A while ago, the new drama " Taipei Women's Picture Book " about Sex and Urban Girls became popular. Unfortunately, this time it was criticized for being popular.
has been aired for several episodes, but the most commented is: When will the drama look better?
Gui Lunmei played Lin Yishan in "Taipei Women's Picture Book"
I can quite understand the audience's loss. After all, the new drama is stunning as a "sex and urban girl", but the presentation and imagination of "desire" in the play is too shriveled and too fragmented.
"Taipei Women's Picture Book" screenshot
The new drama is remade from " Tokyo Women's Picture Book ". The heroine Ayan in the original version is a local girl who yearns for big cities since childhood, is full of ambitions and is determined to be "the kind of person who is envied by others".
She went from living in a simple hut and working in the bottom of the company to senior executives who carried famous brands and went to high-end restaurants, never stingy to show her greed for a "good life". even said brightly that she was the kind of "vanity" girl.
"Tokyo Women's Picture Book"
On the road to striving for the best in big cities, it can be said that the biggest highlight of the original drama is women's desires and ambitions.
But the plot in the new drama is trying hard to weaken the girl's "desire" . Many scenes make the heroine very twisted.
For example, at the beginning, Lin Yishan made a wish to the glass ball: "I want more."
Screenshot of "Taipei Women's Picture Book"
The audience thus understood her determination - she sincerely yearned for the prosperity of another place, and also understood her motivation to put all her efforts into getting closer to material life.
Her native desire should have made her understand the importance of "land" and "money".
But when the boyfriend who opened a noodle store wanted to leave the store in a prosperous area and was worried about the rising rent every day, she felt that "don't always talk about the money?" "It's also great to open a store when you go back to your hometown."
She seems to be apart, which is a disagreement between verbal and action.
Director always wants to portray the heroine as an independent girl who is "no sense of money and innocent in his mind", but forgets to express his true ambitions to matter, and the girl who fights in the world of money with her own wisdom is the core of "Women's Picture Collection" .
"Tokyo Women's Picture Book" screenshot
To be honest, there have been many domestic heroine dramas in recent years, but there is still no real desire for urban girls.
The heroines on the screen may be career-oriented women who hate the sky, or they will also be decisive and vicious beauties in the love field, but there are few secular women who can confess their inner desire for material things and life nakedly. To be honest, This is somewhat a pity .
After all, for a long time, "desire" has always appeared on the screen as a derogatory word.
"desire" is the self that human nature breeds in complex systems. If this reality is cut off, then any form of heroine will be just a superficial self-deception.
left is the screenshot of " thirty" and the screenshot of "Golden Years"
And the Ayan in "Tokyo Women's Picture Book" is a new possibility of "sex and urban girls".
Its female sample is 's open and straightforward appeal to desire . The director even borrowed the narrative method of the character's monologue to show the audience the tricks of Ayanoi.
She broke up with her boyfriend who is an "ordinary person" and has a low income. The reason is not that she is empty and abstract "different paths", but that she wants a material life that "will not be embarrassing whenever she takes off her underwear", which is some more concrete ambitions exposed rather than a hidden "good reason".
"Tokyo Women's Picture Book" screenshot
Marriage and career that can wear famous brands, she wants "both sides". But she is not a brainless "desire girl", but a striking and fashionable girl with her own clear goals.
every time Ling's "strives to the top" is not achieved through men, but through her own efforts, she has fought a beautiful turnaround.
When she stands higher and higher, her boyfriend is also "upgrading" with her changes.
"Tokyo Women's Picture Book"
She knows so much what she wants. So even if her desires were taken out, no one laughed at her "vanity".
Everyone knows that her yearning for desire is actually the different expectations of each of us for a "good life". And she has the ability and the motivation to win the arrival of "luck".
"Tokyo Women's Picture Book" screenshot
And the "boyfriends" in the play are not the backbone of Aya climbing upwards, but just as a kind of "prince's fantasy". When they are broken and the dream is shattered, Aya also ushers in her own cocoon.
On this road of love, she has constantly recognized her limitations, and redefined what she wants in her heart in her "vanity".
Her desire never stops, but History has been converting .
"Tokyo Women's Picture Book" screenshot
Many comments in the comments are saying that Ayan allows them to see themselves at different times.
script "tolerates" the silk, and the silk on the screen also tolerate the girls who once thought and observed life in desire, making them accept their desires more broadly.
"Tokyo Women's Picture Book" screenshot
What I love more is the interpretation of "Girl of Desire" in the original version. The biggest difference between Lin Yisan and Ling is that their desires come completely from different forces.
Lin Yishan is passive. Many of her choices are being pushed by the outside world in a state of entanglement and hesitation. Even if they are to break up, they have to rely on their cousin’s reminder, “You seem to be staying in the comfort zone.”
"Taipei Women's Picture Book" screenshot
Ke Ling's power is different. It comes from the inner "disobedience" of oneself and "not admitting defeat" of fate.
She was not convinced that she clearly had a better talent than others but could not have an enviable life like a "Tokyo girl", so she went to "Dongdai";
She was not convinced that her boss said that she was only worth an annual salary of 4 million yen, so she challenged the senior position of Gucci; she was not convinced that the female boss "disapproval" of her current situation, so she worked overtime and tried her best to satisfy the other party.
She has been tearing off the labels on her body violently and proactively, and this is also the most charming energy in the story of "Sex and Urban Girl" being interpreted. How to say
? I always think that Ling is also a kind of . The heroine is also a kind of .
In recent years, the image of the heroine has been complex and abstract.
"They" seem to be nailed to certain specific successful women, and this kind of heroine's character also provides female audiences with fantasy materials to satisfy their desires, but they are not real, vivid and close to ordinary people's power.
The real heroine drama is precisely after recognizing the situation of women, encouraging them to accept their desires openly, and be able to make efforts and consider the "chicken soup" in their hearts.
So in the original drama, the director did not say directly that Yan's thoughts were right or wrong, but just gave a neutral and free presentation of , and through Yan's way, let the audience explore their inner desires by themselves. Everyone gets different answers after reading them.
"Tokyo Women's Picture Book" screenshot
and director never mind showing the complexity of many types . For example, there are girls in the play who are keen on pushing strollers and want to gain a sense of stability and happiness in marriage, and there are also exquisite career-oriented women who love to carry briefcases and just want to fall in love.
"Tokyo Women's Picture Book" screenshot
The lens just takes a straight-eye perspective, and presents the desire story of ordinary people who choose differently in ordinary days.
They are not divided under fixed rules, but "how to be comfortable". Following their own path, different girls see themselves and see the fact that life is not just a satisfactory answer.
"Tokyo Women's Picture Book" screenshot
I think this is the sympathy that the "Women's Picture Book Series" wants to give girls, a more vivid and inspiring female power.
deconstructs and thinks about yourself in desire, and this is the charm of the real urban desire girl.
