Most of the time, I read the book and forget it. But this little fire is very impressive. Now the story has been remade into a drama, reviewing the past and learning the new.
The title is a bit like "War of the Proud".
Tune is a bit like "Lie and Big Lies." Even the character of the heroine Reese Witherspoon is very similar: a middle-class wife who loves her home and is nosy and enthusiastic.
In this show, her name is Elena Richardson and she lives in Shaker Heights.
Traditional white communities, middle-class elites, pay attention to rules. The house has a uniform exterior wall color, the grass on the lawn has a uniform height limit, and the garbage has a uniform transportation method.
The author uses absurd and extreme settings to build a "stage".
Elena is a molecule in the "field".
There is also a decent appearance: the lawyer husband is handsome and gold, and the two sons and two daughters seem to be beautiful.
There are also rules of the core: there is a family-specific perverted schedule posted on the refrigerator, a measuring cup is required for accurate measurement of red wine, and even the intimate time with the husband is also limited.
Until one day, Mia drove a broken car into the community and became Elena's tenant.
Mia is a black single mother, an artist, the kind who can’t eat enough to feed her daughter Pearl by doing odd jobs.
He has no fixed place and moves with his sex, which is in stark contrast to the Richardsons, who are compliant with the rules.
Of course, the author has written a lot, not only wants to pierce the masked soap bubbles that the middle class strives to maintain, but also does not want to let go of the unavoidable prejudices on racial issues, as well as individuals and families, choices and compromises.
When I watched it, it was naturally the role of mother that took the most.
The eldest daughter of the Richardsons, Lexie, is cute and sweet, accepts traditional elite education, and is determined to apply for Yale.
The youngest daughter, Izzy, is a lot rebellious. She ignited a small flame of anger in the first scene, burned her long hair, and said "Not your doll" on her forehead.
My feeling is that the two girls are exactly the two sides of her mother Elena: Lexi is the side she is well-dressed and revealing, and Izzy is the other side that she strives to suppress.
When my mother was studying and studying, she also did "Izzy": participating in club activities, supporting the affirmative movement, and choosing journalists as a career.
Only later, she chose to extinguish the flame and return to a step-by-step life track. The original book said that she felt that she had some things on Izzy, but she just wanted to lock them deep in the box and never open it.
This is just a personal choice, there is no right or wrong.
But when she also tried to extinguish the fire on her daughter, the problem came.
Izzy also tried to compromise, changing into a black leather jacket and putting on a floral dress according to his mother's wishes. Mother helped her beautify her skin with satisfaction, and the smile of the winner was full.
It's a pity that after all, it's just a formality. Iz didn't agree with me from the bottom of my heart, and my mother didn't know what her daughter was thinking.
At the end of the story, the youngest daughter, Izzy, burned the big mansion—the suppressed small flames, which eventually converged into a devastating fire.
Although the author tries to describe peace, it seems that she prefers Mia. This sentence on the cover of the Chinese version is even more full of Mia's tone.
"Every moment you breathe, you should live the life you really want."
The story structure is also the same: Mia did not give up her artistic pursuit, despite the distress of life, she finally gained her daughter's approval. But Mrs. Richardson made her life more peaceful, but her daughter didn't understand it in return.
In the eyes of the youngest daughter, the mansion is a cage, and the free soul of the artist next door radiates light. Even later, even the obedient eldest daughter crossed the "rules" and got pregnant by accident. She didn't dare to tell her mother, so she asked Mia for help.
But in fact, Mia's own daughter Pearl is tired of the days of rushing to and fro home.
Usually only one wall in her room is painted—because of life constraints, free paint is only enough, and because every place can’t last long anyway.
She yearned for the rich and comfortable life of the Richardsons next door.
I also learned to use Mrs. Richardson's resources to help me change to my ideal class.
The most unacceptable thing for her is probably the way her mother took her into the world.
In order to pursue art, Mia broke with her family and was so poor that she had to do surrogacy. However, after pregnancy, he changed his mind, and finally started a life without a home with Pearl in his belly.
The story is full of conflicts like this. It's hard to tell which mother is better.
If possible, of course, it is economically like Elena, providing the security of worry-free food and clothing; mentally a little bit Mia, not afraid of mistakes, more room for fault tolerance. It's a pity that there are no two balances in the world.
There is a branch of the story, about the attribution of a baby girl.
In the fast food restaurant where Mia works, Bebe, an illegal immigrant, is so embarrassed that she abandons her baby girl Mei Ling on the street.
On the other side, in the Seaker community, white families are holding a luxurious and grand birthday party for the adopted baby girl Mirabelle.
Mia is the first to discover the secret: Meiling is Mirabelle. With her encouragement and help, Babe decided to take her daughter back.
This is another proposition.
Are you willing to follow the mother who can't eat enough? Or is it an adopted daughter in a white family that cannot ask for a child?
If the baby in the swaddle has a choice, I am afraid it will have to hesitate for a few seconds.
When reading the story, I kept thinking that whether it is Mrs. Richardson, Mia, or Babe, these mothers have the opportunity to call a stop before things get too bad.
If Mrs. Richardson pays more attention to Izzy’s heart, the fire may not be burned; if Babe can calmly evaluate his abilities before giving birth, he will not throw the child and snatch it back, hurting an innocent person. Adopt a family. It's a pity that they all missed it.
Of course, this is the need of writing. Drama welcomes conflict. In life, it is better to pull it down. Stop loss is more important.
Think about yourself, don't let yourself be a bad mother.
To be honest, before I had no children, I couldn't imagine that I was so eager to cherish the children's "mother-use experience", by observing the mirror image of myself on them, and constantly adjusting and correcting it.
This has never happened before, and no other force can push me to change so strongly. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to continue to grow.
Not to mention, there are still many online courses waiting for me to continue to grow. . .
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