Yes, like everyone else, we also watched " The Gentlemen of East Eighth District ".
and I finished reading it very carefully.
full forty episodes.
Friendly reminder, this drama just ended last Sunday, so if you want to chase...
Forget it, I suggest you don’t chase it.
.16 million people gave 2.1 points, which is basically the lowest score on Douban.
, even more than 2.2 points, "Craving Dreams in the Entertainment Circle"
Bi Zhifei Director must be very uncomfortable
It seems that the details of the complaints about this drama are unnecessary. After all, all netizens have already watched it with magnifying glasses.
Today I mainly want to talk to you about what we can learn from this drama.
After all, as many people say, if you have to use one word to summarize "Gentlemen of East Eighth District".
That is, is sincere.
If you want to understand some real and male psychology, this drama is a good choice.
It is said that the self-positioning of this drama is the male version of " Ode to Joy " and " Thirty Only ", a four male-dominated urban group drama.
But in fact, it gives me the feeling more like the TV series version of "Ex-3: Goodbye Ex-Without". Both works have some significant commonalities.
First of all, there are many indoor dramas.
" East Eight District " claims to be about the relationship, career and life of four Shanghai drifting men in their thirties.
But in fact it is reflected in the plot. A large part of the content is the four brothers drinking, eating, and blowing.
Back and forth are those scenes: nightclubs, barbecue stalls, restaurants, the living room of the male protagonist’s house...
This is "Ex-boy 3"
This is "East Eight Districts"
Because there are few scenes, it is very monotonous, and there are not many real scenes.
So from the production level, you will feel that this drama gives people a feeling of being very suspended, hollow and unearthed.
What’s more funny is that there is an episode behind "East Eight Districts", where four good brothers decide to go outdoor climbing. Then a very classic cliff-saving scene appeared.
makes people feel that, why don’t you go back and take pictures and have a meal? Another common point in the two works is that they are particularly fond of reasoning and losing golden sentences.
is always "we men" and "you women", how it is.
Baidu "Ex-boy 3" golden sentences, and there are more than 40
The view of women in "East Eight Districts" has also been widely criticized. We will not explain in detail here, but we must admit that when watching the drama, the following two places are too much of the classics, which makes me unable to help but press the pause to take the screenshot immediately.
One of them is that when one of the male protagonists helped his favorite move, he suddenly expressed his gratitude:
"Moving companies are all forced choices for single women."
As a single woman who often moves and finds moving companies every time, this sentence really makes me feel deeply offended
Another is Yang Shuo (the soul guest character of this drama) the manly moment.
He first said: There is no discrimination, I respect women very much.
Then he said seriously: You are just a woman, don’t live like a man.
"No discrimination", "I respect women very much", "You are a woman"
"Ex-boy 3" is a movie released at the end of 2017. At that time, the word " dad flavor " did not seem to be popular yet.But now, whether it is "East Eight District" or "Ex-Board 3", this kind of behavior that often throws golden sentences and defines them is actually a strong sense of fatherhood.
I just want to educate you. No one understands the world better than me. You must want to learn something from me.
has one thing in common, that is, the male protagonist in "East Eight Districts" also has a very unforgettable ex.
Zhang Han's male protagonist Tong Yu has been guarding his ex-girlfriend for many years, and he has taken his son with him as soon as he appears.
Later I found out that the child was not his, but his ex-girlfriend gave birth to someone else abroad.
His main job is to study driverless car projects, and later found that obsession also comes from his ex-girlfriend. My ex-girlfriend died in a car accident.
Ex-girlfriend looks like this.
Comments pointed out that this actor actually doesn’t look like an ex-girlfriend at all. She has played Xu Yingzi in " Anti-Black Storm " before.
So "East Eight Districts" creates this sense of déjà vu entirely with makeup.
is also very obsessed with your ex-girlfriend.
Of course, I personally think it is also very interesting, that is, the male and female protagonists will frequently encounter various accidents in the early stage, from hating each other to liking each other.
At this time, the psychological activities of both parties are often like this.
The heroine's inner perspective: He is so heartwarming, he reminds me of my father.
heroine fantasizes that my father is holding herself
The inner perspective of the hero is: she reminds me of my ex-girlfriend.
