All of these people are connected with each other because of Olive and weave into a complex network of relationships, which is what we see in Olive's life. Among them, Kevin is the most distressing one.
As soon as Rachel appeared on the scene, she stole medicine from the pharmacy, and then the home visit and the conversation at the dinner table between the Kitteridges gave us a general judgment about this character: lethargy, depression, inability to take care of her own daily life, and suicidal tendencies. And Rachel's son, Kevin, is a smart kid who got 98 in math.
The second part, titled "Incoming Tide", was my favorite episode, it had a lot going on, the "mouse" couple visited, Chris had a wedding...this episode, also About Kevin.
In the blink of an eye, more than ten years later, we will see Kevin again. He has grown up. This episode uses a lot of flashbacks to ingeniously connect the real world with memories, and restore the past and the truth of these years: it turns out that Rachel is not a simple depression, but a disease. There is bipolar disorder, or bipolar disorder, even severe enough to produce audio-visual hallucinations. She chased the seabirds into the air, telling Kevin to watch out for purple snakes crawling out of the table. And when Kevin saw a bird flying down her arm, she said I had nothing on my arm.
Ever since he was a child, he witnessed his mother's illness and finally committed suicide. Kevin began to have hallucinations without knowing when. Perhaps unable to bear the pain of uncontrollable sight, Kevin returned to the town with a rifle, just wanting to end his own life in the woods in his backyard. Olive knew Kevin's intentions as soon as she got in the car, but she remained calm, sitting in the car seemingly casually chatting with him, talking about the rich second-generation murderer who had been detained and went to prison, and chatting about picking flowers in front of them Patty, who is already married but has had several miscarriages, mentioned his father who was depressed and committed suicide, and the subtext of "I always miss you in this world".
Unfortunately or should be said fortunately, something happened, Patty fell into the sea and was rescued in time by Kevin.
Later, at Chris's pre-wedding party, Kevin stumbled across a line on a tissue, "save us from shotguns & father's suicides", from a poem by poet John Berrman. It turned out that O'Casey, the English teacher, gave John Berrman's book to Kevin during the home visit as a driver, and said to him, have you ever thought about going out and seeing the world, you don't have to stay here, don't let your mother drag it down .
Olive took Kevin home that night, like catching a student cheating on an exam, and watched him throw the gun away. Olive never questioned or scolded him from the beginning to the end. He just said that there are children living in your old house. Have you ever considered what to do if your body is found by the children.
Kevin left in a hurry the next morning. He didn't go to Chris's wedding, but returned to the cliff where Patty fell into the water. Then came the conversation between Kevin and Patty, two former classmates, that moved me the most in the entire show:
- Did you jump off it yourself?
No. of course not. I accidentally slipped.
- But you are so sad.
So I went to the edge of the cliff to pick flowers to make myself feel better.
- Can those few flowers make you feel better?
Oh, yes.
It was only at this moment that the tearful Kevin completely dismissed the idea of suicide.
Olive must have never imagined that his future self would almost become the Kevin of this day.
Kevin didn't know that the tissue with the verse was a gift O'Casey wrote to Olive on Olive's birthday and the last day of his life.
However, all of this happened by chance, and finally became the power of Olive and Kevin to save each other and themselves.
It turns out that a few flowers can make a person happy.
So no matter how painful it is, please continue to persevere, because there are still so many beautiful things in this world that are worth our nostalgia.
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