The TV series "My Gifted Girlfriend" and the original book "The Naples Four Parts" behind it, I watched almost every scene in it with surging emotions, and Lila appeared in my dreams again and again. So many characters on the show, but I care about Lila the most. She is so beautiful, how can I describe her magic? Lila has a pair of beautiful eyes like a deer. You don't know what's inside. You just feel that in front of such radiant eyes, every trace of petty in your heart will be penetrated. Her eyes have unbridled beauty, destructive, and cannot be tamed by any authority, system, or power. Charming, dangerous, and dimming those around her like a scorching sun, she's a genius.
Elena and Lila were both born in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Italy. One was the daughter of a concierge and the other was a shoemaker's daughter. They are both real commoners. Their parents, brothers, sons and grandsons. will be. Naples is a large city in southern Italy and the most densely populated place in Italy. It has been threatened by volcanoes and earthquakes since ancient times. Naples is old and messy. In the 1950s and 1960s, it was also notorious for the prevalence of mafia. Prominent.
The neighborhood where Elena and Lila lived was old and dilapidated, without a single plant, and was very desolate. The people here are poor and fierce, they can fight over a little thing, and the quarrel between women can also be broken. Unclear gambling debts, love debts, and even life debts. For Elena and Lila, being beaten as children and seeing violence, blood, and murder are commonplace. There are a lot of people in the family, not to mention girls, no one will take good care of them because they are children.
Naples has an excellent sea view, but Elena had never seen the sea before entering junior high school. In the eyes of their parents, they are just like grass, they can be thrown out the window, and their attitude when counting money is much more gentle than when treating them. They should have been tired of life and death here, just like their ancestors, but it is a pity that Elena, especially Lila, has grown very smart brains.
Lila has been able to spell since she was a child. The teacher asked who taught her. She said that no one taught her. When fighting with boys much older than herself, Lila could easily win, but she would also be beaten for it. But no one likes Lila, just like Cao Xueqin said about the people he wrote in "A Dream of Red Mansions", she is smarter than ten million people, eccentric and absurd, impersonal, and below ten million people. Lila is smart, but an unconventional good student. She is good-looking, but she is always dirty. She can play tricks on others at will, and is not afraid of bullying by boys much older than her. She cannot be tamed, and she cannot be tamed by her peers. Those kids understand.
Compared with Lila, Elena is also good-looking and smart, but she is recognized as beautiful and smart. She is a good student in the eyes of the teacher, a good girl for her parents, and has many friends. She is the kind of mediocre good, while The only thing that made her feel pressure and curiosity was the elusive Lila who pressed her head everywhere.
The most touching part of this work is that it seems to describe the ordinary and boring daily life, but it accurately touches the most delicate and sensitive part of your heart in your youth and childhood. When I was a teenager, I also had friends like Lila, who were not recognized but radiant. Lila was brave. She stabbed the paper clip precisely between the skin and flesh of her palm. When I asked Elena if she was brave enough, I felt that some hidden emotions of my boyhood were accurately expressed. This girl is so powerful, and she has been playing the game of stabbing the needle between the skin and the flesh all her life.
Lila is brave and precocious. Before she was ten years old, she could clearly see her muddy living environment. She and Elena were like two flowers trying to grow in the ruins. If they want to bloom, they must escape from this environment. This may be something her parents have never understood in their entire lives. Their parents, like most common people (like most of us), have long been numb to the suffering of reality. They are busy living and dying. This poverty The neighborhood is all their world and doesn't have time to think about everything else.
Lila proposed to buy a copy of "Little Women" with the money that was exchanged through their courage, not because of her thirst for knowledge, but because she knew that the author of the book made a lot of money through it. Money, we can also write a book, and then make a lot of money. What a clear, pragmatic goal. In this materially and spiritually impoverished neighborhood, reading is indeed the most likely way to get them out of their commoner status.
However, Lila's genius and intelligence were not something to be happy about in the eyes of her parents. Lila's mother was not happy when the teacher showed Lila's drawing to her mother and told her how smart her daughter was. In her opinion, for a shoemaker's daughter, these intelligences are useless things, it is better to come to help the family earlier, she is not interested in all this, and there is nothing she can do.
Lila never compromised on what she wanted to do. She resisted her parents with a thin body and asked to continue her studies after graduating from elementary school, but was thrown out of her second-floor window by her father and broke an arm. In her father's opinion, it was crazy to let his son work at home while his daughter went to school. But obeying her father at home, and obeying her husband after marriage, is the code and authority. Lila defies her father like this, it is outrageous. The author wrote this in the book: We grew up watching our father beat our mother, and in the process of growing up, we can all think that other people must never touch us, but parents, fiancé and husband, as long as they want, they can slap us at any time , either out of love, or to educate us, to educate us constantly.
