The Italian society represented by the author is very similar to ours and can resonate with me a lot. The small inhabitants of the old town of Naples are no different from the village life described by friends. What small town youth does not have a Naples of his own? The impoverished and chaotic urban area is mixed with human nature and strife that seem to have not grown between generations.
At first I thought it was just about the friendship between the two girls. This kind of mutual hatred and jealous friendship still makes me very suspicious. I don’t know if all friendships are actually jealous, or if there are genuine and pure friendships like those in the martial arts world and ancient books. I just hide it without knowing it.
From friendship to the theme of "civilians", and then to the theme of "women", it tells about small groups of communities, the suffering of all beings, social changes, and turbulence of ideas, which are all based on Leila and Lenu. It is displayed from a human perspective, with the community as the environment and the development of Italy as the background.
Therefore, this paper starts from the following methods
1. Lyra and Lenu
What do they represent?
How are their characters?
Why they went to two different destinies
2. The Awakening of Civilians - Going Out
3. The fate of women seen from a child's perspective
4. Male representation
5. The representative of marriage
6. The representative of marriage
7. All living beings suffer
8, broken thoughts
1. What do Leila and Lenu represent?
Laila represents ideals, sobriety, and beauty that can be freed from all constraints, but is ultimately bound by society and family. Beyond this, and bound by this.
Lenu represents reality, effort, practice, coexisting with society and family, born here, and beyond.
Or it can be said that Laila represents the ideal, the pursuit of women. Lenu represents the real woman who pursues the ideal woman.
2. What are the characters of Laila and Lenu?
Laila, it always gave me a gloomy feeling at first, probably to highlight the theme's "evil" description of Laila.
Even when he was beaten up by Stefano Karachi when he was very young, he was completely fearless, disobedient, stubborn, and proud , which really impressed me. There is a monologue in the play, "I've never been a firm man, but Laila is." This sentence is very appropriate for Laila. Laila has an openness and cognitive sobriety that is not limited by the environment . Whether it is suddenly wanting to see the sea, desperately trying to read, or buying "Little Women", it gives me a natural resistance to ignorance . At such a young age! Until now, we have only used knowledge to fight ignorance, but when she was a child with nothing, she used her nature to overcome ignorance! Absolutely!
The intentional or unintentional smile at the corner of her mouth, like the makeup of "Angel Amelie", gives people an unfathomable feeling. On the other hand, in the struggle against life, she was actually weak and lonely. She held up her back and finally life. She lived in her without any kindness . Nature will eventually come to an end, and Laila's struggle is getting narrower. Really "half life sinking".
In other words, Laila has always maintained a kind of sobriety , clear about her environment, about human nature, about society, and about the world, and sober that is asymmetrical with her knowledge and knowledge, so I would like to call it "nature" .
Lenu, I always feel that she lacks soul, she is excellent but doesn't know where to go, she is well-behaved and decent, but she always gives me a sense of shyness, she is cowardly. However, with her hard work and knowledge, the road has become wider and smoother.
3. Why did Lyra and Lenu go to two completely different destinies?
The initial cut-off point is in the middle school. Laila lost the opportunity to learn, lacked the guidance of the wisdom of her predecessors, and her path narrowed for the first time.
For the second time in Marcheno and Stefano's quest, family and society are straining Laila's choices.
Marriage for the third time completely forced her life into a path.
The fourth time she gave birth, her fate was tied to her child, and she had no choice.
All of this made Laila's path narrower and narrower. On the contrary, Lenu went on, with Laila's supervision and competition, the help of elementary school teachers, the support of families, the guidance of high school teachers, the blessing of expanding knowledge and vision, and the help of every node. expanding her path.
