A long-haired girl raised her hand hesitantly, the only one.
"We have to shake hands!" The teacher laughed. The long-haired girl and the teacher exchanged a handshake and a smile of "heroes see the same thing".
If it wasn't for the professional class this morning and the teacher mentioned this TV series again, I wouldn't even think of it. I remembered how moved it once brought me, and at the same time was amazed at the dissent and dissatisfaction of teachers and classmates.
"You Who Came From The Stars" (hereinafter referred to as "You From the Stars") hit the air at the beginning of this year. Looking back now, it seems like a long time has passed because no one seems to mention it anymore. Our life is full of fresh topics and entertainment every day. The topic list of Weibo is updated every day, and Wang Feng will never be in the headlines; small games similar to "Nerve Cat" appear one after another in the circle of friends, and everyone is immersed in their heads. Have fun. The new information, like the tide, keeps slapping the beach of memory, bringing bursts of excitement, but also washing away the imprints left by the past.
"I admit, I don't really like watching Korean dramas." The teacher continued, "So I haven't watched "My Love from the Stars," not even an episode..." It can be seen that the teacher doesn't like this drama. , but her professional awareness prevented her from directly criticizing "Xing You".
In fact, Korean dramas are never short of criticism. Even people who give a thumbs up to Korean movies will sneer and say "brain" when they mention Korean dramas.
Sometimes we are influenced by past experience to like or dislike certain things a priori - but I believe that personal preference is free, but criticism is serious. The most important premise of criticism, in my opinion, is not the accumulation of texts and theories, but the first "without prejudice" and the second "without watching means no right to speak". Unfortunately, prejudice in the world is due to ignorance.
Just as "there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand readers", the life experience projected by the same story and characters on different audiences is different from the self; due to the different levels of cognition and personality, the audience's acceptance psychology is also different. has a difference. So I can understand that some people like a work and some people don't like it. But I only find it dangerous and terrifying for those practices and attitudes that can kill things I don't understand with a single stick and completely deny them.
I'm a fan of "Star You" and I have to say that I really like this story. Maybe out of liking, there will be a certain "prejudice" in my discussion. I can't avoid it. I can only try to be objective;
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Both fictional and real Minjun's characters are naturally fictional. Although some commented: "For Do Minjun, a foreign visitor from the stars who has superpowers and has gone through ancient and modern times, the audience seems to have accepted all the presuppositions in the play without any doubt." >Analysis of Narrative Strategies", "Literature and Art Theory and Criticism", No. 3, 2014) But inevitably, there are still audiences who will think that the alien character setting is "too fake" and "too bloody". And the male protagonist who has wealth, wisdom and superpower at the same time can always arrive at the moment when the female protagonist is in danger, and the way to complete the hero's saving beauty through "travel" and "teleport" makes the audience call this A "God in the world of lust". It is true that the story of "Star You" is surreal. There are no aliens in real life. Some viewers simply do not believe that Qian Songyi can calmly accept Do Minjun after learning that he is an alien. For some audiences, the various settings and plots of the show are as incomprehensible as a fantasy. However, the reason why "Star You" has become popular and has a wide audience is really not only because of the star effect of handsome men and women, or because the beautiful and fashionable clothing has attracted the attention of many young women - these icing on the cake are not enough. Become the inner core and soul of a play. I think the most important reason for the beauty of "Xing You" is that it "seeks truth in falsehood", and the emotions between people shown in its stories are real enough and moving enough. What is the fundamental support for TV ratings? Although the audience is "brainless", they are not fools. I think what really attracts them should be the real human nature contained in the TV series.
To put it simply, the main line of "Star You" tells a pure love story: Do Minjun, a visitor from outside the sky, came to the earth unexpectedly more than 400 years ago, and met and fell in love with the girl Xu Yihua. But even though he has super powers, he can't turn Yihua's tragic fate into the raging tide, and in the end he watches the girl he loves die in his arms. From then on, for the next 400 years, Do Minjun lived an almost "abstinence" life. He avoids keeping too close contact with people on earth, and experience also tells him that sometimes using superpowers can't change the fate of people on earth. "More than 400 years ago, when I came to this strange planet, I followed an iron rule from beginning to end: if it would be unbearable to lose, don't have it at first, and one day, I will leave, and I can't take anything with me when I leave. Things, so whether it is an object or a person, don’t own it, and don’t love each other, think so.” He has been living on the earth for more than 400 years by following this principle, getting along with the people of the earth peacefully, but this principle But it was broken just as he was about to leave - he fell in love with Chun Song Yi. Even if this untimely love would kill Do Minjun, he could not control his heart in the end, fell in love with Qian Songyi, and stayed for Qian Songyi.
