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Just coming out of the story of Lao Zhou’s family in "The World" and quickly falling into the life of the Shanghai family in "Heart Residence" will probably become the normal state for many people to follow the drama recently.
Coincidentally, if you are looking for keywords for the TV drama market in the past two months, it must be:In the World and Women in Chinese Drama. And "Heart Residence" has a subtle connection with both: the former refers to one of the "Trilogy of the Times Melody" launched by Tencent Film and Reading Film; The latter lies in the fact that this drama also aims at two post-80s and post-30s women, Feng Xiaoqin and Gu Qingyu.
The difference is that,There is a flowing sense of life in Heart Residence, but it is also full of dramatic colors with great contrast from the beginning.. The foreign daughter-in-law who wrote "Changing Fate" on her face was connected with the beautiful and confident Shanghai woman and two completely different 30+ women because of the relationship between aunt and sister-in-law, which also opened the living picture of "two kinds of people" in urban life and the fireworks story in Shanghai urban families.
For a long time, although the relationship between aunt and sister-in-law has its own dramatic tension, it has always been a instrumental supporting role and relationship in domestic dramas, and "Heart Residence" takes this as an incision.Deconstruct the image of "female in Chinese drama", plus the collision elements of foreign daughter-in-law and local family., naturally don’t have a lasting appeal. And the novel creative perspective often means deeper insight and thinking about reality: what does Feng Xiaoqin mean behind his insistence on buying a house? Can they find a real "heart home"?
"I don’t live in Shanghai, but I feel empathy with Feng Xiaoqin," said a netizen on Douban, the premiere of the series.Typical Chinese family, urban survival philosophy from her perspective, and continuous exploration of the concept of "home","Heart Residence" really touched many people. And we can also boldly guess that the appearance of this drama will break the mold of urban emotional drama and even family themes.
Foreign daughter-in-law and local family:
Re-excavation of the image of "female" in Chinese drama
Domestic dramas are becoming more and more adept at digging up the fireworks in ordinary family life, and "Heart House" is no exception. Housewives who are skilled at bargaining in the vegetable market, busy kitchens in the morning, and greeting parents-in-law, husband and son to eat, work and go to school …Feng Xiaoqin, played by Christina, was a typical "national daughter-in-law" image as soon as she appeared..
But as soon as the camera turned, she forced her husband to borrow money for her elder sister, and even wrote a speech template to ask him to memorize it; In daily life, she forced her husband to change his research for a better job, strictly supervised his son’s online class, embroidered the LV logo bought in the market on the scarf hand-woven for elder sister’s birthday … The cleverness of personality and conversation made her break the stereotype of a national daughter-in-law, but live more vividly and full of vitality.
"Her theme" has always been the topic code of domestic dramas, but the image of "female in Chinese dramas" is also rapidly falling into a new round of routines. When the once overbearing female president and the wife are repeatedly staged, the public is also expecting the creators to explore the identity and self-worth of women in family and social relations from an updated perspective.
Although it is still a familiar perspective of daughter-in-law, the story of Feng Xiaoqin’s foreign daughter-in-law eager to settle down still touches many people’s hearts. This is also one of the great charms of Heart Residence.Feng Xiaoqin’s dilemma lies not only in the foreign daughter-in-law, but also in the more general emotional resonance for young people who flock to first-tier cities. What she reflects is more people who are eager to settle down in big cities..
In sharp contrast with Feng Xiaoqin, Tanya plays Gu Qingyu. She is elegant, capable and successful.Older people are unmarried, but there is no shortage of suitors. This is probably what many people are eager to be.. But it’s also her, who combs through the family meetings again and again and always keeps alert to Feng Xiaoqin. Although she lives alone, she is the actual master of this family.
The ingenuity of "Heart Residence" lies in the fact that two people are connected by the relationship of aunt and sister-in-law, which constitutes a field with great dramatic tension.Copy the other side of women’s picture books and family picture books.