Lila's parents and the surrounding environment are telling her her destiny as a commoner all the time. The shoemaker's daughter will always be a shoemaker. There will be no bright flowers on this ruins, and efforts will be in vain.
Elena Billiera was lucky, as the eldest daughter, her parents finally agreed to let her continue in middle school. And the fate of Lila and Elena's symbiosis has just begun. Lila imitated the novel "The Blue Fairy" written by "Little Women" as a child, and later became the core and inspiration of "The Neapolitan Quartet". ¹ flee
Lila has been running away all her life. She has never lacked the courage and plan to escape. She used her genius, beauty, and all the resources around her to try to escape this dilapidated neighborhood, the fate of the common people, and a woman who was locked in various cages such as marriage and childbirth. is subject to the plight of others, but she ultimately fails. After graduating from elementary school, Elena continued to go to junior high school, but Lila devoted herself to the design and research of shoes. She hoped that the Seruno family should not only help people repair shoes, but should make beautiful shoes and mass-produce them. , make money, have your own brand.
One of the qualities of geniuses is that they are 100% committed to what they think they are, and they will never give up until they reach their goals. Lila designs shoes with 100% passion, and is constantly teaching herself Latin and Greek. Lila blooms slowly, she enters puberty like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon, her beauty, that dizzying halo around her that used to be seen only by Elena, but now the whole neighborhood. Arrived. At this time, Lila didn't realize that beauty was her endless resource, but she got into a series of troubles because of beauty.
Her first suitor was Marceno, the eldest son of the Solara family. To talk about how a beautiful but poor girl can change her destiny, the answer seems to be to find a rich boy who loves her. From "Cinderella" to "Meteor Garden", such stories are told.
The Solara family is the richest on the block, and every resident's name appears on the Solara family's arrears bill. However, as long as there is money, the money will not come so cleanly. Especially in Naples after World War II, there are gangsters, Nazis, and all kinds of people in the bar of Solara's house. Their property and career are related to these People also have a relationship that is unclear. The Solara brothers are even more f4's in this dilapidated neighborhood. They are young and handsome, and they are flamboyant with cars and BMWs. They can pull a beautiful girl into their car at will, and even shoot their neighbors because they are angry.
But all this is what Lila hates the most. She felt that the Solara family, who stood on the opposite side of their class, were vampires on the poor, their money was filthy, stained with the blood and tears of the poor. It was impossible for her to agree to Marcheno, but her father, the family, needed her to forge the marriage. The shoes she and her brother made of sleepless nights can only make her father angry. This is the sadness of poverty. In front of it, genius and hard work will be hated. He also wants to make beautiful shoes and have his own brand, but these require the money and power of the Solara family.
Lila knows how to use her resources too well, and she turns to Stefano. Although the Karachi family where Stefano lives is not as good as the Solara family, they are also rich, and the money does not come cleanly. But after Stefano's father was killed, he changed his father's bad habits and began to be close to the neighbors and be kind to people, which left a good impression on Lila. Lila quickly married Stefano in order to escape from Marcheno. But as Elena said, Lila is smart enough, but always not cautious enough, and their lives are too difficult, and they will fall into the abyss if they are not careful. This is the case with this hasty decision.
On the wedding day, Marceno came to the wedding venue wearing shoes made by Lila herself, crushing all of Lila's dreams. Stefano deceived her. The promise that Lila would never let Marcheno come to the wedding scene was not worth mentioning. He also secretly sold the shoes to Marcheno, and let the Solara family participate in the shoe shop together. operate. For the sake of business, he cannot offend the more powerful Solara family.
She soon discovered that her husband was no different from the Solara family, just as ruthless and mercenary. Stefano is the same as her father and brother, but uses her as a bargaining chip. Her first night was a rape. She did not enjoy any sweetness and happiness in her marriage. Instead, she was abused and beaten. Her wedding photos were also used as the front of a shoe store to attract guests. This escape ended in a fiasco. . That vacation to Ischia changed everyone's lives, including Lila, Elena and Nino. Nino is Elena's secret crush since childhood. He is melancholy and handsome. He can write articles and has his own ideas. However, at Lila's wedding, Nino was already overwhelmed by Lila's beauty. Nino and Lila fell into a mad love, and Lila first tasted the happiness of love after marriage. Love brings a storm of passion and chaos, but it also rips open half of Lila's jailed married life. Lila is brave, she always pursues what she wants and goes all out, but not everyone can be like her.
