Urban dramas can always arouse people's infinite empathy.
Whether it is the previous "small" series or the later " Ode to Joy ", whether it is " Thirty Only " " Forty Don't Confuse " or the later " Cheng Huan Ji " "City within the City".
There are always many scenes that can make us flash back to our own lives for a moment and create deep empathy.
However, since this year, there have been very few excellent urban dramas.
Seeing that it is already the middle of the year, there seems to be a lack of a drama that can hold up the banner of "urban" themes.
Unexpectedly, just as he was talking, a domestic urban drama started airing.
It is-"The Time is Just Right".
As the name suggests, the drama is not only emotional but also down to earth. After the launch of
, it firmly occupied the first place in prime time satellite TV ratings.
Many viewers have seen real families inside.
Many middle-aged people exclaimed that they finally found a TV series that spoke to their hearts.
There are very few TV dramas that can focus solely on the middle-aged group itself.
Originally, the public believed that after middle age, it is the second half of life, and there seems to be no more stories to tell and nothing new to tell.
But "The Time is Just Right" just talks about the things about middle age in an interesting, reasonable, well-founded and affectionate way.
It is no exaggeration to say that it may be the best urban-themed film and television work since the beginning of the new year. The three aspects of
also determine its unshakable position in urban dramas.
01, three families and three groups of dilemmas, the real-life version of the "Mid-life Crisis Award"
Li Lin (played by Bao Jianfeng ), who has turned 40, has been a little panicked recently.
When he was young, he graduated from a prestigious school in Beijing and was full of dazzling aura.
For the sake of his wife and daughter, he left the big city of the capital. Despite his dull mind, he has been engaged in the technical work that he is good at.
But over the years, technology has continued to improve, but I haven’t learned a bit about worldliness.
Seeing his daughter grow up, he and his wife entered middle age, and their income had just improved, so they decided to upgrade to a larger house.
scraped together to pay the down payment. Unexpectedly, the company's business adjustment, their entire department was laid off, and he lost his job.
Li Lin has no other source of income, and he has been responsible for the monthly payment of the new house.
Li Lin was worried that his wife would be under pressure, so Li Lin remained tight-lipped about losing his job.
He goes out as usual every day, uses his skills to do outsourcing work, earns some pocket money, then puts on a formal suit and tie, and starts looking for a job.
At the age of 40, Li Lin's job search encountered obstacles at every turn.
Friends around him were enjoying great success one by one and were promoted to "general manager", but he became a cog that no one cared about. The sense of disparity made him feel ashamed and unable to talk to his classmates.
But after all, paper cannot contain the fire.
Li Lin was caught by his father-in-law while grabbing discounted eggs in the supermarket.
He goes out glamorously every day, but his wife Xu Mengan is also suspected of cheating on him.
By some strange combination of circumstances, Li Lin's unemployment was finally discovered, and the embarrassment of middle age suddenly came to mind.
Things happened one after another at home.
Xu Meng'an's company was also not doing well and began to lay off employees. The two of them drank one night and became pregnant with their second child.
The pressure of life makes this middle-aged couple breathless.
In order to become the mainstay of the family again, Li Lin even took off his long gown and started doing manual labor.
The middle-aged economic crisis they encountered is heart-wrenching and numb.
But this is just the first couple in "The Time Is Right".
Those who have no money are short of money, but those who have money may not necessarily live a happy life.
Xu Meng'an has a best friend named Chen Wanzhen ( Zuo Xiaoqing).
His husband Yu Hai (played by Tian Yu) is an executive of a local media company.
Because she had too many social activities, Chen Wanzhen gave up her finance major and stayed with her husband and raised her children for seven years.
But in the past seven years, Yu Hai, who had worked hard to become rich and powerful, had become a stranger to her.
In Yu Hai's eyes, Chen Wanzhen is a hard-working nanny.
stays up all night, is busy with work during the day, rarely goes home, and the couple rarely communicates.
In fact, his relationship with his female colleagues in his company was unclear, and he even flirted with her in ambiguous words in front of Chen Wanzhen.
The middle-aged marital crisis has arrived.
Chen Wan is really an independent woman. She gave Yu Hai many opportunities to change her mind.
But Yu Hai felt that Chen Wanzhen would be unable to live without him, so he became more and more unscrupulous.
Until one day, Chen Wan couldn't bear it anymore and filed for divorce.
