Every year when the inventory of each platform is taken, I will take a few glances and circle a few that I am interested in.
"A Soldier’s Story", which I regard as a “1xi” actor group, has always been on my must-see list due to its actors and the title of the drama. As a result, the drama premiered yesterday as a surprise.
I quickly found time to watch it, but my goodness, who would have thought that I would cry while laughing?
By some mistake, he becomes a soldier for his younger brother?
I just watched it for a while, hey, these are not all old acquaintances.
Gou Sheng, played by Jiang Long, is a seemingly naive but thoughtful rural boy. Because he was picked up and raised by Lao Wang's family when he was young, he got the nickname Gou Sheng to make a living.
He has a younger brother and a younger sister. The younger sister, Xing'er, is pretty and lively, and can be considered a flower in the village; the younger brother, Wang Mao, is born with a flaw and is not very smart.
The family is not living a wealthy life, but they can still make a living by relying on their wine-making skills. Gou Sheng's dream is to build three large tile-roofed houses, marry Myolie, and live a small life with a wife and children.
But good things are always remembered. Xing'er looks good, and Yang San from the village also wants to marry her.
As for this Yang San, he was wilted and bad, but he still had a little power in his hands. After being beaten by his followers, he came up with a stupid idea to bring Wang Mao to order Xing'er:
Wang Mao's name was added to the conscription list to threaten the old Wang family to marry Myolie.
Wang Mao didn't meet the standards for conscription. It was a time of war. If he really wanted to be a soldier, wouldn't he be willing to die?Lao Wang's family was so anxious that Xing'er was so wronged that she almost hanged herself.
At this time, Gou Sheng came up with an idea. In ancient times, Mulan joined the army for his father. Now, can he, Gou Sheng, serve as a soldier for his younger brother?Moreover, there are still four oceans left to get as a soldier, and he is one step closer to his goal of “three large tile-roofed houses”.
So Gou Sheng became Wang Mao, from an ordinary rural boy to a national army.
Moreover, the ten years spent in the Shaolin Temple were not in vain. The slingshot skills required to be practiced in the temple were transferred to the marksmanship. With a steady hand and an eye, the recruits suddenly had the blessing of the marksmanship buff.
Do you think Gou Sheng is going to launch a grassroots counterattack according to the routine?nonono, this kid only wants to make money.
The first time he went to the battlefield and saw the corpse, Gou Sheng was not afraid at all. Instead, he dared to go up and dig out the corpse and took out a few newly minted foreign coins.
He just wanted to praise Gou Sheng for his natural courage, but the next second he started fighting with real swords and guns. He was confused instead. The people around him were hit by bullets and fell down. This was the first time Gou Sheng was fighting on the bloody battlefield.The front slowly unfolded.
I couldn’t remember the kung fu I had learned for ten years, and my marksmanship wasn’t as accurate as when I practiced. The people around me yelled and backed away.
Amidst the sound of artillery fire, Gou Sheng discovered for the first time that this small goal of "being a soldier is just making money", how can it be so easy to achieve? He missed the large retreating troops and escaped by pretending to be dead. The man who originally planned for Xiao JiujiuGou Sheng looked at the evil-proof bracelet that his mother gave him before leaving.
Finally regaining consciousness, he took off his military uniform while running, he wanted to go home.
Jiang Long acted really well in this episode. He had an instant burst of emotions, saw real death, walked in front of the ghost gate, his eyes changed from dull to firm, and he was able to perform the transformation of being baptized by life and death.
The energy with which he dropped everything and ran home was inexplicably touching.
I was about to burst into tears, and the next second the camera turned to show Yang Sanshang and Lao Wang’s family announcing that Gou Sheng had been killed in action, and also gave him a pension.
Then when he turned around, the dead dog remnant appeared faintly. Surprised or not, Yang San fainted from shock.
Yang San, I know you are anxious, but don’t be anxious. Gou Sheng’s journey as a soldier has just begun.
Not only Gou Sheng, everyone has a goal of "three big tile houses"
What’s interesting is that after the “soldier experience card%” ended, Gou Sheng earned 8 yuan, making money and saving his life.
So he invested non-stop in the infrastructure of building a house, buying land, bricks and cement. If he didn't have enough money, he would even cut down trees himself, but he was still a little short of his small goal.
After going round and round, Gou Sheng decided to sell himself once more and embarked on the road of working as a soldier to make money, and then he was completely involved in the rolling tide of the times.
I saw someone in the barrage saying that Gou Sheng was stupid, he had rolled around on the battlefield, and he dared to "exchange his life for money", but in an era of war and chaos, this was just a hand raised by a small person against fate.
I can actually understand Gou Sheng's decision to sell himself repeatedly for the sake of three large tile-roofed houses.
Because in our lives, doesn’t everyone have a goal that supports them to move forward?
Maybe you are struggling in the workplace and want to achieve a small goal of promotion and salary increase; maybe you are still studying and want to have better results and go to a better place.Or maybe you are just fighting against the ordinary and tiring life and want to start a small family and live the simplest and most ordinary life.
This is the vision we have in our hearts for a better life, and we are willing to work hard for it.
For Gou Sheng, the three large tile-roofed houses have never been just houses. They represent a home with the person he likes, Myolie, and a safe haven of his own in a barren and troubled era.
That was what Gou Sheng could imagine. The happiness was what he hoped for.
So he was willing to endure the dangers and difficulties of being a soldier. This was the fastest way he could see to achieve his goal, and it was also the only choice before him.
