"Dear Child" is a mess from the very beginning.

All the trivial things in life are magnified in the play.

Ren Suxi plays Fang Yinuo in the play.

Not long after the opening, the plot reaches its climax with the birth of a child.

Through the powerful mother-in-law and the useless husband, the unbearableness of the marriage is vividly displayed.

So much so that this drama seems to be selling some anxiety.

But from another perspective, this is also a reflection of the authenticity of the actor's performance.

Especially the clip of Ren Suxi being pregnant and giving birth not only once again confirmed her acting skills, but also directly raised the upper limit of this type of clip.

In film and television works, women’s pregnancy and childbirth have always been common scenes.

But the ones who can really perform well are rare.

Before Ren Suxi, Gong Li successfully played a rural pregnant woman in an extremely realistic way in "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit" in 1992.

With a performance as profound and realistic as an oil painting, this drama made Gong Li a success.

The Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers were taken down along the way.

But among the younger generation, there are very few such upright performances.

Because this kind of performance is a devastating blow to the actor's image. In terms of appearance alone, this kind of appearance is really ugly.

Before talking about Ren Suxi, let’s take a look at the performances of other actresses.

As one of the representatives of 85 Flowers, Tang Yan contributed the most beautiful scene of giving birth in "Yanyuntai".

The entire production process is completed by dubbing.

After the child was born, she appeared in the camera with neat makeup and hair.

It’s like waking up from a big dream.

In fact, Tang Yan was said to be pregnant when filming this work.

When filming the pregnancy scenes in the drama, it should be more realistic.

But I don’t know why, she has always deliberately avoided being pregnant in her appearance in the drama, and always strives to maintain the "beautiful girl" state.

Even when the actor is old, his face is still delicate, smooth and charming.

But this situation is by no means Tang Yan’s personal problem.

In a large number of film and television works on the market, beauty has become the primary element.

The beauty filter and white teeth are a two-piece set of this element.

Xiao Ju, a four-thousand-year-old beauty, was kidnapped in the play, but her makeup and hair accessories were still intact.

The gauze covering the gag was as white as clouds, and if it had changed its shape, one would have thought she was biting a marshmallow.

She has the same makeup and expression in all the dramas.

But this is not her problem alone. In many cases, film and television dramas have reached the point of zero tolerance for flaws in the true state of human faces.

Jiang Qinqin has always been a representative of classical beauty.

There are almost no major flaws in her facial features. The only regret is that she will grow old.

Therefore, even if she is such an actor, she still needs to use a big filter.

Under the filter, all traces of time on her face disappeared.

Replaced with zero pores, white, firm skin and contoured skin.

Filters have become a standard feature in movies and TV dramas. In the final analysis, filters are used to cover up ugliness and reveal youthfulness.

Old actors need to show their youthfulness, while young actors need to hide their ugliness.

Make sure everyone on screen looks perfect.

However, a filter that is too large will often blur the actor's expressions and make it impossible to feel the actor's emotions. As a result, many actors' performances appear too bland and have no sense of substitution.

Even a veteran actor with wrinkles like Ni Dahong can remove the bags under his eyes.

In addition to having skin as white as snow, actors must also have bright smiles.

Therefore, everyone has a standard smile that only exposes 8 teeth.

Matching this smile is a set of big white teeth.

In order to pursue this effect, many actors have transformed themselves.

But this situation is not suitable for everyone.

Actor Chen Yao has a cool temperament, a unique temperament, and a very recognizable cherry mouth.

But later, she changed.

With neat white teeth and a standard smile.

The cherry-shaped mouth is gone, but it doesn’t look any better. Apart from the violation, only the same standard smile remains.

Wang Ou’s teeth are fake.

Liu Tao’s teeth are also fake.

The teeth of these girls are all as neat and uniform as the honor guard, but their smiles are becoming more and more similar.

Such neat teeth and similar smile limit the actor's performance to some extent.

But at least the actresses take good skin care, and their skin is mostly white, so the audience can see through it.

And if the actor doesn't handle it well, his white teeth will look a bit nondescript against his dark skin.

It’s not good to say the least, but it steals the show.

Not only young actors are like this, but pure acting people like He Bing also got big white teeth for some reason.

His smile is kind and honest, which really hinders his acting skills.

In addition, there are also things about wearing long skirts and mid-heeled shoes in war movies, which is even more ridiculous.

But in the final analysis, all these are to make the actors more beautiful.

Plot, time, plot, and logic are not important.

The most important thing is that the actors must be beautiful.

This attitude of treating all dramas as idol dramas has been the tone of most film and television dramas for a long time.

It is also because of this that actors are unwilling to act ugly, and the audience does not accept actors acting ugly.

Over time, inertia has been formed, making appearance an important criterion for measuring the quality of a drama.

This has also directly led to the prevalence of studio style. Under this popular trend, many people no longer know what actresses look like.

Fortunately, more and more film and television dramas are aware of the problem of studio style.

In the recent hit "In the World", Yin Tao, Song Jia and other nearly 40-year-old actresses were highly praised for their bare-faced performances.

But the bare makeup of these actresses still expresses a kind of beauty, although this kind of beauty is more advanced.

In the opening scene, the scene of Yin Tao sitting on the kang making candied haws on a skewer is like an oil painting.

Both the tone and the lighting are almost perfect.

Most of the use of other lenses follows this principle. On the basis of restoring reality as much as possible, there is a refined beauty.

This is why in the play, even though the actors' clothes are dim in color and the scenery is old-fashioned, there are still many shots that are so beautiful that they can be used as wallpapers.