But after all, she has been away from the workplace for many years, and her professional skills have long been rusty.
As a top student in finance, she could only start from the position of administrative assistant.
Struggle is the best antidote to marital crisis.
The struggle of middle-aged women begins here.
Xu Mengan has a sister named Xu Mengxin ( Pan Zhilin).
She struggled to start a business with her husband Jia Haowen (played by Sun Hao) in her early years, and became famous in the e-commerce industry.
is now successful and pregnant.
Under the influence of progesterone, she became suspicious every day and became the coquettish little girl behind her husband's back.
The nature of Jia Haowen's work is special, and he often needs to discuss cooperation with good-looking female Internet celebrities. This makes Xu Meng suspicious, and a crisis of trust between the two erupts..
In order to verify her husband's "cheating", Xu Mengxin did not hesitate to hire paparazzi to secretly film her husband and go there to "catch the cheating" herself.
It wasn't until the so-called rape incident turned into a farce that Xu Mengxin suddenly realized, but she and Jia Haowen did not completely realize each other's trust.
Three couples, three middle-aged problems, are presented to the audience one by one in an interesting way.
Seeing the three families beginning to approach the edge of collapse, the whole drama ushered in the climax of the truly interesting story.
Middle-aged people all know how the problem occurs, but the solution is kept secret.
"The Time Is Right" uses a novel way of light comedy to put the problems of middle age on the table, and resolves these problems one by one with delicate strokes.
This is the most interesting part.
Behind all the feathers, there must be something as bright as gold. The foundation of the "Mid-life Crisis Award" turns out to be the persistence and confidence to live hard, work hard, and start the second half of life.
02, Qin Hailu’s poisonous tongue, Bao Jianfeng’s cowardice, the third female lead is amazing!
"The Time Is Right" has a very strong cast line-up, with veteran actors and actresses working side by side, and the new and Mesozoic generations competing, making people excited to watch it. Among
, the top ones are Qin Hailu .
Qin Hailu plays a "venomous tongue woman" with a strong personality, cold outside and hot inside, so penetrating that it makes people sit up and take notice.
Xu Meng'an was originally a strong woman. In order to develop her career, she left everything in her life to her husband Li Lin.
At home, she yelled and shouted, saying to go east, but Li Lin did not dare to go west.
In the company, she is the content director, and her subordinates are so silent when they see her that they dare not breathe.
I was reading the ppt sent by my assistant at 5 o'clock in the middle of the night. As soon as I saw something wrong, I started scolding me, which made my assistant at a loss.
When faced with layoffs, faced with innocent attempts by older employees to make things difficult for her, she was able to completely suppress the matter with just her aura.
The company is in a business crisis, and the general manager needs to rely on her to save it. All things can only be settled by her intervention.
On the way to school in the morning, her daughter didn’t want to hear about their company’s success. She was so angry that she was speechless.
is such a woman, she also has a kind and soft side.
Qin Hailu grasped Xu Meng'an's contrast very carefully.
Especially when she discovered that her husband went to express delivery in the middle of the night to order goods in order to support the family and shoulder family responsibilities.
The tears in the corners of her eyes and the hands that grasped the corners of her clothes made the middle-aged man feel the same and shed tears.
Love breaks out from this moment.
The more venomous he usually is, the more touching he is at this moment, and the character Xu Meng'an becomes more convincing.
This is the charm that only belongs to Qin Hailu, and it is also the reason why "The Time is Right" is so attractive.
plays Li Lin's Bao Jianfeng , which is no less impressive than Qin Hailu.
Bao Jianfeng, who became famous all over the country with his movie "The Sky of Eighteen", this time he plays the role of a cowardly and gentle technical man, and he is still able to grasp the audience's thoughts.
Faced with his wife, he never complained.
Even if Xu Meng'an went crazy early in the morning and disturbed his sleep, he could still prepare breakfast for his wife with a calm mind.
After losing his job, he was gentle and polite to everyone.
What impressed Mr. Tomato most was the scene where he borrowed money from his friends and asked for a job from his schoolmate.
Bao Jianfeng vividly presents the embarrassment, embarrassment and difficulty of being unemployed in middle age.
His eyes dodge, his hands don’t know where to put them, he’s about to talk, but he’s often in a daze, always reminding us of some of the boys we’ve met.
Life is not easy for them, especially when they reach middle age, it is even more difficult.
