Author: Zhichu
From "The Devourer" to " Life Events ", film and television works pay more and more attention to the funeral industry, and occasional excellent works are born. Recently, a niche drama " Sanyue has a new job " produced by Bilibili has become a dark horse, with a Douban score of 8.3, and has gained a good reputation. This drama is directed by Li Mo, written by You Xiaoying , starring Zhou Yeran , Yang Xinming , E Jingwen , Liang Jingkang and others. The story tells the story of Zhao Sanyue played by Zhou Yiran. A girl born in the 1995 went to the funeral home to work as a makeup artist for her face after by accident. From eating and waiting for death, ignorance to understanding life and death, getting to the meaning of this profession, Sanyue completed the transformation and growth of her life in her new job.
The entire drama is connected by unit stories. Each episode revolves around a theme and tells a story about the living and the dead. It is about death and illness, love and life, and is engraved in detail. Although it is talking about the topic of death, the tone of the story is not to be lost to the end. There is grief and darkness, and there is also joy and light, and there is warmth and affection. The old parents in the countryside rushed to see their son who died of illness for the last time. They saved up the newly harvested cotton and helped his son with a warm quilt before saying goodbye. This heavy love is ordinary but touching, and Sanyue is also touched, and she is eager to go home and feel the affection.
Sanyue comes into contact with all kinds of people at work, which makes her life richer and richer. At the same time, she and her colleagues also influence others little by little through their own strength. The young director who chose a cemetery and urn for himself in advance left the dog to Sanyue, hoping that she would have more concern and bonds about the world. It was also at this time that Sanyue wanted to give up suicide for the first time; after his wife passed away, Mr. Ke, who indulged in grief and ignored his daughter, finally woke up after the attempted suicide attempt by Sanyue's colleague Princess, realized that the decay of the body does not mean the disappearance of love, and made up his mind to cremate his wife...
Behind every funeral, thinking about human nature is reflected. A young girl born in a family that favors boys over girls was abandoned by her parents for more than 20 years. Shortly after searching for her, the girl died of a sudden heart attack. At her funeral, her adoptive parents sucked tears secretly, and their biological parents cried loudly, but it was not the real sorrow that they cried loudly. Sometimes the sadness of losing was the heartbroken that they could not shout, and they were choked with words and sobbing as heavy as a pound. When the funeral home, which is linked to bad luck and heavyness, with the addition of the young and youthful three-young people, the heaviness of death is diluted and the depressing atmosphere is broken. The series does not exaggerate the pain of separation from life and death, nor does it deliberately add bloody experiences of death. It only uses restrained writing to tell the stories of ordinary people. Why do they fall in love with and lose, from life to death, soft but strong, touching the heartstrings.
The identity of a makeup artist in the funeral home is relatively unfamiliar to Chinese people. The drama has a novel bonus in the subject matter but does not stop at the superficial taste. Instead, through this identity perspective, it depicts the various aspects of the workplace and the depth of public prejudice in the funeral industry, which in turn arouses people's discussion and reflection. The various experiences of Sanyue’s senior sister Zhou Yanan and colleague Liang Gege in the funeral home all reveal the harsh environment of funeral practitioners and they need to be understood and accepted. As the play says: We are too far away from death, and there are very few people who can face death calmly. Therefore, the existence of the Sanyue people has value, ferrying the dead, comforting the living, allowing those who go to go with peace of mind, and allowing those who live to live with peace of mind.
"Sanyue has a new job" spreads death nakedly, leading the audience to overcome their fear. Although escaping death is human nature, the meaning of facing death is that only by understanding death can one understand life more deeply, and only by knowing death can one know life. Only in this way can one understand compassion, know the value of life, and want this short life to burn and shine.
Of course, there are some problems with this drama, with constant golden sentences but some lines are too deliberate, and there are suspicions of being moved to make people move. But the flaws do not conceal the merits, and it is still worthwhile.
Sanyue, who was determined to die, cheered up from her lying down because of this job in the funeral home. For ordinary and bleak life and mechanical repetitive daily life, you and me who are already tired of being tired, you might as well take a look at Sanyue's life, which may heal your "mental internal friction". I hope you can continue to make great strides. In the future, someone will accompany you through spring, summer, autumn and winter, and see the dawn coming to dawn. (At the beginning)
Source: Guangming.com-Literary and Art Review Channel
