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In the recent TV drama market, "Little Shede" can be said to be a spring breeze, whether it is the popularity of the ratings, the audience's comments, and the discussion after leaving the circle. , there is no opponent that can compete with it in the works of the same period. The quality of "Growing Up With You" with a similar theme is not low, but it was suppressed by "Little Shede" to the point that its popularity was very small.
Some netizens complained that "Little Shede" can achieve its current achievements, isn't it because of selling anxiety? Nothing fancy. But is this really the case?
"Little Shede", a family education drama starring Zhang Guoli, Song Jia, Tong Dawei, Jiang Xin, and Li Jiahang, is adapted from Lu Yingong's novel of the same name. Three works.
The play mainly tells the story of Nan Li, Xia Junshan and their daughter Xia Huanhuan, their son Xia Chaochao, Tian Yulan, Yan Peng and their son Yan Ziyou and Mi Tao's family in the stage of "Little Promotion". , which leads to stories of drastic changes and conflicts in thought and behavior.
I have to say that the producer's vision is extremely precise. After the boom of the second child in the past few years, the newborn has also slowly reached the age of graduating from primary school. In real life, there are many sighs about educating children. Even a talented person like Peking University's doctoral supervisor can't help but publicly laugh at himself for not being good at teaching his daughter.
More importantly, before the launch of "Little Shede", the educational method of "chicken baby" in Haidian District, Beijing once aroused heated discussions on the entire Internet. "Little Shede" was stuck in the first ten days of April, when primary and secondary schools gradually began to recruit for exams, and they were very picky.
The fierce competition between school district housing and further education, and the climbing increase of the chicken baby search index, these external conditions have laid the foundation of public opinion for the popularity of "Little Shede".
It is true that "Little Shede" and its two predecessors "Little Separation" and "Little Joy" both more or less sell anxiety, but the reason why they can resonate so much is their sense of authenticity.
Young and unmarried netizens may find it difficult to understand the importance attached to education in today's society. In particular, the growing number of urban middle class, they put energy and money into their children's study far more than 20 years ago. The "Little Shede" series is nothing but a naked presentation of the educational anxiety faced by different groups of people.
Compared with "Little Farewell" which focuses on middle school students studying abroad, "Little Joy" tells the college entrance examination from a family perspective, and "Little Shede" is undoubtedly more universal. After all, nine-year compulsory education is a policy enforced by the state. People born after the founding of the People's Republic of China have gone through this stage, and the number of audiences has naturally increased.
Leaving aside the controversial issues, "Little Shede"'s grasp of social contradictions can also be regarded as a leader in domestic urban dramas.
First of all, in the setting of the plot, "Little Shede" allocated all the scenes to the bumps and bumps that appeared in the big remarriage family of the Nan family. Nan Li, played by Song Jia, is worried about her father Nan Jianlong's divorce from his mother after he cheated. Tian Yulan, the stepdaughter played by Jiang Xin, thinks that Nan Jianlong doesn't respect his mother enough and always treats her as a servant.
The two heroines compete with each other in every aspect from daily squabbles to children's education in order to fight for themselves and their mothers, providing a lot of dramatic conflicts for the whole drama.This is undoubtedly more interesting than the families in "Little Farewell" and "Little Joy" who met because their children read together.
The second is the character creation. Tian Yulan, as the plot driver, has spread the anxiety of involution from the screen to the audience outside the screen from the very beginning.
Tian Yulan, played by Jiang Xin, is quite unpleasant. This character was born in a single-parent family of origin, with poor family economic conditions and lack of care since childhood, which made her both very strong and always full of a sense of crisis. Due to the lack of sufficient sense of security, this character is extremely sensitive, suspicious, and delusional about persecution.
Being mean, vain and pompous, and selfish are the important characteristics of Tian Yulan, but behind this, Tian Yulan is cold on the outside and hot on the inside, pure in nature, and general knowledge. This severe internal and external personality contradiction makes Jiang Xin seem to have a split personality.
This character characteristic shows a suffocating desire for control in the education of children. She has a deep love for her child Ziyou, and Ziyou also showed good results. But any fluctuation in grades will make Jiang Xin like a bird in shock, and will intensify the pressure on the child. And all of this, she is always in the name of the child, depriving the grandparents, grandfather, and father of any interference in the children's education.
The performance of this role cannot be limited to the simple expression of language and actions in idol dramas. It must have inner feelings in order to deeply resonate with the role and the audience. And Jiang Xin played very well. His grasp of the character's mental state and Tian Yulan's stress response to things were reasonable and real.
For this reason, Tian Yulan was not less criticized by the audience on the barrage and social media.And this is also the recognition of Jiang Xin's acting skills. It is said that Jiang Xin is also expected to compete for the series TV awards at the end of the year with this role.
In addition to Jiang Xin, Song Jia, Zhang Guoli, Tong Dawei and others needless to say. Especially Zhang Guoli, who can show Nan Jianlong's helplessness and warmth in his old age vividly and vividly through just a few facial expressions. And the child stars and young actors also performed admirably. They actually caught the play of professional veteran actors and brought surprises to the audience.
In the final analysis, there are several core elements that an excellent urban TV drama cannot escape from its popularity: grounded themes, resonant topics, contradictions and conflicts that advance layer by layer, excellent actors, and careful production. Different from the suspended dramas starring many traffic actors, "Little Shede" integrates various elements well, so it is inevitable to achieve a double harvest of word-of-mouth ratings.
Another point worthy of praise is that after the broadcast of "Little Shede", there is still an open-ended topic: how should children be educated?
What do you think?
