Olive Kitteridge is the name of the heroine in the play. She was born, raised, and married in the peaceful seaside town of Krabius, Maine, and it looks like she will be there forever. Her father who committed suicide by gunshot not only gave her an imperfect childhood, but also inherited her genes for depression. In order to fight depression, Olive lives very seriously and carefully: she refuses to rely on drugs all her life, and she is wary of sleeping pills; she restrains herself from going to violence, and keeps all her ill-will in words and becomes the heart of everyone Mean and eccentric mom, aunt, old witch.
Because of being prepared enough for the shadow of life, Olive's life has finally become the shadow of other people's lives.
Being mean is naturally not a virtue, but it indiscriminately demonstrates a certain sense of intellectual superiority; meanness is a very lethal intelligence, an uncontrollable manifestation of the IQ gap. The mean people around me are usually smart, not the kind of slick and smart, otherwise they wouldn't be called "mean". others are real.
Olive is such a person. She didn't want to express grief over the death of someone she didn't like, and she didn't want to be moved by the formal bouquet. She couldn't pretend to be happy at a wedding ceremony that was riddled with holes on the inside and full of flowers on the surface. She adored the dress she made, and she seemed to have foreseen all the mockery, but she was furious at the mockery that came true. She loves the struggling and tangled nature of life, not the hypocrisy that hides it. After her son's wedding, she was asked by a stranger, "Is everything okay?". She didn't even want to say a polite "OK". .
There is one detail in the video that I like. After Olive was widowed, a mother who used to teach students came to comfort her, telling her that her daughter is now a professional psychiatrist with a degree, and she can talk to her if needed. "I remember she wasn't good at maths when she was a child, and it seems she has found a place for her now," Olive said blankly.
Seeing this, I burst out laughing. I especially want to applaud the author of the novel, and I also want to applaud a character like Olive. They would rather save people with malice than bother to calculate the ratio of sincerity and schadenfreude in the comfort of others. Happy to be condescended to be used as a pretext for showing compassion for one's own pain. They are hard to please and hard to comfort. They think highly of themselves, maybe they were.
When I was a child, I watched "The King's New Clothes" and thought it was unreasonable. How could a bare-ass king travel freely without knowing it? How can the onlookers lie and lie and remain calm? But the fact is that it didn’t take long for everyone to enter the social jungle, everyone consciously became a member of the blind and noisy, passing through one after another of naked mediocrity and ugliness, smiling and complimenting without hesitation. I once saw a joke that an old lady who had worked hard to clean up her house all her life suddenly found that the shortcut was to take off her reading glasses: the house looked a little hazy, but it was neat and clean. Most people learn this skill quickly and well. Those who are as mean as Oliver really cherish their bright eyes.
In order to be too lazy to perfunctory most of the truth, mean people often make people feel indifferent. Fortunately, most of the time the parties themselves don't care, Olive's sentence to the flower girl girl "I'm an old witch, if you don't go, I will eat you" , has a simple and lovely age of the same age as a flower girl girl. For someone like Olive, the chaotic world is business as usual, and my minimum requirement is to retain my humble decency.
The whole scene of Olive's visit to his son in New York is full of dark humor, "I don't know if you're crazy or I'm crazy" throughout. Shoes, just because she didn't want to be seen wearing torn stockings on one foot. These broken stockings, for her, are a miserable mother-son relationship. Maybe no one in the world cares, including her son. For her, it is embarrassment and humiliation that has nowhere to go.
For people like Olive, only those they really care about, she regards the other person's dignity as important as her own: she can't bear to open up the line between her husband Henry and her female assistant blurred between caring and ambiguous, she doesn't want to. Pointing out that Loser's son Chris has always used childhood shadows as an excuse to escape failure in life, she wanted to tell him that his mother's father committed suicide, so don't be hypocritical. When her son accused her of not loving her father and tormenting her father, but forgot that she never visited her father who had a stroke as an excuse, Olive also just used "you don't know marriage at all" as the conclusion of the scolding battle, which was the last of the self-respect for each other. Reserve.
Olive's love and warmth are not limited to relatives. In the second episode, she rescued the student Kevin with ease. It is the point of tears. This episode in the play is amazing. The setting is on the hook and the second couplet. It seems that our lives are all about They greeted each other politely, supported each other decently, and worked hard to survive a depression decently.
Speaking of which, being mean is really a kind of ability, and the courage and wisdom to see through the truth are both indispensable. It is a succinct communication of wise men. It needs opponents to come and go, or it will fall into a dynamite bag. The widowed Olive plucked up the courage to call Jack, who was also widowed, and stubbornly insisted that even if they had a date dinner, "the AA system was required." The other party replied, "At least allow me to drive to pick you up." , Olive showed a smile that is rarely seen in the whole film, which is in stark contrast to the embarrassment when she joked with her son at the wedding - parents, children, in-laws, these relatives who are bound together by blood, most of the time sharing It is respect and love, but it does not fully resonate in the spiritual world.
The love and respect for the role of Olive is sincere, although it may not be a lucky thing to meet such people in real life - they do not compromise with life, and they are also stabbed all over by life. Just like the saying "I know so many things, but I still can't live a good life", everyone must have a blind spot in their heads, otherwise how can they "I think they are right, but they do so many stupid things", Yu For a smarter Oliver, they can see the world more clearly and see themselves more clearly, but they cannot connect themselves with the world well.
Probably the truth is this: if a person has the ability to be mean and has the ability to control it, I think he is not far from the master. Either he is too determined to win or lose, or he has Buddha nature.
It's the first time I'm writing a movie review, so I'm so obsessed with the character itself that I forget about the picture, rhythm, etc. - HBO's quality is good, photography is good, art is good, costumes are good, performance is good Excellent, Cohen's wife Frances McDormand played Olive. But I firmly believe that the success of all this should still be attributed to the novel of the same name that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009. I couldn't wait to place an order for the Chinese version and searched for a while, because the name was translated into Xiaoqing's "Insignificant Life", which, It's kind of hard to tell what to say.
To end a rambling text, it always takes a sentence or two. In fact, about the whole episode, the process of moving and thinking is exactly the questioning of life itself. In all the film reviews, the sentence of the teacher, "When a person reaches middle age, the disobedience of life and the nostalgia for life can finally coexist", which is enough to say. But in the end, let's use the last sentence of the original book. It is the last stone that hits the chest and lungs in the whole film, making people feel a strong suffocation and a strong desire to breathe:
It baffles me, this world. 't want to leave it yet.
The world has thwarted me, and I'm not willing to leave.
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