When Mildred smiled in the original restaurant, raised a glass of wine and met her husband in tears, and when her expression faithfully conveyed the pain of life disappointment and self-giving cheer, she believed she had seen herself through. The vanity of this gorgeous drama directed by one hand, and the painful price he has paid.
Mildred is a very typical business society contradiction. This economically depressed, single divorced woman works as a waiter in order to support her family. She used this as an opportunity to achieve a career, but in the end she was defeated. If you don't look carefully, it is easy to equate her with the image of a middle-aged housewife that combines traditional virtues such as hard work, kindness and wisdom in an Asian life drama, but in fact, she is not.
She is hardworking and capable, and she is self-conscious. She has never despised the working people, but she has always been unable to give up the idea of becoming a noble class. After seeing the hypocrisy and shame of the upper class, she is extremely angry but still can't stop. She is kind-hearted and never looks down on others. She only looks down on her vanity and low self-esteem. She herself, her three men have a good interpretation of her three mindsets, the gentle and down-to-earth original partner, the vulgar and shrewd partner, and the elegant and selfish brother-in-law. They respectively met her needs for a stable life and earning real benefits. , She always finds her own different needs at different moments, looking for different people, she has no ability to distinguish or think about what kind of person she is and what kind of life she should choose in the past, she just Relying on instinct to balance ideals and reality may be due to a vague understanding of oneself, so to avoid some choices that should be made, and always wait until things come to the door before considering countermeasures. This made her seem to have a way to the mountain by car, but it also made her accustomed to passively dealing with mental and emotional entanglements. Her confusion and swaying eventually made her heartbroken and full of sadness.
Out of compensation, people often place their unfulfilled ideals on their children. Mildred is no exception. From the beginning, she can see that she is working hard to make her eldest daughter. She is a person who is hard to be, she shaped her completely in accordance with the lifestyle of the upper class, let her clothes stretch out her hands and eat her mouth, and do her best to meet her material needs and cultivate her noble temperament. She even tolerated her almost insulting contempt for the working class she represented.
I have to say that she succeeded. With her painstaking cultivation, her daughter was reborn and possessed all the characteristics of that superior class, except for her birthplace.
This is a fatal contradiction.
Several conflicts between her and her daughter resulted from this. The maid’s uniform incident, the piano lesson incident, and the lover’s unbridled contempt for her in front of her daughter. Sadly, the daughter who raised herself with hard work is completely opposite to her. He used the most acrimonious language to express his contempt for her, even though he knew that the son-in-law was spending his mother's money, he still did not change his cynicism towards her.
At that time, she probably hadn’t realized that her daughter had already considered herself in the upper echelons, and the so-called upper echelons were born superior. You will depend on whether or not he is willing to pick them up if you give him money. Their superiority is unreasonable. Of course, if you treat them well, you should surrender to their feet, and they can belittle and trample you at will. In their eyes, spending your money is worthy of you, you shouldn’t wait for them to say When you come out, you will immediately offer your wallet and self-esteem. Sometimes you pay for the money and get a whip for some reason. It’s nothing, but you don’t pay fast enough.
She once had a natural resistance. Once she was a bit tough when applying for an appointment to prevent a celebrity from coming to Taiwan, and also when she escaped from the mansion of the bankrupt boy brother in the rainy night. The few details showed that she was in line with the essence of human nature. The self-esteem is a natural requirement for equality and respect. However, this clean self-esteem was eventually destroyed by her own low self-esteem, bowing her head to the secular social trend.
Compared to Mildred’s entanglement, her daughter Veda is actually much more free and easy than her. She believed that she was a figure in the upper class when she was a child, and she did not have the slightest identification with the bottom laborers. Compared with her mother, she was much less. Worries, the only thing that made her painful was her own origin. At certain moments, she seems to be suspicious of herself because of this problem, but most of them are able to vent after scolding her mother for annihilating humanity, even this way of venting is very high-class: my blood It is not natural nobility, because it is you, it is you as a mother that troubles me.
For these pretentious people, mistakes and responsibilities will always be someone else's.
So she is deliberately trying to get rid of her mother, her hometown, she wants money and identity, so she does not hesitate to commit herself to conspiracy to defraud, but even so---whether it is out of money or other---the goal she chooses They must also be the upper class, not simply rich people. She is unwilling to be only the princess of Glendale. Her purpose is to stand at the top of the world. In addition to the instinctive pursuit of status and status, she also needs to prove that she is a real nobleman in order to get rid of her own mind. The haze of birth. For this purpose, everything can be sacrificed.
