Adapted from the novel of the same name that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009, this drama won eight awards at the 67th Emmy Awards. The heroine, played by Oscar-winning actress Francis McDormand, had a different response. The inexhaustible loneliness and sadness behind the trivial life are scattered in every ordinary day, struggling and twisting.
Crosby Town, a seaside city with magnificent scenery.
Olive is a seventh grade math teacher, husband Henry is a pharmacist, and a son, a family of three, a peaceful life.
In the world they built, there were no thrilling failures, no thrilling successes, and yet, that's what made everything thrilling. “People eat, just eat, and then their happiness is formed, or their life is ruined.” (Chekhov)
No one's life is better than them and no one is worse than them. Ordinary days of ordinary people all over the world. Yet there is something eternal in this routine. Time passes silently, people are like a pebble thrown into the river, day after day, life, old age, sickness and death, loneliness and no solution, sadness and loneliness.
"Olive Kitteridge" has an almost indescribably trivial plot, soothing rhythm, and restrained emotions. The whole article reveals a lingering pessimism and despair. Every character endures the suffering of the world. Behind the appearance of a calm life are all kinds of undercurrents and inner struggles. A self-portrait of you.
Olive. Kitteridge is middle-aged, living in a quiet town and living a mediocre life. Her biggest characteristic is that she is bitter and mean, and it seems that only in this way can she not be silently buried by life.
She never complimented her son, all language was reproach and insult, she was cold and surly, she had no joy. She hates all kinds of trivial worldliness. Her husband gave her a greeting card with great anticipation. She didn't read it.
She hates a boring husband and life, but she can't choose to elope with the person who has cheated on her. She can only cry after the other person died in a car accident, and continue to curl up in the same life until she grows old.
The beauty and sadness of this character comes from the fact that she wants to live like everyone else, and she never wants to deceive herself, making the burden of "living" a little easier.
Olive Kitteridge refused to accept softness all her life, and insisted on life. Her impending irritability is like a poison released into the air, and it affects the relatives around her at any time.
Looking around, who is not, more or less everyone can see their own shadow in the heroine.
We often express love in anachronistic ways, mask vulnerability with meanness, clumsily find ways to get along with others and the world with our inherent flaws and the hurt that life has given us.
How to break free from the cage of life ultimately depends on whether you can let go of yourself and get along with yourself.
When she finally put down her suicide gun, she finally burst into tears. Anyone who has been tortured by life can understand this kind of emotion. It is obvious that they gritted their teeth for a long time, thinking that they are all right, but it is not good. It is not until they cry a lot that they can really let go and start again.
Olive was tense all her life, and it was only at this moment that she really let go of herself.
"This world makes me feel frustrated, but I don't want to leave it yet", she finally unloaded this inexhaustible weight.
Even if life is full of pain, despair and hardship, I don't want to say goodbye to it early, not just Olive, but us too.
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