"Anxiety" of youth dramas

Bleak

September 13, 2022, issue 3271

The grammar of the youth drama is being redefined.

If you put the youth -themed episodes of the "Basic Law of Genius", "Twenty Twenty", "Twenty of the Twenty", "Twenty of the Twenty", "Twenty Twenty", "Twenty of the Twenty", "Twenty Twenty", "Twenty Twenty", "Juvenile School 2", and "Two", and "Twenty", "Children 2", "Bald Ghost", we can get such a clear impression.

"Genius Basic Law"

As the type of drama that has worked hard during the period of the online drama "Ascension", in recent years, domestic youth dramas have formed a unique limited style and narrative program.

Classic youth dramas that can impress the audience, such as "The Best Us", "Together with the Window", "The Sky of the Wind Dog Boy", are basically inseparable from the keywords of campus, nostalgia, blood, and pure love. In the past two years, youth dramas such as "Don't Be Friends with You", "One Flash and Shining Star", such as the fantasy brain hole, briefly broke through the prescribed grammar of the youth drama.

But regardless of fantasy or not, these youth dramas basically follow the realistic and realistic and market wells, but the principle of healing and simplicity of the narrative, and tacitly prevent the invasion of the complex rules of the adult world. Simple story.

But by this summer, we will find that the story of the young people has deviated from this track.

On the one hand, the tense of storytelling is changing. The nostalgic healing system is no longer the mainstream, most of which are facing the problem at the moment. On the other hand, the disappearance of the high wall of the campus. The young people in the play are very hard. They belong to their youthful narrative, or they are about to weighing the pros and cons of the balance, or the rules that are forced to accept the adult world on campus. In short, the protagonists of the youth drama are walking out of the school's shelter.

Although on the surface, after shooting campus, employment is considered a natural theme of youth dramas. However, if the kernel evolution is carefully detailed, you will find that the reason is not so simple.

The "nostalgic" password is a trend. The rise and fall of youth dramas and the evolution of the kernel can be followed.

The wave of youth drama around 2014 was gradually becoming momentum with the ups and downs of the Internet drama type and quality.

At that time, in order to distinguish between dog blood and suspended gold -plated youth on the big screen, a group of youth dramas represented by "Hurry That Year", "The Best Us" and "Together Window" formed a realistic audiovisual audiovisual Aesthetic orientation of style and small plot stories.

This also fundamentally laid the grammatical foundation of this round of domestic youth drama creation.

At the same time, this round of youth dramas also has a common target audience -that is the core users of video websites mainly based on the post -80s and 90s. This is a good understanding, why this round of youth drama is not interested in the youth imagination of paper drunk gold fans and the cruel youth of socialization. Instead, it is more concerned about prying open the audience's memory gate.

Military training, sports meetings, literary performances ... These rustic campuses have become a major contradiction in the play that can stretch for several episodes. The hard -working class teacher, followed by the counselor, coupled with three or five groups of classmates who are together, these typical characters who have rooted on campus life occupy the main stage of the youth drama. Under the asylum of campus narrative, strong friendship, hazy love, and intense studies constitute the main tone of youth.

"The Sky of the Wind Dog"

Such stories are rarely anxious. The so -called "strong learning is strong", everyone has a visible future.

In the past two years, the creation of youth dramas has begun to differentiate. The pure campus youth drama has moved towards the fantasy break, but it is educational theme dramas and urban sweet pet dramas. They have made more extreme works along the two directions of academic and youth love.

Generally speaking, when a type starts to be deconstructed, it has reached the end of stage development. This is true of the nostalgic campus youth drama.

The anxiety of "joining the WTO" When we thought that this round of youth drama was to be given to the sweet pet of the city, this summer stall concentrated on the "Juvenile 2", "Genius Basic Law", "Twenty Twenty", "Curarid" and so on. Youth theme drama.

Strictly speaking, the theme of these works is inconsistent.

"Juvenile 2" is the evolution of family education theme dramas. "Twenty Twenty" is a sequel to female groups with age as keywords. It is the latest exploration of the Northeast Suspense Drama.

The concentration of these dramas is not so much the rejuvenation of youth dramas. It is better to find the junction of different themes and find the intersection point -that is, it is the crossroads of the society from the campus.

