The most fascinating part of this drama, I think, is the capture of people's passions and desires that are nowhere to be placed in their daily lives. In the depths of human desire, there are bound to be encountered all kinds of twists and turns and obstacles.
A character inside said that her neighbor’s uncle had an affair when she was a child. Taking advantage of his wife’s night shift, she often came to her house and watched TV with her divorced mother on the sofa in the living room. Her mother called this neighbor a sofa companion. Later, the hostess of the neighbor's house retired, and the neighbor's uncle disappeared. This character and the hostess Mrs. Fletcher were drinking and chatting about this at home. At first they were a little embarrassed, but after speaking, they were infinitely melancholy.
There is also a character who is a very good friend of the heroine. Suddenly one day, she finds that her husband is carrying her and often goes shopping for spring. After the friend found out, he was very broken, and then he went to the female chief to complain, "So many years of marriage turned out to be just a scam." Then the hostess suggested to her friend to stay at her house. She went to her friend's house to help her pick up some clothes, and then ran into her husband at her house. Her husband told the hostess that he never talked to each other every time he went to buy spring. He just wanted physical contact. In the end, he fought hard and even shouted that "people need to be touched." Obviously his wife can't meet his needs in this regard.
The other character is a literature teacher in an amateur writing course, with a tall, slender and white face, who looks like that kind of intellectual female intellectual. Then once the class was halfway through, the teacher saw that everyone was listless, and suggested that we should go to the bar to get drunk, so that everyone can say what they think. One of the students happened to be the owner of the bar. Everyone hit it off, and they arrived at the bar after the transition. So, the teacher looked at everyone at the bar and said, since you don't know how to talk about yourself, let me talk about myself first. Then she said that she is actually a transgender person. Seeing this, my voice seemed to change when I listened to her. Later, the teacher began dating with one of her black students. She invited him to accompany her to a writer’s dinner. The black student hesitated to say that he might be out of time. Of course, the teacher was very sensitive, very disappointed, and very simply said that. Ok. Unexpectedly, the latter student still went there. The teacher was flattered. The black student asked her, have you ever interacted with black people before? The teacher dispelled all his doubts and said, of course.
What moved me the most was at the end of the second episode. The heroine was introduced by a good friend and had an appointment with a real estate agent to have a meal in a magnificent western restaurant. Not long after the heroine arrived, she looked at everything around her and suddenly fell into a stream of consciousness. Maybe something went wrong. As the heroine later said, the feeling was like forgetting to turn off the gas valve at home. Then the hostess ran all the way and drove back to the retirement center where she worked. The nursing center has a swimming pool that is open at night. The hostess stood by the swimming pool and stripped off all her clothes, and jumped into the pool. Then, just as she was swimming towards the other side, she saw the old man who was retired from the nursing center standing on the other side. The old man was removed because he watched pornhub and hit planes in public. The old man’s son defended the old man and said that everyone watched porn, which was a normal need. He also said that his father is not easy. He is so old and has worked hard for a long time. There is only this little fun. Why should he be deprived of it. The old man still missed the nursing center, so he probably went back secretly that night. Then the hostess was shocked at first, but seeing the old man standing in the water so pitifully, she couldn't help stepping forward and giving him a hug. The most touching here.
The most annoying character in the play is indeed the son of the heroine, the most Privileged, the most disregarded older children. The most impressive detail is that he went to a party with a girlfriend he met in the university, and then ran into his roommate at the party that turned out to be gay. After the party was over, a few of them went to dinner together. The hostess's son took the opportunity to go to the toilet and said to his roommate, hey, you don't have to hide it from me, I totally respect it. But his roommate, still very defensive, shook his face very unceremoniously. I think this drama is really impressive here, that is, it pushes the political correct rhetoric to the corner: Okay, straight white men, do you really respect the sexual minorities completely? Verbal respect is not called respect. One look and one movement can expose all the indifference and humiliation in it. Through the defensive psychology of this roommate, deep-rooted prejudices and estrangements have been expressed.
In the end, what is even more difficult to face is the problem that is presented when the ancient family relationship (in this case, the relationship between mother and child) is subjected to the test of individual freedom. When the heroine's son returned home from frustration in college, he found his mother, the heroine Mrs. Fletcher, and a female friend of hers, and a high school classmate (also the target of his bullying in middle school) Get together. In the end, the camera freezes the scene where the heroine's son is sitting on the steps in front of the door. The heroine pushes the door open and looks at his son helplessly. As Jonathan Franzen wrote in the preface of Monroe’s collection of novels “Escape”: “If the gift you give to your child is personal freedom, and the child uses this gift to turn around after he grows up to adulthood Saying to you, your freedom and you make me sick, so what should I do?"
2020.7.26
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