The Awakening of the Civilians - The Theme of the Bottom People Going Out
The fate that Laila faces is what the primary school teacher called " the fate of the commoners ". There are two ways for the awakening of commoners, one is nature, and the other is the expansion of the day after tomorrow. A passage from the teacher , "Ordinary people, but what I want to say now is that civilians are very annoying things. If someone wants to be a civilian, he, his children, his children's children, deserve nothing. "
Civilians are not just the fault of individuals, even if you are determined to take the road of learning, is it not a hard road? The family is completely powerless and unconscious to let the children educate the situation is really heartbreaking, the always docile Lenu's revolt "I just want to go to the exam", Laila's desperate efforts, and finally thrown out of the window, although they are ignorant , are longing for in nature. You must fight against the "civilian" group you were born into - poverty and shortsightedness, against the "non-civilian" group of society - the malice of others, and the ignorance of self.
The fate of women as seen from a child's perspective
Deceived by sweet words, the lonely and mentally ill Carmela , with her yearning for love, a few words from Nino's father made this woman lose herself .
The hysteria of the two mothers , Carmela and Nino's mother Sappor on the stairs, it looks like a lion battle for territory on the African savannah, at this point, no matter what species are heading for the same the end point. Women who are crazy for men have never been able to realize whether the other party is worth it or not, and whether they have any other choices . They do not depend on men and go their own way.
Lenu's mother. She also loves her own children, but is madly opposed at all important life nodes of her daughter. Opposed to high school, opposed to high school, opposed to college, opposed to falling in love with Antonio, opposed to fellowship with Laila. A mother who is forced by life, a mother who has no knowledge, and a mother who has never imagined her own destiny.
Laila's mother. Mother to a powerful father, elementary school teacher told her how talented Laila was but could only say that she was just a powerless mother who couldn't change anything. Lyra desperately tries to protect her mother after being thrown out of a window fighting to keep going to high school. When Marceno pursued Leila and Stefano Caracci pursued Leila, only to get rich and rich and hoped that his daughter would marry. A mother who has no income, love but is powerless, thinks that marriage is the destination of women, and that the destination of power is the destination of the mother, and the mother who lives under the power of her husband.
Primary school teachers. This is the only semi-awakened woman who distinguishes herself from the women of the community . Her existence gave Laila some guidance, helping Lenu to overcome the difficulties of life nodes, just like the existence of a life mentor. Awakening is when she realizes that there is still a big world out of the community, and when she is able to discover the spirit of Laila and the way out for Lenu, to the best of her ability, to give care and support to women. Whether it was Lyra sending invitations to keep her from entering the door, or intentionally asking Renu to tell Lyra to go to high school to learn Greek.
Menarche, marriage, childbirth, emotional breakdown, women are slowly swallowed by men.
When I was a child, "the elder brother in the family dropped out of school to go to work, how can you, a girl, be so embarrassed to spend money to go to school", a difference has already formed, and girls do not need to go to school. Parents take their children as a burden, it is not easy to live, how can they be able to love their children. After menarche, you will become an adult. For the family, it becomes the value of marriage. After marriage, you become a subordinate of your husband. After pregnancy and childbirth, women's lives are consumed by their husbands and children. They should not have their own time alone, and they should not have their own thoughts. They live in housework and cooking, get busy and grow old, and die of loneliness. This is the life of a woman.
There is no right to speak, no human rights, and no freedom. All household chores, husbands and children are considered proper. For men, it means only sex and slavery . This is the fate of women represented in film and television. The Italian version of "Mistress" is earlier, poorer, and heavier than "82 Kim Ji Young" and "Home on the Ramp". Discrimination against women in times of food and clothing can make people nervous, and discrimination against women in times of poverty makes women lose all human rights.
Alfonso read to middle school, but after Laila suffered domestic violence, she would easily blurt out, "Women should be taught a lesson." Laila's lover at University and Laila were so entangled, adult Laila recalled that it was only men who treated women. "Teaching". Nino's friend looks simple and honest, and only longs for Elena's body. Behind the confession is an impatient desire to possess. All of this is so sad. The part where Nino says Lila has a problem, the fear of the male gaze, the psychological montage of Pietro giving Lenu the ring is a metaphor for the cage of marriage. . . .