Lila soon became pregnant with Nino's child, rented a dilapidated house in the city with her savings, and wanted to start a new life with Nino. But Nino, who gave up his excellent girlfriend and studies for Lila's sake, soon felt the pressure of reality. More importantly, Lila's untamed intelligence and beauty gradually made Nino feel Lila is an uneducated, unscrupulous woman. Nino is vulnerable and he leaves quickly. The 20 days they lived together may have been a shining moment in Lila's life, but it was just a memory. Using love to escape marriage, Lila still failed.
The pregnant Lila returned to her husband. After failing to escape again and again, her life was shrinking like a curse. When she was a child, she hoped to leave the block and go to a bigger world; after marriage, she also helped her husband's family run a shop, or messed up their business plans, and returned her body with her own way; she bravely pursued love and hoped to have a real life. After Lila left and came back, she had lost interest in everything. She didn't want to see anyone, do anything, just stay at home and take care of her children, and there was no room to breathe.
² Chaos and order
Elena said: "If you compare my life with Lila's turbulent life in the city, everything I've done in the past seems to have lost its meaning. The things she hastily jot down in those tattered, scattered notebooks, she Facing a thrilling world; and I live in a stable world, in an ivory tower, everything can be foreseen." I always feel that "choas" is a very poetic word, and it cannot be literally translated as "Chaos", it has a chaotic beauty. "Chaos" is Lila's state of life, and she is doing various experiments with her life.
"My Gifted Girlfriend" is a flashback story written by Lennon. When they were 60 years old, Lila disappeared. Lila never thought of running away or suicide, but she once said that she wanted every cell in her body to disappear and become invisible, so that people could never find her again. , she destroyed everything with her own imprint, and emptied her life with one click, and Elena decided to write down everything about her and Lila, so that everything would not disappear, and see who was the final winner.
Lennon and Lila, the best friends in life, the most important people in each other's lives, these two girls have been competing and influencing each other since they met at the age of 6. They rob each other and achieve each other. It is really difficult to express the feelings between these girls with accurate words, and this story written by Lennon is the book of life for her and Lila.
Lennon and Lila were symbiotic, and Lennon felt that he was just a bleak reflection of Lila. The energetic Lila is always running ahead, taking Lennon on adventures, while the restrained and calm Lennon needs to work extra hard to keep up with Lila's footsteps. Lennon absorbed Lila's powers, disciplined within the framework that the world allows.
If Lila is a genius, Lennon is more of a bystander and a normal person. Life is thrilling for Lila, relatively stable for Lennon. Lenon has always been given the opportunity to continue her studies. Through her excellent grades, she has stepped out of this dilapidated neighborhood and out of Naples. She went to Pisa to go to university, published her own novel when she graduated, and came from an intellectual family. boy is engaged.
As Lennon returned triumphantly, Lila, now that Stefano had a child with her lover, had to leave the last foot of her habitat, with the help of Enzo, who had been protecting her. , she left the block and found a job as a sausage factory worker in another, more dilapidated block, and was living a hard life with her children.
If Lennon's life follows Newton's three laws of mechanics, which are regular and rising steadily, then Lila's life is like quantum mechanics, always chaotic and uncertain. But Newton's three laws do not represent the real reality, and the distorted, chaotic, illogical motion is the truth of the truth.
Lennon represents an ordinary person. Compared with Lila, she feels that she is too pale and too small. She only absorbs a little bit of energy from Lila, and her dim reflection has suffered so much. People's praise and love, Lila wrote "The Blue Fairy" when she was a child, every word is full of passion for life, giving Lennon infinite creative inspiration, and Lennon feels that his words are in front of Lila's talent. It's not worth it, and even the École Normale Supérieure de Pisa, where she attended, was bleak in front of Lila. Lila is trampled under the feet of worldly morals and rules, but her chaos, disorder, and unscrupulousness are the power of life itself.
Lila burned the "Blue Fairy" brought by Lennon and said goodbye to her childhood completely. The first two "My Gifted Girlfriend" and "The Story of a New Name" in the "Naples" tetralogy are finished. I am too convinced that Lila's life will go to nothing in the future, and I don't know how this talented girl will start her middle-aged life.
Whenever I can't breathe in the security of life in this world, I always think, if it was Lila, what would she do? In our silent and stagnant life, sometimes we need this kind of chaotic and primitive power, the inspiration of genius, and the shock of beauty. It seems that as long as she touches something, it will make people emotional.
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