There is no doubt that the "Naples Quartet" is a wonderful story. This story is about women growing up under changing times, about friendship, about marriage, and of course a lot of nuanced stuff.
The magic of Ferrante is that she never uses exaggerated language and stories. She seemed to be just quietly telling a story, a story that unfolded from childhood to adulthood, from one end of the world to the other, but it brought such a real and shocking feel to it.
Maybe my laptop can feel it too, because every time I read a book, the feeling is transmitted to it.
While reading, I seem to have raised two daughters, Lila and Lennon.
I watched Lila and Lennon stumbling up from little people all the way up. Watching them go from being inseparable to two parallel lines that gradually drift apart, and then to their close neighbors. Watching them kiss each other, love each other and kill each other.
If anyone is stupid, I wish I could rush into the book and wake her up.
If anyone gets hurt, I can't wait to hug her tightly and give her all the warmth, and I want to rush into the book and find the bad guy who hurt her.
If anyone is happy, I am also excited from the heart.
If the two of them were secretly fighting each other, I would waver when I waved the flag. One moment became Lila's supporter, the other became Lennon's supporter.
Of course, except for Lennon and Lila, everyone has flesh and blood.
You must know that supporting roles can easily be reduced to background boards and tool people outside the group portrait.
But the supporting characters in Ferrante's book are far more exciting.
Like Jiyola. An urban girl who had loved Michele since she was a child, was devastated by Michele early on, and married Michele when she grew up. She thought she was going to live a happy life, but in fact, from the moment she approached the pastry shop, her tragedy had been doomed.
In the first two seasons, she seemed to be merely a tool person. This tool figure is like Michele's minions, standing beside him with claws and claws. She's like a typical villainous supporting role. Whenever there is a chance, I will choke with Lila and stand opposite Lila. It wasn't until the third season that Ferrante made a stroke, and then there was the dialogue between Lennon and Jiyola, Jiyola's reflection and pain on marriage and family life, and Jiyola's sympathy at the dinner table. Michele's resistance and the comfortable dance after the meal. The image of this person has become three-dimensional and enriched.
For example, Lennon's mother Ima. A woman who is a little fat, with a crooked right eye and a little lame. In the first season, Lennon seemed to only feel the resentment and anger of his mother, and his helplessness in life. In the second season, Lennon suddenly had a fever when he was studying at the Pizza Academy. Imma dragged her limping leg and took the food prepared for Lennon and took the train to the unfamiliar pizza. After taking care of her daughter in a hurry, she returned to her home in Naples. For the first time, as a reader, I felt Imma's deep love for Lennon. In the third season, she once talked about all the advantages of Lennon to Pietro who proposed to marry him, and also helped Lennon take care of his two daughters. In the fourth season, Imma's true confession to Lennon after being ill made me cry even more.
Lennon spent the first half of his life trying to get out of Naples and out of his family of origin. It seems that she doesn't want to have too much to do with her family of origin. Now, with the death of his mother, Imma, Lennon and his family are getting deeper and deeper.
It has to be said that this role has been particularly successful.
She is that typical parent. All that life had imposed on her made her a vicious woman. In order to achieve certain wishes, she had to look cold, sometimes even wanting to kill. She's actually very proud of you, but she always throws cold water on you when you're too proud. In front of her, you will always be a child, a child who needs to be protected and taught. You cannot stay at other people's houses at night, especially in the house of a recognized bad boy. She will keep a light on at night to guard your return.
Maybe in the world of Lennon and Lila, they are supporting roles. But in their own lives, they are also protagonists.
So back to the question. What am I looking at when I watch the Naples Tetralogy.
I am watching every moment of my life.
I saw anger and helplessness that was powerless to resist.
I saw the helplessness and struggle under the coercion of fate.
I see how I get along with my parents. The awkward and mutually supportive love, and finally reaching a reconciliation with his parents and family of origin when he is an adult.
I see how I get along with my friends. Mutual jealousy and mutual encouragement are always like playing an AB corner. It seems that there are always high moments and low points in life at the same time, but we have each other.
I see the way I am chasing love. Desperate for everything, lose my mind, burn all my light and heat for this short-lived love, thinking that this is the whole world.
I saw my married life. Young children consumed me, my body began to deform, my mind began to go wild, and I began to become a mother without a name.
I saw my self. Knowledge filled my head, armed my body, made me stronger, and made me a different person than I used to be.
I have seen my growth. No longer chasing the sun, but becoming the sun, I understand the career that I want to pursue in my life, as well as the effort and persistence that I have to pay for it.
Everything is so far away yet it seems to happen to me, I seem to be able to find countless Jiyola, Ada, Pasquale, Michele, and also seem to find my Lila and my Lennon.
So I can't wait to flip through the book to relive some of the details.
In addition, I was shocked to hear that "My Genius Girlfriend" was going to be flopped in China, but the copy written was "Plastic Friendship, Italian version of "July and Ansheng"; girlfriends who are making waves, one sister and one sorrow".
When I saw this announcement, I felt really angry and funny. In the era of traffic supremacy, this copy does not seem surprising at all. Maybe people who write copywriting are also familiar with routines. Even if they have read the original book and watched the original film and television, what is the use? In such an impetuous environment, such copywriting must be used to kill the blood. It should be noted that it is better to be scolded by thousands of people than to be silent, black and red are also red, and it is also traffic. I have to say that in this regard, a certain platform has won the essence of the self-media era.
So why domestic adaptation? Sometimes, adaptation is equivalent to re-creation, as difficult as making a completely new film. I do not quite understand. Our Chinese civilization is thousands of years old, and there are too many stories that can be made and written, and too many emotions that can be expressed. Why are we obsessed with adapting films from other countries? rather than focusing on national characteristics.
For example, pandas are China's national treasures, but the most famous movie about pandas in the world is "Kung Fu Panda" made by Americans. This panda named Bao, created by an American, has won the world's love.
Another example is that Puyi is the last emperor of China, but the most famous movie about Puyi in the world is "The Last Emperor" by Italian director Bertolucci. The Chinese story told in English is actually not inconsistent. And the whole play is surprisingly realistic.
It can't be said that there are no good dramas in the adaptation, there are, but there are few.
Our five thousand years of civilization does not know how many good stories are waiting to be created. Why bother trying so hard to ruin other people's classics for such a little instant traffic? Let's just say, isn't it fragrant to focus on originality?
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