The combination of pure coldness and defensive abstinence under the classical lines is the true genius of the heroine.
7.0 points.
Half of the credit for the success of "Abandoned Soldiers on the Rear Wings" is due to the starring of Anya Taylor-Joy, and the casting team of the play is indispensable.
Compared with her appearance, Anya's acting skills are not outstanding, of course, it is not hindered, but the image and temperament are seamlessly fitted to the characters, Anya's cold feeling and classical lines that are as pure as innate and pure. The interplay of defensive abstinence under the package is the key to firmly grasping the audience's eyes.
She performed the soul of Beth Harmon in a "non-acting" way and became the absolute center of the play.
When the director focused on Beth, it was the most dizzying time for the show. Unfortunately, the show lacks something worth thinking about. This kind of genius narrative is essentially the reality of traditional super-English films or martial arts films. Version variants, as a whole, are very routine drama designs.
One of the reasons is that the creator only stays on the surface of Beth's personal posture and emotions, and ignores her relationship with the people around her and the world around her. Only thanks to the cover of the highly mature industrial level of the American TV series, most viewers are already satisfied with the audiovisual, and forgave its hollowness in the story and the characters tolerantly.
For example, the influence of the female protagonist’s original family shadow on her personality and career curve is lack of inevitability between the two. Drug addiction, alcoholism and self-destruction look back on the results, but the father didn’t want her and the mother planned to die with her. The most fluent choice; the relationship between the heroine and his boyfriends (teachers) is expressed in a simple and rough manner, with a single level and lack of change.
In such an era of male power in power, Beth’s sense of resistance as a woman is too weak. After all, most of the men and women around her are around her. After the initial setting of her parents’ abandonment of her, She has never encountered any real serious damage from the outside world in the journey of searching for herself and self-realization. The biggest resistance she encountered basically came from her inner doubts, but the creators were far from enough to explore this inner heart, which is the problem of inevitability mentioned earlier.
One of the examples is the essential reason why the heroine loves to play chess, that is, what is the most important thing she wants to get through chess. Even this question was ignored indefinitely. The result is that the heroine started playing chess only because of curiosity and curiosity. Boredom adds ups and downs, and later chess is played for fame and fortune (to buy good-looking clothes, travel around, settle in Paris, etc.).
Can't you play chess for fame and fortune? Of course it can, but it is not enough, not enough to support her breaking through the Soviet Union alone and defeating her lifelong strong enemy that she has lost twice in a row, and not enough to convince the audience that she can do what no female chess player can do in reality with her talent alone.
The creators are probably aware of this problem and have a guilty conscience for this, so they deliberately arranged the last scene of the last episode-Beth played chess on the streets of the Soviet Union with the retired masters, in order to win the honor and prove Beth's motives. Purity, in response to the party's call to emphasize that she does not forget her original intentions, and intends to win the game for this reason, but this reason is not present more often.
The problem is that in the outline stage, when the key words of the play are lined up in the background of the Iron Curtain of the Cold War, the heroine is twice orphaned, and the heroine alone invades the male-dominated chess field, it has the opportunity to explore a patriarchal era. The social issue of how women in China can break through (unintentionally, the best candidate for this issue is Beth’s black friend Qiao Lin), but when the creator is determined to make Beth different from all the women around him, in this way To draw a line with them, when Beth only intends to represent herself, this drama is reduced to a female perspective under the scrutiny of men.
Therefore, the most emotional and strongest part of the show is that we saw Beth’s enlightenment teacher Mr. Xia Bei plastering news clippings about Beth all over the wall for many years, instead of Beth’s best friend Qiao Lin taking her for many years. It’s not surprising that the female friendship who had accumulated the tuition fees for law school loaned Beth to serve as her travel expenses to Moscow.
But compared to the general Marie Su Shuang drama, the uniqueness and challenge of "Abandoned Soldiers in the Rear Wing" is that the director and screenwriter consistently shape her in the direction of hermaphrodite and male-female killing. Beth attracts the men around her. These people also know how to appreciate her beauty and talent. They love her and treat her well, but she only responds to the kindness and goodwill of these men in a sense of alienation, just like the kiss that Beth never sent. The same (in the impression she didn't kiss anyone, even the men and women who slept with her).
If you are close to each other, there seems to be a love that seems like nothing. This restrained sense of distance has become the core of Beth's charm. She did not carry the female flag of an era, but she ignited her bright color surrounded by men's eyes.
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