I just finished "White Lotus" last night. After reading a few drama reviews, I felt that I didn't have enough to say.
A good drama worth writing a drama review should have the effect of "looking from a distance as a mountain and a peak on the side" and "a thousand audiences have a thousand Hamlets". "White Lotus" and "Order of Mountains and Rivers" belong to this category. From the point of view of completion, "White Lotus" should be better. I am not convinced by the score of 8.1, at least it can reach 8.7. Extremely unstable acting, and the fragmented ending is also flawed), so I gave it five stars and pulled the score.
There is not much time, just write a few words about the viewing guide of "White Lotus".
1. White Lotus : White Lotus, which has a meaning similar to "green tea" in the Chinese context. In Chinese it is said that "it comes out of the silt without being stained", but in English it is a reversed view of cause and effect: the beautiful white lotus grows out of the silt. It's pure and pure on the outside, but on the inside... who knows? Therefore, when you see the big title, you must take a critical and scrutiny attitude to measure everyone in the environment of the White Lotus Resort. The truths they speak and the emotions they perform may be like a white lotus flower.
The title of the film has a similar feeling in "Order of Mountains and Rivers". Because the first episode was too persuasive, I decided to watch a few more episodes because I noticed the title of the show. The Chinese "Ling of Mountains and Rivers" is accompanied by an English title "The world of hornor". These are actually two different meanings. On the surface, the name is "Mountains and Rivers", but there seems to be a metaphor of "personal fame and fortune" at the bottom. At that time, I felt that this drama was a lot of thought, not an ordinary domestic traffic drama.
2. Onion : Onion is a guide that was prompted later in the show: poke away layer by layer to expose the core. This 6-episode drama gives this onion-peeling feeling.
Looking at it in a small way, everyone in the play is multi-layered. When you watch the first episode, you think everyone is annoying, unlovable, and weird. But as the shells are peeled off layer by layer, by the end of the episode, you have empathy for everyone again, no bad guy is bad, no good guy is good, no one is a murderer, and no one is pure victim.
Looking at the big picture, the whole play is multi-layered. The meaning it wants to express seems to be different in each episode, and each episode will reveal a fresher side, so when the audience watches the show with different experiences, they can feel different themes. so:
In the first episode, you saw the first layer of the theme: "survival". The rich worry about the long-term future, the dignity of death, and the struggle for turf, while the poor are just thinking about how to get through the day, how to survive.
In the second episode, you saw the second layer of the theme: "feminism." Looking closely at the three women in the three families, what they are after is a "sense of security". Single old women put their "sense of security" entirely on men, and tried to use money to maintain this relationship, but all failed. The only emotional safety left was her "mother", and after her mother died, she found similar feelings in the masseuse. The mother in the middle-aged family is a strong woman. She firmly grasps the "sense of security" in her own hands and uses her career and money to maintain the family initiative. The last newlyweds, the wife is at the crossroads of building a "sense of security", which way will she go? We were curious.
In the third episode, you see the third theme: "Sex and Desire". You will see the difference between some people, before and after. Some people compare before and after exposing "desire". The most impressive is the masseuse, who is sincere in a state of no desire and no desire, but after a desire, she is very flattering.
In the fourth episode, you saw the fourth theme: "capital". In White Lotus, all interpersonal relationships and all phenomena can be explained by the words of the mother-in-law to the daughter-in-law: "All about the money", don't tell me about sincerity and dignity, don't say good girlfriends, don't say that you want to be People who are useful to society, don't say that all classes are equal, in fact, it is all about money.
In the fifth episode, you see the fifth floor theme: "In the Name of Justice". This episode is one of my favorites, and all kinds of contradictions and emotional accumulation have exploded so far. In the first part, the two young couples are planning a "crime in the name of justice"; in the latter part, the mother-in-law concluded to White Lotus, "I read the propaganda that this is the most romantic hotel, do you really think it is romantic?"; The next paragraph, the middle stage husband said, we are not just, yes, so what should we do? Maybe we should feel bad all the time, make amends for our ancestors, torture ourselves, and never go on vacation? Finally, the old woman shouted "I want to show him the core of my onion directly!" So can you see the essence of the story of the white lotus? The old woman said: "It's a drunk maniac".
Finally, to the sixth episode, I finally saw the sixth theme: "It's all a joke". After 6 episodes of ups and downs, life continued after the rich were tossed and the poor were tossed. In fact... no one's problem has been solved... Here are thousands of words, just a few words that differ from other comments. Some people say that the little boy left a bright future at the end, in fact, I think it's just a change from one addiction to another. Some people say that the relationship between middle-class families has improved, but no... In the last episode, when the hostess narrated her experience of being robbed, she still took away the words of the male host, and the core contradictions of the family were not resolved at all.
3. Despise the chain. There is no time to write, anyway, there is a hierarchical contempt chain relationship here. Take some cues from your ethnicity and English accent. "Normal sexual orientation white men are vulnerable", a bit interesting.
4. Monkeys and turtles. There is not a monkey in the whole film, but there is always a background sound of monkeys. Ah, this is a complete brain hole, I guess, in addition to the "sex" cues representing animals, is there a meaning for "money"? The turtle at the end of the film, ah, this is also my brain hole, I always feel that it is a metaphor for the tragedy of men in this era.
5. Island. The picture shows the whole picture of the island surrounded by the sea more than once, implying falsehood.
Come here first. . .
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