The male protagonist fantasizes about holding his ex-girlfriend
Yes, every middle-aged man can't forget his first love, first love is their eternal white moonlight.
Of course, when you see this, you will find that most of the highlights in "Gentlemen in East Eight" are concentrated in the emotional drama.
So next article mainly talks about the view of love in this drama.
The four love lines in the play, the most important one is the love between the male protagonist Tong Yu and the female boss.
Maybe your impression of this is mainly because the two of them sleep in the same bed for the first time they meet, and the male protagonist's various physical sexual harassment behaviors such as pulling underwear and straps...
But in fact, if you have really watched the drama, you will find that Wang Xiaochen plays many heroines, and at the beginning, he can even be said to be a normal person.
For this drama, "normal people" is a very high evaluation.
Many of them are new COOs from the male protagonist and the same company. Similar strong female characters may be portrayed as exaggerated "female devils" in regular domestic dramas.
But she gives people the feeling that it is relatively rational and objective. Although he has been tit-for-tat with the male protagonist in the early stage, he is not unreasonable. Instead, he speaks with clear logic, neither humble nor arrogant, and can present facts and data.
In comparison, the male protagonist is more irrelevant, and he always talks about pattern, dreams, and international vision...
In short, it is the set of false narrations of being fake and drawing big pie.
So at first glance, the emotional line of this drama actually caters to the "strong" concept that is very popular in romance dramas nowadays.
The male and female protagonists are evenly matched and equally matched.
Of course, this is just a layer of "skin".
The plot develops later. A female protagonist who is so rational and objective gradually becomes a believer of the male protagonist. She thinks he is a genius and believes in the false empty words he said that change the future.
also created this inner monologue that makes people's scalp tingle.
When I saw it, I realized that the reason why the heroine was portrayed as an independent woman was to cater to the male "desire for conquest".
No matter how powerful a woman is, she still needs a man to protect her.
And how he completely tamed an excellent woman and made her willing to surrender to herself is the real point.
After the two fell in love, many became a true 24-filial girlfriend.
Because her boyfriend resigned from the company, she did not hesitate to face high default conditions and wanted to resign and start a business with her boyfriend.
My boyfriend's career is not going well, and she is a virtuous helper who handles company affairs and comforts the other party's emotions.
In life, you must be a good mother to be the son of your ex-girlfriend.
In your career, you have to take the initiative to take the blame for the male protagonist's faults.
"Go to the hall and go to the kitchen" is no longer enough to describe her. The perfect woman in the new century must take into account her family and career, accompany men to start a business, help men to take care of her son, and also be his emotional sandbag.
So what is really scary about thinking about it?
In reality, perhaps every so-called " sucking wife " who started a business with her husband was once a career woman like many.
They are excellent, independent and powerful, but later they all lost their names and status and became someone's wives and women behind someone.
They were tamed and changed, and they were happy in the name of love.
If the relationship between the male and female protagonists can barely be considered to be a fair position, the other two emotional lines in the play can be said to be a classic case of "soft rice and hard food".
The luxury store manager played by Chao married the female boss worth tens of billions without any emotional foundation.
After marriage, he swiped the other party’s unlimited black cards.
complains that the other party is always in a meeting, does not accompany him, and does not regard him as his husband.
While drinking with other women and taking a bar with brothers.
complains that the other party is a young lady, does not understand the hard work of ordinary people, and does not support their own career.
The most powerful plot is that the two divorced later, but the rich woman found out that she was pregnant.
So he immediately asked the rich woman not to abort the child and remarry me quickly.
and said when regaining the other party: Let me take care of you.
(Then the rich woman really agreed)
The whole set of psychological activities is too real.
A man, as long as he marrys a woman, he will feel: you are my woman and my accessory.
He will not reflect on how much benefit he has gained from the other party by comparing variance , being poorer than the other party.
will only blame the other party for not being considerate enough and not putting yourself first.
Of course, he may not think that the other party is better than him from the bottom of his heart, otherwise how could he say "let me take care of you" - who is swiping whose card in this relationship? Who is taking care of whom?
