This article is a plot analysis of "The Promise", the eighth episode of the first season of "My Gifted Girlfriend".
The two heroines, Elena and Lila, both experienced the darkest moments of their lives in this episode. They were deeply hurt by the man they love, and what they thought was a "good promise" turned into a "blank check".
When they were in the wedding asura field, they realized that everything they had done before was in vain: even if they struggled, they could not escape the shadow of their original family, and perhaps they would not be able to cross the class gap in their entire lives...
[Warm reminder: There are spoilers below! 】
01
Elena did not forget to compare her and Lila's love lives in class:
Although Lila and Stefano are getting married soon and have a renovated house, they just kissed.
In contrast, Elena did not marry Antonio at all, but the experience between the two was no longer limited to kissing.
Lila does like Stefano, but Elena finds out that she doesn't like Antonio, yet they do more overly intimate activities than Lila and Stefano. This made Elena so angry that she felt that she had to break up with Antonio.
Elena's absent-minded appearance in class could not escape the eyes of the religious teacher. After being named by the religious teacher, Elena boldly refuted the religious teacher's remarks against the communists. As a result, she was naturally driven to the corridor outside the classroom door by the religious teacher to reflect...
Nino happened to pass by the corridor at this time. After learning the cause and effect of the incident, he found a female teacher to help Elena get rid of the trouble.
Nino seemed to recognize Elena's courage and felt that they had a common topic in mind, so he sent Elena an invitation to make a draft, hoping that Elena could write about this conflict with the religious teacher. He would then post in a magazine he was collaborating with that exposed social issues.
Elena told Lila about it and asked her to help revise the article. Lila resisted at first, but agreed, and only then would Elena agree to accompany her to the store to choose a wedding dress.
Nino was mentioned inadvertently during their conversation, and Lila asked when Elena and Sara Torre became good friends? Elena doesn't tell Lila the truth that she likes Nino, but claims that she only met Nino occasionally at school.
During the revision process, Lila asked Elena if she could make corrections such as deleting and changing the order, and finally insisted that she should copy the revised article. This move should be a recognition of the excellent self in the past. Farewell.
While Lila praised Elena for being good enough, she also made no shy about saying that she didn't want to read Elena's writing anymore, because it would make her sad. After all, Lila, who is about to get married, may no longer be able to realize her dream of writing novels to make money.
Elena knew in her heart that Lila's revisions made the expression of the whole article clearer and more direct. Those deletions, exchanges and small additions even made her feel as if she had escaped from herself, running a hundred steps ahead, full of energy... ...
After reading the article, Nino also admired Elena greatly. He admitted that, as the teacher said, his writing ability is not as good as Elena.
Nino also invited Elena to accompany him on the way home, but Elena unexpectedly met her boyfriend Antonio at the school gate, and she had no choice but to take Antonio away first.
Along the way, Antonio talks about dressing up for the wedding, and he plans to show up to friends and family with Elena in decent clothes.
Elena had no interest in everything about the wedding, not to mention that she would break up with Antonio sooner or later, so she didn't care what the other party said. She is now full of thoughts about the publication of the article, and feels that this is the meaning and value of her existence:
"Since Nino asked me to write that article, I've been secretly convinced that I only really exist the moment my name Elena Greco appears in a magazine."
02
There were some small episodes in the preparation stage of the wedding. First, the relationship between Lila and her husband's family was relatively tense. Because Lila didn't go to the butcher's shop to help with her work, Stefano's mother and sister Pinocchia had problems with her.
After all, the whole family would be busy in the butcher shop, and even Elena's tablemate, Stefano's younger brother Alfonso, who was in school, would go to the shop to help during school holidays. Therefore, in their eyes, only Lila, a daughter-in-law who has never been through the door, eats idle meals all day, and spends money at every turn.
If Elena hadn't resolved the conflict with just a few words, I'm afraid Lila would have fought with her mother-in-law and sister-in-law when she was choosing a wedding dress in the store.
From this, Lila lamented that Elena, a good child, was lovable since she was a child, but in contrast, people were afraid of her, and even thought she was a bad child.
In order to comfort Lila, Elena thanked Lila for arranging a job at the grocery store for Antonio's sister Ada, showing that she is actually a good person with a good heart...
Lila thought that by marrying Stefano, she could improve her family's life by herself. However, when she and Stefano came to the Cerullo shoe store to check the shoe samples, they found that the model shoes made by her father and brother's craftsmanship basically did not meet the expected level of her previous design in the drawings.
Although Lila was very disappointed in her heart, she still showed her support for her family with practical actions in front of her fiancé.
However, Lila's family did not appreciate it. After all, they had the inferiority of common people, and even forced Lila to make sacrifices for their own interests.
