Special feature of 1905 film network On February 24th, the film was released.This is the second part of the "family trilogy" launched by the director after the previous work. The previous film focused on "Az Harmo’s disease", while this film focused on the issue of "adolescent depression".
This is the second time that we have paid attention to the topic of "adolescent depression" on the big screen recently, and the other is an animated film released in the Spring Festival and recently shortlisted for the Berlin International Film Festival.
There are similarities between the two films. Because of the divorce of their parents, the children let themselves fall into a certain state of mind, trying to build a safe haven in the depths of their minds. Under happiness, they hide a lot of melancholy and even eventually go to tragedy.
The word "depression" has often become a high-frequency vocabulary for the general public, especially those living in first-tier cities.
If you add an attribute of "teenagers" to this vocabulary, everyone’s feedback seems to be much less. As my father said in Deep Sea, "You have nothing to do, just smile more and you will get better naturally."
When film and television works begin to pay attention to this matter and face it squarely, what changes will be made to the creation of the film market or the mental health education of teenagers?
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"Depression" has been a high-frequency topic, and related terms such as "depression" and "emo" are often talked about by everyone, and many unprofessional and entertainment-only related questionnaires have been derived on the Internet.
Most people will shirk the relevant issues to work pressure, family relations, marriage and other related events, and feel that if they have not grown up, they will be happy to grow up without worry and under the protection of their parents. Many people gradually ignore that children are young, but they can also observe words and observe emotions and understand all kinds of things.
In fact, "adolescent depression" has gradually become one of the killers who erode the mental health of adolescents.
According to the Report on the Development of National Mental Health in China (2019-2020) released by the research team of Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the detection rate of adolescent depression in 2020 was 24.6%, including mild depression of 17.2% and severe depression of 7.4%.
At the same time, the Blue Book of National Depression in 2022 (hereinafter referred to as "Blue Book") jointly published by People’s Daily Health Client and Health Times pointed out that the prevalence rate of depression among adolescents has reached 15% to 20%, of which 50% of patients with depression are students, and 41% have dropped out of school because of this.
According to the Main Data of the Seventh National Census in 2020, among the 1,411.78 million people in China, the proportion of 0-14 years old is 17.95%, nearly 253 million people. With this data in the above ratio, the situation is not optimistic.
At the same time, the survey in the Blue Book found that only 50% of adolescent depression patients were diagnosed before adulthood, and most of them were not paid attention to or found.
Adolescent depression is mainly manifested as depression, moping, insomnia, inability to concentrate on study and so on. Many parents, teachers, and even children themselves will think that this is caused by academic pressure or their own personality.
In the drama "Little Joy", Qiao Yingzi suffered from depression. For a long time, she was troubled by insomnia and had nowhere to talk. Even her mother and classmates and friends who lived together day and night did not find her emotional changes.
In the animated film "Deep Sea", the emotional changes of the worshippers were not noticed by the surrounding students. This group of people are trying to show their better side in front of others, but just turning their heads may turn into another emotion.
As Yi Qiao, the producer of Deep Sea, said in an interview, why do you insist on making such a non-commercial work? Because Altair is a girl with social phobia, emotional disorder and depression, "We hope that after reading this work, you can think about this situation. For those who have similar emotional disorders, you may get the power given by the film."
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In Deep Sea, after her parents divorced, Alnitak hid herself in the red sweater left by her mother, always feeling that her own problems led to her mother’s departure, and her father’s re-establishment of a family made her suffer from depression. At the end of the film, her confrontation with the imaginary "frustrated ghost" of Hong Weiyi also became the highlight of the film.
Qiao Yingzi in the TV series "Little Joy" was once in a state of depression because of the bad relationship after her parents divorced and her mother’s strong intervention in her college entrance examination. In particular, I witnessed the seniors who used to live downstairs in their own homes. After the college entrance examination, they were hit by pressure and finally left, which also made the audience feel sad.
In recent years, many impressive images of teenagers with depression have appeared in domestic film and television works. The same is true of the movie "The Son Trapped in the Heart" released this week. These works all use this to create emotional points that can touch the public in plot design.
The backgrounds of the above three works are very similar. The inducement of teenagers suffering from depression is the reorganization of their families after their parents divorced and the lack of care for them.
"Now there are film and television works that begin to pay attention to adolescent depression, although this setting is generally a conflict of stories, especially between parents in family relationships." Mr. Hong, who is responsible for the pre-script planning of a domestic head platform, said.
However, it is not as frequent as Az Harmo’s disease in film and television works. "Unlike Az Harmo’s disease, although depression has a high degree of concern, its symptoms will be less emotional. In the film and television processing, how to ensure the authenticity, at the same time, it will not offend people with depression in reality because of drama. It is not easy to control this degree."
It is true that this theme is mostly concentrated in literary films, and there is only one commercial film so far.
During the film’s release, it even directly advertised itself as the first film in China to pay attention to the topic of adolescent depression. The story that this film was criticized by many people because it didn’t accurately depict the disease will only make the public have a deeper misunderstanding of depression.
This situation will be relatively mild in the drama project. "Like" Little Joy ",paying attention to this incident with the contents of several episodes can really face up to this matter. Moreover, during the drama cycle, there is more time to ferment on new media, so that the audience can really pay attention to this event. "
It is true that both Deep Sea and Little Joy have a deep description of the cause, not only focusing on the illness. However, if the voice doesn’t remember, it ignores the cause, blindly amplifies the emotions in the process, which leads to distortion, and even makes this matter worse.
Although the overall development of this theme in China has not changed greatly, the market feedback of these films and the changes in the pace of creation further show that the upstream content side is always concerned about the related issues of adolescent depression.
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On February 22nd, a hot search topic was # How far is it from depression to depression #, in which many people shared their experiences. The content that is placed at the top refers to "adolescent depression".
In the Blue Book, it is pointed out that the top three causes of adolescent depression are interpersonal relationship (77%), family relationship (69%) and academic pressure (54%).
As mentioned above, in many film and television works, most of these depressed characters come from divorced families. In addition, the academic pressure caused by grades is also the cause of Qiao Yingzi’s illness in Little Joy. In "If the voice doesn’t remember", it also simply covers topics such as campus violence.
When this theme is used to create a drama film, in addition to showing the characteristics of sick characters, how to avoid the similarity between people’s designs and stories, avoid cheap sensationalism, and tell and express it more creatively is a difficult problem that needs to be overcome.
Especially the identity of teenagers, the handling of surrounding relations will also become the key. At present, most of the film and television works end in suicide. Although in reality, this is also the reaction of adolescent depression patients at present, how to deal with the development in the whole process will be particularly important.
After the screening of "Deep Sea", the education counselor for children and adolescents said that many parents only take their children for consultation once or twice, "because our advice is that parents should make changes first".
In Deep Sea, after taking Betelgeuse to see a doctor, his father said, "You have nothing to do, just smile more and you will get better naturally." In "A Son Trapped in a Mood", parents were puzzled at first when they learned about their son’s illness, and thought they could go home and have a look.
The handling of these characters is also the key to gradually pay attention to adolescent depression. After all, this situation involving mental health is not about self-salvation, but about the trinity of "family-school-society" in the true sense.
This kind of creation is not easy, and its particularity also binds drama and true expression. However, with the emergence of more and more works, more people can pay attention to adolescent depression, return to reality from images imperceptibly, and give patients care, understanding and companionship.
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