It took a day to watch ten episodes on Saturday, depression + despair, not only because it is getting closer to the current situation, but also because of the overall depression of the TV series. How to do? Look again, one is to look for the screenwriter's perspective, and the other is to find scenes that make me feel close to reality, and review why "America" has finally become "Gilead". Compared with the female protagonist, the female protagonist’s girlfriend Moira is more attractive to me who is pessimistic. Her story line has highs and lows in the first season. She is the only female group that has appeared, including the archbishop’s wife. Happy ending at the end of the season. (There are spoilers below and follow the timeline.) Moira and the heroine met when they were in college, and they worked together after graduation. It can be said that they are true girlfriends. In college, as a homosexual, Moira publicly dated girls in public and cared for each other intimately. This shows that the social culture and public perception of "America" at that time accepted homosexuality, and women can get equal educational opportunities, free and democratic. . The corresponding period of this period is unknown, but it should be between 2005 and 2010, which is deduced from the working period after graduation. After graduation, the heroine began to work as a book publishing editor (note: see the beginning of the second episode). The heroine mentioned that the publishing house would publish novels and academic journals, and once published nine volumes of "The History of Falconry" (note: the same name) The book can be found on amazon). This shows that after the heroine graduates, "American" citizens still have the right to freedom of press and speech.
The hostess's companion at the time worked at the university, taught cell biology, and might be a teaching assistant. After hearing the previous identity of her companion, the hostess said that I thought all university professors had been sent to the colony, indicating that after the victory of Gilead, there was also a wave of book burning and confucianism. The female protagonist announced that she was pregnant after a few years of work, and the time should be between 2010 and 2016, because on the day the female protagonist became pregnant, Moira had a line that was "fucking uber". That day, the two people talked about the background that their colleagues had five miscarriages, one gave birth to a child, and the child died soon. It should be a few years before and after that the problem of fertility loss has gradually been realized by the society. People believe that it is God’s punishment. This awareness has accelerated the expansion of Protestantism. Its concept-women with fertility should become the whole society. Assets-recognized by more and more people. At that time, the Protestant church had branches in many states in the United States to develop high-end members. Its main purpose was to purify the world and save the world rejected by God. On the day the female lead gave birth, her husband Luke drove the female lead to the hospital to give birth. Outside the hospital, there were dozens of people praying for God to give the child to the child, mostly women.
In the neonatal ward, the hostess asked the nurse, why is there no baby? The nurse said that two are in the intensive care unit, and the rest are with God. After the birth of the heroine's child, the heroine and Moira went for a run, wearing sports clothes, low-cut, and boobs jumping when running. Passersby and women looked at them like a slut. After entering the frequently visited cafe, the waiter was replaced by a boy, the salary card could not be used, and the two were scolded by the new waiter as "damn bitches".
But is this kind of sportswear a manifestation of debauchery? Obviously not. If I put a photo of my fitness exercise on Friday, if it is thrown into this American TV show, it is probably directly put in the slut club.
When the hostess arrived at the work unit and began to call the bank to ask why the deposit was frozen, suddenly the supervisor announced that all women would resign. I don’t even have time to argue, and I don’t tell you what the law is. I only give you 10 minutes to clean up and leave. At that time, there was no TV news and Internet, no newspapers, some subway stations were closed, and the mode of communication returned to call + gossip. Moira's girlfriend said that it was because a new law was introduced. This law has not undergone any discussion or solicitation of opinions. It will be implemented after it is promulgated, and there will be no opportunity for notification or rebuttal. If it is not implemented, the army will be responsible for the aftermath. "America" has entered the era of totalitarianism. The characteristics of this totalitarianism are as follows: 1. Protestantism became the only ruling party and crushed other religions such as Christianity; 2. Women with healthy wombs were admitted as state assets and only gave birth to the leaders of “high blood”; 3. , Women with healthy uterus are regarded as a precious commodity and traded with other countries; 4. Individual rights and freedom serve the Protestant doctrine and "high bloodline", and individual wishes are subordinate to the collective. In the week when the bank deposits were frozen, the hostess and Moira participated in the protest together. Very few people participated in the protest, and many people are estimated to have given up their lives. The hostess did not agree with them, so she experienced the armed suppression. The army shot and bombed the unarmed crowd. The army continued to attack and fire while the crowd was retreating.
