Adler said: "The lucky people are healed by childhood all their lives, and the unfortunate people are healed by childhood all their lives."
This 5-episode British drama interprets this sentence from beginning to end. I usually don't care too much about a drama or movie, the acting skills of the actors, and more about the plot, lines, scenes and so on. But in this play, from the protagonist Cum Fu, to Hugo who plays his father, Jennifer who plays his mother, and Sebastian, a young actor who plays the protagonist's childhood, the acting skills are all so good that they burst, making Patrick's despair, cowardice, Hesitating, old David's domineering, self-righteous, and arrogant aura, his mother's selfishness, evasion, and weakness, and little Patrick's helplessness, pitifulness, and bitterness are all penetrating. If I hadn't seen the self-proclaimed Sherlock Holmes, the confident magician, if I hadn't seen the ruthless Smith and the noble Elf King, I would have thought that was their true performance. Old David stood on the window sill, just stood there simply, asking a few questions to the maid at home, that look, the slight smile on the corner of his mouth, really adding a point is too much, minus a point is too little, and it leaves no trace. The natural interpretation, combined with the ping-pong sound made by the maid holding the heavy porcelain utensils and shivering with exhaustion, perfectly portrays the image of the tyrant who is immersed in the satisfaction of self-power.
This drama is actually not my type of story. In my classification, this kind of ethical drama is always labeled as dull and procrastinating. But this 5-hour show is just a story of how a child abused as a child struggles growing up, how as a rambunctious rich second-generation addict gets rid of drugs and alcohol again. In response to such a one-sentence plot, even if I stared at such a 5-star review, it is probably difficult for me to summon the courage to watch this drama - to be honest, I actually watched this because I wanted to see how a rich second-generation indulges in sensuality. . But in my 5 hours of viewing time, I was more engaged and more difficult to extricate than watching the usual plots with ups and downs. Having said so much, I actually want to express my admiration for the screenwriter. Originally, I was still struggling. I felt that the only shortcoming of the screenwriter was that I felt that there was no need to include the episode of old David sexually assaulting Patrick. Patrick's use of the word "abuse" when confiding in his buddy Johnny about his childhood experiences made me think it was abused. After searching the information, I found out that this plot actually happened to the original author, so there is no issue of abuse at all, but I still think that an assumption is completely established, that is, if the old David was really like Hugo's interpretation In this way, even if he did not sexually assault Patrick, he would have done no less damage to Patrick. Because I deeply understand that sometimes violence is not even used at all.
The horrified look on the child Patrick's face always reminds me of my son when I was criticized. I may be a stricter father, but I believe that I am definitely not a hegemonic father, nor a father who makes his son tremble at the thought of it, and his heart is full of resistance, but when I sometimes get angry with my son, my son is afraid. , flinched, and the pitiful expression was exactly the same as that of little Patrick. Such an expression instantly made me sober, and a little regretted that I was too harsh on my son, even if the harshness was only in words, without resorting to violence. And the hegemony of old David also reminds me of someone I know. I can also say that I understand the harm of this kind of non-violent violence. This kind of violence does not use force, physical harm, or even words, or even just an expression, only a look, or even a shadow left in people's hearts after long-term behavior. These non-violent things are insulting, aggressive, destroying confidence, destroying will, and sometimes they don't even need to be insulting or aggressive. They don't even need to "speak straight", just asking questions can make you Insulting yourself, attacking yourself, destroying yourself. No matter how small things are, they will not be forgiven, mistakes will be magnified infinitely, they will be held on, and they will be whipped out again and again. Make countless rules for others, and at the same time, you can change and interpret the rules at any time. The requirements of others can be infinitely high, and if they fail to do so, they will be accused and abused. At the same time, I feel that my contribution is infinite, and I always advertise myself, thinking that all the credit is my own contribution. He will always hold the moral commanding heights, firmly grasp the right to speak, selfishly let others revolve around him, regard others' obedience as his own mastery, and classify others' resistance as disobedience to management, unreasonable trouble, morality corrupt. Under the long-term coercion, there is a very clear reason in front of you - don't be afraid of him, he will not eat you, or even beat you - but you fear him without reason. When communicating with this kind of person, he exerts this kind of coercion on the other person all the time, and his mantra has become a nightmare for others.
The fragility of the child, when confronted with the bullying of the father, is not the physical damage, but the shadow in the heart caused by the long-term repression, the inability to resist and the despair that has nowhere to escape. But in the end, with the death of old David's last friend, Patrick stepped out of the shadows. The devotee's words enlightened him "Sometimes those who deserve the most blame also deserve the most compassion."
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