Bao Jianfeng performed the essence of this emotionally stable middle-aged man, and also played Li Lin's seriousness, simplicity and love for his wife and daughter to the extreme.
In addition to the two leading actors, Tomato Jun is also amazed by the third female lead, Pan Zhilin, who plays Xu Mengxin.
Although Pan Zhilin is not famous, the role of Xu Mengxin was played vividly by her.
Xu Mengxin is a "sperm". She has the petty temper and temper that many women have, but she is not annoying.
When she moved to a mansion, rich ladies spread rumors that she was the "mistress" who got pregnant. She called her husband angrily to prove her innocence, which was very cunning and made people laugh. Pan Zhilin could also handle the scenes between
and Sun Hao.
's playful and cute expression is something that not just everyone can pull off. Paired with Sun Hao, he looks like a spoiled princess and a loyal dog husband, and has become the punchline of the entire drama.
Pan Zhilin's acting career will definitely become wider and wider in the future.
In addition, there are many talented actors and veteran actors in "The Time Is Right".
Tian Yu, who has always been deep and reserved, became the "Roaring Emperor" here, acting as the "villain" who cheated. When
appeared, he yelled at his wife, making people forget that he was good at comedy.
"Professional in the Supervision Team" Du Yuan plays Li Lin's father-in-law, and he has a sophisticated aura as soon as he appears.
His lines are spot on, his acting is very sophisticated, his thoughts are delicate, and he can take care of Li Lin's feelings.
Especially when speaking lines, the concern in his eyes is like our own elders, amiable and respectable.
These actors and actresses work together to make "The Time Is Right" both funny and moving.
Under their interpretation, the group portraits of the three families have become enriched.
The trivial details of a modern urban family, coupled with the trivial details of middle-aged life, and a little humor and touch, make "The Time Is Right" a real dinner drama.
03, a mid-life crisis with no blind spots, an urban story with a strong sense of rhythm, do urban dramas want to "break the situation"?
Although urban dramas are popular, they have always been widely criticized.
Audiences don’t like urban dramas, mainly because of two points.
One is suspension.
Most urban dramas are divorced from real life and the masses, and appear conjectural and exaggerated.
Secondly, it’s bullshit.
cheated on his mistress, had a car accident and developed cancer. He was always faced with death and fierce conflicts in his life, and he was unable to convince the public.
But "The Time Is Right" is different. It captures the essence of urban dramas, captures the audience's attention, and understands the audience's psychology.
First of all, it uses three groups of family portraits to show the mid-life crisis in an all-round way without any blind spots.
The mid-life crisis here is not "death" or "cancer", it is nothing more than running out of money and having a second child.
These little things seem to be constant conflicts in the TV series, but when combined with the down-to-earth plot and Li Lin's dilemma, they become extremely real.
This realistic shooting technique makes it difficult for us not to empathize.
Secondly, it has a very rhythmic story and a neat and clean narrative.
The characters are related to each other and appear one after another without too many narrations. The characters are shaped by the storyline and the storyline is promoted by the encounters of the characters.
Three groups of families are compared with each other. Every problem encountered is unique to the family, and the problems are related to each other. This kind of narrative and design has a sense of rhythm and a very wonderful look and feel.
In the story, it not only covers the various difficulties encountered in the middle, but also tries to provide solutions to middle-aged problems in a relaxed way, which is commendable.
Finally, it’s about attention to detail and quality.
"The Time is Just Right" redefines the term "not confused at forty". Many of the details presented in the
film can be found in reality.
For example: Li Lin's temporary job after losing his job, packing leftovers after the couple quarreled, the embarrassment of borrowing money, the reality that teachers like to talk to mothers about their daughter's learning problems...
One by one, they are completely consistent with reality. It matches and has a real sense of life.
relies on this sense of life, supplemented by excellent production quality, to easily bring the audience into the story, worrying about what the characters are worried about and thinking about what the characters are thinking.
Such urban lightness has a good look and feel, and I simply can’t get enough of it.
Urban dramas have developed over the years and have formed a certain "fix".
We certainly hope that more urban-themed dramas will break through the stereotypes and win over audiences with innovation. The emergence of
"The Time Is Right" has undoubtedly given us hope.
Among urban dramas, it truly tells the story of middle-aged people and gives middle-aged people a specific narrative perspective and humanistic care. It is a rare good drama in recent years.
I believe that the plot behind it will definitely be more exciting.
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