Her youngest son is already in his early twenties, but five years of family fun have passed; he was plagued by nightmares when he was only 11 years old. At a young age, he said, "I like my imagination, but I don't like my destiny"; his height He is 1.8 meters tall, but the few st

Her youngest son is already in his early twenties, but five years of family fun have passed; he was plagued by nightmares when he was only 11 years old. He said at a young age, "I like my imagination, but I don't like my destiny"; he He is 1.8 meters tall, but the steps in front of the milk tea shop are a "chasm" that he can't pass no matter what; he is in his thirties, but standing on the street in 2021, he was at a loss about scanning QR codes to pay...

They are all people under the lens of the documentary "The Second Life of ", a group of people who are ups and downs in the wind and waves of fate. Two years ago, the humanistic documentary "The First Time in My Life" was launched. From birth, growing up to retirement and farewell, the 12 episodes correspond to 12 important nodes in life. Netizens commented on the barrage "as if they had watched their whole life" and gave it a high score of 9.1 on Douban. Now, the original cast members meet the audience with the companion piece "The Second Time in Life". The return was a high score - 9.4, and netizens who gave it a five-star rating wrote, "It's even more awesome the second time."

Where does the sense of awe come from? The ending song of "Second Life" follows "Push the Door to the World", which contains the lyrics "The world should be how you wake up." When life deviates from what it "should" be, when life becomes turbulent, there are always ordinary people who will not succumb to fate and are not afraid to restart everything. Going deeper, the "fearlessness" of restarting does not only come from the individual. More often than not, it is people in trouble, people around them, and strangers who are looking for a boat that can withstand the wind and waves; it is the rule of law, fairness, justice, kindness, and respect that support more courage and belief, allowing you and me to survive. Facing the sea of ​​life, we can always work hard to overcome fear and find love.

After more than a year of filming and over 10,000 hours of material, "I am more determined, ordinary talents will move me more"

"The Second Time in Life" is jointly produced by CCTV.com, Shanghai Radio and Television Station, and Bilibili. Before it was officially launched, many people had speculated that the content of the record could be a second child, a second marriage, a repeat education, a re-employment, or other "firsts in life" polyphony. Chief producer Zhang Hao said: "We don't want to make the second season of "The First Time in Life", but 'another time', a new beginning - a brave farewell to the past, rebuilding and restarting in a 'ruins' with nothing." , Reunion, Nirvana.”

What the audience sees is no longer Chun and Jingming embracing a life that can be predicted and longed for, but a stage of moving forward with all the unknowns and facing the storms of life. Six episodes have been aired. "Yuan" records the reunion of Wei Zhuo, who was kidnapped, with his blood relatives 18 years later. "Quality" features a group of children who have been forgotten by love and a "dad" who has adopted more than 120 children in 26 years Bai Jian ; "Accept" is about the reconciliation process between He Huajie, who was paralyzed due to a car accident, and himself; "Reject" is about several women who are not willing to be influenced by their appearance; "Yes" opens the prosecution case files for each complainant; "No" focuses on criminal justice. Redemption for released persons to reintegrate into society. "Broken" and "Established" are both from a female perspective. The former breaks through the siege of marriage, and the latter is the advanced diary of a female assembly line worker.

Faced with a special enough "second time", how long does it take for a documentary to get close to most of the truth and touch the subjects to open their souls? "The Second Life" has a long list of directors: Qin Bo, Zhang Tao, Xie Shuhao, Huang Shasha, Sun Gongxu, Zhan Jiajun, Wang Shuhuan, Zhang Yi, Yu Ying, Yang Suye. They were divided into eight groups and followed the filming for an average of one and a half years. They got back more than 10,000 hours and 300T of material, and finally produced eight 60-minute films. Zhang Hao said that in an era where the Internet has brought all kinds of conveniences and people seem to be getting more and more impatient, spending a lot of time squatting, taking pictures, and then using long videos to express them is a very "retro" creative technique. . But it is the "retro" that allows the documentary to capture details that make people tremble even though they cannot completely control the scene. "The Circle", Wei Zhuo's father hugged his son when they reunited, and the mother insisted on feeding the child...

is also exactly "retro", and the documentary has changed from quantitative to qualitative.For example, "Na" follows He Huajie from his hometown in Taizhou to a rehabilitation hospital in Shanghai, witnessing his transformation as he learns rehabilitation, learns to use a wheelchair, obtains a driver's license for persons with disabilities, takes a plane to Chengdu, and drives to Tibet; such as "Fei" follows Mao Hui After spending the last 11 years behind bars, I watched him re-recognize his daughter and get to know today's China. I also watched his former girlfriend go from not considering getting back together to seeing him work hard and accept the proposal. A more typical example is "Li". Compared with other episodes, the experiences of these two women are too "normal". They come from ordinary families, have ordinary looks, and have ordinary jobs. With only their inner determination not to be ordinary, they have turned every ordinary day into a day of accumulating strength. Time has finally proven the significance of their daily steps.

