The Great Examination takes real life as the prototype and depicts rich and three-dimensional group images. At the same time, focus on excavating representative "family samples",For the youth education drama into a richer performance content.
Author: Dai Qing (Professor, School of Drama and Film, Communication University of China, Secretary-General of Audio-visual Committee of Chinese Literary Critics Association)
The recent hit TV series "Da Kao" focuses on the college entrance examination in 2020, with a simple and fresh temperament, which attracts people’s attention. On the screen, the teachers, students and parents of No.1 and No.4 Middle Schools in Jinxian County at the beginning of the outbreak came to the audience with a strong flavor of life. This "big test" of life in the play is closely related to candidates, parents, teachers and all walks of life, and it is also a major test faced by individuals, small families, everyone, the country and the nation, which inspires the strong empathy of the off-screen audience.
Blend diverse elements, deepen the content and spiritual implication.
The Great Examination focuses on the early outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020, which is not only the most important story background, but also an important plot event and theme element of the play. The events based on real life, such as epidemic prevention, the work of the medical aid team in Hubei, the construction of telecommunication base stations, and the flood on the eve of the college entrance examination, have integrated richer performance content into the drama about youth education, and made the Great Examination present a broader social vision.
In the play, because of the outbreak of the epidemic, the college entrance examination students in No.1 Middle School and No.4 Middle School in Jinxian County switched to online classes, and network maintenance and construction became the heart of Director Qin and the principals and teachers of Jinxian County Education Bureau. With the efforts of Director Qin and the local telecommunications department, a communication base station was built for Gao Mingyu, a rural student who returned to his hometown, to ensure that he could surf the Internet smoothly in mountainous areas, vividly explaining the persistent adherence of local educators to the educational concept of "No one can be left behind".
On the day of the college entrance examination, the flood broke out, and soldiers, policemen, doctors and teachers devoted themselves to helping the students take the college entrance examination. This big exam is not only a test of social mobilization and organizational action, but also people’s persistence in fairness and temperature. There are also personal, small family and everyone’s true feelings and love.
Secondly, "Da Kao" has taken a "de-elitism" path in terms of performance objects and people. The action scenes of the characters in the play are no longer high-end communities and luxury office buildings in big cities. Students live in collective accommodation or in their own simple old houses, paved houses and unit buildings, which refreshes the "elite" screen imagination created by some previous dramas with similar themes. For the wider ordinary people, it has universal empathy and also reflects the realistic pursuit of the creative team.
Thirdly, The Great Examination has successfully shaped the images of many teachers. In the play, President Shi Aihua and President Wang Benzhong, despite their different educational ideas and personalities, are deeply impressed by their student-oriented educational ideas, highly responsible spirit and deep love for students. Director Qin of the Education Bureau and teacher Li Xiaoxu, the head teacher, are also outstanding, cordial and credible.
In recent years, this kind of drama creation has always been more emphasis on the performance of parent-child relationship and intergenerational conflict, which makes the image of teachers in this kind of works obviously weaker than that of parents and students, especially lacking the image of teachers with a heavy spiritual world, "learning to be teachers and behaving in the world", and even lacking the deep thinking on education and the exploration of the life history of characters from the perspective of teachers. The Great Examination just makes up for this shortcoming with its rich presentation, and the image of the teacher in the play adds a heavy feeling to the work, which effectively deepens the spiritual implication of the drama about youth education.
The independent pursuit of teenagers’ image and the two-way growth between parents and children
When showing the family status of different students, The Great Examination focuses on excavating representative "family samples", vividly and delicately showing the complicated process of reconciliation and two-way growth of parents and children in different families. Every student in No.1 Middle School and No.4 Middle School in the play has a sense of familiarity and intimacy, and the family conflicts presented in the play are as common and typical as those in most real families.
When the Great Examination focuses on shaping the image of teenagers with outstanding personality, it consciously highlights their independent consciousness and subjective strength. For example, Zhou Bowen, who achieved excellent results, delivered Zhou Bowen’s deterrent to his father who was addicted to games with a simple tapping action. It seems paradoxical that my son is in charge of Laozi, but it is his sense of responsibility to maintain his small family boat to move forward. This power is also more touching in the subsequent "big exam". His attitude towards his father also has a childish side, and the conflict between father and son is more and more interesting, which is also a very glorious passage in the play. It is also the creator’s aesthetic discovery of the specific parent-child relationship in real life that the father changes from deep inertia to a little bit until he completes his self-transformation.
Another example is that Wu Jiajun, who is controlled by a strong mother, has his own independent pursuit of taking an art test. The stricter his mother’s control, the more intense his resistance, which is also a difficult growth process for him to become independent and pursue his ideals. Tian Wenwen, who lives alone but is always afraid of her parents’ worries about working hard outside, is a good boy who is "sensible too much". High self-discipline and self-repression also need to be channeled and vented. Although Pan Xiaoxuan has an entrepreneur father, he doesn’t have a complete family. He seems to be playful, but he longs for love in his heart. How to strengthen his enthusiasm for learning is his own life experience. Born in a poor family and dependent on his grandfather, Gao Mingyu is filial and sensible, and often seems helpless from time to time because of the hardships of life. He can support him to adhere to the ideal of taking the exam from the deep and cordial love of society, schools, teachers and classmates, and at the same time he has to face the tempering of life and complete his own difficult growth.
The Great Exam does not stop at the college entrance examination for students and the adjustment of family relations. In a national exam with one heart and one mind, the play has further sublimated from the two-way growth between parents and children to the transmission of social love and strong feelings for home and country.
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