Such two people naturally have all kinds of sparks when they meet. Gu Lei’s topic of borrowing money was transferred by Gu Qingyu as "I also want to buy a house", but immediately received Feng Xiaoqin’s topic bomb of "unmarried, not meeting the conditions for buying a house"; A "face-changing scene" of seeing the guests off downstairs shows the dignity of adults and the forefront of the relationship between aunts and sisters. Gu Lei’s accidental death was probably the most direct emotional outburst of two people.
It is precisely these that have broken the stereotyped image of "women in Chinese drama". Feng Xiaoqin is manipulated by the obsession of buying a house, but she is not a simple material or philistine, and she has traces of the efforts of outsiders; Gu Qingyu is smart and capable. Even in the face of affection, she always puts reason first, but in the face of love, she keeps her first love in her heart regardless of the difference in money status.It seems difficult to summarize them with a certain label.
In the confrontation between my aunt and sister-in-law, a Chinese family picture is also revealed in the fireworks: my elder sister, who has a successful career but doesn’t deal with it, her father-in-law and grandmother who always have reservations, her son, tiger, who is overloved by her family, and her husband who appears for a short time also have many aspects of being ignorant, foolish, jealous, swinging between her family and her wife, and her aunt who is particularly fresh.When the problem is constantly thrown here, it has its own practical reference.
"Home is where the heart lives",
Emotional insight of the times from her perspective
Some people feel the reality of big city life in the bathroom where their families are cramped; Some people envy Gu Qingyu’s successful career, but they have the same desire: to have a home that truly belongs to them. soThe proposition thrown at the beginning of the TV series is "buying a house", and the story unfolded from it is the insight into the mood of the times that really belongs to this drama.
From the perspective of women, the "home concept" behind buying a house is more delicate. Feng Xiaoqin’s desire to buy a house has been slightly enchanted: compelling her husband to borrow money, courting her elder sister, chasing and intercepting her in order to borrow money, leaving home on a pretence, and "accusing" under emotional breakdown. As long as she can borrow money to buy a house, she seems to be able to do anything.
Behind this, Feng Xiaoqin has never been able to produce a sense of belonging of "this is my home" after being married to her family for many years. That’s why she sends out the obsession of "What’s wrong with wanting to have a house of her own" and the hatred of her husband "It’s not you who will accompany him to drink the northwest breeze in the future, it’s me", and the two together constitute.A traditional housewife’s cognition of the concept of "home".
But this urgency is beyond Gu Qingyu’s understanding, so what she perceives is Feng Xiaoqin’s control over his younger brother, his intention to occupy the family property, and even this prejudice has existed since Feng Xiaoqin and Gu Lei first fell in love. Of course, she also had plans to buy her own house, but it was more about "scarce resources". At that time, she obviously didn’t understand what the house meant to a stranger.
From different perspectives, what everyone sees is different, which also pulls out two people.Discussion on more realistic issues such as love and marriage, educational concept, family concept, personal career and pension problem..
Feng Xiaoqin’s concept of marriage and love is to take good care of a family’s food, drink and clothing, to strictly urge her husband and son, to borrow money to buy a house, and of course to please them after quarreling. Gu Qingyu kept her first love in her heart and refused to compromise. She also quickly fell in love and got married after the other party appeared. They represent two different attitudes towards marriage and love, material and spiritual, daily necessities and castles in the air, which are equally typical.
There are also differences: Feng Xiaoqin’s emotional outburst is because Gu Qingyu gave Tiger a brand-name schoolbag, and before that, she had just sewed a "fake" for her son; Feng Xiaoqin thinks that even if she moves out, she will take care of the elderly for three meals a day. Gu Qingyu is worried that there will be no one to take care of the elderly after she leaves, and the reason why she failed to put it on the table is actually different in personal values, career and positioning.
In these collisions, tooLet the public constantly re-examine women’s self-worth, and re-examine the most easily overlooked issues in family relations, such as husband and wife, aunt, and pension.. If we just stay here, it will be no different from most family themes that exaggerate anxiety in the market."Heart Residence" uses an "imbalance" to break the solidified cognition, and also makes "family culture" be reshaped and discussed more deeply here..
