renzhe Posted September 17, 2011 at 10:13 PM Report Posted September 17, 2011 at 10:13 PM A part of the Grand First Episode Project -- See this thread for more info. Recent drama based on a 1999 movie with the same name 26 Episodes Language Difficulty Level: Intermediate Youtube (1080p HD) letv qiyi (China only) sina Characters: 岳琳 suicidal patient 孙正 patient's husband 冷云 doctor and main character 冷梅 her sister 林易南 her husband/reporter 钟凯旋 her former love interest 将纬纶 lawyer and 冷梅's boyfriend 燕燕 a close friend of 冷梅 盛瑞 pharmaceutical company --- PLOT --- A patient called 岳琳 walks into the office of a cancer doctor 冷云, after getting a message that somebody is having an affair with her husband. She finds a document, reads it and jumps out of the window. Her husband 林易南, a journalist, is called to the police station, where the woman's husband 孙正 throws a fit and threatens to sue. They talk at home, he tells her that this is why he didn't study medicine -- in journalism, there are no incurable diseases. 冷梅 is driven by her lawyer boyfriend 纬纶, and she is worried about the lawsuit. He says that 林易南 should have somebody write an article as a form of pressure. They arrive just as 林易南 is trying to apologise to the husband, only to get punched in the face. On the way back, the lawyer says that they should file a lawsuit, which 冷云 doesn't want. They agree that the husband of the dead woman is acting strange -- playing Mahjong shortly after his wife killed herself. 冷云 is visited by 钟凯旋, her first love from school days. She has refused to talk to him for the last 10 years, and the disagreement seems to have something to do with a drug called A56. 林易南 asks his colleague 丁 how he found out his last wife was cheating on him, he says you only need the mobile phone number and gives him a business card. While his wife is operating on a young girl 李秀兰, he decides to ask for some information with the doctors (called 王) in the hospital instead, where we see how the docroes are to a migrant worker waiting for his wife's operation. A minute later, she gives information about a difficult case to a fancy young girl 燕燕 (the roommate of her sister 冷梅) representing a pharmaceutical company 盛瑞. 林易南 finds 孙正 and confronts him about an affair he had with his secretary 李美丽, who sent the last message to his wife. At home, they celebrate. 林易南 comments how lawyers always get paid, win or lose; doctors are expected to always cure people. 将纬纶 drives 冷梅 home and tries to convince him to let him in, but she avoids it, blaming it on her friend. 燕燕 shows up at 冷云's office and gives the old man 2000 yuan to pay for the operation. She leaves some drug brochure with her. We later find out that 将纬纶 is working as a lawyer for 盛瑞. We also find out that 冷云 is not pregnant, although she was feeling ill while shopping. --- PLOT END --- 民工 [míngōng] migrant laborer; peasant worker 弱势群体 [ruòshìqúntǐ] disadvantaged groups of people 关注 [guānzhù] pay close attention to 派出所 [pàichūsuǒ] local police station 撒野 [sāyě] throw a fit 不治之症 [búzhìzhīzhèng] incurable disease 患者 [huànzhě] a patient 肿瘤 [zhǒngliú] tumor 抗议 [kàngyì] protest 存心 [cúnxīn] deliberately 知情同意书 [zhī qíng tóng yì shū] informed consent form 遗嘱 [yízhǔ] will 老年痴呆 senile dementia 福尔摩斯 [fú'ěrmósī] (Sherlock) Holmes 呼吁 [hūyù] an appeal 卖命 [màimìng] work oneself to the bone 撤诉 [chèsù] drop charges 私了 [sīliǎo] settle … privately 成全 [chéngquán] help someone get what he/she wants 高尚 [gāoshàng] noble 嬉皮笑脸 [xīpíxiàoliǎn] grin cheekily 资助 [zīzhù] financial aid 下三烂 [xiàsānlàn] dirty, indecent 急诊 [jízhěn] emergency treatment 闺密 slang, a term that young girls use for close female friends 乌鸦嘴 [wū yā zuǐ] lit. crow's mouth, jinx This one definitely has promise. It's a drama kind of drama -- no magic, no time travelling, no funny bits, no singing, just drama. It's modern, the language is very clear and understandable and full of useful vocabulary. There are interesting characters, and interesting background, without international spy conspiracies or similar stuff that shows like these are usually plagued with. I will watch some more of this and see how it develops. 3 Quote
Gleaves Posted September 20, 2011 at 01:19 PM Report Posted September 20, 2011 at 01:19 PM Gave this one a watch and enjoyed it. This is not really the type of show I'd usually watch, but it is right at a good difficulty (not hard, not easy) so I should probably watch more. The first episode has a few lighthearted moments, but I'm concerned later episodes might be wall-to-wall crying. I completely missed what that A56 part was about, so thank you for the write up. These HD shows are spoiling me. You can actually read people's phones when they receive a text message. Also, minor pet peeve, but the beginning and ending segements of Chinese shows have way too many potential spoilers. I always fast forward through them, but I couldn't help but watch the ending of this one. It is some sort of spoken word song. Kind of interesting. Quote
skylee Posted September 20, 2011 at 01:39 PM Report Posted September 20, 2011 at 01:39 PM 下三烂 [xiàsānlàn] dirty, indecent This is interesting. I've always known this term as 下三濫 and had never seen it written as 下三爛. But both of them are listed in the Taiwan MOE Dictionary, which says they have the same meaning. Quote
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