But in "Dear Child", this beauty has been transformed into aesthetics in a purely aesthetic sense.

This kind of beauty is still exquisite in the movement of mirrors and lighting, but it has nothing to do with beauty.

In the play, the pregnant woman played by Ren Suxi is shockingly real.

She does not have the usual glorious beauty of motherhood, only the fatigue and exhaustion of a pregnant woman.

Bloated figure, pale skin, and helpless loss.

Ren Suxi herself is not good-looking, but in this drama, for a lot of time, she can be described as ugly.

She showed the state of most ordinary pregnant women with her freckles, rough and flawless skin, and her expression of joy and confusion.

As for the production clips.

Many actresses have performed the feeling of being hoarse.

In "The Legend of Zhen Huan", Sun Li frowned and performed hoarsely.

She also had a similar performance in "The Legend of Miyue".

Actor Liu Tao also had such a performance.

Qin Lan also had a similar performance.

Relatively speaking, the performances of these actresses are already excellent.

In contrast, although Ren Suxi's performance is realistic, it does not necessarily widen the gap with them.

The real difference is that after they became mothers, they immediately returned to the refreshing beauty mode.

The clip of Ren Suxi giving birth to a child completely shows the complete changes of a woman before and after giving birth.

When I gave birth to my child, my painful expression and patient persistence were all in place.

As soon as this clip was aired, it immediately received numerous praises.

But in comparison, her appearance of being embarrassed and weak after giving birth was even more difficult to perform.

Most of the actors' shots will return to a fresh state immediately after giving birth.

After all, no one looks good with this look of bare makeup, wearing a large hospital gown, and hair sticking to her face.

But the only good thing about "Dear Child" is that Ren Suxi continued her previous state.

This sense of realism, in turn, adds to the previous performance, continuing the integrity and authenticity of the scene.

This is something that many previous works did not have, and it is also the reason why her performance was praised.

This authenticity runs through every actor in the play.

Actor Liu Lin plays the role of confinement nanny in the drama. Although there is only one episode, her performance is not inferior.

Liu Lin was born in 1974. She has been in the entertainment industry for many years and is also a prime supporting role among middle-aged actors.

Liu Lin herself is charming, with dignified features.

Liu Lin has a wide range of acting roles, and has played the role of a rural woman in the past.

For example, in "Parents' Love", when she appeared on the scene, she was a proper rural girl.

But in "Dear Child", her appearance is not only not good-looking, but also in an old state.

The texture of the skin and the downward movement of the muscles show the appearance of an ordinary middle-aged woman.

This kind of reality is even rarer than exaggerated ugliness.

Xiao Lu’s mother is played by Li Qinqin.

Also full of fireworks.

Fang Yinuo’s mother is played by Yue Hong.

Yue Hong was born in 1962 and graduated from Chinese Opera.

In 1984, he won the Golden Rooster Award for the movie "Wild Mountain".

Yue Hong's performances have always been famous for their vividness and power.

She plays a typical Chinese mother in the play.

You may not understand your child, you may have friction with your child, but you must be your child’s strongest support at critical moments.

There is also Zhu Zhu’s mother Shi Yueling.

It is not difficult to find that almost all of these actors of the mother generation appear without makeup.

The camera looks at their faces mercilessly. Their high cheekbones, faces with loss of collagen, deep nasolabial folds, and unconcealable bags under the eyes give a sense of a scene online.

Even the so-called mistress in the play cannot be said to be beautiful, and her temperament is even somewhat virtuous.

In this situation where all the actresses are "acting ugly", Ren Suxi's state is natural and comfortable.

And this kind of naturalness is actually the state that the people in the play should have.

Because they are performing life, not imagined life.

In "Dear Child", all the actresses did not show their most beautiful side.

But they showed the most beautiful side of being actors, which is to integrate with the characters and become the characters themselves.

From this perspective, almost every one of them is successful.

They show what actors, especially actresses, should look like in their performances.

They hide their beauty in their characters.

This is what we need actors to be like, to play who they are, rather than to play everyone as themselves.

The midlife crisis of actresses was once a hotly discussed topic.

Many actors have said that when people reach middle age, their youth is gone, there are no more roles to play, and there are fewer roles that they are qualified for.

But the fact is that except for idol dramas that sell beauty, middle-aged actresses do not have many roles in most dramas.

"Mountains and Seas", "The World", "Sweeping the Crime", "Little Willing", etc., middle-aged actresses play the leading role in each film.

Wu Yue in "Anti-Gangster" has developed better in recent years than she did in her youth. She can be seen in many popular dramas, including the recently officially announced hit drama " County Party Committee Courtyard".

Mei Ting, who has a good relationship with Liu Lin, is also still active on the screen.

There is also Liu Dan, the "pot aunt" who became famous for her pressure cooker battle in the popular online drama "The Beginning".

Their success has little to do with beauty in the secular sense.

Even in the semi-idol drama "Si Teng", the protagonist Jing Tian is over 30 years old. It is well known that when she was at her best, she was always jokingly called "unpopular".

In the final analysis, the beauty of an actor does not lie in his flawless facial features and flawless skin.

Strong character creation ability and control of characters allow actresses to say goodbye to filters and soft lights with confidence.

Real muscle lines, vivid expressions, and even a face with wrinkles participating in the performance are the most appropriate and best state for an actress.

It is precisely because of this that they have the confidence to take their time, and they do not mind or be afraid of wrinkles or even "acting ugly", because beauty is their least worth mentioning advantage.

This is the full-featured, image-regardless but touching performance by Ren Suxi.

Have you watched this work? Do you like these actresses?