Character introduction when marriage comes to an end

1. Piada

Natural status: Male, 39 years old, born in 1966, from a civil family background. After graduating from high school in 1984, he worked in a film company. In 1992, he and Shan Lingling Married, gave birth to son Peter in 1993, taking special meaning. Love photography.

Characteristics: Appearance is mediocre, peaceful, and a little lazy, but in the heart there is the pure romance unique to people born in the 1960s, but it has been suppressed into unrealistic fantasies by the rapidly developing era, and when I He also realizes that the weakness of fantasy can only be used as a kind of communication pleasure with his son, which is already a kind of helplessness and sadness. However, the innocent nature of the character is not lost, especially when he cannot face reality due to his own powerlessness. Fantasy became a kind of obsession he used to fight against reality, making him a comic little character with the characteristics of contemporary lower-class men's survival style and unique personal humor.

Desire motivation: The initial desire is for a happy and romantic life. After being frustrated in a long-term life, it is converted to maintaining a peaceful life. After the marriage fails, it is converted to protecting the healthy life of the son (actually, it is to set oneself up for frustration. The fantasy of life is transplanted to his son), forming the motivation for the character's behavior in the play, supporting him to make a unique and strange behavior to deal with his divorce, constituting conflicts with other characters and inner conflicts within himself, showing the multi-dimensional aspects of the characters and the comedic nature of bitter humor.

Prescribed dilemmas: marriage failed, wife ran away, concealing the truth from her son who was facing the primary school entrance exam and his old mother with heart disease, laid off, changing from advantage to disadvantage in the lawsuit for custody of his son, Choose for your son or for yourself again.

Conflict level: First, it is the external social environment, the rapid development of the times that cannot be adapted to, the embarrassing dilemma caused by the gap between the rich and the poor, laid-off, judicial, competitive examination-oriented education; secondly, interpersonal relationships, and His wife's cold war, her resentment towards Lu Jun, her speculations about Teacher Yuan, her confusion towards Xiaotong (actually Xiaotong is a hopeless romantic like him), her disagreement with Pangfa, and her disapproval of Pangfa. Peter did not dare to face it; in the end, it was inner conflict and the maintenance and collapse of traditional life concepts (including career, family, love, children, etc.).

2. Shan Lingling

Natural status: Female, 36 years old, born in 1969, from an intellectual family background. After graduating from high school in 1987, she worked in a state-owned arts and crafts factory. At the age of 23, she Piada got married and gave birth to son Peter at the age of 24.

Character traits: She looks capable, impatient, and pragmatic. In her heart, she is full of romantic ideals for life just like Piada. Unlike her husband, when faced with the erosion of ideals by reality, she starts from being dissatisfied until Choose to break the status quo of life and have stronger courage to change your life.

Desire Motive: Out of her romantic imagination of life, she rejected the pursuit of the businessman Lu Jun and married Piada, a humorous and eloquent person who was shrouded in movies. However, the setbacks in reality made her After waking up, she transferred her ideals to her son. Her son's failure to live up to his father's love broke her last hope, so she began to choose life again. Unexpectedly, it would bring more contradictions, especially the reality for a mother. The injury to her nature brought her to the brink of collapse. In the face of pressure, she showed her strong instinct and tenaciously pursued her life goals. What confused her was that reaching her goals would not give her the ideal life she yearned for.

Prescribed dilemma: laid-off blow, husband's indifference, loss of maintaining the family for the sake of the children, changed life environment and inner pressure, helpless choice to hide the truth of the breakup and mother's nature with Piada from the children The conflict, the doubts about Lu Jun’s ex-wife who looks exactly like him, the choice between son or love, the disadvantage of the party at fault in the marriage in the lawsuit for custody of the son, once again hurt the inner pressure of the ex-husband.

3. Peter

Natural condition: Male, 12 years old, has reached the critical moment of the sixth grade graduation class. He looks smaller than the classmates in the class and a little ignorant, so He is often used against teachers and becomes a veritable special boy.

Characteristics: innocent, naughty, smart, active, and imaginative, worshiping his father and attached to his mother.

Desire motivation: Living in the dream of life that his father described for him. When this dream is threatened by the facts, he is forced to face reality. The first thing is to find his mother and prove that he is not a child of a single-parent family. After discovering the fact that his mother had run away from home, he hoped to attract her attention through his naughty and troublesome actions. After failure, he escalated to self-mutilation and illness. It was only when he found out that his parents were in divorce proceedings that he had no choice but to accept the reality. At the same time, he used Teacher Yuan to To replace my mother. A child full of dreams for life goes from resisting the incomprehensible adult world to trying to understand, and matures while suppressing his own nature.

Prescriptive Dilemmas: Maintenance and Collapse of Dream Worlds. The pressure of parents' divorce, the threats from Lu Jun and Xiaotong, the sympathy with Ye Keling and Pang Jucai, the dilemma between parents, and the crisis of changing their surname.

