TV series: "If Life Deceives You"
Screenwriter: Wang Wanping
Director: Yao Xiaofeng
Actors: Lu Yi, Guo Jingfei, Amanda, wuyue, etc
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If life deceives you, you wrote three marriages of three children in a worker's family. Soothing but not calm, there is a fire burning in the hearts of Liyang (Lu Yi) and Lishan (Guo Jingfei) at any time; Reality is not trivial, closely surrounding the main line of love and marriage, which reflects class differences and changes of the times; Deep-rooted but not rigid, three different attitudes towards life lead to different twists and turns in life, there is philosophical thinking, there is no reason to make profound lines.
Compared with the current stormy rhythm, the progress of this play is not fast. In the novel Song of Eternal Sorrow, Wang Anyi wrote about ten pages about the hutong scenery and its origin before the heroine Wang Qiyao came to power. "If Life Deceives You" also tells the origin and background of the characters thoroughly before entering the character construction. The opening story is a routine often performed in hutongs and quadrangles: at one end, Qin Xianglian accepted the quasi-Phoenix man for nothing, and at the other end, said goodbye to Chen Shimei. The dizziness of Li Yang, a small civil servant, the ease of the second generation of officials, and the perseverance of Zeng () spread out like daily experience, but there seems to be an unavoidable crisis. Dancer Li Ni (wuyue) and mature man Donghai (Geng Le) look happy, but their romance is not grounded. Li Shan, who is bitter and bitter, is an egg in the factory. He talks to men with his fists and to women with his calmness.
The living conditions and character edges of the three brothers and sisters of the Li family gradually emerged: Li Yang, like Chen Shimei, has a strong desire to climb higher and sacred self-esteem as Julien; Li Ni is like a silly elder sister and an angel baby, with a simple sense of justice and a thin calculation; Like Mount Tai, Li Shan, like every teenager in Seeds of Love, has rebellious spikes and youthful desires. With the development of the plot, the ominous premonition gradually came true, and the third person entered the emotional swamp.
Strictly speaking, the name of the play is not appropriate enough. In this play, life has always been the true colors. Noble people are versatile, grassroots are difficult, handsome men are in love, and young women are unlucky ... Life will not deceive people, but blind love will deceive people. Li Ni was confused by the "Prince Charming" who fell from the sky. In the intoxication of fate, she couldn't see the obvious trap. It's wrong for Li Shan to regard her irregular wish as a lifelong affair. He doesn't know that everything will change when he moves from youth to maturity. Li Yang became a "Chen Shimei" soberly, knowing that what he wanted was the future, not love. However, Cheng was blinded by his own persistence and married the "Prince of Hutong", and Li Yang could not get rid of the constant ups and downs after marriage. No one is completely bad, even good, but there are always people who have to pay the price for their decisions made in weakness, ignorance, greed and narrowness. Determination, struggle, exchange, success or failure, happiness or sadness, generation after generation is ignorant and old in reincarnation, leaving a chaotic struggle track for generation after generation.
"If Life Deceives You" has a thorough understanding of this situation, and does not make high and low judgments, but only puts human weaknesses; There is no famous aphorism, only love is in the maze; No solution, just personal choice. Screenwriter Wang Wanping once again showed her keen perception of the love world, as well as her refinement and insight into life appearances and hidden rules. Director Yao Xiaofeng played a special role in photography, creating a strong nostalgic color and meaning with a slightly gray picture. Several leading actors, Lu Yi gave a rare image of a gray man, Amanda was as skillful as ever, wuyue's innocence was still there, and the "urban-rural collocation" between Guo Jingfei and Ma Jing was very tasty. The actual age of this group of actors is ten years older than the roles when they first appeared. "act young" exists objectively, but with the advancement of time and space, they have become more and more out of state.
There are too many narratives to talk about shortcomings. Li Yang's complex thoughts should be accomplished through plots and performances, rather than frequently resorting to narration. Perhaps the setting of this character has undergone major changes in production and creation, and narrative has to be used to bridge the cracks in personality, but this makes the work less natural.