This is a very good female work. It takes the heroine's emotional life as the main line and describes the love, hate and sorrow of a family spanning three generations, and the rise and fall of life and death. However, it would be a pity to see this show as a love story only. It spans half a century in time and travels across Australia, Rome, Athens, and London, and profoundly reveals the complex and subtle entanglement between love, ideals, and destiny.
But if I were to explain what the story said, I think the word "relationship" would suffice. The heroine Maggie's three relationships with the most important people around her make up the fate of her life. Maggie and mother
There are many scenes and dialogues in the show that are impressive, but one of Maggie's conversations with her mother after Dane's death was the one that moved me the most. A few short sentences not only highlight the relationship between the two people, but also summarize the sad and helpless lives of the two women.
Maggie's mother was originally a lady, fell in love with a married politician at the age of 17, and gave birth to a son. In the end, she had to marry Maggie's father, an unremarkable rancher, because she ruined the family's reputation. She never cried or laughed again. She gave all her love to her illegitimate son, Frank, and neglected her only daughter, Maggie, because her daughter reminded her of who she was, her past.
When she finally saw the world and regretted that she had not made a choice of love for her daughter, she was already gray-haired and old. Her Frank, who also ran away from home because of the unbearable love in his life, ended up in prison.
Why put Maggie's relationship with her mother in the first place? Because it is this indifferent mother-daughter relationship that has affected Maggie's life.
Maggie first met Father Ralph when she was a 10-year-old girl. It was then that she fell in love with this man who was 18 years older than him.
In Ralph's tender and caring eyes, she saw herself for the first time, and received the love she had never received from her parents for the first time. Even what her mother had never taught her about her first period was taught to her by Ralph. In Ralph, she is no longer the dispensable child in the eyes of her mother, but a person who is loved, cared for and respected. Because of Ralph, Maggie had the company of a friend, the care of a father, and the teaching of a teacher. He worked with her, took her to school, and it became a source of happiness in her life. Ralph developed a deep attachment.
As she got older, Maggie's attachment to Ralph turned into a love that became more and more inextricable. However, the tragedy is here, she fell in love with a person who should not love.
Maggie and Ralph
What is someone who shouldn't love? It is someone who cannot give you love or is unwilling to give you love, even if he says he loves you. So it's not so much a love story as a woman's lifelong love.
Margie's aunt Mary once said something to Ralph before she died. This lonely but sophisticated woman may be the first person to see Ralph clearly, more than Maggie, than Ralph himself. earlier and clearer.
However, how to see clearly? As shrewd and tough as Mary, didn't she also fall in love with the Ralph she could never have? What's more, Maggie, who is loved by the other party?
Can a woman choose her own love? Maggie's mother once said, how much of our life is doomed and how much we can choose? Maggie never had a choice about Ralph's love, from the moment they met, she couldn't help but love him. She knows that she loves him and that the other party loves her, but she also knows that the other party will not stay with her for a long time, because he loves himself more.
So Maggie once gave up love and chose marriage, trying to let herself forget the love she couldn't get in her family life. Tragically, her choice made her suffer another trauma, Luke, a man as beautiful as Ralph, and like Ralph, they both love Maggie, but they love themselves more and love themselves as The ideal of a man, but Alf's ideal is to be a bishop, and Luke's ideal is to be a rich man.
Ideals may be superior or inferior, but they are essentially the same for women who want to love and stay with them. They may be the nicest men, handsome and decent, but they are by no means good lovers. They all say they love Maggie, but they don't want to see her soul that yearns for love, and they don't want to meet her inner needs. , completely indulged in his ideal passion.
This kind of love is the most selfish and cruel. As Maggie said, you always came down from the sky like a savior in my worst pain and then disappeared like a holy spirit. To give each other love and comfort, but to withdraw coldly, never to let the other party have it completely, let alone to stay together for a long time, such pain and torture may be worse than never getting his love and hope.
However, even Maggie, who has seen so clearly, can choose to let go of all this?
Yes, it's not hard to choose to leave someone you don't love. The paragraph before Maggie left Luke was very lively.
However, in front of the man she loves deeply, Maggie can only be the choice of the other party. When Ralph ran up from behind and hugged her for the first time as a man, she could only indulge in his arms and choose to have his child as part of getting him and as part of their fruitless love a result. This is the happiness of Maggie's life and the sorrow of her life.
This is also Ralph's sorrow. He could neither take on his love like a real man nor keep the promises that a priest should keep. After Dane's funeral, Maggie told him that Dane was his son, and the conversation was hilarious again.
This was the biggest blow in Ralph's life, not only because he lost the son he never had, but because he finally realized that he was far from being as perfect as he thought, and he finally realized in tears that he A life that is neither loyal to love nor loyal to God. As Maggie said: "Poor Ralph", "Poor Bishop Debriksart", his life was either comforting his lover or preaching to the believers, and for the first time he also gave himself The lover stretched out his hand "crying for love".
With the back of Maggie's stubborn departure, for the first time, he also tasted the pain of "not being in love" that had tormented Maggie's life. Love, far beyond his own understanding before.
Ralph finally understood that as a man, he did not love Maggie deeply, and as a priest, he did not love God deeply. What he loves most is always himself, and his ambition to become a bishop. This ambition blinded him and missed a lot. So after waking up, he made the last choice in his life, the only choice he made for love, to stay by his lover's side and die in his lover's arms. Maggie and daughter
It seems to be a kind of reincarnation. Maggie's relationship with her daughter is almost a replica of her relationship with her mother. Three generations of women have fallen in love with men much older than them. Fortunately, Zhu Siting's man also loves her and can give her everything she needs. What is particularly rare is that the two brothers and sisters have a deep relationship, and there is no estrangement because of the mother's preference. Dane sincerely told her sister: "You can love, you are worthy of being loved", allowing Zhu Siting to make the choice she wanted. .
However, because Justin was born by Maggie and Luke, her birth seems to be a kind of original sin, and she has always been craving for the mother's love that she can't get. When Dane died, she wanted to use the rest of her life to make up for her mother. It was Maggie's dialogue with her mother and her mother's apology that unraveled Maggie's knot over the years. In her heart, the mother and the child were finally reconciled. .
After awakening, Maggie, like her mother, begged her daughter's forgiveness. Yes, she can also make her own choice of love for her daughter, so that the harm that the mother has brought to her and the harm that she has brought to her daughter will come to an end. Choose your own love. Maggie, as the mother of her daughter, and the daughter of her mother, two roles, two relationships, can finally give and receive in love. I like the heroine Maggie very much (the actress is too beautiful and tasteful, and her performance is excellent), despite her flaws, she feels as perfect as Ralph, doesn't she eventually find herself making a lot of mistakes? Just as he said, Maggie no matter what, even if she is so scarred, she can still love and dare to love in the end. She is like Ralph's collection of roses, delicate, but with thorns, even withered, she is still fragrant. Interestingly, the show also spawned two couples. Maggie and her husband Luke, who had a short-lived marriage in the play, did a fake show and walked into the palace of marriage after the filming, and lived a happy and happy life. And Ralph, yes, he's gay, paired up with the wrong young priest on the show.
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