It's not easy to make a family drama new in the small daily life - but "In My Life" did it.
Since its launch, this Chinese family drama has continued to usher in the finale with an excellent performance of nearly 9 points. The family group drama full of life, combined with localized language and Taiwanese humor, allows family issues to re-enter the public discussion in a new way.
In the Douban short comment, some people called "Lifetime"."A real sense of presence TV series".。The real details are reflected, making this family drama three-dimensional and vivid. Maybe everyone can see through the lens the appearance of a down-to-earth "home".
01 Gao Jiayue, who was down, suddenly went home
From the series of shots of the underwater world to the narrative of the campus scene slowly unfolding, does the beginning of "A Lifetime Make You a Little Confused?".Don't worry, it's better to start with a long-shot scene about "going home".
After getting drunk, Gao Jiayue (played by Wu Kangren) unceremoniously broke into the Gao family's dinner table. Although he is the son of a high family, he has been away from home for many years and has little contact. His appearance was like an outsider, much to the surprise of the whole family. Everyone stood almost stunned, letting him talk nonsense and pretend to be familiar with warm greetings, and finally bury his head in a dish—and the farce was over.
Why did Gao Jiayue suddenly go home?What the hell is he going to do when he comes back?He's going to go back to **?The rest of the story revolves around these questions.
Then, we finally complemented Gao Jiayue's experience of being alone in the past few years in the multiple narratives that are interspersed from time to time. "At the age of forty-one, he lived in Xiaoliuqiu, his girlfriend ran away, and the restaurant he ran also collapsed, and he was alone at the moment. This is described on the official website of "Lifetime".
The scene at the bottom of the sea at the beginning is a scene where Gao Jiayue wants to end his life after encountering a midlife crisis. As he sank into the ocean, he suddenly remembered a lot of things, and his familySo he decided to go home and say goodbye to his family.
However, after returning home, is Gao Jiayue a little better?
The answer is probably no. In the unanswered inquiries and even questions, he never seemed to get even a single "welcome home" from the whole family.
02 "It's good to be able to grow so big in your lifetime".
Gradually, Gao Jiayue found that everyone in the family was actually living in a mess.
The parents of the Gao family are emotionally discordant, the second brother Gao Jiayang (played by Zheng Yuanchang) as an adopted son guards the family in every detail to repay the kindness, and the third brother Gao Jiakai (played by Lin Zhexi) is confused about the future and trapped in the family breakfast shop. Compared to him, nothing better, nothing worse.
Interestingly, on the background wall of the living room of the Gao family,There has been a big word "forbearance" pasted all the time。And many times the dialogue that surrounds this scene is:"I can't take it anymore", "I can't take it anymore".
And he doesn't know if it's (self-thought) imminent death, or because of his characterOn the contrary, the life problems of each family member are "viewed from a distance". He encouraged his mother to sign up for a trip and go out for a walk, "disliked" his second brother for everything, let him take care of himself, and led his nephew to do risky but worthwhile things......
So, in that small and soundproof Gao family's house, he wrote the "suicide note". With the constant conversation of his family in the kitchen and on the rooftop, his thoughts froze and let go, and the letter was crossed out and rewritten—he crossed out the "suicide note" with his hands, which seemed too serious;crossed out the "long goodbye" again, and felt that some words did not reach the point;Finally, he wrote, "It's good to be able to grow so big in my lifetime."
And this deleted suicide note also silently received a "reply". Whether it was the nephew who accidentally found the suicide note, or the mother who took the initiative to inform the suicide note, they all gave Gao Jiayue the love and protection of his family in his own way.
03 Life is ridiculous, how to "live"?
The traditional way of family dramas is nothing more than describing the trivialities of life in eating and sleeping again and again, and dramatically exaggerating the chickens and dogs of life in quarrels and fights, but no matter what, in the end, there will be an ending of family reunion, which is inevitably boring.
And in "A Lifetime", there are still trivialities, but just like life, it is full of accidents-It was Gao Jiayue who was bent on death, but he didn't expect an accident to befall Gao Jiayang, how ridiculous?
The impermanence of life and death, which is related to life and death, teaches us to value the individual meaning of each "me". Perhaps, this is also a new solution to the family drama through the biggest accident in the series: each family member does not have to sacrifice himself for the family, but to find the meaning of himself, and turn the home into a pluralistic community with centripetal force.
At the end of the story,Gao Jiayang's departure caused the whole family to deviate from the original track of life, but it also pushed everyone forward hard.
Gao's parents, who were in marital difficulties, finally chose to divorce but still live together. Gao Jiakai, who hesitated to propose to his girlfriend, finally took the girl to explain his heart to his parents. And Gao Jiayue also has his own answer to the question of whether to end his life.
Just like the English name of "Living", throughout our lives, we are all searching for the meaning of our lives. If you can't find the meaning of your self, you will inevitably fall into the black hole of existentialism. And tracing the meaning of tracing the origin of the individual through the family may also be a good solution to the problem.