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TV series "South to North"——
Ride the "train of the times" to the future
Zheng Na. People** Overseas Edition (2024-02-22 11th Edition).
Recently, an emotional group drama "South to North" focusing on the work and life of two generations of railway public security officers and police, with a time span of up to 40 years, is being broadcast on iQiyi, and the "Times Train" shuttles on the railway artery, reflecting the rapid development of the country and the great changes in people's lives.
In the record book of period drama creation, the lives of ordinary people have left a strong mark. "South to North" focuses on the "Train of the Times" of Mercedes-Benz and the various people related to it, which is not only an innovation of perspective, but also an expansion of vision. Throughout the past 40 years, the upgrading and transformation of China's railways from steam locomotives, diesel locomotives to bullet trains and high-speed railways has brought the audience back to the corresponding years and years, evoking unique individual memories and echoes of the times. Wang Xin and Ma Kui's apprentices are the core characters of the whole play, they are the witnesses of time, and they are also the guardians on this road. The railway police not only shoulder the responsibility and mission of ensuring the safety of passengers' lives and property during the journey, but also guard the safety of the stations and territories along the line.
In the play, around a railway and a train, there are not only professional honors, but also various life situations, with passengers with different marks of different periods walking up and down, staging scenes of warm and cold stories. At the beginning of the story, Wang Xin, who returned with the car, became the most popular person in the entire compound, busy sending the items entrusted to each family, and the sense of age flowed and became clear in the details: in the seventies and eighties of the last century, when the transportation was not very developed, the work on the railway was destined to be enviable - traveling with the car means being able to go to distant places that cannot be reached by foot strength, and bringing back necessities or rare things for relatives and friends and neighbors who are waiting at home, which is not only the "glory of the profession", but also the short "symphony" of parents, It shows a distinct imprint of the times.
The portrayal of "Courtyard Life" is also vivid and vivid, flowing with poetry in the roughness. As a product of the transition from a planned economy to a market economy, the "compound" is a "community of units" integrating production and life. In the railway compound, Wang Xin's father and son, Ma Kui, Ma Yan's family of four, Dr. Shen, Yao Yuling's family, Niu Dali's family, Cai Xiaonian's family, etc., they have become neighbors because of their professional connections, and they see their individuality in commonality. In this specific place of life, the cultivation of human feelings and the philosophy of life are immersed in the trivialities of life, and the realistic writing has both temperature and strength due to the blending of truth and goodness. Ma Kui's family condenses the beautiful qualities of a typical Chinese family of simplicity, diligence and progress, even if their own life is tight, they can't help but stay and raise their abandoned son Ma Jian; In the situation of material abundance, I still don't forget to serve Lili a glass of soaked milk to supplement nutrition. Even if there was a knot between the older generation of railroad people, they still supported each other in the predicament, and the saying "distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors" echoed loudly; The young generation who have grown up is vigorous, they are in the tide of the times to pursue love, go to the ideal, and the spirit of going up reflects the vitality of the times.
"South to North" also reproduced the vitality of the black soil in the Northeast to the younger generation at that time. Just as the sayings such as "orange in the south and orange in the north" and "one side of the water and soil raises one person" reveals, traditional Chinese culture has always emphasized the significance and value of geography, and has spread through film and television dramas.
From the perspective of geography, "South to North" pays attention to digging deep and highlighting the subtle influence of the Northeast geography, with its own humorous and joyful Northeast dialect, the local stove and kang with strong regional characteristics, the representative ear bags of cold items in the northern cold areas, Burmese crotch pants and other details, further filling and plumping up the portraits of all kinds of ordinary people on the trains and in the railway compound during the period from reform and opening up to the new century, evoking not only the common memory of the times, but also the nostalgia that is difficult to give up and indelible. At the same time, the new situation created by the changes of the times will give new influence and change to people's character and destiny, "the situation creates people" is reflected in the play, that is, the young generation who grew up such as Ma Yan and Niu Dali completed the first "escape" along the railway artery, and went all the way south to collide with the tradition of the old industrial base with "other places"; With the train to Ningyang, the people who came to Ningyang brought the customs and traditions of various places and the black soil to have a turbulent fusion and collision, calling for a sense of belonging and identity in the ups and downs of the fate of the track.
Film and television dramas that express the joys and sorrows, bitterness and sweetness of ordinary people, whether it is reminiscence of the times or contemporary writing, such as "The World", which records the history of civilian life for half a century of "light word films", and "Police Honor", which is embellished with countless trivial things in real life, etc., all have the spiritual power to transcend time and space because they truthfully and truly reflect the voices of ordinary people in different eras, and they have the spiritual power to transcend time and space and become high-quality products. "From South to North" looks back at the small people in the big era and the faces of all beings on the black land with affectionate eyes, tying individuals, regions and society tightly to the train of "era", driving towards the future in the roar of the whistle and resonating with the present.