Someone asked, is there a kind of drama that can make people silent all night after watching it, but they can't help but revisit it repeatedly?

I am reminded of a quote:

"Fate never knocks, it just breaks down the door – and we're always scrambling to clean up behind the door."

This sentence is the common background of the three dramas I want to recommend today.

Whether it's the ups and downs of families on the Loess Plateau, the game of life and death in the Forbidden City, or the moral collapse in the desert of New Mexico, they all tell us with extreme stories:

The answer to life is often hidden in the cracks that we least want to face.

01 "White Deer Plain": The incense and human weeds in the ancestral hall

When I was a child, I always heard the old man say that "the ancestral tomb is smoking", and it wasn't until I watched "White Deer Plain" that I realized that the wisp of green smoke was full of the obsession of the living.

Bai Jiaxuan changed seven daughters-in-law in his life, and the ancestral hall was dedicated to the ancestors, but when he found out about the affair between his son Xiaowen and Tian Xiao'e, he tied his son to the pillar of the ancestral hall with his own hands and pulled his skin open.

That night, the whip of the clan rules smashed more than the backbone of Xiaowen? It is clearly the epitome of tens of millions of years of Chinese-style father-son relationship.

Although the story is old, new similarities can be seen.

Bai Jiaxuan's straight waist is like a stubborn elder who has to ask you to toast during the New Year?

Tian Xiao'e's experience of being scolded by the whole town reminds people of the "unfilial daughter" who was besieged in the family group.

Even the wall that Bai Ling climbed over when he escaped from marriage was very similar to the national highway that young people took when they fled from their hometown.

When the post-00 generation began to post "Bai Xiaowen gnawed honestly" emoticons in the family group, the more I watched this drama, the more interesting it became.

The crew really started the film when the wheat was yellow, and the sunburn on the actors' faces was more real than any special effects.

The dirt road that Bai Jiaxuan walked with the mule made netizens cry and barrage: "This is the road that my grandfather walked to pick me up from school!" "Those fights in the Shaanxi dialect are more earthy and more down-to-earth than the Mandarin version.

02 "The Legend of Zhen Huan": A workplace survival manual in the Forbidden City

You must have seen that emoji: Concubine Hua rolled her eyes and said, "Sluts are hypocritical."

But when we clicked on this "old drama" 12 years ago again, we found that it had long been played by contemporary young people as a workplace textbook, marriage apocalypse, and even a psychological case library.

Zhen Huan, who has just entered the palace, is very much like a novice who has just entered the workplace, thinking that "you can be safe without fighting or grabbing". It wasn't until I witnessed Xia, Winter and Spring being rewarded that I realized that the Forbidden City was not a school, but a KPI killing ground.

An Lingrong stayed up all night embroidering and competing for favor, like a migrant worker who changed his plan in the early morning? The queen's sentence "The concubine can't do it" shouted out how many middle-aged people are powerless.

Zhen Huan has changed from a girl leaning on the plum garden to praying for blessings to Niu Hulu Zhen Huan, which is essentially no different from us from "classmate Zhang" to "Mr. Zhang": they all held back their tears and refined them into eyeliner liquid at countless moments when they were slapped.

Zheng Xiaolong turned every audience into a "microscope girl". Concubine Hua's Dong'e Ejiao, the queen's abortion almond tea, Zhen Huan's brown rice barley soup...... The women in the Forbidden City rely on medicinal food to plan, just like we rely on the circle of friends to survive today.

When Zhen Huan finally said to the mirror, "After all, it was a mistake", we suddenly found that the person in the mirror was not ourselves - we soaked our original intention in the KPI, and dried our innocence in 996, but we still had to write "don't forget the original intention" in the year-end summary.

03 Breaking Bad: The Chemical Equation for Midlife Crisis

When the 35-year-old crisis rushed to the hot search, more and more people began to empathize with Lao Bai. This scumbag chemistry teacher was also pressed to the cliff by powerlessness.

I thought that as long as I wrote chemical formulas on the classroom board book for the rest of my life, I knew that one day I would fall into the wrong path in an apron.

When Lao Bai was humiliated by the students in the car wash, the migrant worker remembered Party A's deadly serial call; He looked at his son's disability insurance money, like a middle-aged father who was calculating the mortgage in the middle of the night. Of course, ordinary people will not follow his example to engage in fatal products, but the appearance of racking their brains to engage in a side business is roughly similar.

We were all teenagers with ideals, but now we are living by mending the holes in our lives.

That episode of the famous "fly play" is simply a portrayal of the mental state of modern people: Lao Bai is catching flies in the laboratory, isn't it the anxiety of us posting deleted and deleted posts in the circle of friends at midnight.

Lao Bai finally said to his wife, "I do this for my family", good guy, who is not. Decent for adults, inferior to window paper.

"Man lives like wheat, which prunes a stubble and grows another stubble."

"The Legend of Zhen Huan" teaches us to grow fangs in the rules, "Breaking Bad" allows us to see the weakness under the fangs, and "White Deer Plain" reminds us: All those who grow crazy will eventually return to the land.

The next time you numb yourself with a short video in the subway, when you squeeze out a smirk at the leader's difficulties, when you have insomnia in the middle of the night counting the deposit numbers - maybe you should open these dramas, look at the figures rolling in the mire of fate, and then say to yourself: "Look, being alive is a tragic and romantic performance art." ”