The editor introduced to you some time ago a Japanese drama "Whose girlfriend will I become tomorrow." It seems that the factory assembly line creates a beautiful and gentle Japanese girlfriend. She is obviously a college student, but she is fascinated by the desires, money and interests of the big city of Tokyo and embarks on a lost path that she doesn't like herself:
Daddy lives, rents her girlfriend, and falls in love with the Cowherd. All the money you earn is spent on clothes, cosmetics, eating, drinking and having fun. Sometimes you will ask yourself what you want, but... you get money quickly and the happiness you exchange for money is so easy to get. It's really happy to get caught in it, isn't it?
And all Japanese urban stories over the years are inseparable from the founder of this "Tokyo Women's Picture Book"; the night view of neon lights, eternal young people and vitality. The desire to climb up, the comparative heart, the false intention and use of men. When we come to this metropolis that everyone yearns for, we are young, and everyone thinks we are special; but is it that we have gained a firm foothold in this big city? Or has this city swallowed our hearts?
But who is really willing to come to a big city? It's probably that sentence - "We can't go back."
Since the Japanese version of "Tokyo Women's Picture Book" became an eternal classic for women's themes
Our domestic dramas have also been born in the past two years. Many "female stories"
There is prosperity and hardship " Beijing Women's Picture Book "
It also has a fashionable, retro and petty bourgeoisie " Shanghai Women's Picture Book "
Finally, there is a new movie in 2022-
" Taipei Women's Picture Book ".
This story of the struggle history of metropolitan women that has been adapted has very similarities between women in the three Southeast Asian countries, and the customs and characteristics of these different big cities.
The latest movie "Taipei Women's Picture Book" starring Gui Lunmei has both the prosperity of big cities and the quaint style unique to Taiwan Province. Coupled with the aura of Gui Lunmei, it has a different taste. Although the score is not high, it also has a different taste.
Lin Yishan (played by Gui Lunmei), a woman who has developed from Yongkang, Tainan to Taipei, has not been smooth sailing in the workplace, but also has to face the ups and downs of love. She and her sister Lin Yijing (played by Lin Siyu), childhood sweetheart Li Chengen (played by Wang Baijie), best friend Xu Huiru (played by Xia Yuqiao), formed the "Tainan Gang". With the firm friendship and mutual support of each other, she stumbling and bravely survived for twenty years.
The drama is adapted from the popular Japanese drama "Tokyo Women's Picture Book".
From 8.6 to 5.6, women's ambitions and desires, stories of individuals working hard and floating in the brilliant big city; how can the score be so much worse?
The popular women's picture book series is actually the growth story of young girls who are young, ambitious but have no background, and work hard in big cities. Such as the "Shanghai Women's Picture Book" from Anhui to Shanghai, and the work from a small Japanese city to Tokyo are very representative settings.
From a relatively edge and remote city to the center of this city, "Beijing drifting," Shanghai drifting," "Tokyo drifting" are all very representative: on the one hand, the difference between these two places in material consumption and interpersonal communication:
Big cities have more job opportunities, more resources, and more young people's atmosphere; convenient, fast-paced, fashionable, and multi-platform. Just like the beautiful and rich fantasy on the poster of "Tokyo Women's Picture Book": Tokyo Tower, stockings, brand-name perfume bags... Whether it is both modern and prosperous and fashionable, or the young and profound appearance.
Big cities are indeed fatal attraction to young people, especially those with higher education and ambitious people.
However, there is not much contrast between Taipei and Tainan in "Taipei Women's Picture Book". It only takes two hours to take the subway, and the city's style does not have a strong visual comparison: Taipei also has roadside stalls, barbecue, beer and karaoke with Fajiao; Tainan is not native either...
