Episode 7 of Modern Love tells two stories. A story is about a gay couple looking for a surrogate mother to have a baby. A middle-class couple with a double salary and a house enjoys a good life and claims to be against some of the vices of capitalism, while the surrogate mother who lives like a primitive person ruthlessly points out that there is a hypocrisy in their life, called Caring about others is actually unwilling to give up their true interests. After a period of break-in, gay couples, especially Andrew Scott, overcame their weaknesses and began to genuinely care about others, and they were rewarded with a child at the end.
Story B is that the gluttonous, chaotic, and troublesome surrogate mother is the child herself. She craves food more than the average person; she doesn't know what the rules are, keeps messing up the room and bringing home strange people; she will harm her hosts, like hurting their dogs; she is passive and accepts what happens Anything in herself; she's very raw, but has a great life force.
This is the child. The arc of the B-story is that you have to accept the whole set of things your child brings, including things that completely upend the order of your life, to be rewarded at the end. In this gay couple, Andrew was the one who wasn't keen on raising kids in the first place, so he was the one who completed the arc, he was the one who ended up delivering the delivery in the delivery room, and he was the one who reconciled with the mother.
The episode's title is "She is a world alone." So do children. Parents are not creators, they must know their children as they know a new world.
And what are the requirements of the mother in the child/play to the parents? Not income, real estate, but repeated confirmation of "whether they are in love".
At the end, Andrew tells his daughter a bedtime story. It is completely possible to open a brain hole, that is, the mother's story does not exist, it was made up by Andrew for his daughter, and he and his daughter used the story to construct the image of an absent mother, and the daughter will also participate in making up this story. middle. This is the way of communication between them, and it also fills the position of the biological mother, so that the daughter is no longer confused. (If you pay attention, this daughter looks completely different from the surrogate mother.)
The episode begins with a documentary about the animal world to introduce the theme of "having a child", and finally ends with a storytelling (Andrew also has a dialogue with her boyfriend: don't read it, this is a book for children), from fact to fiction , false and true, very interesting.
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