Taiwanese dramas and movies are available this year! Not only did a movie " eliminate three evils in a week " hit the market in March, but the popular Taiwanese drama "We Are Not Kind Enough" is also rising in popularity.
The current rating of this drama on Douban has reached 9.0, surpassing almost all current Chinese dramas in seconds, and it is the most popular drama in April.
"We Are Not Kind Enough" has suddenly emerged without any publicity. Among them, the heroine Ariel Ariel has absolute contribution value.
She is a Taiwanese actress who lives a low-key life, but her works are very popular. As an actress born in the 1980s, her works are really not many. At her peak, she only filmed 1 to 2 dramas a year.
After 2008, she became even more willful. It was normal for her not to act every two or three years, but even so, her dramas were still popular. It can be said that among actresses born in the 1980s in Taiwan, her performance is considered to be the third. one.
"We Are Not Kind Enough" is Ariel Ariel's return to the screen after a lapse of 5 years. It was an instant hit after its release, once again proving Ariel Ariel's ability to carry dramas.
Co-starring her is the new TV queen Tiffany Hsu, a Chinese-Italian mixed-race actress who was once called "Taiwan's most beautiful girl."
has a natural beauty. At the beginning, she always played the role of a rich lady in Taiwanese dramas. Her noble and natural temperament is very convincing. But she was too limited for an actor and usually played supporting roles in TV series.
Her transformation was in the movie "The Little Girl in Red", where she reversed her reputation with her subversive horror image. She was nominated for the Golden Horse Best Actress that year and transformed into a powerful actor. Then in 2022, she continued her efforts and starred in the sexual assault movie "Her and Her", winning the Golden Bell Best Actress Award that year and completing the transformation of Best Actress.
These two powerful actresses had collaborated in the popular Taiwanese drama " Prank Kiss " 19 years ago. This time they joined forces again to use the dialogue between Jian Qingfen and Rebecca in "We Are Not Kind Enough" to interpret two modern women with very different personalities.
In the drama, Jian Qingfen and Rebecca are in a relationship between his current wife and his ex-girlfriend. Jian Qingfen started to pry into the relationship at the beginning of the drama.
The two were in the same company, but when Jian Qingfen came to the company, Rebecca had become the boyfriend of their boss He Ruizhi, and the two were about to get married.
But this woman who doesn’t even make birthday wishes, only knows how to implement them herself, and has the courage to wave to opportunities, naturally refuses to admit defeat, starting from taking a ride, and is connoted as He Ruizhi’s girlfriend. He often wore the same clothes as Rebecca and used various "tea skills" to get close to He Ruizhi. Eventually, he kicked Rebecca out and married the man he liked.
Usually such a love triangle has a winner and a loser, which is the ending of the novel. But in the drama "We Are Not Kind Enough", the current wife and the ex-girlfriend decide the winner, and all the stories have just begun.
Years later, Jian Qingfen has lived the happy time she wanted to live when she was young. She is married to a husband with a promising career, has a car and a house, has a stable job, and has lovely children. However, all these worldly victories have not Make Jian Qingfen happier.
Her daily life consists of cooking, tidying up the home, taking care of the children, all kinds of trivial things day after day, and her mother-in-law is even more picky, making her endure it again and again. What's worse is that the couple obviously has no passion anymore, and occasionally Qingfen wanted to be "interested", but her husband scolded her directly: "If you are sick, go see a doctor."
Her ex-girlfriend Rebecca seems to be the queen of the workplace in the eyes of ordinary people. She is not married even at the age of 39. In order to pursue the freedom that I love, I opened my own studio and had an endless list of things to do.
Moreover, she has a handsome boyfriend around her who is looking after her. She is simply a role model for modern women.
But like Jian Qingfen, she also has her own troubles. She rents a house, but the landlord notifies her that she will move out in September because of something.
Although her career is good, she doesn’t have much savings, and she can’t even travel as much as she wants. Her boyfriend is a fake boyfriend, and the man she really dated is a scumbag. He just wants to have fun and doesn’t want to give her a future. All in all, there are a lot of worries.
The two heroines are both winners in the eyes of ordinary people, but everyone has their own difficulties, especially after they met, the two very different women began to pay attention to each other's lives through the platform.
The director and screenwriter of "We Are Not Kind Enough" is the famous Xu Yuting, who is very good at presenting works in a delicate and realistic style. In this drama, he uses a large number of detailed close-ups to describe the inner entanglements and struggles of the two female protagonists, using broken pieces. The broken thoughts and as calm as running water show the complex human nature and real life.
The audience can find their own reflections and current dilemmas in life from the play. This resonance close to life is one of the reasons why "We Are Not Kind Enough" is touching.
At present, "We Are Not Kind Enough" has won 4 championships, breaking the ratings records of major platforms, and topped the "Chinese Drama Weekly Reputation List". Especially the two 40-year-old actresses in the drama also have such good performances. But the mainland film and television industry needs to reflect on it and stop letting Hai Qing continue to shout: There is no role for middle-aged actresses.
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