Special feature of 1905 film network At the beginning of the year, a film "Everything’s Fine" wrote all about China’s family’s pension problem and family of origin’s injury, and accurately hit the "pain point" of the audience.Now, a film "Little Joy" takes the "College Entrance Examination" as an incision to show another cross-section of China’s family to the audience.
Since its launch at the end of July, the popularity of the TV series "Little Joy" has increased all the way. Not only has it been frequently searched, but the Douban score has been countered from 8.0 to 8.3.
Just like the popularity of Everything’s Fine at the beginning, Little Joy has also set off a wave of national discussions on educational topics with the help of the "authenticity" of realistic themes.
"Little Joy" revolves around the preparation process for the "College Entrance Examination" of three ordinary families: Fang, Qiao and Ji.In the process of sprinting towards the most important exam in China’s life with the family as the unit, parents and children are also experiencing countless "quizzes" from life.
If the first few episodes are still filled with a relaxed and happy atmosphere, the recent plot has turned sharply, and every family has encountered intractable troubles and crises.
Huang Lei and Christina’s Fang couple are both facing unemployment crisis, and their parents have been cheated into debts of 800,000 yuan.
Qiao Yingzi, the "schoolmaster", is gradually out of breath under the bondage of "maternal love" full of control desire. Even in the latest episode, she had a fierce argument with her parents and was impulsive to jump into the sea.
Ji Jia’s parent-child relationship had just eased, and Yongmei’s mother liujing was diagnosed with breast cancer.
It’s true that every family has a hard book to read.
"Why Little Joy" was once ranked first in Weibo’s hot search, with a reading volume of over 400 million.
Some netizens explained in the comments: "It is precisely because there are too many helpless trifles that it seems how important it is to be’ small joy’. Just like looking for diamonds in glass slag, it is worth discovering again. "
Similar to the irony of "everything is fine", behind "little joy" is also "little anxiety" that can’t be avoided in ordinary family life.
Three typical China families
Who poked your "pain point"
One of the reasons why Little Joy is highly praised is the "realism" of the plot and details. Whether it is the intimate details of husband and wife getting along or the parents’ every move when they "teach" their son, people often exclaim: "Director, why do you want to spy on my life?"
Christina’s mad drama made many netizens exclaim and saw the "mother mother"
Three families with different painting styles in the play also constitute a ukiyo-e painting of Chinese college entrance examination families. Through their mode of getting along with each other and their educational ideas, we can always see the shadow of ourselves or our families, and let the audience reflect on what family education should look like.
"Lover Style": You are everything to your mother.
The "lover-like" parent-child relationship between Song Qian and his daughter Qiao Yingzi played by Tao Hong is the most controversial.
As a single mother, the frustration of marriage made her pour all her "love" into her daughter, and her daughter’s success became her goal in life and the way to prove herself.
As Song Qian often said, "Eiko, you are everything to your mother."
From childhood to adulthood, her daughter’s food, clothing, housing and transportation were all arranged by her, and the study plan must be strictly completed according to the timetable set by her.
The daughter’s room is equipped with an observation window, so that her mother can keep an eye on her every move at any time. The mother and daughter are like "conjoined twins" and have no private space.
No wonder Eiko once quietly told his father that he was at home every day as if he were in a prison.
This kind of maternal love may be meticulous in material, but it is extremely lacking in spirit. A mother imposes her will on her daughter, but never listens to her real needs.
All the voices of opposition are labeled as "love" and politely but ruthlessly rejected.
Song Qian once said to Eiko, "Mom has already arranged the road behind you." This road is entirely wishful thinking of my mother, and I have never asked my daughter for advice.
To put it bluntly, she treats her daughter as her private property, not as an independent individual.
In the play, this heavy maternal love has made Eiko gradually breathless. She began to rebel against her mother by playing truant and lying in disguise, and her personality became depressed and depressed.
In the name of mother’s love, we should "control". Behind this suffocating maternal love, both mother and daughter lost themselves.
"Airborne": Late Love
If Song Qian’s maternal love for Eiko is too much, Ji Jia’s parents’ love for Ji Yangyang is seriously lacking and late.
