Maybe you haven't recovered from the sadomasochism of <>, maybe you are still eating Amway of the warm and inspirational drama <>, maybe you have accidentally entered << Annual >> This sweet pit can't extricate itself... Then it's time to take a dose of poison to sober up. <> is a British mini-series with only 6 episodes, which tells the story of a slightly depressed and bohemian woman living alone in London. There are many absurd settings, embarrassing plots, and strange old memes in the play, but people who watch it seriously will not think this is a funny TV comedy. I don't know how to characterize it, let's call it "clear stream in comedy, mudslide in tragedy".

Just like its poster, the narrative in the play is carried out entirely from the perspective of the heroine. This is also a rare idea in other dramas: breaking the fourth wall - that is, being able to jump off the screen to communicate with the audience. While the heroine is living her life in the play and "acting" her play, she will turn her head to face the audience and express her inner monologue. Personally, I like this kind of talkative acting style, because the heroine will open up to us and reveal the truth, and we will be more immersed in the film and participate in it.

We walk into her life led by the heroine: introverted and eccentric ex-boyfriend, life-winner sister, humorous but alcoholic brother-in-law, estranged father after remarriage, hypocritical stepmother, accident The deceased friend boo... We saw the heroine Fleabag struggling to support the bankrupt small cafe, but the loan failed, the old relationship ended, and the family relationship was strained again. It was as if everyone else had gone further and further along their own paths, but she was the only one who was still stuck and struggling. She can't get out of the shadow of her friend's death, she misses silently every day, and blames herself invisibly every day. On the one hand, she feels unworthy of living, so she treats her life casually, treating everything as a joke, most of the time pretending to be normal, a few times driving it crazy, the only constant is sadness---"I just want to cry all the time". On the other hand, because of the death of her best friend, she feels almost desperate and lonely, so she seeks solace in embarrassment, even if she goes to bed with someone who doesn't love her, even if she wants to go to her father's house, who is scorned by her stepmother.

Isn't Fleabag's life a portrait of each of us? All human beings face loneliness. When in a good mood, loneliness is freedom, enjoyment, and even a dashing gesture. When you are in a bad mood, loneliness can easily disintegrate your strength. Worst of all, you understand that this loneliness is not an option.

You may retort me now, saying that Fleabag is a loser's life, and you are a winner in life, so you are not a loser! Well, let's go back to the show and see what the heroine's sister Claire is like. On the surface, Claire is an elegant and beautiful woman with a satisfying job and a perfect marriage. In fact, she has obsessive-compulsive disorder, lives very depressed, and always has to think too much

And can not live according to their own free will, the husband is not so honest and credible. "Everyone in the world is as miserable and empty as I am, they are just better pretending." The mother in <> said. Everyone has their own difficulties in life, we do not take pleasure in mocking others, nor do we take pride in escaping our own.

This year's Olympic nomination <> set off a "mourning" atmosphere. What is mourning? Mourning is a decadent personal temperament, mourning is a cold echo of reality, and mourning is the residual warmth of exhausted enthusiasm. <> is also a representative of the "depressed" wind. Why do such themes emerge at this time? The performance and performance of mourning is not to reenact reality, but to wake up the dreamer in reality. In the modern age of information development and information collision, more and more people have learned to think about the nature of life and inquire about the truth. "Morning" is also one of the propositions of life. While we are thinking, we also hope to find a way to break through.

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Marcia 2022-04-20 09:01:41

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Nyasia 2022-04-24 07:01:06

It's so good, after reading it in one breath, I can't stop laughing and crying and wiping my nose. When the only person in the world who knows you're sick, tells it, and plays with you is gone, people become lonely to death, hate the world to death, hate themselves to death.
Orion 2022-03-21 09:01:53

A woman's unique innocence and hurt talent, in the end, have to be reserved for the person who is the most entangled. The best work in a female drama series that hurts, as if to see through the absurd sobriety, the indulgence between wandering escape and self-punishment, and the fragility of being shackled by scars, a reasonable and more reasonable blend flashes in the narrative that spans the four walls inside and outside, under the beating style. There is no lack of emotional details, and there is absurd but real tenderness in the depressive core. The female editor-in-chief is excellent and the future can be expected.