Chief reporter Huang Qizhe
Mango TV, which has always been able to create a hot topic variety show, has launched a low-key marriage observation reality show called "Goodbye Lover" this time.
The "low-key" created by the main creator does not hinder the popularity of the show, and the topics triggered by the show have repeatedly appeared on hot searches, and scored an ultra-high variety show score of 8.5 points.
Inviting divorced or about to divorce couples to record emotional variety shows is not the first domestic variety show.
However, after the three episodes of the program were broadcast, netizens regarded "Goodbye Lover" as one of the few domestic variety shows that borrowed from overseas, but could surpass the original emotional reality show.
In the opinion of the critics, whether it is from the observation samples, expert interpretation, or the restrained expression of the lens and the flower characters, it is all eye-catching.
In particular, the in-depth discussions on the issue of gender relations and love and marriage made the audience think about it while crying and laughing.
This time, the emotional variety show does not seem to be depressed by the topic of "divorce", but instead embarks on a warm journey of healing the audience through the process of examining the marriage of the guests.
Love is not only a "sweet pet" mode, the emotions on the screen should be avoided blindly "cute"
The current young generation's attitude towards marriage has a certain relationship with the atmosphere of Internet public opinion.
Compared with love, the net generation is more accustomed to being with virtual games, cartoons, and idol dramas.
To be immersed in a rich entertainment life and to manage an emotional relationship is regarded as hard and troublesome.
At the same time, the one-sided interpretation of divorce statistics and the gender antagonism provoked by social events have also aggravated the fear of marriage among many young people.
On the other hand, the love stories of young people in literary and artistic creations on the screen are mostly "sweet pets" and "cute" styles. The emotional expression is obviously younger, and it is easy to cause a "mismatch" between ideals and reality.
In the sweet pet dramas and ancient puppet dramas that flood the film and television platforms, the overly idealized heroes and heroines, such as academic masters and presidents, have raised the expectations of young audiences for their spouses.
On the other hand, the high-density "sugar-spreading" plot that blindly caters to the audience also prevents the emotional dilemma in reality from being put on the screen. The male and female protagonists are regarded as "sads" when they are bumpy, so they cannot produce emotions for young audiences. Frustration education.
In this atmosphere, the appearance of "Goodbye Lover" is instead a kind of "disenchantment" for young people's fear of marriage.
Focusing on the daily interaction of divorced couples, on the contrary, you can see the preciousness of emotional fetters more than a crowd show of affectionate variety shows and film and television dramas.
Among them, actors Guo Keyu and Zhang He, who have been divorced for a year, have become the most topical pair of observation samples on the show.
The program did not deliberately amplify quarrels and conflicts.
"He can't enter my world, and I don't want to go to his world." "In fact, we don't want to go to the other's world." The audience perceives that they may have exhausted their emotions due to disappointment, breakdown, anger, and misunderstanding.
However, interspersed with this sense of tension, the tacit understanding and care brought about by their ten-year marriage is also moving.
Above the cliff, Zhang He overcame the fear of heights and yelled to Guo Keyu "I have become what I like", causing countless audiences to "tear tears."
In the sketch portrait session, when the two sides described each other's appearance, the two showed an amazing tacit understanding of using the same words.
There is no need to elaborate emotions and sublimate themes, and the audience can understand the complexity of the two sides of marriage.
What the show is trying to show is a marriage that is coming to an end, and it does not mean that both parties are failing or not in love.
Through the interaction of the guests in the show, the audience feels that behind the seeming cruel "divorce" is a mature and rational choice, accompanied by sincere blessings and long-term companionship to the old love.
Pain and warmth are not contradictory, what should the emotional reality show convey?
In recent years, emotion observation reality shows have become the "hard currency" of screen networks.
Many program groups try to show and explore the different expectations of generations of family life, and the subtle changes in modern people’s emotional concepts in the rapid development of society, to outline the increasingly rational attitudes of men and women in marriage and love with the progress of the times, and then to convey warm and upward values and values. Emotional power.
There are more and more popular love variety shows, but some programs such as "Daughters' Love" and "Mother and Mother" seek the audience's sympathy by amplifying some trivial trivial matters in daily life.
Among the celebrity guests, the facial makeup is often serious, and the "personality" in the lens language changes too quickly-in the previous shot, the male celebrity still did not understand his wife's emotional appeals and responded passively to "cold violence". In the next paragraph, he will face to face sincerely. For negligence, incarnate as a good man who "spoils his wife".
Even celebrity wives complained that their husbands did not hold hands at all times to get sulking, and they were all edited into a point of drama conflict.
Simplifying the contradiction while ignoring the emotional reconstruction process makes the audience seem to be watching "play house".
Once the show is over, it is difficult to leave memorable fragments. Instead, it will be a collapse for the celebrities who "show affection" in a certain show in the future, providing "material" and "evidence" for netizens to ridicule.
Since then, the "Happy Trio" and other variety shows, although there are few "spreading dog blood", but they are more focused on showing the small fortunes of ordinary life. The guests occasionally have small frictions, but when they are about to touch on a topic worthy of discussion, It is often a "taste of nothingness", and soon use the variety show's fierce chicken soup to "whitewash peace", just to create a warm and loving atmosphere.
In contrast, "Goodbye Lover" attempts to break these conflicts of ideas and conflicts to pieces, and convey the correct communication and resolution methods through the confession of guests and the interpretation of bystanders inside and outside the venue.
For example, in a dialogue expressing needs, Shen Yifei, an associate professor at Fudan University, suggested that the same content starting with "I" instead of "you" can better take care of the listener's feelings and avoid misunderstandings.
In the face of the marital crisis between Tong Chenjie and Wei Wei due to having children, the observation team further pointed out that Wei Wei’s inferiority and narcissistic personality is a more fundamental problem than Tong Chenjie’s worries about his "immaturity."
Through the daily question of the guests "Do you still want to get a divorce today", the entanglement between love and disappointment has also become the tension of the show.
Through this show, the industry seems to have some consensus on what the emotional reality show should express and convey: it does not need to show affection and sprinkle blood to simplify the complexity of emotions; even if it focuses on divorce issues, It is not about exaggerating emotional anxiety and making the audience "suspect about love from now on", nor is it about pulling the audience into a wishful matchmaking and creating a false "reunion."
Wait for love to be like smoke, wait for the past to be far away.
First look down on you and me, and then be calm and overlook the mistakes you have made.
"Goodbye Lover" explores at least one creative path of emotional variety show: through those "inappropriate" and "wrong tastes", to reveal the true face of how to stay together after falling in love, and even how to say goodbye to the two sexes, so that guests and audiences can get along with each other. Can face life with a more mature and calm attitude.