The most popular national drama in recent times is "Flowers". Wong Kar-wai went down to shoot a TV series, and his tone was very strong. A simple rice cake with pork ribs has also become uneasy in Shanghai. 
Many people like it, and they boast of the taste of old Shanghai. Some people don't like it, thinking it's too bells and whistles, and it's just a show. There are also a considerable number of original party members who express great regret. After all, many important plots in the original book were not filmed. The deletion of the plot in the special period also greatly reduced the thickness of Mr. Bao's characters. 
With all kinds of discussions, Uncle Yu couldn't help but think of an old drama 30 years ago. The era of the story in the film happens to be the same as "Flowers", both in terms of scale and taste, it is the most awesome Shanghai opera in my heart - "Debt".
The popularity of "Debt of Sin" back then was phenomenal. In the Shanghai-speaking region, it set a record of 42With an average rating record of 62%, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is empty. However, after the premiere, the Shanghainese version of "Sin Debt" was hidden and was not rebroadcast until the 10th anniversary in 2005. The reason for this may be the restriction of local dialect dramas in the general environment. Or perhaps, it is the sensitive background of the times. 
Looking at it after 30 years, you will still be surprised that it dares to shoot. This play is adapted from the writer Ye Xin's name**, which tells the story of a debt that has affected tens of millions of people. In the 50s, the vigorous "going to the mountains and going to the countryside" swept the country. Young people in the city go to the countryside to join the queue, where they can spend their youth and take root in life. At the end of the 70s, with the change of the situation, the "educated youth" returned to the city. However, due to policy regulations, their partners and children in the countryside cannot return to the city together. 
More than ten years later, the children who were stranded back then have grown up. Out of curiosity about their backgrounds, they travel together to the big city to find their relatives. The plot of this play unfolds from here. Five-and-a-half-year-olds climb aboard a train from Xishuangbanna to Shanghai. Along the way, I was full of energy and looked forward to seeing my Abba and Auntie. 
The flesh and blood that fell from the sky caught the parents off guard. Most of them hid their past in the queue and started a new family. How to settle the children and how to deal with the conflicts of the new family has become particularly tricky. It's like throwing a bomb into the window of your house
The half-grown child broke into a restructured family, causing a series of turmoil. Every side plot is also full of taboo plots. For example, sister and brother**. The emotional line between Tianhua and Yumin is believed to be the enlightenment of many people. The half-siblings gradually sparked. 
Another example is juvenile delinquency. With the wild feeling of the Yunnan border, the children plunged headlong into the modern city of Shanghai. In order to make money, they came up with a lot of ghost ideas. Or brought special cigarettes from their hometown, mixed with **, opium poppy to smoke and sell. Or with outstanding fists and feet, he took the girl to play fairy jumping. and so on, it is impossible to see any of them in today's domestic dramas.
In terms of lines, they often poke directly at the key points of the system. When a child from another place is sick, the cost of hospitalization is very large, but the medical insurance does not reimburse it. The character's questioning of the household registration and medical insurance system also shows the topics that the general public is most concerned about.
There is also suspicion of blood relatives and marriage. From a wrong past, we look at the phenomena of the present. Through the inner struggle of several educated youths, the framework of the marriage system is impacted.
These fierce designs eventually fell back to a few children looking for relatives. The ups and downs of his life are like the songs in the ending song: Dad has a home, Mom has a home Left with me, it seems to be redundant Shanghai is so big, is there my home
All dare to shoot is built on the basis of knowing how to shoot. Otherwise, it will slip into the ketch and even the misery of consumption. Director Huang Shuqin is a leading director in China. Whether it is the movie "People, Ghosts, Love" or the TV series "Siege" and other works, she implements the concept of "filming everyone well".
In Debt of Sin, five children correspond to five pairs of parents. With so many characters, it is difficult to portray them in just 20 episodes. Huang Shuqin is at ease, and sometimes only a few lines are needed to accurately locate the character. Of the five children, Yonghui was the most lost. The other friends all lived in his parents' house, but he was arranged into a guest house. 's father became a rich and powerful manager, and a question made Yonghui instantly aggrieved with tears in his eyes: What evidence do you have
In order to return to Shanghai, his parents sold Yonghui to a peasant couple. said that he would fake the divorce, but as soon as his father returned to Shanghai, he became Chen Shimei. Borrowing the relationship between his father-in-law's family, he has done well in a foreign trade company. Now that he is on the verge of promotion, he never wants to lose his career because of Yonghui.
The director didn't spend too much ink and paper. used another line to accurately point out the characteristics of the couple. Time is money
The most tangled one is Sifan. Dad and stepmom are ordinary workers, and they are generous and kind to others. But the problem is that the house is too small.
In the pavilion with dried tofu, a man and a half are stuffed into it. The family's life bears great inconveniences, and even using a spittoon at night is inconvenient. The stepmother's patience and tolerance are also being consumed day by day.
