Lies, the main culprit that has thrown our lives into chaos, or the last fig leaf in our already riddled lives?
The story in the play takes place in Otter Bay, a beautiful seaside town. The director has also used the image of "sea" many times. With Madeline Wanghai, he tells us that the sea is mysterious and contains countless possibilities, just like our life. In the title, the theme of the play is also beginning to emerge, which seems to be calm. Under the sea, there are snorkeling sharks, just like the life of the residents of Otter Bay. The surface is calm and peaceful, but in fact, the undercurrent is surging. The settings of the three heroines are also mirror-like with ulterior motives. Jane is a newcomer. She has been raped and has relatively poor conditions. As a single mother, she yearns for a new life and a new beginning, but the turmoil in Otter Bay always discourages her, and even makes her want to retreat and move away. . And Celeste, the outstanding white rich beauty, has a handsome and rich husband, a pair of lovely twin sons, and a noble position in the upper class. It seems that everything is perfect, but her husband's domestic violence makes her almost collapse, and life is forcing her to start a new life. life, but she wants to maintain the status quo and submit to it. Madeline, the neutralization of the two, is also the most complicated. She did not have the painful experience of Jane being raped, nor did she have Celeste's beastly-dressed husband. On the contrary, her life seemed to be flawless. She lived a prosperous life, commanded the wind in the town, and her husband was loyal and caring for herself. But she still doesn't live her life well. She was secretly seeking pleasure, but she kept silent about her guilt, and her husband gradually became estranged from each other. The two "enemies", Renata and Bonnie, one is aggressive, the other keeps showing affection, and they can't let go of their prejudices. The two daughters were born smart and beautiful, but the high-pressure education caused the eldest daughter to be rebellious and alienated. But at the entrance of Otter Bay Primary School, all the mothers were bright and smiling. And it is lies that weave and paint gorgeous appearances for their lives.
All three women have a deepest secret in their hearts. Jane's rape experience, Celeste's domestic violence husband, Madeline's cheating betrayal. Around these three secrets, they weave big and small lies for their lives, and they all chose to escape at the very beginning. Jane moves to Otter Bay, shuts down her son about his father, and hopes to start a new life. Celeste chose to excuse her husband, endure it silently, and maintain a life that was about to collapse. Madeline felt guilty, unable to face her husband's enthusiasm, and devoted her energy to other people's lives. An "accidental" death case linked all these together. As a mini-series, many people were concerned about who died and who the murderer was, but the answer was not revealed until the last episode. It can be seen that the drunkard's intention is not to drink alcohol. Behind this case, what is torn apart is the life of several women that has long been riddled with holes. In the end, the three women came together and opened a new chapter in their lives, but can they stop living in lies? Only at the end did we know that our audience and the police in the play knew half of the truth of the case as early as the beginning. The police knew the deceased and speculated on the cause of death and the suspect, but the female police officer did not understand why these women lied. And we the audience have already spied on the surface and inner layers of these women's double lives, so I would ask: why not lie? They live in big and small lies, they are so good at lying, so good at carrying the burden of lies, living inside and outside, and they are very familiar with it.
Five women, carrying the same secret because of an accident, finally came together. At the end, I felt a sense of loss, and I really wanted to know their life stories afterward. At the end of the play, it is fixed in the perspective of a telescope, spying on them from a distance. That person is a female police officer, a resident of Otter Town, and even ourselves. People seem to have a natural habit of peeping into other people's lives, the excitement of knowing other people's secrets, and the curiosity to spy on other people's lives, isn't it the driving force that supports us to see the end? After a death case, Otter Town has returned to its former calm, but is it really calm? Just ask those prying eyes.
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