Because the cost and price of shoes are too high, the poor in the slums can't afford to buy them. Only if they get to the shops in the rich areas of the city center can they afford them, but that is the business scope that the Solara family can reach. .
Seeing that the results of working hard every day could not be exchanged for economic income, Lila's family and Stefano reached an agreement with the Solara family:
They can sell Cerullo shoes in high-end stores downtown, on the condition that Silvio Solara be the wedding ring bearer. A wedding ring bearer means a relative in a sense, and their family is bound together for life.
In Lila's eyes, the Solara family are scumbags, but her fiance and family knew that she hated the Solara family, but they cooperated against her will and forced her to agree to cooperate. Lila's brother, Reno, was in a hurry. He even scolded his sister as a bitch, accusing her of ignoring and wanting to destroy everything that the whole family had worked so hard for.
What they are doing now means that Lila's previous sacrifice and resistance are meaningless.
Lila has already seen that Stefano is a greedy businessman. She expressed her doubts to Elena: Fiance Stefano may not really love her, and now she is good only because he does not endanger him economic interests.
Although she felt that Stefano was unreliable, when she decided to marry him, she put all her bets on Stefano without hesitation. Now Lila, who cannot achieve independence without economic autonomy, what else can she do to get herself out of this predicament?
She could only make concessions temporarily, telling Stefano not to touch her bottom line and that Marcello Solara must be banned from the wedding.
Stefano made an empty promise to Lila again. Once he made an act of betrayal, it indicated that this person was very likely to make a second or even more time in the future...
Lila and Elena went to send Oliviero a wedding invitation, but their elementary school teacher refused to admit that the woman dressed as a lady in front of them was Lila, the gifted girl from before:
"I know Cerullo, but I don't know who she is."
Teacher Oliviero hopes that his two best female students can change their class and destiny by learning knowledge.
When she saw that Lila, instead of breaking through the shackles of the patriarchal society, agreed with her own commoner attributes, attached herself to a man from a sinful family, and made her most despised choice, Mr. Oliviero felt a little bit of hatred. a feeling of.
Teacher Oliviero's attitude made Lila begin to question her decision. She later asked Elena if marriage was the wrong choice?
Lila has always been jealous of Elena's ability to get the care of others and the opportunity to continue her studies since she was a child. In contrast, she is not so lucky when she is alone.
Despite this, Lila still hopes Elena can realize her unfinished dream, so she agrees with Elena that she will continue to study no matter what happens, she will spend money for Elena to go to school:
"You're my genius girlfriend, and you have to be smarter than any of them, boy or girl."
03
Lila's wedding is undoubtedly a large Shura field, where all the love-hate entanglements are staged.
At first, Elena came to the wedding scene by car with her friends who grew up with her childhood. From their positions and words, she could see the meaning of internal digestion:
Carpenter Pasquale, who originally liked Lila, stood with Antonio's sister Ada; Enzo, who was also interested in Lila selling fruits and vegetables, seemed to be more ambiguous with Pascale's sister Carmela.
Lila's brother Rino invited her brother-in-law Stefano's sister Pinocchia to dance at the wedding scene, which shows that the brothers and sisters of Karachi and Cerullo are meant to be paired.
Elena's mother is quite far-sighted, and is not willing to let her excellent daughter fall into the circle of digestion in the slum just like that.
So when she saw Elena and Antonio appear together, she advised her daughter to decide her emotional attribution rationally:
"We worked hard for you to go to school, not for you to be spoiled by a mechanic, not to mention his mother is a lunatic."
However, it didn't take long for Elena to accidentally see Nino appearing here. It turned out that Nino and his sister Marisa were invited by Stefano's brother Alfonso to the wedding.
Elena had introduced her roommate, Alfonso, to Nino's younger sister, Marisa, outside of school, and she didn't expect the two to become close friends. Alfonso wanted to bring Marisa to his brother's wedding, and Marisa simply pulled Nino over in order to get her parents' consent.
Antonio could only watch Elena and Nino sitting together depressedly, and then couldn't help expressing his dissatisfaction with Elena:
He borrowed money to make a suit to attend the wedding, not to watch Elena talk intimately with others. What's more, he had threatened Sarah Torrey not to harass Elena, but now Elena is entangled with Sarah Torrey's son...
Antonio couldn't accept the fact that he was a tool man in Elena's place, so he left the wedding scene angrily.
Elena did not intend to chase Antonio who left the field, but returned to Nino and took the initiative to talk to him.
Then Elena was depressed to find that Nino was staring at Lila who was dancing. In contrast, his attitude when talking to himself was very perfunctory:
Nino decisively refused Elena's request to invite him to dance, he thought dancing was ridiculous and stupid.
