I was brushing my teeth while watching the video of Sandra Oh winning the Golden Globe for Best Actress.
She said "Mom and Dad, I love you" in Korean. At that moment, I couldn't help crying.
Wu Shanzhuo stood on the stage, showing the kind of sincere and enthusiastic mood, the very real excitement that the long-cherished wish for many years was realized, which is very touching.
The issue of Asian-American identity has been hotly debated, but the situation has not been alleviated much.
Sandra Oh is the first Asian-American to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Female Host, and the first female host in the history of the Golden Globe Awards. It took her thirty years to gain white recognition.
She broke through a hurdle. Although the road ahead is still long, it is fortunate that there are still so many Asians who have not given up.
The show that earned Sandra Oh this honor was called Killing Eve , and it was also the first drama I couldn't resist writing a review.
A successful two-female protagonist drama, the competition between the killer and the justice party, Lesbian is going.
01
The beginning of the story, the first case is quite meaningful.
In the first episode, within the first 2 minutes of the beginning, several characteristics of Villanelle , one of the heroine killers , were vividly reflected:
Young, beautiful, difficult to empathize, good at observing and imitating, calm, and deviating from moral behavior.
Very typical psychopath, cold-blooded psychosis.
In the first 7 minutes, almost all the main characters of the British side appeared, and everyone had a distinct personality.
For example, Bill, who works rigorously and treats others with leniency, a colleague who is lively and has a sense of justice, Frank who is obviously wrong, and Carolyn, who seems to be able to bring a breakthrough.
The background and character of Eve , another female protagonist who is a staff member of the British Security Service, is also clearly explained:
At the age of 35 and above, he is a little nervous, but has a unique and keen observation and reasoning ability, and has a good husband and colleagues with strong relationships.
The plot uses language and action to express the characters, and at the same time, takes us into the first case——
A Russian sex trafficking politician has been killed in Vienna after the killer slashed his femoral artery undetected, causing massive blood loss.
The girlfriend of the deceased was the only witness and also a survivor.
It's a feast. In just 7 minutes, the screenwriter has presented the menu clearly.
Villanelle and Eve , there is an attraction between the two female protagonists that starts with curiosity , and, amazingly, their relationship is based on sex .
First, in the first case, Villanelle used a knife to cut through the victim's artery.
In order to try to understand her, Eve cut her thigh with a knife in front of her desk, although it was only a small cut.
In fact, there is a very strong implication in it, sharp tools such as "knives" have always had the meaning of reproductive worship.
Another playful cue happens when Eve is waiting for the bus.
By then she and Villanelle had had their second meeting related to the killing, and they really knew each other very well.
Eve was sitting alone at the bus stop. Seeing a broken and cracked glass next to it, she poked the hole curiously, stood up, and bumped it with her arm.
The whole glass was shattered.
And her peaceful life was about to fall apart.
Secondly, in the previous frame, Eve asked her husband for love (this word is actually inappropriate, because the two of them are really indifferent) and failed. The next second, Villanelle woke up from the bed with two people lying beside her.
sharp contrast.
One is to follow the rules and have a sharp and jumpy thinking, and the other is to be completely uninhibited and disregard of human life. Through this first case, they began to approach each other.
Again, because the survivors of the first case needed to be dealt with, Eve and Villanelle finally met in reality.
As soon as the golden wind and jade dew meet, ah no no no——
Eve didn't know Villanelle was the killer at the time.
After they met, she went to the toilet and came out to find that everyone in the ward was dead. At that time, it was not inferred that the little nurse encountered in the bathroom was a killer.
Eve's description of Villanelle is still full of compliments when Eve does a crime sketch after comparing all the medical staff files.
Not to mention Villanelle's side.
Everyone is more or less obsessed, which is reflected in sex, and Villanelle loves women with long black curly hair.
Unfortunately, when they first met, Eve was looking in the mirror, taking care of her messy, tousled, black curly hair (it was amazingly voluminous ┭┮﹏┭┮).
Villanelle's focus on Eve is based on the very primary sexual attraction of love.
In the end, Villanelle used Eve's full name when she later killed the Chinese Colonel. When Eve went to Germany to track the case, Villanelle counter-tracked it.
The whole process is quite flirtatious, and the TV series of those domineering presidents are hard to match.
Tracked,
Help her choose clothes accessories,
Stole her suitcase and returned it with a box of beautiful clothes and perfume.
So flirtatious and so handsome! ! !
Why do I say the first case makes sense,
First, the whole story is perfectly introduced, the characters are quite full, and their words and deeds continue to strengthen the characters;
Second, it laid the temptation tone of the two heroines based on sex;
Third, a cool first meeting with hints and pertinence was completed.
Seeing this, I already want to sing and conquer the screenwriter.
02
The word Eve is also worth pondering.
The translation names of Killing Eve include Killing Eve, Bloodthirsty Baby, and another translation is more interesting, called "chasing and killing Eve".
Does this remind us that Eve can again be translated as Eve. Yay, in the Bible, Eve is translated as Eve!
It seems worth discussing.
Speaking of Eve, of course, people will think of Adam and the Garden of Eden, and think of ancient legends.
The word "Eve" has quite deep cultural connotations. Eve was created from Adam's rib, which is determined by the nature of male-dominated society. From the religious level, it laid the foundation for women to be the second sex belonging to male vassals.
