1. Holy Trinity is still the highest-ranked school in Ireland so far, but middle-class children are pouring into the University of Dublin in the south of the city and the National University in Galway (also the first male lead) after achieving excellent results in the college entrance examination. the school you want to go to).
2. The annual sponsorship fee of 3,000 euros is charged at the undergraduate level of Holy Trinity, which makes it more expensive than other schools. After the end of the first academic year, those who have achieved excellent results in the unified examination will have the opportunity to receive a scholarship. The male protagonist once said Trinity people in a playful tone because most of the children who read Holy Trinity are children of higher social class, which is also reflected in the accent. The Irish accent of Trinity readers is usually lighter and closer to the American accent than the average Irish.
3. Helen, the Asian girlfriend whom the male protagonist once dated, has a non-Irish accent, and may come to Ireland to study medicine because the tuition is cheaper than his home country. (Additional: Actor Helen is from Northern Ireland, it is very common for Northern Irish to study in the Republic of Ireland and enjoy certain preferential policies)
4. The male protagonist rented a house in Dublin, and someone in the public area talked in Portuguese. This is because Dublin has a large number of short-term Brazilian immigrants looking for work and learning English. The camera stops at the beans on the plate in the sink. Beans are commonly used ingredients in Ireland and Brazil. However, the male protagonist has little interaction with his Brazilian neighbors, reflecting the difficulty of immigrants integrating into mainstream Irish society.
5. The Dublin "apartment" given by the hostess' mother to the hostess is in the embassy district of Ballsbridge, which is an ancestral property. The appearance of the "apartment" is similar to the building of my embassy's education group. The heroine's good friend Peggy lives in Blackrock, which is also a wealthy area.
6. The sport played by the male lead in secondary school is Irish football, which can be played with hands. There are two poles above the goal. The ball in the middle of the poles counts as one point, and the goal is scored as one goal (the scoring method of 1-3:1-2). 30 minutes in each half.
7. The Irish speak softly. For example, the male protagonist's speech when he was dismissed from the work place, and the email when the male protagonist was rejected. Many misunderstandings between male and female protagonists are also related to the tendency to over-interpret words.
8. (This point may be British-Irish GM) Straight men sharing their emotions are easy to be considered too "girly" by their peers.
(I am currently reading the original novel, and I will add any points worth mentioning.)
The colleague who read the book considered the words and said: It feels ordinary, but it is indeed Irish enough. Colleagues who watched the play said with a smile: One of the things I like about this play is that there are too many power games in it. In my fourth year in Ireland, I understand the galaxy between the hero and heroine: in the countryside he lives in a townhouse, her house is not too different from the Irish State Guest House, his mother sweeps at her house; in Dublin he has to work part-time She can afford to share a house with others. Her family also has an apartment with a hall in the embassy area, and a vacation villa in Italy; she blurted out inadvertently, "The bad job that (a friend who lives in the wealthy Blackrock area) introduced you" "I didn't worry about money." In middle school, the male majored in French and the female majored in German. Later, when she went on vacation to the Italian villa of the female host's family, the female host was able to communicate in Italian proficiently with the supermarket clerk, while the male host could only speak grazie . Ironically, the male protagonist has a family warmth that is far superior to that of the female protagonist, and he also has a long-term dominance in this relationship, until he finally said to the female protagonist in the study room I still look up to you a lot. This still The meaning is long - as written in the editor's letter to the male lead, lacking confidence and a clear voice. Although the title is Normal People, the drama's portrayal of the heroine's life is much more detailed and specific than that of the male lead, perhaps because the poor life is lackluster.
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