The most distressing thing is Meixia. She was the youngest of all the children, and the most lovable. After her mother passed away, she was lonely in Yunnan. The medicinal herbs brought from thousands of miles ago convey the thoughts of the mother and daughter for their father. Angelica is the one who should return
Her father, Shen Ruochen, is a good father in the eyes of the audience. His love and guilt for Meixia are visible to the naked eye. For many years, he has never been able to let go of his wife and daughter in Yunnan. Therefore, he especially cherishes this opportunity to reunite father and daughter, and sees it as an opportunity to repay his debts.
But, despite the determination, there are still many obstacles. It is difficult to do ideological work at the level of wife. Back then, Shen Ruochen deceived his past, which made him lose the confidence to discuss. Forcing his wife to accept him is another kind of unfairness.
Even if the wife said yes. The youngest son is difficult to adapt to for a while. The only child who is used to being pampered, grinning at Meixia. often scolded the hillbilly, and smashed the dishes and chopsticks and smashed her with the ball.
The pointing and gossip of the neighbors is equally unbearable. Several children are in different situations, but they all reach the point where they can't stay anymore. One rainy night, they plan to flee Shanghai.
When "Debt of Sin" was first broadcast, it also received a lot of criticism. The views are mainly focused on two words, selling miserably. But, on closer inspection, there is more than just tragedy. Through flashbacks of memories, the ins and outs of this debt on everyone's body are restored. In Sifan's father, he saw the gap between his ideal and reality. At that time, he made up his mind to return to Shanghai, determined to make a career.
However, more than ten years later, he is only working as a film projectionist. The unit is not divided into rooms, and there is no place to settle his own son.
In Tianhua's grandmother, you can see the same female plight in different environments. Yunnan's ex-husband is lazy and hardworking, and he also cheats. She was so humiliated that she reluctantly left her son behind and fled back to Shanghai alone. You want a divorce, don't think about it
But back in Shanghai, I fell into the same situation again. The sudden visit of the son also became a condition for the husband to coerce. She was forced to endure her husband's eating, drinking, prostitution, and gambling.
In Shen Ruochen, there is still a bit of literati backbone. When the whole era is crazy, he still wants to ask. All he wants is ordinary happiness, but he has created a lifetime of regret. Everybody can come back, so why can't I? 」
At the end of the plot, a few families are happy and a few are sad. Most of the children have to return to their hometowns. The train from Shanghai to Xishuangbanna started like the parents set off in the past. Five children are just a small microcosm of the great era. This kind of story is not over, and there may be many, many more such stories
In the play, Shen Ruochen once said a deafening sentence. He almost roared, pointing out the main thrust of the whole play. This iniquity was not committed by one man.
In a word, it's easy to say. We can easily attribute it to that era when right and wrong were reversed, and that time of the past that cannot be detailed. However, director Huang Shuqin chose to face it specifically and intuitively. In addition to creating vivid characters, she uses a lot of spare brushes to sketch the city of Shanghai. Mixia once had a conversation with her father. The reason why I came to Shanghai is not only to find relatives and seek refuge, but also to answer a question that has plagued the mother and daughter for many years: what kind of magic does this city have, which can make people abandon their blood relatives.
Like Flowers, Debt is set in Shanghai in the early 90s. However, the latter did not abuse the close-up, nor did he use the prospect to create the so-called Shanghai tone. The panoramic shots that do not shy away from sweeping over the bare Bund and the soon-to-be-completed Oriental Pearl Tower from time to time. These large-scale scenes included the social landscape of Shanghai at that time, making "Debt of Sin" an important urban video material.
In the alleys, the houses are divided into pavilions and shantytowns. The steep and narrow staircase carries the daily rush of the townspeople.
Close to the suburbs, new high-end apartments, garden houses. The family who is engaged in the industry has lived a more comfortable petty bourgeois life.
In the morning tea house, there is a mixture of fish and dragons. There is a table on the left, dressed casually and talking and laughing. Needless to say, it must be a civil servant who eats and drinks.
At a table on the right, sat old Koehler in a straight suit. There are cigarette lighters in front of and behind in hand, looking left and right. It's a cigarette dealer, and he didn't run away. As soon as the arrangement changed, it became a code for gambling money.
The parents of the five children also represented different social classes at the time. Newspaper editors, foreign trade managers, ordinary workers, and nouveau riche mixed up the rivers and lakes. Differences in wealth, status, and resources make them deal with problems in very different ways. It also means that their experience covers the entire society.
It was a time of rapid progress. **Tickets, private work, pigs can fly when they stand in the tuyere. If there is money on the beach in Shanghai, it is the master
Everyone is looking to money, which can be regarded as another kind of "great leap forward". In such an atmosphere, people can understand each other. In the factory, the workers spurned the group of educated youths. People like them really did evil in their previous lives, so why should they get married?
But at the same time, industrial upgrading has also caused a large-scale wave of layoffs. The more beautiful foreign trade is, the more beautiful the face of the leader. Factories that are not transformed in time will be eliminated when they are eliminated. In the end, it is the little people who are unlucky. When the dust of the times falls on their heads, they will issue ** and call for help.
Looking back, how should this debt be calculated? I'm afraid I still can't find the answer. However, even if there is no solution, the meaning of the inquiry cannot be denied. What "Debt of Sin" does is to see the city from the perspective of people, and then find people from the vast city. The city is cold, and there are people who have temperature. Can you tell me why?