Are women just looking for marriage? —Women are not and should not be the words of sex and slavery.
"None of us realize what's going on", ignorance makes us conform to everything in life. Insulting, frivolous, getting married and having children, just like the people around them, they are bulls and horses for life, but they never know that there are other options, and they can resist.
After 34 minutes in the second episode of the second season, there is a close-up slow motion describing the people around you, observing everyone around you. "It suddenly dawned on me, and before I knew it, I understood how Laila felt, she didn't want to be like our mother, our neighbors, our relatives, they didn't seem to be women anymore, they were consumed by their husbands, fathers and brothers. Exactly, to become like these men, did this change start with pregnancy? Was it slowly swallowed along with housework?"
male representative
Why are men so consistent, rude, brutal, violent
In addition: Enzo: The only female friend that touched me the most was when Laila and him threw a stone across the street when they were young, and they finally hit it. Say to her, I'm sorry I didn't mean to. The little boy's love, immature and sincere love, is so profound. He took Lyra away, not for sex, but out of love and respect. This has never existed among all the characters.
Pascal: Lost myself in the struggle. Before joining the revolution, Pascal had always been a loyal friend. He had principles and was not afraid of power, but he got lost in the revolution. He did not have profound and broad knowledge as a guide for reform. . Reno: From friend to enemy. Laila's older brother was beaten up for paying his father's wages so that Laila could go to school. At that time, he was quite appreciated by me, but after he started making shoes, he completely collapsed and gave up himself because of the oppression and desire of life. He became like all men, irritable, irritable, beating people, just wanting to be rich. enjoy life.
representative of marriage
These are all the experiences of women born in marriage. Every woman has her own unspeakable experiences . "Missing Women" is told in academic terms, but here women are told in their own lives.
The marriage of Mikaela Solara and Jiyola expresses : the pursuit of women, in Jiyola's view, is a rich husband, a beautiful house, but still feels lonely and unreal in a rich life, no Value does not seem to exist by itself. Men look for women, just want a loyal servant, "You look at me, do you think I exist?" The money and material things brought by beauty think that they satisfy their vanity, but women are actually consumed by self-esteem and control. Power, but only those who are aware will realize this. The women who grew up in the old city, whether they are older or younger, except for Lenu and Leila, are basically limited to this kind of thinking.
Stefano Carracci and Laila's marriage : The love that was spoken of before marriage turned out to be just rhetoric on the road to money. Stefano just needs the right to be a husband, the right to control everything about his wife , but Lyra is not under his control.
The marriage of Lenu and Pietro: The respect before marriage and the higher education he received did not make him respect his wife's freedom and spirit after marriage, and he ignored his wife's emotional needs and family contributions for a long time . Laundry and cooking, housework, husband and child, caring for the child's wife and mother role, not a fresh life, also worthy of respect for the self-spirited person.
marriage and love
Nino is the character I hate the most, disgusting. "Although he despised his father very much in his youth, he was essentially a continuation of his father. An extremely selfish egoist and speculator, he was born with a good skin and a good mind. In terms of social life, the male group represented by him appears to be much more proficient and smoother than the females. They naturally attach themselves to the power brought by knowledge or wealth, and they have accumulated gorgeous rhetoric and perfection with years of education. Logic flattering."
Marriage does not bring women the happiness they imagined, but love makes women lose everything after a moment of happiness. Lenu went so far, but he still fell on Nino. Even if he didn't watch the follow-up, he knew that Lenu would eventually be abandoned by Nino.
Why are so many people liking and chasing Laila?
The first one was Marceno Solara. Marceno, as a symbol of male rights, has the right and financial resources, but any woman who likes it can be captured without any effort. Layla confronts male power and resists with a knife and her life. This is the earliest manifestation of the author's belief that women should not be playthings with no will in the hands of power. In the face of any power, women have the right to resist, not to be free, or to die. And then there's Stefano Karachi. . . . .
