As one of the strong members of the film and television drama market, Korean drama has always been popular with audiences.
has become more and more diverse in recent years, from the early sad love to the current suspense, time travel, superpowers, costumes, ethics, etc.
Korean dramas rack their brains to create new themes, alien ghosts and vampires, various non-human species, and various superpowers of strange diseases. It seems that you can't imagine that they can't shoot them. Niche themes are also growing.
This is how recently another new drama has brought another theme to the extreme -
"Postpartum Conditioning House"
산후조리원
The drama has 16 episodes in total, starring Yan Ji-won, Park Ha-sun and Zhang Huizhen.
tells the story of the birth of working women who are forty years old, older women and other women, as well as the adaptation process of postpartum in the conditioning hospital (confinement center).
Wu Xianzhen is a very strong person. In order to make the family comeback, she aimed at her goal, endured loneliness, and made extraordinary efforts, becoming the youngest executive in the company.
But on the day of promotion, she found out that she was pregnant and became an elderly mother.
As a strong woman in the workplace, Xianzhen still sticks to her post during her pregnancy and never relaxes for a moment.
even in order not to let colleagues and subordinates discriminate against pregnant women, they even worked harder and rushed on the road with a big belly. They insisted on signing the contract even after the amniotic fluid broke.
However, even though she has good financial conditions and husband, she still experienced the humiliation and pain that only mothers can experience during the childbirth.
The first episode begins with Wu Xianzhen fighting the God of Death at the moment of production.
On the verge of death, she met the messenger in the underworld, and the heroine, the werewolf , forced her to swing the messenger in the underworld! Down! Now! Boat! Then he drove the boat back with his oars.
(This is the excellence of a mother)
But in the plot that was still laughing the previous second, the next second I will let the little girl see it really hurt.
Hyun-jin entered a very expensive confinement center. At first she thought she could get perfect care.
When she asked herself to calmly handle what she encountered after delivery like she was dealing with work, the pain in reality followed one after another.
She compared giving birth to five stages.
Stage 1: Various humiliation periods that are being examined.
enema, shaving, labor, and labor. The whole process seemed to be broadcast live. Shame and powerlessness came again and again.
But the male doctors did not notice Xianzhen's emotions at all. Instead, they were like they were holding an academic conference and everyone had to "try".
stage 2 and 3stages: The Wailing Beast Period + The Painless Heaven Period.
When she entered the pain of giving birth to , Xianzhen had no time to care about any unspeakable dignity and face.
She yelled heart-wrenchingly, and even pinched her husband until she got the painless injection, and everything returned to normal.
And when pregnant women finally recover their calmness and the new life makes their first cry,
will immediately enter the next stage: a happy period must be.
The first meeting with the child is coming soon, and all the pain of pregnancy and childbirth is forgotten at one time. When Hyun-jin is finally ready to enjoy the touch and joy of being a mother...
"Is this child... beautiful??"
I thought the child was the beginning of happiness after birth, but I didn't expect it to be just the prelude to war.
After the child was born, everyone was concerned about the child, but no one heard Xianzhen's cry for drinking water;
The belly of the child still did not change back to its original state, and the body was still heavy;
Even if the lower body is uncomfortable, it is difficult to say, and if you cannot urinate, you have to insert the catheter;
want to drink iced coffee, but only a bowl of big tonic soup for milk is arranged;
is assimilated by the so-called rules of using milk to represent maternity, listening to the staff of the confinement center and all the mothers expressing:
No matter how difficult it is, you must insist on breastfeeding the child, and do not need to breastfeed the child. If you cannot overcome the difficulties, it means there is no maternal love and you don't give enough to the child.
Of course, if there is an embarrassing existence like Xianzhen in the postpartum conditioning hospital, there are professional full-time mothers,
, multiple mothers who have both beauty, parenting ability, and husband love.
EnjingThe childbirth condition is incredible:
She has no swollen face, neatly combed hair, white jade skin, and daughter-in-law dress in the rich area. She is simply Lee Young-ai in the maternity world.
She insisted on having natural childbirth, refused painless anesthesia, and gave birth to twin sons, and the third child this time was also born through natural childbirth.
She has the "enthusiastic parenting heart" to raise her children wholeheartedly. She will carefully make baby meals every day, match twins with children's clothing, teach "mom brand" art classes to her children at home, etc.
Under Enjing's social account, all of them are like "very good", "want to learn", "amazing" and other praise messages.
I have to say that postpartum conditioning hospital is a world with an invisible class.
inexplicable hierarchy and contempt chain, natural delivery despise those who despise caesarean section, breast milk despise those who feed powder, and even full-time wives despise those who are at work.
Here, your work ability and social status are not worth mentioning, Only mothers who sacrifice the most for their children are worthy of praise.
After giving birth, women seem to automatically transform from humans into a livestock that feeds cubs. No one cares about protecting her mental health. Everything is "If you don't...the child will..."
So, even Xianzhen, who is not inferior to any male in the workplace, seems to have lost her independent personality because of marriage and childbirth.
While people are saying "to understand the difficulties of women's childbirth", they ask women to be a "qualified" mother who cares about their children without regard for themselves and wholeheartedly. Can this contradiction really be resolved?
In fact, when the younger sister opened this drama, she thought it was another outdated drama that described the conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law after childbirth, her husband cheated, the mother spontaneously tried to be strong, broke through the siege, and regained a happy life.
But after watching two episodes, I found that this is definitely a documentary.
As a woman, the process of pregnancy and childbirth has gone through so much trouble,
But this drama tells you that this is just the first step.
Postpartum recovery is even more long, and the whole life of the mother has been changed. It is difficult for others to understand the huge fatigue from body to mind.
Although the play has tried to use humor to resolve the heavyness of this topic, it still presents various situations after giving birth through magical black techniques:
There is no gender during delivery, neglected after giving birth, breastfeeding pain, dietary and movement restrictions, gender relationship, workplace pressure, and the collision of same-sex values...
I have to say that after watching it, is enough to make the fear of not being born and the one who has been born nodded and cry.
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