How Does 'Brush Up Life' Brings New Ideas?

At the beginning of 2023, good dramas explode. HBO's "The Last of Us" broke the ratings record. It is Brush Up Life that keeps pace with this excellent work and has been frequently searched.

Brush Up Life is A fantasy life comedy. The protagonist Mami died unexpectedly. She was told that "the next life will be reincarnated as a giant anteater."

Game players will probably laugh when watching this drama, because the setting with a strong sense of game and the text that integrates the characteristics of manga remind people of "Reversal" Referee" and other classic games.

In Japan, where "Reincarnation" works are flourishing, this one received unanimous praise and was hailed as the best Japanese drama of the season.

How does it do it?

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Genius Screenwriter: A Four-Dimensional Pocket in the Funny World

This drama The screenwriter Stupid Rhythm, whose real name is Masuno Hidetomo, is a well-known comedian in Japan.

His works are full of aliens, time travel, and magical middle-aged men. Because of its unique world view, it is called "the four-dimensional pocket of the funny world". He has won 5 victories and 5 quasi-victories in the well-known Japanese comedian competition "Da Heli".

Stupid Rhythm plays the receptionist of the post-death consultation office

Observe the details of life, think about small things, including women Observation and understanding are also applied to "Restarting Life".

02,

Delicate script: trivial thoughts of life

We will see a lot of dialogue, which seems to be some "nonsense” or “boring thinking”.

Before the protagonist dies for the first time, if there is no psychological forecast like "she will die", you will feel that the foreshadowing is too long!

From where dad hides his private money, to what clothes to wear to work, to not being able to say "Welcome" at the city hall... it seems to have forgotten the important event of "restarting life", and presents the protagonist's daily chores in every detail.

Until she and her friends went to KTV, the front desk clerk was an old classmate, sent a plate of French fries, and began to struggle, "Why did he send French fries? I can't finish eating, wouldn't it be better to bring a drink? You obviously said that you just came after eating", I couldn't help but screamed "When did she die?!" in my heart.

03,

Suddenly interrupt!Full of talent

"Restart Life" also applies Mancai’s unique comedy rhythm. My personal understanding is a "sudden interruption".

Every time the protagonist dies, she will come to a white world, This World is a typical comic sketch, combining familiar things with overhead settings.

The main character just very confused, but suddenly a case office (service desk) appeared. The staff were exactly the same as civil servants, talking politely and flipping through folders.

The protagonist tries to digest this information in an unfamiliar yet familiar environment, and prepares to reincarnate in a daze. As a result, the staff seriously took out the photo and said that in your next life you will be a giant anteater in southeastern Guatemala.

BGM came to an abrupt end.

Every time I see this, I can’t help but burst out laughing. I still have to experience the foreshadowing of "something seems wrong but I want to look again" Finally, a sudden turning point can trigger a comedy effect.

04,

"Rebirth" is a game!

Of course, if this is the only way to express, "Restarting Life" is not enough to attract so many viewers. The sense of game set in "Rebirth" and the sense of manga in this drama complement each other and achieve each other.

Mami's "rebirth" is task-based, with the aim of accumulating merit and reincarnation Total Task. The protagonist also discovers some regular tasks that can accumulate merit, such as rescuing high school teachers, helping grandpa change medicine, and Sub-quest——Give Dad a birthday present.

We can regard each round of life as a game week, and new content will be unlocked every week (the protagonist changes jobs), and some prerequisites can be achieved. New plots will be triggered after the conditions are met. For example, the kindergarten prevents the child's father from having an affair with the kindergarten teacher, and that child will appear in the follow-up party.

The mode of triggering the plot under specific time and conditions is a very typical text adventure game ( AVG for short), by setting different options, that is, "story divergence points", enter different plots or endings. The typical ones are all kinds of GALGAME and BLgame, and "Ace Attorney", which the protagonist in the play is obsessed with, is also an AVG game.

The "game sense" lies in,The world view in the drama is closer to “fatalism”. What should happen will definitely happen. The ripples produced by the butterfly effect are very small, and even the content of the dialogue is the same. People seem to have the feeling that except for the protagonist, everyone else is a program-fixed NPC.

It is this sense of game that makes this life-flow comedy more interesting.

The task will attract the audience to watch, and the changes in the plot of the weekly purpose will continue to bring freshness. Rebirth stories usually have back and forth echoes. The inadvertent sentence before becomes the key to the development of the follow-up story, so the audience will pay special attention to the detailed dialogue, which makes the seemingly "meaningless nonsense" no longer "nonsense", and also makes the follow-up Terrier recovery is more efficient.

05,

No a Salvation story!

Although every sentence of "nonsense" may be the key, there are still many dialogues that are purely used for complaints.

This is also a big difference between this drama and other stories about time travel and rebirth - the sense of reality.

The series also made self-satisfaction in the film, "Now that life is restarted, there should be some vigorous events!" "After the second round In life, you should become a very outstanding talent, such as winning a Nobel Prize.”

This is not a story about saving the world.

Ordinary people with mediocre grades want to be pilots and have to accumulate three rounds of life experience; The protagonist also has to endure boredom in infancy and choose the right time to talk and walk.

Because every life has to start with a baby ("Can't archive / can't start from the middle!"), and finally the protagonist expresses emotion and lived 170 years. It's been too long, and I don't want to be a human so much in my next life.

Actors' performances also create sense of reality. For example, chatting is not a sentence-by-sentence dialogue, but there will be overlapping chatter. Another example is the details of eating the last French fries while getting dressed while leaving the KTV, and gulping down the drink.

This sense of reality allows the audience to slowly accept that they are precious friends and empathize with their fate. It is worth mentioning that Ando Sakura, who played Mami, showed a very attractive sense of relaxation in the play, especially the part where the third round of life became a TV producer, showing a very handsome side!

"Rebirth" may have been thought of by everyone, but is extra information really that useful? Can the accumulation of personal experience and memory really have a significant impact? The truth may be far from that.

This play raises a question "What if life can be restarted?" Re-experiencing childhood, wanting to study hard... Finally, I gave a conclusion: treat each time as the last round of life, do things with kindness, and enjoy life seriously.

06,

write Women's Stories Like Women's Stories

The scripts are comfortable, but also about writing women's stories like women's stories.

The protagonist learns that a friend has met a scumbag, and repeatedly practices how to persuade them. As a result, the friend decisively shakes off the scumbag. This is the real truth of modern women.

Women's friendship is about making efforts for each other for several lifetimes; it's about dreaming of spending the rest of their lives with girlfriends; what does a rich ex-boyfriend have to do with me?

what I want to say.

Last noteworthy Yes, the flight accident in the second half of the plot was caused by space junk. If you pay attention to the time, you will find that the year is 2025.

In reality, we can find such a piece of news: ESA launched the world's first space junk cleaning mission and invested 86 million euros, planning to launch a spacecraft in 2025 .

Ah, it turns out to be a future story.