Is this character set and plot bloody? fake? Very bloody, very fake. The whole novel of "A Dream of Red Mansions" is an absurd "dream", "the truth is also false when it is false", which is full of mythology; as a fairy tale, "The Daughter of the Sea" itself is also a "false" story. But why over the years, countless readers have been fascinated by Brother Bao, Sister Lin, and the Little Mermaid? That's because, although the story and characters are fictional, the emotions surging in the story are extremely real! For the sake of feelings, one can tear off the mask and self-liberate (for example, Qian Songyi unashamedly exposes his nature and shortcomings in front of Do Minjun); for the sake of feelings, one can also start to seek happiness for another person (for example, Do Minjun for the sake of Qian Songyi) Songyi's future life and pretend not to love her); for the sake of love, people can do anything and even sacrifice their own lives (for example, Do Minjun will stay by Qian Songyi's side even if he dies in the end, turning into a bubble like the little mermaid). If you ask why human beings can form a spiritual road between different geographical rivers and blocked mountains and mountains? That is because although people have different skin colors and languages, they have emotions that can be communicated. Goethe believed, "Humans have used this road to communicate mutual understanding and tolerance, so that lonely creatures can be comforted, and people's hearts can be united and sublimated." The great writer also has a famous saying - "Goddess of eternity, guide us Move on." What is "Goddess of Eternity"? That is the "innocent heart" of human beings, the most noble and pure "humanistic spirit" of human beings, and it is love! In "Star You", the sincere, passionate and rational love between Do Minjun and Qian Songyi is not lacking in reason. Why can't they be the candlesticks that illuminate our souls and the "goddess" who guide us forward? Why can we accept the life philosophy of a heroine on TV screens who marry a man for money, power, and revenge, but can't understand the story of an earth woman falling in love with an alien man? In fact, this is not the case. We also have many fantasy dramas and science fiction dramas: life is wonderful because of infinite imagination, and tacit understanding because of common emotions. So in the same way, the characters in "Star You" are fictional, but the emotions are real; the style is fantasy, and the emotions are real. Some people say that watching "Star You" is to watch fashion, so what's wrong with "fashion is beautiful and emotion is real"? ! Beautiful fashion is its embellishment, like other carefully designed details in the show, it is the green leaves of a tree, but the leaves always grow on the living branches. If, as a viewer of "Star You", the emotions in this story did not touch you and you only saw the fashion, I can only express my great regret.
How much the audience loves the former goddess, the "female nerve" after the person, and people go crazy after falling out of love. Qian Songyi, who has no common sense but is strong and kind, has how much she loves to learn to be rich, but she is very simple, cold on the outside and hot on the inside, and extremely "suffocating". "Technology House" Do Minjun; the audience loves the childish lawyer Zhang as much as the "warm man" Huijing and Shimei who has been silently paying for love...Everyone in the play has the same character background the truth. Except for the only villain who brought the "bad" to the extreme and seemed a little hilarious, it can be said that there is no bad guy in the play. But do we love characters because they are good people? no. We love people who are like us, we love people who are completely different from us, we love so many people we can't even imagine...not because we hope we can be them one day, but because we cherish them The truth about the character. And this truth is obtained by the people who made the TV series through their insight into human nature.