When Elena tries to talk about literary topics of interest to Nino, Nino nonchalantly says that reading novels is useless. However, when Elena and Alfonso were talking about a certain literary work at the dinner table, Nino told Alfonso that he had also read the novel, which was not the same as what he had said to Elena. contradicted.
Elena found something wrong and pointed out that Nino was reading novels on the spot. Nino retorted that so what, he didn't think there was anything wrong with lying and deceiving Elena before.
Nino then continued to hurt Elena by telling Elena that the article was not published because the magazine ran out of space. Then he decided to leave the wedding scene, ignoring Elena who was trying to keep him by his side.
Nino temporarily canceled the plan to publish an article for Elena, perhaps because Elena released Nino's pigeons before and did not fulfill her promise to walk home together after school.
At that time, when Nino saw Elena and Antonio walking together, I am afraid he already despised Elena a little. Nino thought that Elena, who had a common topic with him, was also a student who pursued progress, but was disappointed to see Elena falling in love with the commoners in the slum.
What disappointed him even more was seeing Lila, whom he once admired as a child, marrying the son of the sinful Karachi family, and the beautiful image of the goddess in his heart was shattered.
Nino and his family moved away from the block since he was a child. Lila was not only the object of his childhood crush, but also his only nostalgia for this poor neighborhood.
Poor Elena was always humble in front of Nino. After being severely hurt by the person she liked, Elena looked at the chaotic scene at the wedding scene in front of her. She felt nauseated and instantly understood Olivier. What Ms. Hiero once said to her about the common people:
"If a person wants to be a commoner all the time, then his children and grandchildren will all be dead, not worth mentioning."
These people at the wedding scene interpreted the common people's nature with practical actions, and their words and deeds revealed the common people's sorrow:
"At that moment, I knew more about the common people than when Mr. Oliviero asked me a few years ago. We are the common people, and the common people are fighting for food and wine, just for the order of serving and serving. Good and bad and bickering, it's that dirty floor on which the waiters are walking, it's those increasingly vulgar toasts."
Elena had persuaded Lila to accept Silvio Solara as the wedding ring bearer, because she felt that these young people were different from the older generation. At that time, Elena naively thought that Lila was temporary. Forbearance and compromise can bring about a better life in the future, and even completely change the harsh living environment in this neighborhood.
However, the cruel reality is that most people have never really escaped the grief of their original family. Although they clearly see the narrowness of their parents, it is difficult for them to get rid of a similar fate and even end up with the same fate, becoming the one they once hated the most. kind of people.
Perhaps some innate things have already been subtly engraved in the blood, for example, Nino emphasized that he must be different from his father, and at the same time he has become a person like his father...
The so-called "changeable nature is difficult to change", Lila's family and husband betrayed her again, secretly colluding with the Solara family, which Lila hated.
Marcello was able to come to the wedding scene unscrupulously, no doubt with their acquiescence, which once again crossed the bottom line that Lila could bear.
Marcello was wearing the pair of leather shoes that Lila valued so much, and he knew very well that this was the best revenge for Lila's rejection of him.
These shoes were made by Lila and her brother Rino, bought by Lila's husband Stefano, and now they are worn at the feet of Lila's most hated enemy, apparently betrayed by Stefano A promise to Lila, in order to curry favor with the Solara family, he sacrificed what his wife cherishes most.
The tacit gaze of Elena and Lila is heartbreaking. They once admired and envied each other, but at this moment, they simultaneously felt the despair and helplessness of being isolated and powerless.
At that moment, Lila realized that all the sacrifices she had made were pointless, and that the result of compromising with reality was that her dream was finally under her feet. Relying on her husband Stefano is absolutely impossible to change her destiny and class nature. In the end, her trusted family and husband will sacrifice her for the sake of profit.
At that moment, Elena also realized how wrong she was. When she was a child, she chased Lila's footsteps to escape the block, but now she realizes that her mother's world and this block, even Lila can't escape. Perhaps at that time, she strengthened her belief in continuing to study and understood that only by receiving education and knowledge can she change her destiny.
Elena and Lila, who were only sixteen years old at the time, saw the truth of life and the essence of human nature at the wedding scene. This was the most humiliating and painful experience of their girlhood.
However, everything is far from over, and there will be more trials waiting for them in the future.
What kind of experience is it to get along with a genius? | "My Gifted Girlfriend" S1E1
The Sorrows of the Common People | "My Genius Girlfriend" S1E2
Everyone experiences growing pains | "My Gifted Girlfriend" S1E3
Behind the disappearing boundaries is the original sin of poverty | "My Gifted Girlfriend" S1E4
When a free soul meets cruel reality | "My Genius Girlfriend" S1E5
Elena to the left, Cerullo to the right | "My Gifted Girlfriend" S1E6-E7
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