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Are you a fool at seventeen? What a coincidence, so am I.
I have to say that Netflix still has a hand in filming youth dramas. Although it can't escape the cliché plots of some American youth dramas, the overall impression is still good. Everyone knows the routines of American youth dramas for so many years. Even if the times have changed and the races have become more diverse, the slightly anti-intellectual pyramidal chain of discrimination still stands as a great tree.
The blond cheerleader and the empty-headed rugby player are gone. It doesn’t matter. The ins internet celebrities and TikTok boys of the new era are at the top of the discrimination chain; there are unpleasant fat classmates, nagging teachers, yes Money bastards, nerds and their equally weird classmates, Nerds—always at the bottom of the discrimination chain, try to climb another Ivy League they dream of through more popular boy and girl friends.
"Never Have I Ever" is like an extended version of "The Edge of 17"/Growth Edge, the same accidental loss of father, the same family has a cousin/brother who has a light to cover her, and also longs for the most popular boy on date, The same confusion and anger.
Hailey’s role as Nadine in the edge of growing up said at the beginning of the movie that he wanted to commit suicide. Devi broke the glass because of his upset and quarreled with his mother. It turns out that the joys and sorrows of human beings are not the same, but the anger of adolescent boys and girls is never the same. Extinguished. Devi left his friend over and over again, and was emotionally broken. It was really annoying, but after another thought, it was just like Miss Bird in "Lady Bird" jumped into a car and broke her arm. Part of it was exaggerated theatrical effect, and the other part. It is also a visual anger leaked. There is no way to spend half an hour describing mental activities in a TV series. Since anger cannot be abstracted, let's externalize it.
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Just as looking back after adolescence is like looking at a stranger, why are we so angry?
We seem to be angry all the time. Can't American children become more popular and unique because of the anger of American children. Haven't Chinese children ever had it? Even if the countdown to the college entrance examination is like the sword of Damocles hanging above his head, the stupid things that should be done will not be done less, and the temper will never converge, allowing the angry factor to crackle under the weight of academic work. From this point of view, perhaps all young people in the world are the same.
I know that there are countless people across the screen trying to pull Devi out and tell her that she should protect her friends, but my dear, reasoning with young people is the most useless thing in the world. We will never learn a lesson, so there is a pitfall on the way of growing up. "Say ten thousand words is not as good as falling on your own. Tears will teach you to be a man. Regret for helping you grow. Pain is the best teacher."
We like boys and girls who shouldn’t fall in love, attending parties that we know will be messy, we know that friends are important, but sometimes we also release their pigeons for handsome guys; we are entangled, wondering if there is someone who fails more than us ? Sometimes we want us to be in a group, and then we want to be unique. We continue to irritate friends, despise our parents, and forget what we are doing, just like squeezing an acne we know not to touch; we continue to reconcile, apologize, quarrel, reconcile with our parents, and compromise with our own lives. One day we were no longer angry. We accepted the imperfections of our lives. After we accepted that we were not the cheerleader who did the backflip, well, you finally heard the will of God. He told you that adolescence is over and you grow up. Big.
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Let’s talk about race. In recent years, Netflix has begun to develop into minority youth dramas, which conforms to the company's global development strategy. "To the Boys I Loved", "Sex Education" and other great dramas frequently appeared. Under the global strategy of market segmentation, they made money again, and almost every ethnic group could find a sense of belonging in it. The market is optimistic. In recent years, expectations have increased. Members have skyrocketed by 15.77 million during the epidemic alone.
Is this film politically correct? Yes. So has political correctness affected its performance? I think it's okay. The story is set in California, which is originally a continent of immigrants. Not only are Indians, but Chinese can almost survive in California only in Chinese. Under such an environment, the setting of multi-ethnicity is not abrupt. If it is said that in recent years, American youth dramas have become more and more politically correct, it is better to think about the fact that Asians or other minorities have not played a shining role in youth dramas for so many years. Is it true that all Asians are Nerd, or that they have never occupied a place in the mainstream discourse world. Rather than forcibly inserting the role of ethnic minorities, it is better to return to them the part of the people who make up the vast majority of the American population.
That being the case, why do we often react like PTSD to diverse themes, and even abandon the drama directly?
Because too many dramas are under the skin of political correctness, but they lack an equal perspective.
In recent years, minority youth dramas have been criticized because the screenwriters or directors have not personally experienced the "minority life" in their writings, or described that Asians are nerds, and Indians love curry and other superficial minorities. Or forcibly follow the routines of traditional youth dramas, but the protagonist has changed his skin color. The audience couldn't find sympathy, and the screenwriter felt wronged-obviously I gave you all the characters, why are you still not satisfied?
Unwilling to understand, unwilling to listen, whether it is due to political correctness or the belief that diversity can bring greater ratings, can not conceal the arrogance and arrogance in the bones.
We should blame arrogance.
Consumers are not fools, and race cards are getting harder and harder to play. Less false pluralism and more sincere creation can make it better to go on. And all of this, after more and more ethnic minorities enter the film industry-a territory that did not originally belong to them, may bring even greater changes.
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Browse real Indians' evaluation of NHIE on a certain poultry software:
1. The overall evaluation is okay, but I don’t think Chopra is a representative of Indian beauty
2. Indian mothers don’t let her watch NHIE
My opinion: Devi's mother is really beautiful, and her cousin looks like Gloria in MF.
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Some interesting conversations, mainly from the witty words of Devi’s mother.
"Normal teenagers go to jail, and even worse, go to work in Jersey Mike"
When asked why Ben Gross’s ordination ceremony was held at the Dolby Theater, while the Ganesh Festival was held at his school: “The Jews will save money. We Indians have a little money, so we ran to Home Depot to buy a concrete fountain. ."
When praying, say to Devi: "Don't spend time praying for world peace, pray that you can go to Princeton."
Public number: Edge Cooper
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