Huang Qizhe
From "The Rest of Your Life, Please Advise You" to "Don't Fall in Love with Your Boss", youth dramas have once again become the focus of Internet topics.
For audiences who like this type of drama, the plot moves away from the extreme drama elements such as car accident, terminal illness, and four-cornered love in the early years of love dramas. It is narrated, supplemented by exquisite and eye-catching scene costumes, literary and sweet love words are dreamily presented.
For another part of the audience, the unprofessional presentation of the workplace and the overly beautified life scenes still failed to correct the common problems of the lack of "fireworks" and "suspension" in such dramas, and the daily "sweetness" is much more A little bit of industrial mass-produced "saccharin" taste.
"Prejudice" and "filters" are becoming the "two sides of one body" in domestic youth dramas.
Audiences who come with a filter of longing for love are satisfied with the density of the "sweet sugar" plot.
While another part of the audience heard the word "sweet pet" and avoided it.
Even before the broadcast, I equate it with "plot suspension" and "out of reality" in my heart.
The fierce collision of the two voices is to some extent the result of the continuous narrowing of the creation of youth dramas under the thinking of industrial mass production.
The production and broadcasting platforms and marketing parties are not so much using labels such as "sweet pet" and "sadistic love" to segment the audience market, but rather they are using "sweet enough" and "abuse to the top" to domesticate the audience, intending to let "youth". "Drama" is distinguished from the so-called "main drama" and "workplace drama", and "begging for mercy" in the face of the audience's unreal and professional criticism.
However, it is not a certain label or a certain category that the audience is loyal to, but the quality and depth of the works.
This kind of "sweet enough" creative thinking curbs the possibility of expanding the topic of youth dramas.
When the film and television producers are keen to promote the "saccharin" short video as a selling point, it also hinders its upward path to become a masterpiece of realism.
In the past two years, it is not that youth dramas have not made efforts to move closer to reality.
Looking at the youth dramas in the past two years, they are all keen to bring freshness through the professional identities of the male and female protagonists, such as the combination of entertainment stars and scientific researchers in "You Are My Glory", such as the special police in "You Are My Fortress" A combination of team members and novice doctors.
"The Rest of Your Life, Please Advise More" also continues this trend.
The hero Gu Wei is a thirty-something surgeon and an associate professor of medical school, while the heroine Lin Zhixiao is a junior at the Conservatory of Music.
Because Lin Zhixiao's father suffered from stomach cancer, Gu Wei became his attending doctor by chance, and the two met and fell in love.
He accompanied her through the darkest moments of caring for her father and pursued her dream of music. She helped him get out of the gloom and regain the great love of the doctor. In addition, the age difference that the two of them needed to overcome and the running-in process of love in the campus workplace, this should have been A juicy youth drama.
Regrettably, the conflict between the age difference has been reduced to whether or not to wear a "couple's outfit". As a doctor's partner, the conflict is focused on the conventional conflict point of "the doctor is busy at work, and it is difficult to accompany him in emergencies".
And the heroine defied her father's dream of cello music by "studying in a normal school" for herself, and she only stayed on the word, and the music students did not show the hours or even ten hours of piano practice every day.
What's even more incredible is that in the face of an anti-cancer father, you can't see the heroine's growth and responsibility for her parents. "Fate" "tool man".
But you can't see the realistic sense of substitution and the uniqueness of the characters brought by the background of professional life, and the two people's declaration of "you must" is somewhat pale.
When the audience's enthusiasm for chasing the "top" of the drama faded, and they reminisced about their memories, in addition to the collection of conventional "sweet sugar" routines such as the male and female protagonists who were highly condensed by the short video, such as holding hands, hugging, jealous, and kissing, in addition to the affectionate gaze and bright smiles of the male and female protagonists, it was very interesting. It is difficult to find lines and plots that leave a deep impression.
To put it more cruelly, if you remove the layers of filters such as scene costumes, beautiful lenses, and youthful and beautiful actors, youth dramas will be empty and old-fashioned.
It is true that the audience watching youth dramas mainly looks forward to a beautiful love. It is true that the audience watching youth dramas also takes decompression and eye-catching as their first appeal.
But beauty does not stop at "sweetness", it stops at the running accounts of eating, watching movies and visiting the ancient town. What the audience sees is at best "playmates"; just relying on the so-called "boyfriend power" plots such as princess hugs, shoelaces, and clothes , what the audience sees is just the dream of secreting dopamine and stimulating adrenaline.
The film and television creator's naive cognition of marriage and love must not be perfunctory with the sentence "audience likes to sprinkle sugar".
The real sweetness is not built on the smooth and graceful environment, not on the luck that falls from the sky, but through the accumulation of the courage to face reality and work together.
Even, only by tasting the pain of adversity can you feel the preciousness and sweetness of companionship.
There is no need to write a legend, just focus on the moment. We are moved by the anti-epidemic "post-90s" couples who are wearing protective clothing and compare their hearts with each other. We are warmed by the story of the husband saying goodbye to the "retrograde" wife and promising to do housework for a month. Is the action of "heart" "sweet" because the promise of "doing housework" is "a high-quality human male"?
of course not.
It is because we have seen through their actions and commitments that they are in each other's lives, their sincere appreciation for each other's social value and noble character, and the support and recognition of their own deeds. How can such love be just a "sweet" word? Enough to generalize?
Shu Ting wrote in "To the Oak": "Love - not only love your stalwart body, but also love the position you hold, the land under your feet." And this is not a beautiful proposition that youth dramas should focus on writing.