At the end of 2009, the TV series "Snail House", which was very popular in China, was spread overseas. I was deeply touched after watching it. This TV series really reflects the life in Chinese metropolitan areas in the globalized scene, and vividly outlines the original ecology of metropolitan life: house slaves, corrupt officials, mistresses, mistresses, nail households, etc. are all new products of the new era. A special phenomenon of the twenty-first century.

Due to the success of the TV series, "dwelling" has become a new term. The title of this book by the female writer Liuliu is indeed a good one. "Snail House" refers to a suffocating small living space. In this space, no matter how prosperous and prosperous the city is, ordinary people live in depression like snails. In life, if you want to change your living space, you have to become a "house slave". "Snail House" tells the story of two sisters who have a good relationship and come to the big city from other places to find a living space to settle down. In fact, the problem is not that simple: they may have found a larger living space for their bodies, but they have become alienated and deformed. For me, the most interesting thing about this TV series is that it depicts the relationship between women and space, and it reproduces the new values ​​​​or new views on love of contemporary women.

Sister Haiping and brother-in-law Su Chun in "Snail House" stayed in the big city to work hard after graduating from college. They long for a house of their own, but they are still far away from this dream if they save even a dollar every day. "Whenever I open my eyes every day, a string of numbers pops up in my mind: 6,000 for housing loan, 2,500 for food and clothing, 1,500 for Ranran's kindergarten, 600 for favors, 580 for transportation, 3,400 for property management, The mobile phone bill is 250, and the gas and water bill is 200. From the first breath I woke up, I have to earn at least 400 every day. This is the cost of living in this city." - Haiping fell into this situation. As a "house slave", she is ruthlessly tied up by these money figures every day. Her pain and helplessness are also witnesses of the concrete lives of ordinary people today. Gradually, under the tremendous pressure of money, Haiping felt that she was living a useless life, and passed on her sullenness to her husband, Su Chun, and even came to a new outlook on love. In a conversation with her sister Haizao, she said: "Let me tell you, love, love is all a trick used by men to deceive women. The words 'Give me my heart to you and you will have me forever' are all useless. A pauper's trick. He has nothing left, so he just talks sweet words. If a man really loves a woman, don't play with it. If you love this woman, the first thing you have to give is not your heart. It’s not your body either. Firstly, it’s a pile of money so that women don’t have to worry about the future; secondly, it’s a house, so that at least when you can’t have a man, your heart will be lost but your body will still be there.” This view of love. It is the current typical outlook on love and life - "money" is the ontology of love, life and the world. Indeed, most of the women in "Snail House" hold this kind of value or view of love, regard money as life, and regard money as the final reality: Haiping attaches great importance to money from beginning to end, and her eyes shine when she counts money. It is the sun, the moon, and the stars; Haiwei has been reduced to a "second wife", even if she is reduced to a "third wife" or a "fourth wife", it doesn't matter; and Mrs. Song's choice of the lonely life of a tolerant "eldest wife" is also for money. The love "emotion" pursued by human beings for thousands of years suddenly turned into the love "money".

Haiping's view of love later had a great influence on her sister Haizao. Her sister's final choice of life as a "second wife" was not unrelated to her sister's "education". Haizao was a very innocent girl at first. As a graduate of a prestigious university, she had a boyfriend, Xiaobei, who loved her deeply, and a job she could find by her own ability. However, after witnessing her sister become a "house slave", she became depressed. After marriage, she was involuntarily attracted to the powerful, considerate and unrestrained Song Siming. After some struggle, she finally chose to live a life of a "professional mistress" like a parasite who got something for nothing. Not only was she willing to be a "sexual mistress" "Slave" and willing to be his reproductive tool. Haizao was initially very aloof and had her own dignity. After noticing Song Siming's affection for her, she resolutely returned the 20,000 yuan she lent him and the mobile phone he donated. But later, in order to solve her sister's problem of buying a house, she walked step by step towards Song Siming, who was able to call the shots, losing her original innocent and independent self little by little, and finally she was trapped in the luxurious apartment of her mistress, unable to extricate herself. The identity of "second wife" chosen by Haizao is euphemistically based on "love". Song Siming and she seem to truly love each other, but as her mother revealed, "If Song was a pauper, if he were not in this position, Will Hai Zao still love him?" In the final analysis, her "love" still revolves around the axis of "money".

