First of all, he has a hobby that he likes and takes pride in. He likes growing flowers, and his nickname is "August 1st Hoe". People who have grown flowers know that it is a very patient job. Coarse people can't grow flowers, they can only grow cacti and other easy-to-live plants with strong vitality. I remember a sister who was very good at growing flowers once told me that flowers are like children, they can catch colds too. So people like me who are lazy will only kill the flowers. However, a special infantryman, someone who regards fighting and rushing as a career, and someone who always thinks about how to defeat his opponents, likes to play with flowers during his spare time and does it very well. There was once a scene in the drama where he picked the flowers he grew to comfort Xu Sanduo. These flowers must be quite satisfactory to him, everyone in the team has seen them, and they are definitely not cacti.
To write something about a domestic TV series, this is the first time for me. I usually rarely watch TV series, especially domestic ones, which has nothing to do with patriotism. It's just that when the screen is full of modern dramas like science fiction movies and extremely mature ancient costume dramas, I can only doubt the intelligence of the screenwriters. Most of them are spoiled.
Wu Zhe, a bachelor's degree in military and foreign languages, a master's degree in optoelectronics, and an air force lieutenant colonel, with the motto: "ordinary heart". He is one of the few highly educated people in the drama, but he is also a member of the old A team. As Yuan Lang said, this person appears a bit frivolous, but mentally active. The most important thing is that he is not destroyed by the自卑感 that easily occurs.
My favorite is still the overly maternal Sergeant Shi Jin, who is ruthless in killing and keeps promises, with a tough exterior and a soft interior, and a simple smile. This is a role that is both father, brother, and friend, almost perfect, how can you not love him?
What interests me is the sentence after that. When there is a chance to hold your head high, few people are willing to look down. We forget that if we keep looking up at the sky, we will ignore where the road under our feet leads.
But, we can still see some things.
We all get proud too easily. Among the people I know, how many people have as good an educational background as Wu Zhe, and relatively good professional skills, but are now trapped in the dilemma of their careers, full of complaints. They are in different industries, but they all have a unique cognition: the current work cannot fully utilize their abilities, and they should have better treatment. While they magnify the obstacles, they also magnify their own advantages. For these people, I usually give them a few harsh words without hesitation. I don't know how to tell them, knowing is easy but doing is hard. It took me seven and a half years to understand these four words.
Wu Zhe, who always disciplines himself with an ordinary heart, might be the closest to perfection in this drama.
Secondly, he can easily find a way to relieve his pressure. In a scene where he faces off against drug dealers, Wu Zhe also kills someone. When he sees the dead body, he throws up because he thought it was just an exercise. But then he pauses and asks a question: Would ten horses of white powder harm many people? After getting a positive answer, he quickly returns to normal, smoothly passing through a psychological barrier. In contrast, Xu Sanduo is torn apart and struggles painfully. You can say he is realistic, but you can't deny his intelligence. When a fact is already established, besides accepting it, what other choices are there? Worth mentioning is that he has a great sense of humor and understands self-deprecation. Although called a sissy by Qi Huan, he still jokes about wishing his fellow soldiers pleasant dreams while undergoing hellish training, and says a line like "this humble servant is yet unwed" before real combat begins. Such remarks may make him seem a bit frivolous, but under immense psychological pressure, they appear so precious.
After so much rambling, the final conclusion might just be that the three factors to becoming a person with an ordinary heart like Wu Zhe are: First, having a hobby that makes you proud and putting effort into it; Second, being able to relieve your own stress well; Third, looking at problems from a perspective higher than yourself.
However, what I've thought about the most these days is Wu Zhe. If I were to use a character from the drama to describe the drama itself, it would also be Wu Zhe.
Of course, these are just my speculations. Wu Zhe's growth must have gone through setbacks. No one's growth is smooth sailing, but we don't know such processes. He and Xu Sanduo are completely different people. As he himself said, he can't be Xu Sanduo, and Xu Sanduo can't replace him. Xu Sanduo is a soldier, even if he reaches the peak, the king of soldiers is still a soldier. But Wu Zhe is different, he can become a general. That's why in the brutal A-team test training, he insists on his views, raises objections, but unlike everyone else, he focuses not only on himself, but also on the overall situation of the army, including its training methods and the psychology of the trainees. Such vision surpasses Xu Sanduo's self-perfection by far.
The protagonist Xu Sanduo, surrounded by stars, is a symbolic figure, or as someone said, he represents the vulgar side that exists in each of us. His growth process becomes the experience of everyone overcoming themselves, but not everyone can be like him, with a group of outstanding men surrounding him brilliantly and stepping forward at the right moment. I just can't like him.
Praises for "Soldier Sortie" have already flooded the internet. By chance, I watched two episodes, and since then, I couldn't stop. The screenwriter was very thoughtful and smart. Although the drama still has a lot of idealistic elements, it is already excellent enough.
We still get arrogant too easily. After all, doubting oneself is easier than doubting the whole world, striving with all one's might doesn't necessarily yield a definite result, but reality often crushes us with just a contemptuous glance. The soldiers of the third company fifth platoon before Xu Sanduo arrived are the best examples.
In this world, having an ordinary heart is too rare, where can we find it? The TV didn't tell Wu Zhe's growth story. After all, if we were to say the main characters, he might be the seventh male lead. Even if the drama went up to 100 episodes, it probably wouldn't be his turn to talk about his past, and there is no so-called extra content to watch. So, we have no way of knowing where his ordinary heart comes from.
Wu Zhe has brains, persistence, focus, clear thinking, and quick reactions. What's rare is that he knows exactly what he wants, what he should do at what time, and especially rare is that he discards his superiority and chooses a harder path that can prove himself more.
We also love ourselves too much. People tend to easily stick to the cognition imposed on them by their familiar environment. For example, that twenty-seventh captain. His ability, achievements made his pride, his pride increased his stubbornness, and his pride and stubbornness made him the first to be eliminated. He trusted too much in the world he saw before, he didn't see the world before the old A team, he also trusted too much in the judgment power given to him by his previous experiences, thinking others couldn't do what he couldn't do. Yuan Lang's shot made him realize, he, spoiled himself.