The drama "Sanyue Has a New Job" being broadcast on station B, although it is a little niche, the production team of this drama is quite powerful. Director Li Mo directed the highly rated short drama "I'm Good in Another Country", and the screenwriter and producer You Xiaoying previously wrote "Love and Blind Date" and "My Sister" are well-known works. This time, Li Mo and You Xiaoying's "Sanyue Has a New Job" did not disappoint.
"Sanyue has a new job" poster
The post-95 Zhao Sanyue (played by Zhou Yiyan) was frustrated in finding a job after graduating, and spent a year waiting to die at home. After a break with her mother, Su Wenjing (played by Zhang Yanyan), she had to leave home to make a living. Under the introduction of her aunt Su Rong (Guo Keyu), a funeral practitioner, Sanyue finds a new job.
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However, this new job is a funeral home makeup artist, which is to help the deceased with makeup.
Therefore, the audience can first regard "Sanyue Has a New Job" as a workplace drama in the funeral industry, but the focus is not on the workplace itself, but on reflecting the attitude of the Chinese people towards death through the workplace, and adding a lesson about death to the audience. life education class.
The funeral home welcomed all kinds of deaths, and Sanyue also witnessed the different attitudes of different people towards death. For now, most Chinese people are still very taboo about death and everything about death. For example, funeral practitioners will be regarded as "unlucky".
Sanyue himself is the same. When the aunt took her to "visit" the process of helping the deceased in the burial, Sanyue quickly ran out to vomit, and was a little hesitant in the face of the water handed over by the aunt, until the aunt added "I have washed my hands." Take the water cup. When she learned that the job that her aunt helped her to introduce was in a funeral home, she was very angry when she called her aunt and was very unhappy.
At first, Sanyue also accepted incompetence for the work of the funeral home.
Sanyue only realized the "loneliness" of funeral practitioners after truly doing this industry. If the destination of the taxi is a funeral home, then she cannot get a taxi; if the landlord knows that she works in a funeral home, she cannot rent a house; her two female colleagues, Zhou Yanan (played by E Jingwen), a makeup artist, and the funeral home The host Liang Gege (played by Kang Keren), one was fired from a part-time job because of his career.
"Sanyue has a new job" attempts to dispel the public's prejudice and fear of funeral practitioners, and let more people realize the value of this industry. Frankly speaking, this process will be a bit long, but as long as there are more film and television dramas focusing on this group - from "Life Events" to the upcoming Dapeng's "Keep You Safe", Hu Ge's "Worthy Trip", prejudice will gradually dissolve.
The attitude towards funeral practitioners is related to our attitude towards death - this is the fundamental. Through different unit stories, "Sanyue Has a New Job" revealed a lot of "common sense" about death. Death is uncontrollable and unreasonable. For example, a young man from out of town who repairs his mobile phone in the play lives very hard, but an unexpected heart attack directly took his life.
If death comes, we have no choice but to accept it, because death is irreversible. In the play, a middle-aged man lost his wife, but he was drunk and unwilling to accept the reality. It wasn't until his younger daughter attempted suicide that he woke him up—when we tried to hold on to the cuffs of death, when we were so long in the grief of death, other things we valued at the moment slipped away.
death is irreversible
"We are too far from death, and there are very few people who can face it calmly." Death has long been regarded as a taboo topic, and it is precisely because we talk so little about death that it is difficult for us to accept death calmly. Overtreatment is quite common in the country. The treatment itself cannot cure the disease, but simply prolongs the life of the patient, but the price of such prolongation is a severe decline in the quality of life, which makes the patient highly miserable. In the play, oncologist Luo Damiao (played by Liang Jingkang) goes to work in a hospice center, hoping to avoid excessive treatment and allow patients to leave with more dignity and less pain, but there are many obstacles in the advancement of the work.
It is difficult for a movie, a play, or an article to fundamentally change people's perception of death, but it doesn't matter, as long as we talk about death more and more, we can "disenchant" death, and we can "disenchant" death. By making death a daily subject, you will gradually be able to deal with death more calmly and calmly, and inspire the courage to "live to death".
It can be seen from You Xiaoying's previous works that her works have a rather distinct female consciousness. You Xiaoying did not deliberately advertise anything, but she has been passing on her observations and thoughts on the living conditions of women into her works. "Sanyue Has a New Job" is not only a life education class, but also an education class on female consciousness.
There are some relatively conventional female expressions in the play, such as revealing the job-seeking discrimination that women encounter in the workplace, the tragedies of women caused by the preference for sons in the original family, the stigmatization of housewives by extreme feminism, etc. All of these reveal that the road to women's equality has a long way to go.
What is relatively new is that, through the tense relationship between Sanyue and her mother Su Wenjing, You Xiaoying quite pointedly reveals how the "misogyny" among women happens.
Su Wenjing has always been belittling, suppressing and looking down on Sanyue. Sanyue's internship period was clearly the first in the assessment, but because she was a girl, she failed to join the job. When Sanyue needed comfort and encouragement, Su Wenjing sneered at the side, "I don't have a good brain, and my temper is bad... I should not choose you." .