"Juvenile 2"

Entering this crossroads at this time is the employment topic of the post -95 and 00 generations. The story of "Juvenile 2" and "Twenty Twenty Twenty Confusion 2" is based on this topic.

The first part of "Juvenile School" is a typical educational theme drama. Parents and children who are studying in high schools. The two generations are doing hand in hand to make the college entrance examination. However, "Juvenile 2" did not talk about the university life of the four protagonists, but started directly from the graduation season to throw them into the society.

There are four protagonists in the play, including flexible employment of self -media, some who insist on catering entrepreneurship, some who choose to choose artistic career, and some who have paused sprints to choose from every other year. Among them, the lessons of the "poisoning" and the growth of the society are all privately customized.

In the unavoidable workplace scrolls, young people have anxiety, constantly fluttering, and no longer have the leisure of "youth and nothing".

The first part of "Twenty Twenty" tells the story of the graduation season. In the second part, the plot was about to enter the year of the four heroines at the age of 25. In the traditional urban idol drama, even if women of this age have not encountered overbearing presidents, at least their careers have been successful and completed the transition of socialization. But the post -95s in "Twenty Twenty" are still exploring the doorway of Social University.

They have live broadcasts, some who insist on doing investment banks, some are forced to give up their ideals because of their family roads, and young people who choose to choose Xiao Xingxing when the slashing bumper chooses to Xiao Xing. Occupational track has not been locked yet.

The Genius Basic Law looks like a surreal urban fantasy track. But if it is deeply investigated, the anxiety value of the protagonist Lin Daixi is no less than that of the "Social Animal" in "Twenty Twenty" represents Jiang Xiaoguo.

The reason why strawberries and cheese in the play are fissioned, in the final analysis because of Lin Daixi's tangles in the graduation season -after graduation, whether they have to cross professional postgraduate entrance examination mathematics or enter public institutions.

You see, the anxiety of the future after the 00s can no longer be resolved in the real world, and you need to open a time and space to find the answer.

"Copy Ghost" is a penetration of the youth theme of the summer season. The only works that are developed with backward narratives and the post -80s as the main character. But it is not nostalgic, but cruel. It is not to go back to the beauty of a section of the campus life. Instead, it is to highlight the penetration of social hidden rules to the campus and to the young life.

This is in sharp contrast to the memory aesthetics of the nostalgic campus drama.

In the nostalgic campus youth drama, youth is abruptly stopped. It always points to a end point, that is socialization. It is as if the day when you walk out of the campus, the world rules that a person follows must have changed. Youth can't continue, you can only recall.

Of course, this is not the case. The attention of these youthful dramas in the summer stalls to the "entering the WTO" stage is to respect the growth process, and it also supplements the socialization lesson for youth dramas.

Youth: From the type to the elements of the elements that are all the netizens who are young, youth dramas are a relatively clever type.

On the one hand, it is the type of all the creation of all realistic themes, the type of dream and love, and the type of idealism. On the other hand, it is also the most likely to cause the vital narrative of the same frequency of young audiences.

If we see too much and kindness in the industry drama, or see the first love first in urban emotional dramas, most of them will be "suspended" without thinking. However, when there are similar defects in youth dramas, the audience may relax the criteria for trial because "youth needs hormones".

Nowadays, youth dramas have used the advantages of the type to help online dramas to complete the historical task of "entering the room". So in the next stage, is there still necessary for youth dramas as the mainstream type? When the main target audience of youth dramas is no longer the post -80s group, is the way of telling the youth story change?

For these two issues, several youth -themed dramas of this summer have given reference answers.

As a type of youth drama, there may be a cycle of rise and fall, but as an element, it will always be a need for episodes. Youth growth is one of the most important drama -mothers. Since it can provide bonuses for fantasy dramas and suspense dramas, it can also provide nutrients for other topics.

Of course, a generation has the song of youth. After the 80s, the audience has begun to enter the year without confusion, and it is not just needed to pin the reality anxiety with youth nostalgia. At this time, youth should be on the front desk after the post -90s and 00s.

However, without the timing distance and memory filter, the youth story of post -90s and post -00s may be difficult to install in a unified framework. How to find the empathy of young people in an era of diverse value and entertainment aesthetic differentiation, this is the difficulty of the youth story. In addition to taking "group portraits" photos, there should be more ways to advance.

Text: Iron Drum

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