No TV series around the theme of "Emotions and Ethics" seems to be better than South Korea. After the youth idol dramas were weakened (provided that it was the most influential new generation of Korean gold and silver and the returning idol top current Lee Min Ho’s work “King: The Forever Monarch” failed), they turned their creative horizons to the previous less touching Touch the emotional world of middle-aged people. Therefore, in recent years, there have been high-quality TV series such as "Mist", "Mr. Sunshine", "Tasteful She", "Sky City", and "Secret Meeting". There is even a trend that the protagonist's age in the TV series gradually "shifts back", for example, the five protagonists in the recently blazing "Witty Doctor Life" are all set to be over 40 years old; well-known to our audience in China Korean actress Zhang Nara is also 40 years old in the new drama "Oh My Baby".
This year's Korean drama seems to have found a narrative mode that can mobilize the public's nerves. It not only disregards the relaxed and idolized narrative of "Gentleman's Character", but also discards the social grayness of "My Uncle". With the deep exploration of personal psychology, it turns to the expression and presentation of unfavorable emotion with family as the core. The explosions of "The World of Couples" and "The Mood for Love · Life Like Summer Flowers" are its representatives.
Scumboy is no longer Facebook
But he still has to accept karma
"The World of Couples" is very similar to the story of Chen Shimei in China. Chi Shanyu, whose parents have failed in marriage and both passed away, has worked hard to become a famous doctor. At the same time, he has a successful career, a handsome husband, and a well-behaved son. The family is warm, harmonious and beautiful. However, a dyed woman's hair and lip balm made Chi Shanyu think her husband Li Taiao was derailed. After exploration, the intuition was confirmed as fact. His wife made a revenge counterattack quietly, making her go out of the house.
If it is just such a story, it is nothing but a cool drama. Since then, the plot has reversed: the husband who was swept out of the house, two years later, became the home director of the high-profile box office, and used his father-in-law's capital to counter-revenge in the second marriage. Not only did Chi Shanyu lose the position of deputy dean, he was also robbed of his son and was so miserable that he would commit suicide. If he was not rescued and strengthened by his son, he could not finally attack backhand, and finally let his ex-husband be swept away by his current wife.
There are a few places in the play that have not been touched by TV dramas of this kind before. The first is the image of scumbag. This South Korean "Chen Shimei" has gathered all the characteristics of the previous TV dramas-no career success, living on the income of his wife; not supporting or filial to his mother; more importantly, he also spends a lot of money and derailment. However, he also has different personality colors. He has an extraordinary fatherly love for his son. In addition, he has a simple and near-intuitive understanding of his derailment. He thinks that it is love, it is true love, and should not be blamed. .
The second is the relationship between people. The female host seduced the husband of the good sister in order to obtain trade secrets and revenge. Afterwards, the sisters moved from near to far, and from far to near; Chi Shanyu and Li Taiao retaliated and repeated revenge. To destroy the other party, but also have emotional and physical involvement, cutting the state of the people who have been in love or the relationship of the husband and wife reflected in the dog blood drama is constantly in chaos, it may be that this drama is more in-depth.
In fact, "The World of Couples" is not an original of South Korea. It was remade from the BBC's "Dr. Foster", which localized the story and set up a bridge that is more in line with the Korean social situation. Although there are some loopholes and inconsistent characters, the criticism of "derailment" under Korean culture and mainstream values has remained politically correct. In the end, although the male host has not been sentenced to capital punishment like Chen Shimei, he also has a lot of money. Empty and live on the streets. The miserable ending of the guilty man not only conforms to the simple folk logic of karma, but also fulfills the task of the mass media to promote and maintain mainstream ethics and morality.
Let the "dominant" feelings
Can be accepted by the audience
The so-called same person has different lives. The ending of Li Tai'o's derailment is nothing, which makes people scream. Put bitter tears. Why wasn't he cheating on his derailment, instead he was forgiven, and even the audience still wanted to wish and bless?
The "Flower" drama tells a pair of first lovers who met unexpectedly in their 40s, and they all cherish their first love, so contact, evasion, temptation, and finally resurgence of true feelings and passion, overcome all kinds of difficulties, and finally may come together- -The reason why "may" is because the TV series is still being broadcast.
As the title suggests, the "Flower" play is actually a "pulse" of two stories: the protagonist and the protagonist fell in love and fell in love with each other in college, and the reunion between men and middle-aged men and women continued to change in time and space.
I don't know if the title of "The Mood for Love" was inspired by Wang Jiawei's movie "Money for Love", anyway, the story has great similarity. Both knew that their spouse had an extramarital affair, but the hostess chose to divorce, and the male host was still in marriage. The two met unexpectedly because their son was in the same school. For so many years, the male host had never forgotten the female host and was looking for Mistress. Acquaintance with male and female protagonists In the era when the Korean Democratic Movement was very fierce, male protagonists were keen to participate in the movement. The female protagonist of the Attorney General fell in love with the male protagonist at first sight, followed the male protagonist, and turned away for his future.
Why is the derailment in this play "recognized"? A pair of bi-men who encountered the great mandarin duck of the mistress of the hostess-this kind of atrocities like the queen of the sea is unpopular, so based on sympathy and also on the yearning for the beautiful love of the protagonist, the old feelings revived after the reunion There is a psychological and logical basis. However, if it was just because the two were beautiful, they would openly recombine in the presence of a family and a room, and they still do not have a moral advantage. Therefore, the TV series has made the love of the two protagonists derailed. The derailment of the male and female protagonists is at least for the family. Stability and unity do not bear the main responsibility, and even the audience will have a thrill of revenge. On this basis, it also accumulates the necessary elements for the hero and heroine to fall in love and love again: the hostess’s life is dilapidated after divorce, I see the pitiful; the male host is affectionate and affectionate, although he has turned into a ruthless entrepreneur, he never misses the female host. What is more important is the appearance of the female host in the male host's life, so that the male host's conscience finds and finds the original heart, so as to achieve better each other. The superposition of these three elements will inevitably mobilize the audience to empathize, and the blessing of true love becomes an inevitable-not to mention they are so beautiful. So here, the moral disadvantages of the derailment are completely eliminated by the empathy of true love, but instead the moral guilt is eliminated in the progress of the story.
Within the moral red line
Presenting complex human nature in emotion
In fact, TV dramas show such topics as negative heart, derailment, and third parties. Although they have a strong "eye-catching" effect, it is more difficult to obtain high ratings, high degree of topic, especially high recognition.
In "A Mood for Love, Like a Summer Flower", the heroine is a person who is extremely disgusted and despised of infidelity, which is the reason for her divorce from her ex-husband; The above is also the female host's scruples and respect for the male-dominated family. These are the maintenance of mainstream values, and the more mainstream values are that marriage without love and loyalty is not only cruel, but also immoral.
The twists and turns of life and of course human nature are complicated. This has caused the heroes and heroines in the "Couple's World" to continue to kill each other even after divorce. They are still entangled. Don't forget the emotions. Emotional things are only under the brow and heart. This is probably the most essential reason for the success of these two Korean dramas. For emotions and derailments, it is not simply either black or white, even if it is nailed to shame Li Taiao on the column also presents a three-dimensional and multi-faceted image and delicate emotional entanglements. The moral judgments led by TV drama producers serve the development of stories, the mobilization of audience emotions, the acquisition of ratings and the market share. This is itself an act of using mainstream values for film and television production, so it has never been There are rebellions and challenges, just to cater to and grasp.
Lu Peng