After watching all eight episodes, I think the Chinese translation of "modern love" may be more appropriate. I believe that people who have watched the whole drama like me can feel that the modern love that this drama wants to explain in detail does not mean only "love" in a narrow sense.
In the first episode, the guard and the heroine have a kind of friend-like, father-daughter-like relationship, which is reasonable enough to think that it only happened in New York.
PS: The heroine is the mother in "How I Met Your Mother", one of my favorite sitcoms. She also appeared in the first episode of the fourth season of "Black Mirror" before. ] (I can't help but open my mind. If the heroine's experience is placed in the current domestic environment, the parents may first find the man and scold him, and then both tearfully beg their daughter to knock the child back. Hometown, not to mention the surrounding neighbors, friends and even relatives pointing behind the back. Hahahahaha!)
I really liked the two love stories in episode 2, and the male protagonist Dev Patel is also one of my favorite actors.
PS: I can still clearly remember his naked ass in the British drama "Skins" when he was still stunned. (What am I talking about I don't know...?) After that, he starred in the American drama "The Newsroom" (The Newsroom) and the movie "LION" (LION) were very good, the young man took the show with a nice eye.
Anne Hathaway in ep 3 did a good job, so still didn't end up with Jeff? What a pity.
I personally liked episode 4. I was surprised when I checked imdb and it only got 6.6 points? But I feel that I have captured the suffocating details of the emotions really accurately, with a kind of lifelike reality. Not only is the husband unable to realize that he is too self-centered, but every time he answers his wife's question, he answers in a closed-ended manner. Anyone who changes it will feel suffocated to the point of being unable to communicate. Of course, there is something wrong with my wife. Sometimes when she gets angry, she talks too much. It's a bit too rigid to play tennis according to the rules. But in what intimate relationship is there a perfect partner? The thinking given to me is that a healthy intimacy needs to be good at communicating with each other, so as to achieve mutual success.
Episode 5 felt like a flawless episode.
I'm very uncomfortable after watching episode 6, what kind of modern love is this? It's a 20-year-old girl who hasn't gotten rid of the daddy issue looking for fatherly love in a middle-aged mature man. As a result, the other party will be wrong, and both sides will be embarrassed in the end... Of course, the final ending of the TV series is an idealized interpretation of goodwill. , I feel really weird after reading it.
Episode 7 is about a gay couple and a surrogate mother who are like friends and relatives. This episode is really fun hahahahahaha! The surrogate mother raised a huge golden retriever, while the couple raised a very cute and cute little fox? (Sorry I don't know the type of dog very well). In the middle of the plot, the surrogate mother's male golden retriever has sex with a cute little fox dog, and Mo Niang's little expression of grief and anger made me laugh to death hahahahahaha!
I like episode 8 the most. I saw the original text from the discussion group. It can be said that it can only be written by a woman who has truly loved, forgiven and experienced. If it is written by a woman in her 20s, it will inevitably make people feel that life experience is not enough and thus not very convincing. However, the author of the original text is already 70 years old, so it is conceivable that the various experiences given by life and the wisdom and thinking accumulated from it make people happy.
Some of the details in the adapted English original are slightly different from those in the drama version, and some passages that I like are extracted:
I could slow down and let him beat me, but that would be patronizing to him and make me resentful. Then I thought, "If he gets annoyed that I ran faster, he's not the man for me." So I sped up, patted him on the behind, and said, "Come on!" I ran on to the finish and, as it happened, he couldn't keep up. But I needn't have worried. Sam didn't get upset — in fact, he seemed pleased I had run well. And so we grew together.
One evening at the movies, after we had been seeing each other for several weeks, I felt his hand on mine. If I close my eyes and concentrate, I can recapture the moment: the dark of the theater, the warmth of his hand, my happiness. One might not expect an old grandmother to feel a surge of romance, but I did, and I knew that his reaching out was a brave gesture.
There was a complication: I could feel that Sam was conflicted about our budding relationship because of his loyalty to his wife, Betty, who had died six years before. In my younger years I would have felt competition, as if his love for her meant less for me. Now I knew differently, and one night I spoke my mind. "I know that you loved Betty very much, and I have great respect for your marriage," I began. "But I think you have room in your heart for me, too."
On the flight home, Sam declared, " We must never travel separately again ."
OLD LOVE is different. In our 70s and 80s, we had been through enough of life's ups and downs to know who we were, and we had learned to compromise. We knew something about death because we had seen loved ones die. The finish line was drawing closer. Why not have one last blossoming of the heart? I was no longer so pretty, but I was not so neurotic either. I had survived loss and mistakes and ill-consdiered decision; if this relationship failed, I'd survived that too.
Not only was I happy during my short years with Sam, I knew I was happy. I had one of the most precious blessings available to human beings — REAL LOVE. I went for it and I found it.
I yearn desperately for Sam. But the current pain is very worth it. He and I often told each other, "We are so lucky." And we were. Young love, even for old people, can be surprisingly bountiful.
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