So, why should rich women not help poverty, and why are many "strong women and weak men" marriages in reality destined to fail.
suggest that rich women list "Gentlemen in East Eighth District" as a reverse mate selection textbook and study hard. Why doesn’t
not important? ? ?
Huang Youming plays the chef, the worst one among the four brothers. He is in his thirties, but he has no car, no house, no savings, and has no future in his career. He is just a Shanghai drifter who is stumbled.
His CP is a big V emotional blogger who is very famous online and has a lot of responses.
can handle the other party mainly because of nepotism - his good buddy, Tongyu, has many best friends who are bloggers.
So what did the chef do after the two were together?
First of all, he registered a Weibo account with a big V name and swore sovereignty without the other party's consent.
The blogger is "Sister tonight will not make an appointment", he is "Brother-in-law is here tonight".
(By the way, complain that these two names are so old)
The brothers behind them went out to climb mountains and drank with a group of beauties who were doing live broadcasts.
He drank a lot and exposed it casually in front of the camera. Yes, I am the boyfriend of "Sister tonight will not make an appointment"!
So the woman was in a state of confusion because her privacy was exposed.
He was drunk and felt that he was super face and super manly.
When we see this, we have to think of reality again and the combination of many online female celebrities and male amateurs (I won’t name them here).
At the beginning, the man would always pretend to be a "fan" and obey the female dialect.
But once a stable relationship is established, he will reveal his true colors and become the controller of this relationship.
It seems that the man always can’t wait to use his girlfriend’s fame as his capital to show off.
or even more, use the woman's fame to make money and cash.
The last person among the four brothers, the associate professor played by Du Chun, realized another kind of ideal relationship in a man.
That is, find a girlfriend who is a teenager younger than you.
can send my girlfriend to college.
The innocent, enthusiastic and energetic little girlfriend not only admires you very much, but also takes the initiative to pursue you.
Maybe the screenwriter felt that this was not good enough, so he also added a plot.
That is, at the beginning of the story, a beautiful, gentle and well-educated female colleague actually always liked him very much, and even took the initiative to show his affection.
But he just doesn't call the female teacher.
It turns out that it is because, the better one is still in the future.
:)
No one can be young forever except the old man's little girlfriend.
You may also find it when you see this.
The male perspective love story from the early years, and also likes to tell some stories of saving the world and persuading bad women to be good.
But in "Gentlemen in East Eighth District", such a narrative no longer exists.
Every female character appears in a higher position than the male, and finally crawls in the so-called "love" in a lower position than the male.
This is very utilitarian and realistic.
But this seems to be what the male creators in this play think of as "ideal" love.
Finally, in the finale of episode 40, a climax plot that also made me uncomfortable appeared.
The women collectively "make a revolution" and ran to Sanya to play missing; while the four male protagonists came to chase them, played guitar and sang, and saved their feelings.
on the surface is asking for forgiveness, but in fact, the four of them wore Marvel hero masks and showed off their singing voices, as if they were just showing off their handsomeness and talent again.
In many male-eye love movies, the ending will be like this orgasm.
Women are in a state of emotion and break up, while men want to make a big dragon and phoenix, which moves the other party to tears.
The subtext behind this is that women want to "make trouble" and men want to "coax".
They don’t have to think about what the real problem is in this relationship and what the other party’s real needs are.
Anyway, just coax it.
Other problems, as long as they are coaxed, women will endure them themselves.
And in such a show, women have never been seen before.They are always just supporting roles, wall flowers, models, and tools to satisfy their self-touching psychology.
The terrible thing about "Gentlemen in East Eight" is that this drama does present some ugly reality.
But it is not in a critical attitude.
instead in a high-ranking, proud and show-off tone.
It seems that the creator subconsciously feels that these ugly reality is right, truth, and things that everyone believes in.
And the "honest" they show is not because they don't know how to disguise.
instead, because he felt that these were too normal, not ugly, not ridiculous, and no one would object, so there was no need to make any disguise at all.
The world in his eyes, the world he lives in, and our world have had such a big separation.
At this level, the appearance of "Gentlemen of East Eighth Districts" actually uncovered a fig leaf.
Instead of just laughing at this drama or calling for banning it, perhaps we should think more about how many such seemingly absurd but actually real dramas are being staged around us.
