Despite the new atmosphere that the New Year brings, many viewers are very unhappy with the role of the mother in two urban dramas:
If Running Is My Life" is a work that has sparked a lot of discussion not long ago, while "Fireworks Man" is a work that is coming to an end.
These two works have brought together many well-known stars, in addition to the currently very popular Xiao Huadan, there are also many senior "old drama bones" involved, their creativity, highlights and performances are very worth seeing.
However, Chen Xiaoyi and Xu Fan, who play the roles of two mothers in the play, seem to have a very tacit understanding of showing the "suffocating love" to the fullest.
Compared with the early popular Fan Shengmei's "Ode to Joy" and "An Family" and Bonnie's "Perfect Relationship", which relied on "blood-sucking" daughters for their livelihood, the "new track" that Xu Fan has now created gives people a new sense of oppression.
Their love for their children is wholehearted, but this love is mixed with elements of selfishness, domineering and control.
Today, let's review the "non-traditional mothers" who used "love" in the name of "love" in past film and television works, and see who is the most eccentric and who can "save"?
1.Xu Fan's work "Fireworks People".
The classic saying is, "I gave birth to you, do you have a conscience?" ”
"Fireworks People" marks that Xu Fan once again took on an important role in the TV series after starring in "A Tree of Peach Blossoms" in 2017.
However, no one expected that the 57-year-old would reappear as a "suffocating mother".
In addition to the audience's dissatisfaction with Xu Fan's role setting in the play, some people expressed doubts about her acting skills and lines.
In the play, the relationship between her and her daughter Li Yijin Jane, played by Ma Sichun, has reached the point of parity.
Meng Mingwei, played by Xu Fan, is the eldest of three daughters, but because she is not biological and has been lame since she was a child, she has very high expectations for her daughter Li Yijin, hoping that her daughter's success will make her proud and satisfied.
Therefore, the "struggle" between mother and daughter never stops:
She first took action to stop Li Yijin from developing a romance with her boyfriend, and actively intervened under the name of "for your good".
From another point of view, Meng Mingwei often regards Tao Shuna, the daughter of his second sister Meng Yunqing, as an "imaginary opponent", and often uses her to suppress his daughter, often saying: "You learn from Nana."
This is not the most suffocating thing - in addition to the relationship, the mother also managed her daughter holistically, oppressed her career, resigned her job for her behind her daughter's back, and even made trouble at the workplace, and staged a large-scale forced palace on the spot.
After destroying her daughter's love relationship, she forced her daughter to marry again, and every word deeply touched her daughter's heart:
You're almost 30 years old, do you think you'll still choose slowly? ”
However, Meng Mingwei's harsh attitude towards her daughter is not because she doesn't love her, but because she loves her too much. She has completely lost her voice in front of her cowardly husband, and she has a very submissive attitude towards life and has never experienced what it feels like to be loved.
Therefore, she pinned all her emotions on her daughter, controlling her with a suffocating love, and her reason was: she hoped that her future would not be like her own.
However, this kind of love, which is full of blame, oppression, blood, and even "crazy", makes people feel extremely uncomfortable.
Many viewers felt heartache for the actor Ma Sichun who played her daughter: "She suffers from depression, can she try to play a sunny and cheerful role?" ”
This also proves that Xu Fan's acting skills are very good, she has been debuting for more than 30 years and has successfully portrayed many classic roles.
However, in the past few years, her production has gradually declined, and most of the TV series are only supporting roles, with relatively few scenes.
Although "The Pyrotechnics" is a rare major lead work, she succeeds in creating an unpleasant character, which is also an artistic sacrifice she makes.
2.Chen Xiaoyi's work "If Running Is My Life".
There is a classic saying: "If you don't go on a blind date, I'll starve myself to death!" ”
Chen Xiaoyi, 1 year younger than Xu Fan, became famous overnight 33 years ago for starring in the TV series "Alien Girl", and became the "white moonlight" in the minds of many fathers and audiences.
Since then, she has released works such as "Halfway Couple". It is worth mentioning that she also starred in the TV series version of "Tangshan Da**" in 2013, in which she played Li Yuanni, the mother who Xu Fan once played.
After that, Chen Xiaoyi successfully transformed from an ordinary mother role to a "mother professional household", and played a variety of mother roles with different personalities in many film and television works.