This play is a stage between two women, also known as Killing Eve. It is not only a female play, but also represents a piercing through the old me, like a new life .
There is no doubt that Villanelle is a pervert, a cold-blooded psychopath, who deviates from the category of normal people, kills like a numb, and belongs to the extreme of women. The cognition of feelings is only reflected in sex for the time being.
Freud overestimated the role of "sex" in people's lives, but in the case of Villanelle, her behavior was not only a psychopath, but also interfered with libido, and it can be traced back to childhood.
For some reason - I haven't read the original, I can't analyze it from the level of the family environment, I can only draw the results directly-
Villanelle is a homophobic homosexual.
She is definitely not bisexual, although there are confrontations between her and men in the play, but uh... see for yourself.
In several cases that have already been shown on the big screen, if classified by gender, we can clearly find that Villanelle's modus operandi for men and women is very different.
For men, cutting, stabbing, stabbing, shooting, etc. are always used, while for women, poisonous perfume, hitting with a car, etc. are used.
The Spanish brother who was mistakenly injured by perfume and the witnesses of the first case whose throat was cut can be excluded, because the brother owes his own hand and took Villanelle's perfume, and the ward where the witness was located was a massacre.
The difference in the treatment of death between men and women is due to the physical differences between men and women, but it also contains Villanelle's hostility to men, which was clearly reflected in the killing of Frank.
However, she has a touch of warmth in her heart. This warmth can be traced back to the female image of the black long roll. What kind of encounters made her have such a fetish?
puberty? childhood?
I believe that many people will think it is Anna, sad for Anna's death. But I don't think Anna was the original black scroll fuse, at best the second.
In cruel words, Anna's role is to make Villanelle.
The ruin of her life and the suicide of her reunion were inevitable.
Because Anna was really too kind and weak, but she couldn't resist the temptation of Villanelle. She couldn't bear the toxicity at all. Ah, Anna will not go into details here.
As for Eve, everything lived on the right track for thirty or forty years. But it's very strange, because of the trigger of the first case, Eve tries to understand Villanelle.
She understood and crossed the line.
Is Eve as simple as it looks? Obviously not.
When her husband asked her how she would kill him, Eve's answer was:
"I'll paralyze you with saxitoxin, suffocate you while you're sleeping, cut you into the smallest pieces I can handle, cook it, process it in a blender, bottle it up, take it to the office, and flush you in In the restaurant toilet."
Is this kind of thinking normal?
Obviously, Villanelle is not just a killer being tracked down by Eve, but a mirror image lurking in her own heart.
Based on the above, Eve is a typical woman shaped by a male-dominated society - the casting of this Asian woman is really amazing, aren't we Asian women always good representatives, hard-working and virtuous?
And Villanelle is an extreme woman who deviates from women's social roles and moral traditions .
Kill Eve, kill Eve, and break free from the yoke of women. In the first season, they took their first steps toward each other.
The story brings us to the end.
03
In the finale, the plot continues to unfold, and finally ends at Villanelle's residence in Paris.
His job was gone again, he had a falling out with his husband, and Bill, who was a superior and a good friend, was stabbed to death by Villanelle.
All the contradictions and entanglements that are inspired are for this moment.
This section must be dealt with well, if it is not dealt with, it will be unfinished. If it's unfinished, do you still want to book the second season?
Fortunately, I was not disappointed.
The old lady next door, who was trembling with a piece of garbage downstairs, was not so simple. She was entrusted by the organization to monitor Villanelle.
Thanks to the key in the old lady's hand, Eve has successfully entered the safety field of this notorious, charming and dangerous female killer.
If you were Eve, what would you do?
The first is curiosity, look left, look right. In the past I don't know, what kind of life this woman lived.
Then, smash it! Come on, indulge! Anyway, she is not there! You ruined my life, I'm going to ruin your house!
Villanelle is back.
Eve threw away the gun in his hand, sat on the bed decadently, and said a long paragraph:
Confess the truth?
Yes.
But it's not that simple. It was a tug-of-war, Eve put his chips first, and the chips were real, Villanelle was too smart, you'd be dead instantly if you lied.
But she hid her other purpose, and she wanted Villanelle to let her guard down.
As I said earlier, Villanelle's emotional cognition is problematic. After Eve revealed her tangled inner drama, she was a little moved, and the reply was:
Eve put the gun down, the good versus the bad.
The next second, I thought they were going to kiss.
But there is still a gap in her heart, and a knife is hidden in her hand.
After all, Villanelle killed her best friend Bill!
With this knife, Villanelle thought she couldn't handle it, but she stabbed it in. The knife was for Bill, and for her derailed life and her broken beliefs.
But Eve didn't want Villanelle dead.
Not wanting to see Eve hurt her, Villanelle shoots her to stop her from coming.
Villanelle escaped. Eve doesn't know where she's gone.
The story is good enough.
Season one. In this round, the battle between the so-called etiquette in women and the so-called heresy, the etiquette won a big victory.
But the war was not over.
Killing Eve 's screenwriter Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a strange woman and my idol.
Her representative works include London Life ( Fleabag ) and Crashing ( Crashing ), you can take a look if you are interested. After watching the first season of Killing Eve, I was amazed by the script, and then I realized that this is the work of the screenwriter Phoebe.
The self is complex and so is the world.
Fortunately, there are still so many people who pursue Cervantes' degraded legacy.
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