What attracted you to "Love in a Fallen City"?

The TV series "Love in a Fallen City" has started airing. The original work is a work that I have always liked. I always feel that the women described by Zhang Ailing are difficult to play. Wang Jiazhi, played by Tang Wei, is only a short story in the context of the novel. But what should we do with Bai Liusu’s graceful and ups and downs charm?

Chen Shu’s temperament is quite passable. It's just that Huang Jue is not satisfactory, and Fan Liuyuan's spirit and spirit are far away. However, TV dramas are another matter. What the director wants to talk about and what the audience wants to see are just Bai Liusu and Zhang Ailing in their own minds. When a novel is stretched out into dozens of episodes, as a reader, I can’t see what I expected, so I just don’t read it.

Looking back at the version performed by the Hong Kong Repertory Theater in Beijing a few years ago, it seems to be more to my liking. Those long-ago events on the stage are always vague and unreal, but instead satisfy more imaginations. The white tassel played by Su Yuhua is small, round, and well-behaved. It is more charming than the chaste and fierce feeling that Chen Shu often gives people.

The agreement between life and death is broad, and I am happy with my son. Hold your hand and grow old together.

This is my favorite quote. Unexpectedly, the much-anticipated "Love in a Fallen City" also uses this as its theme. I read the novel at a very young age. Looking back, it was the first work by Zhang Ailing. At that time, I didn’t understand anything. I only remembered Bai Liusu who was happy in the end, and the two masters of love who wanted to fall in love but were afraid of falling in love. They fought back and forth and finally had a happy ending. I was deeply impressed. But whether there is such a word in the original work is already very vague and unclear. I have no idea whether I have fallen in love with the artistic conception of "holding your hand and growing old together with your son" since then. The drama is wonderful. Fan Liuyuan, a prodigal son who never refused to settle down in love, said this poem is a very sad story - "Birth, old age, illness and death are all things that are beyond our control, but we say what we want for the rest of our lives, asking for things that we cannot control, making ourselves miserable. ". Modern people probably have this idea too, and they are even more cowardly.

However, in that war-torn troubled world, the hopelessness of today and no tomorrow actually led to a love between Fan and Bai. But in the ordinary world we live in now, although life is still short and uncertain, everyone does not have such courage. The temptation and hope of love, the dialogue between Liusu and Liuyuan can be regarded as a classic case even in modern times. However, today we who are "incompetent in love" keep saying that we treat love as a game, but few of us have such skills. Times have progressed, but people have really degraded.