If Northern Europe is a white piece, Ireland feels to me silver-gray, with a bit of sandy yellow, like the snow that Joyce described at the end of "The Dead", and the light snowflakes eventually thick Thick ground covers the entire land. It's like the show "Normal People", which is calm all the way, but also has an inner sense of intensity.
This kind of feeling is like those large-scale pictures in the play, accompanied by gentle pure music, and the scenes of nakedness and sweating are also handled to be gentle, the male protagonist Connor's sensitivity and tenderness, he and Marianne The greenness of the first attempt, and the harmony of their lovemaking each time, also emerged. In the quiet scene, the body collides, and the breathing of two people can be imagined. It is so subtle that it reminds me of Salinger's famous saying: I think love is a touch and yet not a touch. (I think love is a touch and yet not a touch. Take your hand back.)
Looking at those quiet scenes, we could not hear their gasps, but our own breathing, sometimes fast, sometimes flat, sometimes accompanied by loud sobbing. We seem to be with Connor and Marianne through their love from adolescence to early adulthood. This love story is not complicated: two sensitive and intelligent young people have been in love since high school, but they always retreat because of one's introversion and inferiority. It sounds like this kind of love with poor communication and many clutches is more like the story of each of us, probably because of this, this drama is called "ordinary people". It's really a love story for ordinary people - in high school, Connor was a shining star on the campus, and he was a good player in learning and sports. Girls admired him, and boys also called him brothers. Marianne, on the other hand, is a maverick in the school. She has almost no friends, and she is always sharp at the teacher. In the eyes of others, she always looks arrogant.
Marianne said: I like you. So the two began to communicate. Their sex was so harmonious, and their knowledge background made their conversation completely different from that of other people. "Double harmony of spirit and flesh" is about this.
However, this only happens in private spaces. At school, Connor was very concerned about the eyes of others and the class gap with Marianne, so he did not introduce Marianne to his friends. Of course Marianne was puzzled and protested a little, but she accepted it anyway. However, at a dance, when Marianne appeared in front of the crowd for the first time, she was harassed by other boys. Connor stood up to protect her and took her back to his home. Marianne also told him for the first time. Expose father's domestic violence.
Connor backed away, however. He desperately needs the sense of belonging to the group, and is also very afraid of how others will look at him and Marianne. When everyone laughed maliciously, Connor hid in the toilet, his face full of pain, and after he came out, he decided to invite another girl to graduate prom. For Marianne, yesterday's "I love you" became a betrayal the next day. The depression and unloved she felt at home for many years reappeared, and she decided not to go to school anymore.
And how can Connor not know what kind of damage he has caused? He is such a sensitive person, and he also knows that his feelings for Marianne are different from others, but it is always difficult for people to admit that they have made a mistake, and it is even more difficult to ask for forgiveness after making a mistake until prom night , Connor left, crying in the street, he knew what kind of girl he had missed. Adolescence, always young, always cowardly.
This kind of story happened again after they both went to Holy Trinity College, but the roles of the two people had been reversed at that time: Marianne had a wealthy family, a beautiful face, and naturally had many friends, while Connor was still a young man in a small town. Faced with economic and social pressures, the gap is huge. The two meet again and fall in love again. Sex and communication are the same unique harmony as before, but they never admit that this is a one-to-one relationship. Connor is afraid that he is not worthy of Marianne, and Marianne is afraid He still abandoned himself as before, like his family. Until they misunderstood each other again, the love affair was over again.
This kind of bridge is so common that it is regrettable, and regrettable is helpless. It's all too common, and many people have experienced feelings that can't be said or missed when they're wrong. And if you think about it once, it seems that as long as one party is braver, or if one party asks more, maybe two people can know that the other party does not really want to leave, but just dare not say "I want to stay". It's a pity that reality is not composed of imagined "if you can be braver", reality is the history of the future, the unchangeable past.
Yuan Zhen wrote about his deceased wife, "Once the sea was difficult, but Wushan was not a cloud." The same is true for the relationship between Marian and Connor. The unique spiritual exchange and the joy of the bed and bed together make them not overstepped. Reserve a place in life for each other so they can travel together and talk about the economic gap between the two.
Marianne also spoke about her family's pain.
Later, Connor fell ill. He suffered from depression and always had insomnia. During those days, Marian gave the most adequate company and comfort. They exchanged emails and videos, and exchanged "you sleep" and "you sleep" on both sides of the screen. "Good morning".
The Japanese often talk about fetters, and the emotion between Marianne and Connor is also like a fine needle sweater, which is woven deeper and deeper in the daily company. They gradually exposed the vulnerable parts that once kept them away from each other, or even hurt each other, but now, it is these vulnerabilities that make them gentle. Marianne is no longer afraid of being looked down upon and seeks Connor's protection when she is hurt at home. After Connor took Marian from home, she said: No one is gonna hurt you like that. (No one is gonna hurt you like that.) . Later, he also slowly accepted the economic and class gap between the two, and introduced Marianne to his family and friends generously and freely.
For oneself and others, it is the love and protection that comes only after a deep understanding.
In the final episode, they are about to part ways. Connor and Marianne sat on the ground and touched each other's faces lightly. Marianne said: We have done such good for one another. (Because of each other, we have become such good people). Such feelings may not be fully summed up with "love".
The way the show portrays emotion is as delicate as silk, and another name for delicate is truth. Looking at the entanglement between Connor and Marianne, we seem to be in it too, because we have probably experienced such inferiority complex, loneliness, anxiety and hopelessness. When I was an undergraduate, I read Liao Yimei's "Flowers of Pessimism". She said: In this life, encountering love and sex are not uncommon, but understanding is what is rare. I thought it was true at the time, but now I feel that life is too short to encounter love, sex, and understanding. "Ordinary People" describes, although it is an ordinary plot, ordinary love, but it is rare and enviable. How many people can meet such a person who can overcome the calamity and meet with a smile?
I think the goodness of this drama is that I understand it deeply, but it is difficult to express. What I said above only touches one thousandth of the drama. The biggest feeling that "Ordinary People" gave me was "I loved that way too." This feeling is very strange, because there may be many people in this world who will feel the same way.
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