In recent years, the theme of domestic urban dramas seems to have fallen into a fixed pattern, either focusing on family disputes or centering on middle-aged anxiety. The audience has long been tired of these old routines and is looking forward to some fresh changes. At this time, CCTV went against the norm and launched a unique urban light comedy - "The Second Half of My Life".

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"The Second Half of My Life" is adapted from Wang Meng's novel "Strange and Strange Sorrow", which aims at the "elderly marriage and love market" that has been ignored by film and television works for a long time. This can be described as a clear stream in domestic dramas, after all, most of the love stories in the eyes of the public belong to young people, and the emotional needs of the elderly always seem to be deliberately ignored. However, in real life, the emotional world of this group is far richer and even more dramatic than imagined.

The protagonist of the play, Shen Zhuoran, played by Zhang Guoli, a retired literature professor, was persuaded by relatives and friends around him after the death of his wife, hoping that he could usher in a "second spring". At first, he was unimpressed with these proposals, and it was not until a certain hospitalization that he fell in love with the head nurse Lian Yilian (played by Yang Tongshu) at first sight, which made his love life turbulent.

In order to create more opportunities to get along, he even used the excuse of "prolonging treatment" to frequently contact Lian Yilian, and even confessed in public. This sudden "onslaught" not only caught Lian Yilian off guard, but also surprised his son Shen Qing (played by Tong Dawei), and couldn't help but complain: "It's more fierce than young people." ”

And the mother-in-law (played by Xu Di) and daughter-in-law (played by Mei Ting) broke their hearts in order to arrange a blind date for Shen Zhuoran, and even frequently staged "Shura Field" in family gatherings. The originally serious blind date process turned into one farce after another, with constant laughter.

The love of the elderly has a touch of absurdity, and this drama shows this subtle emotion vividly and vividly in a relaxed and humorous way. is different from traditional urban dramas that often create anxiety, "The Second Half of My Life" does not have the pressure of urging marriage and childbirth, nor does it have bitter dramas, but uses a light comedy to tell a story that makes people laugh and cry.

Zhang Guoli is undoubtedly the soul of the whole play. He interprets Shen Zhuoran's "sense of contrast" into a very layered sense - both the reserve of an intellectual and the clumsiness of an ordinary old man. When his friends advised him to look for the "second spring", his eyes were full of hesitation and entanglement; When he took the love letter to confess to Lian Yilian, his hands trembled slightly, but his eyes were extremely firm. This delicate interpretation makes the characters more realistic.

Tong Dawei plays Shen Qing in the play, a contradictory character who has to face his father's remarriage and can't let go of his mother's death. He hopes that his father can be happy, and he never forgets the memory of his mother. In one scene, while he was drying his mother's old bed sheets, his fingers gently rubbed the fabric, and his eyes looked into the distance with empty eyes, and the whole person fell into deep thought. There is not a single line in this scene, but it accurately conveys the helplessness and longing for the loss of loved ones.

Perhaps, the success of this drama is also a reminder to us - love never knows age, and everyone deserves their own happiness.