life is not easy but i still work hard. are you depressed or cured by "song of mortals"?
2024-09-23
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"you and i are both ordinary people, born in this world..." this song "song of ordinary people" by jonathan lee is well-known to everyone. the urban drama adapted from the novel "i'm not a loser" borrowed the title of the song as the title of the drama, which revolves around three couples and lovers living in beijing and tells the life dilemmas they each face.
"running around all day, no time to rest", the lyrics are a true portrayal of the characters in the play. the difference is that in addition to complaints and helplessness, li zongsheng's writing also contains some ridicule and open-mindedness. the drama version of "ordinary people's song" gives people a completely different feeling. the plot is laid out in a "hard landing" style. it describes the fragility and fear of high-income people in the city when they lose their jobs, divorce, lose their health, and other blows in a serious and realistic way.
depression: life with an uncertain future
some people say that the real "ordinary people's song" is "the happy life of poor mouth zhang damin". the little people live in poverty, but they always make people feel their love for life, optimism and hope. however, many viewers who were "depressed" by "ordinary people's song" currently being broadcast said that they felt "sorrow" and hopelessness after watching it.
indeed, since the show started, the three families have been faced with disadvantages everywhere, and have been hit by unsolvable blows and conflicts.
in the play, the middle-aged couple na wei, played by wang xiao, and shen lin, played by yin tao, suddenly encounter a life crisis. na wei has worked hard in the company for 15 years and finally got the position of vice president. the company is about to go public, but suddenly the boss becomes a monk, and the millions of shares become waste paper; shen lin was originally an "economically affordable lady" who lived a decent life at home with her husband and children, but was forced to return to the workplace to relieve financial pressure...
na wei's brother na jun and his girlfriend li xiaoyue are more like a control group of workplace mentality. the former is an absolute "roll king" who doesn't allow himself a moment's rest even if he earns a million a year; the latter is the spokesperson for rectifying the workplace and rejecting involution. in order to live comfortably and without pressure, she refuses promotion and salary increase. na jun often "dislikes" her for not making progress, and li xiaoyue asks in return, "do you make money to live or live to make money?"!
the third pair, shen lin’s younger brother shen lei and his wife xie meilan, were once sweet campus lovers, but due to their different outlooks on life, they gradually drifted apart, and their pure campus love was eventually defeated by reality.
the tv series "song of ordinary people" makes many viewers feel particularly depressed, also because the protagonists are typical "reliable middle-aged" and "reliable young people", who work hard in their respective families and careers, actively respond to crises and have no obvious faults, but are powerless to save themselves when their happiness is shattered.
healing power: "hidden" in cruelty
at present, "song of ordinary people" has been broadcast to the end, and the expected twists and turns and rebounds have not yet come. on the contrary, na wei and shen lin's bottom line is still being lost, and they can only move from wangjing to yanjiao and rely on the rent difference to subsidize their family expenses... the cruel life tore this middle-aged couple really brought the audience empathy and pain - according to common sense, the life of every ordinary person is already very difficult, and the function of film and television dramas is to give people temporary comfort and hope from reality, so there are cool dramas, light comedies, and healing dramas. if it is really a life drama that is "sad" to the end, what are the audiences who are still chasing the drama "looking for"?
in fact, the healing power of "song of mortals" is "hidden" in cruelty, leaving no traces, a bit like looking for candy in broken glass, but "you and i are all mortals, born in the world", and those who understand will understand. the more bitter and painful the middle-aged couple na wei and shen lin are, the more they can taste a touch of touching and sweetness. the hope of life is hidden in the mutual trust and support between the two; na wei was not successful in re-employment, and he played a puppet in the mall. shen lin recognized her husband through the thick frog suit. after a silent look, shen lin smiled encouragingly with tears in her eyes, cheering na wei up... in the face of the blows of life, the most rare thing for this couple is not to complain about each other, and always be comrades standing beside each other and friends who support each other's choices. this is also their only chance to survive the difficulties and reach the end. in this sense, it is not important whether the audience's expected comeback ending is about to come.
sense of reality: no filter for life
as the most popular type of tv dramas, life dramas have evolved from topical dramas to healing dramas. whether it is "ode to joy" which interweaves social issues or "go where the wind is" which refuses to be inward-looking, they are typical works that try to understand social emotions to the greatest extent and achieve empathy with the audience.
in this sense, the "discomfort" that "song of a mortal" brings to the audience is precisely its small step forward - the current film and television industry mostly produces light comedies that filter and beautify life, or use comedy to resolve the characters' predicaments, but when the real hammer strikes in reality, no one can just laugh it off. text/reporter yang wenjie
(source: beijing youth daily)
