Watching Patrick finally close the door and set off to his wife and children's house, he doesn't think everything will start to improve in the future.
The bright tones and brisk background music and seemingly reconciling ending just keep the show from being completely sad and depressing.
Problems remain problems, and neither Patrick nor we know how to fix them.
As Patrick himself said: "I thought I was getting better, but I'm such a fucking mess."
Every time you think you're better, life is still terrible.
In the five episodes of the plot, Patrick has been trying very hard to live an active life, trying to get rid of the shadow of childhood, trying to quit drugs and alcohol, trying to find a career and people worth paying for, and trying his best to make himself a good husband and father without repeating the same mistakes;
Patrick is respectable because he realizes that in order to get rid of the past, he needs to make changes, and when he sees how "derelict" his parents were and unworthy of being parents, the more he realizes that he has to be a person who can take responsibility. .
In order to prove to himself that he can be different from his parents, he has worked hard to make changes at different stages of his life:
To escape the shadow of his childhood, he became addicted to drugs; in the next stage of his life, Dapa got rid of the addiction.
In order to let go of his long and futile hatred for his father, he finally opened up to his best friend and later wife about his father's sexual abuse of him.
In order not to follow in the footsteps of his parents who are not worthy of being "parents", he tried his best to play the role of a competent father in front of his two children under the pressure of his mid-life crisis.
In order to reconcile with the incompetent mother who does not act as love, she gave up her inheritance and tried her best to fulfill her mother's wishes in the last step of her life.
Patrick is really, really, really trying to live an active life, even though the show seems to be overwhelmed.
The show did not simply die all the way to the end, leaving Patrick and the audience with an unsolved ending.
As we can see, at the end of the fifth episode, Patrick looked at the phone of the waitress who was coming from the funeral, and finally dialed his wife's number; lying on the single bed, he recalled the childhood scene with his father in the same room, this time But he finally rebelled against his father in his memory, and his accusation as a son's vertebral heart successfully prevented his father's bestiality; in the end, Patrick put on a coat and opened the door, and the picture was fixed on the bright blue wall, bgm is reassuring the tenderer. It seems that, after this meal, Patrick's life is no longer as bad as these five episodes have shown.
This is the difference between film and television works and original novels and even life.
Whether or not the true Patrick archetype in life finally finds redemption, this short five-episode TV series can only and should give us, as viewers, a positive ending. As both Dapa's son and wife said at the end:
"That's what it's for."
The significance of film and television works may only lie in this. Fortunately, "Melrose" is not a simple cup of pure chicken soup. We can all see this. The five-hour plot shows more of Patrick's tragic experiences and struggles, as well as his father and himself. The hilarious hypocrisy of our society, I believe all of this is enough to make us realize what the contradictions Patrick faces really are, and realize that many Patrick still face unsolved contradictions and depressions.
That's what it's for.
Isn't that what it means?
While I question whether Patrick can truly reconcile what happened to him offscreen, I have no objection to the writers arranging such a "gratifying" ending.
After all, as viewers who are also saddled with the various problems and outcomes of their families of origin, we had better be as eager for change as Patrick and work hard to live. And this drama, like thousands of other works, may be a little straw in someone's gloomy life.
I don't know the ending of the original novel, but the director of the show "Melrose" obviously wants us and Patrick to have a tender ending.
After all we deserve it.
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