the trivialities and jumps between two people - no matter how dramatic the action is, it is all There's no way to add freshness to the couple, only to more clearly map the fact that the relationship is hard to mend.
focuses on the negative aspects of reality, which may be more in line with the aesthetics of current audiences. In this story line, Pan Xiaochen is not a charming big woman. Although she is capable and excellent, she is just an ordinary social animal. When celebrating the anniversary with her boyfriend, she has to quickly answer customer calls and sell products like chicken blood.
The sense of powerlessness brought by ordinary daily life is often more profound. From Pan Xiaochen's subjective perspective, we can see more delicate psychological changes and find more resonance points - while family members are urging marriage, they are dissatisfied with their boyfriends, anniversary days are more and more like completing tasks, and boyfriends fool themselves Behavior has become more and more obvious and exaggerated...
In the case of fast pace and high reversal that are difficult to stimulate the audience's heart, the "monologue" of the narrative has become a new demand for the audience to watch women's group portrait dramas . In fact, many high-profile dramas in recent years have a large number of monologue-style plots. For example, "My Emancipation Diary" and "Sanyue's New Life" carefully describe psychological activities in terms of lens language and lines, and the main plot is almost entirely based on a subjective perspective.
Maybe, in women's dramas, love scenes don't need to be perfect and successful, but need to focus on the real changes in women's psychology. Aside from the perspective of God, it is easier to draw attention to the powerlessness and insignificance of people in life than Zhang Fan's love between sisters and brothers and Luo Xiaoxiao's revenge.
Nowadays, the image of "big woman" has been almost consumed by women's dramas. The image of a successful woman who has the initiative, maturity, and high profile in love has a narrower and narrower narrative flexibility. " Menghualu " created the image of Zhao Paner's heroine in the early stage, and later fell into the "wives" controversy because of the love scene. Women's issues are always particularly sensitive in women's dramas, and it is difficult to achieve absolute political correctness. Although
"Ripple Heart" has ended, similar female dramas continue. In short, starting a story from the perspective of observing a certain group, "seeking inward" is often more likely to gain high praisemonument.
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