After the hit of "Snail House", many young viewers born after the 1980s like the dashing and rich Song Siming and the innocent and passionate Haizao. Instead of hating the "second wife", they envy the "second wife" for her luxury and unrestrainedness. A life without worrying about money. On the surface, the new female values ​​​​and views on love in "Snail House" seem to break through the boundaries of traditional moral ethics. "Society is open and tolerance is high." Women seem to have gained a lot of freedom in their sexual lives (seaweed was once able to Dealing with two men and enjoying two different kinds of love), but in fact, with money worship covering everything, although the metropolis becomes more gorgeous day by day, although the market economy develops more and more prosperously day by day , although women are dressing up more and more fashionably day by day, the status of women is retreating back to the status of "female slaves" day by day, becoming slaves of men and slaves of money again, completely losing themselves, and what is even more tragic is that they have been reduced to the status of "housekeepers". "Slave" and "sex slave" still don't know themselves, and they still don't have any ability to reflect on themselves. In the end, Haizao gave up on self-struggle and pinned her future entirely on Song Siming, no longer caring about her own dignity and personality. This was tantamount to another form of slave, a "female slave" with a luxurious shell. Even though Song Siming's wife knew that her husband had a "second wife", she still adopted a tolerant attitude. After discovering her husband's affair, she was actually able to accept her husband's excuse for "playing for the occasion" in official circles. If Song Siming had not been investigated and punished, he could still enjoy the life of a traditional Chinese man with "one wife and one concubine". He seems to have affection for his wives and concubines, but in fact he is a typical symbol of patriarchy who is extremely possessive of women. His love for Haiwei is related to his misunderstanding that Haiwei is a virgin and giving him his first time; he can have his wife and Haiwei at the same time, but does not allow Haiwei to continue to maintain the love with her boyfriend Xiaobei; as his wife said Yes, women are arranged chess pieces in his hands, just chess pieces. Such an image of a corrupt official has made today's young female readers so enamored and popular. The most important reason for this is that they regard money as the essence of value. Unexpectedly, the women's liberation advocated since the May Fourth Movement has gone through a century, from Nora running away from home, escaping the gorgeous but suffocating "female slave" life, to women participating in the revolution, and later gaining equal status with men, and now like Postmodern women like Haizao once again voluntarily serve as luxurious "female slaves" and are voluntarily imprisoned in a magnificent bedroom. They don't care even if they are men's "dolls". This change is really ironic.

"Snail House" indeed raises some complex social issues in a global context that make us think deeply, as well as issues such as the living situation of women. From the play, we can see that the entire social environment lacks basic respect for Chinese women. For example, Song Siming can openly bring his "second wife" to a class reunion, and if he doesn't bring it, it will become "problematic"; Haiping The leaders of the work unit clearly discriminate against professional women over thirty years old and have no sympathy for women who need to take care of children and families; older women have become targets of bullying and marginalization in society. However, in addition to being classified as social problems, women themselves should also have the ability to reflect. Why can’t women regain their dignity and personality? Why must we pin our hopes on men? Why can’t women redeem themselves and always have to wait for men to redeem themselves? Why do women put so much energy into the pursuit of material things instead of enriching themselves spiritually? The physical state of dwelling can be changed through money, but what can be done to change the mental state of dwelling?

The second half of "Snail House" portrays Haiping as a woman who gradually finds herself in the metropolis. She not only did not abandon her husband when he was in trouble, but also found her own love through her hard work. She no longer always blames her husband for her poor life; not only her body has escaped from her "dwelling", but her mind has also escaped from her "dwelling". This seems to be the path of "anti-alienation" guided by the author Liuliu to contemporary women. In the end, Haizao still had to rely on Mark for redemption and fled abroad. However, after escaping from this lost metropolis, can she get rid of the luxurious "female slave" state, and can she find an independent spiritual home for women on her own?

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