In my eyes, "Star You" can also be called a work of "insight into human nature", which vividly expresses the spiral-like emotions of characters in love, friendship, family affection, dedication, betrayal, and loss. The play does not exclude the "evil", irritable and negative aspects of the protagonist's human nature, but it chooses to be good. It can be said that what it presents to the audience is positive energy and the noble and beautiful spirit of human beings. In the face of Shimei's betrayal and face-turning, Qian Songyi's light sentence "I will not drag others into the abyss just because I am in misfortune" shows the strength and maturity of the character's spiritual world. Qian Songyi was hurt because of her parents' discord, and even more because of her father's words many years ago. She lacked her father's love for more than ten years, but she still misses her father all the time. And beer?" It shows the emptiness and pain in the character's spiritual world that lacks love.
We all love real things, but real things are not always beautiful. We all know that in the real world there is ugliness, filth, and countless boring and inexplicable things. The pursuit of truth does not mean that it is enough to cook the truth and present it to the audience. That kind of truth is too primitive, like gravel to swallow. A playwright once said that screenwriting should not be like a bee gathering pollen, but should be like a bee brewing honey - to extract the most real and representative things in life to show beauty and ugliness, to show humanity. This is also why some viewers don't like to watch the full screen of goosebumps, women and aunts Bo Xi, and harem struggles. If our lives are like this, why do we need to watch TV shows? TV drama is a commodity but don't forget it is also an art. Like literature, it requires abstractions and generalizations that do not need to be described indiscriminately and truthfully. It should always pursue true emotions and true humanity, but always maintain a certain distance from reality so as not to "combine". This is the responsibility and conscience of literature, as well as film and television dramas.
2. The philosophical character setting
In addition to the character setting of the actor Do Minjun's "alien", which makes some audiences feel bloody, the most criticized should be that Do Minjun cannot physically contact the body fluids of earthlings this one. This means that he and Qian Songyi are deeply in love but unable to carry out intimacy, and a kiss will make Do Minjun sick for a week, not to mention further actions. The purity of emotional dramas, in addition to making the audience feel the "Confucian ethics" that Korean dramas have always followed, or "Asian women's hopes and aspirations for a better relationship between the sexes", some people think that "sexually weak" professors are pure " The incarnation of the idea of love" and "the incarnation of things", so it is impossible to have sex. I don't quite understand why, in modern times, there are people who put sex on the opposite side of love. The reason why Do Min Joon can't (actually we don't know if we can) have sex with Chun Song Yi has been made clear in the TV series - because he is an alien! Differences in physiology hinder their intimacy. But we have also seen that, under the premise of knowing that kissing will cause him to faint, Do Minjun still tried his own way, fainted thousands of times, and couldn't help it.
I don't think it's funny or bloody, I just think that this kind of character setting arouses my thinking about "how important is emotion to human beings", I think this setting is philosophical.
In Lin Yutang's "Smoke and Clouds in Jinghua", Mulan and Lifu have a dialogue about the stone tablet of Mount Tai——
"This silent and dark rock, when the sunset in the mountains, swept across the hearts of Lifu and Mulan. That huge stele was an incomparably strong challenger to human culture and history."
"Lifu said: 'You too Was Qin Shihuang afraid of death and sent 500 boys and girls to the East China Sea to seek the elixir of immortality? But now people die.'"
"Mulan said something mysterious: 'Because the stone is ruthless.'"
Mulan's story in "Jinghua Yanyun" This sentence "because the stone is ruthless" expresses the happiness and helplessness of life. Passionate is easy to die early, but ruthless can live forever. But how many people would choose to be a ruthless stone? Compared with the quiet and lonely world of thousands of feet, or the short life wrapped in pain and sweetness, which is more important? There is no answer to this question, leaving me with endless melancholy thoughts. As for Mulan in the story, Lin Yutang wrote: "...she dragged her tired legs and stepped up the stone steps, but she was thinking about life, death, a passionate life, and no enthusiasm. The life of the rock. She knew it was just a moment in an infinite time, but it was a moment worth remembering for her—the perfect truth, the past, the present, the future, the completeness of one The illusion of me and no me. This illusion has no words to express. The eloquent philosophers will feel at a loss for the meaning of this moment, and they will also feel that they have no words, no name, no name. Speaking of experience..."
At the beginning of the story of "Star You", Do Minjun was strong because he had no feelings, he didn't need to pay, and there was no expectation, but in his relationship with Yihua, he completely lost gave fate. To deal with the unknowable world, even if he is an alien, he is powerless to contend. All he can do is close his mind, give up emotional release, pursue the peace of life in a "ruthless" way, and achieve the perfection in his personal world. "eternal life". Du Minjun at this time can be said to be basically no different from a stone.
