Mama Mia is the first live musical I've ever seen in my life. The story is very old-fashioned. The girl is pregnant and she doesn't know who the father of the child is. The music is very nostalgic, using all the classic songs of the old band ABBA. ABBA band, two men and two women, are both Swedish. They debuted in 1972 and became famous in Europe after winning the Eurovision singing competition in 1974. Later, they became popular in the United States on the other side of the ocean, although they were not as popular as the Beatles in the 1960s and the Spice Girls later. , but there are also many masterpieces of golden songs, enough to support a whole nearly two-hour Mama Mia musical.
If you want to make an analogy, ABBA is similar to the Tigers and Beyond in the minds of the post-70s and 80s in Europe, even if you are not their fans, you will always hum a word or two about them. 's famous song. The Mama Mia musical delicately interspersed ABBA's most popular songs into the plot, especially the final encore song Dancing Queen, which is simply the ultimate nostalgic way to kill nostalgic memories. The time I watched it, although I didn't know why, I was also infected by the atmosphere of the scene and sang and danced together.
In 2008, Mama Mia was adapted into a movie. The cast included Aunt May, the former 007 Brosnan, the British gentleman, Diane in The Good Wife, Amanda Seyfried, and Dominic Cooper. I also went to the cinema for the first time to buy tickets to join. I don't know if I don't see it, Aunt Mei and Amanda sing so well, the three uncles are so bloated and so ugly to dance, they still go out to sing and dance with everyone. Sitting in the theater for two hours, accompanied by the singing and the beautiful scenery, completely forgot the gloomy clouds shrouded in the financial crisis outside.
This year, the sequel (and prequel) "Mama Mia -- Here We Go Again" is here again, and it has also chosen to premiere around the world at a time similar to ten years ago, and it has done a good job of feeling. I endured and endured, and finally I couldn't hold back. I caught a gap last week and went to the cinema to contribute a little to the box office.
In the sequel, all the main actors from the previous episode returned, but Aunt May only sang one song, and all the scenes that belonged to Donna gave way to the new "Cinderella" Lily James. She plays the young Donna, a graduate of Oxford University's New College, a dashing chick who doesn't take the usual route. She could sing loudly with classmates at serious commencement ceremonies, scaring degree-granting professors overwhelmed. After graduation, instead of looking for a job or going home, she made a rhetorical statement, "The world is wild, I want to make some memories", which is where the story of the sequel begins.
Then the two main lines in the story interweave, and the fates and choices of the mother and daughter generations echo each other. Donna, who traveled the world with a backpack, wandered to the paradise of her dreams, met the Soul Mate she recognized, and then was deceived, broke up, heartbroken, indulged, pregnant... And Sophie, who grew up under the care of her mother, became a childhood sweetheart Sky early. Home, but hesitant between sticking to her mother's legacy and pursuing her own life. Without comparing the vision and courage of the two to choose a man, I can only say that Sophie has better luck than Donna on the road of love.
Putting the plots of the two films together in retrospect, I captured some metaphors I hadn't experienced ten years ago - after a man and a woman had a good night of love, Donna spent twenty years on a remote island Raising a daughter alone, the hard work paid can be imagined. At the same time, Sam didn't delay anything in New York. Twenty years have passed smoothly. He has a successful career as an architect, raised two sons, retired and divorced his wife, and immediately found Donna after the divorce. , also picked up a beautiful and well-behaved daughter Sophie, this man's life is too good!
The last thing to complain about is that the veteran Diva queen Cher, who was bluntly joined in the sequel to make up the star lineup, is actually only three years older than Aunt May, but she has to play Donna's mother, which is Sophie's grandmother. The arrival of Cher also added a footnote to Donna's life experience and personality. It turned out that she was also the result of a one-night affair, so it is no wonder that she was born with an attitude of playing the world. Really answered that sentence, "not a family, do not enter a family"!
If you want to watch a movie, sometimes it is like being a human being. When you are looking for happiness, you are looking for happiness. Don't be so serious!
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