Skins, skins.
Skins, a youth drama on British E4.
It's official: We're addicted to Skins.
From the end of last year to today, I finally finished watching the first two seasons of Skins intermittently. During this period, when I saw the middle part of S1, I watched the next few episodes after a long period of time. . Compared with the helplessness of the British humor in the first season, the second season is more in-depth and touching. When I watched Skins, my heart seemed to be empty, and I felt a sense of loss.
This is a show about a group of young people and their youth. There is no drama in it, because that's boring, it goes back and forth every day, there is no plan and no purpose, there is only a group of friends, party party all the time, and the life of being fucked up by the shitty school shit adults, just life. It's full of drama, because that's their turf, they've got alcohol, they've got marijuana, they've got sex, they've got parties, they've got friends - each other, every day is brand new, the sky is blue, the grass It's green and in a fucking good mood.
In fact, apart from the so-called restricted level components on the surface, Skins is really a clean TV series. It is like youth, although the surface is noisy and restless, but the heart is clean and transparent. Just like all the young people in the play, even though they have done all the so-called corrupt things, they are just a group of people who are slowly maturing between teenagers and adults. Everything is just about youth. It's easy to get addicted to this show, it has all the young actors with personality and charm, it has exquisite psychedelic shots, it has fresh and dynamic music, it has a plot that is free from reality and fantasy, yes , it contains so addictive elements, the fascination with Skins is marijuana and cocaine that make people fluttering; the fascination with Skins is the warm youthful skin of oneself and the other party. Because I am young, I have endless time to do all the crazy and absurd things. There is no need to plan for the future, and there is no need to recall the past. The past never returns, the future is uncertain, and the present has just passed.
Tony, Michelle, Sid, Cassie, Chris, Jal, Maxxie, Effy, Anwar, Sketch. Each of them is the protagonist of Skins, their personalities are vividly displayed in each episode, and their lives are youthful Both were spied on.
My personal favorite character is Cassie. In the beginning, she appeared as a girl who has never been awake and can be hit by anyone as long as she has a drug. She never eats, and her eyes are empty for a moment. She's thin she's blond and every time she says "wow" she shows her bunny teeth and her nervous smile, but gradually we'll fall in love with her, with her alienated, psychedelic look , fell in love with her nervous eyes and nervous smile, she seems to be Alice in Wonderland, when you think you can touch her, she doesn't know where she is. Then, she fell in love with Sid, the dull, goofy, bad boy who always ended up knowing what he really wanted in his heart. She attempted suicide, she moved to Scotland, she went back to Bristol, she went wild, she left New York, everything, for Sid, for love.
I personally think the most exciting episode in the story is S2EP2. The protagonist of this episode is Sketch. As a new character who only appeared in the second season, she is a girl who is ordinary in every way. At the same time, she's a voyeur, a teenage girl with a perverse crush on Maxxie, a handsome blond natural dancer. This episode is mainly composed of two lines, one is the school rehearsal of the musical, Sketch trying to become the heroine of the musical hero Maxxie's story, and the other is Sketch's own daily life - taking care of his paralyzed mother And the fascination and voyeurism of Maxxie. Sketch lives in the apartment opposite Maxxie's house. The most important thing for her every day is to observe Maxxie's every move and take pictures. Her room is a small altar to Maxxie. She lives with her paralyzed mother, gives her life and spiritual care, and tells her that his boyfriend is Maxxie. She sneaks into Maxxie's room, puts on Maxxie's shirt and masturbates on Maxxie's bed, spending the night under Maxxie's bed. She silently memorized all of Michelle's lines during musical rehearsal, she threw down the stage lights at Michelle, she accused the musical director of molesting her, she tied her mother to the bed so she wouldn't "destroy her" Life", she tricked Michelle into taking her mother's vomiting medicine, all just to dance with Maxxie, sing her heart out, and exchange a kiss. Only, Maxxie is gay. Although Sketch has wrapped his chest in a cloth, it is no different from a boy. Finally, she ripped off the cloth from her body, put on a low-cut long dress, and gave her virgin body to the Muslim boy Anwar, Maxxie's best friend. When I watched this episode, I had an indescribable feeling, a little sour and a great shock, completely convinced by the excellent screenwriters and actors.
In addition, the S2EP6 also left a deep impression on me in terms of lens and presentation. This episode focuses on the aftermath of the original perfect Tony being hit by a car - unable to swim, unable to run, unable to get an erection in the face of the girl he once loved, Michelle, and the process of regaining his original self. At first, Tony panicked when Michelle and Sid got together because of mutual comfort, and met a glamorous and mysterious girl in the toilet. Then he met this girl again while he was interviewing for college, she took Tony off the interview team, contradicted the interviewing professor, jumped into the swimming pool, screwed up the lab, smoked marijuana with Tony, got tattoos, and ended up having a hard sex. However, what is interesting is that a scar-faced soldier Tony met in the car looked exactly like the interview professor. The tattoo originally tattooed on the mysterious girl appeared on Tony's body, a fiery red flame like the rebirth of a phoenix. In the end, all of this, the interview, whether the girl exists or not is not important anymore, the important thing is that Tony is reborn. The whole episode uses a very psychedelic technique, as if surrounded by the smoke of marijuana, the camera lens is smoky, sometimes fragmented, sometimes bright and heavy, like a drug that is perfectly connected without restraint, and the flow of consciousness.
It was Chris who made the most tears of his own, thought he was going to die the first time he was rescued, but no, the irony of life is that it always stops at some unexpected moment. When Chris had just put on the Monkey Man T-shirt that Cassie stole from the store, his life was over, as easily as a joke. At the funeral, Jal loudly declared that "Chris is special because he accepts reality, accepts everything, and loves everyone." Dreaming like eternal life, living like dying, life may not need the existence of youth, but youth exists in life, in reality.
Life is cruel, it`sa wild world. However, youth, a word that has been talked about vulgarly, has to admit its beauty. Because of youth, the young people in the play can undress without fear. While rushing to the sun-lit sea; because of youth, we will never see these lovely and vivid characters from the first two seasons in the next season, and youth is handed over to younger people; because of youth, no matter what the face What, we can all say fuck it indifferently!
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