The 4-episode miniseries produced by HBO is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning literary work of the same name. The ratings are super high, but the audience is super small. While actress Frances McDormand has made her acting prowess known to the masses with three billboards; perhaps she's already made a name for herself in Ice Storm or Blood Labyrinth. Ms. Olive Kittridge came out as a middle-aged, stereotypical middle school math teacher. She never showed her kindness to others, even to her husband and son. She always responds to everyone around her with a "venomous tongue" and indifference. But Olive's actions stem from her family's history of depression and her father's death by suicide. But if you don't know "something", and you have such a female elder by your side, I think I might hide away! Ms. Olive Kitridge's husband, Henry, runs a pharmacy in the town. But the strange thing is that Henry is a good gentleman, full of enthusiasm, and everyone in the town likes him; including the daughter-in-law who met for the first time at his son's wedding, their personalities are not related. Olive and Henry each had an extramarital affair in their middle age, but coincidentally both failed. I think it may be that each lacks the courage to start over and is afraid of facing the uncertainty of the future. In their later years, Henry suffered a stroke, spent four years in a nursing home, and died while Olive was staying with his son and daughter-in-law. And Olive and her son also had a violent quarrel, and by the end of the film, there was no reconciliation. Then the dog died of old age. Olive originally planned to commit suicide in the woods, but when she met a group of children playing, she was afraid that it would affect the children and did not commit suicide. In the end Olive goes to the old man played by Bill Murray to find him. Olive said to him: I'm a grandma; they've left a message for me now; I'm going to call them back; it's all my fault my son can't stand it; my lover treats me very well but I treat him badly ;I also had an affair, but almost...I got rid of the relationship, but my husband was sad...The world confuses me, but I don't want to die. Depression, population aging and other social hot topics can be explored in this play; the later life of the Kittridges is also very representative. And Olive has been carrying weight all her life. When she couldn't go on and wanted to end her life, the presence of the children and Bill Murray gave her the courage to continue living. The world is often unfriendly to us, but we must not say goodbye to the world early like Olive did!
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