Until he met Qian Songyi, he opened his heart again. The opening of the heart, like the opening of Pandora's box, flies out greed, killing, fear, pain, disease and desire. However, the seeds of hope are also planted in this way: people begin to look forward to tomorrow and the future, with emotions and perceptions. The cold and heat of life surrounded him, and the sweetness and bitterness of life entangled him. Having emotions is not only a choice of Do Minjun's self-realization, but also a life problem that he cannot escape as a human (aliens are also human). I think that no matter how many times people who have lived are faced with this proposition, their answer will be "Yes!" It is precisely because we are not stones, we are human, that we can never give up the sweetness of emotion. The burden, even at the cost of life. This is also why Do Minjun must choose between the power of super power and the weakness after a kiss, between love and no love, between life and death. Just because these are multiple choice questions, so tangled, so painful, so hesitant. Stay to die, or leave alive? I was struck by the tragic spirit and sentimental style contained in it. It really came to me from this show that the degree to which we place our emotions in our lives is the degree to which we can be considered human.
Of course, we are human beings, we have emotions, and we must not lack "noble" reason. When the audience was tortured to death by the love affair between Qian Songyi and Do Minjun, they couldn't help but love and hate, and began to complain about the indirectness and unhappiness of the two. Resent it, but this is not just the "implicit beauty" of oriental aesthetics, but the game between reason and emotion when people face the choice of life and death. What's more, Do Minjun still has to think about Qian Songyi's life in the future. In the end, they decided to fight for the day and night; in the end, one insisted on leaving the other, while the other insisted on staying. No matter what the outcome is, at this moment, emotion prevails, and people win fate.
The debate on emotional versus intellectual propositions never stops, and if a show gets the audience thinking, I don't think it's useless. This, I think "Star You" has done it.
3. The
Chinese translation of the book "The miraculous journey of Edward Tulane" is "Edward's Wonderful Journey", Du Minjun's pillow book. Like Qian Songyi's lipstick and satchel, it once detonated a buying frenzy on the Internet. From this we can see the fan economy, but also should not miss a good book.
To be honest, I was tepid for the first four episodes of Star You, but it was in the fifth episode, when Edward, the porcelain rabbit, first appeared, that I found out that I fell deeply in love with it this drama.
"Edward's Wonderful Journey" is a fairy tale. It exists like a miniature version of "Xingyou", but it echoes with it as a small detail in the story of "Xingyou".
"Once upon a time, there was a ceramic rabbit."
"That rabbit fell in love with a little human girl."
"Still beside her and watched her die."
As soon as the three-line subtitles came out, the audience could immediately understand that the story of the ceramic rabbit is Do Min Joon's own story. He also fell in love with the human girl and watched her die by her side.
"That rabbit, swear that he will never make the mistake of falling in love again."
I believe that Du Minjun has also made this oath in his heart. But when he stared at Qian Songyi's sleeping face after a lapse of 400 years, the oath was broken.
At this time, another line of subtitles appeared on the screen -
"But you answer me, if there is no love, how can the story have a happy ending."
Edward's story is a story of believing in love and finding love. This porcelain rabbit has gone through the process from being ruthless to being affectionate, and from being affectionate to being ruthless. His heart was broken into pieces, and he vowed to no longer love others, no longer expect, and no longer keep hope. Until finally, another doll told him: "Open your heart. Someone will come for you.
But first you must open your heart." Edward listened to it and opened his heart, and he waited quietly until the story The ending reunites with his former owner, Abilene. At this time, the little girl has grown up and is a mother, but she still has the accessory pocket watch that Edward used to hang around her neck - Abilene has never forgotten him.
The ending of Edward's story is the same as the ending of "Star You", except that at the end of "Star You", Qian Songyi became the waiting porcelain rabbit. After Do Min-joon left, she did not fall down, but continued to live strong and beautiful, waiting.
Who said that the open ending of "Star You" cannot represent the crystallization of all human wisdom-waiting and hope?
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