Mom's words are really hurtful
After the mother and daughter "break up" after the quarrel, Su Wenjing never took the initiative to care about Sanyue; Sanyue was touched and took the initiative to find her mother. He asked his daughter: What do you do, how much is your salary, and don't stray into any MLM organization. Although Su Wenjing was worried about her daughter, she really looked down on her daughter in her tone and didn't believe her daughter was capable. Especially after learning that Sanyue was working in a funeral home, Su Wenjing exploded on the spot.
There is not much love between mother and daughter, why do they "kill each other" everywhere? In fact, Sanyue had a happy childhood, and her mother was so gentle. But after my father cheated, everything changed. The parents had endless quarrels. Later, the parents divorced, and the mother became irritable and irritable. She blamed the failure of the marriage on Sanyue. When she found out that Sanyue was secretly calling her father, her mother became mad. Apologize to my mother...
After more than ten years, Sanyue finally summoned up the courage to ask her mother, "(If) you didn't tell me time and time again, it was because of me that I left, and you didn't blame all the pain of losing your marriage. On my head, maybe our relationship will not be as bad as it was later. Why is it the man who did the wrong thing, and in the end two women are hurting each other?"
Too many women hurt each other because of this
Some women themselves are victims of patriarchy, and unfortunately, they end up becoming part of it, participants in "misogyny": not being able to value themselves, but also disgusting other women. Through the relationship between Sanyue and her mother, the screenwriter tried to wake up: to love each other, not to hate each other. Perhaps the older generation's ideas are deeply ingrained, so the younger generation should not be self-loathing because of their ignorance and devaluation, let alone repeat the same mistakes and become part of the "misogyny" mechanism.
"Sanyue Has a New Job" initially attracted audiences because of its mourning tone, and it was rare that the first protagonist was a woman. Previously, losers who did not seek to improve in domestic film and television dramas were basically the privileged roles of men. On the one hand, it is because the male loser is more tolerant in the public opinion environment. On the other hand, this kind of work is basically the routine of the loser's counterattack, and the starting point is low to highlight the counterattack of men.
Sanyue somewhat has the taste of a Japanese drama heroine. For example, the job search was unsuccessful. She lay flat at home for a year, and played with her mobile phone at home every day. This reminds us of the "Yuzi who does not seek progress": "There is nothing in life, the role is unknown, the fate is at a loss, change is useless, setbacks are everywhere, The state is lethargic, the mood is unscrupulous, the darkness is pervasive..."
Sanyue's sentence "Why can't people who like to work work and those who like to lie down" hit the hearts of Generation Z.
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It's just that Sanyue's mood is even sadder. She wanted to die at one time, and she even envied people with advanced lung cancer who could justly be a waste and wait for death to come without any burden. There is no love for life, so Sanyue when she first appeared on the stage has a very rare feature of domestic drama heroines - she has "thorns" all over her body. She has a "rotten" and indifferent attitude towards the world. She doesn't care about other people's emotions or opinions, and she doesn't bother to empathize.
Sanyue doesn't mean to offend, she really has no love
This made Sanyue look unpleasant. In the atmosphere of public opinion that requires positive energy and vigilance to lie flat, it is already a kind of conceptual progress that the drama can examine a heroine who is eager to lie down and only wants to be rotten without prejudice and without condescending.
Also through Sanyue's negative life attitude, "Sanyue Has a New Job" enters its third lesson, which is about how to live: if we feel very sad, if we have no love for life, how should we support it?
"Sanyue Has a New Job" is a domestic drama after all, and it won't really die like a Japanese drama. The drama is not advocating lying down or exaggerating depression. It allows Sanyue to engage in the profession of "the ferryman of death", see through the impermanence of life and death, and learn the courage to "live to death".
However, not everyone has the experience of Sanyue, and not everyone is like Sanyue when someone pulls a hand at a critical moment. Of course, "living towards death" can make people live, but what is more difficult is how to live more. Motivated and hopeful. What if you can't see hope, what if you don't pay for it?
"Sanyue Has a New Job" tries to give a different answer, not the usual big words such as positive energy and optimism. It's "for living, if you don't have a lot of love to support it, you can also have a lot of hate to support it." If hatred for a person, for one thing, and for the world can make you motivated, it's better To live, "hate" is not necessarily a negative emotion. Or to find our bond with the world, it can be a pet dog, a distant star, a reassuring belief, as long as it or he can keep you connected to the world and gain the determination to survive, you can Put in the love.
How to live, don't set a standard answer for young people, and don't make a certain answer appear more correct. For some people, living itself is not easy, and living itself means a great victory. As long as you live well, what is mourning and what is lying down.
As long as the conditions allow, do what you like
Of course, the audience can pick out a lot of shortcomings from "Sanyue Has a New Job", such as the stacking of golden sentences, which makes it suspicious of preaching; the plot advancement of some unit cases seems deliberate and the traces are too heavy; Some patterning, etc.
But in any case, "San Yue has a new job" is a special temperament in the domestic drama. Several serious issues are dealt with quietly, soothingly, and lightly, just like some beautiful and clear empty mirrors in the play, which make the audience feel A bright breeze passed through my heart, and the world seemed to be a little better.
