Recently, a Korean drama called " My Runaway Diary " suddenly rushed to Douban's "global word-of-mouth drama list". After the 4th episode, the score has been rising all the way, directly rushing to 9.1 points . Because the story is very close to real life, Douban's five-star praise accounts for about 62%, while four-star praise also accounts for 30%.
The story revolves around the three brothers Lian Jizheng, Lian Changxi, and Lian Meizhen. It tells the story of the three brothers and sisters striving to pursue happiness on the road of life in order to get rid of their unbearable days. They all work in Seoul, but live in the suburbs. They get up at 7 o'clock every day, take the community bus first, and then transfer to the subway. The one-way commuting time is about one and a half hours. It is rare to rest on weekends, and I have to do farm work with my parents, living a completely different life from urban people.
Being chased by life is out of breath, but you still have to work hard to move forward
For the three siblings in the play, the life of going out early and returning late every day is just a part of their worries. Because of family background, Lian Jizheng, Lian Changxi, Lian Meizhen's life is not satisfactory. The eldest sister Lian Jizheng seems to be living a free and easy life, but she is very dissatisfied with life. She has a fiery personality and yearns for the taste of love, but she has never met her true son, and eventually became a leftover woman; the second brother Lian Changxi is also a A tragic man, because he has no car and no house, he is abandoned by his girlfriend time and time again; Lian Meizhen is an ordinary office worker who can't be more ordinary, with a sensitive and introverted personality, no one around her understands her, and she is ignored by her family at home. Dreams have no desires, and although he wants to get rid of the boring life of marginalized people, things can't go as he wants.
During the day, when colleagues leave work to go to a party, Meizhen is still seriously revising the work, because the copywriting during the day is not approved by the auditors, Meizhen wants to finish the work before leaving. Undoubtedly, she heard a colleague describe herself as, "The facial features look very beautiful, but the overall appearance is very ordinary, and she looks unattractive." Others' comments deeply hurt Meizhen's heart. She knows that big cities are not belong to myself. The next day, a colleague asked Meizhen to attend an evening party. Although she wanted to blend in with the happiness of her colleagues, she still felt that she was out of place. Farewell to colleagues. Meizhen's life is like work, as she said, all relationships are also like work for her, and every moment of waking is labor. Although it is not unfortunate, it is not happy either. She doesn't know where she is trapped, but she just wants to break free.
Compared with Mizhen, sister Jizheng seems to be living in more pain. Repeated blind date failures have turned the 40-year-old into a proper older leftover woman. She is full of longing for love, but she is very afraid that she will become old and unattractive. The last relationship ended because her boyfriend concealed that she had been divorced, but what she couldn't accept the most was that her boyfriend actually had a child. Jizheng is very eager to reap "happiness", but at the same time he is very twisted. At a party, she was complaining to her brother, sister, and friends that the director of their company had been dating office women all the time, and these girls actually wanted to date him in this case. Younger brother Changxi didn't understand his older sister, thinking that those people are enjoying themselves right now and they don't care what others say, but this statement stimulated Kizheng, "Every woman has dated before, why did you skip me?" Knowing that she has worked hard on blind dates, why she still can't meet the right person, she tried her best to dress herself up, and even took the initiative to strike up a conversation with the director who has been in love with women in the company. During the meal, although the director said on the surface that she would definitely meet Appreciate her boy, but still don't delay the behavior of wanting to leave quickly. Jizheng is reflecting some women who can't fall in love. They say they want to fall in love, but they don't want to fall in love casually. In fact, they are older and they don't know what kind of love they need.
At this time, the younger brother Changxi was not much better, he was the one who talked the most out of the three, because his family was poor, he always had an inferiority complex when he was an adult, and the reason for breaking up was also because he felt inferior Kick others away first. When he went to work the next day, he saw a man with his girlfriend who was driving a luxury car, so he went home and discussed with his father that he wanted to buy a tram. His father blamed him for almost exhausting himself when he bought a car last time. The maximum is overdue, and the loan is still repaid by yourself. Changxi thought that the reason he didn't have a girlfriend was because he didn't have a decent car, and his father was so angry that his hands trembled when he drank the soup. Changxi explained very well what is meant by an unplanned life and a life that cannot move forward, because he refuses to consider whether everything is right or wrong. For him, life is just taking one step at a time, so that in the end career and love I can't catch it.
truly reflects what it means to be "above survival and below life"
commutes long distances, works long hours, habitually says yes, habitually smiles, but the voice in my heart always reminds me that I am always an outsider in Seoul life... Rather than attribute Mizhen's predicament to personality problems, it is better to say that it is caused by economic problems, because her sister and brother, who are completely opposite to her personality, also cannot find a way out of life in the city of Seoul. Attendance on weekdays, farm work on rest days, and the hustle and bustle of cities and villages cannot be escaped. The family has land, and my father also has a small workshop. If the three siblings lived in the countryside, they might be fine. But they went to Seoul, like many migrant workers in big cities, and finally entered the endless loop of "poor and refined".
from not trying hard enough? Not really! It's just that even though they have worked hard, their living conditions have not improved in any way. On the contrary, because they have seen the prosperity, they will fall into the domino effect of life difficulties. Compared with local people, I feel that I have no advantage in working and living environment without them. Gradually, they trapped themselves in a reality with no way out.
Sisters Jizheng and Meizhen, one extroverted and the other introverted, although they have different personalities, they both worship the power of love very much, like a drowning person, eager to pull himself ashore with a straw rope of love. They have high expectations for love and marriage, but they don't have a "stepping stone" in their hands, whether it is work or love, which also causes them to encounter scumbags or some strange men they think. man. My sister has gone on ninety-nine blind dates and still feels that it is someone else's problem. The older I get, the more lonely I feel, and the desire for love is the strongest, so that I say "I want to love whoever I want", but It is also this kind of "picture" love, the behavior of expecting love to save life's difficulties, that makes love come more slowly. And the introverted younger sister actually owed a huge amount of foreign debt for the guarantee of a man. The expectation value does not match the reality, and they are unwilling to give up the standard value in their hearts, which also makes their lives more and more twisted.
As a man, the situation of the second elder brother Changxi is much more difficult than that of Kizheng and Mizhen. Obviously, the family cannot provide him with any help. His work was not so smooth, he had nothing to do but be "fun", he was still living at home in his early years, and he couldn't even afford an electric car without his father's support. As he got older and bumped into walls everywhere, he gradually began to understand life. It is said that one can never earn more money than one knows, and in the same way one cannot live beyond one's knowledge. Changxi's failure in love, failure in career, and inability to get rid of the old despite hard work, is not unrelated to the fact that he was high-minded when he was young, and depressed and aggrieved after he was a year old. These also seem to be predictable.
At first glance, these seem to be unsolvable propositions, but these are actually many real stories around us, and they cover our lives like a mirror. This kind of "stepping out" is a kind of spiritual struggle. If you want to escape this kind of life, you must make some changes.
