Emerald-like sea water surrounds the beach, torches sway in the open-air restaurant under the sunset, but people in this paradise-like hotel breathe two kinds of air - the anxiety and selfishness of the rich, the stubbornness and collapse of the workers .
They are always making demands, even if they use their parents’ resources for trivial matters as adults, they don’t blush;
HBO's "White Lotus" released this summer was filmed at the Four Seasons Hotel in Maui, Hawaii, which was under lockdown in 2020. The island scenery and hotel design are fascinating, and the Hawaiian-style music Aloha, which runs almost throughout the show, is fascinating , but in sharp contrast to this is the writer's bitter irony and sympathy, the life in and out of the luxury suite, and how the burning working spirit is repeatedly crushed.
Real estate giant baby vs hotel manager
Honeymooning real estate family queen (giant) descendant (baby)" Shane takes the trouble to call hotel manager Armond in exchange for the most luxurious suite in the entire hotel, even as new wife Rachel is burned by severe self-identity anxiety to depression. , he can also think all the time "that bastard manager got my room wrong, he must be targeting me, since childhood, everyone is targeting me (just because I have money)". Finally, he used The relationship between his parents directly led the hotel executives to fire the manager.
On the other hand, under the constant pressure of this VIP client, the hotel manager, who is getting crazy every day, was originally a model worker. These people eat, I can’t wait to have my eyes gouged out.” The degree of mental breakdown continued to increase, and the drug addiction relapsed. Finally, after losing his job, his mentality exploded, and he sneaked into the giant baby’s room and pooped in the suitcase. Outrageous behavior.
In front of the rich and powerful giant baby, the career that the migrant workers have worked hard to manage for many years can be wiped out.
Single Rich Woman vs Spa Manager
The middle-aged single rich woman Tanya's has established a "parasitic" relationship with Belinda, the manager of the hotel's spa department. At first she seemed to be the most sympathetic of these wealthy people, but the end of the relationship brought to light the essence of parasitism - selfishness.
Tanya's purpose in coming to Hawaii is to scatter her mother's ashes into the sea. Due to the tense relationship with her mother and pain, she is in a heavy heart and is in urgent need of "healing". Belinda provided the reassurance she needed most at this time, and she managed to restore Tanya's peace at the spa with her excellent business skills. Tanya lamented Belinda's talent and the business opportunities behind it, and talked to Belinda repeatedly, insisting on investing in her to open a store, whether she was on duty or resting, whether this would disrupt her work plan.
The rich woman handed over the olive branch, and it can be seen that Belinda is uneasy. On the one hand, she feels that the opportunity has finally come. It's all designed; also shared the news with her son on the phone and received encouragement, you can see how much hope this opportunity holds for her. She really cherished this opportunity too much.
But when the rich woman meets the man she likes in Hawaii, she quickly forgets about Belinda. She was not in the mood to see Belinda's neatly organized files and the project before her. She just wanted to talk about her feelings and troubles, and continue to live in the comfort that Belinda must provide her as an employee.
In the eyes of this rich woman who holds the power of life and death, it is of course not as important as a relationship between her own life and death, because the relationship is her own after all. Belinda ended up throwing the project in the trash, not in the mood to ignore the self-centered complaints of these wealthy white women. It's a game of unequal power, at least she can choose to stop being an emotional trash can.
Belinda is pretty much the only character on the show that doesn't have anything offensive.
Sole African American Woman vs Native Hawaiian Man
Paula, the hotel's only non-white resident (the protagonist), falls in love with Kai, an employee performing the Hawaiian torch dance at the hotel, and resents the loss of aboriginal lands like Kai to develop a luxury hotel. Seems like a cynical girl, but she definitely has the strength to be the most hated person on the show.
Paula came on vacation with the whole family of college friend olivia. Olivia's mother Nicole is the CFO of a technology giant. This is a fairly wealthy family. Paula hates them and thinks every member has psychological problems. When she knew that Kai's family couldn't afford the lawyer's fees and fight back the land title, she came up with a bad idea: to instigate him to sneak into the suite where the Olivia family lived to steal Nicole's bracelet, the original words: "Their wealth is stolen from you. Go, it's yours. A bracelet is $60,000, it's nothing to them."
The twisted logic of generosity aside, when there was still a chance to save Kai from getting caught, she just sat there and threw the shell necklace Kai gave her into the sea. Kai was finally caught by the police, and Paula didn't even dare to send him a text message except crying, because it might make him an accomplice.
On the other hand, Kai, who really liked Paula, naively invited her to stay in Hawaii and live together. Paula, who is from a big city and is pursuing higher education, declined.
In revenge for the so-called "white man's original sin", Paula sent Kai to prison, and scared the family of friends who took her on vacation to death. There was originally a native Hawaiian guy with a decent job, and now he is charged with multiple crimes such as burglary and intentional injury, and the rest of his life is likely to be even more difficult.
Is this all just to satisfy the vain "sense of justice" of a rebellious girl? The seemingly cynical speech is nothing but a self-righteous performance, and she can't even stand up to being kind.
The most ironic plot, to save for the end
I'm sure a lot of people were relieved when Giant Baby's new wife Rachel, a freelance writer, made up her mind to leave for independence and broke up with her husband in a hotel showdown. After all, the existence of this husband really puts the TV at home in danger of being hammered all the time-he said when his wife was anxious about her career, "I can give you double the salary, don't do this kind of garbage work".
But just before the flight to the outlying islands, she reappeared at the airport and reunited with Shane. In a society where the gap between the rich and the poor is becoming more and more extreme and freelance writers are increasingly unpopular, a selfish and naive polygamous baby is indeed hard to refuse. What's wrong with being a lady?
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