First of all, it's the kind of show that doesn't look very exciting on the surface, but when you look down to observe it, you find it very deep and fascinating.
Not long ago, I watched "Three Billboards" starring Francis, and this time I watched the same grumpy Olive, and it seemed that there was no sense of disobedience. And there are many similarities between the two characters, there is a warm and soft heart beneath the irritable temper and disdainful expression.
As far as the tone of the film is concerned, it is a cold and rainy tone throughout. This hue isn't my favorite, nor is most of the American life I can remember, but this story about a small seaside town in Maine, USA, gave me a whole new perspective on American life. For example, Americans also have a common conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. Traditional Americans are not good about their son marrying a woman who remarries with a baby, and traditional Americans cannot accept that their children are gay. American parents also have to pick up and watch their children (in fact, through the use of telephones and mobile phones in the drama, it can be roughly inferred that the background of the story is from the 1990s to the beginning of this century, and the parents represented by Olive are 50 -It is obviously understandable that Americans born in the 1960s hold generally conservative views, and small towns in America, like rural China, are relatively conservative with regard to many social behaviors)
In addition, through watching the series, I found that many of the problems faced by the United States are actually happening in China. For example, the phenomenon of empty nesters. With the development of urbanization, young people gather in a large number of large cities, while the elderly generally live alone in small towns; The divorce rate seems to have surpassed that of the United States; the population is aging, and the problem of pensions makes it difficult for children to take care of their parents. Finally, the elderly can only go to nursing homes.
Having said this, let's go back to the theme of the film. As many people have said, the whole play has a very strong literary atmosphere, and this atmosphere is that kind of eloquent. Also, I said earlier that the show is very similar to "Three Billboards". Another feature is that the people in "Three Billboards" are generally grumpy, and everyone described in " Olive Kitteridge " is also like this. Questions like that. For example, behind Denise's hysteria is precisely the lack of love and lack of self-confidence, the melancholy sick young Kevin, and his schizophrenic mother, Christopher, who has been scolded by his mother since he was a child and needs to be relieved by a psychiatrist when he grows up . It's as if most of the people in the show suffer from depression in one way or another.
And the heroine Olive is naturally also a depression patient. Compared with other people, she is more willing to block and control her depression through a strong and stingy appearance, but in fact, she is extremely fragile and needs to rely on. Previously, she had an extramarital affair with her English teacher at the same school and even intended to run away. It is conceivable that she could open up her heart to the other party. In fact, in the first episode, when she learned that the English teacher had an accident, her undisguised crying was the first in the show. Times Olive revealed his feelings.
In fact, she is not a stingy and mean person in essence, but she doesn't know how to get along with this society, or how to get along with this society in an ordinary way, so she built a high wall for herself through her mean appearance, built a fortress.
The highlight of the whole play has to say that Henry is the first. He is infinitely tolerant of his wife. His essence is gentle. Such a gentle person married such a violent wife. In the eyes of ordinary people, they may not be able to last long, but for many people, this is precisely the most The right combination and matching. However, in fact, in the first episode, Henry was obviously a little ambiguous with Denise. The reason why he was so good to Denise, I guess, was because he subconsciously sought psychological relief from the outside world when he knew that his wife had an extramarital affair. The end of the first episode is very interesting, there is a close-up of Henry watching Denise wipe the shelves, here Henry makes rational decisions in his heart and his responsibilities as a husband. He finds "Silly Boy" to give him money to date Denise. Then when the camera turned, he bought a bunch of flowers for his wife, because he knew that his heart had always been in love with his wife. In addition, Henry is actually a good gentleman in the eyes of almost everyone in the town, and he often judges others on the positive side. Olive is really lucky to have such a husband. Like Henry said, if Olive really eloped with his English teacher, I believe they won't last long. And when his son accused his mother of treating his father, the heroine said what you know about marriage, which also shows that the heroine loves her husband in another way in her heart, although compared to the English teacher's love , This kind of love is more like a pure conjugal love, which seems to have no passion, but it is precisely this kind of mutual affection that shows the beauty of the relationship between two people.
Value propaganda without any appearance, but through the way of telling the truth, let us discover the light of human nature, and it also made me understand that human nature is complex, please don't easily label another person, who knows what the other person's heart is. What kind of person is that.
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