First of all, on a macro level, the title of this drama is very good, according to the tradition of thirty should be the age of standing, but today's society if you read a master's degree or doctor's degree or whatever, thirty just graduated a few years ago, the job is not stable, coupled with the pressure of cost of living in the first and second tier cities so much pressure on the certainty of future future prospects and the uncertainty of the doubts and anxieties of the almost inevitable!
Thirty only
So now there is such a work to properly tell you people thirty is no big deal, only thirty only, to realize the value of life has just begun. It can be said that it is very in line with the trend of the times, there have been similar mid-life crisis drama, but I have to say that the title of this drama is simple and clear, almost like a film and television to stay in the level of the name. Therefore, the idea or intention of this drama is very praiseworthy, to a large extent, it can analyze and expose the contradiction between man and society, man and man, man and himself in the modernity of the capital supremacy of the society, and criticize the fundamental endogenous contradiction of modernity; to a small extent, it can also be to try to redefine the value of life, and how to spend their lives in a sober manner.
Revisiting the overall main line of the drama, it is appropriate to focus on women as the main theme of the show, because both social stereotypes and physiology generally believe that women will go downhill after they are not married off at the age of 30 or so. Therefore, the screenwriter has designed three female leads, each representing three classes of women facing a major "crisis". This is a tired anxiety about certainty.
Petty bourgeoisie
Gu Jia, as a full-time wife, represents the petit bourgeoisie of women, who hold some of the capital, but who, as her name suggests, is more of a subordinate to her husband or the family's role as an object, and who lacks subjectivity in the control of capital. She is faced with the problems of her young son's growth and education within the family and her husband's company's performance and emotional problems, which can be said to be a great deal of worry for the family. Her crisis can be attributed to the constraints imposed by traditional social stereotypes on women's self-realization.
Zhong Xiaoqin is a Shanghai local, her husband is an employee of a public institution, she has a car and a house, and her life is relatively stable, which means she is one of the few middle-class people in a first-tier city. She faced the crisis is a glance at the end of the certainty, which must be very much in common with everyone should be changed a few jobs slowly stabilized can only begin to simmer, promotion can not be expected in the short term, the first to buy a car to buy a house as the goal of the struggle, and after that, if there is a child on the body and mind into the child's education, almost at a glance to see decades of retirement after the square dance life. This is too much stability in the life of the previous is sought after, but in the modern information age after the great development of productivity, this stability may instead become tired of, the temptation to desire so much, the couple's emotions will be subjected to a wave after wave of examination.
Conclusion
Wang Manni, she can represent the vast proletariat group. As a person who has gold worship written in her name, her crisis is not to say much. Coming from a small city in the Nth line, she came to the first-tier city alone to work hard, and after experiencing the bizarre, full of freedom, full of vitality and trendy city life, honestly, most of the people won't want to return to the small county which is a little bit dead, not lively at all. However, it is not easy to stay in the metropolis, and there are so many young people who have dreams of drifting and struggling! Her/their goal is simple --- to stay, and buying a house with a huge amount of money is the most direct way, while combining with locals is the least complicated.
First of all, she is not a triple minded person, but a typical ambivalent woman y influenced by the social values of modernity. On the one hand, she aspires to a life of money and petit bourgeoisie, where money is the only way to be happy, so she works hard to make money, and she also looks forward to marrying into a rich family, where her talent and face value will be truly appreciated and recognized. The possibility of the smallest is the heart of the matter, to meet a tired of flowers and greenery, want to harmonize the family life of the rich and powerful people, although the cabinet sister of the luxury jewelry can often come into contact with the rich and powerful people, but like Crow's wife, this situation is really few and far between, so that the shooting will lose the significance of filming the play.