Because of work reasons, parents have been absent from their son’s growth all the year round, and suddenly "airborne" in the third year of high school. Naturally, it is difficult to get children’s acceptance and recognition.
Faced with this sense of estrangement and alienation, Ji Jia’s parents’ handling methods are worth learning.
They can try to understand and experience children’s hobbies from their sons’ point of view, such as playing video games and practicing karting. Taking interest as a breakthrough, Ji Yangyang’s heart is opened step by step.
When their son’s exam results are not ideal, they can also be reasonable and positive, telling him that exam results are a stepping stone to realize his dreams.
From this point of view, Ji Jia’s educational philosophy is superior to Qiao Jia’s, but there is a saying that "the best love is companionship", and it is often difficult to make up for the harm caused by the absence of parents in the process of growing up.
From the source, less "left-behind children" in cities like Ji Yangyang may be the best fatherly love and maternal love.
"Open": both father and son and friends.
Among the three families, Fang’s family atmosphere and parent-child relationship are undoubtedly the most enviable.
Fiona Fang and Tong Wenjie, played by Huang Lei and Christina, respectively played the roles of "tiger mother" and "cat father" at home.Mother is very strict with the "skin monkey" son, and sometimes she will use "force", but fortunately, her father with high emotional intelligence has always intervened, so that the whole family can operate in a relaxed and happy atmosphere.
As a screenwriter, Huang Lei has obviously incorporated many of his own educational ideas into Fiona Fang’s personal design. The so-called "cat dad" is not blindly compromising and spoiling, but is sensible and emotional to his son from the perspective of equality.
For example, when a conflict broke out between Tong Wenjie and Fang Yifan because of their poor grades, Fiona Fang used a set of "theory" to explain the truth and resolve the contradiction.
On the one hand, Fiona Fang advised his son to look sideways, not only to see his own shortcomings in learning compared with other students, but also to see his mother better than other parents.
On the other hand, he also advised his wife not only to compare her son "horizontally" with other people’s children, but also to learn to "look vertically" to help children find their own life goals and directions.
In the play, another line of Fiona Fang is actually said to all parents in and out of the play: "Children’s lives are their own, and they have to take a detour. They have to hit the south wall one by one, and we have stumbled all the way. No one can replace it."
We can’t choose our family, and the three "family of origin" in the play also have their own shortcomings and imperfections, but the loveliness of Little Joy is that neither parents nor children refuse to change, and they are constantly reflecting and improving themselves in the process of running in.
Just like the classic line in the middle school says, "Dad is also a father for the first time." After the quarrel and disagreement, the sincere apology and communication between the two sides has become the most touching paragraph in Little Joy.
Refuse to "suspend"
Grasp the realistic theme from the truth of details
Some viewers said: "Little Joy" is like a mirror, in which both parents and children can see themselves. This is the charm of realistic works.
Director Wang Jun once concluded at the press conference that the key to the creation of realistic works is "truth". "For example, changing slippers when entering the door is realism. If you grasp the truth of the details, you will grasp the true meaning of realism."
Director Wang Jun
In his view, in the film and television works with realistic themes, the creator and the audience should maintain an equal relationship. "The creator should not always be condescending and want to lead or teach something. What we want to express is in reality. First of all, we should be faithful to our own feelings and experiences of reality and don’t fake the real play."
In the early discussion of the script, screenwriter Huang Lei also said that the characters must "sink down and stick to the ground" and "don’t talk too much". He also exposed himself in Weibo. Most of the characters in the play are based on the real experiences of friends around him. "The screenwriter doesn’t have to edit it, because it’s all around you."
From "Little Separation", "My First Half Life" and "Big Rivers" to "Everything is Fine" and "Little Joy" this year, with the birth of one explosion after another, realistic film and television works have really ushered in a blowout period.
It is the significance and charm of realistic works to integrate the real insight and perception of life into the creation, so that the audience can empathize and trigger a wide range of social discussions.
As director Wang Jun said, "Little Joy" is not made to accuse or solve any problems. After all, education is a matter of thousands of people. What the creative team wants to do is to present the reality to the audience. "We don’t want to give the audience a ready-made answer, just want to give everyone a grasp, so that everyone can deeply discuss the Chinese parent-child relationship and intergenerational relationship."