Ordinary and extraordinary people restart their destiny in adversity, revealing the unyielding and resilience in the bones of the Chinese nation. This is why Zhang Hao lamented, "I am more determined, and ordinary people will move me more."

"Use philosophical thinking to slightly break the topic", hoping that viewers can transcend the intertwining of love and hate and understand the comprehensive world

"circle" and "deficiency", "acceptance" and "rejection", "yes" and "no", "break" and " "Li", eight Chinese characters are summarized into eight episodes, each of which forms a film, and reflects each other in two aspects such as family affection and love, self-acceptance and self-denial, rule of law and human relations, and women's living conditions.

After the broadcast of "Yuan" and "Lack", the audience discovered that parents who have successfully searched for relatives need to repair the newly restored family ties. Wei Zhuo's journey home is far more than 1,000 kilometers in geographical significance; and the troubled children who lack parental care are in " "Dream House" has found Bai Jian, who is like a teacher and father, and the "willow tree" planted in another piece of land will also be nourished by love. "Acceptance" and "Rejection", the former is a passive loss, and the latter is an active change. It seems difficult to tell who needs to reconcile with the imperfect self more. "Yes" and "No" are about fairness and justice under the rule of law, and at the same time, they are full of humanistic warmth: Liu Zhanjiang has been redressing his brother's grievance for seven years. The Supreme People's Procuratorate did not support his appeal after review, but the prosecutors persuaded him to take good care of the old man and his brother's children. , let life go on. Listen to the voices of the masses and transcend prejudice. This is the fusion of the rule of law and human feelings. There is a lack in a circle, there is no lack of a circle, existence and non-existence are interdependent, , blessings and misfortunes are interdependent. This is the wisdom gene written early in Eastern philosophy.

It is worth mentioning that "The Second Time in Life" boldly innovates in narrative techniques. "Circle" successively opens the triple perspectives of parents, children, and police to unfold events on the same timeline, using a multi-dimensional perspective similar to " Rashomon " to walk into the story of finding a relative with mixed joys and sorrows. So people learned how that strong mother spent 18 years looking for her children while running a small restaurant and supporting a family with one person missing by spoonful after spoonful of rice in her hand; There is another reason why it is difficult to speak; I also know that many times, finding a kidnapped child may not necessarily lead to a happy ending. The reason for opening up different perspectives is that in a sufficiently comprehensive display, the audience can better understand the complex and changeable human choices and emotional tearing. Only in this way, when looking at one thing, will everyone go beyond love and hate to understand the world more comprehensively.

In "Second Life", almost every episode tries to make the text as thick as possible and complete the perspective. "Lack" focuses on the "born poet" Xiao Jinzi and Kexin who wants to meet his biological father; it tells the story of Bai Jian adopting more than 120 children since 1996 and taking them on a long-distance run; it also does not ignore the journey to the "dream home" over the years. Individuals and organizations lending a helping hand. "Na" begins with He Huajie's optimism and strength, but after the story enters Chengdu and meets his "wheel mates", the group of people who were more "tolerant" than He Huajie at that time will tell us that behind his physical disability and strong will Standing in front of this amazing mother, the hailstorm on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was the true baptism of transformation.

After coordinating the filming and production of eight episodes with eight different stories, Li Xiaowei increasingly felt that "the proposition of life is too complicated", so he "wanted to use speculative philosophical thinking to break the problem a little bit" so that the audience can understand the fate of others from the restart. Speculative thinking with the wisdom of Eastern philosophy.The reason why we strive to present rich texts is actually a refutation of some fragmented language and dualism views in the current online public opinion environment. "We hope that when the audience looks at things, they are willing to understand those who have been ignored, misunderstood, or People and things that are one-sidedly defined.” I hope that after the audience understands the truth of life, they can "pick up a little interest, some courage, and a hope in life"; it also allows us outside the story to have more strength to keep walking until we are out of the destiny. Dilemma.

Author: Wang Yan

Editor: Guo Chaohao