今天一起跟着雷哥单词小词君一起去看看外面是怎么点评《都挺好》这部剧的。
A hit show questions blind obedience to unreasonable parents
一部很火的电视剧质疑对不公平父母的盲从
It is no mean feat to be one of the top-ten trending hashtags on Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter, for 20 consecutive days and counting. “All is Well”, a show on provincial television which premiered on March 1st, has done just that. The show tells the story of a fictional Chinese family torn by internal conflict. The female protagonist, Su Mingyu, is barely on speaking terms with her widowed father and one of her two brothers. The father is a nagging crank who expects his two adult sons to bankroll his lavish tastes. This leads to constant bickering between the brothers, neither of whom wants to be called unfilial.
连续20天以上出现在微博热搜前十绝非易事。微博相当于中国的“推特”。电视剧《都挺好》就做到了这一点。《都挺好》于3月1日始播于省级卫视。该剧讲述了一个虚构的被内部矛盾撕裂的家庭故事。女主角苏明玉和寡居的父亲以及二哥关系不是很好。这位父亲唠叨挑剔、想法古怪，想让他两个儿子为他奢侈的品味买单。这就导致了兄弟间不断争吵，他们都不想被称为不孝。
Episodes of “All is Well” have been streamed more than 390m times. That exceeds the online viewership of the next most popular television series by 278m. From “The Simpsons” to “Game of Thrones”, dramas about bickering families are common in many countries. But in China, the Communist Party prefers entertainment to be unchallenging. So the questioning of blind attachment to traditional values in “All is Well” is causing a stir. Viewers are transfixed by its rare portrayal of middle-class life,
《都挺好》累计播放过量已超过3.9亿次。这比收视率排名第二的电视剧高2.78亿次。从《辛普森一家》到《权力的游戏》，在许多国家，关于家庭矛盾的电视剧很常见。但在中国，当局者更希望娱乐圈不要挑战传统观念。因此，《都挺好》中对盲目顺从的传统价值观的质疑引起了轰动。观众震惊于它对中产阶级的毫无掩盖的罕见写照。
Many Chinese can relate to the Su family’s troubles. The daughter holds a grudge against her father, and especially against her late mother, for having mistreated her while pampering her brothers. As a child she was made to wash her brothers’ clothes. Her parents turned a blind eye when one of her brothers beat her. For many female viewers born before 1979, when China introduced a one-child-per-couple policy (changed to two in 2016), such scenes have brought back painful memories. Some have used social media to share their own tales of sexism within the family
很多中国人都能理解苏家的困境。女儿对父亲一直有怨，尤其是对于已故的母亲，因为父母在溺爱两个哥哥的同时也虐待了女儿。当她还是孩子的时候就被要求洗哥哥的衣服。二哥打她的时候父母视而不见。中国从1979年开始实行计划生育政策，2016年改为二孩政策。电视剧中的场景勾起了许多1979年之前出生的女性痛苦的回忆。一些人在社交媒体上分享了家庭性别歧视的故事。
But the biggest reaction has been to the drama’s critique of filial piety. Even today, the Confucian principle of unswerving loyalty to one’s parents remains hallowed. Many people say the best measure of adherence to this virtue is whether a son takes good care of his parents in old age. A recent poll by Toutiao, a Chinese news app, found that 54% of elderly people in China get more than half of their expenses covered by their adult children. Partly, no doubt, this is due to a patchy pensions system. But it also reflects a culture of “never saying no to your parents”, says an “All is Well” fan in Beijing.
但观众最大的反应是剧中对传统孝道的批判。即使在今天，对父母始终忠贞不渝的儒家思想仍然无比神圣。很多人说，坚持这种美德的标准是儿子是否照顾好年迈的父母。中国的一个新闻类应用程序“头条”，最近调查发现在中国，54%老年人一半以上的开支由其成年子女承担。毋庸置疑，部分原因是养老保险系统还不够完善。但北京一位《都挺好》的粉丝称，这种现象也反映了“永远不对父母说不”的一种文化。
In the series, however, the widowed father does not attract much sympathy. He throws tantrums and insists that his eldest son buy him a three-bedroom apartment (the son grudgingly does so). Commentators on social media have taken to calling the father a juying (“giant baby”)—a characteristic common among parents in real life, they say. The Su children do their duty, but the audience is supposed to applaud the resentment they express.
然而，在剧中，这位寡居的父亲并没有引起多少同情。他大发脾气，坚持让大儿子给他买三室一厅的房子，最后大儿子不情愿地这么做了。社交媒体上的评论已经习惯称这位父亲为“巨婴”。他们称，这是父母在现实生活中的一个共同写照。苏大强的孩子们尽了自己的职责，但观众应该为孩子们表达出的不满鼓掌。
There have been mixed reviews in state media. One newspaper said that the “realistic plot and acting” had touched the “pain points” of many viewers. Beijing Daily, however, said the drama was “unrealistic”. It said it caricatured elderly parents by “unreasonably” ascribing “every possible bad quality” of old people to one character. Someone representing every virtue admired by the party would be just fine for television, presumably.
官方媒体的评论褒贬不一。一家报纸称，“真实的情节和演技”戳中了很多观众的“痛点”。然而，北京日报表示，该剧“不现实”。该报称，它将老年人“所有可能的坏品质”都归咎于一个角色，“不合理地”讽刺了年迈的父母。而很可能一个代表所有当局推崇美德的角色出现在电视上就都挺好。
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