4. Ye Kering

Natural situation: Female, 13 years old, Pete’s seatmate, study committee member, top student in the school, single-parent family, awarded to father after parents divorced, parents They are all married again, and they all have children.

Characteristics: Introverted, quiet, mature, cold on the outside and hot on the inside. The long-term pressure of a single-parent family has caused internal and external differences, an obedient surface and a rebellious heart, self-control and calmness and self-pity and pessimism.

Desire motivation: Desperation for family needs brings counter-motives. They want to leave the family as soon as possible. The only way is to get good grades in the high school entrance examination, pass the provincial key exam, and be able to live in school and study, thereby getting rid of the family. shadow, living independently. The unfortunate events that happened to Pete were also used to express his sympathy for the same illness by exposing his parents' deception in reverse. In the end, his failure in the preliminary examination completely destroyed his hope of entering the experimental class (actually a class for the provincial key examination), and he confusedly chose the extreme method of becoming a monk to escape the confusion of home.

Prescribed dilemma: The contradiction between the requirement to always be first in the class and family interference factors, and the stimulation of Pete's incident.

5. Teacher Yuan

Natural status: Female, 35 years old, educated in a normal college, an outstanding teacher in Peter’s school. Single, she was briefly married to Lu Jun, but they divorced because she was infertile. From then on, she decided not to marry for the rest of her life and regarded her students as her own children.

Characteristics: Gentle, intelligent, considerate, and tolerant. There is a woman’s unknown sadness hidden deep in her heart. Her self-control and self-cultivation sublimate this sadness into compassion for the world.

Desire motivation: Help students complete the final sprint of elementary school, and protect the physical and mental health of special students such as Peter and Ye Kering. However, this effort is subject to increasing pressure from reality, and even lasted for many years with her. There was a conflict between their life concepts, especially when they were forced to choose whether to lie to keep Peter or tell the truth to help Shan Lingling and Lu Jun fight for their children. Against their will, they chose to tell the truth and made themselves... Everything Pete had worked for was in vain. I perfected myself, but I paid the price of heartache.

Provisional Dilemma: Temporarily withdrawing from the further study period to take over may hinder the performance of the entire school’s graduation examination. The pressure on the class, especially the difficulties brought to her work by the newly added children from single-parent families in the class, Peter Relying on her as a mother's substitute triggered the inner maternal impulse that had been suppressed for many years, the awkward relationship with both Peter's parents, especially the relationship between Shan Lingling and her ex-husband Lu Jun, and the misunderstanding of her, plus the involvement of them and Pia The legal dispute between Da and Da for their son brought challenges to Teacher Yuan’s life beliefs, and the difficult choice of the final testimony in court.

6. Lu Jun

Natural status: Male, 40 years old, former colleague of Shan Lingling, failed to pursue Shan Lingling, gave up the opportunity of promotion in a state-owned unit, went to sea to do business and made a fortune, married I met Teacher Yuan, who looked exactly like Shan Lingling. He was divorced because he had no relationship and no children. He had been single for many years. When he met Shan Lingling who was laid off, his old love rekindled.

Character traits: Calm and reserved, scheming, indifferent to emotions and anger, unscrupulous to achieve goals, arrogant and inferior.

Desire motivation: to fulfill her dream of first love and strive for an early divorce for Shan Lingling.

Prescribed dilemma: The embarrassing situation of the third party comes from the family ties of Pete's family and the threat to his pursuit of love from his marriage history with Teacher Yuan.

7. Pang Pangfa

Natural condition: Male, 40 years old, Piada’s neighbor and his best friend since childhood. Before graduating from junior high school, he started a small business selling salted duck. He married a fat and fierce wife and gave birth to an equally fat son, who happened to be the same classmate as Peter.

Characteristics: outgoing, loyal, treacherous, and even a bit "pole".

Desire motivation: Eager to get rich, thinking that as long as you have money, you can realize all your dreams in life, including getting a slim and gentle wife.

Prescribed dilemma: Due to his friendship with Lao Pi and his need for Lu Jun’s financial strength, he was led into a trap by Lu Jun because of his cleverness. Not only did he not make a fortune, but he dragged Lao Pi into the trap of losing the lawsuit for his son. The reality is that The conflict with his life creed, the test of friendship and interests.

8. Xiaotong

Natural status: Female, 27 years old, single, editor of a photography magazine, daughter of the president.

Characteristics: Enthusiastic and persistent, daring to take action, naive and naive, and deeply romantic.

Desire Motive: Find the "Mr. Right" you have discovered, break through all realistic resistance, and create an extraordinary romantic life together.

Prescribed dilemma: Reality does not support extraordinary romance, Lao Pi hesitates and avoids, Xiao Pi is hostile and disruptive, inexplicably gets involved in the divorce lawsuit of Lao Pi and his wife, and self-righteous love becomes the proof of Lao Pi There was unfavorable evidence of extramarital affairs within the marriage, until he finally discovered that the family he was involved in was causing fatal harm to the children and chose to withdraw.