However, to everyone's surprise, she, who usually feels suave and elegant, also plays the role of an eccentric mother with an extreme desire for control.
Not long ago, in the show "If Running Is My Life", which frequently appeared due to the topic of "the third child", Chen Xiaoyi tried to play the role of Chen Xiuli, a middle-aged widow and child.
She is a typical mother who favors boys, despises girls, and has a strong desire to control
Before the death of her son Chen Ruoxuan, she showed all her desire for control to him, which made him have a strong stress response to the exam and considered ending his life many times.
After Chen Ruoxuan's unexpected death, Chen Xiuli reinvested all her emotions into the life of Chen Ruohua, the daughter played by Yang Chaoyue.
Initially, Ruohua had high expectations for her mother's love, but unexpectedly, this led her into an abyss where she couldn't breathe.
In the beginning, the mother always managed all kinds of affairs in the name of love, even the little things like the basic needs of her daughter, such as eating and sleeping.
Especially when Chen Ruohua was about to return to school, Chen Xiuli insisted on going with him under various excuses and chose to live in the school, which undoubtedly brought a lot of trouble to her daughter in terms of social aspects.
In particular, he inappropriately interfered in the relationship between his daughter and her boyfriend Zhou Kaize:
Her initial purpose was to stalk and investigate, and then she staged scenes such as hunger strikes and forced marriages to experience the suffocating mother's lines firsthand.
My daughter told me, "You used yourself as a hostage to kidnap me. ”
Chen Xiuli immediately responded: "Then you will tear up the ticket, I understand, you have long wanted me to die, so that you can get rid of my burden."
This back and forth made the audience shout "sad" after watching it:
Ruohua felt aggrieved, but he seemed very powerless.
Fortunately, in this drama, there are many positive mutual understanding and support between Zhao Xiufang and Cheng Anxin, a mother and daughter, which also brings a touch of comfort to the audience.
3.Chen Jin's "Dear Mayang Street" and "Fireworks in My World", etc.
The classic saying is: "What science do girls study?" ”
Actress Chen Jin, who is just 60 years old this year, is not only one of the well-known "old drama bones", but also known as a "bad mother professional" in the minds of netizens.
Her temperament is completely different from Xu Fan and Chen Xiaoyi, and she can always give people an impression of independence, calmness, soberness and calmness, so playing the role of a mother will also give people a feeling of indifference and suffocation.
Chen Jin plays many mother roles in the play:
From Dong Guilan, who adopted Fang Deng in the movie version of "Tangshan Da**", to Zhao Meilan, who prefers boys and despises girls in "It's All Good", and then to the county lord of Pingning in "Do You Know If You Should Be Green, Fat, Red and Thin".
Especially in the TV series "Dear Mayang Street" broadcast in 2020, Chen Jin once again showed the image of a mother who binds her daughter with love in an almost perfect way.
In the play, she portrays Niu Zilai as a representative of many outstanding middle-aged women on Mayang Street – she presents a strong, traditional and mature image, but because she is too good, she suffers at the best of years.
At the low ebb of his life, Niu Zilai met the father of the heroine Ma Xiaoxiao and the ordinary Ma Yingjun, and the two came together, gave birth to a daughter, and lived a quiet life.
Despite the fact that the mother had been exposed to rain in her youth, she did not become a strong support for her daughter, on the contrary, she always became an obstacle in her way.
Ma Xiaoxiao, played by Tan Songyun, excelled in academics, and originally had the opportunity to choose a more promising science direction in high school, but was hindered by his mother's unapproved concept that "girls should study literature".
In addition, the daughter has a deep relationship with her friend Xiao Ou Xiaojian on the same street, but Niu Zilai thinks that the man is an uneducated guy, so he often resolutely intervenes to stop him.
Since then, she has often used reasons such as "I'm all for your good" to prevent the two from meeting, and even prevented her daughter from being admitted to Peking University on the grounds that "girls can't take care of themselves outside", which also made the relationship between her and Ou Xiaojian untenable.
In last year's summer file "Fireworks in My World", Chen Jin once again played the role of a depressed mother.
In this play, Fu Wenying, played by her, forcibly pushed the grievances of the previous generation to the next generation, and when she was young, she resolutely prevented the heroine Xu Qin and Song Yan played by Yang Yang from coming together.
It turns out that Song's mother and Fu Wenying's husband Meng Huaijin had an unknown relationship, which almost led to the breakdown of her marriage, and for many years, Meng Huaijin has always regarded Meng Huaijin as her "white moonlight".