All sentient beings suffer
At the beginning of the first season, there is a sense of depression, breathing the selfishness of human nature in the air and being overwhelmed. The man from the church was dragged out and beaten violently. Everyone dared not come forward to help. They didn't want to see the cruel scenes. They dragged their family members and just wanted to run away. He was dragged by his wife and children who had been beaten. He was lonely and full of despair in life. In the stairwell, the quarrel between the two women was unstoppable. Poverty magnifies all contradictions and human nature, and everyone lives very hard.
At the end of the first episode of the third season, Laila lay down by the river and collapsed, which was heartbreaking, just like the deep grief of Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao when they saw the displaced refugees in "The Age of Awakening". Laila was tortured by life unbelievably. She is very high-spirited, because of the environment, she has been sunk for half of her life and has suffered all the hardships of the world. Perhaps this is also the fate of thousands of Chinese women with the same fate.
"People are sane, and their hearts are different, and the dirty past is told as a nostalgic story; the dead lose their qualifications to speak, and the living smile numbly for the sake of staying alive. What about intellectuals, who are full of benevolence and morality but are vain And kitsch and bewitching, the language of the picture is far beyond the line, every frame is the absurdity of the world and the powerlessness of the sober.”
"The world has been turned upside down, but people's hearts are stuck in the old days. In this hopeless state, history is just repeating, and life is stagnant. I see more individual limitations outside feminism. No one is not sealed in his own. Of course, there are some people who can go further in the situation, but in essence they grow up and they are no different from childhood."
other thoughts
1. The eyes and expressions of the whole play are very expressive. The movement of the eyes, the gaze, the doubts, and the bravery are vivid and vivid.
2. There are many conversations that I can't understand, such as several phone calls between Laila and Lenu. Why do they both speak ill of each other every time they call?
"You shouldn't write these things Lenu, the things I see don't look like you at all, this is not you, why do you force me to say this, I hope you do better, if you are not good then I am Who? Who am I, the good and bad things that happen to us are not enough to write novels. They have no meaning at all if there is no imagination, they are just masks.”
"You always use the word 'really', 'really' whether you're talking or writing. Either it's 'suddenly', but when do people 'really' talk about an issue? What happens 'suddenly' What? You know it's a fool, I'll never do anything 'real' again. I've learned to focus on the cause and effect of things, and only a fool would believe they happened suddenly."
3. What was the fate of women in the past, and what is the fate of women now? In underdeveloped areas, the fate of women has not changed much, but the more economically developed areas, the more knowledge women receive, the more they can recognize their own limitations. Much of this progress has been the result of women's movements. I hope women can wake up more and more, and I hope they can do their part.
4. All those who put themselves above others are not worthy of my respect.
5. After writing, I just feel that it is a pile of empty words, which is very uncomfortable. It's all big, empty words. Because they are just some feelings, in the deepest, they are completely blank and ignorant of the field. Because of the lack of understanding, there is no way to talk about anything profound.
In the process of watching My Gifted Girlfriend, I discovered a depth and complexity that animation cannot express. In the film I wrote about my genius girlfriend, I found that what I said was false. The reason is that there is a gap in theory and a gap in cognition. What can be said is only a straightforward vague feeling.
6. What kind of impact can I see after seeing so much?
- The happiness you think is probably just because of ignorance. Look at the current situation objectively and rationally, and have more sober understanding. Even if the moment is vigorous love, it can be fleeting. Whether it is the consumption of love in family life, or simply because of the disappearance of novelty.
- Every choice of a woman's life node, be cautious.
7. Mediterranean style, Italian coastal town, Italians always like to read a lot, holding a small book and reading it everywhere. "Call Me By Your Name" and "Summer in Provence"
"My Gifted Girlfriend" gave me an epic sense of heaviness, a sense of life's ups and downs. Just like "A Splendid Life", it shows me the customs and social development of Italy. Local customs, characters, Mediterranean scenery, openness and freedom, a sense of history, and a sense of life, Italian films have their own characteristics.
Sicily, Turin, Naples, Milan, Florence, know Italy.
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