In fact, each of us, are we not the losers who have no choice?
In order to live, you have to work. Even if 996 and work content make people grow old, they still have to grit their teeth and be beaten repeatedly by life. It is even more difficult for people who do not have a job, or they are struggling to get their academic qualifications and read books just for the opportunity.It sucks, or it means lowering one's bottom line, dirty work, and good work if you can make money.
We are all working hard for the "three big tile-roofed houses" in our hearts. This is also the emotional resonance between Gou Sheng, a grassroots little man who is unhappy and uncool, and us.
Because although times have changed, Gou Sheng's plight is still the plight of young people.
Looking at his growth and transformation, to a certain extent, is to see how ordinary people can realize the infinite“ in their hearts in a limited environment.
Gou Sheng's journey to become a soldier started with a few oceans and a few tile-roofed houses, but as it unfolded, things never went as he wished. The outer parts of the corpse were looted by the money-grubbing platoon leader; another placeSell” yourself again, but sell yourself into the same barracks again.
The four yuan he received for selling his body was confiscated, and he was almost executed on the spot for deserting.
After finally living a stable life of receiving food and salary, the army suddenly became cooperating with the Japanese, and the leftovers became “traitors”, and had to fight against the New Fourth Army.
Ups and downs, ups and downs, the goal of three large tile-roofed houses is still a distant dream, but Gou Sheng's road to awakening began with the cry of “Chinese people don't fight Chinese people”.
How can this group of young actors support the historical narrative?
The reason why he has such a strong emotional connection with the character Gou Sheng is not only because of his simple desire to earn money, buy a house and marry a wife, but also because of the vivid cast of this drama.
I said that the actors in this drama are all old acquaintances. No one has any objections, right?As an audience of the comedy competition, it was a surprise and a relief to see Jiang Long, Shi Ce, Jiang Yi, Ye Liu, and Song Muzi appear in the play.
Together with Qin Hailu, You Yongzhi, Liu Peiqi and other upright senior actors, they formed the solemn and humorous tone of this TV series.
This group of young actors with a background in comedy have found the best way to open themselves up in the play.
Their past performance experience has made them naturally accustomed to a kind of small-cut narrative. The experience they have learned from life makes them comfortable in shaping similar small characters.
These little characters use their own stubbornness, simplicity, authenticity and other elements to weave one small scene after another similar to a stage play, and the big people who accidentally bump into these small scenes have their own attributes of the narrative of the times.
Gou Sheng is a complete little person. He is a little thoughtful but not much. He only looks at his own one-third of an acre of land in advance. He only hears about making money as a soldier and does not think about the life-threatening issues in war.
His admiration for Myolie and his insistence on kindness are all pure and kind. As he runs forward, his simple sense of justice and right and wrong, and his lack of numbness in the face of big things, reflect the bitterness and sadness in this world.ugly.
The several confrontations between him and Yang San were humorous but also hinted at poignancy.
Jiang Long has always been good at expressing serious themes in this kind of humor. The theme of his past “original intention series” was not funny, but love.
Jiang Yi and Shi Ce also captured the essence of the characters. Yang San is bad and greedy, but timid and easily intimidated. After being threatened with force several times by Gou Sheng, he successfully succumbed. He has the appearance of a small citizen and is by no means a big evil.person.
Taozi, played by Shi Ce, is lively and smart, a bit elf, and patriotic, but careless and lacks flexibility and sophistication. He was caught and used to threaten the braided man during the parade, and he still has a long way to go to grow up.
But no matter what the role is, they all play it with distinct personalities, outstanding small characteristics, and never vague faces.Not to mention veteran drama stars like Qin Hailu and Liu Peiqi, they are just characters.
They used their acting skills, with the help of the director and the story, to support the core of the drama's serious narrative and build vivid portraits of small characters, making Gou Sheng's story more grounded and more popular.
Sister E’s conclusion
《A Soldier’s Story》is not the kind of period war drama that is common nowadays. It does not have a main character who is absolutely true, good, and beautiful. The character Gou Sheng who takes up the title of the drama is just like everyone else in the drama. He is a completely flawed character.
The platoon leader here relies on connections, the platoon deputy is someone whose wife slept with him, the county magistrate seeks advantages and avoids disadvantages, the scholars only have patriotism but no patriotism, and the students can only go to the streets to parade and post slogans., everyone is beyond their capabilities, drifting around with the tide of the times.
But it is this rough simplicity and reality that makes the play different from other similar themes and makes the story more appealing.
In the play, Gou Sheng has a Forrest Gump-style “Foolish Sage” attribute. He simply walks with his own inherent concepts, and the audience follows his experience and lifts the curtain of the drama little by little.See what a certain village, a certain province, a certain era looked like.
The battle between him and Yang San, and the funny stories he experienced after he was forced to join the army in Wang Mao's place were actually one small scene after another, and the audience flashed through some of them.details, seeing the general background of the Anti-Japanese War and the oppression of the people by Flood, Drought and Locust Soup - this kind of structure of looking at the big era through the little people, the audience has a process of digging and thinking, and seeing the big from the small.On the contrary, it is more powerful.
The change people see in the big rivers is different from the change they see in the flowers.The story of "A Soldier’s Story" is also different from that of typical sitcoms such as "Underground Traffic Station". The creations of each era have new value.
《A Soldier’s Story》 is eye-catching because it has innovation, breakthroughs, and passion. The big story of a small person is still enough to move people’s hearts.
