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[Recommended Movies and Dramas] No.4丨"Normal People"
[Recommendation reason] This is a TV series with the taste of first love. Some people say that first love is a sweet taste, that is because people often only remember those beautiful moments. In fact, sweet first love also has a bitter taste. Marian and Conor in the play are an "invisible" couple from high school to college. One is a withdrawn, eccentric, academically excellent girl with no friends, and the other is shy, low-pitched and melancholy, who also excels in studies. A popular sportsman with many friends. In this way, they became an underground couple in high school, experiencing the "happiness" between couples, and at the same time, they were afraid of other people's strange eyes. Along with graduation, from separation to reunion at university, various misunderstandings caused the two to separate and reunite, although they both met their other half, made friends with different personalities, and met each other in life. To various family, friendship, and career difficulties, but still can not stop the attraction between each other.
Until graduation from college, it's another season of separation, I wonder if they will still stick together in the end?
[Highlights] The play is an adaptation of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller novel "Normal People" written by Sally Rooney. The male and female protagonists in the play have less language, but the delicate portrayal of the characters can be described as a high degree of restoration. There are some sexual descriptions in it, Cornell and Marian in "Ordinary People": "He likes to go in slowly, until she breathes harder and her hands are on the pillow." Marian's love for other men is through Violent and intense sex to show: "After the end, her body is like a corpse, she has to bear such a heavy and unbearable."
In the play, Yiyi also showed just right.
[Background introduction] This play is an adaptation, and the novel was written by Sally Rooney. Her second novel "Normal People" published in the UK in 2018 was also well received. Waterstone Bookstore was named "Book of the Year", won the Costa Novel of the Year Award, the Irish Book of the Year Award, and the British Book Award for the Best Book of the Year, and has signed the TV adaptation rights.
Rooney was born in Castlebar, County Mayo in 1991, which she says is "the most bookish place in Ireland". Her mother runs the local Linenhall Arts Centre and her father Kierland works for National Telecom. Rooney was the second child in the family, with an older brother and a younger sister, and was raised by her parents "in socialist traditions". Many of her characters carry the tensions of adolescence into adulthood, but Rooney's own experience has not. "As a child, I didn't know how to socialize," she replies, playing with the fabric of the green armchair. "I didn't understand what it means to be social." She found "the most important thing in life" at Trinity College Dublin friendship". In the preface to "Conversations with Friends," she specifically thanked two friends for past conversations she had with her, from which she "learned a lot." She also thanked her partner, John Prasifka, who had recently been certified as a math teacher, whom they met at a debate competition. "That was the first time I made friends because of conceptual and political discussions." There is always a tension about love in Rooney's novels, and that tension gave birth to her character. But sometimes, such feelings seem overwhelming for the characters. Does she think this is a healthy relationship? She pondered: "What is a healthy relationship? It makes relationships sound like clinical terms, like saying the wrong number of white blood cells. Relationships can't be without pain." Getting more sensitive, but no relationship is okay. "Yeah, not really," she said. At times, she finds the modern discussion of relationships disappointing, and that terms like "gaslighting" and "emotional slavery" are overused. "I certainly don't mean 'women should be emotionally enslaved,' but we have a corresponding responsibility to our loved ones." She continued: "People are inherently dependent on others. For example, when you were young, you needed others to Take care of you; as an adult, you need someone to grow vegetables and make clothes for you." There's a reason she thinks this way. I asked her if she was a romantic, and she said yes, but quickly discussed that her need to start a family was probably due to her desire for a patriarchal family. She explained that feelings are bound to be related to the balance of power. Writing a novel about feelings "requires her to notice the details of the power imbalance, but also to understand that it doesn't take away the experience of love itself".
Rooney has always described himself in interviews as a "boring person", or a "normal person". But I suggest that in her novels, characters like herself always feel abnormal.
"I'm for people who think they're normal," she said. "My feelings are normal, my thoughts and feelings are normal. I feel normal in my life, and that makes me feel good. "
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