If Feng Xiaoqin’s initial desire for home was "house", then Gu Lei’s death broke this heavy "material cognition" and made them re-examine the meaning of "home". When the initial blame each other in the past, people always have to move on, which includesHousewives go to the society to seek jobs, which also includes contact with their families and accepting each other from their hearts.. In the following story, the change of relationship between Feng Xiaoqin and Gu Qingyu is obviously the biggest attraction.
"Home is where the heart lives, and home can’t be separated", which is also the real topic of this drama. Starting from the hot topic of "buying a house",Constantly explore the deeper meaning of the concept of "home", coupled with the delicacy and empathy of "her perspective"At this moment, "Heart Residence" really has practical significance.
Full of texture and warmth,
Why does "Heart Residence" break the defense?
In the ordinary morning, some people are busy in the vegetable market, kitchen, pulling a family, and some people are on the side of yoga skin care nanny in the morning; Some people bargain with the intermediary in the second-hand house, and some people finalize tens of millions of properties in a telephone room; Of course, there is also Gu Jia’s cramped living space, and Gu Qingyu’s independent big room, famous cars and proud workplace. TV plays are very good at using this contrast to copy the lives of Feng Xiaoqin and Gu Qingyu.
This dramatic lens transformation constantly pushes the audience into "Heart Residence", but what finally resonates with the audience is stillRealism and life. This first benefited from the actor’s life-oriented performance: Feng Xiaoqin criticized the scene of her husband urging her children, which made the audience feel "seeing the taste of her mother when she was young"; When buying a house, the manner from signing the contract to paying the deposit was praised by netizens as "the performance of ordinary people" …
On social platforms,Christina’s comments are always "too real" and "full of substitution". And her performance in the face of her husband Gu Lei’s accidental death has even poked the hearts of countless audiences: real sadness, there are no tears, but the sadness at the bottom of her eyes and the despair of her whole body can’t be concealed. She unconsciously asked her husband to get up in the morning and couldn’t sleep at midnight, and her vitality seemed to be pulled away overnight.
Gu Qingyu, played by Tong Yao, is an attempt to break the previous role type, and her elegant, rational and capable temperament has been firmly grasped. However, when her father was "too tired" after her brother died and her family relationship could not be completely handled rationally, her consternation and sadness in her eyes were also real. In addition, Zhang Songwen’s "relaxation" interpretation of Zhan Xiang and William Feng’s Shi Yuan are equally accurate.
Real scene construction and detailed description, is also an important factor. Outside the crowded bathroom that touched many people, there were the school uniforms that Feng Xiaoqin took from the balcony after the tiger got up, the shoes that the old people at home loved for the tiger, and the family gatherings that made many people feel "real", gossiping aunts and so on. These together constitute the fireworks and sense of life flowing in Heart Residence.
Of course, this is inseparable.The creative team of the whole play.. The original author and screenwriter of "Heart Residence" isTeng Xiaolan, a New Shanghai WriterAs an authentic Shanghainese, her narrative of the Shanghai style story is obviously authentic;Director Huatao Teng.There is no need to go into details about his accomplishments in domestic family life dramas, and the drama under real fireworks is what he is best at.
more importantly,The positive, warm and optimistic power that "Heart Residence" has always hidden among parents.. Feng Xiaoqin’s obsession with buying a house made people see the kind of "vitality" in her body; Gu dad took the initiative to compromise and gave 500 thousand to Feng Xiaoqin, which was also a kind of warmth; The quarrel between husband and wife is also sweet daily life, and so is it. Gu Lei’s death will also stimulate everyone to make changes and re-find the definition of self and home.
Everyone is a different individual, and different background positions make them have friction and collision, but they will also.Accept goodwill and embrace beauty.. Just like this city is cruel, but it also accommodates everyone who is eager for a better life. In the follow-up story, Feng Xiaoqin will go out of the family to find a job, reconcile with his family and be truly accepted. This isThe beauty and growth of human nature.
Perhaps there are difficulties in life, but we must also have indomitable courage, and family is the greatest backing and strength, which is the most important spiritual strength of Heart Residence. This is probably Feng Xiaoqin and Gu Qingyu’s greatest commonality and the most touching force. The story continues. What kind of emotional and life experiences will Feng Xiaoqin and Gu Qingyu have in the future? We will always pay attention to it.