Therefore, Fu Wenying transferred her resentment to Song Yan and constantly prevented him from spending time with his adopted daughter.
In addition, when she found out that her son Meng Yanchen had feelings for Xu Qin, she forcibly asked the girl to change her surname without taking into account the other party's emotions.
Regarding her daughter's career choice, Fu Wenying gave her own views and suggestions, she believes that girls should not become doctors, and emphasizes that her daughter should pay more attention to family life after marriage.
She also tried to control her adopted daughter through the PUA method:
A bowl of porridge makes you want to die or live, and you don't remember the kindness of your parents?? ”
It's no exaggeration to say that Chen Jin's acting skills are so good that when she debuts in a family-themed work, it's sure to leave the audience feeling creepy.
4.Shi Yueling's work "Dear Child".
The classic saying is: "You are like your father, the upper beam is not right, the lower beam is crooked." Nauseating! ”
The emotional drama "Dear Child" released in 2022 has had a huge impact on the audience, especially when the hero and heroine divorced because of the "little three" Zhu Zhu, Zhu Zhu even performed a palace drama at their daughter's full moon banquet.
At that time, the focus was mainly on Zhu Zhu's birth family and her extremely controlling mother.
Shi Yueling, the actress who plays Zhu's mother, shows the image of a strong female leader.
When she was young, due to her husband's infidelity, she raised her daughter alone, which also made her very strict with her, even drinking soy milk and milk in a commanding tone.
In addition to this, she is more inclined to blame her daughter with her kind of "dang woman humiliation" logic:
Capable girls don't need these at all (apply lipstick), you look good, to whom? No makeup in the future! ”
Perhaps, Zhu Zhu decided to become the "little three" of the male protagonist Xiao Lu, in large part because of the suffocating mother-daughter relationship between her and Xiao Lu - she found a trace of spiritual comfort in front of Xiao Lu.
Some believe that Zhu Zhu's rebellion was a revenge on her mother from beginning to end.
Faced with this situation, Zhu's mother did not look for the reason from herself, but directly reprimanded her daughter violently:
I have provided you with the best quality education since you were a child, what have you learned? You don't feel ashamed of these shameless things you have done, I still feel ashamed. Did I train you to be a talented person, did I want you to destroy your family and become a third party for others? ”
At the end of the day, the mother's primary concern is not why her daughter does what she does, but the negative impact she has on her reputation by doing so.
5.Xu Meiling's work is "Female Psychologist".
The classic saying is, "You are like meat that has fallen from me, and whatever you do, you must tell me!" ”
In last year's popular ** TV series "Female Psychologist", Jiang Jing, played by Li Meng, is a 30-year-old obedient girl, but her heart is under tremendous pressure.
She is like this because her mother is both repressed and very controlling:
Zhang Lizi, Jiang's mother played by Xu Meiling, felt extremely ashamed because she was abandoned by her husband.
Zhang Lizi, like many mothers in single-parent families who are overly dependent on their children, also sees her daughter as her everything, and she hopes that her daughter can become "the child of other families".
Not only did she force her daughter to learn piano, but she also often kidnapped her daughter by eating, claiming that she could only eat if she completed the piece.
In addition, Jiang Jing was very concerned about her daughter's daily life and diet, which led to her not enjoying complete freedom from childhood until she was 30 years old.
In desperation, she chose overeating as a means of venting, and gradually mastered the life philosophy of "one thing in front of one thing and one thing behind the other" - she was a good obedient girl in the eyes of her mother, but once she stepped out of the house, she became like a wild girl.
Until one day, her mother unexpectedly discovered her, but instead of reflecting deeply on herself, she angrily asked:
Did you come out the door and tell me? Look at the people around you, what kind of people are they? ”
This series of events caused Jiang Jing to lose control of her emotions, and she repeatedly blamed her mother, but in the end she only got one sentence:
Mom really wants you to be doing well.
These suffocating mothers all have their own shortcomings, especially the fact that they seem to have no idea what they really want as daughters of the same sex.
Even though I've already experienced my daughter's life once, it's unacceptable to torture my closest people under the pretext of "love".
Did you resonate with the drama in the process?
Either way, I still hope that everyone can have a mother who is full of openness and warmth, and expresses their love in a more rational and appropriate way.