After the highly acclaimed works "The Distance between us and Evil" and "I Want to See You", another Taiwanese drama that is real enough to cry is worth chasing-"Migrant Workers".
The Laborer is adapted from the best-selling book of the same name by Liqing Lin, a writer in Taiwan Province, China. It was also produced by the original crew of Our Distance from Evil, and Emperor Li Mingshun of Admiralty joined hands with Shuyuan Ke, You Anshun and other Mesozoic powerful actors.
People who work are also called "migrant workers". They are generally engaged in construction workers, factory workers, cleaners and other jobs that are considered unseemly by the public, and are the most easily overlooked groups in society.
In order to restore such a real worker's life, the crew set the shooting location directly on a building. In order to show better performance effect, Li Mingshun also put on weight 10 kg and raised a big belly. At the same time, the director asked the dialogue to be in authentic Minnan, and the hero practiced hard for a long time before finally achieving the natural effect in the play.
As a TV series with the theme of workers, which was filmed in Taiwan Province Province, China, Laborer truly shows the real life of the low-level nobody. There are laughter, tears, warmth and parting, as if everything in life is condensed in just six episodes.
There are four protagonists in the play, namely Archie and two brothers, and colleagues Long song and Quan.
Archie () and his brother () are steel workers on the construction site, responsible for welding some reinforced concrete. This work is not only hard, but also dangerous.
They are very busy every day. An old father who is seriously ill in bed needs the care of Archie's wife, and his son is helping his family to make up for it through work-study programs.
Life at home is already very poor, and Ah Qi is still dreaming of making money. In order to make a fortune, he learns from other people's investment all day and wants to do some sideline business to make a lot of money. In his words, "dreams are the most beautiful, and hopes follow."
He is in the pill business like everyone else, thinking that a can of elixir in 500 yuan can sell for 5,000 yuan if it changes hands. As a result, tens of thousands of dollars were spent, and several boxes of elixirs were left at home and left idle.
I also tried to invest in a doll machine, tossing and turning, and I was cheated of tens of thousands of dollars ... Every time I had some money at home, I was cleaned up by Ah Qi, but fortunately I always had my younger brother, Ah Qin, to look after me.
Compared with his brother's liveliness and optimism, his younger brother A Qin is much more pragmatic and reliable. He works hard on the construction site every day. His work has always been the best on the construction site, and he often helps his brother to work overtime.
Although A Qin is usually taciturn, as long as his younger brother is out in trouble, A Qin is responsible for the ending, without a complaint. Even if you know that Big Brother is dreaming unrealistic dreams of making money every day, let him be.
Besides his younger brother A Qin, Archie also has two workmates' good friends on the construction site. Chang Ge, who is kind and weak, is a small contractor in this construction site. He has a clever and sensible daughter and a wife who works on the construction site.
Another younger one is Quan, who drives a crane on the construction site. Although he is the only one of several people who doesn't have to support his family, his salary has always been moonlight, he has no fixed place and can only sleep in the car every day.
Such three people form a team and become the "three fools" on the construction site.
On this day, A Qi and his brothers went to the temple to worship Buddha and seek peace. He is very keen on "business opportunities" and smells a little rich.
When Ah Qi saw more and more money in the donation box, he was inspired and decided to buy a Buddhist temple. Seven contacted a Thai, and the three of them collected enough deposits of 654.38+0.5 million.
After a busy period of time, they dressed up to welcome their idol back, but they were detained when they went through customs.
However, things are far from simple. After further investigation, the police found out that the Thai was a liar, and the deposit of10.5 million was wasted directly, and the dream of making money of the three people was shattered again.
Although I didn't succeed in getting rich, I didn't let Seven dispel my delusion. The sudden rainstorm added a crocodile visitor to the construction site, adhering to the logic of "chicken incubating eggs", and "three fools" played the idea of crocodile making a fortune. They tried their best to raise crocodiles in the bathtub on the roof of the construction site, just to raise crocodiles and make a big profit from it one day.
I thought they could finally get rich. Unexpectedly, a few days later, the crocodile accidentally fell to his death ... "Three Silly" not only refused to skin the little crocodile because of his feelings, but also gave it a grand funeral.
From buying Buddha statues to opening temples, raising crocodiles to making purses, and then picking up porcelain as antiques, recycling and buying lottery tickets ... From the whole drama, A Qi, Chang Ge and A all seem to be dreaming unrealistic dreams of making money, tossing and turning again and again and being cheated.
But in fact, this is the writer's absurd and playful perspective to reflect the plight and self-help of the bottom people. They are eager to get rich, just to care for their families and make people around them live better.
Ah Qi said that the first thing he did after he became rich was to buy a plane and fly around with his wife. Chang Ge dreams of sending his daughter to study abroad; I want to buy an expensive brand-name bag for my beloved girl ...
However, the premise of realizing these is that they must have financial support. In order to survive, they sometimes have to bow to reality and even deny their dignity.
In the play, the reality of the people at the bottom of society is further amplified.
The "three fools" worker clam was pierced into the calf by a steel pipe in an accident. It was originally an ordinary construction site accident, but it became unusual because of his experience.
The protagonist and his party sent the injured Meretrix meretrix to the hospital. As a result, the hospital asked for payment before treatment. The reason is that migrant workers often run away after seeing a doctor on the pretext that they don't have enough money.
In order to protect the construction site and workers, Meretrix meretrix chose not to call the police. As a result, not only did I not get the medical expenses for work-related injuries, but even the wages of the construction site in the month of the accident were deducted.
Although there are no common cases of unpaid wages on the construction site in the play, the director of the construction site always secretly takes a few pieces when paying wages in cash every month, and the workers are always silent for a long time after seeing them.
There are more small details about the working environment below: the site director asked the workers to bear the fine of the gravel car in their own name; The box lunch on the construction site is prepared several hours in advance, because in hot weather, the food that workers get often goes bad. ...
A Quan's words are used to describe the bitterness of workers, that is, "it is God who decides whether to give our people dignity."
In Bajie's view, although the protagonists in the play are humble and cautious in social life, they all live out the kindest appearance:
Chang Sao, who has a hot personality, will take the initiative to pay for workers who have no money to treat diseases;
Brother Chang seems to know that his shoes are dirty, and he is afraid of soiling the floor of other people's stores, so he puts them outside before entering the store.
When Ah Qi finally realized his "dream of making money" and accepted everyone's hard demands on the construction site with the 2 million won by his son, he was full of pride at that moment and bravely faced pure stupidity.
But in the end, he kept the money from his family and gave it to the wife of a colleague who died in the accident. Obviously, in the previous episodes, we can all know Ah Qi's persistence in getting rich, but we can't bear to see others suffer.
This is the innocent and lovely side of the "working people", and no matter how embarrassing life can crush their sympathy and kindness.
We have all heard countless stories about life, all of which are related to helplessness, bitterness and even despair. But the people in the story never give up their hard life. ...
As Ah Qi said, "There is hope in life, whether he is a worker or a fairy."
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