The TV series “Ideal City” borrowed from the experience of Su Xiao, a girl from Shanghai drifting, from the subdivision of the construction cost engineer, telling the ups and downs and struggles of ordinary people in the workplace. The picture shows the poster of the play.
“The cleanness of the cost table means the cleanliness of the project.” In the process of working hard for the ideal of workplace “Little White” Su Xiaochao, there is always a red line in his heart. “The cost table is a relationship table.” After a long time in the workplace, Xia Ming believes in the ecology of reality. Su Xiao and Xia Ming, the heroes and heroines of the TV series “Ideal City”, and professional cost engineers with different qualifications, when they first appeared, they were the contrast between “skinny reality” and “fullness ideal”. The play is directed by Liu Jin, written by Zhou Wei and Luo Hong, and starred by Sun Li and Zhao Youting. The story borrows from the experience of Su Xiao, a girl from Shanghai drifting, from the subdivision of the construction cost engineer, and tells the ups and downs and struggles of ordinary people in the workplace.
Four days after the broadcast, the edge of realism began to emerge. It does not give the actors a skin, and there is no out-of-the-box beauty in costumes. The hope or fatigue of the people in the play is not compromised to match the state of the beater in front of the screen. It also worked hard to “remove the filter” of the content and remove the halo of the protagonist. It does not intend to simply perform a “Xiaobai” counterattack to kill the Quartet in a cool drama. , A description of the real workplace environment of large and small companies, featuring the running-in between ideals and reality.
With the advancement of the plot, from the professional perspective of the cost engineer, the vicissitudes of the entire construction industry and even part of the urbanization process will open up the narrative space of the story. “Ideal City” is the title and title of the play. When the construction industry is advancing with the city’s appearance, some people desire to expand, and even others have ideals.
Reflecting an industry from the subdivisions, writing through or through will test the writing ability of the drama
The construction cost engineer is not far away from the audience in real life. All office buildings, shops, and commercial residences need the check of this cost engineer. But in the entire construction industry, in this closely-related and extensive industry ranging from planning and design, land acquisition and construction to contract construction, cost engineers seem to be unfamiliar to ordinary audiences.
It is precisely because the construction industry has reached the earth, most of the domestic dramas related to this industry have been cut into by subdivisions. In 2017, “In Spring” tells the history of the growth of the construction iron army, and the story has twists and turns on the construction site. Last year’s hit dramas “Settle Down” and “The Golden Years” one looked at the hearts of the world from the intermediary market, and the other borrowed the emotional collision of high-achieving students from the Department of Architecture to explore the confrontation between pragmatism and artistic ideals.
In comparison, the protagonist’s profession in “Ideal City” is more subdivided, but the story space that the creators hope to open is broader. This is how the problem comes. For a profession where the audience is half-knowledgeable, the first step is to write a professional sense of popular science in the advancement of the story; an “engineering” profession that seems to be able to cover a complete range of “engineering” professions by using construction sites, drawings, and calculations, see Weizhi’s work in four or two ways to describe the insufficiency of the industry. It is fascinating for the universe of outsiders. Between easy-to-understand and thorough and sharp, the writing ability of the play is tested.
“Ideal City” begins with the hot scene of migrant workers going to Zhongjian Group to ask for salary. For labor disputes with clear and simple responsibilities, why don’t the workers seek salaries from the righteous gods, and instead block the crowds at the moment of inspection by the leaders? This is an ingenuity that Su Xiao, who is in charge of project costs and is a new career in the workplace, has not been able to comprehend for the time being, and it is also a question that many viewers are waiting for. The farce just calmed down, and the accident happened again. An accident occurred at the construction site of Tianke’s housing project, and the temporary wall collapsed and injured people. In an accountability meeting, all three and six aspects of the project are in place. The play also uses the confrontation on the conference table to bring the project responsibility system, general contracting, subcontracting, and profitability of each link in the construction industry to the industry behind.” Unspoken rules” and industry logic are explained clearly one by one. However, Su Xiao, the absentee of this meeting, a professional who always insisted that “the cost table is clean, the project is clean”, but he was in the wrong place in the push and pull of the “old rivers and lakes”.
This kind of opening is directed at the undercurrents of the workplace, and it is quite a double-edged sword. On the one hand, the audience applauded for its breakthrough in cool drama routines, but on the other hand, the two lines of drama conflict and professional popularization are slightly out of position. The audience outside the door has not yet understood the excitement, and the people inside the door are the first to pay. The “Tao” that is not deep enough picks up the fault. In the highly competitive schedule of realist masterpieces, it is an indisputable fact that this work, which was broadcast on CCTV, satellite TV, and network platforms, did not start well enough.
The real charm of the drama lies in the resonance of the human heart towards ideals.
However, after passing through the first two episodes where the amount of information exceeded the standard, the detailed clues laid down by the realism creation gradually converged and closed. The main line and core of the story were clear, so that the previous conscientious and realistic details were adding points to the content.
Su Xiao, who was in the workplace, was fired after being “backed up” because of industry “stains” in his job search. Finally, he was “ignored” by a small company, but encountered workplace sexual harassment on the first day of work. Seeing desperately desperate, Tiancheng Company, a subsidiary of Yinghai Group, handed out the olive branch. It was not that the world was too small and the screenwriter used coincidence to make up the plot, but the core of the story was once again illuminated and the topic was called. It turned out that there was no pie in the sky, and Tiancheng’s job opportunities benefited from the “speech” of Su Xiao’s ex-boyfriend, and it relied on the acquiescence of the ex-boyfriend’s current and company boss. It turned out that Su Xiao and his ex-boyfriend parted ways, and the sparks of ideal and reality were planted in various details very early.
When they first entered the workplace, many young people, like Su Xiao, believed that ability is everything. But after a long battle with reality, the “ideal city” in some people’s minds slowly disintegrated, just like the building block model on the table of Xia Ming’s metaphor. Just like the manager of Tiancheng Company, he spoke earnestly on the phone inviting Su Xiao to join the day before, but arranged the girl’s work station by the bathroom door the next day. In the game between ideal and reality, how many people have bowed their heads to reality, and how long can Su Xiao’s unwillingness to compromise?
In “Ideal City”, what really shakes the audience’s mind is the tacit understanding of the “rules of the game” in the workplace but the ostrich mentality that is well versed in the chaos of “opportunity” but is unwilling to come forward. That’s why, when Su Xiao made a bid for the new owner, everyone believed that she would accompany her, and everyone sneered at the “unfamiliar” data she made, that her winning the bid was so happy.
The construction industry in “Ideal City” is not a castle in the air. It connects with the main pulse of the era of China’s urbanization process from the professional perspective of a cost engineer. Whether Su Xiao can watch her ideal and fight to the end, this answer is quite important for contemporary young people who are struggling between ideal and reality, challenge and compromise in reality. (Reporter Wang Yan)
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