During the escape, the hostess and Moira hid in a restaurant, which also had a tripadvisor logo (far left of the screen).
At the same time, another change is also taking place, that is, global warming. In the fifth episode, the dialogue between Luke and the hostess said that there is no snow in winter. The result of global warming is that there is less food and a lot of pressure to survive. There will be more wars. After the official establishment of Gilead, women with fertility were gathered as an irreplaceable commodity for the country, and the heroine and Moira met at the Red Probation Center. On the one hand, Moira pretends to have been influenced, on the other hand, he calmly and firmly teaches the heroine how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages while maintaining herself, looking for opportunities to escape from "America."
Moira looked for and forged weapons, and finally found an opportunity. They kidnapped an aunt, and the two pretended to be an aunt and a maid, and began their escape. But because there was no map and road signs, I didn't know where I was or which way I should go to escape. Only Moira took the subway to leave. The hostess was caught again and tortured. Without the support of her girlfriends, the hostess kept thinking about what she would do if Moira was in my situation. The hostess sincerely hoped that Moira could escape from Gilead, and at the same time kept using Moira to keep herself awake. At this time, she found that the maids in the probation center were stubbornly insisting and resisting, and they were her common partners.
Starting from episode 5, the storyline of the heroine and Nick unfolded. My eyes were completely drawn to the bed scene and emotional development of the pair. Moira's play gradually faded until the two met again in the slut club. What kind of place is the slut club? There are women who cannot be assimilated here, women who fight for death and are unwilling to be maids. There are only two ways for this kind of woman, one is the rapid and tortured death being thrown into the radiation zone, and the other is the slut. The club is a prostitute. There are sociologists, presidents, journalists, and former corporate white-collar workers. They have only one purpose here, to meet the physical/emotional needs of senior government officials and foreign government officials in Gilead. Women here have only one way to leave, which is death. Here, the hostess found that Moira did not succeed in fleeing and was not executed, but became a prostitute.
She is at the mercy of others, goes against her sexual orientation, endures humiliation, and paralyzes herself again and again in the hopeless living space. In order to get a package from the organization, the hostess returned to the slut club again to find Moira, so that she would not give up hope and help the hostess find the package. Moira resolutely refused, and the hostess looked back on the past of the two people together, making Moira fight to the end. Moira only said one thing I had been doing well before I saw you, and then turned and left. The hostess left in despair. However, Moira finally chose to fight, tossing around and giving the package to the heroine, using scissors to kill a high-ranking military official, and running all the way with the car key. Crossing the US-Canada border, she finally dared to stop until she saw that the license plate number was a Canadian license plate.
At the Canadian Refugee Center, Moira once again saw respect for people's order, got a one-year prepaid mobile phone, got 400 yuan in cash, 200 yuan in car fare, some clothes, and was free to choose whether to take a bath or read a book. She looked at the staff of the refugee center in surprise, and couldn't believe it, she was able to return to the free world again. However, she is no longer the Moira she used to be. She abandoned her gender, identity, and humanity. She resisted and gave up. In order to escape and betray her friends, she had to lay down all human dignity in order to survive. Finally, she was the only way out to kill; her identity experience After the maid, the kidnapper, the fugitive, the prisoner, the prostitute, the murderer, the fugitive, she no longer believes in anyone, no longer has any hope, only surrendering to the last dead end, but when she has given up, she meets the girl again. Lord, chose to fight. In the last episode of the Refugee Center's performance, Moira had almost no lines, only eyes and body language, but the incredible regaining freedom, the cowardice of keeping a distance from strangers no longer believing, the joy of seeing Luke again, The actors performed well. In the last scene of the first season, the hostess led the group of maids to a small protest. The video was superimposed and returned to Moira in Canada. She and Luke met in a foreign land, and the background music began to rock. This is a drama about repressing freedom and enslaving freedom. This is a drama that uses tripadvisor, uber and other imprints in your life to remind you that there are still dramas that have been re-centralized in real life, but this is also a drama. This is a drama of resistance. (After reading it again, no longer depressed and no longer desperate)
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