In "Taipei Women's Picture Book", we can hardly feel the difference between the two cities. Instead, it is a very unified Taiwan Province with traditional, simple and human touch. Even if the female passerby has broken heels and is always dressed up beautifully, she only takes care of her beautiful little aunt at home, but she is actually a mistress behind her back.
cannot reflect the hard work, ambition and career aspirations of women in big cities; compared with the monologue of Shanghai girl Nannan played by Jin Sha in "Shanghai Women's Picture Book", there is a kind of bourgeoisie that is deeply rooted in the body, and the fashion and confidence that is exquisite in the bones. It is not a show-off, but a traditional style engraved in the bones:
"Our Shanghai girl's dream is to wear vera wang, before the age of thirty, held a lawn wedding. Enjoy life in a French restaurant. Then live a leisurely life. "
exquisite, smart and beautiful, with the romantic and fashionable petty bourgeois atmosphere of Shanghai. This female colleague who is generally kind and has a sense of boundaries is also a reflection of the label of "Shanghai".
And what are the characteristics of Taipei? Until the third episode was finished, the editor did not feel the plot portrayal. The most classic of the "Women's Picture Book" series is the ambition, material pursuit and self-worth realization of female protagonists.
Gui Lunmei, the literary style with short hair and thinness is very limited first. Unlike female urban dramas, it is a kind of Taiwanese literary and artistic drama.
But the character Lin Yishan has a silly innocence and ambition, and both have a sense of separation. For example, on the one hand, she said that she wanted to become a Taipei native and found a fashion job.
On the other hand, she has worked as a telephone sales work for a mask company with no prospects for two years. When her colleague was maliciously fired for her pregnancy, she chose to continue living in the company rather than standing up. Not only that, as a girl with fashionable ambitions, she didn't even put on makeup during the interview and was unprepared, which was quite out of the way.
What we want to see is the silly Bai Tian who has strength but no background, ambitious but no background; rather than the silly Bai Tian who usually has to go to big cities to make a silly Bai Tian who usually has to go to big cities to make a silly Bai Tian.
In fact, although the male characters in the "Women's Picture Book" series are supporting roles, it can be said that every boy the heroine has dated has made her the last one. However, in "Taipei Women's Picture Book", the man seemed to be in the process. I can't even remember how she fell in love with her second boyfriend, how she sang a song and obsessed her third boyfriend?
has a strong sense of emotional separation, as well as the heroine who is not motivated enough, as well as Gui Lunmei's literary and thin style, and her silly and sweet character. It is difficult for us to feel the ambition and greed when we fight and yearn for, pursue material things and realize ourselves in big cities. However, there is a bit of "Treasure Island Girl Successfully Recorded" that kind of inspirational flavor, the change of women's picture book is never easy, greedy but open.
has actually restored the old inspirational idol drama. I am really tired of watching it for a long time.
What is the female illustration of a big city? It is not only the heroine who comes to small cities to explore big cities, but also climbs up step by step. She is also a strong woman in the company, a local girl who is willing to go back to her hometown with her boyfriend, is exquisite and smart and willing to help her, and even an aunt who is a breakfast shop downstairs. Women in big cities with different identities, ages and positions all have their own choices for their lives and future, so she has built a complete picture book of urban women.
And in "Taipei Women's Picture Book", there is too little ink for female supporting roles. Whether it is a female employee who still insists on receiving customers on the road with broken heels, or a little aunt who looks delicate and happy, or a female colleague who is fired when she is pregnant... they are too functional and their relationship with the heroine is too indifferent. It is impossible to piece together that the city’s women have a diverse and have an image of the same vitality.
Taiwanese women's picture book, it's still the " The Growth of the Vulgar Girls " by Chen Jialing: The memories of childhood in the noisy family, those crazy summers, Ajuan who wrote secret letters and was beaten, the aunt who refused to marry, the aunt who went to a big city and my jealous and love cousin...
Those childhoods have strong and colorful marks, I am particularly concerned about it, but gradually drifting away. Women who are missing are the real, dreamy, and warm and not easy "Taiwan Women's Picture Book"