In the end, she took advantage of her mother and got a contract with a food dealer. She didn't actually want money. Money and so-called advertisers were nothing but tools for her to achieve her goals. What she wants is recognition, the recognition of her status by the real upper class. She has abandoned the beautiful emotions recognized by human beings, and willingly dedicate her life to the face project. What she wants is the stars Pengyue, who responds in every way, and what she wants is the headline, which is like a cloud of praise. What she wants is the flashing spotlight wherever she goes, and what she wants is the impact on all living beings.
To obtain and maintain all of this, it is indispensable to sinister conspiracy and betrayal. The so-called upper-class society is actually just a group of people who manage their superficial image very well, but are extremely selfish in their bones. These people speak politely and decently, but once you have in-depth contact with them, you will find that their hearts are so greedy, narrow, and shameless. Veda is very clear and confused. She knows what she wants and how she can get it, but she may not know what it will cost her.
The music professor who is also a good person said coldly that she is a snake and can be appreciated, but don't take it home as a pet. This sentence is not only a sober comment on Veda, but also reveals the cruel essence of the upper class that she alluded to.
Vanity, perhaps really the most insurmountable defect of mankind, is the greatest original sin of mankind.
Mildred cultivated her daughter's style and sense of superiority, but didn't let her understand those basic and precious things. With her form, she painstakingly made her into what she wanted and expected, but watched her become the most familiar stranger. She looked at the gorgeous body in front of her and wanted to cry without tears. Her heart was bitten by sorrow day and night. Perhaps in the days to come, she would also hate her inability to infuse her daughter with soul, but the mistake has been made.
So everything is inevitable. How could there be a warm and touching story for a mother who has always retained the simple and sincere feelings of the bottom, and such a daughter who has grown into a vain and sacrificed herself to the upper class. It may be difficult to say what made Mildred choose this path, because his heart is so strong? The vanity of nature? Or inferiority in the bones? I have seen the shamelessness and hypocrisy of the upper class, but still worshipped in pain. Just for fear of being looked down upon by others, he gave up the most precious things for this reason. And people, only when they look down on themselves, is the time when tragedy really strikes.
Bert was right, let her go. Let it all go to hell.
Give up wishful thinking, she has no chance of looking back, not to mention that she may never realize her problem. After experiencing this illusory baptism of illusory life, you will finally see clearly that the most precious thing is perhaps the down-to-earth ground that you once disdain.
What moved me most in the film was the quiet conversation between Mildred and his original husband Bert on the bench in the quiet night.
Mildred said that I didn't know that I was pregnant, but I was willing to marry you. This shows that I really love you.
Bert was stunned, but then he met Bert's tired but sincere eyes and said, yes. me too.
I felt a kind of suffocating distress in an instant. The most intense and far-reaching pain in the world is often the misunderstanding of the closest people. My daughter seemed to be casually sarcasm, but it left such a deep hurt in her heart. Mildred is lucky at this time. The insult and pressure she has endured over the years has finally obtained the understanding and affirmation she needs, and this recognition comes from her party who possessed her pure emotions. Even though she left, There is no one who has gone far.
Her devoted daughter did not give her the slightest gratitude and feedback.
And she, at this moment, really understood her husband.
I smiled and watched them clink glasses in the restaurant, as if seeing some indescribable but essential life ingredient return in their cheered smile after all, and the stools standing on the table in the restaurant also seemed a little meaningful: Maybe it's over, maybe it's about to begin.
Don't look down on others, let alone yourself. You don't need to show off or prove, you don't need to pretend or be eager, because you won't be arrogant or arrogant.
High heels can be the embellishment of your life, but not the whole of your life. You can work hard for it, but it's best not to struggle with it, let alone turn yourself into a slave to high heels and be bound by it.
The fantasy world is always the spotlight on the stage and the scenery on the auditorium.
The holding hands and smiles when you fell down are the world that truly belongs to you.
Frankly speaking, the story tension of this drama is actually not concentrated enough, and many of the pavings did not play the role of accumulation and foil. The limited conflicts are basically concentrated on the entanglements of class contradictions in the form of emotions, but they are still enough to make People were moved. Kate Winslet’s performance once again illustrates that a good actor does not need sensational skill and skill to be moved. She just conveys the feelings of the characters to you, and through his words and deeds, the characters’ senses are replaced. Into your heart. She accurately and naturally expresses the same feelings you feel at the moment. She just brings you into the world of this story, making you a character, awakening your emotions, and feeling the joys and sorrows of the character's fate.
At the same time, this play also illustrates one point. In fact, most of the writing of film and television reviews still depends on the film and television works themselves. For a good work, the reviews themselves exist in it, and there is no need to organize language at all. Those seem to be profusion. In fact, the long-form discussion is just a matter of hand. Therefore, in response to the rare phenomenon of good reviews from friends, it is still necessary to say objectively. This is not all the critics’ fault. It is just that there are too few good film and television works, not to mention that it is much harder to praise a drama than to scold one. Up.
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